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  • Empowered witches

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  • Given how many idiots there are who make hiring decisions? Yeah, I'll bet that it has harmed a not insignificant number of people. As long as people have noted the movements of the heavens, people have made life and death decisions on the perceived significance of the positions of the stars, sun and moon. Bunk is bunk, and all it takes is one incredibly stupid demagogue to believe a horoscope for the world to change in a horrible way. If there is no other lesson of the last 10 years in american politics, then at least this: never underestimate either the depths of stupidity to which a human can descend, and never underestimate the damage that the truly stupid can cause.

  • Empowered witches

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  • Yes, it is a problem with their magical thinking surrounding superstitious, preconceived notions about others. Just like how phrenology is not only bunk, but actively harmful in stereotyping people, inaccurately, for things they cannot control, zodiacal discrimination is similarly potentially harmful bunk.

  • Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video

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  • Look at this guy, thinking he's worthy of "respect"! The fucking temerity, the absolute gall of these poors!

  • Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft's Embrace of AI Slop

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  • Yeah, sorry, I learned that the hard way. I just eventually said fuck it, and now I run 'doze on a VM in my Linux mint.

  • Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla

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  • Are you ok?

  • Is gold investing a scam?

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  • Don't forget "skills you can use to make yourself valuable to a small community", especially the skills to grow and prepare food, locate and purify water, construct and maintain shelter, maintain and upscale off-grid power, and use ammunition and weapons.

  • Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla

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  • Fair! The only reason I'm still here on Lemmy is because it's open source and I can defederate from them, but Ladybird's motives certainly bear scrutiny. However, I'm sure that we'll get a full rundown on privacy and security when it's in a truly unable state.

  • Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla

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  • Is the ladybird dev an authoritarian? Because that's very different from a racist, or a transphobe.

    I would sooner criticise Lemmy for being developed by actual, self-declared authoritarians, unless I have evidence of similar positions from ladybird. After all, that's why I left Proton. The CEO's a supporter of the US' Authoritarian regime. It doesn't bode well for a closed-source project.

  • Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla

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  • Fair enough, would you prefer my original term, "ideological purity testing", at which we leftists so excel? I was pointing out that this guy's original comment could just as easily be applied to Lemmy, so how is it relevant? If, for instance, The person who discovers, say, the Haber-Bosch process, also happens to design the chemicals used for the extermination camps, should we avoid using the Haber-Bosch process to revolutionaize agriculture? No, I stand by my claim of non-sequitur, since character assassination is an insufficient reason to throw out a valid argument, contribution, or invention. Should it be scrutinised? of course, but not because one of the developers is a dick. That is immaterial to the project. So either we should throw out the baby with the bathwater, and get rid of all of this free shit we use every day, or we can talk about things that actually matter, like functionality. Trans phobia should be fought, just like Fritz Haber deserves to get his name dragged through the mud. But the Haber-Bosch process has saved millions of lives.

    So, is it relevant to the project? It's not like this is something I'm paying for, is it? Does it matter that Haber was a raving anti-semite, Dessalines is an authoritarian whackjob, or that the ladybird dev is a racist transphobe? Well, I'd like to know if it does matter. If things are being put into the browser that would go against its stated purpose, then that's deeply concerning.

    If, for instance, the ladybird dev started saying "man, I sure do love Google's tracking protocols", or "wow, look at what a good job trump is doing cleaning up the USA of criminals!", then that would be sufficient for me to say "there's definitely something going on", but it's an open source project. It's going to be difficult to hide authoritarian spyware into it without security- and privacy-conscious people noticing. And when that happens, it will be for that reason, not because someone is a dick, that this will be relevant to the project.

  • Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla

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  • Well, then, let me give you a Tu Quoque: your original comment contains ad hominem and non sequitur.

    Or, if you prefer: "No, U"

  • Trump, 79, Jolts Awake After Nodding Off at Roundtable

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  • Can someone learn this power?

  • Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla

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  • Lemmy head dev is an authoritarian shill, but only one of the two people we're talking about lets it influence production and the project, and it's not the transphobe (unless you've heard otherwise?).

    So, if we're doing ideological purity tests, do you have a platform you'd recommend we continue this conversation on instead?

  • All Praise Him

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  • RNGesus, be my guide, keep the dice gods on my side...

  • Rule

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  • Remember 1066! Never forget!

  • Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft's Embrace of AI Slop

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  • The windows boot loader has a tendency to erase the GRUB for booting Linux, borking it as soon as you load into windows. It's probably because windows is still in dual boot.

    Edit: specifically, IIRC, it was windows update that borked it, but it always would auto-update when I opened it, so if you can find a way to guarantee windows never updates, power to you.

  • Education Dept. asks hundreds of fired employees to temporarily return

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  • Bold to call it a "box" when it's been ripped in half and is open to the elements. Closer to a "fart piñata"

  • Lemmy be like

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  • Do you have evidence for these bold claims? I've seen many people in this thread alone who are evidence against all your claims, and yet your generalisations, supported here with no less than five claims and zero evidence, are supposed to be compelling? Also, you blaggard, my grandmother was three years older than my grandfather.

    Get thee gone.

  • Lemmy be like

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  • I am thirty. My grandfather fought in WWII. Just because I'm in the minority doesn't mean we don't exist, let alone that generalisations are valid.

  • Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲

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  • Fair enough