All dandelion like discussion topics (strong, competitive and parasitic to other topics, viral) need to be isolated to their own deticated communities and spaces. Dandelions are great in salad from what I hear and are lovely flowers, but I dont want them in my rose garden or it will choke out and kill my roses. Politics is important and admittedly kinda fun, but I dont want it here.

‘Just get a bot and “ctrl+a, del” the entire site contents’

Cool, but umm, wrong community. Try @[email protected]

If this involves AI, then the AI involvement is just a tool for the artist to use. Its just one of their many brushes. Reminds me of what code completion LLMs are to programmers. Both good and bad things came out of the ability to have literally magic almost mind reading autocomplete.

Disappointed is all I can say really. I like AI, Translation is one of the few things it can actually do that’s not harmful to the world or society. Op is likely not promising me a safe place to talk about AI as a state of the art word calulator but as a creative tool that makes whatever you want. And I can get the former other places.

In terms of vibes, firefox and brave give off the same queezy “we care about your privicy” half trueth. Read as uncharitably as possable, mozilla gives off a neglectful abusive father vibe where brave has a potential crypto scammer vibe. Being so jumpy about software as I am, following KISS and appearing to have less unknown background machinery is comforting. (caugh I hate “safe browsing” caugh) Firefox probably in reality fails to be properly privacy focused but sells the illusion effectively, and thats a bad thing. Also defaults are powerful and now switching costs are high for me.

The military is using a TEXT TRANSFORMER in it’s, “look at and shoot it” machine?

And less abusive, cant find it but there was a video on friend.com by the primagen. 😕

Exactly!

Anyone notice anything off in the promo video

Is the reason (Im assuming you ment) it can’t survive a repeater survive a repeater because it collects and recreates the particle? These cables are ment for logical data transport.

Honestly, there doesnt have to be a political motivation. If its political, they would want to say their message and not just give control of the narritive to the media.

They are not giving a definitive answer and merly giving their (less legally binding) professional opinion. Its like they dont want to know or publish an absolute.

I agree. It leads to problems of its own.

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It’s a programing term that comes from the phrase “shooting yourself in the foot”. Come to think about it, a loaded gun is a great example of safety mechinisms.

Theres two ways of looking at safe systems,

• People are idiots and will get themselves hurt. The machine should prevent them to keep them safe at all costs.

Or

• without guardrails, people are vulnerable idiots and I am too. Let the machine prevent them until they understand and accept the risk.

As memtioned elsewhere in the thread, political pressure prevents implementation of safe systems. I absolutely love safeguards and being safe because foot guns are nasty. (Its why Rust is a great language.) but I will fight against things clearly created under the former philosophy because it locks people out of their own property. Because sometimes the “safety” is an excuse for controlling behavor.

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From what I know, its a communist idea that all governments are inventions and that we are “trying them to see if they work”.

you don’t have to use it.

On windows, “its optional” means somthing diffrent than on linux.

On linux a feature like this is just a command or a toggle switch in the settings.

Its admittedly a neat concept, I use OBS for this verry reason, to capture moments where I didnt think to press “record” beforehand. An (unprivlaged, no internet access) userland foreground app with “start/stop/delete past hour” buttons. All from the easy to understand from a glance taskbar icon.

Sadly, we only got a few of these safety features later on because like software, people will also refuse to buy a car without seatbelts or working breaks.

People are saying “no!” now so they dont have to say no later when its much harder to say no (when its in your home, on your pc). Microsoft plugs their ears when their customers say “it’s unsafe” and “no means no” because they want you to partake in this transaction with them reguardless of if you do.