which is basically what we do using ublock origin - and then they inject ads directly into the video stream, and a custom UI wouldn’t help.

While I don’t disagree with Stallman, how would that solve this problem? This is about a major video hosting platform having market shares and injecting ads into their streams / UI. I do not see - even if every line of youtube’s software sources were public - how that would solve the issue that the hosting platform can insert ads anywhere - honestly, as much as I hate ads, I can’t even blame youtube for doing something morally questionable - they are providing a service, they are not a public institution obligated to making information accessible.

Capitalism. No.

Just because everything that can happen, will happen in the multiverse theory, doesn’t make this a possibility. This was never on the table - that would just require way too many unlikely particle decay events ;)

haha - what a dumb insecure little pathetic fuck of a nazi dipshit…

I love the reporter not letting it go so the little manchild is losing it.

I was thinking figuratively of the UK as a person, and of persons as bipeds…

ah right - forgot UK still has one foot in the medieval ;) thanks for the clarification!

CPS is? City Prosecutor … ??

as to 1) - that’s judged differently in Germany - in part to protect victims of domestic violence who will often “change their mind and not want to” press charges after filing an initial report.

2. in that case, yes - but again, if it’s a criminal offense, the victim has an obligation to testify, even if they have no interest

3. I have no idea how the funding of our judicial branch looks like atm

Assuming the only evidence for physical assault isn’t just the victims statements (but even then), I feel that both crimes are currently being ignored.

To go back to the example of Germany: If you accuse someone of a crime (directed against your physical well-being or property) here, towards authorities (e.g. police) and then say “but I don’t want to press charges”, that no longer matters - they are obliged to record a report of a potential criminal offense and leave it to a judge to decide on how to proceed.

Isn’t having knowledge of a felony enough for a public prosecutor to indict someone independent of the victim?

That’s how it works in Germany at least - if the authorities get information about a criminal offense, they are obliged to start a criminal investigation. A victim not pressing charges only matters in terms of a civil lawsuit.

I meant that thanks to abstract art we’re willing to forgive “image glitches” in art by deep learning models.

Generative AI is much better at art than coding.

Mostly because humans invented this convenient thing called abstract art - and since then tolerates pretty much everything that looks “strange” as art. Must have been a deep learning advocate with a time machine who came up with abstract art.

Clearest difference I can see is:

• people who act more in the interest of society and less in the interest of those in power get arrested
• people who help those in power tighten the leash on society (fuckerberg, muskrat, etc) get courted and don’t ever face consequences

In other words: A high profile person in tech being threatened with arrest / being arrested by western countries is a pretty good sign that they were not cooperating with our totalitarian overlords & providing us with ways to preserve our privacy.

A censor happy mod thinks they are the greatest… How pathetic :D

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For the purpose of protecting important data, the distinction really doesn’t matter. And the good old xkcd comic has a point - for many people, all relevant data is in the user’s accessible storage area anyways. Hence me running almost all internet applications and steam in a jail.

Okay, fair point, let me rephrase: if someone knows what kernel (admin) level execution means, and installs a game that requires this on a computer where they keep important data, they are a dumbass mtherfcker :) Generally speaking though: most people shouldn’t be allowed to use technology - humans are unbelievably stupid for the most part.

we just need one pvp game with kernel level anti cheat

Leaving aside that security patches should be done, if you install that kind of game on a system where you have any data worth protecting, you’re a dumb ass mtherfcker. Sorry, but seriously, that’s just how it is.

Spent a night there with “Suntrek” company (probably no longer exists) mid 90s and watched the movie open air. The best part was to see devil’s tower in the movie, then turn your head to the right & look at the real thing.