Hey, I used to be a lot better writer, but then I got cancer and now my brain leaves out lots of words when I write or replaces words with similar words. These days I find myself constantly re-editing comments to make them make sense because the first run misses a lot. Nobody knows anyone else’s story or why they might struggle with communication, and whether it’s a second language or losing your faculties due to disease and age, it’s not really something fair to ridicule others for. Cheers and keep up the good work, you look like you’re doing fine to me.

Closed source is generally compiled code in an executable, so you’d have to do a lot of work de-compiling it back to the source code first.

Even at the OS level, lots of the stuff “under the hood” in Windows is obfuscated, and still the same issue, most of it is compiled code, you’d have to de-compile a significant portion of it (in an OS there’s also an amount that doesn’t have to be de-compiled) to be able to actually look at the code itself.

Please don’t apologize for bad English, it’s not against the law to have English as a second language. As a US citizen, one of the most frustrating thing is knowing brilliantly competent and capable immigrants who are ignored and passed over because their education and credentials are simply in a different language. They often come as refugees and didn’t have the opportunity to get a great English education, but literally come with multiple degrees from quality universities in their home countries. Treating them like they know less because they speak a different language is so fucking absurd. Also, your English is fine, don’t beat yourself up.

I would sound worse in any language I tried to speak other than English, you’re doing better than I would, and better than a lot of English speakers would when put in the same situation speaking a second language they’re not familiar with.

This is what happens when you feel ownership over a community.

He thinks “I built this community” and to an extent he’s correct, but as with the nature of communities, it doesn’t matter if he helped build it, the community is by definition made up of the people of the community… not just the guy who spearheaded things way back in the day. Especially something like an open source project, if he wanted this level of control he should have kept it closed source.

If you think you own your community, you’re in for a bad time.

Dude, you’re the one who talked about breaking rules like a fucking hero (“Break rules and fight back.”) and then was like “oh poor me I need to support people with a rare disease,” as if breaking the rules to get a point across won’t get your account banned. Pick a lane, either you want to stand up for people on there and spread messages about the LGBT+ community being vilified (which will get you banned) or you want to be there to be a support network for people with a rare disease (which means you can’t fuck around and get banned). You started and ended with two entirely contradictory positions. One is behavior that will get you banned, the other is stuff that you really don’t want to get banned to stay involved with, you don’t get to have both on Meta. Breaking rules and fighting back will literally get you banned and then oh boo hoo hoo you won’t be able to help your support groups.

Finally, you switched gears and you brought up the disability olympics to someone who is literally suffering and still manages to support others witout using Meta. (“Unlike you people I have to connect with people with a rare disease and I don’t have a choice.”) I responded because it’s a pathetic excuse to keep sucking down Meta’ s slop and the assumptive position of “unlike you” shows you are able and willing to assume things about others without knowledge of their actual situation, just because what they said upset you somehow. Shocker that when your assumption is flat out wrong that someone will take the time to respond. Take a look in the mirror.

You’re only back because your bid to end the conversation and make yourself look superior because you’re “helping people” when you’re actually just lining Zuck’s pockets is a joke. You don’t look like you’re helping people when I’m doing the same shit without Meta, and so you needed to come back and “prove” you’re right… again. (Which you failed because you’re actually offering two entirely contradictory positions: break rules and fight back versus stay to help those in need.)

Like why do you have such a hardon for being a Facebook hero? Let it go, man. You even describe in sensationalist terms that what I’m doing is a “holy war.” All I’m doing is saying we’re never going to make headway by thinking we have a voice in an authoritarian state, which is what Meta’s servers are. Sounds to me like you’re waging a “holy war” to make sure Zuck doesn’t lose a penny of his precious billions. Next you’ll tell me it’s really important to watch FOX News, too, for the same reasons somehow.

PS I know Europe uses the hell out of WhatsApp. People are fucking idiots who like to use things that are easy to use but also easy to exploit them with. WhatsApp should have never been trusted once it was bought by Meta. It’s not my fault people keep making bad decisions because its “easier.”

There already are!

https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/amazons-ai-based-just-walk-out-checkout-tech-was-powered-by-1000-indian-workers-manually-11712196827721.html

That’s what Amazon’s entire walkout checkout tech was. It was claimed it was all “automated” and turns out in this case, when people say “AI” it doesn’t mean “artificial intelligence” it means “actually Indians.”

So it’s okay for them to make deals with the military, but not for people to show what their deals with the military contractors might look like… They’re literally working with Palmery Luckey’s military hardware/surveillance company Anduril…

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1107897/openais-new-defense-contract-completes-its-military-pivot/

https://www.anduril.com/

I would call them hypocrites but they don’t care because all they care about is the application of power.

Also:

Fry “Shocked/Not that shocked”

Jeremy Clarkson “Oh no. Anyway.”

You know it’s funny, this keeps happening with every single fucking AI thing they produce. It always still needs humans fixing its mistakes because its just not reliable enough.

I think it’s doing a lot less reducing headcount and a lot more making people specialize in what I would call “bullshit,” to be able to fix mistakes made by an AI quickly and efficiently.

Maybe, just maybe, if they have to pay people to fix the AIs work that they can cut out the middleman and just pay the people to do the fucking job to begin with. No, what am I saying, that’s just ridiculous! /s

Buddy I’m literally living with cancer. Check my post history, I’m not shy about mentioning it, it’s Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. The most stressful part of it is living in the US and running the risk of losing access to a medication that costs $18k a month. It may not be rare but that doesn’t make it any less of a bitch to live with.

There’s literally a good chance that if Trump is successful in repealing the ACA, that I won’t be able to come up with a way to afford it, and I will die a horrifically painful and totally preventable death within the next year of it being repealed.

I’m part of several support groups, none of which use Meta services to connect.

Keep on making excuses for yourself man.

Unlike yourself, I cultivated relationships with those kind of people outside Facebook, got their phone numbers, and am able to be part of a support network for them without needing to use Facebook.

but keep making excuses for yourself.

What’s being suggested as an alternative is flat out giving up.

No it’s not, it’s simply not spending our time on a private companies property. Literally the Civil Rights era was bolstered by massive success of boycotts. It wasn’t giving up, it was hitting them in the pocketbook and it worked.

But you can make any excuses for yourself that you need to keep sucking down that corporate slop.

I don’t know how to reiterate that you can still talk to people in other places like Facebook, the fact that you treat it like it’s the only way to communicate with people says a lot about you and how you view the internet. It’s naive, imho.

What if people like you had convinced Martin Luther King Jr. that the Montgomery Bus Boycott was “giving up” because they “weren’t using the buses.”

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/montgomery-bus-boycott

On 5 December, 90 percent of Montgomery’s black citizens stayed off the buses. That afternoon, the city’s ministers and leaders met to discuss the possibility of extending the boycott into a long-term campaign. During this meeting the MIA was formed, and King was elected president. Parks recalled: “The advantage of having Dr. King as president was that he was so new to Montgomery and to civil rights work that he hadn’t been there long enough to make any strong friends or enemies”

Finally, and most importantly, you talk about breaking rules, but you haven’t even given one example of how you can do that effectively to help people. I might believe you if you were coming correct with examples, but you aren’t so I can only assume this is some foolhardy desire to do good but you have no fucking clue how. The how is the hard part, buddy, and it doesn’t come from giving in to corporate slop and giving them the money they need to keep fucking you over.

break rules and fight back

…and they will immediately delete all your posts and ban you. It’s an authoritarian surveillance state, remember? It’s way easier to “disappear” your voice and opinion from their website than it is to remove you from reality. They have literally all the control in that space, the technology is built against you from the ground up. There’s nothing sneaky you can do that they don’t already immediately see and can shut down. They automated bots roving looking for shit like that to take down.

How is that helping again? To be immediately silenced and others never see a word you had to say? How is that helping?

In the real world they still have to black bag you and throw you into an unmarked van to disappear you, something other people will see. Facebook makes it so that the unmarked van and black bag are never seen by others.

It’s like fighting with a moderator. It ain’t a democracy and whatever choice they make is “law,” even if we are users disagree and think what they did silly. Too bad, thems the breaks. They have all the power in that situation and we don’t. Zuckerberg literally employs mountains of people just to shut up voices like yours before they get a foothold. In my view, it’s more than a waste of time, it’s literally handing an enemy resources (data) while cosplaying being helpful.

Doing dumb shit like altering your language to use words like “unalive” to get around arbitrary filters is fuck stupid too and hurts language for the sake of people like Zuckerberg. You’re not changing language to fight them, no your changing language for them instead of dumping their fucking services and using ones that don’t do stupid shit like ban the word “suicide.” Language evolves naturally, but this evolution is in direct response to censorship and it’s a bad deal.

Most stuff like that is usually part of an MDM suite (mobile device management) and is centrally managed. If, for example, your institution is using Active Directory to manage devices, they’ll likely seek out a service that ties directly into AD.

There’s not really a way to get out from under this control since it’s remotely managed and removing the management would also disconnect the machine from whatever remote network it’s tied to (schools, employers).

Shitty partners get advertised whole different stuff… With a partner the best decision is to start the relationship with respect for each others passwords and privacy, not snooping in each others phones, and ending the same way, not snooping on each other. If they can’t physically access it without “hacking” past your secure password/PIN, then they can’t really install stuff like that. I know people feel weird about this because they’ve been cheated on by partners, so pro-tip: find better partners.

Real life exists dude. Facebook isn’t the only place to talk to people.

I don’t know how to stress this any more clearly: A privately owned social media site isn’t actually a public space. It’s literally the definition of a private space. It’s more akin to a mall than a library. That’s the whole issue, how does it help to be on a site where all the admins have to do is shut down your speech and ban you anyway? Where everything you do, every move you make is tracked and monetized and studied to be used against you? It’s by definition a surveillance state where you have no rights.

You realize they make money from ads and if the majority of people stop using their services they stop making enough money to function as a business? They may already have your data but you don’t need to be giving them more.

The bigger issue is that corporations have commodified public spaces. You can take back public spaces by choosing to not use their services and convincing others not to. Facebook is already dying which is why they rolled out bullshit AI profiles and the public response to that went really badly. But they live and die by engagement so if they already are needing to turn to faking engagement to keep people on and money rolling in, then isn’t a boycott literally the way to cut them off at the knees and stop them being a public space?

Forgive me if I didn’t make clear that everyone needs to do it, not just LGBTQ+, my point is there are very few reasons to keep using these services for any person with a conscience.

According to the latest filing, Meta also revealed during depositions that it torrented LibGen, a move that gave some Meta research engineers pause. Torrenting, a way of distributing files across the web, requires that torrenters simultaneously “seed,” or upload, the files they’re trying to obtain.

Plaintiffs’ counsel alleges that Meta effectively engaged in another form of copyright infringement by torrenting LibGen and thus helping to spread its contents. Meta also tried to conceal its activities, counsel alleges, by minimizing the number of files it uploaded.

So if books3 was all off Bibliotik… is the mysterious books2 that’s theorized to be all of libgen what they torrented?? I had heard of OpenAI using books2, but no others, and no firm info on it. So were they torrenting individual books, a thing that’s probably relatively simple to automate, or did they find a torrent of books2? Were they just throttling upload on a public torrent/torrents?

How do you delete someone else’s post?

I just deleted my old, disused Instagram account I hadn’t touched in a long long time. Nothing even worth saving since I never uploaded anything to it. It was the only Meta account I still had around.

Oh yeah, here comes the hard sell, people.

They’ve seen what people really talk about on the internet, and they haven’t dumped all this money into massive botfarms to push narratives (yeah Russia aren’t the only people who do this) without expecting a return on their investment, so now comes the hammer to shut out real people and make it even easier to propagandize the populace. Can’t have all that Luigi love out in the open.

Cue the Barbossa Cyberpunk image.

LGBTQ+ Everyone, but LGBTQ+ people especially need to get the the fuck off of Meta services now, they’ve showed what side they’re on.