Uriel238

Uriel238 , 11 months ago to world in Iran resumes infamous 'morality police' to enforce mandatory hijab law

It took France about a century before they went full Republic. I’d give the folks in Iran some latitude.

Note that the hijab thing was the last straw, and they’re still going without functional infrastructure.

I suspect the molotovs will resume flyong shortly. They are already on a short fuse.

Uriel238 , 11 months ago to linux in Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?

And what does that mean? That drivers for most hardware doesn’t exist unless we write it ourselves? I don’t have time for that steep a climb.

You guys are now seriously freaking me out. My experience has been decades of windows not mainframes with 1980s era OSes. Is all that experience going to be useless?

Uriel238 , 11 months ago to linux in Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?

I’m looking forward to owning my computer, especially as Microsoft claws away more of my rights season by season. But WTF am I getting myself into when I make the jump? Is it possible to own my computer and have an easy to understand OS?

I hope I’m not fucking myself when I try to make the switch, but when the first response to it’s got problems is don’t look a gift horse in the mouth then yeah, it makes me a bit worried I’m going to be left out in the elements on my own by a community with the attitude of COD gamers.

Uriel238 , 11 months ago to fediverse in Dutch government officially launches Mastodon server

Heh. During the Trump administration when all the Republican elected officials we’re shouting Free Speech In Social Media because Trump was getting factchecked on Twitter, we fantasized about a state-serves social media platform that would be as free-speechy as the state legally allowed.

Not that it would be useful except to point at it and say if you don’t moderate your platform, it’ll turn into this!

I expected some poor bureaucrat would have to clear all the CSAM but the furry-futa porn would remain, as would all the advertisements for penis pills and Nigerian princes. The hate speech would stay up but get tracked until someone got radicalized by it.

Uriel238 , 11 months ago to books in Non-fiction books that are like the Bible to you? Books that you've checked to remember some facts a few times as opposed to reading them for pleasure.

An Underground Education by Richard Zacks. Especially since all the controversies are getting combed out of Wikipedia.

Uriel238 , 11 months ago to fediverse in i really like how lemmy.world sorting by hot is a lot better than Reddit hot algorithm

Is there a community exclusively for users with strange names? And if so, how is qualifying strangeness determined?

Uriel238 , 11 months ago to fediverse in Content moderation should be open and transparent

Related to this topic is Masnick’s Impossibility Theorem, Mike Masnick observes that it’s impossible to do content moderation at scale well (that is without both malicious content slipping through while false positives get taken down).

A more humorous version of the same notion is found on Masnick’s proposed Twitter content moderation speedrun. Note that Musk not only failed to not trip over all these steps, but also found new ones to trip over, and now Twitter is… well what Twitter is today.

Uriel238 , 11 months ago to fediverse in Lemmy just had its first major hack. What happens next:

Having recently migrated from Reddit (and kept up with commercial social media hacks) I’m used to Nothing To See Here! We totally didn’t store your personal information in plaintext for hackers to snatch. Oh and maybe please change your passwords. All Part Of The Show!

So, by comparison, the response here is downright heartwarming.

Uriel238 , 11 months ago to fediverse in How would you feel about awards on lemmy?

I only gave awards after getting ones that gave me points to give awards, and then gave them either to sad posts or when someone said to someone else, I wish I had an award to give you so take this emoji! (🎖️) so I’d cover for them, as that was appropriate.

This is to say, I suck at awards protocol, and will write fancy comments whether I’m getting awards or not.

Uriel238 , 11 months ago to piracy in Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Library

Any lawsuit that rules in favor of copyright holders promotes piracy (as opposed to legalizing use of copyrighted material).

The more draconian and extreme our copyright laws, the more there is a need for a piracy sector.

Uriel238 , 11 months ago to piracy in Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Library

I think this is going to raise some questions about fair use, since AI projects are absolutely a derivative works that are sufficiently removed from the content they used. (There may be some argument that it’s also educational use.)

This case may rekindle questions about fair use given that our current copyright-maximalist clime has been less interested in enforcing fair use and more interested in enforcing copyright regardless of fair use.

Uriel238 , 11 months ago to fediverse in Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds?

To answer your question, for the non-tech-savvy having to pick a server is, yes, too much of a leap. We are conditioned in the industrialized capitalist world against making decisions we don’t understand.

If we want to market it, we could make a wizard that randomly designates a server from a set of cooperating servers. Include also reminders that a user can join multiple servers and each one has separate rules (say, regarding posting NSFW material even to appropriate communities.)

I just talked to a Redditor who was entirely unfamiliar with the recent changes at Reddit.

Uriel238 , 11 months ago to fediverse in Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds?

I’ll have you know I am not (yet!) a Linux user. (Later this year, maybe.)

Uriel238 , 11 months ago to linux in Read this post by /u/[email protected] before recommending OpenSUSE during these trying times.

Okay when I was considering builds, I was figuring on Mint, but since that’s an Ubuntu variant, I take that’s a bad idea now?

Uriel238 , 11 months ago to fediverse in I think the average person just simply doesn't care about their privacy.

Welp, a short internet news search of period tracker led me to this interview on Slate

On TechDirt (which I use a lot for tech-industry news) reported this in 2021, so before the Dobbs ruling was leaked or released in May / June 2022.

So, it depends on to what degree you need it confirmed, but it doesn’t seem to be buried.

My most recent trans privacy freak-out was Texas AG Ken Paxton requesting a list of all Texas drivers license / state ID records that have requested a change of sex on their ID, which can also be found searching news.