You could have done that, but here we are.

Print it out and scan it. Use a barcode reader. Use another mobile. Upload it to a barcode decoder website.

What exactly is “improper use”?

In general:

• I would rather not wait. This mostly benefits everyone: user gets to see what is coming, developer gets feedback, and depending on software maybe user can start getting the benefits sooner
• on the other hand, it has some risks: maybe devs spend time fixing problems instead of bigger “building the system” tasks. Maybe users get attached to the “pre-release way of doing things” even if the final release is better. (Early access game mods can be very vulnerable to this)

Complete vs simple software, it depends on what the job is. Some complexity is fine, and some bugs are fine, as long as there is a plan to get to where you want the software to be.

The found the rat poison after the recall?

What was the recall for?

Plenty of better reasons to alter UK foreign policy. Starting with “Brexit was a mistake and caused by Russian interference”.

“Don’t let the FIN hit you in the ass in the way out!”

I’m pretty sure it already did happen. HTC Vive 2016, Oculus 2017, Valve Index 2019, Steam Frame 2026 assuming that still happens with the AI bubble fixing everything up; but that’s not the fault of anything with VR.

Yeah for planes I’m not worried about how to use the door, I’m worried about how I get from 20 000+ feet to ground level, safely.

For trains and buses it’d be more about hiking out from the middle of nowhere.

Either case I’m not actually worried, just saying that the logic of “trust no one but yourself” is flawed.

Remind me never to get on an airplane or train.

Buses questionable.

Oh well guess I’ll continue using audiobookshelf.

You missed. Your target is over here: https://lemmy.world/post/44020543

Saving a click: “the same landlord” is Asif Aziz, some billionaire asshole in the Middle East.

I mean if you want to interpret some shitty line drawings as CSAM, knock yourself out.

The point I was trying (and clearly failing) to make is that judging images by the labels is stupid, but so is judging by leaving the appearance entirely open to interpretation.

Hell, I hadn’t even considered LLMs where a text description alone would be a problem since an LLM could use that to generate an image.

Because it’s less real. The amount of harm and/or damage is proportional the realism. Using that shitty line drawing I made for an example: if I say the lines represent something objectionable, would that make it so? No, not really.

The closer to real, the greater the psychological damage to the viewer. However it’s still no actual harm to anyone else.

And then production of actual CSAM actually does harm children.

Like, this seems like blatantly obvious stuff, no one is harmed by someone making lines on paper. (Or with modern tech lines on a screen but the idea is the same.)

Sure, I guess, although it’s kind of inextricably linked to the damage of actually using it.

Hmmm…

I mean, purely on principle? Sure. No one would have been harmed apart from the environmental damage. Once that’s done, nothing will undo that.

Psychological damage purely from exposure and normalization of that kind of content, probably not ideal.

The muddying of the waters around Epstein guilt, also bad. (“That was fake, so any other news must also be fake”).

Apart from the above sorts of things, (but maybe there’s others I didn’t think of off the top of my head): as long as no one watches it, it’s no more harmful than the sentence describing the idea in the first place.

No, because fuck AI and burning our future on that shit.

They’re both just drawings. None of it is real. The only difference is the label.

You guys realize that you’re talking about drawings right? Like, marks on a paper or screen?

Even putting sexuality aside it’s like arguing over how old these “characters” are:

One of them is 5 years old, the other is 500.

But over here in reality, it’s all fictional and doesn’t matter because they’re just a drawing.