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slavak commented on ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship   404media.co/ice-and-cbp-a... · Posted by u/samfriedman
mindslight · 4 months ago
In Wolfenstein, the main character shot Nazi soldiers. It was made back when we had shared societal values like fascism is bad. Today, such a game would be called a product of tHe rAdIcAl lEfT.
slavak · 4 months ago
slavak commented on Israel committing genocide in Gaza, scholars group says   aljazeera.com/news/2025/9... · Posted by u/novateg
slavak · 6 months ago
I don't know what Israeli media you're consuming, but as an Israeli, that is quite far from the truth, maybe with the exception of some specific pro-government propaganda networks.

While I do wish the mainstream media in Israel dedicated more time to the human rights situation in Gaza, their coverage is far from how you presented it.

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slavak commented on US judge finds NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp   reuters.com/technology/cy... · Posted by u/o999
bbqfog · a year ago
Israel literally blew people up with a supply chain violation. I’m very comfortable with my assessment.
slavak · a year ago
The supply chain violation was performed by a Hungarian shell company with no links to Israeli tech. Using it as an example of why you would avoid any Israel-based companies is a weird security strategy.
slavak commented on It's easier and faster to pirate an e-book, than it is to buy it    · Posted by u/leoff
throw10920 · 3 years ago
> There is no actual pirating going on when you copy a digital file.

I can't tell if you're taking the word literally or not. For the sake of argument:

Obviously there is no boat-stealing or plundering involved - no Johnny Depp or kraken here. But separately from whatever meaning you attach to the word "piracy" - illegally downloading creative works is theft. You are not entitled to someone else's creative work under any conditions other than those that they set, period.

Unless an artist explicitly says "here's this public domain artwork, share it however you want" (which some people do!), pirating is stealing - you are taking the work of someone's hands without paying them for it, and it literally doesn't matter if you wouldn't have paid for it in the first place, because the work does not belong to you - it belongs to the creator and they get to set the terms of use.

If you want a game or a TV show or a movie so badly - make it yourself. Put your own effort and time and resources and creative energy into it - then you can set whatever terms you want on its distribution.

Believing that you have the right to take whatever creative work that someone else put their effort into that you can get away with not paying for is one of the most extreme cases of entitlement I've ever witnessed, and it demonstrates an extreme selfishness and lack of respect for other human beings as equals.

I would be very interested to hear what moral axioms could justify the position of "I can take whatever I want from other people as long as it doesn't deprive them of a physical good".

slavak · 3 years ago
Illegally downloading creative works is most assuredly _not_ theft, according to either the dictionary or the legal definitions, as no possessions are being taken and no one is being deprived of their property. Downloading creative works may or may not constitute copyright infringement; Relabeling it as "theft" is nothing more than a dishonest attempt at re-framing the conversation in a way that maximally benefits corporate interests.
slavak commented on U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech   reuters.com/legal/us-appe... · Posted by u/testrun
pclmulqdq · 3 years ago
You get invocations of the reductio ad Hitlerum fallacy.
slavak · 3 years ago
Firstly, that is _not_ what reductio ad Hitlerum means.

More importantly, it's not a fallacy. It's pretty well documented by now that what you get when you have a social network with very little moderation is, almost inevitably, a social network for Nazis:

https://www.newsweek.com/nazis-free-speech-hate-crime-jews-s...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/voat-the-alt-right-r...

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/456415-founder-i-wish-...

Just because people like bringing up Nazis a little too often doesn't mean every reference to Nazis is fallacious. Sometimes, it really is about [neo-]Nazis.

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slavak commented on iPhone 14 Pro comes with dual-frequency GPS   apple.com/iphone-14-pro/s... · Posted by u/tosh
TedShiller · 4 years ago
yep, everytime Apple makes a feature actually useable, all the android people come out furious.

my guess is android people also use windows, and are used to constant blue screens, malware, and random crashes.

slavak · 4 years ago
> my guess is android people also use windows, and are used to constant blue screens, malware, and random crashes.

Have you just woken up from a coma you fell into back in the 90s?

slavak commented on DALL·E now available in beta   openai.com/blog/dall-e-no... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
zanderwohl · 4 years ago
Somehow these articles are more readable than typical AI-generated search engine fodder... Is it because I'm entering the site with an expectation of nonsense?
slavak · 4 years ago
Probably because, by the creator's own admission, the articles are heavily cherry-picked to make sure the output is decent, which is probably a lot more human effort than goes into the aforementioned search engine fodder.

http://dailywrong.com/sample-page/

u/slavak

KarmaCake day1144June 13, 2010View Original