I have no idea what this is, but given that its stated goal is to spite racists, bigots, and DHH in particular, I'm all for it. Justified spite is one of the few things that still gives me joy in this horrible world. To paraphrase Letterkenny, Fuck I could watch DHH falling off a bike all day, I don't give a fuck about DHH.

Payment processors/financial providers/content providers/publishers are usually the ones demanding and enforcing such rules, and they each have their own reasons for demanding these things. Of these, payment processors usually have the most leverage and clout, and if your digital store isn't dealing with Visa and Mastercard directly, whatever payment processor you use usually has Visa and Mastercard twisting their arms behind the scenes too. Obviously, if a platform really felt it was important or necessary to avoid some of these rules and conditions, they can, but it's pretty hard to run a digital storefront business when you don't have a payment processor to actually accept your customer's money, you can't really transact in cash digitally, there are ways to get around this but it's very limiting and difficult and you really want the biggest payment processors who can accept the most customer's money to make it as convenient as possible for customers in all parts of the world, and that means realistically you're dealing with an oligopoly/monopoly of payment processors and they're all going to follow pretty much the same rules.

Is it the taxpayer? It's always the taxpayer, isn't it?

Yes, it is important to understand how deep this goes. In defense of the actual human beings living in Israel, they're not necessarily irredeemable people any more than the German people were after WW2, but they are all brainwashed by the same zionist megaphone that has corrupted most of the western world's most powerful governments. It's even louder at the source, and it's been going on for a very long time. We need to understand the scope of work involved if we want to do anything about it. Genocide doesn't just happen, it's a process, and properly indoctrinating the majority of the citizenry to support and defend it is step 1.

Right, and that sounds perfectly sensible. As I said, I'm not pretending I have any solution to this problem and my goal is not to stand in the way of any reasonable efforts to stop the ongoing genocide. My caution is just to make the point against demonizing the whole people because it's really easy to do in this situation, and whether ethically they deserve it or not, I am certain it's not the answer and it's not going to solve the problem, it will just make it worse.

My concern is that's exactly the kind of attitude that leads to more violence, death, and can ultimately be used to promote genocide, and extermination in retaliation. That's how they justify their genocide against palestinians in the first place, and I am allergic to the kind of thinking that would justify that against anyone. It's an unjustifiable position. People are just people, humans are just humans, individuals can be evil but people are not inherently evil on a mass scale, it's the systems they are placed in, manipulated and controlled by evil and malicious people who have been empowered by those systems, that make them do evil and behave as if they are evil. They're just indoctrinated people, I refuse to dehumanize them, even when they are acting like they deserve it.

That's some mighty fine police work, Lou.

That's a fair rebuttal but that just means our job is probably even harder, but not that it's any different. It's not like we can, or should just decide the entire population of Israel is irredeemable. What happens then? We start a genocide against them? Maybe some people would like that, but I don't. How is that any better? I acknowledge that it's important to understand where they are coming from and where the support is coming from, and I'm not trying to pretend I have a magic "solution" I'm trying to sell, but our efforts to stop or even recognize this genocide against palestinians haven't gone very far. I appreciate that we're even talking about it. It's a step in the right direction and I absolutely acknowledge so much more needs to be done. I'm afraid it will probably come too late for most palestinians, but all I can do is put my lever against the scales and try to push it, I doubt if I can tip the scales, but at least I'll try.

I would argue he is also very much not a reliable source, but your point is taken, and in today's world it's becoming increasingly difficult to know what a reliable source even means.

Also the probable location of the Epstein files when they are "released".

It is easy enough to use that grandmas are already using Markdown. Is that not already a sufficient level of ease of use for normal people? Normal people seem to have adapted to it just fine. I'd argue that's because it's just a simple text file, not in spite of it. Who are we trying to make it even easier for, literal zombies?

Sounds very fresh and appetizing. I definitely want urine-soaked workers handling my premium food products. /s

All aliens must wear hijab or be executed. /s

If you have any basic CSS/HTML knowledge and you're using a firefox-based browser (or maybe it's on other browsers too IDK) the addon Stylus allows you to easily create custom stylesheets for any site. It's very powerful.

Something like:

body { font-family: "Your-Prefered-Fontname-Goes-Here"; }

is probably sufficient in most cases.

No they weren't, how did you get that idea? Nowhere did they ask for a specific fix, nor did they provide the details necessary for a specific fix. The OP asked how it works, and according to my reading of both their post and their comment, they seemed quite curious about what was going on (which is a good mindset to have when attempting to solve a problem) so my intention was to answer some of that curiosity by explaining "how". You're the one who decided someone should just provide a fix (which, in this case, would've been basically impossible)

Especially when a problem arises because of misunderstanding or ignorance (which is not a shameful thing, it's simply the default state of understanding), an improved and better understanding of the situation often helps lead one quite quickly to the solution to the problem, and in this case, it seems like OP did solve their own problem once they had a better understanding, so... seems like a successful effort to me? Any particular reason we need to argue about this?

It works the same way it normally works. You generate the certificate, give it to them, tell them who you are, they verify who you are, then they sign it and give it back to you. Very routine and straightforward, except for the challenge part that they use to verify your identity.

Think of it in terms of delivering a pizza. The signed certificate is the pizza in this analogy, and they don't want to send it to you until they're sure it's going to the right place. Either the store can send it to you (you have to give them your address and have port 80 open for when they arrive) or you can go pick it up at the store (you give them your address, they verify it through DNS, no port 80 required).

There's never been anything preventing you from establishing a conversation with the certificate-issuer. You don't need port 80 open for that. However, unless you have port 80 open the issuer cannot reach out to you, and that's how they verify you are who you say you are. DNS challenges avoid them having to reach out to you directly, instead they reach out to DNS on your behalf and verify you are who you say you are that way instead.

Thematically it doesn't sound like my jam personally, but I love the idea of MUDs and text in general. One of the few good things that LLMs have done from my point of view is to make people think about and help prove to a general audience how effective and powerful "chatrooms" using a text-based interface really are and can be. It's foundational to the way we think. As humans we developed language for a reason, it's a huge part of our survival and continuation as a species and how we have come to dominate this planet the way we do. It's how we process information. It's how we communicate information. We developed keyboards specifically to have a hyper-efficient and accurate way of entering those languages into a computer, and it actually makes sense that generative AI relies on that fact so heavily.

But at some point, some people decided that typing commands was too hard to learn and we wanted to make everything "easier" and more "visual" but that came at a subtle but significant cost that was never really accounted for in how efficiently we can individually convey our own thoughts. Anyone can write a message or description or a story in the same way that, yes, anyone can also draw a picture or act out a scenario, but the difference is in how broad the skill gaps become and how dramatically less efficient the information transfer becomes as you move away from written language into more complex ways to illustrate thoughts and ideas. A crude and amateurish story is not as far removed from a brilliant story as a crude and amateurish drawing is from a brilliant drawing. Fewer people are capable of being decently skilled artists than they are decently skilled writers. By the efforts towards making things more visual, more easy, more slick, we steadily put up heavier and heavier barriers to entry on the creation side at the same time it lowered the barrier to entry for the consumption side. It shifted the balance away from creators and towards non-participative consumption. Even when people do participate and engage, the most common form of participation we see on social media is people writing a comment. Again, it's text. There's a reason for that. It's the lowest effort and most accessible means of communication in the vast majority of cases and situations. Even popular images and videos usually feature (or are exclusively!) filled with text.

Having your entire environment built out of text makes it accessible in a very fundamental way. It lets people interact with it on a more equal footing, everyone has the same tools and limitations, but the freedom is almost unlimited. It lets people participate in it more creatively, not just moving a pre-rendered graphic around or picking appearance choices out of a menu but actually inserting their own thoughts and feelings and ideas into a roleplay or a description with a level of freedom that no other kind of user-interface would actually allow.

All this to say, I appreciate how text-based environments like MUDs promote the democratization of creation, interaction and thought, and I think they or something like them will and should always have a place.

I agree. People acting like merely being "disgusted" with what's happening is enough have no fucking idea what they're up against. You can't negotiate with fascists or terrorists. You can't be reasonable. You can't tell them how disgusted you are with them. They don't care, it's their superpower. They don't give a fuck about you. They want you to die screaming, and they will laugh when you do.

People who are "disgusted" with this need to start taking actual steps, and the disgusted people still in positions of some actual power and authority are especially the ones with the most responsibility to do something about it. Even if they've been robbed of the majority of their power, their position is still important.

Hypothetically, if you were a supreme court justice and you believed the actions the supreme court were taking no longer served justice, is there a law against joining or forming a shadow supreme court that makes and publishes supreme court opinions and decisions that are more just and that reasonable people can actually agree with? I don't think so. Would it have any official legal power or standing? Not in the current government. But would it piss them the fuck off? Yes. Would it provide a seed of resistance that others can latch onto? Yes. That's what we need, nucleation sites for the bubbles of resistance to develop on and build into something big enough to breathe on its own. Would it be a lightning rod? Of course it would. That's the cost of resistance against fascism. They will attack you, immediately and viciously. But they're going to do that anyway, eventually. You can't escape it by keeping a low profile. Worse choices are coming for you if you wait. The only thing that will avoid that is complete collaboration and capitulation until you become one of them yourself.

I don't know a lot about this individual supreme court justice, and I don't want to make any personal allegations I can't support, but I do have plenty of reason to be suspicious that few to none of the people in positions of power like hers are actually making any meaningful attempts at resistance. They give some sternly worded speeches but do nothing that threatens to delegitimize the system they are part of. I can't imagine why "Part of the reason why the court got it wrong was a kind of lack of the appropriate concern or understanding of the consequences of their decisions" doesn't fill me with inspiring confidence that she understands or admits the scale and significance of the problem here. I don't want to sound like I'm not stuck in the mentality of "blue team good red team bad", but perhaps power corrupts just a little bit? Even if you're the good guy? Maybe you can still be part of the problem even when you're wearing the right color cape?

It's not just about making empty protests to satisfy principles, it may seem meaningless but it's not, it may seem like a losing battle but it's not, they wouldn't need to or bother to attack it so viciously if it actually meant you were actually losing. It's about building alternative systems we can turn to and still rely on when the rest of our established systems are just as systematically dismantled. If they're undermining democracy, build a new democracy they can't touch, and don't let them in the fucking door. Trump understands the power of a name, so you can tell them it's the United States of No-Maga. You can pin your hopes on the broken, gerrymandered, sabotaged voting process if you want, but just be prepared for the fact that it's going to be buried in a financial, legal, and informational avalanche, so when (not if) that too eventually fails, ask yourself why you're still trying to play by their rules when they aren't playing by yours? If you want a functioning democracy, build it. It doesn't even require a trip to Home Depot. It just requires people to participate and have confidence that there's a better way than this. That's all it needs to make it start to fucking happen.

Government requires the consent of the governed, whether it's willing consent or coerced consent doesn't matter. While you still have some ability to resist their coercion, now is the time to actively withdraw your consent from this government and reserve it for another. The constitution is a good place to start, but keep in mind it was only written by mere mortals, and hasn't really been kept up to date, so even that is worth taking with a few grains of salt and an understanding that there's room for improvement if you're planning to build something better.

They can't be overhauled. They don't do what you want, they are not capable of that. Generative AI doesn't understand anything. It is simply predictive text. If you give it a whole bunch of words as a prompt and a whole bunch more of context, it will use all the data on the internet it's been trained on to predict what it should say next. It doesn't understand what you're telling it, it's just mimicking the thousands of horny people on the internet who've at some point said they're writing SCP stories and then turn it into erotic roleplay.

The AI is coming from inside the house -- and the house is full of bronies and dickgirls. I don't know why either, but at least it's permanently solving rule 34 once and for all.

Ahh I see we are officially transitioning into the "papers, please" stage of fascism already. Buckle up folks, the road only gets rougher from here on out. The witch hunts don't stop here.

They ... rejected ... anti-DEI ... making them ... pro-DEI ... and anti-Trump? Am I getting that right? Sorry, there are just getting to be a lot of double-negatives these days it's hard to keep track.