nah, it’s been like this for years. i’m like 99% certain its because either their geo-ip tables don’t accomodate the ipv6 range, or, like in the case of netflix, hurricane electric blocks are marked as vpns.

but i appreciate the call to paranoia. it lets me know i’m among my people

i’m worried about the direction linux is going, and i am particularly worried about linus himself.

that said, the pivot to ai guy gets his bread buttered by being anti-ai. a number of people on the fediverse maintain their followings in part by constant, vociferous ai bashing.

i also hate ai! i think it’s dangerous and one of the worst things humanity has yet created!

but i can read the mailing list, i can look at the patch, and this is so overblown it’s nuts. nothing about what went on with this patch matches the descriptions people are giving it. someone even pulled a “i don’t understand the rcu that well” quote in order to make their point, but that quote isn’t from anyone really involved in the patch at all. it’s just cherry picking a loosely-related message in order to have something to scream at.

and, i hate to say it, but this is pretty common with dave and his crew of hangers-on.

it frustrates me to no end that the people who are most visible in the anti-ai camp are people like this, because it undermines everything when it’s so trivial to point out how they’re blowing things up way out of proportion in order to maintain their rage machine

if you mention the word “uyghur” they come out of the woodwork almost like they’re paid to do it

i see a lot of support for russia, and china, obviously. (oh god so much endless chinese propaganda.) but i’d have to say, overwhelmingly, the support is for palestine regardless of instance. i can’t remember if i’ve ever seen a pro-israel post on lemmy in however long i’ve been here.

redd foxx

if you’re buying the dip, that’s you

i love my pullman pan, too. i use it for sourdoughs that are destined for sandwiches.

“already”

we are halfway through october.

it’s the vpn that does it, ime. i use a hurricane electric tunnel for ipv6 and it causes a lot of the big sites to get very anxious. over my residential ipv4 it’s no problem.

i don’t really take pride in not being a raving lunatic, but y’know what? time are hard and we all need a pick-me-up, so maybe i should start.

why can’t every day can be a good day if i just don’t excuse a genocide?

technically they work

turns out “technically correct” is the worst kind of correct

this is correct in a fashion. when he says “we” he means “everyone”, as you say, but to him, “everyone” means him and his allies. he says “we” in this crowd of people, but the crowd of people do not understand that, to him, they are nothing but objects who are there to adore him and adulate him.

that’s why he doesn’t even think twice about saying these things. it literally does not occur to him that this crowd can do anything other than praise him for taking so much for himself.

some time ago, trump was about to take off with some press on the plane, and before it takes off he wished everyone a great flight, then followed up with, "You know why I say that? Because I’m on the flight. Otherwise I wouldn’t care.”

if you want a deep look into a narcissist, this is just about as raw as it gets. not just that he thinks it but that he has no qualms at all about saying it. he simply says it because he wants to and nothing else matters.

This is you saying you want this.

yes. does that say “we need age verification”? it says we need to acknowledge legitimate issues if we’re to have any hope at consensus.

age verification is not the answer, it’s just the only one being proffered… you want to make this go away? find a better answer to the problem and espouse that.

here’s a small one: no use of internet connected laptops for school work since that is widespread and directly undermines a parent’s ability to keep tabs on their kids.

the answer is not “you’re just a prude afraid of boobs, loser.” that’s how you drive people to the right wing, because at least those guys are saying “the internet is dangerous for kids.” and that’s how you end up in the funnel.

eta: sorry about the insult if you saw it. it had no place here

is it a dark secret if everyone knows?

you need to re-read everything i wrote because you clearly did not understand it when i twice said that i don’t want id verification. you’re not arguing with me, you’re arguing with someone else in your head

i’m already keeping them off the wider internet. that’s not the point. the point is that even if i do that, society as a whole makes it very, very difficult.

i’m not saying anyone should give a website id. one of the major things i repeat is: “never give a website a face or an id”

but the idea that it’s just reactionary “omg my kids can’t see boobs” is flat out wrong. the internet is a dangerous place for everyone, but especially children. pretending it’s not is hiding your head in the sand. at the same time as it is incredibly dangerous, basically all the forces of modern society are trying to force our children on to it.

this is a battle i fight daily, and have been fighting for many years, and i’m tired of people trying to pretend it’s simple when it is anything but.

you are not going to win over people rightly concerned about their kids by telling them it’s actually simple when it isn’t. you’re going to drive them away.

you want to tackle this, you have to acknowledge reality, and that reality is that on the internet, your children are prey.

these are the same people who beat their kids. when the kids eventually cut contact the parents are shocked and can’t understand how this happened and think maybe if they beat them more it would have stopped this

tbh, i’m more scared of the pedos that haunt roblox and every other platform for children rather them seeing boobs.

i don’t like age verification either, but that means my kids aren’t allowed to use the internet except in a very restricted fashion. meanwhile every single one of their peers is left to run wild, so they’re socially isolated as a result

don’t pretend internet anonymity is an unalloyed good. fuck, just look at the bot farms for a less rapey problem of enormous magnitude.

there’s more than one company doing this, they’re doing more than just this, and they’re all basically in cahoots

eta: the original reply was meant more generally, though i admit i made that clear as mud. however, it should be read as a general statement, and not just about ai companies but the new era of grift hyperreality that we live in.