Right wing, you can’t control or censor our social media.

Right wing, you need to control and censor your media

FTFY. This is the same thing they’ve always done, they’re just finally in a place where they can put a tion to the rhetoric.

They’re trying to tighten the noose. Kirks murder is going to be used like the Reichstag fire to put the screws to the population

Finally, a DDoS that even Cloudflare couldn’t stop

People may prefer cheap to expensive but that does not mean they are desperate.

Again, your conditional statement is doing a hurculean amount of lifting here. We know that healthcare is unaffordable for a large swath of our population, but are you implying that mental healthcare (which doesn’t have nearly the coverage on most plans as physical healthcare) wouldn’t be in a similar state? Because mental healthcare is out of the reach of a lot of people.

The option isn’t just cheap or expensive therapy. No therapy is as much an option if the therapy quality was 90s level machine chat bot.

False dichotomy, the chat bot can be better than the 90s bots but still be bad. And ‘no therapy’ isn’t an option for a lot of people who will self harm as a coping mechanism.

Why is it exactly a problem that people have an extra avenue to better mental well being?

Why is it a good thing that people are using a tool that will yes-and just about anything they say and lead to psychosis in patients with no accountability from the provider?

If the results were poor you wouldn’t have adoption

But the argument is that people are using them because they can’t afford to go to a real one, so conflating desperation to efficacy isn’t a good argument, given it’s that or nothing.

And we all know tons of people accept a turd product because they don’t think they have a better option.

We have had chat bots since the late 90s. No one used them for therapy.

But they are now, which is the problem.

if they are getting similar results.

That ‘if’ is doing a hurculean amount of effort, given the reports of ChatGPT psychosis, because again, you’re dealing with a stochastic parrot not a real person giving you actual advice.

having the ability to do so doesn’t necessarily mean they will do so.

No, but they have a profit motive to do so. And I’d rather assume the worst and be wrong rather than deal with another 23andMe situation in a decade. Because it will happen eventually. VC money isn’t endless, and they’re pissing away money like a pro athlete in a club.

You can trust them if you want, but I’m not naive enough to do that myself.

There are plenty of terrible therapists, preists, family, and friends out there.

Preaching to the choir, I’ve dumped people from all noted categories for being shitty. I gave up on therapy about 15 years ago but my partner convinced me to go back. I looked for someone who fit my specific needs, and found someone who is rebuilding my trust in therapists

I trust my therapist not to randomly decide to give out my info because their job relies on that. AI chat bots flat out tell you they will use what you give them for their ‘training’ purposes, which means they have access to it and can use it or sell it as they please.

Is it somehow better to go to an actual church or pay someone to confide in?

Objectively yes.

A real person isn’t a stochastic parrot yes-anding whatever stupid idea falls out of your head and is less likely to provide obsequious responses to questions asked.

A real person is less likely to compile what you say to them and mine data from it or turn it over to authorities without a warrant.

A real person also has the ability to actually understand what you’re saying and provide an intelligent response rather than getting back a statistical block of words that are mathematically good words to use based on the underlying model.

Who doesn’t love day one Should-Have-Been-In-The-Base-Game DLC?

Complete game, bonus money

they are not wrong that for the regular person, who struggles with even the most basic IT shit, there still isn’t a full “finished” option for them,

My dead mother, who couldn’t run windows for more than 6 months without trashing the install used mint without issue for years before she died in like 22. If my tech illiterate mother can do it, just about anyone can.

The average user basically just needs a web browser and some office tools. If they can’t figure out how to use those in a different interface, they probably need to attend a ‘remedial computers 01’ course.

Facebook works just as well on Linus as windows. Most people are too scared to try, not unable to use it in my experience.

Store Citizen missing deadlines like that is to be expected.

It might just be you homie, especially if you’re using it through the browser which is objectively the worst way to use any Microsoft product.

I use teams daily in a remote support gig and I rarely have issues with teams aside from MS changing shit for the sake of change. I get on calls daily without audio or screen sharing issues.

It’s not a good platform by any means, but I don’t see a tenth of the shit people complain about.

Or, possibly because he legitimately thought it was a good choice? Even if misguided. Is that not a possibility?

It still comes down to him being malicious or very stupid and incurious. Either way, it’s a bad look and proton keeps getting own goals, so at a certain point the difference is meaningless in practice.

If you’re willing to learn to use an atomic distro (meaning you can’t install stuff the normal way and the OS filesystem is read only), Bazzite is fantastic, has steam and proton pre installed and has been working amazing for me for a few months so far.

Look into https://0patch.com/

Keeps you secure without having to pay Microsoft another red cent

For anyone that refuses to downgrade win10 to win11 and still wants to be secure running windows, 0Patch will cover your computer for 25eur/computer/year.

I’ve never used them, but a security researcher I follow regularly promoted them since they’ve been doing this for systems for a good while (I think win7 was the first one they did) and are able to apply their micropatches in memory.

Definitely worth a look if you don’t want to upgrade to Linux while not downgrading to win11.

They should advertise the new feature of not being able to put the task bar on any side of the screen you want! “We’re improving your experience by making it worse!”

Can’t risk hinting that the policies that they push directly lead to the material conditions that cause these shootings.

Think of it as nonconsensual AI generated CSAM. Like nonconsensual AI porn, you take public SFW photos and use the AI to generate explicit images using the provided photo as reference for the abused victim.

As for the over share library, think of all the pictures you see of peoples’ kids in your social media feed, then consider how few people take proper privacy controls on what they post (or just intentionally post them publicly for laughs/attention). All of those images can be used as the basis for generation nonconsensual AI porn/CSAM.

Oh fuck, I hadn’t heard about the fucking gibbering idiot dropping yet another mask and saying all the quiet parts out loud.