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  • I’m struggling grasping your logic. I am very far from being an AI fanboy but I’m also not a luddite.
    So we have tools now that can pretty much autonomously scan through any accessible codebase and find new vulnerabilities that were not found before. And you say that’s not a big deal because anyone could have found those vulnerabilities if they looked?
    Of course, that’s the whole point, nobody was able to attack at that scale before, and now many actors are. Your argument reminds me of what was common to hear 15 years ago when nobody secured anything: “why would I complicate my life with security, nobody wants to hack me! and if one day the CIA decides to come after me, they can get through security anyways!” True, until you have botnets scanning every ip…



  • Therapy (if we talk about talk therapy with a psychologist) is difficult, and takes a very highly trained and skillful person many many sessions to get a breakthrough. As sad as that sounds, these qualities make it expensive, and thus only available to those who have money or have access to a system that provides it (for which in most places you need to be a very severe case).
    My impression is that it’s quite normal for a patient going in completely oblivious about the nature of their issues. If I were you, I wouldn’t expect the therapist to directly address the issue that I name as my top concern. I would expect them to start learning about me, finding out who am I and what my life was like, then identify the issue we need to work on, then gently lead me to discover it for myself. To put it bluntly, if you knew your issue, you wouldn’t need this type of therapy.
    Having said that, it is very important to be able to trust your therapist and feel that you are in good hands, and it can take a few tries to find someone who works.
    Meditation, exercise and sleep are very very helpful for mental health, but may not be all you need. Still, it’s good to make progress on these fronts as well, won’t hurt. I wish you good luck and I hope you will find the help you need. It took me years of trying different approaches and things before I found a therapist who helped. The issue that I was seeking help for during all those years, was a surface level symptom and had nothing to do with my real issues.





  • There exists multiple types of people who upload pirated stuff. One of these types is the person who, instead of getting a day job, makes a living on selling content that they don’t own. I don’t know what to call that person other than a criminal. And it’s not too far fetched to assume that some people in that scene resort to pretty nasty techniques to obtain content, and that can be way more problematic than sharing torrents.


  • I love piracy as much as anyone, but I got to be honest, I am a bit irked by how much of a hardon you have for the amazing people who develop these beautiful tools in their free time driven by nothing else just an outbursting of love from their hearths. In reality, while I am sure there are innocent enthusiasts, many of the people who run private trackers, usenet servers, and I’m assuming are developing client architecture, are basically criminals who make a living off stealing protected IP and selling it to people who prefer a subscription for a tracker or server over a streaming service or over purchasing audiobooks, games, or porn directly from publishers. The arr stack is the infrastructure for hosting industrial scale streaming services using pirated content. So that’s part of the reason why the free piracy software is good. There is a very real paying market for it.

    Edit: I’m putting a link here so I don’t sound like bullshitting. This is the type of illegal streaming I am talking about, which basically operates as an international organized crime group, with ties to other illicit activities independently of pirating. While I don’t know anything about their tech stack, they need a massive automated system to obtain the media they pass on to their subscribers. It’s not the need to organize the movie library of a middle age dad which justifies configuring a massive stack of services.

    https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/successful-operation-against-illegal-streaming-services-millions-users-worldwide


  • The reason why I don’t think there can be a definitive answer to your question is that wealth, infrastructure and healthcare can do a lot to mitigate the issues with deadly heatwaves.
    In a region with no AC, no potable water, and no healthcare, society probably wouldn’t survive a week with wet bulb temperatures above 35C for more than 8 hours every day.
    So if that happens in an undeveloped region, a lot of people die, but a lot do find some kind of relief that lets them survive. In a developed, industrialized region, like Arizona or Texas, you can have that kind of weather for months, and most people will just hate the heat but otherwise live and work normally. You could picture a hypothetical technically advanced civilization which exists in a climate that is persistently lethal to humans.
    Places that face extreme heatwaves need to build countermeasures, but societies tend to be able to do that, even in the global south.


  • It’s not like you can detect “if someone tries karma farming”. If the platform displays a measure of engagement with content that a user posts, users will be driven to post things that get them points. Then if the platform uses said metric to rank content, that unavoidably leads to a setup where users look at content posted for the purpose of getting points. Btw lemmy.world is also not free from this, people repost engagement bait stupid shit from Reddit to asklemmy all the time, and those get many upvotes and comments. But at least the users that post these don’t get any meta-post outcomes.