deathbird

You know what could solve ticket scalping? Ban ticket resales. That's always been an option. Venues don't do this because their only concern is selling out their seats.

They're doing both.

Exactly. I will pay for things that I want. If you do not sell them to me I will get them some other way or satisfy myself with other things.

He was asking about pi hole versus and AdGuard DNS.

Key point: “Ultimately, the fundamental problem with age-gating is that it fails to address any of the root problems with our current online landscape – that is, the extractive business models and pernicious design features of mainstream tech companies. We all exist in a highly commercialised information ecosystem, rife with algorithmically amplified misinformation, scams, harmful content and AI slop. Children are particularly vulnerable to these issues but the reality is that it impacts everyone, even if you’re blissfully absent from Facebook or Instagram.”

Don’t worry, I’m sure we’ll have other tools for quickly and cheaply creating falsified videos and the like. Faith in the veracity of video evidence probably won’t be coming back.

Being so impossibly sexy and yet still intimidating for no reason. Also Wifi support for certain chip sets.

I’m having trouble finding that quote.

Make sure your partner has a clean ass, but probably use a barrier too.

Name checks out.

Still can’t tell if comedy is legal again or not. Someone make a flowchart.

Idk man, Lemmy is defacto a pretty lefty space, so I think it’s just a lazy way to tell someone to fuck off. I wouldn’t worry about it too much, because while I find it unproductive it’s just words on the Internet at the end of the day. But if you feel there needs to be a corner of Lemmy where that’s not tolerated you can always try building it yourself. I honestly think that could be a good thing.

It’s pretty galling watching the US government retaliate against a company for not wanting to create Terminators or that surveillance thing from The Dark Knight for them. It’s blatantly retaliatory and a violation of the spirit of the law that allows that designation, and if the law is written well and the courts are honest then it would be illegal too. You shouldn’t be able to lie and call a company an enemy of the state because they won’t build you a Torment Nexus. And I don’t even want AI being used for half the things they already do.

Not The Onion?

Oh no Valve made popular things that third parties can sell for crazy prices. Let’s sue --those third party platforms-- Valve. Next do WotC.

Actually a pretty good idea.

Yeah, ESH. His response of editing an archive showed the site to be unreliable as an archive. DDOSing from the site as a counter to the dox attempt caused the site serious reputational harm as well. It sucks because his site was actually more reliable than The Internet Archive.

What about Sakura? Isn't that a name too?

It’s kind of crazy that the company whose name is synonymous with the product category is going into bankruptcy. It would be like if Skype, which is synonymous with video calls, was out competed by every other video call platform.

Holy shit that’s fantastic.

Because when you talk about protection or safety for children or animals or [insert vulnerable group here] you can short-circuit a lot of people’s reason/skepticism.

AI creating jobs by requiring more human intervention for validation of previously reliable forms of information? Okay cool, I’m here for it.

I think this kinda points to why AI is pretty decent for short videos, photos, and texts. It produces outputs that one applies meaning to, and humans are meaning making animals. A computer can’t overlook or rationalize a coding error the same way.

I mean, if I felt I could control the little computer in a smart fridge without expending excessive effort to do so, I might be interested in getting one myself. Absent other concerns, a tablet integrated into my fridge could be handy to monitor the appliance, make quick or even automated grocery list updates, etc. Not earth shattering, but still marginally useful.

Wait, you can access it via IMAP?

And just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s ethical.

My concern is that they’ll include the equipment for spying on you, and just enable it later. I bought a Hue because it said “no online account required!” Later they changed their mind. I want the promise plus open standards and a base of libre software. I want them to tie themselves to the mast.

There are plenty of people who are sociopathic around you right now. What they usually lack is the power/opportunity to do harm. Under capitalism the crimes of capitalists are made normative and legal. All sociopaths are human, and depite what some may think, you can’t just punish/shoot your way out of a systemic problem.