I’ve done the same with several listings for grills that have galvanized grates. Nothing ever happened. Amazon really doesn’t care.

Please tell me this is sarcasm

It’s backed by math.

No, it’s backed by the power grid. Shut off the power, and you have nothing.

Also trying to create scarcity in a realm where none actually exists shows how greedy and scammy it is.

It’s worse than any other fiat currency. There’s literally nothing behind it.

“Just learned about this company that’s led by a raging bigot who has used his wealth and position to try to oppress others and strip them of civil and human rights, and I fully support that and am now a proud supporter”

As for Brendan’s political affiliations, most users couldn’t care less. He might as well be a furry but if the product is good, it is good. Stop acting like you’re sure all the things you use throughout the day aren’t made by people with doubtful leanings.

1. People do care about Eich’s beliefs, or this discussion wouldn’t even be happening.

2. There’s nothing wrong with being a furry, and trying to compare it as though it’s equivalent or worse than being a shitbag bigot is bullshit.

3. If you know that the people who run a company are bigots and you continue to use their products and services, you are giving your explicit approval to who they are and what they do. “if the product is good, it is good” absolutely fucking not. Goods and services don’t exist in a vacuum.

“Our product is so bad, WE won’t even use it.”

Yeah this is some seriously deranged alt-right conspiracy bullshit.

Also, that “tyranny of central bank” is an antisemitic dog whistle.

Windows Subsystem for Linux Is what it looks like right now.

But if they were to fully dive in on building a distro, it would just be a first step on the EEE pipeline.

Another reason to stay tf away from Brave, as if Brendan Eich and crypto bullshit weren’t enough

You cannot do a whole lot without JS to be honest

Every time I see people talking about privacy solutions and suggesting to disable and block JS, I’m just completely dumbfounded. It’s not 2005 anymore. Most of the web these days is driven by JS. Nearly every web app you interact with, every site that has dynamic content, etc. all use JS. Disabling it entirely simply is not an option. You can find ways to selectively block certain origins, but that’s it. And trying to run noscript and just whitelisting only the things you absolutely need is a phenomenal amount of work. I know. I used to do it. It got really tiresome. Every single site is broken by default, and then you have to spend 20 minutes trying to find which scripts you have to whitelist to make a site functional.

I’m not saying this to be defeatist, but to be honest about the kind of work it takes and why we need to find seamless and user-friendly ways to block the kinds of things FB does.

I can see the case of just not wanting to build or bundle a python interpreter into Excel (since they’re not going make having python installed on a local machine a dependency). But the security issue can make sense I suppose from a certain point of view. Don’t agree with it, but I can understand it.

Also as a python dev, I fucking love python 😂

Firstly, there’s no technological reason for this. It’s all rent-seeking bullshit. But the thing is, there’s no version of Office that this point that works without a subscription, which also assumes you’re probably always online, so it’s honestly moot anyway.

It’s so tiresome. Big tech really doesn’t want people to run, own, or operate their own systems independently.

I never said it was. But like the person I was replying to said: we need to take a good hard look at what the hell these tools are doing and allowing and decide as a society if we’re going to tolerate it.

The real issue here is what things like deepfakes can do. It’s already starting, and it’s going to continue accelerating, generating mis- and disinformation: for private citizens, celebs, and politicians. While you might say “it’s creepy, but there’s nothing we can do about people deepfaking Nancy Pelosi’s face onto their spank material”, it’s extremely problematic when someone decides to make a video where Joe Biden admits to running a CP ring, or some right wing chud makes a video of Trump appearing to say something they all want to hear, and it leads to a civil war. That’s the real stakes here. How we react to what’s happening with regular folk and celebs is just the canary int he coal mine.

The way people are just throw up their hands at every new problematic issue with AI is not a good way of dealing with them, we don’t have to tolerate this stuff and now is the best time to deal with it and start creating rules and protections.

Exactly. In another thread on here recently someone said something that basically boiled down to “your protest against AI isn’t going to stop it. There’s too much corporate power behind it. So you might as well embrace it” and I just cannot get my head around that mentality.

Also, you can absolutely see the models who were used as references in some of the images generated by apps these days. Like that popular one right now that everyone is using to make idealized images of themselves. A few of my family and friends used it recently and you could clearly see in some of the pics the A-list celebs who were used as pose references, like Gal Godot, Scarlett Johansen, etc. It’s creepy as hell.

We have no empirical metrics for what conscious even is. It’s a completely emergent property. This is a long running philosophical debate. People also disagree on whether or not animals are actually conscious. So if people don’t even think their dog is conscious, then their ability to decide if an algorithm is would be questionable.

This right here. We’re barreling head-first into a dystopia, but not because the machines are taking over. But because billionaires care more about the bottom line than human lives, and tech bros think they have some god-given right to remake society in their own image.

Exactly. There was no context.

Did the person actually sign up for GeekSquad AV? They didn’t say.

Does the person actually have a Facebook account? They didn’t say.

Plus I always assume anything that references Facebook in an email is a scam.

It’s never a bad thing to be overly cautious when it comes to this stuff

No, it’s that there’s no discussion to have. But I’m glad you at least got close.

Also I’m blocking you now. I have no fucking patience for sealioning

I think the wrong question is being asked. Instead of “what’s a good replacement for IG?” the question should be “do we even need an app like IG to begin with?”. And I would say the answer is no.

People like that are stuck in a sealioning/“debate me bro” mindset that makes discussion impossible