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vasdaeon Andreessen Horowitz Invests in Civitai, Which Profits from Nonconsensual AI Porn

Taking a pornographic movie and putting someone's face in place of one of the actor's does not violate their privacy in any way, since nothing private was shared that wasn't private before (their face).

vasdaeon Andreessen Horowitz Invests in Civitai, Which Profits from Nonconsensual AI Porn

"Nonconsensual AI porn" is a weasel term because it implies that it should be necessary to get someone's consent to create fake porn using their faces.

vasdaeon Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony

I agree with you in principle but there's no difference between that and what's allowed in other American platforms. Degenerate content is everywhere in all platforms.

For tiktok to be special in this regard they would have to allow something different that went way beyond what American platforms allow, and that's thus far not happening.

vasdaeon Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony

Tiktok has been scrutinised so much that if they were showing "brainwashing content" to Western children we would've heard about it already.

vasdaeon Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony

That is something for them to decide, not the state.

vasdaeon Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony

>Win for regulators, Win for users

That's assuming that citizens want censorship. Most of the time citizens do not have the same goals as the state's censors.

vasdaeon What if climate change meant not doom – but abundance?

Abundance of Africans is what it is going to mean for Europe.

vasdaeon Discouraging the use of web application firewalls

I work with PHP and I think WAFs are potentially useful (and potentially problematic).

vasdaeon Ubuntu Pro Shenanigans

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Capitalising the first letter of each package name makes it look jarring.

vasdaeon YouTube may face criminal complaints in EU for using ad-block detection scripts

It's the EU, of course they have to get involved. How else are they going to justify the salaries of those unelected officials?

vasdaeon Diamonds Suck

I completely agree. My point is that, even though buying a diamond is stupid, buying a cheap knock-off is even stupider. The only point of a diamond is to show wealth, since it's a rock - a knock-off can't even show wealth, so why buy it?

If you want to buy something useful instead, that's much better.

vasdaeon Diamonds Suck

Imagine wanting to marry someone and buying a ring with a rock that pretends to be a diamond but is worth <10% of what a diamond costs.

vasdaeon Apple might have to pay that €13B EU tax bill after all

That's the way countries should behave generally.

vasdaeon Casino-like apps have drained people of millions

Well, that's precisely how classes work, no? There are guys who spend all day in a bar drinking. That's very lower class, and I wouldn't do it. But they themselves are lower class, so that behaviour comes naturally to them.

vasdaeon You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It

Pickpocketing is quick and easy, sometimes not even a crime, and even though phones are locked, you can sell the Android phone for pieces. That's not the case for the iphone.

vasdaeon You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It

The answer depends on the country or even the city you live in or visit. In some places walking around with a $1000 phone is extremely dangerous to your life.

vasdaeon You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It

Of course they don't use the same quality screens, because then the replacement would cost as much as it does in an apple store.

vasdaeon Gnome Receives €1M from German Government

I understand that KDE is a clusterfuck, but giving the money to the American desktop environment instead of the European one is not really a good look.

vasdaeon New York restaurants fight back against reservations by bots

>Why should a rich person be able to experience luxury more often than a poor person?

Why would you work harder to get rich if you don't get anything for it?

vasdaeon iOS 17.2 hints at Apple moving towards letting users sideload apps

If you absolutely must have sideloading why don't you buy an Android phone?

vasdaeon Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook

That is false.

vasdaeon EU lawmakers scolded for concealing identities of content-scanning experts

Fewer laws.

vasdaeon Swedish painters trade union to stop all work with Tesla brand cars

Without the /s, yes, that's what will happen.

vasdaeon Windows 11 Update 23H2 is stealing users' IMAP credentials

No, using DrawFrameControl et al does not make a widget native.

vasdaeon Windows 11 Update 23H2 is stealing users' IMAP credentials

Claws is GTK+, so it's not native.

vasdaeon Windows 11 Update 23H2 is stealing users' IMAP credentials

They have been doing this for years. The mobile outlook app has had microsoft servers check for mail on the user's behalf since forever.

vasdaeon Windows 11 Update 23H2 is stealing users' IMAP credentials

It is not stealing anything because you get a dialog asking you for permission to do it. If you give someone permission to take something, they are not stealing it.

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Those Google workers who were happy when the company meddled in politics and they agreed with the politics should not get upset now that they do not agree with the politics.

vasdaeon NYC's new rat-killing weapon is wildly successful – for now

I live in Europe and public transportation is full of scum, I don't even want to imagine how it is in new york city.