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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Because refried beans are as you mention no longer countable, I think "refried beans" should be taken all together as a singular compound noun rather than the word "beans" modified by an adjective. So then "too much refried beans" is the correct way to say it because it isn't plural.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if part of the reason for supporting this is that they like the secondary effect that all this information is now also available to governments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Can't track mouse movements on mobile though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Obligatory LLMs see tokens not letters

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks! Maybe they are doing this because old.reddit is more convenient to scrape, and stopping unauthorized data collection seems to be a priority for them? Since it isn't actively worked on you wouldn't need to constantly update a scraping program every time there's a change to the site that breaks it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hadn't heard that, could you drop a link?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The profit they get from the sale of the television should be enough that they don't have to make the television shit to get slightly more profit, why do people even buy these

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

But televisions cost hundreds of dollars at least

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (5 children)

"each new connected TV platform user generates around $5 per quarter in data and advertising revenue."

Sounds like a pathetic amount of money for betraying your customers with a shitty ad infested smart tv

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

it may be moral in some extreme examples

Are they extreme? Is bad censorship genuinely rare?

but there are means of doing that completely removed from the scope of microblogging on a corporate behemoth’s web platform. For example, there is an international organization who’s sole purpose is perusing human rights violations.

I think it's relevant that tech platforms, and software more generally, has a sort of reach and influence that international organizations do not, especially when it comes to the flow of information. What is the limit you're suggesting here on what may be done to oppose harmful censorship? That it be legitimized by some official consensus? That a "right to censor" exist and be enforced but be subject to some form of formalized regulation? That would exempt any tyranny of the most influential states.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I’m going to challenge your assertion that you’re not talking about

You can interpret my words how you want and I can't stop you willfully misinterpreting me, but I am telling you explicitly about what I am saying and what I am not saying because I have something specific I want to communicate. When you argue that

I believe each country should get to have a say in what is permissible, and content deemed unacceptable should be blockable by region

In the given context, you are asserting that states have an apparently unconditional moral right to censor, and that this right means third parties have a duty to go along with it and not interfere. I think this is wrong as a general principle, independent of the specific example of Twitter vs Brazil. If the censorship is wrong, then it is ok to fight it.

Now you can argue that some censorship may be harmful because of its impact on society, such as the removal of books from school hampering fair and complete education or banning research texts that expose inconvenient truths.

Ok, but the question is, what can be done about it? Say a country is doing that. A web service defies that government by providing downloads of those books to its citizens. Are they morally bound to not do that? Should international regulations prevent what they are doing? I think no, it is ok and good to do, if the censorship is harmful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Since my argument isn't about what should be censored, I'm intentionally leaving the boundaries of "harmful censorship" open to interpretation, save the assertion that it exists and is widely practiced.

I also think that any service (twitter) refusing to abide by the laws of a country (Brazil) has no place in that country.

That could be true in a literal sense (the country successfully bans the use of the service), or not (the country isn't willing or able to prevent its use). Morally though, I'd say you have a place wherever people need your help, whether or not their government wants them to be helped.

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