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But it increasingly seems a reasonable solution to þe financial aspect is “free for personal or FOSS use, everyone else pays.” Which isn’t quite GPL, but I’m sure þere’s a license for it.

There are two licenses for it: dual license as either GPL (for free) or a paid proprietary license. Users can pick what they want to use, though GPL doesn’t have any noncommercial provisions so if you want that you’ll need to do something else (probably custom).

I took a peek out of curiosity and MoltHub… wow. Sorting is all done locally and only sorts skills that have been loaded onto the client, so scrolling down inserts skills into their sorted positions rather than at the bottom of the list. Scrolling down to the bottom of what’s been loaded (infinite scroll) can therefore insert stuff to the top of the list.

Also, from what it looks like, skills just execute arbitrary code on your machine. While I’m not surprised, considering one of the most popular skills (from what I can tell) is a Polymarket trader, I’m gonna nope out of that one.

or even go see a local sports event in person.

Usually doing this can also get you close to people, even if only spatially. Occasionally it does get you close to people figuratively, though. If there’s nobody in your life that you would want to get dinner with, then I’d recommend the sports event, or something similar to it anyway. You can always invite people you meet there to your next month’s fancy dinner.

Or, hear me out, and I know this is crazy, but you buy a cheap, used TCL for a couple hundred pounds. Then, with the money you’re saving every month, you get a nice dinner with someone you’re close to, or even go see a local sports event in person.

Ok, I don’t know what they cost in the UK, but they’re sub-$500 new here in the US for a decent size TV. You have to put up with the TCL bullshit, especially if it’s a Roku one, but you were probably getting a smart TV anyway, and they all have this bullshit.

On top of this not linking to anything, it takes a special kind of person to invest into something as volatile as crypto.

I don’t disagree that running random scripts off the internet is a bad idea, and I even made that clear. I was just pointing out that these specific scripts are verifiable entirely by the URL (which is just the raw GH file URL for the file in that repo).

I agree that signing the scripts would be a good idea though. I’m not sure how hard (or expensive) it is to do so though. If it’s anything like TLS certs, it’s probably just not worth it to them (though LE exists for TLS).

You shouldn’t trust random scripts off the internet of course, but…

You do realize these scripts all come from this GitHub repo, right? It’s possible to verify them all, unless I’m missing a script here I guess. Even the registry files are plain text and readable directly in GH.

Not a lawyer, but if this isn’t a clear case of duress, then nothing is. Nobody with a functioning brain would say that someone begging a service to stop publishing generated sexual imagery of them is doing so under anything other than duress. That claim would be equivalent to saying someone agreed to your TOS when they begged you to stop stabbing their mother on your service.

to be specific, when you refer to “that all” happening, you mean Biden signing the bill that banned TikTok in April 2024, I think?

Yes. Biden happened to be president, but any president would have signed that into law because of the support, and even if it hadn’t become law, we’d still be in this position. Trump wants to control the media. He’ll do it however he needs to.

your timeline is jumping around a bit here, because now you’re referring to “that period” and linking to a source from January 2025, the time of Trump’s inauguration.

The period in question went on for quite a while (a yearish if I remember correctly). Anyway, your comment doesn’t actually say anything to contradict my point of ByteDance spreading their cheeks for Trump.

this ban only passed because Democrats were bamboozled into supporting a proposal that has its roots in Republican “omg China scary” bullshit. I don’t know how to explain it any more clearly.

You don’t need to. The ban is irrelevant. Without the ban, we’d be in the same place, with Trump attacking all forms of media to gain control.

ahh yes, “criticizing Democrats is the same thing as supporting Republicans”, the free square on the bingo board.

You’re not criticizing lawmakers here. You’re criticizing the common person, the people actually affected by the purchase. What you’re doing is essentially victim blaming.

Your entire analogy is irrelevant. The people you’re criticizing are the people who reviewed the exterminator, not the exterminator.

The ban had bipartisan support, and even if that all never happened, you’d still be in the same situation. They would have sold off their US business anyway whether they were forced to or just got a big offer.

Keep in mind that TikTok also put out messages during that period practically deep throating Trump and sent it out to all their users. This was going to happen either way.

Ironically, a ban could have prevented this from happening entirely by making TikTok no longer relevant to the US. Not that banning it wouldn’t come with other issues as well, of course.

Maybe rather than blaming those in search of a solution, you could try blaming those who created the problem. Friendly fire doesn’t do a whole lot of good, but does support Trump, which I’m assuming isn’t your goal here.

I suspected there was something. Last time I saw ID verification in the EU mentioned here, I think someone mentioned this there as well. Thanks for the link!

Yeah, seems to just show an image on Beehaw. Thanks!

This depends on how the verification is done, in my opinion, as well as whether there is a presence of more anonymous alternatives.

If the EU has a system which does not rely on third parties for verification and allows the platform to verify directly with a government-run service, then the only real issue there is lack of anonymity, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing on a platform if there are also popular anonymous alternatives people can use when they want to.

The article doesn’t go into how ID verification will work though. If it’s through third parties like how the US does it, then that’s disgusting and waiting to be breached.

Anyone have a link to the article? These posts don’t link properly on Lemmy.

Also, how old does it predict you are if you ask it if there’s a seahorse emoji?

Pagliacci Pizza?

If he doesn’t care or need to verify it, then it doesn’t really matter.

These tools are great at creating demoable MVPs. They’re terrible at creating maintainable codebases, and cannot be relied on to generate correct code. But if all you need is a demo or MVP, then it’s likely you don’t care, and that’s often the case for personal tools that non-coders want to use.

The people using it to manage their personal finances are nuts though.

Ironically, it felt to me like the post deified algorithms itself, but this is the main takeaway:

We should neither mystify, nor deify these systems, because it makes us forget that we have built them ourselves and infused them with meaning.

An “algorithm” is nothing more than a set of instructions to follow to complete some kind of task. For example (and closely related), a sorting algorithm might attempt to sort a list by randomizing the list, then checking if it’s sorted and repeating if not (bogosort).

Lemmy uses an algorithm to sort posts by “most recent”, for example, and I think that having a “most recent” sorting option is noncontroversial.

Where algorithmic feeds become problematic, in my opinion, is when they start becoming invasive or manipulative. This is also usually when they become personalized. Lemmy, Reddit (within a subreddit), and other kinds of forums usually do not have personalized feeds, and the sorting algorithms for “hot” are usually noncontroversial (maybe there’s debate about effectiveness, but none usually about harm). Platforms like FB, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, YT, etc all have personalized feeds that they use personal data to generate. They also are the most controversial, and usually what is referred to as “algorithmic” feeds.

These personalized feeds are not magic. They often include ML black boxes in them, but training a model isn’t sorcery, nor are any of the other components to these algorithms. Like the article mentioned, they are written by people, and can be understood (for the most part), updated, and removed by people. There is no reason a personalized feed is required to invade your privacy or manipulate you. The only reason they do is because these companies are incentivized to do so to maximize how much ad revenue they make off you by keeping you engaged for longer.

The EU can start by finding a way for full-time open source contributors to make a living off it. Solve that problem, and you’ll have plenty of open source projects, as well as open source devs who want to move there.

It’s used outside of UK too. I’ve seen it used in the US, for example. Usually it’s just a corporate term that says “you’re fired” but without saying that. They use terms like these all the time to try not to take accountability for fucking someone’s life up.

I’m not surprised at all that removing distractions like social media could “feel their focus sharpening”.

To answer the title, I could not go without my phone because I need it to authenticate to stuff.