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elliot_crane ,

Yeah. Good job dealing with Nordic Nazis, government, now please also take care of the American ones.

elliot_crane ,

I doubt it… They couldn’t even manage to block FFWD on their own website for the longest time. I switched to using alternative front ends long ago, but back when I just used YT directly from my phone’s browser, spam tapping +5s a few times would bypass the ad.

elliot_crane ,

Very little most likely. I was reading some of what the sponsorblock dev had to say about this and the tone seemed to be “meh, there will be a way around this”.

elliot_crane ,

I’m not a lawyer but somehow “admitting you did the thing you’re being accused of, multiple times” doesn’t seem like the soundest legal strategy.

elliot_crane ,

Haha yeah that does seem to be the case.

elliot_crane ,

Damn I didn’t realize there were people who still didn’t know the infamous pony story. Yes, Elon is a weirdo, and like many a rich asshole, believes he can coerce, purchase, or is otherwise entitled to, consent from random women.

elliot_crane ,

I remember when I needed the constant validation of getting sex from women in order to feel like a winner. Then I stopped being 20 years old.

elliot_crane ,

Sure but that’s still validation right? “I’m powerful because I can get people to do what I want them to do”.

elliot_crane ,

When I see this carp, all I can think is I would have preferred salmon.

(I’m sorry I’ll see myself out)

(Also your point is very legit)

elliot_crane ,

I’m not a conspiracy theorist or suggesting that there’s any connection between these events, but does anyone else find it kind of nuts how two notable government officials have died in aviation accidents this year?

elliot_crane ,

I’m going to say this here because I’ve been wanting to get it off my chest and it bothers me. This isn’t a joke about republicans in general and I don’t normally think about how people smell. But every time I see a picture of Kari Lake I think to myself that something about her makes her look like she smells bad.

Watch: Adobe angers artists with new Photoshop terms (techcrunch.com)

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elliot_crane ,

I think Blender, and to a lesser extent Godot, were able to start making leaps and bounds like that due to funding as well. My memory is hazy on it but I recall probably 5-ish years ago the Blender foundation got a massive capital boost, and Godot has seen a lot of big name donors recently due to the Unity debacle. As far as I know, that hasn’t really happened for GIMP yet. I used early builds of both Blender and Godot, and the difference is night and day with how much they’ve managed to mature. GIMP on the other hand looks and feels largely like it did in 2010 IMO.

elliot_crane ,

Come on, don’t do it. I dare you. Get your ass hauled off to prison by force. Do it, you won’t.

elliot_crane ,

The memes would go crazy

elliot_crane ,

From the article:

One sore point is the notorious 1995 R.J. Reynolds effort called Project SCUM (Sub-Culture Urban Marketing) campaign, which was aimed at selling more cigarettes in San Francisco’s Castro district, a largely gay neighborhood, and in the low-income Tenderloin district.

That naming is like anime villain levels of exposition jfc.

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s colloquially referred to...

elliot_crane ,

As you say OP, the solution here is to use the fediverse model as intended and use different instances/communities. It sucks because it fragments the community, but that’s the way it is. I’ve long held the opinion that I’m grateful to the lemmy developers for building this whole thing that we all get to enjoy, but their approach to administering an instance is reprehensible and actively damaging to the relatively free and open exchange of ideas that should happen on the fediverse.

elliot_crane ,

I don’t agree with the “hiding the problem” notion because different instances are independently operated, and defederation is the by-design way to “fix” malignant instances (see the LW defed of hexbear and lemmygrad for exactly this kind of behavior).

As for the whole system not being safe, I’d also disagree on that point as the entire lemmy server code is licensed under a copyleft license which allows anyone with a copy of the code to modify and distribute it. Ergo, hard forking lemmy is possible. Based on the github page, over 800 individuals already have forks of the server code. Any one of them, group of them, or some other individuals entirely, could pick up lemmy development and run with it if need be.

elliot_crane ,

Sure, to an extent. ActivityPub is an independent protocol not controlled by lemmy or any lemmy devs, so there’s a layer of protection there. This is also a trick that can only be pulled once, because any other instances would likely defederate in response and ML would render itself irreparably untrustworthy. I don’t mean to downplay your concerns as they are valid, but I also don’t think it’s an existential threat.

elliot_crane ,

If those women aren’t showing these chads the attention they deserve for being absolute kings among the peasants, then the women must be gay. It’s the only logical answer. /s

elliot_crane ,

Yeah… I’ve heard a lot of voters in deep red districts do what the second one does. Granted, never met any myself so this is hearsay, but it does make sense. If your only realistic influence is to bolster the least bad candidate in local/state/federal elections, you’re practicing harm reduction by doing so.

Open Source League of Legends remake in the works! (old.reddit.com)

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elliot_crane ,

Sounds like reddit. They started banning blocks of VPN IPs after they locked down their API (presumably to prevent screen scraping). If you really want to visit, proton stealth protocol is able to get through sometimes, and old.reddit seems to get through all of the time.

elliot_crane ,

The uhh… “censoring” there was a suggestion at best it seems.

elliot_crane ,

Pepperidge farm remembers. The crowd that was all about “back(ing) the blue” managed to kill a police officer and four of themselves.

elliot_crane ,

I didn’t know about that, but I’m unsurprised the fox “news” propaganda machine goes brrrrr.

elliot_crane ,

In the state of New York, you serve time while awaiting appeal. If the judge opts to remand him to house arrest, which I think is the most likely outcome, his ass is staying put until his next court date.

elliot_crane ,

NYS BAR Association: nysba.org/…/PUBS_LegalEase_YourRIghtsToAppealInCr…

Bear in mind that the sentence imposed by the lower court will go into effect while the appeal is being considered by the appellate court unless the trial judge or appellate court stays the sentence or a part of it (orders that it not go into effect). The order staying the judgment of conviction and sentence may include a requirement to post bail.

The “unless” (emphasis mine) is the operative word. The trial judge can choose to exercise discretion, but is under no requirement to specify any changes upon receiving an appeal.

That is to say, the default procedure is, as I said above, the convicted party serves their sentence during the time the appeal is being processed and considered.

elliot_crane ,

Third party voters? Where y’all at with your L takes? Hmm… suspiciously quiet…

elliot_crane ,

Yep. My comment does have a single downvote though, and I’m pretty sure I know exactly who it is. Last time I called these fools out one of them got into words with me and I’ve been getting one single downvote on basically all my comments since then.

Hi pal! Glad to know I’m living in your head rent free.

elliot_crane ,

lmao… but I thought we were supposed to be the zealots, what with the “blue MAGA” and all… I don’t know about you, but I’ve never wasted my time mass downvoting that crowd - and it wouldn’t even take that long given there are like six of them.

elliot_crane ,

“Sign’s done, boss”

elliot_crane ,

I was briefly able to get to archive.org/donate - I’m going to kick them a few bucks and recommend anyone else who can afford to also do so.

There’s also this, copied verbatim from the site:

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I say we go full Streisand effect on whatever dickhead is trying to censor them.

elliot_crane ,

Ehh not sure I’d consider this “insane people” material tbh. Tone is hard to convey in text form and based on the emojis I think there’s a decent chance he’s just making a lighthearted joke, at least without seeing anything else this guy has posted. Seems like it might just be a dude having harmless fun exploring the woods.

Edit: change up wording to make grammatical sense.

Edit 2: I saw the “Old World Hidden Truth” shit lmao… disregard everything I wrote above.

elliot_crane ,

We’re looking at how we can use local, on-device AI models – i.e., more private – to enhance your browsing experience further. One feature we’re starting with next quarter is AI-generated alt-text for images inserted into PDFs, which makes it more accessible to visually impaired users and people with learning disabilities. The alt text is then processed on your device and saved locally instead of cloud services, ensuring that enhancements like these are done with your privacy in mind.

IMO if everything’s going to have AI ham fisted into it, this is probably the least shitty way to do so. With Firefox being open source, the code can also be audited to ensure they’re actually keeping their word about it being local-only.

elliot_crane ,

With it being local it’s probably a small and limited model. I took a couple courses on machine learning years ago (before it got rebranded as “AI”), and you’d be surprised at how well a basic image recognition model can run on the lowest-spec macbook from 2012.

elliot_crane ,

Yeah that’s very true.

elliot_crane ,

I had to check if that was actually there because at first I just couldn’t believe. It’s actually there. The author of this piece just casually put a section titled “Threat” under their contact details, as if that’s a normal thing you include when you share your writing.

elliot_crane ,

It unfortunately appears to be 100% authentic, with the image never having been satire. I looked up the handle “euphorio_” from the watermark and the dude is a full on right wing conspiracy theorist proud of being “anti-censorship” and “realizing”. I was really hoping for a bit of schadenfreude here from Caitlyn having eaten the onion, but no such luck.

elliot_crane ,

I like how the watermelons have a whole 10K more likes. Let’s go watermelons!

elliot_crane ,

The wordplay in Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss that name drops Copperfield ain’t aging too well.

elliot_crane ,

If he had self-respect he would lose the little ® next to his name, and we can’t have that now can we?

elliot_crane ,

“ … This is Trump Country. Our pronouns are USA and MAGA. …” Gaetz wrote Monday.

What a fivehead fucking tool Matt Gaetz is.

elliot_crane ,

That’s the one.

elliot_crane ,

Yeah… I would unironically rock those jeans.

elliot_crane ,

I fly Delta a fair bit just because they’ve fucked me around the least out of the major US carriers. They also use Embraer models for shorter regional flights. However, yes, you’re correct in saying the odds are high that any given commercial jet in the air is a Boeing or an Airbus.

elliot_crane ,

Why the fuck would anyone want to be the Microsoft of anything?

elliot_crane ,

Give Marge some credit, she probably plays a mean ass-tuba as well. It’s hard to tell though, they all just point the finger at one another as soon as anyone hears one squeak out.

elliot_crane ,

Almost makes me feel bad for her colleagues. Almost.

elliot_crane ,

Biden also makes at least the bare minimum effort to stay active for a man his age, so form-fitting is naturally going to complement him more. Trump on the other hand eats everything within arm’s reach that he’s not planning to throw at someone in a fit of rage.

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