Telorand @ Telorand @reddthat.com

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Reddit is an American company, and while the first amendment allows a lot of horrible kinds of speech, there's a few exceptions. Unfortunately, defamation laws are weak, so generally, you can defame just about anyone in practice.

What's interesting is this:

Reddit argues handing over the information will create a chill among other users, explaining in its court filings that "anonymity is not just a user preference but a defining feature of Reddit's business model and identity."

If Reddit actually cared about anonymity, they wouldn't even have that information to begin with. It would be wiped. They likely share user information with advertisers and other third parties for profit, so they're more than happy to keep it.

This is just Reddit refusing to comply, because they like the PR of making a show of "protecting users."

Just 100%'d MiSide. A really great horror experience without being overly gory or using a bunch of cheap jumpscares, and there's some fun and silly elements, too.

This is so, so stupid, for a myriad of reasons.

What’s more, certain groups of adults are more likely to bear the brunt when these supposedly “convenient” estimation methods fail. Nonbinary and trans people are likely to be misclassified by facial age estimation technologies and often do not have access to IDs reflecting their gender and name.

People with disabilities that affect their physical appearance often face misclassification, as facial estimation technologies struggle with variations outside their training parameters, and they may be limited from attaining IDs like driver’s licenses as well.

People of color are routinely misidentified by facial recognition and estimation technology—something that Yoti’s white paper acknowledges in reporting higher error rates for people with darker skin tones—and consequently may distrust facial scanning systems and prompts to upload more invasive documentation.

Finally, people from different socioeconomic contexts, particularly low-income people, and some immigrant communities may lack the documentation and IDs even if they want to supply them—in fact, millions of Americans lack government ID.

This creates a troubling pattern: those who don’t fit algorithmic “norms” must surrender more personal data to access the same services or eschew the use of online services that help people access information, seek employment opportunities, and speak freely altogether.

Not only is it a massive invasion of privacy, it doesn't fucking work correctly anyway.

Yep. They absolutely can do this with "reasonable suspicion" as legally valid justification.

Close the open port(s) for a while and take a break? It's bots, and maybe enough rejections will make the botnet move on.

If only. I had the same thought, except it was somebody like GrapheneOS buying it and open-sourcing it, but it's still too early to say where things will go.

Same reason I don’t want to buy a new car anymore…

Because of the "driving behavior" data that gets sent out via secret cell connections and bought by insurance companies?

This just sucks all around. Google is a monopolistic miasma of suck, and the current DoJ is a fascist cesspool of suck. No matter the outcome here, I expect the average person will be the loser, and the billionaires will get richer/more access to our data.

But lately I've been in a rough state mentally (I say lately but it's always been with me) and having GPT guide me and being able to just dictate what I think helps me a lot on various levels, for various reasons.

You should consider journaling and/or a support group and/or professional help. You say it's always been with you, and relying on an LLM to help you parse your thoughts is only going to lead to bad places. It does not have the knowledge or skill of a psychologist, even with its vast database. It doesn't "know" the correct way to apply psychological concepts or know when you're engaging in destructive behavior, and it could even reinforce those same behaviors. AI can feel like a friend to talk to, but it's an illusion.

But at this point, using ChatGPT with a mic, isn't this basically cancelling every effort I've made? (using it in the first place anyway)

If you're telling it your deepest secrets and current problems, yes. You're putting your personal information out there for a profit-driven company to use at their discretion. Several people have suggested self-hosting, and I would agree, but ultimately I think you need to seek human help for the root cause of why you're leaning so heavily upon AI.

Large Language Models only learn and repeat patterns, I don't think it's a good tool for introspection, because it's giving you more generic thoughts and only making it seem personal.

Worse, it's doing that lazily. People think that just because it has a gigantic database of information that it's able to parse all that information and put together summaries of that sum total of information, but what it does in reality is find the first solution it can cobble together from anonymous internet sources and present that as an "answer."

Asking a generic code question about data structures is less likely to produce bad answers, since there's little disagreement in how to implement them. They're close to brute facts, and a wrong answer is rarely catastrophic. Asking it about psychology or philosophy, however, is prone to terrible answers, not just because there's vast disagreement in those fields, but there's also a lot of personal consideration when it comes to applying the information to individuals.

If you're in the US and a citizen, you do not have to divulge your password to the authorities or even a judge, per the 5th Amendment. However, they can force you to use your fingerprint or FaceID to unlock your phone.

If you think there's a chance the police might want to search your phone, be sure that you have a difficult pin pattern or password to unlock your phone at a minimum. Consider if bringing your phone is necessary. If you're going to a protest, do not bring your primary phone. Get a cheap burner or go without.

If you're not a citizen, you need to think about leaving. Seek asylum anywhere but here. Vacation in Canada. The US is no longer safe for foreigners.

Told my SO first. It did not go well, and there was a time when I thought I might end up having to move out. However, everything is fine years later, as they came to the understanding that mixed-faith relationships have been happening throughout human history, and those people are happy regardless of their religious affiliations.

Told my mother next, and being a progressive Christian who works with people of other religions, she was very cool with it.

Nobody else in my family knows explicitly. I don't know what suspicions they might have, but I don't really see the need to burden them with what is a personal choice in my life. We can have our family relationships without religion just fine.

Goodbye, $92B in tax revenue. But we're making the government more efficient, right? /s

Linux Mint or Nobara would be great beginner distros and would each be great for gaming. If gaming is more important, I would lean towards Nobara. If general use is more important, Mint.

Keep in mind that you can try most of these out in a Virtual Machine. Some others to consider are PikaOS and CachyOS. I'm also working on my migration, and I install and set up everything with each ISO as if I was doing it for real, to see what hiccups I might run into. It will be slower, but it's just a trial run, so just expect things to be faster when you do it for real!

Drop Norton, full stop.

Take a look at https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/vpn-overview/ to get a better overview of what you need to look for in a VPN.

This is the way. I sincerely wish you luck! That's how good stuff gets started.

Alright, go out and make it, then. Nobody is stopping you.

Get some more tea or coffee! :D

That's literally the same site I posted.