FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’ 3 days ago:
Paywalled.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 3 days ago:
This looks absolutely terrible to use as a tv. 350nits brightness alone makes it unusable. No HDR, only 60hz, terrible contrast too.
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 3 days ago:
Liberals have been the ones doing it, which is why no one cares or fears being called a Nazi, racist, bigot, -phobe, fascist, or any of the other overused leftist favourite names to call anyone who doesn’t agree with them anymore.
It was working, it radicalised their loyalists and scared a lot of regular people into submission, but like you said - overuse, especially when it was clearly not appropriate, made the tactic less and less effective.
- Comment on Google will use hashes to find and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery from Search 3 days ago:
It shouldn’t be Google who control which images they return in Google search? It’s their product……
- Comment on Google will use hashes to find and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery from Search 3 days ago:
Completely wrong.
They don’t need to keep the images because they hash them. They store the hashes - that’s the point. CSAM detection works the same way.
If your hash matches the database hash (on 2 or more databases), then it will be flagged for manual review. They don’t need to know which image it matched, because they look at your image and go “yeh that’s an intimate image so it’s a match”.
- Comment on How can I store a used water filter canister? 3 days ago:
But you said that for 2 days a month you have this problem that you started this topic over?
2 days a month x 12 months = 24 days, which is just over 3 weeks a year lol
- Comment on What is the difference between pansexual, bisexual, and omnisexual? How do I know which one I am? 3 days ago:
Your sexual attraction has nothing to do with gender - yours or anyone else’s - but with sex.
Homosexuality is same sex attraction.
Bisexual is attraction to both sexes.
Asexual is attraction to neither sex.
Heterosexual is attraction to the opposite sex.
Everything outside of that is really just people trying to give themselves a label to stand out.
- Comment on It was a rough night for Meta after the company botched two onstage demos of its latest smart glasses at its annual Connect conference 3 days ago:
Might have been a rough night but goddamn those meta rayban display’s are a game changer.
- Comment on what can I do at my workplace during downtime? 1 week ago:
Are we on /r/antiwork or something?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If you have romantic feelings for someone it means you want to be romantic with them, but you can choose not to be due to other reasons - like previous trauma.
- Comment on what can I do at my workplace during downtime? 1 week ago:
Try doing your work maybe?
- Comment on My friend exposed a guy for bad stuff. Now he's created a site where he archives everything my friend posts online & deliberately twists it to make her look bad/discredit her. What should she do? 1 week ago:
Why hasn’t she gone to the police?
- Comment on My friend exposed a guy for bad stuff. Now he's created a site where he archives everything my friend posts online & deliberately twists it to make her look bad/discredit her. What should she do? 1 week ago:
No, absolutely terrible idea. That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen. He isn’t, from what you’ve said, a “known pedophile” because he hasn’t been charged and convicted of anything that would make him so.
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 1 week ago:
I assume you think you’re talking to someone else right now……?
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 1 week ago:
Got any examples? Never seen any conservatives say that.
- Comment on Are exchange offers still a thing? 1 week ago:
A trade in? Phones have trade in’s because they lock you in to a contract and/or can easily re-sell the second hand phone for significantly more than they give you. Digital cameras……well there’s no monthly payment plan there, nor is there a bustling second hand market where you’d trade it in for $200 and they can sell it for $600.
- Comment on What's the FBI gonna do when white nationalists turn on Kash Patel (current director of FBI)? 1 week ago:
What an odd question.
The FBI would do the same as if the violent fascist antifa turned on him, or the communists turn on him, or the Gypsy’s turn on him - Nothing. Why would they? They don’t control anything, they have no effect on the FBI.
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 1 week ago:
Ouch. That would look terrible imo, but I guess that’s why you sit so far away haha
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 1 week ago:
Anyone thinking that his mind was going to be changed about his beliefs missed the entire point of what he did. He used the “change my mind” platform almost exclusively to point out the absurdities, the hypocrisy, and the “misinformation” about points that he was an expert on, and where his mind could not possibly be changed because the alternative to his point of view is factually wrong.
When he spoke about abortion, he could never have his mind changed that is it “murder” because it is, unquestionably taking the life of a living thing intentionally. I am 10000% pro abortion, but I do not delude myself into thinking that it’s not the killing of an unborn baby. It is. Factually.
What he did was expose the hoops people jump through to come to their beliefs on very specific things.
If you took his premise as “he will surely change his mind about things that are fundamentally correct, even if you disagree with those fundamentals” then you completely misunderstand the premise. It was for him to try and change other people’s minds by making them try to change his mind and in doing so realise that what they have been brought up to believe is based on misinformation/lies/uninformed opinions.
It’s like if I did a “change my mind” post and said “freedom of speech means hearing things you don’t want to hear without murdering the person saying them” and people came up and tried to argue with me that someone should be murdered for saying they hate all black people, my mind can’t be changed because I am fundamentally and unquestionably right.
He was a very smart man, and he knew exactly what his limits were. Every single topic he brought to discussion was one he was passionate about, and almost too educated one. He could quote pretty much any part of any religious text off hand, laws, the constitition, etc. He would prepare meticulously and read every single piece of literature and study on the topics he was going to discuss so he knew what to argue. His entire career was talking to people about topics that he knew everything about.
Lastly not every minute or discussion with every person he ever spoke to at his events is recorded or available for us to watch. His channel, like every single other channel in existence, only showed the bits that make them look the best - and that was when he made other people change their minds, or when it showed them losing their minds at people daring to have a different view. He’s not going to post a video of him being “wrong”.
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 1 week ago:
You’re playing games at 1080p and complaining about the controller connection not being good at greater than 3m away? You’re sitting way too far away for 1080p lol
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 1 week ago:
It’s not a “gaming pc”. What you are asking is why shouldn’t you just use a small basic pc to play old games instead of buying a gaming pc.
“Why should I get a PS5 when I can get a PS2 for way cheaper?” Is essentially your question.
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 1 week ago:
But lying does something to answer your question?
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 1 week ago:
Lying isn’t any different to using a meme.
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 1 week ago:
By “properly” you seem to mean “giving me the answer I wanted even if it’s wrong, without any evidence to support it”.
- Comment on Were both parties cheated on? 1 week ago:
Trying to work out who cheated on who and who has more right to be offended in a relationship between a 14 and a 16 year old is not worth your time.
- Comment on Were both parties cheated on? 1 week ago:
They’re 14 and 16, they’re literal children. Don’t treat childrens relationships the same was as adult relationships.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 week ago:
Thanks for the confirmation that you realize you fucked up :)
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
Corporate pc defender rules are set by the corporation - of course the end user can’t bypass their rules.
Microsoft don’t set those rules, each individual company does.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 2 weeks ago:
Appropriate suspicion is cast upon any mod that’s too vague with their ban comments
One of the biggest issues here is, like reddit, most of the ban actions are shown as just being done by “mod”, not giving the specific mod account that did it.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
I’m talking about on your own machine. Obviously it’s different if you’re using a work-controlled machine that you don’t control.
Defender, on your own machine that you control, never completely stops you from installing things. Seems you just don’t know how to ignore the defender warnings lol.