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Comment on Kristi Noem removed from position as Secretary of US Homeland Security by Donald Trump in ~society
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Comment on Kristi Noem removed from position as Secretary of US Homeland Security by Donald Trump in ~society
raze2012 Link ParentSo, based on what I researched: Mullin came in from a special election to finish the term of a senator that died in 2023 Mullin's seat would have been up this year for election anyway. Apparently,...So, based on what I researched:
- Mullin came in from a special election to finish the term of a senator that died in 2023
- Mullin's seat would have been up this year for election anyway.
- Apparently, for this remaining year the Oklohoma governor can appoint a replacement Senator, so the margins for bills this year isn't at risk.
So I guess that vacancy isn't a worry. Its more about if they can keep the seat for 2027. Which they probably assume is safe given how deeply red Oklahoma is.
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Comment on US support for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement reaches 50% in ~society
raze2012 Link ParentSad, but not surprising. This split has been happening for at least 10 years now (you can argue up to 20 years), but the same guard from 10-20 years ago are still in office today. Quite literally...The disconnect between the Democratic Party establishment and its supporters is staggering
Sad, but not surprising. This split has been happening for at least 10 years now (you can argue up to 20 years), but the same guard from 10-20 years ago are still in office today.
Quite literally oitdated politicians. Millenials surpassed boomers in numbers in recent years as the largest voting bloc, and Gen Z seems to be even more radical. This change is a long time coming, and the Establishment won't willfully leave by themselves.
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Comment on Netflix ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount’s offer is deemed superior in ~movies
raze2012 Link ParentI thought the big issue here was with Kushner? From my understanding, Paramount literally doesn't have this money, so Saudi is pitching in to fund this. Which would bring in other complications...I thought the big issue here was with Kushner? From my understanding, Paramount literally doesn't have this money, so Saudi is pitching in to fund this. Which would bring in other complications from the FCC over a foriegn takeover of an american broadcasting network (CNN in particular, for this case).
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Comment on Anthropic rejects latest US Pentagon offer: ‘We cannot in good conscience accede to their request’ in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentLike much of this administration: very poorly and incompetently. Reading some of the law and medical horror stories at hand with AI makes me shudder at whatever they are going to do with it for...I have no idea how Claude is supposed to be used effectively for surveillance or for "weapons"
Like much of this administration: very poorly and incompetently. Reading some of the law and medical horror stories at hand with AI makes me shudder at whatever they are going to do with it for governmental military weapons.
At least there's one company here on the record of pushing back. For the time being.
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Comment on Discord: Getting global age assurance right: what we got wrong and what's changing in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentIndeed. But network effects are a pain and I'm into such niche games that there's barely even subreddits about them. Discord, Twitter, and Facebook tend to be the only places reporting news on...The “proactive step” would have been not getting onto a centralized platform hosted on someone else’s computer in the first place. As soon as you do that you’re in basically a semi-public zone where you don’t have much expectation of absolute privacy.
Indeed. But network effects are a pain and I'm into such niche games that there's barely even subreddits about them. Discord, Twitter, and Facebook tend to be the only places reporting news on such things. So, like political parties, I picked the least painful poison.
The other more painful end on my other IRL account is that Discord was my compromise (pre-bluesky) between the same 3 platforms for my local gamedev scene. Hopefully that one is slowly shifting.
If push comes to shove I can go back to being a hermit forgoing anything slightly mainstream. But I'm not sure if that phase of my life is the best for my social and mental health.
They don’t “always boil the frog” actually. If anything, they tend to try and move out way too aggressively
I suppose it's relative. If you're in tune with the news they are surprisingly vocal about plans. But it's more like they are taking steps bit by bit to eat away at their true endgoal. Here, Discord's endgame is to prepare for IPO, and this is likely not the last step taken to make that go smoothly (in their eyes).
They literally can identify you right now if you’re a person of interest unless you’re taking pretty extreme measures to obfuscate your identity,
I don't disagree. But I won't make it easy for them by simply handing them my ID. They'll need to work for it.
I suppose it's the same kind of separate as having a whois lookup (because, say, you run a business and you need to report some info) and having it on blast from some influence on social media. it isn't technically "doxxing" in the traditional sense, but 99%+ people won't take the steps to do that search to begin with. Many may not even know what whois is.
If you aren't and just want to use something to talk to friends, it can be very sudden hearing "hey we are going to do age verification" a few weeks back. Those really paying attention would see vague aspects of this coming when hearing of the change in management.
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Comment on Discord: Getting global age assurance right: what we got wrong and what's changing in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentAnd Discord doesn't need to KYC. The payment processor does for Nitro. But AFAIK that is a third party service. The government for trying to sneakily violate my rights, and Discord for trying to...It’s required to operate as a company in the US.
And Discord doesn't need to KYC. The payment processor does for Nitro. But AFAIK that is a third party service.
Who’s they?
The government for trying to sneakily violate my rights, and Discord for trying to pre-emptively comply when there is no need to. 2025's shown me a lot of companies will happily do that.
Like I said, I'd rather skip the tiptoes and fully region lock the internet if this is going to be the next decade of cat and mouse. I'm just fine going to smaller, semi-anonymous platforms like Tildes if anything bigger needs to surrender to government survellance.
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Comment on Discord: Getting global age assurance right: what we got wrong and what's changing in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentI've been through this enough times that I'd rather take proactive steps early on to get off the train instead of riding it into the wreck. Especially in current times. I probably can't stop the...- Exemplary
It’s fine until you push it to the point where it’s not.
I've been through this enough times that I'd rather take proactive steps early on to get off the train instead of riding it into the wreck. Especially in current times. I probably can't stop the wreck, but I can tell others of how this has usually lead to one and hope some understand.
It's better to try and warn early because that lets other competition pop up before the market capture. Once the wreck happens and you have livelihoods and even governments relying on this platform, you are basically locked in, involuntarily. My local represenatives really shouldn't be relying on private platforms as their sole source of communicating with its citizens, but that's a much larger issue to tackle (meanwhile, we can't even get people to agree that CSAM is bad these days. It's going to be a while).
It’s not even like they couldn’t just lock out LGBT content now if they wanted, that’s a control on the content rather than the identity of the viewers.
They always boil the frog. They won't ever publicly announce such a thing.
All this would do is enable them to lock it out only for <18 users rather than globally.
Or anyone who may feel vulnerable to an oppressive government that does not want to give out data that they browse LGBT content.
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Comment on Discord: Getting global age assurance right: what we got wrong and what's changing in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentI didn't realize that Fortune article was paywalled (it wasn't for me 10 minutes ago)....That was neither a breach nor anything weird.
I didn't realize that Fortune article was paywalled (it wasn't for me 10 minutes ago).
"Breach" is definitely debatable when they leave the endpoint wide open like that.
"We didn’t even have to write or perform a single exploit, the entire architecture was just on the doorstep," claims the team.
but it goes well into "anything weird".
"53 megabytes of unprotected source maps on a FedRAMP government endpoint, exposing the entire codebase of a platform that files Suspicious Activity Reports with FinCEN, compares your selfie to watchlist photos using facial recognition, screens you against 14 categories of adverse media from terrorism to espionage, and tags reports with codenames from active intelligence programs.
Yes, all that is needed to make sure you are of age to look at pictures of naked people on a chat app.
You will never get this reassurance
Then they will never get my approval. Especially when in the span of 4-8 years, SARs can change to "I upvoted a comment on reddit back in 2018 that happened to disagree with the current party in power". I'll repeat that this is an app mostly for people chatting about video games, not a mission critical banking app.
I give Apple a lot of flak for their entire paradigm of software, but if nothing else they do (or did for a while) truly live up to their name of "security" in the face of federal scrutiny. The 4th amendment exists for a reason in my country.
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Comment on Discord: Getting global age assurance right: what we got wrong and what's changing in ~tech
raze2012 Link Parenthttps://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/ Already built. Already hacked. I want reassurance that this will not be the case. Yes. Honesty and...There's also no indication that such a thing is being built?
https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/
Already built. Already hacked. I want reassurance that this will not be the case.
Does it matter?
Yes. Honesty and integrity still matters to me, even if my country disagrees these days.
There's no federal law as of now and my state has no law. I'd like to keep it that way. But even if we were to go that way I will call out a slop job not living to the spirit of the law.
Countries are capable of passing bad laws
And companies don't need to enforce bad laws in countries without them.
Maybe it's time to admit that China was right and the internet experiment has failed. Without specific channels to communicate internationally we should just put up the borders we knew were coming. At some point it will be impossible to operate any mid-large site without such borders, so let's skip all the compromises.
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Comment on Discord: Getting global age assurance right: what we got wrong and what's changing in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentThe laws don't require to have a private citizen database on record. As long as none of these solutions are (legally) promising methods that can't be comproimised in a data leak (one that a third...There’s no escaping from laws.
The laws don't require to have a private citizen database on record. As long as none of these solutions are (legally) promising methods that can't be comproimised in a data leak (one that a third party had a recently as 2 weeks ago), the true purpose of these methods are not for "protecting the children".
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Comment on Discord: Getting global age assurance right: what we got wrong and what's changing in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentThat's the silliest part of this all. I was paying for Nitro for some 4 years now, and they're happy to take money from me without verifying my age. I cancelled that, of course. clearly whatever...That's the silliest part of this all. I was paying for Nitro for some 4 years now, and they're happy to take money from me without verifying my age.
I cancelled that, of course. clearly whatever data they get from this supersedes the losses from all the subscriptions being dropped. I guess having a surveillance system is more attractive for IPO than actual paying customers.
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Comment on Discord: Getting global age assurance right: what we got wrong and what's changing in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentSeems sensible until "age-restricted" starts to expand from "just porn" to "R rated media content" to "Tiktok filtering of 'foul' language that might hurt out ad revenue" to "LGBT stuff". This...Seems sensible until "age-restricted" starts to expand from "just porn" to "R rated media content" to "Tiktok filtering of 'foul' language that might hurt out ad revenue" to "LGBT stuff". This stuff always escalates if you give it an inch.
I also do want to point out the notion here that this does in fact do nothing to "protect teens". Take Roblox for example; a person who would want to lure a teen into some chat room would not be impeded by age verification in the slightest.
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Comment on Why are American passenger trains slow? in ~transport
raze2012 LinkAll I can do is sigh. Even for a state-level project we get bogged down in politics that works against the best interests of the people. And it only gets worse on the national level's decades long...Building separate passenger infrastructure avoids this trade-off but introduces another: expense. California’s high-speed rail project, the most ambitious attempt at dedicated passenger track in a generation, has seen costs balloon from $33 billion to over $100 billion, with completion decades away, if it is completed at all.
All I can do is sigh. Even for a state-level project we get bogged down in politics that works against the best interests of the people. And it only gets worse on the national level's decades long gridlock.
Whether to unmake it is a decision that we should make with clear understanding of what would be gained, and what would be lost.
It's a shame we aren't given much of a choice, given the above example in my state.
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Comment on Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft/Xbox in ~games
raze2012 Link Parentindeed. They eventually try something some 5 years after Valve pushes something out, and it's the bare minimum about of effort possible. They barely had a hand in making it to begin with; they...indeed. They eventually try something some 5 years after Valve pushes something out, and it's the bare minimum about of effort possible. They barely had a hand in making it to begin with; they partnered with an existing manufacturer's line of portable PC's, let them use the Xbox brand for a successor, and let Asus handle the rest.
no scaling of manudacturing to help bring MSRP down, no hardware facilities to help with power management, no consumer incentives over any other PC outside of branding, etc. And the advertising was tepid.
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Comment on The AI disruption has arrived, and it sure is fun (gifted link) in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentEnshittification means you don't get a choice on what to buy and on what quality. I cannot choose to "turn off" CoPilot without scouring the net on all the specific registers to hit in just the...If you're deciding yourself to buy the cheap stuff, it's not "corporations" imposing this on you.
Enshittification means you don't get a choice on what to buy and on what quality. I cannot choose to "turn off" CoPilot without scouring the net on all the specific registers to hit in just the right way. And I can't go back to an older update either (Microsoft will very aggressively try to push updates on you). I either accept the slop, throw the entire OS away and install linux, or throw my computer out and buy a Mac (AKA, the kings of 'you will do things our way and like it').
Even if there was competition, enshittification isn't concerned with that. It's about the fact that your current car (be it fancy or a beat 'em up) gets nigh objectively worse for artificial reasons. The ability for me to sell my BMW for a Lexus or Porsche isnt mutually exclusive with the fact that over the last years BMW tried to sell me a subscription to a feature that was built into the car price before.
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Comment on Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft/Xbox in ~games
raze2012 Link ParentSeeing Sony's bungling this generation and Nintendo's moves to squeeze even more money out during this power vacuum really makes you appreciate Xbox more than Xbox's actions ever could. I'm still...But it's a shame what's going on with Xbox. Less consumer choice is never good.
Seeing Sony's bungling this generation and Nintendo's moves to squeeze even more money out during this power vacuum really makes you appreciate Xbox more than Xbox's actions ever could.
I'm still shocked that Microsoft wasn't the one to really push a proper Steam Deck esque handheld out there first. It would basically be their version of a Switch to finally converge their two big platforms and satisfy 2 audiences at once, while pressuring Nintendo and outright threatening Sony to try and get back into the game.
Instead we have Microsoft pulling a Sega off (without Sega's financially dire state), Sony abandoning innovation and whiffing all its attempts at making a forever game (imagine having one of the potentially best roblox competitors out there that you spent 7 year on. Then dropping it unceremoniously), and Nintendo no longer reflecting that approachable family audience.
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Comment on Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft/Xbox in ~games
raze2012 Link ParentI don't think it was fired. I think Spencer is cashing out and jumping ship, which is fair enough. I think he knows the way the winds are going. Bond stepping out at the same time really...I don't think it was fired. I think Spencer is cashing out and jumping ship, which is fair enough. I think he knows the way the winds are going. Bond stepping out at the same time really reinforces this. I think she does not want to take the helm with where this ship is going either. It's that bad a situation.
And yeah. Having the previous president of the CoreAI product in a company reported to be trying to push 80+% AI integration by the end of this year alone try to suddenly tell us "yea we won't let AI slop drive our short term profits"... okay. Let's see what you tell your shareholders in the next earning calls. Clearly it's fine to outright lie to consumers these days.
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Comment on The AI disruption has arrived, and it sure is fun (gifted link) in ~tech
raze2012 Link Parentscale and what you're not spending on varies here. My general theme here wasn't that "AI isn't efficient enough" (even if that's a bit of my sentiment). It's "we didn't need AI to implement the...It's not "enshitification" when you made your decision to not spend the money.
scale and what you're not spending on varies here. My general theme here wasn't that "AI isn't efficient enough" (even if that's a bit of my sentiment). It's "we didn't need AI to implement the efficiency examples outlied here". We could have cut 80% of a workforce and forced the work on the remaining 20% a full decade ago in many sectors. I don't think it's a good idea, but it was possible.
It's more that modern corporations are executing on something they've wanted to do anyway (massively "downscale" on North American talent in lieu of hiring overseas or H1B's), using AI as the scapegoat, and worsening their products as a result. That's pretty much enshittification in a nutshell; workers lose, consumers lose, corporations don't care.
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Comment on The AI disruption has arrived, and it sure is fun (gifted link) in ~tech
raze2012 Link ParentThose are pretty much why the "AI drive thru"'s first wave failed spectacularly. It doesn't even sound like something you'd need AI for (convert voice recognition data into a string and query a...Or when your sales portal designed by Claude crashes, or refunds all of your customers but keeps shipping orders? What do you do when a bug lists a $1,000 item for $0.10?
Those are pretty much why the "AI drive thru"'s first wave failed spectacularly. It doesn't even sound like something you'd need AI for (convert voice recognition data into a string and query a database for existence and stock), but I struggled for over a minute to order a basic combo meal before a human took over.
And they want to have this technolgy drive legal firms and medical devices.
Having to testify under oath about her affair right next to her husband was the brown cherry on top of all the other things she's done before and during this administration.
Can we get Pam Bondi next? I'll also take RFK or Steve Miller if possible.