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ruination ,

Wait, how does Google make money off of paywalled contents?

very upsetting (lemmy.ml)

captiona screenshot of the text: > Tech companies argued in comments on the website that the way their models ingested creative content was innovative and legal. The venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has several investments in A.I. start-ups, warned in its comments that any slowdown for A.I. companies in consuming...

ruination ,

That’s one thing, but I think regurgitating it and claiming it as your own is a completely different thing.

ruination ,

Also, I’m pretty sure the argument is more about the unequal enforcement of the law. Copyright should be either enforced fairly or not at all. If AI is allowed to scrape content and regurgitate it, piracy should also be legal.

ruination ,

My general approach to this tends to be to identify what makes me happy in life, splurge on those, save on everything else. For example, I love computers, so I’d splurge on parts, but religiously meal prep to save on food.

ruination ,

It doesn’t make sense too, like it’s bad enough even if just one died.

ruination ,

Even ignoring the surveillance aspect of ads, which I could go on a massive rant about, Google and other ad platforms themselves doesn’t seem to care about harming people with malvertising and scam ads. Why should I care about their revenue?

ruination ,

Are adblockers even illegal? I didn’t think it was.

ruination ,

I wish people who proposes laws and regulations that violates human rights with provable intent to do just that would be fined or imprisoned.

ruination ,

It’s such a shame though, since as far as I know, the EU have had such an amazing track record. I’d expect no less from big tech, but not the EU.

ruination ,

Honestly, they could at least wait and see what happens in the UK before proposing something similar. They literally have a free guinea pig next door.

ruination ,

I’d imagine if, say Signal, refuses to comply and gets banned from the EU, one could always use a VPN. I think that nothing short of either a full global ban or implementing a version of The Great Wall of China would allow these ridiculous laws to be enforced. Even then, there will always be ways around it for those willing to go the extra mile.

ruination ,

I know that some manufacturers ship QubesOS, those are intended for people with high threat models afaik.

ruination ,

Don’t forget about malvertising, that’s probably a more imminent danger. If Google and other ad companies don’t give enough of a shit about user to actually filter out malware ads, why should I give enough of a shit about their revenue to not use uBO?

ruination ,

Time to poison their data, I guess.

ruination ,

I keep it simple and default to they/them unless they mention some specific preference. Doesn’t matter if they appear to be very traditionally masculine or feminine, or anything in between.

ruination ,

Ah, that’s understandable. My native tongue doesn’t really have gendered pronouns so they/them feels right at home for me (though ironically, the people in my country are mostly conservative and bigoted and wouldn’t accept nonbinary)

ruination ,

I only did a quick skim through the abstracts so I might miss some important details, but from what I can tell, they’re all rare/one-off events. Sure, they exist, but the rate at which these vaccine injuries exist is eclipsed by that of Covid itself; there’s a reason why the hospitals were overloaded by Covid and not vaccine injuries. The point is not that the vaccine is 100% safe, it’s that the downsides of Covid far outweigh that of the vaccine (not to mention that, at least from what I understand, vaccine injuries are not contagious, unlike Covid, and hence you are protecting others who are immunocompromised). Tl:dr is that unlike what you see with the overloading of hospitals during covid, they have no problem handling a couple of vaccine injuries here and there.

ruination ,

I agree, but I don’t think the studies themselves are to blame though, they’re simply reporting the facts. OP just simply misinterpreted it, knowingly or otherwise. The studies back up the point that ‘vaccine injuries exist’ which I don’t think anyone is arguing against. The important point is rather that ‘Covid is significantly worse than any vaccine injury, and our system can take care of the latter but not the former’.

ruination ,

I don’t think the point is that it’s not a threat. I think it’s more like if you set fire to a house before robbing the neighbouring house, if that makes sense. It’s not that the house on fire isn’t important, but more so that it was meant to distract everyone.

ruination ,

Is GrapheneOS affected?

ruination ,

Neat, thanks! Makes me even more grateful that I decided to switch.

ruination ,

I should start marketing cyanide as a painkiller too, goddamn.

ruination ,

I drink black coffee and am a morning person

ruination ,

That is very much a plausible argument, but I did start out by drinking tea instead of coffee when I was younger because my parents fearmongered me about coffee. Stayed a morning person throughout.

ruination ,

Wayland have worked flawlessly for me, but I do understand that I have a very simple use case, so ymmv.

ruination ,

On a more serious note, though, while I do 100% that the “Thin Blue Line” is pure idiocy, I don’t think that actually going out of your way to harass them (even if it is warranted) is in any way effective in convincing them otherwise and having them see reason. Same reasoning as with why many young boys these days fall down the alt-right rabbit hole and become a Tater Tot.

ruination ,

Only if you show me the aftermath

ruination , (edited )

Okay, that is pretty effective, but you would also swoop down to the same low as them. The police are known for unreasonable and excessive brutality, doing that would make you at the same level they are.

EDIT: You have convinced me and bought to my attention points that I didn’t consider because I might have been too idealistic. Thank you for correcting me.

ruination ,

Oh yeah, you’re right, I agree. My bad, didn’t really think of that for a sec.

ruination ,

A Tater Tot is a mindless follower of some very punchable asshole called Andrew Tate. Also in regards to your second point, while that is true, they will and already do have that stupid stereotype ingrained in their racist minds anyways. Might as well take advantage of it.

ruination ,

Fair enough, I was being too idealistic. I just wish we can have them see reason instead, but if we can’t, making them shut up and not spread their idiocy would perhaps make for the next best thing.

ruination ,

Even if they do remove them from the official stores, you can always go straight to the source and sideload it.

ruination ,

I found that, at the cost of a few months of absolute suffering, using Gentoo as my first distro fasttracked my Linux learning.

ruination ,

I know right, imagine putting in so much effort just to strip some people of their most basic and fundamental human rights and thinking you’re the victim.

ruination ,

The government, not the people, but yeah I agree

ruination ,

I mean as someone of Chinese descent who is repulsed by the Chinese government’s actions despite them looking like me, I think my existence alone disproves your argument. I don’t doubt that there are some people who do think like that, but I do doubt that they make up anywhere near a majority.

ruination ,

Okay, fair point, the argument I made wasn’t exactly a good one. I do still think that hating authoritarianism isn’t exactly xenophobia.

ruination ,

Isn’t Russia being criticised for similar authoritarian practices despite them being white (at least the people in power, anyways)?

ruination ,

AMD still has better Linux support for now, which is about 90% of the reason I went with them for now.

ruination ,

It is the lesser of two evils imo. Not saying that AMD is any good, their alternatives are just that bad.

ruination ,

I find ZFS rollbacks to be easier but setting up ZFS can be a pain (other than in Gentoo and NixOS from my experience), so take your pick

ruination ,

Why not Brave at least?

ruination ,

As someone who’ve tried Gentoo on systemd and OpenRC, as well as Void with runit, I don’t see any reason to use OpenRC over systemd. I never noticed any performance difference, and it has far less features. As for runit, if half the boot time for half the features is what you need, then go for it.

ruination ,

Wish GDPR had the same kind of teeth.

ruination ,

I feel like common knowledge of all the shit big tech companies have pulled throughout their history is sufficient justification for giving massive fines.

ruination ,

That depends for me. Is it open source? If so, check the source code, you can see for yourself whether that third party is doing anything shady? Anything closed source like WhatsApp, however, and I 100% agree with you.

ruination ,

True, that’s part of the reason I switched to Gentoo

ruination ,

Maybe it would be a good idea to collaborate with neighbours or friends or such, economies of scale and whatnot.

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