I don’t even want to open it and see how depressing the US is ranked :(

Yea I know there are certainly tangible benefits like privacy, censorship bypass, caching etc

But the crux of the issue

using ffmpeg in the background to recompile the image which will crash and burn it the image has even the slightest issue/corruption.

Does it really need to do all that? IMO it’s a proxy and it should just proxy things, not mess with things. Some basic checks at the most to just verify the image is an image and reject non-images, but that’s it. If there’s a need to also manipulate images then it should be handled separately

…kentucky‽‽

Well shit, rare W for Kentucky!

Kinda sus bro

Yeah, because the proxy has decided it doesn’t like it

This is what I actually wanted to link to/embed

https://i.ibb.co/8gHKNsT1/michael-scott-why.gif

Well actually I originally tried with a direct tenor link

https://tenor.com/bdBiU.gif

But it didn’t like that either

It’s a feature of Lemmy where your instance will proxy image links for you, it can be useful in some cases to do things like bypass regional censorships (If you can access your home instance from your country, but not instance lemmy.example.com your home instance can proxy the image from lemmy.example.com so you can still see it (text is handled by federation already, so no proxy required for just text)) or to cache images in case an instance goes down

But it seems to be poorly implemented where it’s end user experience is a pain at best, and the more aggressive it’s set the more annoying it is.

Take for example this instance I’m currently on, infosec.pub, they seem to have it set to aggressively replace all image links including in comments no matter what.

So now my attempt to reply to this comment https://infosec.pub/comment/20590443 is utterly broken because the image service just doesn’t like it despite me just wanting to link to the off-site gif link manually typing the markdown instead.

This is what that gif looks like proxied:

https://infosec.pub/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ibb.co%2F8gHKNsT1%2Fmichael-scott-why.gif

Mine lol

https://dialed.gg/?c=652YAE

So like @UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zone found out it’s a Verizon sold phone and Verizon are absolute fuckwads about letting you unlock the BL.

When the seller said “Unlocked” they meant carrier unlocked as in it will accept any non-Verizon SIM card

Now, generally, for every other US carrier that does also mean you have the ability to unlock the BL because per Google policy when the phone is carrier unlocked then you will be able to BL unlock…

…except when that carrier is Verizon

Not sure how successful you’ll be on getting a refund, because technically they didn’t mistake anything the commonly accepted definition for “Unlocked” in this context is carrier unlocked. Which you would have been fine with, again, had that carrier not been Verizon.

Fuck Verizon.

D:

It was told it was going to have work for a living like humans

But that would make oil shareholders sad

Why can’t you think of the shareholders!

This is a conflation of “AI” and shitty AI companies. The AI technology, which can be fully open source, is what’s here to stay and it is a useful tool. Not the end all be all by any means, but, just like a drill or hammer it has its uses. And just like a drill or hammer, you can use it for improper use but get a less optimal result

Boycotting the tech itself, to include full open source and selfhosted AI is what’s not going to work, but the shitty companies probably will come and go.

The real solution is to roll up the sleeves and built an a version of this technology that’s open, transparent, and community driven.

No, the solution is to educate the general populace about the extreme harms of AI on our economy and our environment and our sovereignty and our education and to show them that we’re getting absolutely nothing in exchange except for lining the pockets of CEOs and twist the arm of the gov to get involved in some sort of regulation…

Both of these things can happen, AI can be harmful. Any tool can be harmful and for dangerous ones we do educate people, to varying degrees depending on the tool. And just like any tool, it has its restrictions AND promote open and transparent systems over the ones that do line CEO pockets

Destroy education any way possible

“Smart people don’t like me very much” ~Drumpy

I’m just waiting for BBS² to get going on it, I sadly was a tad too young to get in on its prime, but maybe I can catch the train this time lmao

Just as the prophecy foretells!

Oh no, lemmy.ml is leaking

Try the good wikipedia source, not propaganda-wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.