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mastodon exists

it was garbage.

servers already worked well for the time, but desktop was rough.

this is the sort of shit that would heavily offend conservative christians if it came from anyone but trump.

thats if this slop is even real. probably not.

i think samsungs already do this. as long as i can turn it off if i ever need to.

a charging limit would also be nice.

if pro palestine people are getting fired and deported anyway, why not sabotage and emigrate?

oh shit yeah, theres that too.

beacon of democracy.

looks firewally

wait you guys have to pay to file taxes???

do they actually want you to evade taxes??

they can if they pay 6382538% tariffs.

or was it 29403696%?

line was going up! i miss line going up!

tax eat the rich.

governments taxed rich people before. it went away because money is power and the rich are in power, they simply decided not to anymore.

solving the problem involves socialism, as in rebuilding the system to impede this accumulation of wealth in the first place. and sometimes the deposition of these people.

taxes are a volatile stopgap solution that look leftist if you squint, but they will use violence if needed to undo that win whenever they feel like they need that money back. this WILL NOT solve the problem by itself.

soooo, honest opinions of discord users here: hows matrix nowadays? what are the other options?

depends on your threat model.

want to hide from advertising and general automated corpo creepness? sure. a reasonably hardened iphone will mostly do the trick.

want to hide from governments, three letter agencies or similar baddies who could simply order apple to give you the info? fuck no. apple unilaterally controls all the code that runs on it, and is itself subject to them.

theres the fact signal uses your phone number too…

BAD DOG. UGHABUGAAABUSHAIBSBASUIAUGHABAU

yes. pirated software is suprisingly secure most of the time.

im also not running windows. malware not meant for proton is gonna have a bad time working.

k, ill just wait for the emulator.

almost like the groups mentioned are scarecrows for their rhetoric 🤔

its for our own good, honestly. fuck google.

yeah you are right. but “we don’t actually know” doesnt make for a fun thought experiment.

i think if we ever figure out a way to emulate a brain, theres no reason it shouldnt look like a turing machine, if thats even possible at all.

id love to see that evidence if you have it. its a subject im interested in.

i know we don’t have that technology right now. i see it as very plausible in the future.

It’s entirely possible that consciousness is non-computable.

thats a hell of an assumption, is thinking the same as consciousness? how would consciousness be non-computable, if our brains are composed of discrete computation units (the neurons)? granted they are very different from computers, but i can see it being emulatable with enough processing power to account for all the variables.

we don’t know for a fact only fleshy brains composed of neurons are somehow capable of experiencing it. do we know what consciousness even is?

is that even how we define “thinking” too? why would a theoretical future ai that could theoretically have a logic process like ours not be considered “thinking”?