No one can tell you here beyond “DRM bad”. Which it is, and I hate it, but you’re exactly right. All it would do if Firefox refused to implement would drive most users to chrome because there DRM works.

We are not the majority. The majority (and by that I mean roughly 96% of users) want their browser just to work. Taking a moral stand doesn’t resonate with them, they just see a broken browser and move on.

Fucking finally. So many reactionary nerds here. Yes, it may turn to shit. It may not. The result is unknown. What I do know is Firefox has been my browser of choice for two whole decades. Chromium actively is killing adblockers. Firefox right now is not.

If something happens I’ll make a switch. Right now, nothing has.

Eh, yeah but we don’t have the numbers to remove content left and right. Better to have mediocre content right now than 1 really good post every 2 weeks

Exactly, and it begs the question too, where’s the line? If you draw a stick figure of your crush with boobs is that a crime? Is it when you put an arrow and write her name next to it? AI just makes that more realistic, but it’s the same basic premise.

Distributing it is where it crosses a hard line and becomes something that should not be encouraged.

all good points, and I’ll for sure say that I’m not qualified enough to be able to answer that. I also don’t think politicians or moms groups or anyone are.

All I’ll do is muddy the waters more. We as the vast majority of humanity think CSAM is sick, and those who consume it are not healthy. I’ve read that psychologists are split. Some think AI generated CSAM is bad, illegal, and only makes those who consume it worse. Others, however, suggest that it may actually curb urges, and ask why not let them generate it, it might actually reduce real children from being actually harmed.

I personally have no idea, and again am not qualified to answer those questions, but goddamn did AI really just barge in without us being ready for it. Fucking big tech again. “I’m sure society will figure it out”

Agreed. To me, making them is one thing, it’s like making a drawing at home. Is it moral? Not really. Should it be illegal? I don’t think so.

Now, what this kid did, distributing them? Absolutely not okay. At that point it’s not private, and you could hurt their own reputation.

This of course ignores the whole fact that she’s underage, which is on its own wrong. AI generated csam is still csam.

I really like the GPL license for that reason. Take it, use it, be merry. But don’t you dare use it in a closed source project, and you have to give me credit

Oh man if you don’t recognize xkcd… You’re in for a treat reading through them all

You can, but you do have to buckle down, and I know that’s a cliche. It took me 6 years to get a 4 year degree. 1st year I partied too much, and I wasn’t emotionally ready. 2nd year I went to a smaller school, a 2 year college and it made a huge difference. Smaller classes, more one on one time with the professors. by the time I finished the 2 year school I was finally ready for a 4 year.

I had moments though. I thought about dropping out early on. I remember talking to a mentor saying I’d be fine if I did, and that I had tried. They looked me squarely in the eyes and said “Bullshit. I know you could have tried harder”. That hit me hard. I was surrounded by parents who supported me and said I probably did everything, to have someone call me out like that, it really hit me hard.

You can do it - if you really dedicate yourself to it. College is not easy. It’s not fun. I have nightmares about finals even now, a decade later. But I don’t regret forcing myself through. I wasn’t an A student, I was a solid C student, but it was worth it.

Exactly the same. Everyone told me I was so smart in High School, I’m so incredibly smart, I never needed to study. College hit and I failed my first year. Big fish, small pond for sure.

High School (and college probably) should have set up time for teaching me how to study, and high school teachers (and my parents) needed to back off saying how smart I was. Or at least back it up. “I’m glad this stuff comes so easily for you, be ready for college though, because you’ll be surrounded by people just like you, and they’re expecting even more”

Mine went off in high humidity when I showered and forgot to turn on the fan

Nothing proves a backup like forcing yourself to simulate a recovery! I like to make one setting change, then make a backup, and then delete everything and try to rebuild it from scratch to see if I can do it and prove the setting change is still there

Exactly right there with the not worrying. Getting started can be brutal. I always recommend people start without worrying about it, be okay with the idea that you’re going to lose everything.

When you start really understanding how the tech works, then start playing with backups and how to recover. By that time you’ve probably set up enough that you are ready for a solution that doesn’t require setting everything up again. When you’re starting though? Getting it up and running is enough

I can’t wait to see how Ubisoft will tank their brand more when they try to take this down

I remember the hardest part about studying in college was that no one taught me what studying was, and never showed alternatives. Movies just showed people reading the book and looking stressed, so that’s what I did. It wasn’t until later that I learned studying could be quizzing yourself, doing example problems reading over homework to see what you did well or didn’t do well, or listening to lectures again, or anything.

I wish we prepped kids more for college.

I love that you reversed it, when it should be “how terrible do Americans have it where we have to commute so far just to get to work”

People who don’t like paying for labor declares new technology will finally let them automate people away. More at 11.

I remember decades ago when I was working at mcds as a greasy teenager when they told me that I only had a couple years left there, that our jobs would probably be automated soon. That stores without humans at all were just around the corner.

Any engineer who has worked with AI directly knows what it’s great at (a slim number of finite tasks), what it appears to be great at (many many tasks), and what it is not good at (everything else). Corporate America sees no distinction.

Red 8TB+ are CMR, OP said they’re using 14TB drives, they’re fine

I’m a homeowner and can say this meme is extremely accurate. Up zone cities!

WD Red has always been my go-to, and in the last 8 years of homelabbing I haven’t had a single one fail. Blues and Greens are not build for NAS operations, and you’ll see them fail. Toshibas I haven’t had a single one make it past a year, except for their gaming drives.

If you want the shortcut, the WD Elements usually go on sale at Best Buy regularly, and they’re always a WD Red or White, which will also work. All of my drives have been one of those. You just shuck the internal drive out of the enclosure