"Sex traffickers are using the human powers of speech and locomotion to aid in the coercion of their victims"
Readit NewsDoItToMe81 commented on Lobsters blocking UK users because of the Online Safety Act lobste.rs/s/ukosa1/uk_use... · Posted by u/ColinWright
Lobsters blocking UK users because it's a highly reactive hugbox*
I hope this is poorly phrased or I am misunderstanding it, because it feels like it's implying that Matrix's terrible scaling issues will have their fixes paywalled. Even non-federated homeservers chew up RAM and CPU like candy when you get too many users.
It's heavier than any other protocol or chat program I know.
DoItToMe81 commented on Correlating Ownership of Sites Protected by Cloudflare jamesmotherway.com/blog/c... · Posted by u/jamesmotherway
Mac baby discovers you can use Whois info for details on who owns a site. More at ten.
DoItToMe81 commented on For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default heise.de/en/news/For-adve... · Posted by u/firebaze
This is an attempt to try. You don't win my being an immovable wall going against the biggest corporations. If the W3C manages to create a system that satisfies advertisers while preserving our privacy, that's how you win. There isn't a future where advertising will just disappear. I'm just being pragmatic here, as a user of ad blockers for 15 years.
It's not an attempt to try, it's reputation management. There is no 'anonymization' of data, because the advertising companies Mozilla is selling your data to now have almost 20 years of profiling that can effectively identify people through "anonymous" results. This has been known for years. Mozilla knows. They don't care.
DoItToMe81 commented on The Delusion of the Polygraph lithub.com/what-the-all-a... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Sadly, not All-American anymore. The US police force doesn't exist in a vacuum. There is a whole industry of pseudoscientific interrogation techniques that has set itself up in other nations and regressed their policing by decades. Several states in Australia, and I believe parts of the UK, removed the polygraph as a discredited technique and now accept it as evidence once more.
DoItToMe81 commented on Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit theregister.com/2024/07/0... · Posted by u/samspenc
That ship sailed long ago. While copyright can and is used at times to protect the "little guy", the law is written as it is in order to protect and further corporate interests.
The current manifestation of copyright is about rent-seeking, not promoting innovation and creativity. That it may also do so is entirely coincidental.
Copyright was invented by a cartel of noblemen, the British Stationer's Company, who, due to liberal reform, were going to lose their publishing monopoly. The implementation of copyright law as they helped pen allowed them to mostly continue their position while portraying it as "protecting the little guy".
Funny how both the rhetoric and intentions are the same after three hundred years.
DoItToMe81 commented on Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit theregister.com/2024/07/0... · Posted by u/samspenc
For that matter, if you think China ripping everyone else off is bad now… well, just wait until every company can do that.
Trademark isn't copyright, so no.
Yeah Afghans too "Well, they're informants," Assange replied. "So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/sep/18/julian...
I'm ambivalent about his jailing. If you are going to get heroic people killed then you can't cry too much if you get jailed a bit.
There's nothing heroic about supporting a government that institutionalized pedophilia (Bacha Bazi), ran entirely on corruption, and passively accepted the sale of opium out of kickbacks from warlords. Especially not one installed through a foreign invader.
The Taliban are awful, but they're the awful legitimate government of Afghanistan. And they've already ended two of these problems. If you inform against a paramilitary that has no concerns with rule of law, you're already inserting yourself into their war and accepting the risk of being outed.
He lead an ideologically pro Nazism terrorist organization that slaughtered entire villages in Poland for being 'racial inferiors', especially targeting jews, and intended to continue ethnic terrorism indefinitely until a "racially pure" state was formed from seized Ukrainian, Russian and Polish land.
There genuinely were people targeted and killed for the crime of anti-Soviet activism. Don't lump them in with men who herded the "wrong" Slavs and Jews into trucks to be slaughtered in German camps, who ordered babies heads smashed against barn walls and women to be raped and decapitated.