LadyAutumn

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A very solvable problem with window tiling managers. There's unironically thousands of them.

Linux just honestly might not be for you if a terminal is an insurmountable obstacle 🤷‍♀️ it's how you interact with the basics of your computer. It's worth ripping that bandaid off and getting over your fear of term imo. I honestly prefer software I can just run from the terminal.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We are just fully in the buildup now, aren't we. What a horrifying time to be alive. I wonder what a global scale conflict would be like with social media.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Nah. Cool that you think that, though. The moment they started charging for what was a free service, they lost me. I have gigabit internet. The only reason i used their service to begin with was ease of use.

Hot take but maybe everything doesn't need to be an infinitely expanding business. Just imagine for a second that it's fine for something to just break even, pay for the few mainteners salaries and not expand the business at all ever. I know that I just uttered the cardinal evil under capitalism but fucking seriously. The primary userbase of plex is pirates. The whole incentive is not having to pay for a streaming service. Charging money for it is just torpedoing your entire userbase. The entire appeal of Plex was it not charging money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm curious what you would suggest to aid identifying generated content if not clear labeling. Sure its circumventable but again its more than what already exists. It provides legal precedence for repercussions to companies trying to pass off AI generated content as human created.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Just because something is theoretically circumventable doesn't mean we shouldn't make it as hard as possible to circumvent it.

The reason why misinformation is so common these days is because of concerted effort by fascists to obtain control over media companies. Once they are in power and have significant influence within those companies they can poison them, turning them into massive misinformation engines churning out content at a pace even faster than we ever believed possible. This problem has existed since the rise of mass media especially in the 19th century. But social media presents far faster and more direct throughlines to spreading misinformation to the masses.

And those masses do not care if something is labeled as AI or not. They will believe it one way or the other. This still doesn't change that it is necessary to directly label AI generated content as such. What is and isn't made by a human is extremely important. We cannot equate algorithms with people, and it's necessary to make that distinguishment as clearly as possible.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

It's still a good thing. The alternative is people posting AI content as though it is real content, which is a worldwide problem destroying entire industries. All AI content should by law have to be clearly labeled.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago

Acknowledging that there is a goal of equality within society at all is now legally non-neutral. There is legal pressure to allow white supremacy, patriarchy, and xenophobic christian nationalism to exist as they are without any pressure to change them. To acknowledge that disadvantaged classes of people exist and face discrimination in any form is illegal, or at least that is their intent.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Capitalism artificially creates scarcity (or the illusion of scarcity) to generate capital.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sex in the sense that we have been talking about it here is in reference to mammals. The moment you wander outside of the mammalian class of vertebrates these concepts of sex start to become far less applicable.

There are many birds that have more than 2 sexes. Reptiles and invertebrates as well. Asexual reproduction would be classed as it's own sex apart from any male/female system.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You are vastly underestimating the prevalence of chromosomal variations. They are common, especially among cis women.

I like the way you phrased that at the end. Sexes are categories that relate exclusively to the concept of progeny. If you're not able to reproduce, you're already kind of excluded from the sex binary. If we break the human concept of sex down to its constituent parts, it is just "can procreate". The categories are useful in some contexts, but to state them as universal or to try and extrapolate them so widely is significantly disruptive and unhelpful. Humans are and always have been more than our reproductive anatomy. Your doctor and anyone you want to reproduce with are really the only people who need to know whether you fit into either category.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, there are many species that have more than 2 sexes. Those are decided by scientific consensus.

But sex is ultimately a category to describe the process of reproduction. By definition, this is exclusionary. It's why conservatives fumble so much when trying to describe sex in terms of actual definitions. Inherently, it is not possible to fit every person into a table of 2 columns in that way. Sex is not a binary because human beings are not binary. There is an incredible amount of variation in our bodies.

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