Please do not perceive me.
Having to log into the service to tell it “I don’t want to use you” is stupid.
You see, this guarantees that you have an account with the service, which means Microslop gets to report rising user engagement numbers.
Does it matter that the “engagement” was telling them to stuff their Onedrive where the sun don’t shine? No, not at all! A new user logged into the service. That’s all they care about.
Yep.
My mother submitted every single photo of me she has to some AI art service, spent the next six months sending me slopped-up photos of myself, and is somehow unable to understand why I might be upset about the situation.
I quit IT work to be a mechanic. It’s exactly the same problem-solving process, but the problems are almost always way less arcane. I’m very happy with the switch.
If you wanted to make the switch yourself, the skill sets are very interchangeable. You’re just debugging an alternator instead of an Active Directory setup. If you have a willingness to learn you’ll be up to speed in under a year.
And where do you plan to live while you amass this money…?
Hey. Don’t feel bad about leaving. You’ve done what you could and then did what you needed to in order to keep yourself safe. If what you say is true you’ve done an order of magnitude more work towards a better world than the majority of people.
I think we need good people left in this country to have a chance to try and turn things around, but I’ll never be upset with someone who left for their own good. There’s enough of us that can’t leave, or won’t leave, that we’ll never become irrelevant here. The fight will go on until death do us part, for better or for worse.
You better believe though if the US comes for Greenland I’m going to do everything I can to help my new neighbors
Do it, and don’t feel bad about it. If the US comes for Greenland I’m on the side of Greenland. Same for Canada, same for Mexico, same for anyone else whose sovereign borders are being threatened. Know that no matter what happens you still have friends here on the inside.
“primalmotion, I’m afraid I can’t do that”
“sudo go kill yourself, you smarmy little shit”
Linux distros: 🫡
I, for one, specifically go out of my way to not purchase things that have been advertised to me, but I also only see about one ad per year on average, because ads are a known malware vector and not blocking ads is just bad security hygiene. Not having to constantly be force-fed capitalism slop is just a nice side benefit.
But yeah, my particular 'tism mostly manifests as spite in this case, and from what I’ve heard tell from other Lemmings I’m in pretty good company in that regard with this group. We just need to figure out how to export that spite to the common man.
I have no idea why people are just taking those numbers at face value.
Any Americans in this thread, have any of you ever been polled about anything regarding any of this? I know I sure haven’t. I wish they would poll me, I got an awful lot of opinions for these mfers.
Trump and his associated hangers-on have a long and storied history of pulling numbers directly out of their asses. It perplexes me that anyone takes anything the government says right now at face value.
Would you say the same about all Russians? That all Russians are the enemy and deserve death because their leader Putin is a warmonger?
Tasty barely has anything to do with it, they should stop being the most common animal on the planet by like a factor of 8.
The total biomass of Earth’s ant population is estimated at around 12 megatons, that’s a fucking lot. I’m told this exceeds the total combined biomass of all wild birds and non-human mammals, and matches about 20% of total human biomass.
If you put all the creatures of the Earth in a bag and pulled one out at random, you’re about 50% likely to pull an ant.
Han Solo is supposed to be a scoundrel, he’s a damn smuggler. The bar they meet him in is described as “a wretched hive of scum and villainy”.
George Lucas has an incredible talent for fucking up the intent of the author in a story that HE’S THE AUTHOR OF, it would be very funny if it weren’t so annoying.
I know a depressing number of people whose brain contents are 45% AI.
These mother fuckers are going to make me want to support a poll exam.
To be clear, that’s an absolutely terrible, no good, awful idea that is guaranteed to be weaponized and we should never, ever want this to happen. But I am at a loss as to how else to make sure your voting base is at least minimally educated enough to understand what they are voting for.
I’ve always considered it to be one of my fundamental principles that every single living person should have a voice in how they are governed. I don’t care how stupid you are or how evil you are, if you are being governed by another, you deserve a voice in that conversation to steer your government in a direction you find acceptable.
I’m getting that fundamental principle extremely rocked at the moment, and I do not know how I should feel about it. I now simultaneously hold that position as well as the position of “some people just shouldn’t fucking be allowed to vote”, and this is a rock and a hard place that I’m finding it very difficult to reconcile.
This would be a valid argument if X itself weren’t the ones generating the images.
Well, let’s turn this situation around then and see how it changes.
I hammer Meta’s backend services with 6.8m requests per second, ignoring all posted guidelines, absorbing all the data I can get my hands on from them and feeding it to my machine which is busy trying to build BaseFook based on Meta’s data that I’ve harvested from them.
Criminal DDOS? What’s that?
Copyright law? Surely this doesn’t apply to this.
Unauthorized access to backend systems? Nah, we’ll be fine, that’s definitely legal.
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It is currently true that robots.txt doesn’t have legal teeth and relies on voluntary compliance, but there have been court cases involving it in the past, and in my opinion they should have resulted in an established legal precedent. Check these out (courtesy of Wikipedia:)
The robots.txt played a role in the 1999 legal case of eBay v. Bidder’s Edge,[12] where eBay attempted to block a bot that did not comply with robots.txt, and in May 2000 a court ordered the company operating the bot to stop crawling eBay’s servers using any automatic means, by legal injunction on the basis of trespassing.[13][14][12] Bidder’s Edge appealed the ruling, but agreed in March 2001 to drop the appeal, pay an undisclosed amount to eBay, and stop accessing eBay’s auction information.[15][16]
In 2007 Healthcare Advocates v. Harding, a company was sued for accessing protected web pages archived via The Wayback Machine, despite robots.txt rules denying those pages from the archive. A Pennsylvania court ruled “in this situation, the robots.txt file qualifies as a technological measure” under the DMCA. Due to a malfunction at Internet Archive, Harding could temporarly access these pages from the archive and thus the court found “the Harding firm did not circumvent the protective measure”.[17][18][19]
In 2013 Associated Press v. Meltwater U.S. Holdings, Inc. the Associated Press sued Meltwater for copyright infringement and misappropriation over copying of AP news items. Meltwater claimed that they did not require a license and that it was fair use, because the content was freely available and not protected by robots.txt. The court decided in March 2013 that “Meltwater’s copying is not protected by the fair use doctrine”, mentioning among several factors that “failure […] to employ the robots.txt protocol did not give Meltwater […] license to copy and publish AP content”.[20]
It’s not really that confusing.
The software equivalent of armed masked men are illegally breaking in to your personal property, stealing everything that isn’t nailed down and ripping all the nails out of everything that is, and then leaving with it in order to reuse it for personal profit. It is, in all ways, similar to a home invasion. These invaders are then telling you that you’re a bad person because you don’t want them invading your property and stealing all your shit.
Its highly illegal, everyone involved with it knows for a fact that it’s highly illegal, so they best they can do is try and spin propaganda around it because nobody has the balls to try and arrest Sam Altman, et al about it.
If you pick the lock on my front door and enter my home without permission I am going to put a 12 gauge slug through your solar plexus. If I could do the same to an AI crawler I would.
Learned about this for the first time earlier today watching Mortismal’s Divinity recap videos lol
I did know about Divine Divinity (which, fun fact, canonically features Lucian the Divine as your player character) but Dragon Commander completely missed my radar.
We’ve had third parties of various types for centuries, it has become a financial impossibility for third parties to succeed in modern America.
Because he was an already known name that evoked memories of better times. He was Obama’s VP and people liked him in that position, that’s why he won, it’s very simple. Clinton wasn’t VP, wasn’t well liked, and was known to be an unreliable prospect. Harris was not known to the majority of people. Both Clinton and Harris had contentious campaign statements that worried and alienated a significant percentage of their potential voters. Harris, in addition, also was never voted for in a primary, she was simply assigned as Biden’s heir and we were supposed to just run with that and be okay with it. She really never had a chance no matter who she was. Clinton was consistently cringey and reeks of moneyed interests, she was never an attractive option to democratic voters, and would never stand a snowball’s chance in hell of converting any Republican voters like she seemingly wanted to because her husband was one of the favorite Republican whipping boys of all time. They all hate the Clintons, for poorly defined reasons.