No we wouldn't. We'd be spending all of our time trying to circumvent anti-porn laws. Nerds are nerds for a reason. They will never get anything but porn whether it is legal or not.
People aren't paying attention so they pass this shit. Also unless you have the manpower and money to police it you can't start anything.
The big internet companies actually have the manpower and money to police it so they're not complaining because it kills the upstarts that would undermine their power.
Don't watch ads for channels YouTube doesn't hate. There is an extension that sort of let's you block ads for all but whitelisted channels but it doesn't block as well as uBlock. Personally I just uBlock all YouTube ads but might patreon or send Bitcoin if I want to support something. YouTube can die die die
Everything goes to BitChute. When someone creates monetization for a BitChute type site, based on voluntary watching of ads by users only for the channels they wish to support, for profit content will move there too.
bad (adj.) c. 1300, "inadequate, unsatisfactory, worthless; unfortunate;" late 14c., "wicked, evil, vicious; counterfeit;" from 13c. in surnames (William Badde, Petri Badde, Asketinus Baddecheese, Rads Badinteheved). Rare before 1400, and evil was more common until c. 1700 as the ordinary antithesis of good. It has no apparent relatives in other languages.* Possibly from Old English derogatory term bæddel and its diminutive bædling "effeminate man, hermaphrodite, pederast," which probably are related to bædan "to defile."
So basically bad meant what 'gay' does now more or less.
They can even get you by canvas fingerprinting and web3d fingerprinting where they use various drawing apis to create an image and then send back the checksum of that image to create a fairly unique fingerprint.
CanvasBlocker sends a fake one, but then they know you are faking it. Or you can shut off access to the api, but then THAT flags you as unique for returning nothing but zeroes.
I have yet to be able to produce a browser fingerprint that isn't unique using any combination of addons.
We need some standardization. Then people could download an addon that produces at least the same fingerprint as all other users of that addon giving some space to hide in.
I too am in this camp. There are a few sites I can check ( such as slashdot ) that end up aggregating all the news I care about. Instead of having a program aggregate feeds and reading through them myself, I can let others aggregate them and the look at what they have aggregated for me. All I need to do is find the communities that care about the things I do.
There are a few bloggers that I would like to keep abreast of, but I don't think they are big-time enough that they would have RSS feeds. And most of these bloggers end up having their blogs on bigtime social media platforms. Even if I don't use those platforms there are communities that will take that content and post it in their forums, where I will see most anything interesting.
Browsing communities seems more efficient than aggregating the news myself could be. And going through more than a very few of these communities for content is more content than I have time for anyway. With my ability limited to two or three, having a whole 'nother meta-aggregation layer like RSS doesn't seem worth my time/effort.
They have largely self immunized already. Everyone hates ads and clickbait that doesn't deliver.
People are discovering what their true self interest really is. I have faith people's ability to discriminate.
The fact that we live in competition with each other has too long been hidden much of life is a zero sum game that has been hidden from us in order to sell us mayonaise and laundry detergent as we march to the slaughter.
It is guaranteed that you will disagree with people who are opposed to you no matter what.
I don't want to be a domesticated animal. Vive la mort, vive la guerre.
We need to foster culture of EVERY man as a routine testing their new babies for paternity using one of the tests available at WAL-MART for under 30 dollars.
Wait, I'm confused. On the one hand, we won't ever have enough jobs to go around, so we need a UBI. On the other hand, with a rapidly aging society and low birth rates, we need to import more foreign labor to work and support the social safety net for the elderly.
And lets subsidize the needy until everyone is needy and we create Idiocracy for real.
Maybe AI will become sentient and move off world before then...
Or else it would be seriously no joke be better if it all collapsed and we went back to swords and sorcerers ( and with old forgotten tech maybe there ARE sorcerers ).
At least we have a selection function then for our evolution that has meaningful long term species survival merit rather than who can grow the fastest and use up all the sugar in this jar of yeast.
We made a big mistake when we made cracking into things illegal. We should have made cracking into things legal and made people put up impenetrable walls. This is computers and data. There are walls that anyone can put up that can keep out governments. This would have created demand for real security and by now we'd have it ubiquitously without trying.
I hope this guy doesn't get caught, and I appreciate and do not encourage his actions.
Brains/people have been evolving longer than internet memes to judge what is pertinent to them from among the things they are presented. Brains pick up ideas because they are useful to brains. The relationship between brains and ideas is also symbiotic. A brain never exposed to any ideas would be an impoverished brain indeed.
So memes are not necessarily harmful germs, but resources. And brains are designed to sort the wheat from the chaff. While it is wise to develop your critical thinking immune system, memes are just memes and not necessarily harmful.
Memes that push your buttons are the best memes to ingest unless they are clickbaiting you because your buttons are pretty smart about knowing what you need to know about.
And the graph from the video where they showed groups mostly talking amongst themselves also included arrows between the groups. Mostly, people can debate and even change their mind and defect. In groups you have access to a larger pool of knowledge and labor to research and hash out an idea than you would have had as an individual. And sometimes a brave troll may venture onto the front lines and see if the other group can pick apart the idea their group has come up with.
The best groups thrive on these trolls. By challenging the consensus they strengthen (and possibly change an become absorbed by) the consensus.
A viral cat video went viral because it was funny. Lots of people enjoyed watching it.
A viral idea went viral, not because it was clickbait - people are used to that - it went viral because lots of people found it useful enough to keep and spread,
The truth is not a harmful germ. Groups that never realized it may wake up to the fact that they were always in conflict with other groups, but this awareness is a boon to everyone who gets it. If only it were possible to keep the other groups unaware,,, But since that isn't going to happen, better to be aware yourself.
Memes are resources from the point of view of minds. A drooling idiot afraid of a few ideas is a mook.
Until recently we all consumed information through channels whose content had to appeal to the Ketchup Company.
It was until recently expensive to spread ideas. The ideas that were spread were all highly produced to make the most of the limited bandwidth these channels had ( and by channels I mean any media such as print too ).
The expense was paid for by dishsoap and ketchup and such, which meant talking about some celeb's wardrobe malfunction was OK but controversial ideas or even bare facts that rustled too many feathers were squelched.
Now it is free to seed the space of ideas with your own. Anyone who wants can find your idea can take it for their own and spread it further mutating it with their own unique spin. We;re in the age of evolutionary computation of worldviews using memes writ large.
So for the first time, instead of being channeled like cattle down a high walled path to the slaughter, we can all see what is happening elsewhere. If it is happening to us ourselves, we can post about it and be seen.
The manufactured consensus is obliterated when the blinders come off.
And advertisers will eventually come around. The freshest ideas will be generated where the least regard for advertisers (or production values they once paid for) exists and travel down the idea digestive tract of the global human centipad repackaged over and over with better production values and reconsumed until it's completely stale.
Perhaps we'll find more advertisers, in search of eyeballs seeking fresh ideas will give up on appealing to everyone eg: starbucks and cater only to their patrons.
Endless channels of information in perfect competition now exist. The consensus can no longer be manufactured by the advertisers.
The ideas are now king. Produciton is ever cheaper, and communication is just about free.
We're getting the carfax on lots of stuff. The new car smell spray was always an illusion.
Controlling who gets in to the country is why we can have nice things like constitutional rights.
The US under Abe Lincoln during the civil war, being a warzone had large areas where constituional rights took a backseat to military necessity.
In the interest of keeping the US not-a-warzone, we need to prevent enemies from entering. It is better to make rights violations a condition for entering than to be forced to abandon rights at all points within the jurisdiction of the US.
And anyway, the constitution only applies to the Jurisdiction of the United States. If you've no visa and are outside the US borders, you have precisely zero constitutional rights. There was a 1980s SCOTUS ruling about that, so it's a pretty solid foundation to base extreme vetting on.
If you have some prior relationship with the US such as a previous visa you MIGHT be able to make a case that you are somehow under the Jurisdiction of the United States and so due constitutional rights, but that's pretty iffy.
IMO, having read through the Koran, it seems obvious that anyone who simply does what it says would be an enemy to me personally and to the values and culture I think have been and hope will always be inherent in what it means to be American. Moderate Muslims are lying to themselves. Maybe some day they will find their way to secularity. But it's not my problem if they stay out of my country.
The constitution was written in the absense ( to a number of decimal places ) of Islam.
The absense of large numbers of Muslims is one of the reason we can have nice things like constitutional rights.
We should do what we can to defend what we have inherited from the enlightenment, and preserve it for future generations.
I am thinking in particular of 123moviesfree.whateverthetldtheyhavetodayis
They live behind Cloudflare and presumably pay money to them for the bandwidth to stream movies illegally.
Also things like animeland.tv that do the same.
I must admit I use these things and often it's stuff that I have access to but which doesn't work. For instance I subscribed to Funimation's site because my daughter loves anime. But the site is so slow that the movies are unwatchable. I guess since the same stuff is available illegally for free on animeland.tv I don't feel guilty since a legal site has my cash even if the site itself doesn't actually deliver what I paid for.
Also 123movies works more reliably than Netflix. Even if the movie is available on netflix, I tend to watch it from 123movies.
If I was a total leech I'd just cancel all my paid subscriptions to shit and watch everything illegally with no ads.
In fact I wonder how these illegal sites can provide such excellent bandwidth/reliablilty without making any money. My adblocker seems to block all their ads.
I wonder if it is a state actor funding these things to attack hollywood.
If so, I don't mind. I tend to hate Hollywood with a burning white hot passion these days.
I will pay for shit if I care it gets made on amazon or whatever. Or patreon. There's nothing that's worth watching that needs a budget too big for the honor system.
Why is it that wiretaps still exist? Why doesn't every phone negotiate the highest possible encryption level with the other phone it is connected to? Then whoever you call you get the highest encryption supported by their phone, and wiretap is impossible.
You could have your phone warning beep if the other phone doesn't support secure connection.
Would pay more for car designed to not have a computer, abs brakes. Elow 30 mph, or automatic compensatory anything. Cars, be simple dumb machines that do what I say even if it is wrong. That way I get feedback, and know what to expect
Who cares if they blew the guy up? By shooting, up cops you've already moved the debate into ad baculum. It's combat. And sometimes the cops have to do that. It all worked out for the best, and you can complain about rules etc, but nobody has both the will and standing to legitimately argue it.
He's certainly a threat if he gets away or is not contained. Having him there limits the police's options. There could very well have been a riot, and if there were they would have to retreat or fight a pitched battle with the rioters which would lead to lots of people being injured or maybe killed, or to the gunman getting away ( and he was a threat, we can't have him geting away and doing something like this again ). If the police were going to fight a pitched battle, better with him than some misguided protesters who haven't actually killed anyone.
I say ethics does work that way - in this narrow case it all worked out for the best. Can't argue with success.
If he wanted to defend himself in a court, he could have surrendered. By remaining a beligerant he forfeits that right.
It would really serve no purpose for the cops to take off their I am a cop hat and put on an I am a military guy hat. In fact there is some overlap between what the cops and what the military do. The cops even generally have militaryesque ranks and chains of command etc.
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Look at the list of places - simply awful places full of awful people.
Merry Christmas: where we all buy visa gift cards for a $5.95 fee each for the same amount and exchange them. It's Christmas for visa.
I wish gift giving were taken out of X-mas and it could be just Turkey Day number 2.
Gimme nitrites over botulism any day. What about nitrates? can they be used w/o cancer?
No we wouldn't. We'd be spending all of our time trying to circumvent anti-porn laws. Nerds are nerds for a reason. They will never get anything but porn whether it is legal or not.
People aren't paying attention so they pass this shit. Also unless you have the manpower and money to police it you can't start anything.
The big internet companies actually have the manpower and money to police it so they're not complaining because it kills the upstarts that would undermine their power.
Don't watch ads for channels YouTube doesn't hate. There is an extension that sort of let's you block ads for all but whitelisted channels but it doesn't block as well as uBlock. Personally I just uBlock all YouTube ads but might patreon or send Bitcoin if I want to support something. YouTube can die die die
Everything goes to BitChute. When someone creates monetization for a BitChute type site, based on voluntary watching of ads by users only for the channels they wish to support, for profit content will move there too.
Then YouTube will lose even the cat videos
Won't happen to me. I've stayed quite underpaid my whole career.
Disclaimer: I don't care if your're gay.
So basically bad meant what 'gay' does now more or less.
And Gay once meant happy.
They can even get you by canvas fingerprinting and web3d fingerprinting where they use various drawing apis to create an image and then send back the checksum of that image to create a fairly unique fingerprint.
CanvasBlocker sends a fake one, but then they know you are faking it. Or you can shut off access to the api, but then THAT flags you as unique for returning nothing but zeroes.
I have yet to be able to produce a browser fingerprint that isn't unique using any combination of addons.
We need some standardization. Then people could download an addon that produces at least the same fingerprint as all other users of that addon giving some space to hide in.
I too am in this camp. There are a few sites I can check ( such as slashdot ) that end up aggregating all the news I care about. Instead of having a program aggregate feeds and reading through them myself, I can let others aggregate them and the look at what they have aggregated for me. All I need to do is find the communities that care about the things I do.
There are a few bloggers that I would like to keep abreast of, but I don't think they are big-time enough that they would have RSS feeds. And most of these bloggers end up having their blogs on bigtime social media platforms. Even if I don't use those platforms there are communities that will take that content and post it in their forums, where I will see most anything interesting.
Browsing communities seems more efficient than aggregating the news myself could be. And going through more than a very few of these communities for content is more content than I have time for anyway. With my ability limited to two or three, having a whole 'nother meta-aggregation layer like RSS doesn't seem worth my time/effort.
They have largely self immunized already. Everyone hates ads and clickbait that doesn't deliver.
People are discovering what their true self interest really is. I have faith people's ability to discriminate.
The fact that we live in competition with each other has too long been hidden much of life is a zero sum game that has been hidden from us in order to sell us mayonaise and laundry detergent as we march to the slaughter.
It is guaranteed that you will disagree with people who are opposed to you no matter what.
I don't want to be a domesticated animal. Vive la mort, vive la guerre.
We need to foster culture of EVERY man as a routine testing their new babies for paternity using one of the tests available at WAL-MART for under 30 dollars.
Then it stops.
And lets subsidize the needy until everyone is needy and we create Idiocracy for real.
Maybe AI will become sentient and move off world before then...
Or else it would be seriously no joke be better if it all collapsed and we went back to swords and sorcerers ( and with old forgotten tech maybe there ARE sorcerers ).
At least we have a selection function then for our evolution that has meaningful long term species survival merit rather than who can grow the fastest and use up all the sugar in this jar of yeast.
I would mod parent up if I could.
We made a big mistake when we made cracking into things illegal. We should have made cracking into things legal and made people put up impenetrable walls. This is computers and data. There are walls that anyone can put up that can keep out governments. This would have created demand for real security and by now we'd have it ubiquitously without trying.
I hope this guy doesn't get caught, and I appreciate and do not encourage his actions.
Brains/people have been evolving longer than internet memes to judge what is pertinent to them from among the things they are presented. Brains pick up ideas because they are useful to brains. The relationship between brains and ideas is also symbiotic. A brain never exposed to any ideas would be an impoverished brain indeed.
So memes are not necessarily harmful germs, but resources. And brains are designed to sort the wheat from the chaff. While it is wise to develop your critical thinking immune system, memes are just memes and not necessarily harmful.
Memes that push your buttons are the best memes to ingest unless they are clickbaiting you because your buttons are pretty smart about knowing what you need to know about.
And the graph from the video where they showed groups mostly talking amongst themselves also included arrows between the groups. Mostly, people can debate and even change their mind and defect. In groups you have access to a larger pool of knowledge and labor to research and hash out an idea than you would have had as an individual. And sometimes a brave troll may venture onto the front lines and see if the other group can pick apart the idea their group has come up with.
The best groups thrive on these trolls. By challenging the consensus they strengthen (and possibly change an become absorbed by) the consensus.
A viral cat video went viral because it was funny. Lots of people enjoyed watching it.
A viral idea went viral, not because it was clickbait - people are used to that - it went viral because lots of people found it useful enough to keep and spread,
The truth is not a harmful germ. Groups that never realized it may wake up to the fact that they were always in conflict with other groups, but this awareness is a boon to everyone who gets it. If only it were possible to keep the other groups unaware,,, But since that isn't going to happen, better to be aware yourself.
Memes are resources from the point of view of minds. A drooling idiot afraid of a few ideas is a mook.
Until recently we all consumed information through channels whose content had to appeal to the Ketchup Company.
It was until recently expensive to spread ideas. The ideas that were spread were all highly produced to make the most of the limited bandwidth these channels had ( and by channels I mean any media such as print too ).
The expense was paid for by dishsoap and ketchup and such, which meant talking about some celeb's wardrobe malfunction was OK but controversial ideas or even bare facts that rustled too many feathers were squelched.
Now it is free to seed the space of ideas with your own. Anyone who wants can find your idea can take it for their own and spread it further mutating it with their own unique spin. We;re in the age of evolutionary computation of worldviews using memes writ large.
So for the first time, instead of being channeled like cattle down a high walled path to the slaughter, we can all see what is happening elsewhere. If it is happening to us ourselves, we can post about it and be seen.
The manufactured consensus is obliterated when the blinders come off.
And advertisers will eventually come around. The freshest ideas will be generated where the least regard for advertisers (or production values they once paid for) exists and travel down the idea digestive tract of the global human centipad repackaged over and over with better production values and reconsumed until it's completely stale.
Perhaps we'll find more advertisers, in search of eyeballs seeking fresh ideas will give up on appealing to everyone eg: starbucks and cater only to their patrons.
Endless channels of information in perfect competition now exist. The consensus can no longer be manufactured by the advertisers.
The ideas are now king. Produciton is ever cheaper, and communication is just about free.
We're getting the carfax on lots of stuff. The new car smell spray was always an illusion.
Maybe the secret is to love man in particular and not worry so much about humanity.
I imagine the lover of humanity to be an insufferable twit.
Controlling who gets in to the country is why we can have nice things like constitutional rights.
The US under Abe Lincoln during the civil war, being a warzone had large areas where constituional rights took a backseat to military necessity.
In the interest of keeping the US not-a-warzone, we need to prevent enemies from entering. It is better to make rights violations a condition for entering than to be forced to abandon rights at all points within the jurisdiction of the US.
And anyway, the constitution only applies to the Jurisdiction of the United States. If you've no visa and are outside the US borders, you have precisely zero constitutional rights. There was a 1980s SCOTUS ruling about that, so it's a pretty solid foundation to base extreme vetting on.
If you have some prior relationship with the US such as a previous visa you MIGHT be able to make a case that you are somehow under the Jurisdiction of the United States and so due constitutional rights, but that's pretty iffy.
IMO, having read through the Koran, it seems obvious that anyone who simply does what it says would be an enemy to me personally and to the values and culture I think have been and hope will always be inherent in what it means to be American. Moderate Muslims are lying to themselves. Maybe some day they will find their way to secularity. But it's not my problem if they stay out of my country.
The constitution was written in the absense ( to a number of decimal places ) of Islam.
The absense of large numbers of Muslims is one of the reason we can have nice things like constitutional rights.
We should do what we can to defend what we have inherited from the enlightenment, and preserve it for future generations.
I am thinking in particular of 123moviesfree.whateverthetldtheyhavetodayis
They live behind Cloudflare and presumably pay money to them for the bandwidth to stream movies illegally.
Also things like animeland.tv that do the same.
I must admit I use these things and often it's stuff that I have access to but which doesn't work. For instance I subscribed to Funimation's site because my daughter loves anime. But the site is so slow that the movies are unwatchable. I guess since the same stuff is available illegally for free on animeland.tv I don't feel guilty since a legal site has my cash even if the site itself doesn't actually deliver what I paid for.
Also 123movies works more reliably than Netflix. Even if the movie is available on netflix, I tend to watch it from 123movies.
If I was a total leech I'd just cancel all my paid subscriptions to shit and watch everything illegally with no ads.
In fact I wonder how these illegal sites can provide such excellent bandwidth/reliablilty without making any money. My adblocker seems to block all their ads.
I wonder if it is a state actor funding these things to attack hollywood.
If so, I don't mind. I tend to hate Hollywood with a burning white hot passion these days.
I will pay for shit if I care it gets made on amazon or whatever. Or patreon. There's nothing that's worth watching that needs a budget too big for the honor system.
Well there could be a web of trust or at least what we have with Certificate Authorities and HTTPS.
And web of trust exchange would be easy with phones - maybe scan one of those codes.
Even if the CAs are compromised, they wouldn't be able to use information gleaned without giving up the fact they have compromised the CAs.
Why is it that wiretaps still exist? Why doesn't every phone negotiate the highest possible encryption level with the other phone it is connected to? Then whoever you call you get the highest encryption supported by their phone, and wiretap is impossible.
You could have your phone warning beep if the other phone doesn't support secure connection.
Why isn't this built into just about every phone?
Would pay more for car designed to not have a computer, abs brakes. Elow 30 mph, or automatic compensatory anything. Cars, be simple dumb machines that do what I say even if it is wrong. That way I get feedback, and know what to expect
Who cares if they blew the guy up? By shooting, up cops you've already moved the debate into ad baculum. It's combat. And sometimes the cops have to do that. It all worked out for the best, and you can complain about rules etc, but nobody has both the will and standing to legitimately argue it.
He's certainly a threat if he gets away or is not contained. Having him there limits the police's options. There could very well have been a riot, and if there were they would have to retreat or fight a pitched battle with the rioters which would lead to lots of people being injured or maybe killed, or to the gunman getting away ( and he was a threat, we can't have him geting away and doing something like this again ). If the police were going to fight a pitched battle, better with him than some misguided protesters who haven't actually killed anyone.
I say ethics does work that way - in this narrow case it all worked out for the best. Can't argue with success.
If he wanted to defend himself in a court, he could have surrendered. By remaining a beligerant he forfeits that right.
It would really serve no purpose for the cops to take off their I am a cop hat and put on an I am a military guy hat. In fact there is some overlap between what the cops and what the military do. The cops even generally have militaryesque ranks and chains of command etc.