Todd Bonzalez

If that’s the extent of their differences, then they aren’t very different…

Explain how they are different.

I suspect that this was something of a test case, with the regulator flexing their censorship muscle, and I’m glad it didn’t work out.

This was a POV stabbing video that people spread around to glorify violence. It’s in the same category as beheading videos.

America may have decided that child porn is the only media exception to free speech, but other more sane countries draw the line a little bit more broadly to include all forms of extremely violent crime filmed to be glorified, including things like murder, attempted murder, torture, and the rape of adults.

If you want to operate a business in places like Australia or New Zealand, you cannot be distributing violent gore videos within their borders.

I hope they revisit this as X users are pretty routinely celebrating things like the Christchurch shooting and other violent extremist incidents. Sometimes censorship makes sense, and when people are antagonistically spreading videos of people being maimed and killed, the “free speech” argument absolutely doesn’t fucking cut it.

“Linux File Systems”

*List of root directories*

Uh, where are the file systems? EXT4… BTRFS… FAT32…

I’ve been on Linux for 20+ years now and it’s not as effortless as Windows or Mac, but it is definitely easy now.

So many things have improved with Linux desktop it’s crazy.

As long as it’s not writing to disks, you’re probably safe. This is a good method to avoid getting a remote device stuck too.

Did you actually read the article? The designers of this vision model used a software trick (inspired by the concept of quantum tunneling that has nothing to do with quantum computing) to allow inputs to bypass hidden layers at random, resulting in results that were able to see certain optical illusions in a way that other vision models cannot.

This can be done by just adding some noise to the image. Sometimes it gets recognized as one thing and sometimes like another, just like humans would.

Word soup by someone who knows way less than these researchers.

Oh, you failed up. Checks out.

You have never had a job before, huh?

I said free as in freedom, not free as in gratis.

But since you want to double down on this bad idea, let me explain why it’s shit:

If your employer expects you to use tools to do your job, they should pay for those tools if they cost something. Passing off operational expenses to the employees that use more expensive tools is hideously anti-worker, and it’s not even funny as a joke.

Employers should pay for the tools used to run their businesses, and you should learn what the “free” in “free open source software” means, because it’s not about money.

Signal is bad then?

Yeah. Why use X3DH when there are algorithms that already exist and we know are secure?

So in which direction you want it go? More private or more moderated?

Privacy is good, but when the public chatrooms are distributing child porn, you can’t use encryption as an excuse not moderating. Failure to moderate illegal content is a crime.

Let the pedos run their own Matrix server or something. You can’t be knowingly providing comms and distribution to child pornographers.

Also terabytes of child porn that they won’t take down.

What an awful take. “Free as in freedom” includes not being docked pay for your software choices.

Hey Microsoft: Windows is yours, GRUB is mine. I don’t give a shit if GRUB is vulnerable, I’ll fix that myself if I choose to.

Mind your own fucking business. The most you should ever do is let me know about it, not try to patch things you aren’t responsible for…

Good points.

I don’t quite get how you find it “understandable” to have a reflex against human rights, but otherwise I think we’re in agreement.

at a time when much of the US-influenced west was going crazy with polarization over the use of pronouns

lmao, speak for yourself. The anti-pronoun crazies have always been fringe, and their message has always been hateful and sexist.

When someone tells me who they are, I believe them. I’m seeing no evidence that anything has changed in 3 years.

Having a reflex to avoid politics, especially when you live in an environment where concepts like gender aren’t discussed, is understandable

Being female is not “political”.

Their policy of “no politics” was misguided, but understandable.

Being female is not “political”.

Everything is political.

Being female is not “political”.

Can you direct me to where he has apologized or reversed course at all in the years since?

Or do you think that we’re just supposed to forgive over time without evidence that any improvement has occurred?

I guess what I’m saying here is that if you agree with Lunduke’s sexist take, you’re just revealing yourself to be a sexist.

So you agree with the idea that submitting a “minor nitpick” PR suggesting that the software doesn’t refer to all users as male is “personal politics” and deserves an angry response for even suggesting it?

You sure do sound like someone who would agree with Lunduke…

Being a woman or being transgender isn’t “political”. Vocally opposing inclusiveness is asshole behavior.

Not even mad that he’s not accepting a low-effort PR. It’s trivializing people’s existence as “political” that makes him shitty.