When doing zoom calls for work I do it behind a curtain. Nobody sees my home at all. Then I cover the cam when not in use. These are just common sense privacy measures we should be teaching them anyway.

I mean yeah, I don’t watch porn on an office computer at work after all. They should have their own devices for all that stuff. School devices = school-related activity only, no more.

That guy Parin Dalal seems like the only one who has anything to do with tech at all. The rest, yeah all IP specialists. He probably acts as their advisor so they don’t look like complete assholes.

So, is the Internet caring about copyright now? Decades of Napster, Limewire, BitTorrent, Piratebay, bootleg ebooks, movies, music, etc, but we care now because it’s a big corporation doing it?

Just trying to get it straight.

you would have had to be on the Web very early indeed to remember when it was entirely static

Correct. My first web browser was Mosaic. I was using it on my Dad’s PC in 1994 at 12 years old.

There’s something eerie and a bit depressing about a social media feed that doesn’t refresh often enough

Society’s modern artificially induced ADHD on display here. Anybody remember when websites were all static and didn’t dynamically change at all?

I thought they’d be selling the oxygen before they get to the sunlight.

Say you walk up to some person giving out free samples of food. As a condition of taking this free sample, you also must take a pamphlet of advertisements from the people who are giving you the free sample. You take your free sample, and then walk away while dropping the pamphlet in the nearest trash can. That’s essentially what ad blocking is. You’re simply preventing certain parts of a web page from being downloaded to your device. That’s why people have issues with the “piracy” label, because nothing is being “stolen”. You’re just refusing to take all of it.

Generative AI is not going back into the bag. If not OpenAI, then someone else will control it. So we deal with them the next best way, force them to serve us, the people.

At some point we are wasting time and money just to keep shutting up the morons.

What? You don’t have a set of cutting hammers in the kitchen?

The vast majority of regular internet users never think of things from this perspective because they’ve never been in a position of running a public facing website. To most people, the Internet is just there to be taken for granted like the public street and park outside someone’s house. All the stuff on it just exists there by itself. That’s also why we have issues with free speech online, where people expect certain rights that don’t exist, because these aren’t publicly owned websites and people aren’t getting that.

I think I thought of that in like, 2003, when developing my first web site. My lazy ass was just thinking of using PHP’s ability to execute terminal commands to do all the heavy lifting on the backend for everything for me, because I sucked as a programmer. That would have been a terrible, terrible idea in hindsight.

This was way before I learned about form input sanitization too. I was working off of “For Dummies” books.

I get the feeling like half the people here are programmers or in a related field anyway.

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https://youtu.be/NB8vk8Zrwak?si=t6dc_WiwTRia1vbG

It’s communication to the public, not an official paper. When talking to the public, you meet them on their level. You knew what it meant, so mission accomplished.

We don’t fuck around with rockets. If there’s a problem with one, we fix that problem with all of them first. Too much energy and velocities involved to just not care what happened and treat it like a common fender bender. Whatever caused this to happen could also maybe happen in flight and cause an accident.

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are you going to go on any road trips before figuring out what the hell happened?

If you live in Maryland, sure why not? It’ll go along with the duct-tape-and-garbagebag oil pan.