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Cake day: September 14th, 2023

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  • I sincerely thank you for your honest and nuanced take, but I don’t fully agree on one thing - Even in this thread you can see people arguing that giving money to (or “having dinner with”) makes you equal to a nazi.

    That is the part I object to, because by becoming so extremely polarising, it robs the word of all meaning. I might be too moderate for lemmy (I assure you I have voted leftwing parties for most of my adult life), but to me when I see someone described as a “literal nazi” nowadays I can’t help but wonder “internet nazi or actual nazi”?

    So when I object to things like this, it’s because I fear for the damage this actually does to proper discourse, to fighting actual nazis. I don’t give a shit about Omarchy myself (I prefer debian based distros :p), but when someone describes it as “a distro for fascists”, you’re just alienating those users - 99% of whom are probably not even aware of the politically charged reasons behind it. It just feels like virtue signaling to me, and meanwhile only furthering the divide between people.

    Again, I think it’s good people call 1password and the others out. But do so on the right basis, like: “What you’re doing is amplifying hate speech”, rather than “you are nazis”.

    Peace.

    (edit, that came or longer than I intended, my apologies)







  • Fair enough, I phrased that ambiguously.

    My issue was with the recursive definition of “nazi” - you are one if you associate with one or if you associate with someone who associate with one. That would mean petty much everyone alive, excluding some uncontacted tribes.

    To me, that kind of self-referential logic is utter bullshit. From what I can tell, David Hansson is absolutely a racist xenophobic piece of shit. But the actual nazis were way worse than that. And devaluing it to someone who n degrees away once had dinner with someone is utter insanity, and pissing on the graves of all that died in the second world war.






  • Meanwhile the other day a post here asking “What actually is the deal with Omarchy?” got deleted.

    I feel this is more about people signaling they dislike he who should not be named (other than initials) than, you know, what is actually wrong with the product.

    The same thing happened with the technology communities and Trump / Musk. I sincerely do not care about these people or their opinions. I’m here for the tech news, not a circlejerk about whom the Internet considers a nazi. I guess I will just have to add a few more keywords to filter now.








  • “Even if a bystander notices the Glasses and agrees to be recorded, he or she cannot have consented to the mass amalgamation of their data when the Glasses are in AI mode,” the amended complaint said, “including visual recordings that are collected, stored, exploited, and visually inspected by persons overseas, because Defendants have made no effort to disclose these practices to bystanders or to seek their consent.”

    Meta disputes the allegations, telling Fortune: “We disagree with these allegations and will fight them. Our glasses help you use AI hands free to answer questions about the world around you. If you use Meta AI, we may review that data to help improve our products and people’s experiences—this works the same way as many other companies.”

    Their way of fighting the allegations seems to be “but others do it too!”

    Good.

    Very good.

    I’m sure the German court will have a field day.