FriendOfDeSoto

joined 3 years ago

Stop generalizing the US and the West. Is Japan all the same everywhere? I'm gonna say no. Why should an even bigger country be then? Or another somewhat nebulously defined area that's bigger still?

What the average Japanese person would think a rowdy crowd is the average American's idea of enjoying a communal experience. One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.

If you go see a kids movie you'll have some parents on their phones as well. The bad behavior is creeping in in Japan too. Plus, a lot of the movies arrive half a year or so later than a lot of other countries. And it's more expensive in my experience. Just for some perspective.

I suspect you look at the term "the West" and you think you're not part of that. You're "the East" if anything. If a jihadist screams "death to the West" they include Japan in there. You are a democracy, a developed nation, and you rely on the US for security, and you are not practicing Muslims either. A person in Central Europe could look at "the West" and might include Finland and Sweden in there but maybe not Ukraine or Bulgaria. And what do we do about Russia? West of Japan, east of Europe. Very big and shouldn't be generalized either. "The West" is an empty vessel people fill with lazy assumptions.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Define "worth it." I think Mullvad is a tad expensive but for protection while surfing the web it's a good service. And the fact that they take mail-in cash is unique.

You can just look for a pre-paid credit card wherever you are. You may have to sacrifice your name and number but you don't have to wrestle with the post office.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 20 points 5 months ago

Just do what all other writers have done and choose a starting point and then increment the numbers a bit every time. That horse has not only bolted, it ran past the horizon, had a fulfilling family life, and died of old age.

This is most Americans, no matter what camp they root for, for most of their leaders. And you have plenty to choose from although recently I imagine the Republicans have edged ahead in this depressing horse race. Thank you for rage baiting with us today.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pictures or it didn't happen.

And you answer your own question. So I'm going to suspect this post is bravo sierra.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The UK government is giving Apple and Google three months to build on-device scanning infrastructure.

Nothing has gone through parliament yet. That's not to say that a majority of twats couldn't be found there. But crucially I think this is not something a floundering PM can decree on his own authority. So far this threat is about as believable as any statement by the incumbent American president on Iran.

Yes. Even people who speak more than one language don't know all the music in the world. But they are likely to have been exposed to a greater variety.

If hypothetically you wanted to listen to all the music in the world, you'd probably fail because you would need to dedicate every waking moment to the project and you'd die before you finish.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The ruling isn't final.

On that we are agreed. The headline speaks of a landmark ruling, which I think is too much acclaim for a decision a higher court could just dismiss.

I think my sniping at Bavaria speaks for itself.

They don't need sway as much as money and lawyers, which I imagine they have. And this verdict is probably on the worst outcome end of the scale for them. I cannot imagine they will accept a ruling that calls them daft like this one does. They will try to water down liability for their model's fantasy summaries. Whether they succeed is a different question. But they will try, so they will appeal, so this verdict isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Yet.

All I said is that this verdict isn't effective yet. These headlines and sadly this article buries this fact in a sentence in the last paragraph. Blink and you miss it stuff. Lemmies tend to overlook this and declare victory over Google when this was merely the first battle of the war.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 38 points 5 months ago (4 children)

This isn't final. Google has time to appeal. Let's hold off on the label "landmark" until it reaches legal effectiveness. Which it probably won't, however good a verdict by a German regional court, much less one based in Bavaria, this is in my opinion.

Google lawyers arguing in court that Google's so-called AI results are shit anyways and people should know it is chef's kiss.

If you're not doing it via your own domain, I don't think it matters much. Half the people you email are on gmail anyways so you'll never break free fully. So you can stay with Proton if you wanted to. I feel icky about them so I personally wouldn't give them any money.

But there are also providers like Tuta that offer European hosted email services. I haven't heard anything bad about Tuta.

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