see? ai does create new jobs. checkmate ai doomers /s

good, terrifying CEOs is the right thing to do.

Yeah but digital sovereignty is a long term project. Can Europe stay awake when Trump leaves the office in three years?

TIL ubisoft is a french company. didn’t know an european company can be this anti-worker.

signalis if you haven’t got it

system76 let’s go

i wonder how many words are like that

They do provide direct access to their books for business who are willing to pay.

https://annas-archive.li/llm

Trump is throwing a tamper tantrum at every single little thing like a five year old. Which would be funny if not for the fact everyone is paying for his actions, except he himself who is suffering absolutely no consequences whatsoever.

This is fucking mad.

Would be nice if they also start to support development of Proton.

Curious how “big tent” neo-liberals always extend olive branches to the far right when they try to “reach more people”, but never to the leftists.

Did you forget to add a /s or something?

The Blitz was 85 years ago, most of those who were old enough to remember it are dead by now.

Artificial sun rising from the EAST? These guys know how to name things.

Well, if you leave there will be one less person who would post something that’s neither Linux nor Trump. Be the change you want to see in the world. Stay out of spite, invite more people like you over, post whatever you want, and shove them into Linux posters’ faces!

I haven’t been talking about this specific case about Cloudflare, at all. To set the record straight, I am unequivocally against the Italy government trying to ban pirate sites, that’s absolutely wrong.

What I am arguing against is the absolutist sentiment that “censorship is always wrong, in whatever circumstances, no matter what it is used to do”. Granted, I could have been more tactful talking about this under a post where the government is using censorship to do a terrible thing. But my position is still my position.

Like, we want gun control, don’t we? Because gun kills people. Speech can kill people too! Many, many people has died because of the current rise of vaccine hesitancy. If you want to regulate guns to reduce harm, why won’t you want to regulate speech too?

Your thinking is so calcified by the specific laws of the united states of America it is frustrating. Laws are written by mere mortals like you and me. When those bunch of dudes wrote the Constitution more than two hundred years ago, they couldn’t have imagined the internet in theirs wildest dreams. And that’s without pointing out that the reason they valued absolute freedom of speech so much can be largely attributed to the historical backdrop at the time.

A long time has passed, something better is possible. It’s time to think again from first principles.

People seems to be fine with corporate censorship, but government censorship is somehow a no-no. I don’t get it. Corporate censorship is still censorship, but it’s now worse. Because you have now given up democratic control of what to censor, and let the tech billionaires have free reign over it. Twitter could ban Trump today, and promote fascism tomorrow and you’d have no say. (oh waiiit, that actually happened?!?!). If you think twitter banning Trump in 2021 is a good thing, why won’t you want the power to vote to ban Trump?

I could be wrong, I am open to change my mind, but please give me a good counter-argument.

The “you don’t need to censor fascists, bigots, racists, etc., you just have to be louder than them” idea hadn’t worked. The world had decades to make it work but didn’t succeed. It is ideologically pure, I’ll give you that. Really nice if you can drive those bad people out without dirtying your own hands with censorship. But I have lost confidence that that approach can ever work.

What about censoring neo Nazis? What about banning Trump from Twitter?

Cf has always been taking the “freedom of speech absolutist” approach.