_cryptagion [he/him]

Maybe Trump will ban it like Tiktok.

Oh wait.

I’ve heard a lot of ridiculous takes in my time, but IP being a cornerstone that holds up society is some next level bullshit.

I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

How do you have “intellectual property” in the first place? It’s absolutely absurd that you can claim ownership of an idea that no longer exists in your mind alone.

It’s different because it hurts their feelings.

So I’ll have another “crime” under my belt, I see. What’re they gonna do, write an angry letter to me about it?

Sure, maybe if that instance is hosted in that specific country. But an instance outside of it doesn’t have to do shit. What is Turkey gonna do if they don’t like something I post? Come arrest me? Fucking let 'em try.

OK, so let them block you. What the fuck is that gonna do? A country wants to get pissy, let them get pissy. And while they’re getting pissy, give the people who live there directions on how to get a VPN and bypass their government and its laws.

I don’t think my IP has ever actually changed, and I never asked for a static one. But that doesn’t really matter, because these days it’s a small matter to dynamically update the IP.

The rise (and hopefully fall) of the Fourth Reich.

They both solve the same problem, but Heroic does it a little better by not needing the Epic launcher to be installed.

I still use Lutris for pirated games.

There’s nothing wrong with an Arch-based distro for gaming. Shit, the Steam Deck is built on Arch, and it’s about as newbie friendly as anything.

That being said, Bazzite is probably the best for gaming, regardless of whether you’re a newbie or not.

I wouldn’t. Ideas should be free, and there should be no barriers to them, or ownership considered. If you create a thing, everyone else should be able to use that thing however they wish, and with no limitations, to create their own things. Full stop, no exceptions.

This is why I pirate. I will never consider or acknowledge ownership or license when consuming media, art, or information. If you release an idea to the greater world, then it’s my idea, my art, my music, my software, just as much as it’s yours as the creator. And I’ll do with it whatever I will.

You use the term “AI slop” more than once, but honestly I feel like a lot of the “real” art that’s shared here is human slop. I guess the thing I would have that most people wouldn’t agree with is that most art by humans is shit, and we shouldn’t feel like we have to pretend it isn’t just so we don’t hurt someone’s feelings. You ever been on DeviantArt and looked at the newest submissions? Half of it looks like it was finger painted by toddlers.

There’s a lot of artists walking around thinking that AI is gonna steal their hard work, when nobody with eyes would want their work hanging on their wall, because it’s human slop done by someone with no talent.

If that’s the litmus test, then there are certainly animals that aren’t sentient and don’t meet those requirements. Is it OK to eat animals that do not have brains?

Using AI to be your voice when you have trouble articulating something you want to say has to be one of the best uses of the technology I have seen to date. It makes me wonder what other uses this tech could have, especially for people who are neurodivergent or disabled.

Yes, I did read it. I’m guessing you did not. if you had, you would know why he used the AI video. This was a very constructive use of AI that not only didn’t hurt anyone, but helped someone with a problem.

A person has social anxiety, and that makes you hate AI? That sounds pretty ableist.

FUCKING DO IT

it says “this hidden site”, meaning it was a site on the dark web. It probably took them awhile to figure out were the site was located so they could shut it down.