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She was the founding director of Women’s Forum Australia, […]  It also promotes a trans-exclusionary ideology and campaigns against transgender rights.

Right so assuming she’s not Lesbian, then her being anti-LGBTQ+ is a safe bet. If she somehow is Lesbian, she’s going to be anti-BTQ+ at the very least.

So you’re saying that person should sell their house because one of the rooms is unoccupied?

If they can’t afford it, yes? That’s what the rest of us do. We make do with what we have and budget accordingly. If something is too expensive, well tough. The problem is that a lot of people are facing problems like housing, food, and healthcare being too expensive, and all three of those things are required to live. At some point budgeting won’t save you.

I have no sympathy for people whose biggest problem is “I can’t afford this extra room in the house we own.”

This is how I feel. I’m not really okay with the money I pay getting used to develop ML and crypto BS.

I dont think you understand how many mentally unstable people out there are using LLMs as therapists.

I do understand. I know there are people out there thinking that LLMs are literally Jesus returning. But in that case, write about that.

There are a lot more reasonable critiques of LLMs, and the companies to be had.

Haha. I remember booting up my work PC and there being a copilot button in the browser. Clicked it out of curiosity and it transformed my well-written text into incoherent garbage. It literally made up new words.

Wonder if it’s because of stuff like this. Probably not, but I hope.

Don’t assume evil when stupidity

I didn’t, though? I think that perhaps you missed the “I don’t think necessarily that people who perpetuate this problem are doing so out of malice” part.

Scream racism all you want but you’re cheapening the meaning of the word and you’re not doing anyone a favor.

I didn’t invent this term.

Darker patches on darker skin are harder to detect, just as facial features in the dark, on dark skin are garder to detect because there is literally less light to work with

Computers don’t see things the way we do. That’s why steganography can be imperceptible to the human eye, and why adversarial examples work when the differences cannot be seen by humans.

If a model is struggling at doing its job it’s because the data is bad, be it the input data, or the training data. Historically one significant contributor has been that the datasets aren’t particularly diverse, and white men end up as the default. It’s why all the “AI” companies popped in “ethnically ambiguous” and other words into their prompts to coax their image generators into generating people that weren’t white, and subsequently why these image generators gave us ethnically ambigaus memes and German nazi soldiers that were black.

Oh yeah, absolutely. There are no good options for a truly libre web, unfortunately. :(

I think it’s a compounding issue, primarily of Google products just kind of being the “default.”

Google pays to be the primary search engine in Firefox, on iOS, and sets themselves as the default on their operating systems. They, wherever possible also set their browser as default. Yes, Chromium is open source, but they have the ultimate final say, and no one seems to have the interest in forking it. This puts Google in a similar position that Microsoft was in in the 90s and early 00s, where they can essentially hijack the web and force their ideas through whether others want to or not.

We saw this with Google forcing Manifest v3, all Chromium-based browsers essentially just had to follow suit. That was just Manifest v3 however, who’s to say what else they’ll do?

Then there’s my tinfoil hat worry that Google essentially being the window to the web for so many people, on an OS, browser, and discoverability level is just overall a cause for worry. That’s not even considering their communications and media platforms.

Just don’t use Chromium unless you for some reason absolutely have to. Mozilla is just another corporation, but they’re not exactly threatening to monopolise the internet. Google is, and using Chromium directly aids in their effort to do so.

Yeah. I swapped over to Proton in my degoogling process sometime in April last year. Not thrilled about their crypto/AI/Trumpy BS since.

Proton keeps doing the wrong things. Ugh.

Mullvad is always $5 a month. They’re fantastic.

PleasedontadaptandGTFOinsteadpleasedontadaptjustGTFOpleasepleasejustGTFOrotinhell.

I use Mullvad’s VPN and DNS on a router level. Every device on my network is blanketed by it. Some services don’t work, but I am willing to sacrifice their profits for my integrity. Thus, to them I say 然らば fuckmothers.

Wow. It even supports Kagi. That’s neat!

They did! I’m curious about the overlap between retro-gaming enthusiasts and fascists though. Do fascists really care about art and its preservation?

I mean so long as they don’t try to profit off of it I guess. Albeit it still enables all the corporations that are shilling this kind of bullshit so personally I’d not be very interested in their slopware.

This subject is very clearly a sore point for you. It might behove you to figure out why that is, rather than spontaneously attacking people that are essentially siding with you.

So, pre-release?

As far as I know, on Pixel phones it’s integrated. Discovered that my work phone (Pixel 6) suddenly has it, I’ve never installed it, and I can’t remove it.