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finalarbiter

@ finalarbiter @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • Multi-threat Android malware Sturnus steals Signal, WhatsApp messages

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  • Definitely adding "couldn't count to 20 without taking off their shoes" to my repertoire, thank you very much

  • drawings of nova again

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  • Hot cocoa in the blues clues chair ☺️

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    When the "smart" financial decision flips on its head

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  • This post reeks of LLM

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  • What does this have to do with a shitposting comm or Lemmy in general?

  • I’m tired of ‘free’ apps that are just trying to bully me into paying

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  • Very little pisses me off like downloading a 'free' app and immediately being hit with a paywall for a subscription without so much as a free trial. Those devs can go fuck themselves. Their app is NOT free and should not be marked as such.

    Alternatively, shit like what Accuweather did also pisses me off. Years ago, they had a one time payment to remove ads permanently. I paid, because I like their service and didn't mind kicking a few bucks their way to support development. A few months later, they introduced a sub model that locked many existing features behind a wall and started showing me ads again. I immediately uninstalled that shit, sent them a scathing email (which I recognize does nothing, but made me feel good), and found an alternative.

  • Meta - There's Levels To This Shit

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  • Honestly? Makes sense. The waste monitoring during covid was valuable for understanding general trends in infection rate. I can see how capitalists would want to expand that to see my dookie data or the government to track individuals. My one critique of this is that if they manage to infect you with that 'biotracker', then they must already know where you are to do so. If not, how would the person they want to track be the only person infected with it? So then this tracker doesn't really provide any new information. Maybe I'm overthinking it...

  • LLMDeathCount.com

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  • Not really equivalent. Most videogames don't actively encourage you to pursue violence outside of the game, even if they don't explicitly have a big warning saying "don't fucking shoot people".

    Several of the big LLMs, by virtue of their programming to be somewhat sycophantic, have encouraged users to follow through on suicidal ideation or self-harm when the user shared those thoughts in chat. One can argue that OpenAI and others have implemented 'safety' features for these scenarios, but the fact is that these systems have already lead to several deaths and continue to do so through encouragement of the user to harm themselves or other.

  • I'm unsure what to self-host

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  • I don't do a whole lot right now, partially because I'm just not sure what I want to run or how much risk I want to take on in terms of security (for exposed services) and data recovery. I started with pihole to get better ad blocking on my tv, and recently started hosting a dinner vtt server for my d&d group. Some time in the future, I might spin up a nextcloud instance to replace my dropbox or immich for google photos

  • Buy and sell EVs for free locally or worldwide

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  • I like the idea, but in the long term, how do you plan to fund the operating cost of the service if you're not charging any sort of fees? Ads?

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    Top 20 Most Guru Bought stocks

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  • Why do you keep posting these thinly-veiled ads in a shitposting comm?

  • Honda ‘Will Consider' EVs That Cost Less Than $30,000

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  • Goddamnit I can't believe I missed that

  • Honda ‘Will Consider' EVs That Cost Less Than $30,000

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  • The cEvic, if you will

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    I want to live in the world NY Post lives in!

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  • They appear to have forgotten their oxford comma, but I suppose that's to be expected from a brain-dead publication like the New York Post

  • Thickness rule

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  • Congratulations, you've invented croutons

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    Why It’s Necessary to Download Comet — The Browser That Thinks For You

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  • It's not necessary to do anything in life besides pay my taxes and die. Go fuck yourself with that ai trash.

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  • Not little Bobby Tables :(

  • Could a music label exist on the dark web using only Bitcoin, with fairer copyright rules?

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  • I recognize that IP alone doesn't make money, and that the vast majority of income for artists is via touring and merch sales. Controlling that IP, however, is what allows a band to protect its income streams- if I started selling merch with their brand on my website, none of that money would go to the band or pay their bills.

    Don't get me wrong, I think the copyright system we've come up with in the US is beyond fucked and generally favors large corporations over actual creators. However, as long as we continue to love in a world where basic necessities and dignity are not guaranteed, there needs to be something that allows those creators to protect their income from leaving, and publishing to the public domain does not accomplish this.

  • Could a music label exist on the dark web using only Bitcoin, with fairer copyright rules?

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  • Sure, but how is your proposal any better than an artist just releasing their work on bandcamp or soundcloud? At least those platforms accept common payments. I really think that your insistence on crypto tanks the whole idea, as it significantly limits who would actually get the music in the first place.

    Releasing music isn't like software development, the audience doesn't have the familiarity with or, for the most part, the facility to use crypto. As far as the average Joe knows, crypto is the domain of scammers and criminals, and it's largely not useable as currency in day to day life.

  • Could a music label exist on the dark web using only Bitcoin, with fairer copyright rules?

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  • Why would an artist sign with a label that has none of the marketing, distribution, or legal capabilities of a major label and serves an extremely limited/niche audience (bitcoin users)? Why would they give up their IP for free when it's how they pay rent?

    I think the system you've envisioned is unnecessarily limited and lacks the main reasons to sign with a label in the first place. I recognize labels are largely shitty and mistreat their artists, but they still serve a purpose.