theneverfox

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Can we just take a second to say what utter bullshit it is that "facilitating piracy" is so allowed to be an argument?

How are we in this wacky world where rights holders get to say "what you built allows piracy, we demand total control over you"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I definitely noticed, before quantum (like 5 years ago) single page apps and frameworks like react were becoming a thing, and it was noticeably less snappy than chrome

After they announced the rewrite to better handle shadow doms and partial repaints, I switched for everything but development

Since then, they've done another rewrite, and the dev tools are closer, so I only open chrome when a site I have to use isn't working, or by client request

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Oh hell yeah... Thank you friend. I immediately downloaded it, and it took me all of 30 seconds to realize this is it

This is what I've been looking for, for years now. I even took a crack at it myself several years ago, but then I realized it wasn't possible without doing an extension (rather than a plug-in) if I wanted to do it right

You have mitigated one of most inconvenient recurring problems in my life. I'm working on a lemmy app right now, and I'm so grateful I'm going to move up the "mark user as friend" feature.

How would you like me to guild your username so I might recognize you in the future? Lit up border? Tiny crown on your avatar? A little lemmy gold symbol next to the score? I'm open to suggestion

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I've heard this over and over...

But people still aren't getting it (despite increasingly obvious signs this is already causing problems that will soon get much worse), so I guess we need to keep saying it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

A quick search shows you can edit this as well... That is interesting though, I didn't know it existed

Give me a couple hours and I could build something that makes pastes appear to be keystrokes. Give me a weekend, and I can build something mathematically indistinguishable from a human typing that will hold up to intense scrutiny

It still doesn't prove anything, it's just one more piece of circumstantial evidence. Still, it's not unreasonable to paste the full text into it, or mix and match. Maybe you don't have word installed on your computer - I don't, I haven't since I was in school myself. It's reasonable to use word on school computers but do all of the work on an online text editor, then pasting into word on a school computer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

See how I picked specific, more recent examples? Ones where OSHA existed?

That's the difference. You can't just damn the whole tech tree because the primitive precursor came about during WW2.

The turing architecture, which laid the groundwork for everything, wasn't even about war - it came from a man who was aiming far over the horizon, and used code breaking to fund his dream. His dream was a true AI.

Same with the rocket - it wasn't created to kill, it became a tool of death first because that's how it was funded.

We can do technology safely. Capitalism and war are both just incentives to do it recklessly. They also shape the form it takes, usually not for the better

I don't know why you're saying technology is responsible for war deaths either... The war drives the technology, not the other way around. Technology changes society and changes war, but you can have both with stagnant technology. At worst, technology magnifies the scale we act on, but it's not the source.

Technology comes from people who like to push limits. If you give the right type of people the resources they need, they'll create it.

I've watched plenty of YouTube videos about the development of tech. It's interesting, but I prefer the YouTubers who push the limits in their garage... Especially the things that exist but aren't economically viable, like paint that passively cools or diy algae bioreactors

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Those weren't about speed of technology, it was capitalism being capitalism without being held back by regulation or worker protection.

How many people died designing the Internet? How many died to figure out how to land a rocket booster on a barge? How many people died figuring out mRNA vaccines?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Ok, and that's proof of what exactly? That you made the file when you said you did?

Not to mention, you can set those to whatever value you want

I can see how it could be part of a court case, because it's one more little corroborating detail. It doesn't prove anything though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

... No proof she didn't? What could possibly prove that?

Can you give me an example of this proof? And if so, is that something reasonable for a student to have?

Seriously, think it through.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Gestures at the 1%, who are overwhelmingly descendants of the aristocracy created by Rome and managed by the holy Roman empire

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I've got a suite of plugins that make this essentially anon-issue for me... My browser blocks tracking cookies, and sandboxes by domain

But still, when I see this screen 50/50 if I immediately hit back on principle

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

I was talking to my handyman the other day, he's a nice guy and likes to learn. I'm telling him about how much it sucks to grow up in car-centric suburbs, and he told me about childhood.

I told him how the freedom he had now gets people arrested for child neglect, and all of a sudden he goes "yeah it's so dangerous now with the crisis at the border"

It's like they've been through an "education" camp. You carefully lead them through understanding how the world could be very easily improved, and they're getting it... Then some phrase reminds them of their conditioning, and they snap back to step one.

It takes months of gently leading them to see that what they're saying makes no sense... It's possible, but it's depressing how many people are falling into the fox newshole

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