FractalsInfinite

joined 1 year ago

Pretty much impossible, especially with so many eyes on the project. It is possible to intentionally introduce vulnerabilities into open source code and use that as a backdoor but for projects like tor keeping that hidden for long periods of time is incredibly difficult due to the number of people independently auditing the code.

Interestingly the founder of the project seems to explicitly disagree with that article

[–] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Based on the community being quite succsessful so far despite being made by volunteers, I don't think they will.

[–] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sneakernet is getting worse and worse these days, I'm learning the ancient art of astroprojecting into random people's rooms to consume media.

[–] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

What would an ai achieve? The only thing I can think of is a documentation summariser, but that can already be made with current applications independent of linux

[–] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Seems like it, I switched to my current instance explicitly to avoid dealing with this stuff

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HimToo_movement

#HimToo became connected with rape allegations ... when a mother in the United States tweeted about her son with the #HimToo hashtag. She claimed that her son, Pieter Hanson, was afraid to go on dates because of false rape allegations. Hanson himself disavowed his mother's tweet, saying that ... he never has and never will support #HimToo.

For better or worse, past evidence suggests people can't be heroized against there will until they are dead (as was the case for the anti-nillist philosopher Nietzsche)

[–] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Such a solution could actually work (the example of a Republican finding no controversial stuff in her school's curriculum comes to mind), however the problem is it would require the person involved to disassociate with there (presumably anti-gay) friends and family and be accepted by her former "enemies", which would be especially hard if they had a public facing role. They possibly may even have to reject a emotionally driven worldview/ideology they may have adopted, which is quite difficult.

[–] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Okay, please tell me do I convince an anti-intellectual logic that they refuse to use? I have tried to with no success.

I do not want my gay friends imprisoned for wanting to be happy, I do not want my trans friends lynched for being able to look at themselves in the mirror. How do you propose I convince those that do through logic alone, when these people are only willing to consider emotional/illogical arguments?

I don't care about arguing, I care about solutions, what are your solutions to this discrimination we both hate?

[–] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (11 children)

The issue is not the appeal to hypocrisy, it is discriminating against the rights of others while giving yourself those same rights. For a party that runs on a illogical foundation, having your leaders be shown to be doing what they preach against is powerful enough for people to emotionally disconnect and actually think through the information they have been given. Yes an appeal to hypocracy is a fallacy, but "you can't logically argue someone out of a position they didn't logically obtain", it is better to use a fallacy to force them to think logically, then use logic first and be ignored.

[–] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for being willing to take time out of your day to enlighten me

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