4.4k forks now. They can’t sue us all (I’d love to see them try though).

The blood of the foes who have fallen before you.

Paywall/login bypass: https://web.archive.org/web/20260516212820/https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-reveals-secret-new-hospital-for-donald-trump-79/

It’s a similar burning feeling to keeping your eyes open for too long; so, the eye balls I would think.

Pihole is a self-hosted DNS server that filters out domains that serve ads, as well as malware and tracking domains. When clients try to access a blocked domain, the DNS request fails, so the client doesn’t know where to connect and the ads/malware simply fail to load, while the rest of the game/webpage loads just fine.

Highly customizable, either manually or with various online lists of known domains. It’s also a handy tool to create local-only domain names for accessing your own self-hosted services.

Alternatively there’s Adguard or Nextdns; public dns servers that perform a similar function, but give you much less control over what is or isn’t blocked.

For the record: pihole blocks those ads, along with most mobile app ads. (in games too)

“I’m tired of listening to people complain about their or their friends lives being uprooted and my indifference to those problems”

I see far more people screeching about AI than actual AI generated content at this point.

Good, it’s working. People are shying away from creating/posting AI content, knowing it’s very vocally unwanted.

I’m actually going to make a separate point from my other comment:

Art is a matter of perspective.

Maybe you don’t care about how your toothbrush was designed; but someone somewhere sat down and made decisions about how to best shape it, what materials to use, what kind/how many/what thickness of bristles, how to color it, etc. Those were decisions made from experiences that person had which they chose to factor into their designs.

Someone else out there is interested in what led to those design choices, perhaps to design their own with improvements or changes, perhaps just out of curiosity. They can’t ask an algorithm why it made the choices it did and have a discussion about the details; but they could with a person.

What some find disinteresting, others immerse themselves in. AI destroys those opportunities for human connection. Human connection we already struggle to find as a species.

You might not care how this site was created, but some do. The use of an LLM has made it impossible to discuss the choices made, because there weren’t any decisions, just an algorithm spitting out letters one after another…

True; however many of the current use cases for AI aren’t utilitarian, but are instead forcibly replacing artists while stealing their work to do so. Ontop of this, the infrastructure behind/supporting these tools is destructive and measurably making a significant amount of peoples lives worse.

These factors have jaded people against AI as a whole; as support for AI is seen as support for the destruction and instability it’s brought with it.

It’s an additional tool but it doesn’t replace the developer in the slightest

That’s the thing though; it should be an additional tool, but instead is being used as a replacement.

https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai/p/2042849/i-ve-finally-understood-what-my-beef-with-ai-is

I came across this post the other day, and this person has put into words what I have simply failed to.

In short; AI makes the world feel empty and hollow. Many people enjoy the process behind the things we create or encounter, even if it wasn’t us to go through that process. Replacing it with AI removes the human touch/connection that made that thing interesting. I don’t want to know about the faceless algorithm that spat out what I’m seeing; I want to know about the person that created this and their experiences that brought them here.

The only thing in there I find surprising is the battery info. I’m not sure what legitimate use a website would have for that one. And perhaps that the gyro isn’t behind a permission. There’s pages that use it for 360 video for example, but you should have to allow that one.

Your IP address is a fundamental part of communication over the Internet, obviously the servers you speak to are going to need to know where to send their replies. There are ways to mask that ofc; proxies, vpns, etc.

Timezone+Language are needed for localization.

Display information and preferences, to render things correctly/as desired. Desktop web pages look like crap on a mobile display (and what type of mobile? Tablet, or phone?), plus they can’t (well, shouldn’t) show things in darkMode unless you tell them that’s what you want…

Cookies: it does say 0mb stored by others for me, but that’s not entirely true. Sites are typically given independent storage so they can’t read eachothers cookies, but they can work together to have one site read its own cookies and pass that on to the site you’re currently visiting, on request, all embedded in the original page you were viewing. Just because they can’t read eachothers storage directly doesn’t necessarily mean thay can’t get the data. 10gb per site seems like an absurdly high limit for this though. You could store whole movies in that space.

Visibility is one I’ve known but never really liked. The only ‘legitimate’ use for that I’ve seen is pausing media when it leaves your screen (or waiting to start media until its entered view), but half the time that’s undesirable anyway. Why should a site know if, when, and how long I’ve looked at a particular portion of the page?

They were a terrorist organization, now they’re a ‘major’ terrorist organization.

C’mon pay attention now, it’s not like he changes his mind 17 times a day or something… _(/s)

Police said they do not suspect foul play.

Sure. High profile judges frequently drop dead without warning… Nothing to see here

😂 Yeah, it was pretty good for that too. I always thought it was really cool being able to play multiplayer games like SOCOM via AD-HOC networking. No server, no internet/wifi, not even a link cable you had to remember to bring; just two devices talking to eachother and creating great memories.

Ah, the PSP… First personal device I owned that had a web browser.

So much porn, lol.

Those electric arc lighters make a half decent Taser in a pinch.

Put your elbow ontop and really lean into it.

" whoops, sorry, I didn’t seen you invading my personal space"

I finally paid off my credit card after carrying a large debt for 4 years and paying the entire balance in just interest charges over that time.

It’s been such a moral boost.

…why?