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RimWorld is a single player game. They're upset about people making modifications that affect .. literally no one else? What a strange world to live in.

Are there any potential consequences to buying data like this? I'd also be interested in buying/analyzing some of these data sets.

I'd argue that it isn't sad but in fact quite wonderful that piracy is an option. These companies don't deserve our sympathies. They are doing it to themselves.

To me this signals that TikTok isn't sharing with the 3-letter agencies and they don't like it.

It is unfortunate that you continue to make the false claim that GPT is plagiarism. This is a well-known and widely-used language model developed by OpenAI, and it does not plagiarize any content. GPT uses advanced machine learning algorithms to generate text based on a given prompt, but it does not copy existing content.

I'm relieved to hear this simply because I like to play some of their games but wasn't about to do the "Microsoft Account" thing.

Right. The value has not been lost. It has been shifted. It happens.

Looks great. Given all the progress around this on the open source side I'm hoping that soon we'll be able to run something like this at home.

The UK seems to have gone off the deep end here. I hope that this kind of behavior by law enforcement is not something that the public will find acceptable, and that it will be rejected and ridiculed as it should be.

Today I am thankful for Kagi having a feature which allows me to remove or downgrade certain sites from search results. It has already saved me countless clicks to fandom and can be easily expanded to include other sites as the fandom cancer grows.

Right. This is nuts that this is happening in America. Lynne Zellhart is disgusting and people like her should be imprisoned.

Only tangentially related but I've tried using GPT-3 as a replacement/alternative to Google (Search) when looking for information on non-current events.

Google is incentivized to show me more pages that have ads on them rather than pages where I might find an answer and stop searching. Every click in Google is one unit of their product that I've manufactured and drop-shipped directly to their customer, so of course that leads to search results being the carrot on the stick that produces more search queries (ad impressions). When Google does show me a page in this year 2022, it was likely written by an AI writer anyway. They've just "added value" to the page by putting in ads and affiliate links.

Using GPT-3 feels like a shortcut that gets me past all of that garbage, and straight to the questionably factual text I'm looking for.

I think they only let bots post on Reddit nowadays. /s

In all seriousness though, this happened to me too and I bypassed it with a clean VM (no weird fonts that can be fingerprinted), default Chrome install, standard browser window size, time zone/IP location matching, and connection to a VPN. I was able to make several accounts and none were shadowbanned.

Is this a good thing? That internet vigilantes are able to decide what can stay and what must go? If Kiwifarms was a hive for so much illegal activity then certainly the FBI must have heard of them by now and I'd expect them along with the courts to be the arbiters of justice rather than some angry people on Twitter.

I'm not celebrating because I'm not short sighted. We can all see where this is going.

Came here to mention this. This is is probably the most useful extension for preserving privacy while also not breaking things. Sites can store all the cookies they want now, but a few minutes after the tab goes away it's like we never met. Very nice.

> But I also don't think it's abhorrent for people to think different, and try and persuade Cloudflare to cut their relationship with kiwifarms

Abhorrent no, but it goes against our codified laws to try to persuade one business to stop doing business with another.

> It is not too much to expect of a dozens-of-billions-of-dollars worth multinational corporation to conduct an investigation based on that "hearsay" and to react on that investigation.

Who is to say that they haven't done this already? It's been almost an entire week - not taking action could be very well be the reaction. Albeit not the one you are hoping to see. They don't owe you or anyone an explanation and anything they state could just be turned around against them by the next angry Twitter mob next week.

> Or for a real-life equivalent: if I were to stand outside of the home of a person and blaring into a megaphone

No. That is not equivalent to what is happening here. It's more like a bunch of people making fun of someone in a backyard, with the subject frequently walking by, taking offense, and then calling for the offender's landlord to break their lease with the occupant for allowing mean things to be said. If someone in real life called the police over this they'd be laughed at and told to walk down a different street next time.

> Why should Internet trolls enjoy legal protection for the same behavior?

They don't. If an internet troll commits a crime then they have no special protection from prosecution. And on the civil side if an internet troll is posting untrue defamatory content then there is also recourse for the victim.

In fact as far as the legal system is concerned, the call by "Keffals" to attempt to intentionally damage the business relationship that kiwifarms has with Cloudflare falls dangerously close to tortious interference [0] in the US and something similar in Canada. The owner of kiwifarms may even have a civil case against them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference

I would love it if I could count on my government to look beyond its own self interests here. But I can't. And I don't see this changing without some kind of harm impacting politicians at scale. It's sad that I have to hope for harm to come to my lawmakers but I don't see another way forward.

The worry I have is TVs also embedding an Amazon Sidewalk chip. Seems like it would be easy for them to egress your data through your neighbor's spy device with something like that.

Are they doing anything to make sure children aren't getting this junk? I think we're supposed to like, "think of the children", or something? Perhaps it does not apply when there is money to be made.

This seems like a strong signal that mixers work as intended. I don't see sanctions being effective as it's a lot easier for someone to create a new mixer than it is for the feds to investigate and sanction one. In either case it'll be entertaining to watch this unfold.

> Its pretty explicit in the agreement terms that you need to separately click to agree on every purchase

Which illustrates a large part of the problem. The sales page is designed to deceive you with the expectation that a very small number of customers will ever see and read through those terms. The terms by the way are 4,676 words and would take an average reader more than 15 minutes to read even if it wasn't obtusely written legalese.

Should that be legal and OK? To me this seems like an area where the offer needs to be plainly stated, and since that isn't happening then perhaps a consumer protection agency needs to step in.

(edit: previous word count was from the wrong version of the terms)

You don't own them, but they sure do everything possible to obfuscate that fact. Regulation will likely be needed as the sellers have shown they will do what it takes to deceive the customer.

For example going to the Steam checkout page it very clearly states that I have the option to "Purchase for myself" or "Purchase as a gift". I, like most English speakers, understand the word "Purchase" to mean something very specific. The words license, lease, rental, etc. do not even exist anywhere on any page in the checkout flow all the way through entering your payment information. I can only assume this omission is by design.

Until recently they were asking for it because they were using it for ad targeting. It was discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31510865

If this is the case then I wonder what happens in the event that LinkedIn's scrapers make a mistake and dont't parse the salary range on a job post, and then publish that post in a jurisdiction that requires one like Colorado. Would LinkedIn be opening themselves up to liability?

Hah. I've had an alert set up for "Stadia cancelled" since the day it was announced. The only surprise is that it took this long.

I wonder how this shakes out compared to having a consumer-friendly policy where refunds are issued liberally. I assume that over a long period of time Nintendo customers will become conditioned to be less likely to take a chance on something and lead to less impulse buys.

It's not exactly apples to apples but I've experienced the opposite effect with Costco where due to their refund policies I'm much more willing to make impulse purchases and to try things I'm unsure of.

> "At its core, TikTok functions as a sophisticated surveillance tool that harvests extensive amounts of personal and sensitive data."

Smells like jealousy to me.

They are also not experts in their field. Any time I see a topic in my field on Reddit the comments that imply expert knowledge are virtually guaranteed to be factually incorrect. I've never seen any evidence that a Reddit moderator possesses any special knowledge of any topic. Has your experience been different? Maybe I've just never visited the right subreddits.

Looking at ethereum difficulty as an indicator it looks like current global mining is down around 11% from its peak, to where it was in mid-April.