EmilyIsTrans

EmilyIsTrans , 12 days ago

I think the Rabbit R1 is an underbaked and dumb product. That said, Rabbit would have had to have had a few too many kicks to the head if they seriously considered not just running Android under the hood. Android is open source, and there is no good reason to not utilize the hundreds of millions of dollars that Google has already poured into developing mature a mature operating system with all the drivers and frameworks they need.

EmilyIsTrans , 14 days ago

As a moderator of a couple communities, some basic/copypasta misbehaviour is caught by automated bots that I largely had to bootstrap or heavily modify myself. Near everything else has to be manually reviewed, which obviously isn't particularly sustainable in the long term.

Improving the situation is a complex issue, since these kinds of tools often require a level of secrecy incompatible with FOSS principles to work effectively. If you publicly publish your model/algorithm for detecting spam, spammers will simply craft their content to avoid it by testing against it. This problem extends to accessing third party tools, such as specialised tools Microsoft and Google provide for identifying and reporting CSAM content to authorities. They are generally unwilling to provision their service to small actors, IMO in an attempt to stop producers themselves testing and manipulating their content to subvert the tool.

EmilyIsTrans , 15 days ago

The computer is probably locked down and all software/os provisioned by their IT department

EmilyIsTrans , 22 days ago

This is the comment that tipped the maintainer over the edge:

ayan4m1

You should do a better job updating your documentation so that people do not waste their time like I did. This change to closed source was announced where, exactly? All of your READMEs and documentation sites do not mention this. Very easy to be confused and very disappointing to me that this went closed-source.

Not only did you sell out, you also removed all the old versions that were released under an open source license so that others couldn't continue to use out-of-support versions. DISGUSTING.

tl;dr get off GitHub and npm entirely if you want to do the closed-source thing, kthx.

Which is incredibly disrespectful in my opinion, and this kind of entitlement is what makes me weary of starting any open source projects.

EmilyIsTrans , 27 days ago

Go to your local transfem meetup

EmilyIsTrans , 1 month ago

Seattle and Redmond. So Amazon and Microsoft?

EmilyIsTrans , 1 month ago

Naming your chatbot Arya(n) is a red flag

EmilyIsTrans , 1 month ago

That seems like a terrible idea. How are you supposed to properly investigate a story if you have to first disclose the entire lead to the world? Would this not create the same kind of overreaching editorialism that investigative journalists already push against, except now the person doing the editorialising is actually a whole pool of donors?

EmilyIsTrans , 1 month ago

Ok, so they do that. Here are some things that can plausibly go wrong:

• Are the people posting the story funding thing anonymous? Because if they are, no one will fund it based on a one line description with no details. If the authors are known, any company engaging in the practice will be watching them like a hawk (essentially making investigation impossible)
• The company engaging in the practice assumes the investigation is aimed at them and temporarily stops double billing until the journalists runs out of budget and everything blows over. They then resume double billing.
• The company engaging in the practice assumes the investigation is aimed at them and consequently intimidates would-be whistleblowers into staying silent, basically preventing any progress
• The company intentionally floods "Kickstarter for News" with spurious stories to drown out the item about them
• The story isn't funded because it doesn't agree with the preconceived notion of enough users, who are only willing to fund content matching their own worldview
• The story isn't funded because, while people find it is important, more attention was placed on a story that agreed with the preconceived notion of enough users
• What stories are funded have a huge bias towards the material condition of the wealthy (moreso than now), since they are the only ones with enough disposable income to fund content. Therefore, content focused on the conditions of the poor and marginalised is ironically marginalised
• Unable to be subsidized by less prestigious entertainment content (like traditional investigative journalism was), the required upfront cost for stories balloons to a size not feasibly collected by donations
• The wider population becomes apathetic to the platform as a whole (people have actual jobs and lives, and may not have the time to trawl through potential stories for something they want to fund), leaving only the extremely wealthy/powerful to fund stories. As a consequence the media is even more controlled by the elite than it is currently
• It turns out there was never a story, and those that donated feel burned and are less likely to donate in the future
• It turns out there was never a story, and, feeling pressure to produce something, the journalists intentionally misconstrue the truth

I think a crowdsourced approach is a great idea, but only in the sense that my tax dollars go to independent news organisations.

EmilyIsTrans , 1 month ago

Are you seriously suggesting that fucking reddit karma is how we should run our news.

EmilyIsTrans , 1 month ago

Ok, so functionally reddit points, or a board of editors. Revolutionary.

EmilyIsTrans , 1 month ago

Just use Kotlin

EmilyIsTrans , 1 month ago

I am

EmilyIsTrans , 1 month ago

I've gotten all my friends hooked on OpenTTD multiple separate times

EmilyIsTrans , 1 month ago

Don't get into business with shit people. If you don't figure out they're shit until after the business has started, bail or kick em out.

EmilyIsTrans , 1 month ago

"Colonists", "Invaders", "War Profiteers"

EmilyIsTrans , 2 months ago

Likewise, an open source project can totally die if they refuse to engage with the needs of the users. The lack of moderation and content management tools have been a longstanding criticism of Lemmy, and instances will migrate to alternatives that address these concerns. It is a genuine legal liability for instance operators if they are unable to sufficiently delete CSAM/illegal content or comply with EU regulations.

EmilyIsTrans , 2 months ago

They'd probably be pretty happy with an end to the apartide state

EmilyIsTrans , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Then I'm sure you won't have a difficult time finding a quote where they support Israel's maintenance of an apartheid state

EmilyIsTrans , 2 months ago

Ah yes "From the River to the Sea, we support Israel's apartheid regime", very famous quote. From Mr. Hamas himself I believe.

EmilyIsTrans , 2 months ago

The violence against Palestinians is the reason for this. Zionism/Israel is a cause of the violence. They create the very situation they say they want to end.

If they want the walls to come down and the blockade to end, they need to show a commitment to peace, rather than a commitment to genocide.

EmilyIsTrans , 2 months ago

Both sides have enough nukes to kill the entire human race several times over.

EmilyIsTrans , 3 months ago

This is an odd place to grand stand. I'm glad you have ideals, but the fact is Audacity was looking to gather industry standard telemetry data (basic system information and crashes) as an opt-in system. This information is extremely important in fixing bugs and prioritising developer resources.

EmilyIsTrans , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

It's pretty clear from my argument that I believe that it is entirely legitimate and unproblematic for everyone to collect basic data like system information and crashes. I'm not making an exception for Audacity, I'm broadly accepting this behaviour.

EmilyIsTrans , 3 months ago

Doesn't she proudly call herself a stochastic terrorist?

EmilyIsTrans , 3 months ago

It's a convenient excuse that allows them to reject any social progress without having to examine or defend any of their own views. It doesn't matter that the ideas of the "leftist revolution" may in fact be correct and completely justifiable, because introducing it through a "revolution" is inherently bad.

EmilyIsTrans , 4 months ago

I don't think it is productive or helpful to be overly cynical. An ICJ ruling may be too late or insufficient to stop a war, but officially committing a genocide would be headline news, and will erode public and political support for the occupation of Palestine.

EmilyIsTrans , 4 months ago

Obviously it isn't a foregone conclusion. Even if they come back in favor of Israel, that doesn't mean people, especially Palestinians, won't remember what happened.

EmilyIsTrans , 4 months ago

I don't particularly appreciate your insinuation that because I said Palestine won't forget Israel's actions that I somehow support the cycle of violence in the region.

EmilyIsTrans , 4 months ago

Please take the aggression down a notch, I was not the one who claimed you support Israel and I did not intend to make such an implication.

EmilyIsTrans , 4 months ago

Adding onto this, in cryptography this field of study is called "Biometric Failure Rates" (at least it was called that in my beginner course). A good introduction would be this article.

EmilyIsTrans , 4 months ago

What does building an AI company "to revolutionize memoir sharing" even mean? He seems like the kind of guy to approach you with a "million dollar idea" for the worst app you've every heard of that will pay you in exposure.

EmilyIsTrans , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Oh shit xssfox! She once blasted my code on Twitter 🤣

EmilyIsTrans , 4 months ago

I'm pretty happy using Ubuntu. Its got a decent UI and works well enough with little fuss. As much as I enjoy tinkering, I use my Ubuntu machines for work and I really only need something simple that works out of the box.

EmilyIsTrans , 4 months ago

One job I was fired from and rehired within the day, after they quickly realised that I was their only Android developer and they couldn't build an app with just hopes and wishes. They fired me again later, which they quickly regretted since I was the only one with the signing key (meaning they couldn't update the app).

EmilyIsTrans , 5 months ago

I look forward to the day these bigots are seen in the same light as segregationists. Assuming that day comes, that is.

EmilyIsTrans , 7 months ago

It’s worth noting that Australian and American interpretations of liberalism differ quite significantly. The modern Liberal party and its predecessors formed in direct opposition to the Labor party, in direct opposition to the labor movement. They formed as a party against radical social change, against socialism, and for free-market policies and laissez faire capitalism, describing themselves as “classical liberals”. On the other hand, “liberalism” in the US more refers to social liberalism, but it’s actually the exception in that regard.

All that is to say that, when Australians refer to someone as a liberal, we mean a different interpretation of the word closer to classical liberalism.