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  • Discussion: Banning links to Twitter/X

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  • We should probably still allow links to archives/alternative front ends because screenshots of content can be forged. But yeah we should not give those sites more traffic and only link to archives/alternative front ends if necessary.

  • Thoughts on rss.app?

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  • Yup. Its seems like it.

    Funny how any mention of it being a paid service is only at the bottom of the page.

    Does anyone know of any alternatives?

  • Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives

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  • Yup. These "AI" machines are not much more than glorified pattern recognition software. They are hallucination machines that sometimes get things right by accident.

    Comparing them to .tar or .zip files is an interesting way of thinking about how the "training process" is nothing more than adjusting the machine sot that it copies the training data (backwards propagation). Since training works is such a way that the machine's definition of success is how well if copies the training data:

    • If the output is similar to the training data, then it is a success
    • If the output is different for the training data, it is a failure

  • Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives

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  • Why am I not surprised? People who know nothing about these things think we just created a brain simulation: they think it's magic! While those who are tech-savvy know just what these things can and can't do and know just how unreliable they can be.

  • Do you think Lemmy.ml should ban X/Twitter links?

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  • Yes... we should probably ban Xitter links... but maybe allow other front ends? You know, because screenshots can be forged.

  • What is hexbear?

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  • Why don't you asked them yourself? !askchapo@hexbear.net

    Probably a bad idea to ask about a Marxist instance on a .world community, since .world is known to be quite biased against Marxism.

  • xkcd #3038: Uncanceled Units

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  • Sorry! I added it now.

  • Home ownership rates by country

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  • Nobody "owns" land. Even under capitalism. If you think you do, stop paying the rent tax you pay the government in order to "own" that land and see what happens.

    Point is, even if you "own" a house, if the government decides they want to confiscate it, they have a whole army to do it. All ownership is always at the mercy of the government. (More accurately, ownership is at the mercy of whoever has the monopoly on violence, since they can only take ownership through it.)

  • NSFW

    what's the difference between classism and racism?

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  • IRS recovers $4.7 billion in back taxes, braces for cuts under Trump and GOP majority

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  • So you don't like schools, roads, public healthcare, having a police force to protect the citizens? You realize taxes pay for those right? And without them, if you get robbed, there will be no police to help you.

    Also, did you know the bourgeoisie steal way more from you than the taxes you pay?

  • No one.

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  • I could spend an hour writing a long winded explanation of why capitalists "earn" their wealth through wage theft... but Comrade Hakim already made a video that explains this concept pretty well so here.

  • The EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agenda

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  • for the next discussion with family

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  • Australia bans social media for under 16s

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  • Yup... right what I suspected! The Slippery Slope Fallacy!

    Whats gonna happens when politicians realize kids are just gonna click “I’m at least [Age]”?

    Many pornography work like that and can, as such, be easily bypassed. But does that mean we should drop the age restriction for access to pornography? Of course not!

    Here is another example:

    Murder. Murder shouldn't be legal and it is not. However, despite this restriction, some find ways to get away with murder. Does that mean that laws against murder are useless since we cannot stop murder 100% of the time? I highly doubt it.

    It is impossible for any law enforcement to prevent 100% of all crimes, but that is not justification for those law to not exist.

    Either you have a toothless law, or you live in a country with Great Firewall of China.

    False dilemma fallacy.

    Again, I'll refer to pornography. Many pornography work on the trust system. By your logic, that means we should drop all laws restricting access to it. However, that is absurd.

    The point isn't to stop 100% of all usage. It is simply there to reduce the usage. You are forgetting that we are talking about human beings. Beings which have a natural tendency to conform to social norms as to not be cast out of their tribe (since humans cannot survive in the wild without each other, such would be a death sentence).

    This law would set the societal precedent that people need to be of a certain age to access these social media apps (as shown by scientific data, which revealed that social media usage can have many negative effects on a developing mind). This societal precedent will, hopefully, make it taboo for people bellow 16 to access social media, which will, in turn, reduce, but not outright 100% stop, underage social media usage.

  • Australia bans social media for under 16s

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  • ???

    How is restricting access behind an age requirement the same as the "Great Firewall". Right now, as we speak, you cannot use social media until you are 13. They are just increasing that requirement to 16.

    There are many many many other things that are already lock behind an age restriction and I don't see you freaking out. Here are a few examples of things locked behind an age restriction:

    • alcohol
    • gambling
    • cigarettes
    • pornography

    Media has age restrictions. Books have age restrictions, movies have age restrictions, games have age restrictions. Media has had age restrictions for a very long time and it's high time the same standards are applied to social media.

  • Australia bans social media for under 16s

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  • Just because it isn't perfect it doesn't mean it's useless.

    Just because there is no way to stop 100% of all crime it doesn't mean taking measures to reduce crime is futile.

    There is a lot more to this than just blocking the site. It will also change social norms. Right now, if a 14 year old as social media, nobody bats an eye; but with the 16 year requirement, through all the sudden, parents aren't too comfortable with letting their 14 year old have social media. So not only will they need to find some free VPN totally not spyware to use (and even know that that exists and how to use), they will also have to hide it from their parents, as it is no longer socially acceptable for 14 year olds to have social media.

    And before you say "Kids can easily get a free VPN and hide it." Never underestimate tech illiteracy.

  • Locked

    Probably the easiest boycott you could do, let's do it Lemmy!

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  • How good is Lemmy dealing with censorship and why does the sign-up process on lemmy.ml involve having to copy a sentence from "The Principles of Communism"?

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  • They are an actually crypto-fascist instance judging by the events the preceded our defederation with them

    Crypto-fascists?! The hell did I miss?

  • Forest of trees

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  • “Yes, the USSR performed atrocities, but the fact that the west has as well excuses that.”

    I don't think that's what Kieselguhr was trying to say.

    As I see it, they are simply pointing out that, when ever the USSR does something bad the west are quick to let you know all about it and how EVIL the USSR is, but when the west does something bad or worst, they don't seem so eager to let you know about it. It's not that the west did something bad, it's that they usually don't tell you anything about it, but at happy to show the atrocities the others have committed.

    But I'm not them so I guess we could ask them to clarify.