sugar_in_your_tea

@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works

Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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sugar_in_your_tea ,

Idk, but as someone who has a fair skin tone and thus likely wouldn't trigger a false positive, I am prohibited from entering the store based purely on the fact that they use face recognition software. Screw that.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

governments will outlaw the use of such circumventing tech

They can't stop all of us. If they outlaw using it, I'd support (or even organize) a protest group that organizes widespread use of them.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yup, it turns out if you have millions of pixels to work with, you have a better shot at correctly identifying someone than if you have dozens.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Reflectacles

Cool! Looks like they also have a discount for Monero purchases. I might have to pick one up.

I wish they would make a line available for cheap so a charity could hand them out for free, ~$150 is a bit much.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I'm guessing they use eye tracking, so they'd probably need something to block IR facial recognition. Another user mentioned Reflecticles, which should work but are a bit pricey.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I just wonder if I'd get in trouble for wearing them at the airport. That's the most likely place for 3D facial scanning.

But AFAIK, most facial recognition systems use IR, whether they're 2D or 3D, so I would guess they'd be pretty effective.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

But AI is "somebody else's computer," at least that's how most work. What's to guarantee that it's actually local and stays local going forward?

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Use case: I remember doing something yesterday about this, but I can't find the email/document/etc.

But I honestly don't think the value outweighs the cost, so if I still used Windows, this would absolutely be something that drives me away.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

The factory must grow.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Just do benchmark videos on youtube or something. Then rake in the sweet, sweet business losses.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

What does this have to do with the article?

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Is that the first communication though? I would really like to hear Cloudflare's side of the story.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Could you provide a couple?

sugar_in_your_tea ,

So no sources then?

If I have to dig, I'm most likely only getting one side of the story. This article pointed out that the customer broke the TOS and knew they were getting way better of a deal than they should've. I'm not so confident a random post online from angry customers is going to be so forthright.

That's why I'm asking. If you've seen some particularly interesting stories, it would certainly be easier for you to find them them me. I'm not looking for butthurt customers who got caught breaking the rules, I'm looking for legitimate cases of CF bullying rules-following customers into paying more.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Hold up, mine too! I wonder if there's a connection with the card number and expiration date. Here'a mine, enter yours so we can all compare:

  • 5894325796533678
  • 11/25
sugar_in_your_tea ,

Looks like 4200 is fairly popular too. Blaze it!

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Oops: 420

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yeah, we do 3 and I think that's one too many. But we've rejected people in each round, so I guess it's working.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Exactly. I can think of one valid reason for a crunch: production is down. That's it.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Or they get extra time off to make up for it.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yup, as much as I like Grayjay, I'm not going to help development much because it's "source available" instead of open source. There was an annoying bug I wanted fixed, and I was willing to go set up my dev environment and track it down, but they don't seem interested in contributions, so I won't make the effort.

Likewise for WinAmp. The main benefit to it being "source available" is that I can recompile it and researchers can look for bugs. That's it. They're not going to get developers interested.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

And it's not a particularly interesting application anyway. I'd only want to hack on it for nostalgia, and if there are any barriers to doing that, I'll just use a different app.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

It might wipe it though.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Nope.........................................

sugar_in_your_tea ,

But the journalism is what drives the merch sales, and they're willing to pay more because of the association with the journalism. If you remove the journalism, you can't charge as much for the merch.

It's like YouTuber merch, it generally costs quite a bit more than equivalent products elsewhere, but people buy it to support their favorite creators. That's the angle here.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Sure, donations should absolutely be a thing, but I highly doubt donations are reliable enough to build a business on.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I'm honestly fine paying a subscription if the content is good, but I highly doubt enough other people are to sustain a business. Plenty of people seem to be willing to buy merch or watch ads, so that's probably where a games journalist should be looking.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I don't think Stallman would be proud of anything Android, and certainly not something that the user can't update outside of the manufacturer updates. Pretty much everything has a locked down BIOS, and you can't really modify the OS yourself.

I'm using a Pixel (bad) with GrapheneOS (good), so I think Stallman would be a little happier, but he'd probably still prefer something like a Pinephone, which I think has a project to open up the modem.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I just got a Pixel 8 and I'm annoyed there's no headphone jack. I have BT headphones as well, but my nice, non-BT headphones won't work.

You can get a dongle though, so that's an option.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yeah, the selection kinda sucks.

I went with Pixel 8 because:

  • can be flashed with another Android OS - I went with GrapheneOS
  • 6.5 years of Android updates (no word on security updates)
  • fancy new memory tagging feature for security - maybe I'll feel confident using it after it gets updates
  • great screen
  • probably more repairable? A quick search found a battery replacement for an okay price ($50?)

But none of that is on your list. I don't care about the camera (though it does have arguably the best camera on the market), and pretty much any software can do ical/IMAP/smtptls. I don't know what "photosphere" is (again, don't care about the camera), but I'm guessing Pixel does it or something similar. It even has fun AI crap to play with (I use GrapheneOS, so I'm not getting any of that).

The only thing missing here is the 3.5mm jack, and requiring that is going to limit your options significantly. If you can budge on that (e.g. get a dongle or BT headphones), Pixel could work for you. There might even be a case that provides one, IDK.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Huh, it looks like Google Camera 9.1 (what's on the original Android shipped with Pixel 8) removed that feature.

But honestly, if I wanted that, I could get it with a separate camera, like the Insta360.

Anyway, I hope you find a good fit!

sugar_in_your_tea ,

It's a relatively small niche. NVIDIA won't beat AMD at the embedded space because they just don't have a CPU, so they can't make something like the Deck has.

If we do see NVIDIA in the handheld space, it'll be either a full SOC that only goes GeForce now, or they'll team up with Intel for a prosumer device, which will probably run Windows.

The Linux market is growing, but it's also quite small. NVIDIA mostly cares about AI these days, so they're far more interested in the data center and probably won't dedicate many resources to anything else, other than Windows gaming, which is a biggest.

It would be nice, but Linux gamers still have options. AMD is tried and true, and Intel has a good track record for Linux support, so either of those would be good options. Unfortunately, this means you're better off in the bottom too middle of the market, as top of market is still dominated by NVIDIA.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I'm just saying there aren't that many Linux users and Linux handhelds (e.g. Steam Deck) use AMD APUs, so NVIDIA probably doesn't care all that much. That's really it.

If we want NVIDIA to care more, Linux needs more people using it. A lot more. And they need to be using it on desktop or laptop hardware.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Sure, but that hardware is incapable of running PC games because it runs ARM, not x86. So if it's going into a handheld, it will either be a locked down console like Nintendo, or run something with a compat layer like Windows (unlikely because it'll leave a lot of performance on the table until games port).

So the Switch existing has no impact on Nvidia courting Linux users.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

And that's why Steam gets my money instead of GOG.

That said, apparently Heroic has some kind of agreement with GOG where they get paid for sales, so maybe by buying games on Linux through Heroic you'll get GOG interested in Linux support.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Sure, but it's at least an avenue to a decent launcher for GOG games on Linux. I still prefer Steam, but Heroic is good enough that I'll consider buying a few games now and then.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Well, Flint, Michigan had a high profile water issue, so it might be guessing location based on the question.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

This is why I love Duckduckgo, I can turn off AI and ads.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yup, if you have to repeat your search 3 times, you're seeing 3x the ads. If you control most of the market, where are your customers going to go? Most will just deal with it and search more.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yeah, pick a big nation, ally another big nation, and only fight battles you know you can win. If you and your ally are big enough, you shouldn't get attacked.

It's a complex game, so consider lowering the difficulty if you're having trouble as a big nation.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Clippy: are you sure you want to waste your money on a stupid AI pin that should just be an app?

sugar_in_your_tea ,

As a parent: no, I'm just there to be a shoulder to cry on when you do something stupid. Everyone knows kids don't listen to parents...

sugar_in_your_tea ,

And how long OP takes to pee.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Fake: nobody on 4chan is in a relationship

Gay: there are no women on 4chan

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I don't think people who uploaded pictures on Facebook consider that making it available for personal use.

Then they shouldn't have uploaded it to Facebook and made it publicly accessible.

Just because something is made illegal doesn't make it actively pursued, it just makes it so if someone gets caught doing it or gets reported doing it they can be stopped.

It's the next logical step for the pearl clutchers and amounts to "thought crime."

These people aren't doing anything to my children, they're making their own images from images they have a right to use. It's super creepy and I'd probably pick a fight with them if I found out, but I don't think it should be illegal if there's no victim.

The geek squad worker could still report these people, and it would be the prosecution's job to prove that they were acquired or created in an illegal way.

Do you think it's okay for someone to have real csam?

No, because that increases demand for child abuse. Those pictures are created by abuse of children, and having getting access to them encourages for child abuse to produce more content.

Possession itself isn't the problem, the problem is how they're produced.

I feel similarly about recreational drugs. Buying from dealers is bad because it encourages snuggling and everything related to it. I have no problem with weed or whatever, I have problems with the cartels. At least with drugs there's a simple solution: legalize it. I likewise want a legal avenue for these people who would otherwise participate in child abuse to not abuse children. Them looking at creepy AI content generated from pictures of my child doesn't hurt my child, just don't share those images or otherwise let me know about it.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

That would just make it harder to prosecute people for CSAM

That's true, and an unfortunate part of preserving freedoms. That said, if someone is actually abusing children on the regular, police have a way of tracking that individual to catch them: investigations.

I wish police had to do them more often instead of leaving that job to the prosecution. If that means we need to pull officers away from other important duties like arresting black men for possessing a joint or pulling people over for speeding on an empty highway, I guess that's what we have to do.

it still involves photos of children without their consent

It involves legally acquired images and is protected under "fair use" laws. You don't need my permission to exercise your fair use rights, even if I think your use is disgusting. It's not my business. But if you make it my business (i.e. you tell me), I may choose to assault you and hope the courts will side with me that they constitute "fighting words."

Just because something is disgusting doesn't make it illegal.

As for that article:

“This is really significant. We now have a peer-reviewed study to prove that watching [CSAM] can increase the risk of contact.”

It doesn't prove anything, what it does is draw a correlation between people who search for CSAM on the dark web and are willing to answer a survey (a pretty niche group) and self-reported inclination to contact children. Correlation isn't proof, it's correlation.

That said, I don't know if a better study could or should be conducted. Maybe survey people caught contacting children (sting operations) and those caught just distributing CSAM w/o child contact. We need go know the difference between those who progress to contact and those who don't, and I don't think this survey provides that.

find a psychologist that can help them work through their desire

I agree, and I think that should be widely accessible.

That said, I don't think giving people a criminal record helps. If they need to be locked up to protect the public (i.e. there are actual victims), then let's lock them up. But otherwise, we absolutely shouldn't. Let's make help available and push people toward getting that help.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Well, the sequel isn't out yet, so I think you're right on time.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

I have to login to Ubi every time I play, which is really annoying on my Steam Deck, so I end up only playing when I have >2 hours available. It's reasonably fun, but I'll probably not bother with the other games (or really anything from Ubisoft) in the series, I just want to finish the Ezio trilogy.

Once I'm done with that, I'll probably play some indies. I'm trying to buy fewer games this year since I have a ton already that I haven't played. But if Cities: Skylines 2 gets some decent patches, I'll probably get it.

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