Venia Silente

Consider:

On Linux, you’d only be fighting the Steam Launcher if things come to blows.

On Windows, you have to start fighting against the entire system, on day 1.

A guillotine is also an option.

1. Sell iphone
2. Buy Android
3. Install Minetest / Luanti.

Net positive from every angle.

It’s not new, it’s not unique, it’s not legally enforceable.

No no no there’s a large difference, it’s “round up all the bad people who cause lasting harm, let them die, and then everything will be better!”. Like it or not, you can not measure good with the same stick as you can measure evil. Not when the systems we’ve built in do favour "evil as default (and worse, up to some point, so do the rules of physics).

Are they stupid or evil? Hard to tell these days.

At scale, or in capitalism, there is no difference.

i wIlL lOsE My vIsIOn iM ScarED

betcha you didn’t see that coming, bitch.

I’m feeling patriotic enough to burn US flags and I’m not even from the US!

Has both a piracy and a privacy community, which is nice and probably leads to fun mishaps / mistypings. It’s pretty lean to federate to and fro as well, same with the UI.

Just about the only negative I can consider is their position pro AI, but I can live with that, the world is pretty close to the end anyway.

1. No. There is no particular reason why there needs to be one (say) twitter alternative. Heck, there is not even a reason why there should be a alternative. Fediverse is allowed to be their own things.
2. But each site already has their front page. See eg.: lemmy.dbzer0.com. Alternatively if you meant “each software”, that’s more-or-less what join-lemmy.org is doing.
3. No but yes.
4. I’m not sure that leads to where you think it leads to. That would require authenticating users financially, for one, else it becomes a dark pattern magnet for suckpuppeting.
5. Mostly absolutely yes. I think I’ve seen it discussed a few times under “fediverse identity” or something like that.

As a former lemmeezen, RIP, F, it was a good trip, quite decent service, but now it’s time to spread out.

db0 is being nice so far, and I even got an account on my country’s lemmy.

AI is much like smoking (hey, it is killing the atmosphere! ). Even if a good writer uses it, the usage itseld can still cause harm for others.

Oh it’s for the correct sound distinction. Compare naïve vs naive (eg.: glaive).

I’d take it part of the problem is that publisher is quite a “unglorious” job to say somehow. Like, it’s difficult to make it look fancy or interesting enough that you’d take effort, time and resources from other things you could be doing - such as, ya know, writing the story you want to write - to have to do that.

Cute, but we all know the only way these writers are going to get what they want is if they part ways from their current publishers and start a coöperative.

The latter part makes sense to me tbh. Machines should not allowed to compete with humans (in creative endeavours) because it is an intrinsically unfair competition that further erodes the rights of those humans who are more vulnerable, in the circumstance that is opposite to the intent of having machines around in the first place. They are supposed to do our beast-of-burden work, not make it so that our only pending value to be extracted by capitalism is beast-of-burden work.

What I’m not sure I buy is the idea that the “countless works” generated by AI actually compete with the original, in particular if they are non-infringing. Let’s say I take the work of an author to train an AI on their style. The author writes exclusively noir; I instruct the AI to generate college drama in the same style. Are the new works competing? The author won’t offer me a college drama in the first place.

Ahem.

• Photo / audio / video evidence.
• Eyewitness testimony

That the eyewitness was also recording does nothing to change veracity, those are still photo / audio / video and can thus be faked.

That’s a nice sentiment but no, it won’t work. If your family member rattles conspiranoia to your face, it means they already don’t care about you to enough a point to not only openly do that, but also they are probably unvaxxed and likely unmasked at the moment. Or every single time.

At that point, they don’t care for you. Period.

Well, it will be entertaining, there’s no doubt of that.

Don’t want to sink with it? Leave the fucking sinking ship. The writing was on the wall for a full decade already.

Just because a law exists, doesn’t make it good. Even getting good laws made these days in the first place often requires lobbying, under-the-table deals and such.

Or just look at ICE. Tell me exactly how are they not corrupt.