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by toofy 11mo ago
you jest but it is wild how often people declare “if it was ‘advanced’ and outside of Europe, it was probably aliens. not the people, it was aliens, obviously.”
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by toofy 11mo ago
i’m not entirely sure what you’re implying here. i could absolutely be wrong since your post was kinda vague, so forgive me if i’m wrong, but are you implying we shouldn’t attempt mitigation of bad things because other bad things are happen
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by toofy 1y ago
i’m sorry, but when it comes to open source software if you want something on your timeline, you do it. the code is there. it’s _open_. if “a duty” exists at all in this situation, it’s on the 4th wealthiest company in the world who is usin
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by toofy 1y ago
that’s a lot of “what if” wild hypotheticals. clearview knows for absolute certain they’ve been operating in the eu.
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by toofy 1y ago
> Should European citizens be subject to the laws of Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and pals? if they do business in those jurisdictions, yes, of course. if a new york cpa does business in ohio they need to be licensed in ohio and fol
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by toofy 1y ago
> So is your argument that a company must follow laws of any locality they scrape information on the internet from? i mean… yes? it’s entirely normal for a company to be bound to the laws of jurisdiction it wants to open a store or resta
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by toofy 1y ago
people are overcomplicating this, the big picture is simple af: if a therapist was ever found to have said to this to a suicidal person, they would be immediately stripped of their license and maybe jailed.
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by toofy 1y ago
i mean, you can assume if its on theregister its not going to have some kind of academic rigor or whatever it might be you're looking for. its the register, same basic rigor quality as the ny post. that said, my suspicion is they'
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by toofy 1y ago
> There is something slightly romantic… if he was alone i would absolutely agree with you full stop. but it looks like they may have been entirely underselling just how backyard amateur their company was just to get people to give them m
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by toofy 1y ago
> they love the jackboot yes, some people genuinely do, and some people don’t. some people have absolutely no understanding of what surveillance tech is doing and where it is going. in terms of the “ist” problem you refer to, at th
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by toofy 1y ago
> It is literally the only recommendation engine that works. do you really find this to be true? i find it’s incredibly wrong like 90+ percent of the time. i am not close to interested in most of its recs. i’ve tried for years to tell
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by toofy 1y ago
> Someone needs to tell filmmakers. They shoot dark scenes because they can… i disagree completely. i watch a movie for the filmmakers story, i don’t watch movies to marvel at compression algorithms. it would be ridiculous to watch movi
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by toofy 1y ago
people are getting in very real world trouble for saying negative things about certain people or their friends. i’m not sure if you’ve seen how many people have lost their jobs for saying truths about kurk or how many people are losing jobs
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by toofy 1y ago
ive said it before and at the risk of sounding repetitive: ive almost entirely stopped shopping online. it was rough at first, particularly since i kind of fell out of the loop on which stores carry what, but once i mostly figured that out
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by toofy 1y ago
/me claps. in my not so humble and often overly verbose opinion, we desperately need to get back to a place where we have more control over what our own inputs. a handful of people are now in control of the overwhelming majority of wha
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by toofy 1y ago
i don’t think this is true at all. if anything the people i know with far-left tendencies want significantly more funding for school programs, including gifted. what makes me question what you’re saying even more is i have right-wing frie
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by toofy 1y ago
ultimately we see this play out quite a lot, predatory people cry when they’re preyed upon. time and time again they justify predatory behaviors and then cry foul when someone figures out a way to take them. “it’s ok when i do it but we sh
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by toofy 1y ago
i think it could be argued that sure, 20 Googles would be better for US power, yes. why wouldn’t it be? it would drive more innovation which likely would only increase our influence on multiple levels. there could be more reason to argu
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by toofy 1y ago
it seems to me that we desperately need to get back to a place where a business is held to their word. we have come to a place where corporations are calling limited “unlimited” and outright just lying to people. i have seen people unironic
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by toofy 1y ago
this ‘growing sentiment’ has always been there. particularly with the crowd who persistently wants to lock everything behind a monthly subscription or insert hidden data collecting. if the ‘growing sentiment’ wants to, they’re quite free to
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by toofy 1y ago
i want the worlds most influential social media app to be away from the jurisdiction of any powerful people/organization, whether that’s governments, religions, billionaires, etc… i find it worrisome that some are implying it’s new con
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by toofy 1y ago
this sounds dangerous in our current situation. consider how many in our current administration are entirely completely ill-equipped for their positions. many of them almost certainly rely on llms for even basic shit. considering how many o
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by toofy 1y ago
it’s wildly popular, it’s all over tiktok, tiktok comments, twitch chats everywhere, my 11 yo niece and her friends say it when something looks ai, i literally heard a group of teenagers saying it in line at a restaurant today.
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by toofy 1y ago
> I think everyone should give this kind of work a shot. You learn a lot about people. absolutely. the things you learn/absorb in that kind of atmosphere are entirely different than what we learned in school social activities. you
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by toofy 1y ago
yeah this should have been on my list as well. just let me buy an order of fries without the fries having some creepy behind the scenes motivations. just let me order an oreo shake and i’ll give you $4. the restaurant should focus on makin
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by toofy 1y ago
i definitely prefer to order from a person. for a few different reasons: 1) i kinda like people. 2) being in this industry, i know more than a few people who struggle with basic human social interaction shit. most of the people i know who
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by toofy 1y ago
the number of places that beg me to install an app is ridiculous. if i installed an app from every single place that begs me to my phone would probably shut down in protest from the thousands of apps i’d have cluttered everywhere. from the
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by toofy 1y ago
yep, this is it exactly. “please don’t notice the bubble please don’t notice the bubble please don’t notice the bubble”
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by toofy 1y ago
i’m not sure what this list is, why investigate vpn companies yet dont even look at nordvpn, pia, express, or others that are wildly popular yet still shady af with their real world origins? i mean, those companies are so popular they’re al
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by toofy 1y ago
yep, for me, the wild overemphasis on grunts, huuuhs, hmmm, uhhh, errr, etc drives me absolutely bonkers. it isn’t at all the animated aspect, i do love a few anime’s but the good ones don’t do that weird noise huh thing. the stories can b

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