I feel like if someone was getting bullied by their coworkers for a trait that made them different, and then got promoted by the boss for that trait, it would only increase the level of resentment.

One good thing about them is that if you have a cat, they are less likely to get destroyed than the other type of blinds.

however without apps like this if you think about it we’d have to be back to driving everywhere to go eat at most places most restaurants profits would be down still and you would have to work at those shit restaurants for even worse pay

How about instead of all that we go back to people making their own food at home and let the restaurant industry die off altogether

Barring civilians from using encryption and software deemed dangerous is a new level imo. These are the tools we have to fight this stuff, maintaining those rights is a big deal.

It was a wildly controversial change within the dev community

Sounds like it would be, isn’t the reason to keep storage expensive that everything included in a transaction needs to be stored forever by every single network participant running a full node?

This is one of the things I like about ordering online and doing grocery pickup.

It’s pretty close. There was a Chainalysis slideshow presentation that was leaked a few years ago, where they are introducing to government employees their best available tools for tracking it (the video has since been largely scrubbed from much of the internet), where they walked through an example of how they deanonymized a drug cartel that was using Monero. This was portrayed as a rare and difficult feat; it was only possible because of a combination of the cartel using remote nodes operated as honeypots, their consistent use of centralized exchanges, and the large number of transactions Chainalysis had been able to separately confirm as being associated with them. The presentation otherwise emphasized how most of the time options are limited unless the person they’re targeting made mistakes unrelated to the theoretical security of Monero, like making transactions with timings and amounts that give them away or leaking their IP address.

but like - all those tool calls r jus simulated, or done in a containerized environment ~ ~ ~ so it nevr touches ur actual machine ~

Maybe could also have some kind of snapshot system, so if there are signs things have gone totally off the rails, the agent could go back in time and warn its past self about the problems.

It’s a subtle but important distinction, IMO.

I’m not clear on what the purpose or justification for it is. To me it sounds like what you’re arguing is that these companies are not valid targets for moral condemnation, even if they might be valid targets for a strategic boycott. But why shouldn’t they be? Why wouldn’t this justify angrily calling for and acting towards their destruction, rather than attempting a strategic negotiation that is not overtly hostile? To me the former has two big advantages:

1. these companies, as entities if not people, actually merit hostility for what they are doing in this specific instance
2. coordinating people’s actions without a direct emotional reason for action is less effective

As a business, if the management at these companies perceives an undeniable threat to the financial interests of their company, they are literally required by law to mitigate that threat

This seems like a good reason not to support them financially if they comply with fascist demands.

I’m very sure that Disney leadership is absolutely bristling at the undue influence being brought to bear on them by the FCC chairman

Disney the corporation isn’t the people running it because as you’ve pointed out there are systemic factors forcing their hands. For that reason it doesn’t make sense to translate sympathy for what you might imagine they are feeling into sympathy for the company itself. Our relationship as consumers with these companies is inherently adversarial, and there’s no need to anthropomorphize them, or take into consideration what would feel “fair” if a company could be thought of as a person, which it shouldn’t.

I need to make one now

I hadn’t, but I took the time to install and test both.

• Overseerr: Looks like you need to sign in with a Plex account to start using it. Since that is a centralized service, and because I’ve heard they’ve started cracking down on piracy, I’m not willing to do this.

• Ombi: I was able to set it up with my local Jellyfin server, but it looks like it only has a search feature and a generic list of currently popular media without any personalized recommendations, which is the main feature I was thinking of here as lacking.

idk, personally I wish there were more convenient and effective discovery/recommendation tools for piracy, seems to be a big thing it’s lacking.

It makes sense that racists who think humanity should be divided along racial lines would be broadly in agreement with each other, even when they are on different sides of those lines. It’s up to the rest of us to see through the lie that those divisions are the actual sides, when of course there is also pro-ethnostate and anti-ethnostate.

To me embedded gifs are alright if they are in comments by themselves because I can hide them, but if it’s the start of a longer comment chain it’s harder to read the comments under it without being distracted by the moving images so a regular link I can open in a different tab seems better

nice, sometimes we gotta make compromises, either way I’m sure all the stuff you post will be super memorable

I don’t think I’ve seen that specific font used in a webcomic except ones generated by ChatGPT, and ChatGPT always uses it. It’s a very clear tell.

That does sound like something a cat would say

To me the main thing that’s ugly about it comes from how most of what gets posted is from the top few services, which intentionally standardize their outputs so that any prompt will result in an image that is generically ‘good quality’. So then you get stuff that’s all in the same boring style, like the style of the OP comic that you see in (fully generated) AI comics everywhere. The actual range of what AI images can look like is much larger than what people are getting from ChatGPT.

Having read other books by Neal Stephenson I gotta say I’m not too sure about that one, he definitely has a right-libertarian ideological bent, even if he’s capable of lightly poking fun at the absurdities of a hypothetical ancap society.