Even worse than my initial understanding of it. Of course. These people are fucking wild. They literally view the entire underclass of the world as completely disposable.

Also, important to remember the distinction here. This was all because the only aspect Anthropic was actually against was AI being allowed to make kill decisions. They are fine with the DOD using their AI tech, just not fine with AI making kill decisions. So it’s not like they were saying “no, you can’t use our tech at all.”. Anthropic AI is definitely still in use by the US government… Just not using it for AI to make decisions on who to kill.

I mean… imho that’s a distinction without a difference. Sure a human will have the final say, but they will be working from what the AI produced, which could be hallucinated and unless the human checks the output against the actual evidence, they will just sign off on a kill order from hallucinated AI “analysis.” In other words essentially the same result as having the AI make the kill order itself.

So, just remember to not treat Anthropic like heroes for doing the bare minimum.

Linux in general is the wise choice, no matter the distribution.

thirst content: content that is very sexual in nature without necessarily becoming straight up nudity or pornography, something platforms like Instagram or Twitch are famous for. For young people being unnecessarily horny is often referred to as being “thirsty.” As in “thirsting” after someone you find attractive.

image browsing apps: Instagram could be described as an “image browsing app,” and as such this user is looking for apps that mirror Instagram/Twitter/Pinterest content without actually having to use those services.

https://imginn.com/ - for content from Instagram. Won’t let you view private accounts obviously, but current for non-private accounts.

https://xcancel.com/ - (a Nitter instance) for content from Twitter. Same deal, can’t view private accounts, but anything else goes.

https://coomer.st/ - for OnlyFans/Fansly content.

https://kemono.cr/ - for Patreon/Pixiv/Discord/etc content.

https://github.com/Emy69/CoomerDL - bulk downloader for Coomer/Kemono and others

Not sure for Pinterest.

Anyway, just because they’re “private” in the sense that you’re not using any of the major corporations servers, they’re not private in the sense that the admins of these sites won’t see your IP. Still consider using a VPN while using these for more actual privacy.

Reminds me of my friend and I discussing this open source printer that you build and maintain yourself.

“I wonder how the NSA will install the unique invisible tracking dots into the firmware?”

EDIT: Oops forgot the link

The backend security bug effectively exposed an army of internet-connected robots that, in the wrong hands, could have turned into surveillance tools, all without their owners ever knowing.

Suprise, if it has cameras, microphones, gps, data mapping capabilities and speaks to a server outside of your home it is by definition is a surveillance tool.

All of this has always been predicated on the idea that the surveillance will never be used against you somehow. I don’t know why anyone ever bought into that.

loose /= lose

Sorry this one had bothered me for years now and it just seems to get worse over time.

“I let the dogs loose from their enclosure.”

“Of course I would lose my phone when I don’t have Google’s Find My Phone anymore.”

/grammar nazi

Intel macs about to go for cheap (hopefully) and will be great for putting Linux on.

Session at least has a foundation behind it as well to try to seek financial support and drive development, and I’ll give it that.

However, personal opinion incoming, I think another underappreciated aspect of the “privacy” conversation isn’t just routing but also hardware ownership. We can rely on other people’s routing services all we want, but in the end, that’s still other people’s property we have to traverse to make connections. Especially for groups that function within a small community, I think locally hosted intranets are really important. Sure, some metadata leakage may happen, but most of the metadata leakage that happens (if I recall correctly) is to the service host/admin. So if you’re in a small, local, tight-knit community you may not be worried about your best friend who is a technical wizard knowing small bits of metadata for your localized interpersonal communications. Especially if you use the Matrix protocol but decline to federate and keep it an “internal” tool for your group/organization. I think “ownership of the means of communication” may be the 21st century equivalent of Marx’s “ownership of the means of production” in terms of importance to the proletariat. If we continue to just use large organizations network pipes to communicate, there are still unfortunately ways to target and block our traffic.

Exactly, the depraved and cruel sex acts (such as rape of children) usually come from sexual repression from religion and lack of education on consent and boundaries due to religious repression.

It does not come from healthy adults exploring with other healthy adults in a consensual environment with healthy boundaries. That comes from sexual education and freedom.

EDIT: What’s even more infuriating is the first sentence of that statement is still correct when it comes to rampant child abuse: “I don’t think this country has, or even will, come to terms with the sexual corruption of the boomers.” The whole statement is real “they had us in the first half” material.

Thought it was pretty clear. Matrix sucks.

LOOOOOLOLOLOLOL

I mean I wouldn’t say the original message was clear at all that you as an individual have had bad experiences. There are also people who may have things to say from a development standpoint beyond just “I have personally had bad experiences with it.” So, sorry you had bad experiences, but to be perfectly clear “LOOOOOLOLOLOLOL” doesn’t actually tell anyone anything at all. Thanks, however, for the clarification. I haven’t had issues like that with Matrix in a long time now, but I’ve been using it off-and-on since 2018-ish.

LOOOOOLOLOLOLOL

Compelling argument.

That’s really not something to be proud of.

I suppose XMPP’s 27 years of development is embarrassing as well?

Or are you just shitposting without any concrete arguments for what you’re saying? I won’t argue well thought out arguments, but this shit is just childish. You can do better, artyom.

Personal opinion, Discord was already enshittifying before they did an IPO, like at least 6 years ago or more. The IPO just gave them an excuse to speed up the process.

Exactly this, that’s a client quirk, probably Element in this case.

Exactly, this isn’t even a new problem… it just keeps happening.

As someone who has been advocating for the use of the federated Matrix protocol for a long, long time now, the proliferation of new, competing options actually is frustrating to me. Technically Matrix is actually already fleshed out very well, has several different clients, and even has Thunderbird support so if you’re already using Thunderbird you don’t even need a separate client.

The beginnings of Matrix go back as far as 2014 so it honest has at this point 12 years of development behind it. I know Matrix has it’s issues, but it’s by far the most secure combined with being able to communicate with large groups of people via federation. There’s definitely slightly more secure options, because they lack federation (and thus don’t leak metadata), but I personally am ambivalent about them because some of them have a kind of crypto-bro feel to the companies behind them and I’m skeptical they won’t go down a path similar to Discord while Matrix on the other hand has been slowly but surely leveraging itself into a position of secure government communications all over Europe. So, to me, Matrix already has a game plan for staying relevant and staying solvent, while things like SimpleX or Stoat I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop and for the enshittification to begin

Open source bona-fides are great and all, but for a lot of these messengers, I absolutely think not enough discussion is made regarding their financial plans to stay afloat whereas the reality is that while Matrix doesn’t exactly have money coming out their ears, they have a slow, steady gameplan that is working out so far.

The whole reason everyone moved to Discord was because it was a centralized place and since Discord needed to pay for it’s servers, it had to find a way to finance that, and enshittification naturally happened. I think it would be foolish to pretend that can’t happen again with several of the current alternatives.

(see: A/C chargers, character encoding, instant messaging, etc.)

I love this one specifically because I have always wondered: Is the guy with the hook hand into amputee porn because he is an amputee, or is his interest in it independent of that?