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It's one thing if mankind is hunted to extinction by ChatGPT, but I really do object to being executed by Bing.

(https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/2511.html?thread=3169743#cmt3169743 )

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From: (Anonymous)

So mostly what I'm taking from this is that FFA don't know much about tech.

From: (Anonymous)

Even the ones who know tech don't think through the implications of shit. "Our side will always make the rules!" is a terrible way to think about anything.

From: (Anonymous)

DD

Sorry to say that I don't feel too many in tech think through the implications of shit.

From: (Anonymous)

As a tech dan (also the DYRT), I can confirm that, but I do live in hope that maybe one day, someone will.

(I don't know why I live in hope. I should fucking know better. All telling people the implications of X, Y, or Z does is get you on someone's shitlist. On the other hand, this is why I roll my eyes at most tech conspiracy theories. Guys, we're collectively not smart enough in the industry to pull that shit off. Most of our road to hell was paved with someone in PM or marketing's idea of good intentions.)

From: (Anonymous)

+6, if you get to the root of the problem it's just a bunch of midwit dudes who were in the right place at the right time to learn to put commands in a computer, who grew up in a time of relative political stability, who now read an aja essay and think it's profound. Fandom's the upstream of upstream.

From: (Anonymous)

Imo what needs to happen is enough of them need to be witchhunted to learn the lessons of old. But that has to happen in such a way that we don't all just give power to the hunters. Tech ppl need a nice little innoculation, nothing more. That's what fiction's for, but unfortunately, stemfolxx don't read.

From: (Anonymous)

Coincidentally, I’m going to briefly suggest to a group of children, tomorrow, that if you find yourself in a mob hunting someone down, you’re probably the baddies and you should fade out before anything happens.

From: (Anonymous)

:)) Funnily enough I remember every kids' show pointing this out when I was a kid. Seems like it didn't do shit for my generation, but good luck!

From: (Anonymous)

DD

This wasn't a tech guy but I felt so much schadenfreude when this happened to Yglesias and he suddenly had to rethink his 'cancel culture is BS' schtick.

Don't have faith in their intellect either. This gen seems to take getting witchhunted as a lesson to go witchhunt better.

From: (Anonymous)

flashback to my 3 secs of hope, 'now that all these women have been censored, at least they'll understand why it's a bad thing to censor people', hahahahahahahahaahahahanope ;__________;

From: (Anonymous)

SD

I've withdrawn from a lot of communities over this.

From: (Anonymous)

SD

"We're fighting for civil liberties! We're fighting for freedom!"

"Freedom of expression?"

"NO NOT THAT ONE"

welp. :/

From: (Anonymous)

DD

AHAHAHAHAHA!

Yeah, me too, me too.

From: (Anonymous)

Yglesias is much more entertaining now that he's had his eyes somewhat opened by the braying mob. For once, I will honestly thank Emily-whatever-the-last-name-of-the-week-is and Aja for their service in that regard.

From: (Anonymous)

I've had to learn so many names of morons in all this, they're blurring together. Whenever I see the name "Emily" these days, I assume it's a man. (Though in this case, I do know which specific dude you mean).

From: (Anonymous)

I had a clever nickname for "Emily" at one point that made it clear who I was talking about without me having to remember every single name used in the last five years. Wish I could remember what it was. (I know enough Emilys in my age range that I don't automatically assume that. Evelyns under 70, on the other hand...I have yet to meet an XX one.)

From: (Anonymous)

Emily, Sophie, Ada, Luna: for some reason, these are now man names for men. The last one looks like a cat name for a cat, but it's also a man name for men. I don't make the rules, I merely observe them, perplexed.

From: (Anonymous)

Tbf they're into catgirls aren't they

From: (Anonymous)

From ffa:

"I'm genuinely impressed that AO3 managed to get Cloudflare set up and more or less working.

Whatever you may think of Cloudflare's ethics as a company, that is a normal industry solution that OTW managed to implement on a normal human timescale. By recent standards, this is shockingly functional of them."

I haven't kept up with ao3, so no opinions on dysfunction or otherwise, but lol, Cloudflare is extremely easy to set up. "Wah wah wah change your whole codebase to cater to my drama", meanwhile, usually isn't, and as a lurker I've noticed that's what people are usually asking ao3 for.

Also lol at the person in that thread sulking because they got told to comment their code before it would be accepted.

From: (Anonymous)

Also all the "I can't beLiEvE they didn't have ddos protection in 2023!!!" comments.

So, you're saying a site that has been up since 2009 hasn't needed ddos protection in all those 14 years. Sounds like they prioritized their tasks right. Not like they lose business with downtime. 🤷