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EldritchFemininity

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  • Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See

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  • And Republicans claim that the US is a Christian nation all the time, despite half the Founding Fathers being either atheists or at least agnostic and specifically and expressly stating that the US is not beholden to any one religion.

    I am in no way defending Putin or Stalin, but just because he claims to be honoring a former leader doesn't mean that he actually is. So long as it suits the propaganda narrative, people like him, the Republicans, and Israel will claim whatever they want about history.

  • Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See

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  • Maybe you should learn the meaning of words before you start using them. Somebody responding to what you say isn't censorship. Not even close.

    Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • Quite honestly, I don't think the average person even knows what open source means. They just know that Mozilla, like every other company, is shoving AI into their product, and that AI has either been useless or actively harmful to their user experience.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • I mean, I bet they'd make a killing off of Firefox themed thigh highs...

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • People don't trust that it can be truly turned off and that it won't act maliciously in some way. That's really the crux of the whole saga. We're at a point where phone companies are getting survey results that say that 80% of users either don't care about AI nor use it or find that it actively makes their user experience worse.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • I think the big defining question is what will the AI features that they will implement do exactly and how will they run. If it's something that runs in the background (even as unintrusive as the summaries on a search engine like DDG), then it's opt out by default as it's constantly running whether you want it to or not. If it specifically and exclusively runs when you hit the button to activate it and doesn't run at any other time, then I'd say it's unequivocally opt in. And regardless of what a company says that their software will do, at this point I won't believe it until somebody has done a full teardown and discerned what exactly it does behind the scenes. I've seen enough nonsense like the Epic Games Store accessing your browser history and recording keyboard inputs or whatever the other absurd incident was.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • If it starts reading pages or doing things without you pushing a button, that's an issue.

    And therein lies the rub. The question is whether or not people trust that it won't be doing that regardless of whether or not you hit the kill switch.

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    The White House has been caught

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  • To put it quite simply, Americans don't know how to protest anymore.

    Our communities have been gutted and any support structures destroyed, and we've been fed lie after lie for decades about the "proper" way to protest. The only people who can afford to protest are those who have already lost everything and college kids, and they face constant harassment from the progressives for not protesting out of sight where they can be easily ignored and violence from the conservatives and cops with no repercussions.

    Everybody else has just enough left to be afraid to do anything that would risk losing it, and they have to spend all their energy trying to keep their head above the water anyway, so they don't have the time or energy to put towards swimming for dry land. Plus a good portion of the population is busy trying to push everyone else's heads underwater and drown them. It's the same reason why the Nazis managed to embroil the entire world in a war and commit one of the worst genocides to date while only making up maybe 25% of the German populace at their largest. I think they maxed out around 15%.

    Nothing will happen until a certain threshold of the population has nothing left to lose.

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  • You underestimate the ability of the American populace (Republicans) to handwave away and justify any action so long as it's their team who's guilty. It won't be long until they're arguing about the distinction between pedos and "minor attracted people" and ephebophilia.

  • Explaining hardware to enthusiasts

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  • Valve does not have a monopoly by any definition of the word, especially the legal definition. They don't have a majority of the business because they buy out the competition or use their position to drop prices to a level that others can't compete with. They have a majority of the market because they provide a better service than the competition and have been doing it long enough to have developed a cultural gravity in the same way that Xbox, PlayStation, and Facebook and Twitter have.

  • The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek

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  • Also add "-AI" without the quotes to the end of your search. Booleans still work with DDG at least, I don't know if they do on Google anymore.

  • It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds

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  • So you're saying that the ChatGPT's and Stable Diffusions of the world, which operate on maximizing profit by scraping vast oceans of data that would be impossibly expensive to manually label even if they were willing to pay to do the barest minimum of checks, are the most vulnerable to this kind of attack while the actually useful specialized LLMs like those used by doctors to check MRI scans for tumors are the least?

    Please stop, I can only get so erect!

  • Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

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  • There's no guarantee that it will tell you the truth. It could tell you to use Elmer's glue to keep the cheese from falling off your pizza. The AI doesn't "know" or "understand," it just does as its training set informed it to. It's just a very complex predictive text that you can give commands to.

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    TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally ill

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  • I came in here to say the same thing. It was pointed out that the USSR did this when Republicans first started with that nonsense, and it was my first thought upon seeing this post.

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  • You have time to build a PC but don't have time to solder the boards yourself? Doubt.

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  • One thing to note is that the next Xbox will very likely be more expensive than the Steam Machine, regardless of what Valve actually prices it at. This is because the Microsoft CEO is demanding that Xbox make a 30% profit, which means that they can't sell the consoles at a loss anymore.

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  • One thing to note is that the GPU that Valve is using is apparently a custom one that was created for a cancelled Microsoft project or something, and so Valve is probably getting a better deal on it than we ever could because they're the only ones buying it off the manufacturer.

    But regardless, anybody who is willing to build their own PC is not the target market for Valve. The target market is the other 80% of Steam users and potentially console players. A coworker of mine was just talking the other day about a friend of theirs who is replacing their PS4 because Sony is shutting down the PS4 servers, and they were telling them to wait and get the Steam Machine and get out from under Sony's thumb.

  • Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

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  • It's not really about the porn in the first place (for advertisers it is - they hate sex unless it's selling their product). The porn is merely an avenue to attack another minority group. In this case, LGBTQ people. Make everything about them sexual in some way, and then ban them from life for sexual deviancy.