I checked out the link, and noticed that the “we use cookies” obscuring pop-up does not disappear when one chooses to not accept “unnecessary” cookies. I guess we just have to power through the 20% screen loss unless we accept those cookies. Hard pass.

Rationalizing the mass surveillance by claiming people rationalize their bad behavior (no way to really know that) is a very bad approach.

Rule of law is concrete. If one thinks they’re a good person while both taking someone else’s agency and breaking a felony-level law, that is on them. Taking away everybody else’s freedom and privacy because some people are narcissistic sociopaths is the kind of thing authoritarian narcissistic sociopaths do to get and maintain control.

We don’t have to instill in the minds of anyone anything other than basic human empathy and an understanding of the Golden Rule as a starting point of social interaction.

People forget that the surveilling party can be narcissistic sociopaths like anybody else. The difference is the scale of damage they can do.

Yes there are. Perhaps the “between the lines” of all this is that to protect women, they should be confined to the home and when out (with permission and escort of course) they should be covered head to toe in garments that hide everything but the eyes!

Oh, wait…

Wow - I didn’t even know about that part. That pretty much clinches it, doesn’t it?

Hah! They don’t have to. Many have “assistants” listening constantly, door cameras linked to central surveillance hubs, security cameras also linked to those hubs. It’s too late for most people - they took the bait. Hell, even the televisions record audio and send it back to the hub, and I’ve heard now that cameras are the new rage for them so we can “control the TV with motion”. Yeah, most are already cooked. I had to replace my old LG, bought a new one. I didn’t give it access to the internet. Even so, who knows if it’s still secretly doing it? And then there are our phones in which they swear they’re not tracking us. Yet, plenty of proof they are in fact recording our conversations and tracking our locations.

I see you totally ignored the entire point of my wall of text ™, and decided to simply insult me and claim I thought I was dunking on someone (more proof you didn’t really read it). You do you!

Right here, folks, is what happens when people feel threatened by information that does not support a closely held world view. We get argument-less attacks on the person perceived as threat. Even better, I had actually confirmed that the original topic was in fact legit in my own opinion after fact-checking with that “billionaire-owned propaganda factory” - yet here we are.

How does it feel, “BlameTheAntifa”, to agree with such a propaganda factory? Or, am I misunderstanding you and you feel the story is entirely propaganda?

XMPP works through gateways, so any SMP or PBX Voice call is routed through the standard network, so is not secure. VOIP and the XMPP chat features, however, can be secure and private. The encryption exists and you can host your own servers, which covers both of the privacy concerns.

Well there’s a difference between the rendering engine and what’s included with it. Take a look at Cromite. They do quite a bit of work hardening Chrome. I think avoiding chrome-based browsers on principle is self-limiting. Evaluate the product before discarding it. I’m a Firefox guy, but I know it has its problems.

Okay, I haven’t read the article I was just responding to the question about the licensing problem. From what I see in the brief summary here is that this particular item is a rewrite of an existing property, but was given a license incompatible with said property. That is different from whether its license is compatible with Python. I looked up the Python license.

GPL-compatible doesn’t mean that we’re distributing Python under the GPL. All Python licenses, unlike the GPL, let you distribute a modified version without making your changes open source. The GPL-compatible licenses make it possible to combine Python with other software that is released under the GPL; the others don’t.

So I see that point as relevant if inclusion renders Python no-longer GPL-compatible. The real issue appears to me to be that AI makes it very easy to write (theoretically clean-room) implementation of a product - in this case chardet.

The problem here is that what was once something that took real effort and dedicated developer interest to “clone” legally is now easier (perhaps trivial) to do and license differently. This would threaten the GPL model, which is to democratize software and keep it from being entirely owned by entities that could then restrict the software or otherwise destroy the value of competing products.

I’d say there’s a real problem here, as people’s significant efforts for the greater community could be co-opted and eventually be rendered “pointless” when many people move away from it due to “improved” versions or the “new” versions add features that promote lock-in to their commercialized version. Eventually that open software is no longer viable, and people have to use the proprietary one. I don’t know if that is necessarily how things would actually play out, but it would at least dilute the GPL-based licensing power.

I’ll take centuries old sources with a long history of at least reasonably balanced writing over an overtly political source using inflammatory language any day of the week. I also seek multiple sources and points of view. Critical thinking demands it. Just because no source is entirely neutral doesn’t mean you throw up your hands and totally discard all sources except the ones that match your preferred world-view.

This response is not directed to you alone, I’m including the general population, so I’m not asserting any particular belief about you specifically, but instead am making a point that everyone needs to remember and use based on what you said. That’s my disclaimer that I am not attacking you.

The LA Times, for example, has a long history, much of it conservative, but it’s more recent history has been both centrist and generally lauded for it’s quality.

In 2004 the newspaper was awarded five Pulitzer Prizes, the most it had ever won in a single year; by 2015 the Times had received more than 40 Pulitzers. The newspaper also launched a series of new initiatives in the early 21st century, including the online venture TheEnvelope.com (2005), which provided up-to-the-minute coverage of entertainment awards shows, and a partnership with Bloomberg News (2006) to conduct national opinion polls on various political, economic, social, and cultural topics.

World Socialist Website, on the other hand is unabashedly biased. It does have assessments of being mostly factual, which is good. That’s rarely the case for it’s right-leaning peers. Take note of the fact I am looking for third party information from sources with no (visible, at least) skin in the game or affiliation to the thing it is evaluating.

I personally tend to read the center to left-leaning side (used to read some AlterNet, DemocracyNow, HuffPost, Daily Kos fairly often), but I didn’t and don’t ignore the center (where I frequently read/watch now) and am very careful when I read on the right. If it smells fishy, and I don’t already know it’s bullshit, I’ll check. If it goes against my belief system, but seems honest, I’ll also check - maybe I’m wrong about something. Even the ones I tend to agree with, I will look around and see who else is saying the same vs saying the opposite, vs pointing out a detail unsaid elsewhere that might change the logical conclusion of the topic.

And that right there is the key. Never let your sense of identity be bound up with a cause or movement. At best, you instantly become prone to a narrow, rigid world view, and at worst, cultism. When your sense of who you are is threatened, you’re most likely to deny objective truth that counters your world view.

Hold beliefs and values, but loosely. Always be willing to admit when things change or when you’re wrong. Reevaluate periodically, and let yourself grow. Base your values, beliefs, perceptions of people on as much objective information as possible along with your own self-honest observation. Remember anecdotal evidence is on too small a scale to indicate a large-scale truth.

This is global. My town is installing Flock cameras to “stop dangerous speeding and red-light running”. Never mind that it also is networked with every single other camera, reads license plates, and use AI to track people everywhere they go. There’s no danger, though. That’s just coincidence…

So your take-away from this article about a surveillance tool that seeks patterns of behavior and movement amongst hundreds of random people in a public space is “those privileged men will do anything to remain unaccountable” for… minding their business on in the tube, mall, or sidewalk? This is waaaayyy bigger than that level of bigotry, and in fact pandering to that very bigotry is exactly the tool used to get 51% of the population on board with implementing it without considering the very real consequences for them.

Oh, you mean like the Spill the Tea app? That would never be used to infringe on privacy or destroy reputations of innocent people, right? Right?

I’m not going to go further and turn this into a discussion for a different forum, except to suggest a search on harassment and gender. Regardless of gender issues this and similar “protective” activities only serve to enhance control over populations.

Exactly. This is a privacy issue, not a “men’s” issue, otherwise I’d have found a “manosphere” forum for it (don’t know if one actually exists on Lemmy). As you say, this is equivalent to “we must protect the children” as motivation for pretty much everything that takes away liberty, except it’s the women who are the “children” in this version. It’s just a means to getting the controls in place so it can be used freely to everybody’s detriment.

Okay, then I think there’s a communication issue because I felt you were talking about serious problems with Linux as an operating system. These examples are unavoidable in a decentralized, volunteer model. FreeTube software is failing because it’s fighting a corporate entity that is protecting it’s revenue - the same will be happening on the Windows version. Unless the script was written as part of Pandas, there’s no reason to expect them to ‘just work’. That’s one independent party doing work that impacts another independent party, and will likely be fixed. That kind problem happens every day in Windows but Windows is not considered unstable because of it.

It currently works for me on Ubuntu with Gnome and current drivers, so it’s not (just) NVidia. I do notice HDR mode is slightly more dim on my screen though, so I turned it off. It’ll be nice to see improvements.

Well, they seem to be loosening up on that.

What are you doing that you have constant problems with Linux? What distro, what hardware? I’ve been using Linux since Slackware decades ago and it’s been years since I had to babysit it.

I’ve gone 4 years on my Ubuntu laptop (DELL XPS-13) without any serious problems.

My one year old Lenovo Gaming laptop with an NVIDIA chip, however… Audio randomly stops working and I have to kick-start ALSA to get it going again - Until it just blows out audio entirely and I have to reboot. My only work-around is to use bluetooth audio.

So yeah, NVIDIA has some responsibility here. I don’t have any other problems on the Lenovo (also Ubuntu) either. That said, I’ve had few problems with GenAI or Steam video games like Cyberpunk 2077 on NVIDIA (other than audio), so it isn’t all bad.

Wow, the Baltimore one I didn’t know about and that’s also beyond dystopian. Jeez, the response by authorities being “sorry, but it did the right thing, move along” reminds me of the movie “Brazil”. If you read the article, you already know that yes, it’s like that one, but in England, and every public place. Worse though, because it’s judgment of where you stand, sit, walk or cast your eyes in relation to any woman in the area.