Good ol’ Murphy. The Hammurabi of the internet.

I’m not sure how to explain the concept of walled gardens to people who grew up with four websites. In the 90s, most software was “shareware”, you could try it out for as long as you wanted, but businesses were expected to buy licenses.

MS used it’s dominant operating system to drive web browser competitors out of business. This is illegal. The whole concept of capitalism is built around competition, but MS used it’s power to stifle ’ innovation. The Clinton administration beat MS in court, then the Bush Administration dropped the case before the appeal was heard. If they hadn’t done that, instead had broken up Google, Meta, Apple, and the lot of them, the world would be a lot different now.

MS abused its monopoly in the 90s. The Clinton administration was too lenient, then the Bush admin kowtowed completely. Now, there’s largely no chance for another operating system to compete.

I’m a noob, and I thought Bazzite would be simpler, but when I had an issue (monitor going black under heavy load), I couldn’t solve the problem because of the immutable OS. I went around in circles with Google and ChatGPT, and couldn’t get it to work.

Oh, so that was why my Dad would yell “I’m gonna canola you in the mouth” every night.

I’m sorry you haven’t seen every other “haven for free speech” turn into a haven for NeoNazis and pedophiles. Pardon me for actually understanding how things work, and remembering Reddit, Voat, the Chans, etc. it’s funny you’re acting like bringing up how long it took to get rid of /r/Jailbait is a “strawman”.

Call me the problem after you say how you’re going to stop pedophiles from trading CSAM on your platform, not before.

When someone says they want to create a haven for NeoNazis and pedophiles, I just want to check in and see if they’ve thought things through. It’s hilarious how you’re calling me names for pointing out the obious problem instead of trying to come up with any way to mitigate the harm.

I don’t think you’ll be doing enough good to make a net positive from your child pornography and Nazi haven. Have fun though.

You did.

completely ignore all country laws in favor of complete and absolute freedom of speech.

If you didn’t realize what you said, hopefully you’ll rethink your goals to include the obvious end results. I suppose you could disallow images of you’re not serious about “complete freedom”, then you just have NeoNazis instead of pedophiles.

Sorry, man. I don’t think Kiddie Pornhub is a good idea.

After 20 years of nobody having heard of my favorite, entirely too long to recommend, book series, I am an absolute shill for the show. (Without the “smart enough to get paid for it” part.) 😆

Ishamael tried. If it weren’t for that bastard Lews Therin, maybe we would have some peace.

It’s okay! We have “clean” coal! 🥲

I respect cis people’s right to wear whatever they want…but if I see striped thigh high socks, I will continue to make assumptions until told otherwise.

Europe needs to follow the USian example. Shining city on a hill and all that. Get rid of all of your regulations and protections and Europe will be as great again as America! 🤡

The number of trans people is very small. Only a small percentage of people who work in tech are trans. But a relatively huge percentage of trans people work in tech.

Transness and Software development are both correlated to neurodiversity. (I am a neurodivergent trans developer, ftr)

I haven’t especially heard the Linux or Rust stereotype, but it’s fair enough for a funny joke.

The problem with that is that a guy who murdered his three kids is known for something.

At the most generous, maybe the professor in the article shares a name with the killer. Articles will include enough information to clear the professor (like maybe the killer has been in jail for a decade ). A LLM will weave together real information about the professor with the “fact” that he killed his kids.

ChatGPT shouldn’t be used to find any real information, period.

People thinking a glorified autocorrect is a source of factual information is horrifying.

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That comic is almost as surprising as the term. Humor has changed so much. You’d never get away with that much dialog in a comic these days.