Because the greed of corporations knows no limit. They sold you the (expensive) hardware, now they want to sell you the (specific, usually compatible but not really, and slightly buggy implementation) software. Can't do that with open specifications.

It's really gone downhill. Like, in free fall.

Because we normalized self-censorship to make it more palatable to everyone. Which is stupid.

Fuck advertisers.

I miss netiquette.

Eh, that's actually crafty :D

No, they won't. They might try, mind you, but that's not happening. I'll sooner adapt to a piece of tape at the top of my screen than to this.

So, nothing broke, except the thing that broke. Gotcha.

There are studies that cleared the red dye in question. If you still consider that "muh risk prevention" in this situation, I suggest you stop ingesting anything.

There's a difference between having no idea, and having data that goes against something. Most people can grasp that concept.

Be sure of whatever you want. Don't let yourself be stopped by facts and actual studies. After all, what's reality in the face of a strong, uninformed gut feeling.

It's not even that. Porn is just a bystander here. The first step is put in place a very large framework for making some form of verification mandatory on arbitrary services and sites under the guise of whatever (terrorism, child protection, and extremely niche content are good candidates). Once it's in place, it becomes the new normal very quickly.

Then, as the government, you suddenly have the power to extend the provision of said system to whatever the fuck you want. That's where things gets funky, and not the good kind.

I'm sure the evil intolerant mechanic guy wanted to remove them for some fake, made-up reasons like "you're gonna die if you ride with these".

Just checked the part about self-hosting. While it's probably possible to handle things with a less heavy approach, their only "easy to use" example right now is to have a full-blown kubernetes cluster at hand or run locally in the source directory. That's a bit much.

From the outside it really seems that a large amount of the USA administration is actively working against the USA's interests. Which sounds weird.

Remember when we told people "they'll make it illegal to use a VPN" and we got snarky replies like "it's not enforceable LOL".

The fuck it isn't. Traffic coming from a VPN? That's a paddlin', kiddo.

They're not even trying to masquerade it as… oh, yes, they're still trying to masquerade as a "think of the children!" measure. Those fuckers.

As an outsider I'm always amazed at that "land of the free" that is insistent on censoring stuff, and "home of the brave" that will run through the mud someone standing for freedom and having principles.

That's par for the course, but it's hilarious that openai "we have to get copyrighted material for free because fuck you" is pulling that defense now.

They started it by pretending to want to connect with artists.

So, she was fired because… some dude was wrong?

Our society really likes to shit on women all the time, doesn't it?