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It’s because they value personal comfort and the accumulation of clout and wealth over the lives of, well, anyone. It’s one of the reasons that corporate pride is so insidious- it defangs and co-opts a truly liberatory movement into just another flavor of exploitative capitalism. The queer folks (even the cis gay men who are attempting to distance themselves from the queer community) who attach themselves to systems of power believe that they can take advantage of those systems to their own benefit without realizing or believing that they’ll never really be part of that club and that they’re next on the chopping block. The especially frustrating thing is that this is a pattern that has repeated itself throughout history… sigh.

Hates humans. Hates that they seek attention. Posts comment for other humans to <checks notes> specifically seek negative attention. Makes sense.

That is a super fucked up situation, inaccurate headline notwithstanding. “Student pilot forced to land plane alone” is not news- that literally describes basic flight training. But it makes a better headline apparently than “licensed pilot safely returns to airport after instructor jumps out during training flight.”

My uneerstandingiis that there’s a lot of identifiable info in your eye area. I’ve seen no convicing evidence that this tech is good against a baseball cap, sunglasses and a balaclava covering the nose and ears. As for gait analysis, that’s a whole other tangled story.

Worth noting that what works for researchers IDing among 100 faces or what’s promised in surveillance tech brochures is not necessarily reality.

Oh, I’d count on the latter rather than the former, but it’s still a very abnormal situation. Do I expect the system to do literally anything other than protect its continued existence? Absolutely not.

TBF, that is a pretty wild thing to include in a legal brief. It sounds benign and frankly pretty mild compared to the way any cogent and remotely attentive to what’s happening in the world. But, for anyone who has worked closely with the courts, it is a wild thing to include in a filing.

To put things in perspective, anyone who has had dealings with the police or worked in the legal system (or just reads anything other than fox news) know that police regularly lie in order to get convictions. Despite this, no attorney is going to attack the general credibility of the police in a criminal proceeding. Even in areas where there have been numerous proven cases of police misconduct, they enjoy an assumption of truth and respect in the courts.

The fact that so many courts have found the administration to be acting out of malice and that litigants believe that pointing this out will work to their favor is kind of wild. It shouldn’t be, but it is. I hope that if we somehow dislodge these fascists from our government the courts don’t forget that the systems they’re using were not put in place in January, 2025 and won’t have disappeared when the figureheads have been replaced.

I think it’s a disease a bit like addiction. Do heroin once and you will likely feel pretty good. Do molly a couple times a year and it will probably be enjoyable. Do either all day every day and you will be fucking miserable, but still paranoid about losing your supply. Money is pretty similar. If you look at any of the ultra rich, they are visibly immiserated and paranoid.

Not spouses, but having multiple long-term partners is kind of wonderful. It’s work and not for everyone, but I can’t imagine going back to being monogamous. It’s such a joy to share different aspects of myself with different partners and to see them doing the same.

That’s one way to make new anarchists. 😂

Haven’t installed official steamos yet, but bazzite runs great! With the 40cu unlock (well 38/40 for me), I get close to the performance of my giant 3700x/rtx 2080 combo. For AAA games, you might want to set the UMA to 6G rather than the 512Mr ecommended for general use. But maybe the official steam is handles the unified memory better. I’ve held myself back from buying more of them to leave them available to other folks short on $.

I’ll still respond for the sake of anyone else reading this. What I used was an analogy. I’m pointing out that you were dismissing the potential for moral objections to the use of AI. That is not the same as equating, but you probably know that.

You, like, other AI boosters are unable to fathom that folks’ moral objections are both truly held and legitimate so you feign ignorance and shut down any critique by simultaneously clutching pearls and claiming that the thing we find morally repugnant is “inevitable.” Happy to avoid future interactions. ❤

Totally. Why should anyone care about whether their clothes were made by slaves or prisoners or children? Only the tightness of the stitching and fabric is a valid measure of clothing’s quality. 🙄

This. I’ll never understand how a person can hold simultaneously the values of freedom and of seeking to punish or exclude the Other. Promoting DRM-free games feels like a freedom-respecting move. Same with the undercurrent of xenophobia/homophobia/transphobia that exists within some FOSS spaces. It’s utterly confusing.

1. For software of decent popularity, it can be compared to the same version built from source and often will be.
2. Reproducible builds are both a thing and becoming more common.
3. This is like saying to someone that it’s pointless to have locks on their doors if they don’t also have bars on all the windows and a moat.

Jmp.chat works great and isn’t run by fascist toadies. :)

I fucking hope they keep it in red state cities. More cops, more AI, more surveillance does fuck all to actually help anyone (who isn’t either a cop or part of the epstein class). You’ll note there’s a long list of things that money can be spent on, but I guarantee you that the vast, vast majority of those funds will go to more gestapo and more surveillance.

On the bright side, $300M is basically nothing on the scale of this country, so really, this is only news to axon, flock, motorolla, and other fasc-tech companies.

Ummm… Steam Deck.

I’m aware of this (that’s why I described a potential breach as Jellyfin -> LXC escape). What it does provide me is a static IP to point my domain at that I don’t have to worry about updating via whatever DDNS service and that isn’t tied to my home address. That and the wireguard tunnel gives me plausible deniability should my ISP ever decide to enforce its rules against hosting servers. 😀

I have a very cheap ($11/yr) us-based vps through racknerd I got via low end box. I’ve got 12 users but only 5 really active ones and I’ve never come close to hitting the 1tb transfer. I serve several services through that one vps (all just reverse proxy to my homelab).

I did just pick up another u.s. based vps through low end box the other day- $12/yr and unmetered Gbps. 1 CPU only, but a reverse proxy doesn’t need a lot of compute. :)

Depends on what you mean by “secure.” My personal setup is Jellyfin LXC on proxmox --> Wireguard to VPS -> Nginx reverse proxy on VPS.

This setup relies somewhat on Jellyfin’s auth, but I’m comfortable with that risk. The LXC is blocked from sending local traffic on my network by firewall rules. Yes, someone could exploit a vulnerability in Jellyfin (though looking through the CVEs I’m not overly worried about that), then escape the LXC and fuck with my server. But that’s a lot of work for no profit.

For more protection (in sense of reducing traffic that even interacts with your server), I’d recommend getting a wildcard cert for the domain so that the actual subdomain jellyfin is on is undisclosed to anyone not using your service.

Security isn’t about making everything impregnable, it’s about making attacks more trouble than they’re worth. Otherwise, we’d all live in fortified bunkers surrounded by landmines. 🙃