JFC if there a uBlock list I can add to block most AI crap or do I have to get a new addon for that?

Fair.

As far as I understand, they could ban that particular user from their instance.

Not sure why it rose to a question about defederation, unless I’m misunderstanding the tools they have access too, or the number of people involved.

Why bad?

I’m deeply concerned about the rush to so-called “AI” and the use of synthetic text in all aspects of life, particularly when it substitutes for productive labor in policy generation and implementation.

Meme generation is not the same. Stock images are already trash, designed for bulk distribution as filler. If a machine can output an image that’s equally functional, no artist is deprived of the opportunity to create something meaningful, no onlooker is deceived into believing that a human mind orchestrated this camera angle or that brush stroke.

I am perpetually shocked at how many people don’t understand marginal tax rates, and I truly think ignorance of them is used to confuse people about how wages work.

Maybe sorta to update keys? But I think they will also do that if you pop in a newer disc. It’s been known to cause an issue with playback of older disks, I think.

The whole process of buying media is broken.

Because it’s inherently low art, by which I mean the ideas communicated are barely above a snip of text. That’s not a bad thing, but it means a machine processing prompts can, with adequate discernment, produce an adequate output. It’s not short circuiting a creative human process, it’s helping you make slightly better stick figure drawings.

Actually yeah, those are.

Memes seems like an appropriate use case for AI image generation.

I think he’s doing tricep extensions in the picture.

Shit we do that already and we ain’t even got the healthcare.

Thank you, yes.

Best answer.

A lot of people cheat at some point in their lives, but most have the good sense to be less flippant about it. People who act like this are not the kind of people that you would want a relationship with anyway. You’re not rare, but they’re not common either.

I’m not even sure what the Linux equivalent of Active Directory is. That’s the one I’m stumped by.

What, you’re scared of getting harrassed by your government for wrongthink on your hobby project? You sir are the actual fascist! We’ll defederate! Can’t let any of those instance users access ours. 🤡

And yet every self-declared pro-Zionist I’ve talked to says Zionism is just the right of the state of Israel to exist, and so being anti-Zionist is being for the destruction of the state, and being for the destruction of the state is being for the death or dispossession of every person in the state.

I think the German state is probably more inclined to interpret discussion of Zionism the way the pro-Zionists I’ve spoken to have describe the term.

I think the historical description in the text that you link is accurate, but if you’re trying to argue that Germans should be able to critique Zionism however they want because of that, it’s like literally getting into an argument about the literal meaning of literally with people who use literally to mean figuratively, but instead of a random teenager or twee linguistic descriptivist, you are arguing with the state.

What the fuck is a VPN going to do if your name is known to the web host? If you have given away personal identifying information in the purchase or maintenance of the website?

“Oh no herr officer, look at mein IP address, I am le French where such rules don’t apply. Please ignore all the other identifying information you may have gathered over the time that the website was hosted.”

Here’s how Firefox translates what I see to be the relevant parts from German to English:

“The Ministry of the Interior used a legal trick by declaring the platform not as a medium, but as an association. All investigations against allegedly involved persons, including because of the formation of a criminal association, were suspended or went into the sand. At the time, there was criticism from different sides against linksunten.indymedia.org.”

“The accused is to have published an article on the homepage of the aforementioned radio station, which contains a link of an archive of the forbidden association “left-unten.indymedia”. The association “linksunten.indymedia” was banned and dissolved with the disposition of the Federal Minister of the Interior of 14.08.2017, since the purpose and activities of the association contravened the criminal laws and was directed against constitutional order.”

I mean translations get a little funky but I’m reading this as saying that this office and two private homes were raided because someone posted a link to an archive of an indymedia website which was declared to be a criminal organization.

So here’s an article about a raid on an environmentalist group in Germany called Last Generation: https://earth.org/last-generation-activists/

There’s a link to the German language statement from the police which is quite readable after translation, and of course the article itself describes the general activities that they were engaged in and accused of.

Of the activities that they were accused of, it does seem in line with prior environmental activist groups like Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace, and Earth First!

As for what laws get enforced by a website, that is going to depend on jurisdiction. For example, the USA has section 230 of the DMCA, which holds that website operators are not responsible for user content with the exception of content accused of violating copyright within certain parameters. Doesn’t mean they won’t raid your servers, just means you won’t be held legally responsible if they think you were sufficiently responsive to issues when raised.

At this time I don’t know the specifics of what Germans have to think about to avoid state interference, but it does look like it is more severe than what the US has to do with.