AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor

@AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DEI, more like DIED⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You know? In Spanish, there’s an idiom: “irse a hacer gargaras” (literally “go to gargle”) that we say when something or someone ends poorly or incredibly wrong. This… well, he did go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That'd be helpful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ng those are the catch-ups I enjoy more. l

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They didn't stop to think if they should⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And I can probably say I’m glad I haven’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They didn't stop to think if they should⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just not really sure we want to see a scene that might leave the famous alien “birth” of the first movie as something mild. That’s all.

  I’m moderately sure human rectums aren’t made to give birth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They didn't stop to think if they should⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t want to see that. Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are eugenics bad seen?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But how can you say that you have a better life than them if you are inferior? Clearly a lesser person won’t be able to reason through these complex arguments…

  Don’t you love the smell of nazi at any time of the day? It signals who should you punch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are eugenics bad seen?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah but see? They have “the good genes” so of course they won’t be culled. Not like “neurodivergents” or “disabled”. We should cull those because “they won’t get a girlfriend”.

  This smells of incel, like a fuckton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are eugenics bad seen?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck you. Sincerely. As an autistic person.

  I don’t need someone to kill me before I’m born, what ri need is people that accept that I need accomodations different than the ones neuromilds need.

  Fucking hell… You live in a world that is full of accomodations for neuromilds, without which, you’d live in hell. And instead of recognising how easy it is for you thanks to those accorodations, you want to purge us?

  Damn how I wish you lived through the life of one of us just for one day…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spain is blocking unrelated internet addresses because of soccer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Soccer in Spain (and also in Italy) has enough power to bend the laws to their will.

  Right now, soccer is available almost exclusively through paid channels (that are not cheap, in italy it costs around 50€ month and that won’t give you all the soccer, because some games are exclusive to other paid channels].

  This makes people rely on piracy because of how expensive and bad the system is.

  Since the soccer is so powerful, it can block innocent pages just to block people from watching soccer for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tourists dismantle cross and use stones to create Star of David⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an atheist, so I don’t feel particularly attacked because these assholes dismantled a cross, but can you imagine if the situation was the opposite? The amount of nazionists calling antisemitism?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we focus one moment on why the fuck a 6 years-old kid could watch porn?

  What the hell was a 6yo kid doing with an unsupervised internet device? How about you don’t give your 6yo kid an internet device if you can’t (or don’t want to) parent them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exposing the billion dollar secret most VPN companies don't want you to know⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but i t was related to their CEO’s political views, not the VPN’s quality.

  Afaik (and also according to the video itself), proton remains, together with iVPN and mullvad, one of the vpn’s that you can still trust. At least for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you trust your VPN? How Facebook turned a VPN into a surveillance engine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If a product is free, you are the product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you trust your VPN? How Facebook turned a VPN into a surveillance engine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you trust your VPN?

  A comprehensive checklist:

  • Is your VPN completely free?

  • Has your VPN a referral program with discount codes and money if a friend joins?

  • Is your VPN sponsorized by big streamers?

  The more “yes” you find in that list, the less you should trust your VPN.

  • Is your VPN audited?

  • Can you access those audits?

  • Can you pay in anonymous currencies (cash or crypto)?

  • Can you track them to their real parent company?

  The more “no” you find in that list, the less you should trust your VPN.

  If your VPN has checks all the wrong answers, you should dump it ASAP (if you are worried about privacy).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exposing the billion dollar secret most VPN companies don't want you to know⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You use a vpn to (hopefully) keep some privacy. To bypass geoblocks, to not let a state spy on you, to access webpages that are blocked in your country, to screw an ISP that is throttling your connection…:

  In general, there are lots of use cases for a trusted vpn that are not illegal. The problem with many vpn’s is that they offer “privacy” when they are spying on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exposing the billion dollar secret most VPN companies don't want you to know⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tl;dw: Most (not all) vpn companies come from ad brokers that spy on you. If you see a vpn being sponsorized by streamers with discount codes: they are selling your data.

  Mullvad and proton are safe to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, my quite human husband also voices his thoughts without a prompt. Lol. You only need to feed him to function, no internet required.

  Sometimes, with humans, I’d say the problem is quite the opposite: they voice their thoughts without a prompt far more often than what would be desirable.

  On a less serious note, that quoted part made me chuckle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right, my main comment didn’t include this part. When I was talking to other users I developed the argument a bit more and I realized that my first comment didn’t convey my argument fully. While I was writing the first comment, it made sense in my head, but the reason why I considered it an awfully bad idea was not clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m trying to find an English source as the one I can offer right now is in Spanish. If i find another one, I’ll post it, meanwhile, this is my source: cadenaser.com/…/es-rentable-y-da-mucho-miedo-la-r…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was more of an oddity. Right now, the numbers are not just “some random guy” but something in much higher numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not really sure these people fully understand what they are doing or they wouldn’t be doing it at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly!!! The main problem is not the technology itself but who is in charge of it! Can we really trust one of those moguls to not turn these LLMs into something that ends up killing people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, yes. And yes.

  But

  Do you think openAI or Google, or X or whatever billionaire behind the AI involved in these “relationships” cares even minimally about the mental well-being of these people?

  The problem is not just the dating an AI thing, but who is managing these AIs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I agree with your point of view… Do we really trust the present AI providers, in the present economic system, to not pull some bullshit that ends in extremely fucked up scenarios?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard about this in the radio the other day. People pay a monthly fee for an AI that becomes your “digital partner”.

  The reasoning behind, according to them, is that the AI is less dangerous than a human partner because they can’t cheat, can’t abuse you…

  And I can’t but wonder where did we took the wrong turn to end up here. Because while I can understand that people can go through some traumatic shit tha, would made them wary of the opposite sex, considering a machine your sentimental partner can only lead to some extremely fucked up scenarios.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s ok Microsoft, I already didn’t want to upgrade to Windows 11, you don’t need to keep convincing me to not upgrade to the next one after 11.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seems like the obvious way to do it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oooohhhh so THAT’S what you use it for!!!

  Silly me, using it to store greens and fruit when it was a marinating drawer… How did I not think of this before?i

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet here we are, with games more expensive than 10 years ago and people spending less than 10 years ago. Seems strange, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s for your own good. This way you can purchase the game separately and we keep the collector edition reasonable price tag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to keep the games affordable so they can spend some money in the microtransaction hell that is our store and that is basically mandatory if you want tr keep up the pace with the other games in the pvp mode of the game (the only one available, because we removed local modes since we believe that playing with friends doesn’t make you want to spend on lootboxes is not as fun as playing with randos