It feels like almost everything has become a race to the bottom. Who can cut corners and exploit everyone else the most effectively?
It’s one of the many freedoms we enjoy in the USA. Freedom from law, order, and regulation reigning in the worst excesses of capitalist greed.
I don’t disagree. I’m just frustrated that most of them are big and shitty because they’ve eaten everything else.
My trimmer just died recently. I researched a replacement… best reviewed and best fitting my needs… only available on Amazon. A similar model was available at Walmart or Target… Eventually found one at Best Buy (not aware of whatever horrible shit they’ve done recently). Couldn’t pick it up at any store nearby before I’d need it, but they delivered… using Doordash.
While I make quite an effort to avoid unethical companies, the list has only grown since I started. I suspect the only reason it hasn’t grown exponentially to include the vast majority of companies I still use is that I haven’t dug into every single company to find out how unethical it is.
Run by Technofascists? Run by regular fascists? Supports fascists hoping for quid-pro-quo benefits? Human rights abuses? Exploits workers? Pollutes the environment as much as it can get away with? Busts unions? Dodges taxes? Embraced AI? Exploits customers? Embraces surveillance capitalism? Collects and sells personal data? Heavily enshittified? I could go on and on.
There truly is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
So would reverse engineering and building a modifed version of an app, so that you prevent it from doing things you don’t want it to do, be legal?
The EU laws may not be worded so horrendously. I’m barely familiar with EU law beyond a little of the GDPR.
It was actually forced onto the US by a clever US politician, Bruce Lehman - the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks under Bill Clinton, who pushed it into an international treaty, the WIPO Copyright Treaty. Europe also approved the treaty and I assume the European counterparts still stand.
The WIPO Copyright Treaty is implemented in United States law by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). By Decision 2000/278/EC of 16 March 2000, the Council of the European Union approved the treaty on behalf of the European Community. European Union Directives which largely cover the subject matter of the treaty are: Directive 91/250/EC, creating copyright protection for software; Directive 96/9/EC on copyright protection for databases; and Directive 2001/29/EC, prohibiting devices for circumventing “technical protection measures”, such as digital rights management (also known as DRM).
Maybe it isn’t so thoroughly abused over there though. Poor Europeans lack the highly sought after freedom (to lose all of your rights to mega-corporations) we enjoy in the USA.
…and civil action if you try to reverse engineer or circumvent the app in any way… because the app’s code is copyrighted. If you do it for someone else or make a post explaining how you did it things can get really spicy. Lord help you if you profit commercially from it.
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He’s skipping because he wanted to give a speech and was denied.
The only threat worth bothering with is “The rabidly corrupt Zionist puppet should immediately resign.” If not that, just release it or time its release for his next election.
If something was clearly, precisely defined in the constitution it would still be worthless if some group of rich cunts came to a consensus that it would be better for them if the courts were to interpret it differently.
The US legal system has a terminal case of corruption.
That’s quite an achievement. We’re so awesome!
After all this time humanity finally created a world with high life expectancy…
…and it only cost the sustainability of the lower class and the entire global south.
Did that with cookies once. A whole series of mistakes during the process and fixes to recover from those mistakes resulted in a batch of perfectly undercooked and absolutely delicious cookies that I’ve never forgotten… and also never managed to replicate.
Yeah. Whether these “AI” bots/systems/agents are doing good or bad things, its usually presented as impressive and/or important and fuels the AI hype train.
Fair enough. Apologies for not reviewing my word choice thoroughly.
My inspiration was actually more that the powerful can get away with fucking over the population and blaming it on agents. If the average person used agents to rob a wealthy person, the agents excuse will be worth fuck all.
I agree and also disagree. I’m not saying ignore it. Just be aware that there will almost always be an array distracting “smaller problems”. I just advise we not spend so much time focusing on smaller problems that the root cause is ignored. Just don’t let them be chaff.
Here’s the thing… AI is just a convenient layer of obfuscation. Without the layer, those in power would just do it anyway and still rarely be held accountable.
While I have mostly negative feelings toward AI and would rather remove any potential layers of obfuscation so that the public can better see the reality firnwhat it is, the powerful need to be held to account directly. Targeting AI for this kind of thing is just a distraction Putting the focus on AI alone is what they’d want.
I don’t think it’s any one group’s fault. Everyone has been getting progressively more stressed - the parents, the kids, the teachers, and even administrators. Budgets are getting tighter. Teachers and school administrators are being paid less and there is more expected of them. It all contributes.
If you need someone to blame, blame the ultra wealthy. They are hoarding all of the money, propagandizing us against each other, ignoring existential threats, demanding fewer taxes, and push for longer hours for the rest of us.