mindbleach

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mindbleach,

Apple is being forced to tolerate users controlling their own phones, and is kicking and screaming the whole way.

Don’t phrase this like they did it out of love. They’re trying not to do it at all.

mindbleach,

You don’t know what any of those words mean.

And I’m including “a.”

mindbleach,

Thirty years from publication.

No exceptions.

Copyright is only an incentive to create new works for the public. For us. Once you’ve sold it, it’s ours. That’s what the money is for. If thirty years isn’t enough then it’s just not gonna happen.

People have a right to culture. Anything you grew up with is yours to build on.

mindbleach,

That’s compressed cholesterol.

Compressterol.

mindbleach,

“The trinity makes as much sense as Javascript” is a vulgar condemnation of Christian dogma.

Pirated video games SOURCE CODE

So there are multiple sites&groups that pirate video games especially on PC. I was wondering if there are places on the internet where you find source code for games especially the highly modifiable ones like Half Life 2/Portal and Skyrim. Or groups that crack into the source code of games (or even software in general), not only...

mindbleach,

Machine code tells you what it’s doing. Source code tells you why.

mindbleach,

‘We didn’t find many results matching the terms you wrote.’

THAT’S WHY I FUCKING WROTE THEM.

[Discussion] How do you feel about age verification on Porn sites? (lemmings.world)

Porn sites Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat face stricter requirements to verify the ages of their users after being officially designated as “Very Large Online Platforms” (VLOPs) under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA)....

mindbleach,

But I also feel that any random kid shouldn’t be able to just go to these sites and see porn freely.

At some point, you have to ask - why?

If that’s the alternative to spying on everyone, I’m still opposed to spying on everyone. Unsupervised internet access leading kids to pornography certainly would not be new. It’s not the end of the world.

Just throw your warnings and have a click-through. It’ll be just as effective, much cheaper, and not leave bastard politicians salivating about their social control fetish.

mindbleach,

Fuck off.

mindbleach,

‘The artist, the artist, the artist! And whoever owns their corpse. Same difference, right? Just semantics.’

Every fucking thread with you cultists. Do you listen to yourself?

mindbleach,

Copyright’s explicit purpose is to encourage new works.

Any form of “unpublishing” is theft from the public. You wanna say a guy can’t make money on a thing? Great, fine, go nuts. But nothing any human being put effort into deserves to be lost forever.

mindbleach,

Products aren’t services.

So much bullshit has come from pretending otherwise.

mindbleach,

It’s okay, native speakers only caught that one because it’s in the chorus. Some people still think “Born In The USA” is a patriotic anthem. David Bowie called it the most anti-American song he’d ever heard. Davie Bowie co-wrote “I’m Afraid Of Americans.”

Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data (www.404media.co)

ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more....

mindbleach,

Text engine trained on publicly-available text may contain snippets of that text. Which is publicly-available. Which is how the engine was trained on it, in the first place.

Oh no.

mindbleach,

It’s simpler than that, and worse.

You are beneath them.

In their worldview, there is The Hierarchy,™ and everybody’s role is to do as they’re told by people above them. There is no other force in their moral universe. Nothing else decides what is real.

People stuck in this mindset are vicious when they have so few opportunities to be the boot instead of the face. It’s identifying with the aggressor.

mindbleach,

Come on, you know Risa is carrying this service.

mindbleach,

“Why does btrfs get a huge perf hit with background IO work?”

mindbleach,

Stallman was right.

mindbleach,

Low bullshit quotient. No sudden garbage.

I switched when one guy unilaterally decided Ubuntu would completely flip its user interface, for no goddamn reason, the night before a long-term-support feature freeze.

mindbleach,

We beat scarcity. We’re up to our eyeballs in labor-saving technology. We just left people in charge who cannot imagine using it to save labor.

mindbleach,

Email vs. Capitalism, or, Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.

mindbleach,

For one thing, they are not a private entity, they are incorporated and act in the collective interest of its shareholders.

Jesus fucking Christ, you think “private” means “individual.”

You know less than nothing about this subject. Don’t give lectures.

mindbleach,

In 1997, Mindscape fired the entire Lego Island team the day before release. The team that just made a custom engine for their much-hyped and soon best-selling game that would garner sequels for years to come. The painfully obvious reason was the promise of giving people more money if the game did well.

Nothing has changed.

Unionize and fuck these corporations.

Even outside unions - pro-rate everything. No more hard cutoffs where some bastard can promise the world, get 99% of what they promised it for, and then give nothing.

mindbleach,

Use of Etoinshrdlu has been associated with limbic inversion, salt allergy, cochlear displacement, loss of nostrils, and adult onset illiteracy. Do not take Etoinshrdlu if you are allergic to Etoinshrdlu. I’m a designer drug spokesman and even I can’t believe we have to say that. Do not continue using Etoinshrdlu if you experience death.

mindbleach,

So, Youtube’s dying.

Maybe not right now. Maybe not next year. But they’ve decided to make everybody miserable, for a “business” that still won’t cause enough misery to turn a profit.

Meanwhile creators are censored worse than broadcast TV. Nevermind the effective ban on swearing - they can’t even reference concepts without a surveillance program declaring that their latest video doesn’t count, even though they’ll still slap ads all over that bitch.

Those people have things they want to share with an audience that wants to see. Any middleman can either help, or become irrelevant. Bandwidth is cheap. Some creators are just in it for the money… but the money is bad, on Youtube, and it’s getting worse. Patreon is more direct and far less stupid. As with all these lumbering ruins of 2010s internet media, the network effect of being the default will keep them relevant for a while, no matter what they do. Twitter’s on fire and it’s still not dead. But its prospects sure aren’t getting better… and not because people changed.

People are sadly predictable. These idiot robots exploit that masterfully, to a point, and then act bewildered when more pressure stops making more money. Like they forgot we can just leave.

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