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@evan … but it should be a user-configurable option to withhold even one's "public" posts from unauthenticated users.
This mitigates access by blocked harassers, requiring them the delay of creating new accounts, presumably backed by new email accounts, to even see content from users who've blocked them. That added delay and inconvenience should accelerate most trolls getting bored of, for example, screenshotting and subtooting those who they'd previously harassed directly.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@richpuchalsky/116048617240380904
If it would collapse the system, then the system should collapse. When the dust settles, the People can take the remains as proceeds of crime, forfeit by the perpetrators.
@thevhswizard Accrue allies. Once you have an excess of allies, delegate battles.
@0x00string @wackJackle Oh, I was thinking thrown, not launched. Didn't know they were using launchers. I missed that when I read your reply the first time.
@0x00string @wackJackle Any potential value in tennis rackets behind the shield wall?
@Viss @hotsoup @kajer @hrbrmstr @cR0w
How about audio? I still have a Mac kicking around somewhere and remember how to do this: say -o test.mp4 '[[rate 300]][[char LTRL]] ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86'
Analogous things can be done using espeak on Linux or BSD or the System.Speech PowerShell module on Windows.
Apparently I'd need to use the Claude API to test the audio file, though. That's too much temporary unblocking of crap for me to bother with today, but perhaps another day.
@marcoxa @thedarktangent @pluralistic Pretty much, but now the broligarchs are trying to force it on everyone. They really don't like taking "no" for an answer.
Indeed, that one thing—categorical unwillingness to respect others' refusal of consent—is the defining characteristic in common to every one of them. Despite how some viewers understandably took offence, Louis Rossmann characterized the you'll-own-nothing CEOs' mentality exactly correctly.
No wonder they bought the US government for the rapist-in-chief.
#technofeudalism #rightToRepair #rightToOwn #monopoly #enshittification
@thedarktangent The technofeudalists are trying to price individuals, families, SMBs, and smaller organizations out of the market, in order to force everyone permanently into renting compute time and storage from them, and to donate all our data to their slopware training in the process.
It will take an organized international campaign, comparable to the model advocated by @pluralistic at #39C3, to forcibly counteract this. Ultimately, we'll need to restore competition in our IT parts supply chains. That may require state-level investment by economic peers of the US and China, which itself may require sustained organized civic engagement.
Meanwhile, in the USA (and elsewhere, but especially there), everything that can be done to reduce demand for technofeudalist corporations' products and services, hence everything that could expedite insolvency of the #genAI sector, would help return affordability to PC parts.
@Viss I think that, plus the absence of engagement maximizing algorithms, plus the absence of “suggested” or “promoted” content, plus the absence of ads and thus revenue sharing, plus the ability to choose an instance by its moderation and (de)federation, explains the healthier discourse in fediverse. That 3% quickly get themselves banned on any instance the rest of us would choose, and find themselves relegated to the instances with which ours won’t federate. And then no one sees their toxicity but their fellow denizens of the cesspool servers.