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4h ago

Good question
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Serinus @lemmy.world 4h ago
The shared experience of Television and Movies.
Nearly everyone watched The Simpsons, for instance. It was more reliable than Game of Thrones ever was.
More truth and fewer media bubbles. The "WMDs in Iraq" lie was a huge understanding, and not everyone believed it, just enough. Now you can do that more easily with some social media accounts and algorithms. People just choose their own news.

4h ago

Good question

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Serinus @lemmy.world 4h ago

Orson Scott Card - Ender's GameDilbert

4h ago

Rogue mod

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Serinus @lemmy.world 4h ago

The comment in the screenshot is the opposite of that? They explicitly said they don't support what's happening in the West Bank or Gaza.

7h ago

Being Assassinated in Your Home by a Killer Robot Sent by a Fascist State Is No Longer Science Fiction

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Serinus @lemmy.world 7h ago

I wouldn't say "pure" theatre. I think the demands were serious while also being a common sense PR move that would also motivate (or not demotivate) their employees.

But they were supposed to just be easy to agree to. "Okay, yeah, we'll have an overseer on the murder bots, and we won't use it to spy on Americans." Even with an optional wink wink nudge nudge, it still mostly works for Anthropic's PR.

It was supposed to be a layup, and the administration airballed it.

9h ago

Being Assassinated in Your Home by a Killer Robot Sent by a Fascist State Is No Longer Science Fiction

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Serinus @lemmy.world 9h ago

Which was revealed when Anthropic made their very simple demands and the administration threw a tantrum.

No fully autonomous murder; a human must make the final decision.
No domestic mass surveillance.

Pretty simple demands that should have been easy to agree to.

9h ago

Virginia court declines to block Democrats from using new voter-approved congressional map - Democracy Docket

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Serinus @lemmy.world 9h ago

Yes, but needed in this case. "Declines to block" is very different from "approves" even if the end result is the same.

10h ago

40 years after Chernobyl, Stasi files reveal scale of Soviet misinformation

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Serinus @lemmy.world 10h ago

95/5, but only after the meltdown had started and before the info was public.

12h ago

Rogue mod

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Serinus @lemmy.world 12h ago

After a few days I'm starting to ban more, including this one of 15+ reports for abusing reports.

I make a point to allow opinions I disagree with, to an extent. I'm not going to allow hexbear style harassment and bullying.

Sorry you have to deal with this, @Samskara@sh.itjust.works

13h ago

Rogue mod

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Serinus @lemmy.world 13h ago

Nah, there are bans too.

3d ago

Rogue mod

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Serinus @lemmy.world 3d ago

For anyone interested in this, I'd encourage you to look for the facts, and not just go by what feels to be the prevailing opinion.

The "prevailing opinion" is easy to manipulate, and it's an easy way to manipulate us. They're effective at generating a certain vibe to establish their desired narrative.

3d ago

Rogue mod

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Serinus @lemmy.world 3d ago

banning anyone pointing out

So nobody is left making that point in the thread?

3d ago

Republicans introduce extreme bill to ban lawsuits against Big Oil forever | Shouldn't Democrats... be saying something about this?

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Serinus @lemmy.world 3d ago

because that’s what we voted for them to do!

No, we really didn't.

This could be stopped with the President, with the House of Representatives, with the Senate, or with the Supreme Court.

Which one of those should Democrats use to fight this?

3d ago

If this is terrorism...

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Serinus @lemmy.world 3d ago

Forever wars are a bit easier if you find someone else to fight them for you.

3d ago

Trump's 'gold card' visa starting at $1 million granted to just 1 person so far, White House says

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Serinus @lemmy.world 3d ago

It's incredible to me that, today, you're willing to just give up all rules and laws without even an argument.

3d ago

Bitwarden CLI distributed through NPM has been compromised. Bitwarden Statement on Checkmarx Supply Chain Incident.

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Serinus @lemmy.world 3d ago

Then you're waiting forever on vulnerability patches. Especially if there are layers, and each layer waits to update.

3d ago

Bitwarden CLI distributed through NPM has been compromised. Bitwarden Statement on Checkmarx Supply Chain Incident.

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Serinus @lemmy.world 3d ago

Larger standard libraries do a lot. It's a lot harder to sneak vulnerabilities into the basic C# or Java or C++ libraries than it is to add a vulnerability to something one dude maintains in the javascript ecosystem.

And since javascript libraries tend to be so small and focused, it's become standard practice for even other libraries to pull in as many of those as they want.

And it stacks. Your libraries pull in other libraries which can pull in their own libraries. I had a project recently where I had maybe a dozen direct dependencies and they ended up pulling in 1,311 total libraries, largely all maintained by different people.

In a more sane ecosystem like C#, all the basics like string manipulation, email, or logging have libraries provided by Microsoft that have oversight when they're changed. There can be better, third-party libraries for these things (log4net is pretty great), but they have to compete with their reputation and value over the standard library, which tends to be a high bar. And libraries made on top of that system are generally pulling all those same, certified standard libraries. So you pull in 3 libraries and only one of those pulls in another third party single library. And you end up with 4 total third party libraries.

Javascript just doesn't really have a certified standard library.

(This certified standard library doesn't have to be proprietary. Microsoft has made C# open source, and Linus Torvalds with the Linux Kernel Organization holds ultimate responsibility for the Linux kernel.)