Very interesting.

Tying this to the minimum wage has some unique consequences and I can see why you chose that.

I have to point out though that in your wording, disseminating information while you are working will be very hard. For example, going to conferences might get you convicted (working under a contract from a company and then disseminating information in that conference) and I imagine there’s quite a few other things that could also fall under this, though I see you already did some very exact limits.

I feel like these lines could be drawn a bitore elegant but it’s not like I’m a politician who has great understanding of laws and language in order to draft something like this.

Propaganda?

I see the following issue:

What is an ad? Is it an ad spot in the middle of a TV show? A big billboard? A banner on a website? Someone talking about a brand? Just writing or saying a brand name? Subtle algorithmic nudging?

You gotta put a line in the sand, and depending on where you put it, it’ll be harder to influence anyone or harder to address brands or products. There’s always a trade off.

And then additionally we gotta address any behavioural adaptions of big companies. Imagine if companies started striking illegal deals with social media companies for favourable algorithms? How do you control that? And on the other hand, imagine you were talking about a product and suddenly people accuse you of illegal advertising? How do you make sure people don’t skirt the line and also no one is wrongly convicted?

I’m not saying this is a dumb idea, I actually agree cracking down on forceful or manipulative advertising is an interesting idea, I just think that these broad stroke ideas an insane amount of continuous planning, validation and readdressing.

This is genuinely grim

Yes and yes.

It’s a very easy way to have all the pen testing software you want when you wanna feel like a hacker.

To further discourage you from dual booting: there’s a long tradition by this point about your windows OS swallowing your Linux OS or taking over your bootloader and not giving it back. This has only gotten worse with time and there’s basically no surefire solution.

Another approach is always a VM but for graphically intense applications or things like music production, you’ll spend lots of time making passthrough of your audio or devices work. That said, it is a great solution for these oddball apps that you just can’t get to work in Linux.

Goated

It’s only a meme if it’s funny

What do you mean by charts?

If you just mean general engagement, the beat for matrix would be to wait until element is stable enough that we can recommend the platform to a broader audience, and then it’ll just be lots of patience.

I feel bad for everyone who needs censorship bypass apps.

Also if anyone needs a pointer, I just tested Element again and it’s gotten good enough, and it’s technical design makes the matrix protocol more resilient against censorship of any kind. Although I would love to see some more audits and comments from experts.

Iirc it’s even funnier: the relevant case law comes from Naruto v Slater. A case about a monkey taking a selfie and a photographer failing to acquire copyright of it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute).

The copyright belonged to whoever shot the selfie, but because it was the monkey and animals aren’t juristic entities, they can not hold copyright. Therefore, as it stands and as new case law outlines, AIs are compared to monkeys, in that the copyright would fall onto them but it’s not a juristic entities either, and therefore copyright just vanishes and no one can claim it.

The wikipedia page suggests current cases on generative AI directly build on this.

Imo that’s why Bad Bunny’s show was great. He never addressed politics directly. He just made his culture look fun.

So now every time someone tries to rope in politics, you can just look at it on it’s face and see a good show that makes you happy if you’re open minded. So everyone who criticizes it has to work really hard to make it sound bad.

Extremely difficult.

I tried dating apps, but ultimately I have friends who I asked out and I got rejected.

For me the hard thing is going out and socializing. It’s just statistics; the more you go out to random places and meet new people, the more likely you are to find someone, but it drains my energy like nothing else and I also gotta gather confidence after only ever being rejected.

Turns out dating is hard, but as long as you keep being open it’ll happen at some point.

Tbf statistical calculations put grooming on discord in the higher percentages unfortunately.

That said I don’t get what their endgame is. Blanket ID verifications will clearly eat into their bottom line, making it unsustainable. Either there’s some limits on it that I’m not aware of or they just budget in a huge decrease in margins.

I just don’t get the logic of “we do it to fight grooming”, because it just doesn’t make sense timing wise, but “we do it because UK and Australia are making us do it anyway” also doesn’t pan out because I just cannot imagine the predicted results look manageable.

The results are kinda obvious regardless. Losing their core audience and subsequently twisting their bottom line, just like Facebook.

That’s fucked

My life is on there, and I ain’t gonna give them any ID. Wth do they expect me to do

What is your life’s purpose?

I used to ask friends about it because I was in a bad spot. I got “to have fun” “nothing” and “I’m depressed, so I’m looking for one”. There’s no right or wrong, but it can be incredibly helpful to motivate you day-to-day actions if you feel stuck not knowing what to do.

Mine is “to be helpful to other people”. I wanna leave the world knowing I armed the right people with tools to make major positive change. So a lot of my time I dedicate to technical tasks that my friends need help with, and it gives me meaning.

Some can be selfish, some less impactful and some nonsensical. But I think especially people who can’t get out of bed are the ones potentially having the biggest positive influence on the world, and so these people need a reason. And then if you do a small thing every day, you’ll feel like you’re on track, and that feeling is important.

Sry for the rambling but I have thought about this topic a lot ^^’

So you want that community to change because you don’t like it.

It looks everyone else is fine with it. So you got two options: block it on your end, and / or make your own the way you want.

I understand this is not what you expected, but just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it needs to change just for you.

Btw there’s a reason that people don’t like to hear often: we do not have reddit numbers, and therefore if you do not allow reposts from reddit, a lot of communities would be basically dead.

Maybe too many eggs in one basket

You know what? Actually yes. This looks awesome.

• people don’t like him in a few movies, including the joker
• he has at least 9 public sexual misconduct allegations against him, including costars alluding to some additional misconduct
• his fans treat him like a cult leader and he leans into it, adding to the “creepy narcissist vibe” for many people
• he is an intense method actor, going so far as to send used condoms and dead rats to production companies and costars during the filming phase

That’s the jist of it, but for me there’s some additional things, like seeing some of the tiktoks he did he is just missing the mark for me. To me he comes off as inauthentic in minor ways, leading him down the uncanny valley.