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by toofy 7mo ago
and the things the first person is doing can very very easily be trained into a bot as well. this doesn’t seem like a safe direction either.
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by toofy 7mo ago
> It seems like NGOs and IGOs have been pushing for internet restrictions for a long time. There has suddenly been a push for age restrictions allegedly because of abuse material. This happens annually. we’re seeing some good evidence th
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by toofy 7mo ago
why does it bother you to give attribution? why do you think crediting the writer impacts how the piece stands? we have pop musicians who produce massive hits under their names and the song writers are still given credit in liner notes and
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by toofy 7mo ago
because we typically want to know the writer of a piece. we want to know where to lay credit. every book you buy has an author credited. articles in newspapers and magazines have photographer and author attributions. asking an ai to write y
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by toofy 7mo ago
> I can’t be the only one confused at these calls to have the government destroy things like searching the web, am I? if you find this distressing then i imagine you find it equally as distressing as a couple of corporations destroy some
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by toofy 7mo ago
i don’t know of a way. but even if you can, it will almost certainly be done away with. i’m so jaded im sure it would end up like trying to filter out shorts on youtube. click the “show me less of this” only for it to show you more.
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by toofy 7mo ago
let us not forget they changed the name to the department of war.
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by toofy 7mo ago
reading through the comments, how would a company respond if you had a bot do your job interview in your place? or do your rent applications? they wouldn’t accept it. growing up, my first job as a teenager at a restaurant that had ridiculou
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by toofy 7mo ago
i can’t speak for the journalists who wrote the story, but i assume it’s due to how prominently proton markets their email as safe/private/encrypted and then it turns out they may be sharing data with the swiss government who then
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by toofy 8mo ago
don’t worry, normal people will never ever see this data to use it against the powerful. our public data can only be seen by billionaires and cops, not us. it can be used against us, but never the other way around. the faster we realize thi
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by toofy 8mo ago
many people i know personally who, to this day deny covid was real, they personally knew people who died or were hospitalized and ventilated. yet they still deny it was real. one of my family members who was in a coma for over a month and i
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by toofy 8mo ago
> like someone getting extraordinarily bad cosmetic surgery. this is such an incredible way to phrase what it all looks like to the rest of us. and i suspect the people doing it, just like those with obvious cosmetic surgery, have no id
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by toofy 8mo ago
it’s only a matter of time. we have all seen first hand how … wrong … these companies behave, almost on a regular basis. there’s a small tinfoil hat part of me that suspects part of their obscene investments and cornering the hardware marke
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by toofy 8mo ago
it would be extremely naive to believe that certain corporations allied with the regime wouldn’t have complete, entire, total access to all of the traffic to feed their data collction.
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by toofy 8mo ago
Considering that other agencies have been using palantir (and other data whores) to sidestep established norms on gathering/using information against its citizens, and considering that the article pointed to just some of the other well
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by toofy 8mo ago
was someone arguing there are illegal backdoors?
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by toofy 8mo ago
what evidence are you looking for? there is absolutely evidence a government agency is using palantir. the very beginning of the article: > New York City’s public hospital system is paying millions to Palantir ... automated scanning of p
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by toofy 8mo ago
> I guarantee this problem is far more complex and troublesome than the bureaucrats would ever understand if a manufacturer finds it too complex to not overproduce and not add all kinds of negative externalities then their business model
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by toofy 8mo ago
> has anybody found any evidence..or are we just speculating? that’s what the article is discussing? the journalists found evidence. i’m confused what you’re confused about. this whole entire comment section is birthed from the evidence
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by toofy 8mo ago
was it “uk only” or was it the only place that required them to notify users theyre being experimented on? we know US law allows tech companies to experiment on us without notifying at all. facebook was caught experimenting on users to see
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by toofy 8mo ago
so he said she’s the literal legionnaire of the antichrist? that doesn’t really sound a whole lot better.
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by toofy 8mo ago
anything where you take any kind of compensation/gift to display/discuss a product.
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by toofy 8mo ago
while i agree that unifi is worth looking at, id urge anyone reading this to be a little weery there: i used to own extensive unifi equipment for my home network, 8 access points, 2 switches, gateway, a couple cams, etc… it was amazing, the
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Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?(usatoday.com)
7 points by toofy 8mo ago|4 comments
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by toofy 8mo ago
being “worth it” and being “a hit” are two different things. the parent is trying to point out they made songs knowing full well those particular song would never be a hit, but they definitely thought it was “worth it.” many artists do thi
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by toofy 8mo ago
> SAFE for Kids Act [pending] (restricts algorithmic feeds for minors). i personally would love to see something like this but changed a little: for every user (not just minors) require a toggle: upfront, not buried, always in your face
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by toofy 8mo ago
> The mob responds with a 1-sentence emotional meme. Classic moral panic 101. it was one person. im writing this comment 1 hour after yours, and still only a single person has responded and you’ve called one person, a mob. you’ve declare
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by toofy 8mo ago
neat, so let’s stop them too. the answer is stop all the bad actors, not “well jimmy does it!”
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by toofy 8mo ago
it almost sounds like they’re saying the contents of robots.txt shouldn’t matter… because google exists? or something? implying “robots.txt explicitly says i can’t scrape their site, well i want that data, so im directing my bot to take it
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by toofy 8mo ago
do we think a scraper should be allowed to take whatever means necessary to scrape a site if that site explicitly denies that scraper access? if someone is abusing my site, and i block them in an attempt to stop that abuse, do we think that

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