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 was told to watch this movie with no context. It is a combination of my two least favorite movie genres. I hate that I agree with the votes.
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?
You asked me a question wholly irrelevant to my comment to bait out some kind of answer you can challenge rather than actually responding. Did you expect me to answer your question?
You appear to be allergic to healthy discussion. I’m out.
Are you responding to the right person? Because if you intended to reply with that, then clearly your reading comprehension skills match your critical thinking skills.
Belief in ’race’ is racism. Prove me wrong…
Well your claim is inherently flawed. “Race” isn’t something a person believes in, it’s an observation of what is essentially human tribalism throughout history. Even if it were a thing to believe in, racism itself isn’t the belief in race, but the belief that different races (or tribes) of people are inherently worse than others in some ways.
In other words, your statement is similar to the statement “Belief in ‘sex’ is sexism”, which is hilariously wrong, and of course is predicated on the idea that people “believe” in these things.
If you just want to play a fun game, wait until it’s more complete. Game is so WIP that the whole world gen is expected to change soon (to their “V2” world gen) which might break old saves. There’s very little content beyond the generated structures and terrain and some decorative blocks. Even the current “endgame” can take just a few hours to reach, and there isn’t much there.
This is the part that’s weird. I have no clue which genocide it even refers to. There are multiple I can think of.
Could be anything from Palestine to Uyghurs to even some weird white supremacist conspiracy theory of white genocide. It’s generic enough that it can’t really even be called political at this point.
There is some overlap (N-ish SFW) but not in the way they intended.
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.
If your “friend” does not currently serve for a relevant military, then their battle may be best spent at home for now.
For a US person, the obvious answer would be protesting, reaching out to representatives, and advocating against more unnecessary violence. For non-US, the first two don’t have the same effect, though your country could politically pressure Trump via threats of sanctions or such.
If they request volunteers and your “friend” can do that, then that’s how they can use their experience, assuming they want to of course and understand potential consequences of doing so if their government doesn’t approve of it.
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.
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).