Notices by SlightlyCyberpunk (admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com), page 2

@aurynn Agreed...but I think we need to stop including caveats to this. It's my computer; it will run the code I tell it to run. If you want to tell a computer what code to run you can go buy your own.

Too many manufacturers think they can "sell" you something and still claim it to be theirs. Too many websites think they can send you data that you didn't request and then force you to use it the way they want. It's all the same category of bullshit and we need to outright refuse. "It's a safety issue" or "it slows down my system" or even "they're just too annoying" all leaves room for someone to claim they've "fixed it" and now because they've "fixed it" they can demand a "right" to be unblockable. Fuck that.

You don't get a right to come into my bedroom and plaster a giant Viagra ad over the ceiling and then tell me *I'm* immoral when I take it down or kick you out. Doesn't fuckin matter if I invited you in. Doesn't matter if that ad pays your rent. You have no damn right to tell me what I can or cannot do in my bedroom. Doesn't matter if that's with the computer part of my bedroom or the wall decor part of my bedroom. Fuck right off with all of that.

@anarchopunk_girl I'm not afraid of the AI taking over; I'm afraid of the politicians trusting (or abusing) its output. What happens when the AI -- trained on keyboard warriors and hollywood scripts -- is asked by the next Trump if he should preemptively nuke Beijing?

@whvholst @pettter @rysiek Hopefully it will inspire better systems. I mean talking about email spam..I've been running my own mail server for ten years now and I still haven't bothered to set up a spam filter. Don't need it. Can't remember the last time I got a spam mail -- it does happen, but it's quite rare. It is absolutely possible to build systems that prevent these issues if you put a little thought into it.

Will be interesting to see how Mastodon does on that front...spam kinda helps companies like Twitter as long as it's not *completely* out of control...increases user count, increases engagement, helps them sell ads. But here, where many instances are run on donations and volunteers and each additional user means higher costs, there's a good incentive to wipe that shit out...