Take heart in knowing that most of the world isn't participating in this stupidity and others who have been are already pulling it back as research comes in to show how destructive some of these actions are to the mental and physical health of people.
To quote an old Despair.com poster: "It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others".
Eww, those default cipher suites, MACs, and KeX?
More virtue signalling and white saviorism poisoning the African continent and compromising African sovereignty and self-sufficiency, all so more American tax dollars can get funneled to multinational conglomerates and self-serving "non-profits".
How about we take that money and instead hand it out as annual bonuses to the top 100 teachers in the US?
Irrelevant. He could draw minors in Photoshop all day long. We're talking about the most disgusting use of free expression here. And the DOJ is trying to criminalize it. I sincerely doubt it's going to fly given the broad, terrifying constitutional implications.
However, when it comes to distributing the materials to a minor, attempting to lure a minor, really everything relating to his actual contact and conduct with minors, dude ought to burn. But the creation and possession of artificial representations of imagined persons and situations? That simply cannot be criminalized in the United States of America. It is plainly, clearly, entirely protected conduct, regardless of how disgusting and terrible it is.
I'm using the Android app. It asks for permissions for notifications, microphone (to engage in voice conversations with it), calendar, contacts, and location.
I've allowed notifications, require it to ask every time about the microphone, and deny access to calendar, contacts, and location and the app works just fine for me. I haven't seen any evidence that it's gained any access to any personal data. Android should generally be preventing that anyway, and the responses I get certainly don't indicate that it's scraping anything to provide a personalized experience. But anything you type in or say to the app in voice chat is definitely fair game for it.
ChatGPT4 has also been getting steadily dumber and the reason is depressing: it's the users.
Everything people type into ChatGPT is added to its training data. The theory is that it will learn to adapt and respond more intelligently, but the opposite has happened. The people using it have made it dumber, lazier, and overall less useful. I can type the exact same prompt to output DIY construction plans or building perl scripts or whatever other complex task I've done before and the results are strikingly worse.
But even in its reduced capacity, ChatGPT helps me too much in my daily tasks to stop paying for it; let alone stop using it.
One can always find extreme or odd quotes from individuals if sought out.
This isn't one weird guy making a nutty comment one time. This is written on signs and barked out as chants at so-called "pro-Palestinian" rallies around the world every single day. College campuses across the US are awash in students and faculty chanting these slogans. These are popular sentiments among the "pro-Palestinian" groups. And they're just outright open calls for genocide.
Israel stuffed the West Bank with families as human shields: "We can't move now, we gots babies!"
I actually agree with you about the West Bank settlements, especially after the October attacks. It's felt very much like taking advantage of the situation. My comment was reserved for Gaza itself, where Israel has actually gone above and beyond the Geneva Protocols. And doing things like providing advanced warning for attacks have cost them militarily.
A hospital is a valid military target if it's being used for military purposes (e.g., storing weapons caches and hiding military personnel).
Geneva Protocol I, Article 21: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org...
Additional Protocol, Article 12: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org...
Convention IV, Article 19: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org...
When your terrorist buddies stored weapons, ammunition, and military personnel in a hospital that Israel built for Gaza, it lost its protected status.
Supporting Palestinian rights is not the same as supporting Hamas.
Quite often looks just like it though. Like, just like it. "From the river to the sea", "by all means necessary", etc. That's like the Hamas theme music. And if you're humming Hamas happy tunes, you're supporting Hamas and their methods. Further, support for Hamas remains widespread in all available polling in Gaza. So a lot of them are on board with the genocidal terrorists running their government and all their actions as well. Supporting them is also supporting Hamas.
Both Israel's and Gaza's gov't are bottom-of-the-line assholes. They are zealot-controlled Hatfields and McCoys.
False equivalence in the extreme. Israel attacks valid military targets, even when fighting terrorists who don't follow Geneva or any other convention on war. Israel goes above and beyond by broadcasting where and when they're going to strike so civilians can leave. Except Hamas often doesn't let them leave because as Hamas themselves have stated in television interviews: dead Palestinian women and children help their cause and they aim to maximize the dead civilians on their side. Meanwhile, you've got Hamas specifically targeting women and children for rape and murder and live-streaming the whole thing to the world.
So no, they aren't the same. And it would take one ignorant motherfucker to think they are.
Having biometrics is equivalent to having a physical key.
Fingerprints specifically are a password you can never change that you leave copies of everywhere you go. It's the worst possible "security" imaginable. It's just convenient.
"respect the wishes of the picture subject and the copyright holder"
You can certainly make an argument for the former, but as for the latter, the copyright holder in this case has been aware of the image's use for decades and taken no action to defend their copyright. Case law on this is clear: they have no claim at this point. Further, the implication of legitimate academic and research use over the course of several decades would itself make any copyright claim difficult at best. At this point, it is highly unlikely that the wishes of the copyright holder matter, from a legal perspective.
Ahh yes, living in a $700,000 house, driving $100,000 cars; WHAT PEASANTS THESE ARE!
Seriously, what planet do you live on?
Most people don't get educated in college. And most people don't need college to become a high earner. We should be investing heavily in trade schools for anyone who has an interest in becoming an electrician, plumber, mechanic, etc. We also need a massive number of additional nurses and nursing techs, and most IT jobs don't really require more than a decent trade school either (although there is a distinct lack of "decent" supply and a voluminous overstock of "garbage" IT trade schools). Handyman, landscaping, roofing; all lucrative careers which do not require college. The electrician down the street from me who owns his own business has his work truck parked out in front of his house and his Maserati parked in the driveway. Landscapers here won't take any job worth under $5,000-$10,000. They just say "no thanks". And if you do have a $20,000 backyard renovation to do, expect to wait 6-8 months for a start time.
None of these people require classes in 19th century Romanian poetry to perform their jobs well and make tons of money. And none of them needed to be saddled with $100,000 in debt when they got started. They went to trade schools or they started apprenticing and they put in their time learning the work, and then they started making bank.
If someone's using 1,000 IPv4 addresses on AWS, they're already being ridiculous. But what they'll do instead is just NAT/proxy that traffic to one IPv4 address and save $4,000 a month. But nobody's going through recertifying all their applications, retraining their devs and others, and whatever else to work on IPv6 when 95% of the world is still primarily using IPv4 and 100% of the world still fully supports IPv4 just because Amazon decided to charge a few bucks a month for it.
IPv4 will still be the primary 10 years from now. Probably 20.
And I have a 90 mile per gallon ice vehicle with a manual transmission and itâ(TM)s made entirely out of aluminum including the frame which is a monocoque.
No production vehicle on Earth matches this description. This would either be a prototype or custom built vehicle. And I'll bet it doesn't have air bags, side impact beams, crumple zones, computerized driver assist, anti-lock brakes, and so on. In other words, one step up from a moped. And most people are not about to put their children in something that's unsafe relative to every other production vehicle allowed on the roadways of western nations.
So show me the crash test data to demonstrate that this miracle vehicle doesn't kill everyone inside when it's involved in a 60mph multi-vehicle collision with a rollover event. You're bringing this up to try and win an argument, but it fails as soon as anyone starts actually thinking. Because in the real world, it doesn't work.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.
