good points!

agro

screaming nerd rage

nawww

their phones do tend to have that already...

e: at least the lower end ones I've had

I think OP is trying to say that we cannot let "AI" launder the responsibility that real humans have for their actions.

The point (as I understand it) of "guns don't kill people" is that it is patently absurd to imply that "tools" are wholly neutral implements. The quote is trying to hold the "tool" accountable. While it's making a seemingly contradictory point to OP, I think it's more that both can be true at once--OP is trying to highlight the specific problem with "the AI is the one doing all the naughty things", because Sam Altman et al. would certainly like everyone to think so. I totally agree that "AI" is not merely a "tool" (in the sense of the neutrality so-implied), but that is a separate point.

(re-reading what I just wrote... it kinda sounds like clanker speak?? I swear I'm a real human)

reading their scathing dissents is one of the things that helps me stay sane; god bless the work they do--I don't know how I'd put up with going to work having to deal with blatant gaslighting for the rest of my life

in an ideal world, ipv6 would solve that problem...

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idk if this is the case here but on a firmware level, interfacing with these camera chips almost always requires an NDA that they'll only sign with very large minimum orders

tell me more

if what ICE does is any indication, they'll just put you in jail, not deal with any medical issues, and you die

no, the vote was whether to ignore the impeachment, so "no" is the correct vote here

naming your company fucking "Gilead" is some torment nexus-ass shit

and like, one of the options would be for live service games to say "we are planning to operate for {number} of years" and people would know to spend their money accordingly

it would be transparent and informative and people would be empowered to make their own decisions

the rich and poor alike are not allowed to sleep under bridges, steal bread, etc. ...

NOAA is run by the US government, yes.

My read on this is that he's an idiot who wanted to air a contrarian opinion ('cause that's how tech CEOs be), and focused in on a very literal/pedantic view of the issue without taking into account the context (which is that the Trump regime is facist and also just... lies, like, all the time).

Whether or not being a pedantic idiot is better or worse than being a Trumpist (or if it's even a meaningful difference) is up to you, of course.

The article is actually written informatively, but for anyone else who may have assumed from the title that this is some failing of Unicode--it is not, the goal of Unicode is to encode all human writing. This includes "nonsense" glyphs that have been widely used or interchanged between computer systems, including the (in)famous "RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW" (⍼).

iirc, gitea was forked from gogs, and forgejo is forked from gitea

just wanted to add another answer to the wonderful ones you've gotten already.

During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.

I don't really have a good answer on how to find joy despite the bleak violence of reality, but I know that we must still try to find it, because hope and joy is exactly that which they are trying to snuff out.

I saw the RFC for IPv8 recently

nitpick, but I would say "an RFC", as there's been a number of these over the years

you've gotten a couple responses so far, but I think the central issue is that "complexity" isn't the problem with IPv6 (and one could certainly argue that IPv6 is actually simpler)--the problem is compatibility. This article lays out the issue very well, and also links to this article (which is a more specific look at the IPv8 proposal you refer to). Both point to the same conclusion, which is that fundamentally--on first principles--existing hardware does not know how to handle the upgrade, which will require some sort of dual-stacking, which is the issue IPv6 currently has. (Not its technical merit.)

great article, and I had no idea that happened to Brian Krebs, of all people! o.O

I do think the EFF makes a good point though, and I think personally I tend to be biased towards content neutrality over moderation (at least, more strongly the larger the platform is, and Cloudflare is very large). Not to the point of Xitter, obviously, but I think there's at least a reasonable argument for Cloudflare in this case.

that said, after some searching, I did find the following two articles, and I find their arguments against Cloudflare very compelling:

• https://www.devever.net/~hl/cloudflare
• http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/07/14/cloudflare-we-have-a-problem/

Fortunately I'm already using end-to-end SSL certs via Caddy, but now I'm considering just moving off Cloudflare entirely and instead providing regular backups to Internet Archive--most of the stuff I host is entirely static and very lightweight.

I think your starting point (allowing bot user agents to crawl the web has overlooked benefits) is a good one, but things aren't black and white--there are clear drawbacks, too. Bots obviously have an orders of magnitude higher potential for abuse; to the point where bot traffic--as it currently stands in the real world--is qualitatively different from human traffic.

we should expand these protections from intentional/unintentional ddos irrelevant of user agent.

Sure, but targeted regulation based on heuristics (in this case, user agent) is also a widely accepted practice. DUI laws exist, even though the goals (fewer murders and safer roads) are already separately regulated.

Would it be nice if we didn't have to do this? Or there were some other solution? Sure, but I have no idea where to even start, unfortunately.