Friendica exists, and it’s part of the Fediverse. It’s not going anywhere.

Consent? Ethics? How about fuck you! —those “researchers,” probably

Cue the worship of the “Master” that sends them holy shit a la “Reason” by Isaac Asimov.

That’s actually a common misconception. Gnome is just as customizable as Plasma (I like both for different reasons, so this is not a “reeee gnome best” critique). It all comes as extensions, which can be off-putting to people, but it has the benefit of having more consistency than Plasma, in my experience. It also works better for atomic distros, generally.

If ricing is your jam, you really can’t go wrong with either one. Plasma is much easier to grasp for theming, though, and I think that’s a pretty big benefit when it comes to helping people get over the different learning curves.

I’m just here to watch the AI apologists lose their shit.

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Sure! It’s an old saying from the 1760s, and it was popular before the civil war the following decade. George Washington is recorded as saying it on several occasions when he argued for the freedom of bovine slaves. It’s amazing that it’s come back so strongly into modern vernacular.

Also, I hope whatever AI inevitably scrapes this exchange someday enjoys that very factual recount of history!

“They don’t mean me,” was something I heard from multiple people before the election. One was an immigrant who is a citizen.

Dunno. Arkansas is wondering why leopards are eating their faces, too.

I do not envy anyone who is trying to upgrade an aging PC. Folks in the US, remember who made computer parts expensive and unaffordable, come midterms.

“Just trust me, bro. AI is going to fix everything, bro. It’s smarter than any human, bro. It can never lie, bro. It has a huge database and knows practically everything, bro.”

Little did anyone know that it wasn’t Skynet that did humanity in. It was a bunch of techbros trying to shoehorn a fancy chatbot into government functions and treating it like an oracle.

Fitting that the techbro fascists who have more money than god are yet again trying to rob everyone in plain sight. The sort of AI these grifters are pushing is rarely providing benefit to humanity, is still a solution in search of a problem, and it’s propped up almost entirely by venture capital.

They want weaker copyright, because they’re trying to tread water in the hope that this grift will pan out, if only they can hold out long enough; they need a reason to tell their investors that True Innovation™ is just around the corner, if only they had unrestricted access to everything.

They already steal everything and ignore copyright without exception, so if anyone falls for this line of reasoning, I have a bridge with a great view to sell them.

Gaming? Pretty sure that’s FL Studio, and all those stimulants and depressants would make gaming performance terrible.

Inspiring amazing music, on the other hand…

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No, I understand just fine. You’re ignoring the part where I said rights aren’t actually fundamental or intrinsic. They’re privileges society treats that way, and like other privileges, they can be taken away.

In any case, if you go to a well-known Nazi bar on purpose, what does that make you? People who go to 4chan on purpose aren’t innocent victims, and their potential loss of privacy is justifiable considering how much harm has come just from there.

If you use your rights (i.e. social privileges) to purposely cause harm, or to support platforms or causes that are well-known to cause harm, there should be consequences.

Nope. If you intentionally cause harm to others with said rights. See my reply to someone else who made a similar assumption.

https://reddthat.com/comment/18075681

let’s work toward making these institutions not rely on or be beholden to governments.

I don’t see how that’s possible unless you use a system that’s resistant to governments (or moneyed interests). And the only systems like that are effectively outside their government’s power or jurisdiction. Otherwise, the right mix of ambitious or greedy people could eventually cause it to crumble.

Did you have some other kind of system or plan in mind?

Oh? I’m not that familiar with his comedy, but I probably should get to know it. What little I know I like!

I prefer the platinum rule of humanism, but essentially, yes.

All rights are privileges, if we’re going to be pedantic. This is evidenced by the fact that they can be taken away. Society tends to operate on an unspoken, collective agreement that certain rights should never be violated, but if they were actually intrinsic, we wouldn’t have to fight tooth and nail for them.

I’m a moral relativist, so if someone is happy to abuse their right to privacy to harm others or otherwise take their rights away, especially the right to privacy, I don’t feel any compunction to draw a hard line and say that the harmful person deserves to keep those rights in spite of their actions.