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Re:Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @01:47PM (#38267652)
>which are constantly fighting to identify and remove it
Only that they are not doing that. If anything you see them boost and actively encourage LGTB content for instance. That kind of stuff is not allowed in China for obvious reasons, but it's allowed in the West, and if Facebook can do it, why can't tiktok?
Re:Prices aren't just about supply and demand, but control over supply...
on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @01:25PM (#38267318)
There is no practical difference between the two.
Re:Andreessen Horowitz Invests in Civitai, Which Profits from Nonconse...
on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @12:33PM (#38266527)
Taking a pornographic movie and putting someone's face in place of one of the actor's does not violate their privacy in any way, since nothing private was shared that wasn't private before (their face).
Re:Andreessen Horowitz Invests in Civitai, Which Profits from Nonconse...
on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @12:11PM (#38266167)
"Nonconsensual AI porn" is a weasel term because it implies that it should be necessary to get someone's consent to create fake porn using their faces.
Re:Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @10:16AM (#38264268)
I agree with you in principle but there's no difference between that and what's allowed in other American platforms. Degenerate content is everywhere in all platforms.
For tiktok to be special in this regard they would have to allow something different that went way beyond what American platforms allow, and that's thus far not happening.
Re:Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @09:37AM (#38263767)
Tiktok has been scrutinised so much that if they were showing "brainwashing content" to Western children we would've heard about it already.
Re:X is changing its algorithm to highlight smaller accounts
on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @06:39AM (#38262052)
We should only give a platform to progressive people. That's what's fair for the universe, for the children, for human rights and for feminism.
Re:Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @05:20AM (#38261436)
That is something for them to decide, not the state.
Re:Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
on Monday November 13, 2023 @08:28PM (#38257749)
>Win for regulators, Win for users
That's assuming that citizens want censorship. Most of the time citizens do not have the same goals as the state's censors.
Re:What if climate change meant not doom – but abundance?
on Monday November 13, 2023 @05:53PM (#38256497)
Abundance of Africans is what it is going to mean for Europe.
Re:Stop deploying web application firewalls
on Monday November 13, 2023 @04:26PM (#38255633)
I work with PHP and I think WAFs are potentially useful (and potentially problematic).
Re:Ubuntu Pro Shenanigans
on Monday November 13, 2023 @03:14PM (#38254783)
https://inteltechniques.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Image-2-...
Capitalising the first letter of each package name makes it look jarring.
Re:YouTube May Face Criminal Complaints in EU for Using Ad-Block Detec...
on Monday November 13, 2023 @08:41AM (#38249985)
It's the EU, of course they have to get involved. How else are they going to justify the salaries of those unelected officials?
Re:Diamonds Suck
on Monday November 13, 2023 @05:40AM (#38248839)
I completely agree. My point is that, even though buying a diamond is stupid, buying a cheap knock-off is even stupider. The only point of a diamond is to show wealth, since it's a rock - a knock-off can't even show wealth.
If you want to buy something useful instead, that's much better.
Re:Diamonds Suck
on Monday November 13, 2023 @04:32AM (#38248511)
I read it years ago when I first saw it here in HN (it's been posted a thousand times) and basically it says that buying diamonds is meany meany mean and that you should buy a cheaper rock instead, completely forgetting that the point of a diamond is that it's expensive, not that it looks like a diamond. The kind of thing a socially incompetent nerd would write.
Re:Diamonds Suck
on Monday November 13, 2023 @04:26AM (#38248476)
Imagine wanting to marry someone and buying a ring with a rock that pretends to be a diamond but is worth <10% of what a diamond costs.
Re:Apple might have to pay that €13B EU tax bill after all
on Sunday November 12, 2023 @02:08PM (#38243138)
That's the way countries should behave generally.
Re:Casino-like apps have drained people of millions
on Sunday November 12, 2023 @10:45AM (#38241134)
Well, that's precisely how classes work, no? There are guys who spend all day in a bar drinking. That's very lower class, and I wouldn't do it. But they themselves are lower class, so that behaviour comes naturally to them.
Re:You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It
on Sunday November 12, 2023 @08:41AM (#38239980)
Pickpocketing is quick and easy, sometimes not even a crime, and even though phones are locked, you can sell the Android phone for pieces. That's not the case for the iphone.
Re:You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It
on Sunday November 12, 2023 @08:31AM (#38239907)
The answer depends on the country or even the city you live in or visit. In some places walking around with a $1000 phone is extremely dangerous to your life.
Re:You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It
on Sunday November 12, 2023 @08:27AM (#38239864)
Of course they don't use the same quality screens, because then the replacement would cost as much as it does in an apple store.
Re:Gnome Receives €1M from German Government
on Saturday November 11, 2023 @04:45AM (#38228834)
I understand that KDE is a clusterfuck, but giving the money to the American desktop environment instead of the European one is not really a good look.
Re:New York Restaurants Fight Back Against Reservations by Bots
on Friday November 10, 2023 @05:35PM (#38225492)
>Why should a rich person be able to experience luxury more often than a poor person?
Why would you work harder to get rich if you don't get anything for it?
Re:iOS 17.2 hints at Apple moving towards letting users sideload apps
on Friday November 10, 2023 @05:00PM (#38225106)
If you absolutely must have sideloading why don't you buy an Android phone?
Re:Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook
on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:59PM (#38223725)
That is false.
Re:EU lawmakers scolded for concealing identities of content-scanning ...
on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:23PM (#38223285)
Fewer laws.
Re:Swedish painters trade union to stop all work with Tesla brand cars
on Friday November 10, 2023 @08:54AM (#38218811)
Without the /s, yes, that's what will happen.
Re:
on Friday November 10, 2023 @05:53AM (#38217368)
No, using DrawFrameControl et al does not make a widget native.
Re:
on Friday November 10, 2023 @05:24AM (#38217180)
Claws is GTK+, so it's not native.
Re:
on Friday November 10, 2023 @05:13AM (#38217113)
They have been doing this for years. The mobile outlook app has had microsoft servers check for mail on the user's behalf since forever.