QuietCupcake [any, they/them]

Yeah, I didn’t see this was Chinese tech, assumed it was US or at least western. I even watched the video but just saw a demonstration set to music. I noticed the article was Bloomberg at a glance but I missed “china’s-unitree” part in the url and with a title that included “Starting at $5,900” it seemed like this was a robot catering to a US market. So no, my comment had nothing to do with the fake Zenz-invented Uyghur genocide nonsense (I’ve posted in the past correcting libs about this). I was referring to how robotic technology is being/going to be used by cops especially in the US. But now I’m in the modlog for bigotry. Great.

(Thank you for explaining what happened, though.)

Can someone please explain to me how being worried that a technology will be used to violent racist ends (in a world where technology is constantly being used to violent racist ends) is a violation of rule 2: bigotry? wtf?

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If there were two parties, one to double the slaves, and another to keep the number of slaves the same, I would vote for the second party.

Then you’re a fucking slavery-defending piece of shit who John Brown would have rightfully shot. You don’t have to support slavery at all, you know. You could even say “Slavery is wrong, full stop.” And then go on to do whatever is in your power to tear down any group that advocates for that grotesque abuse and denial of even the most basic human decency. But instead you insist on carrying bucket after bucket after bucket of water for the fucking slavers who are blatantly grifting you with their detestable bullshit of “at least I’m not that bad” as they point at another fucking slaver.

You people are so brainwashed into this absurd binary thinking it is genuinely shocking to me the atrocious shit that squirts out of your mouths that you think is fucking reasonable!

It’s what all of us really are at hexbear: circle bears. We only developed the hexagonal shape from pushing against each other over time - the result of countless struggle sessions. But at heart, even now we’re still just sweet, circular bears once you look beneath the hard hexagonal edges wrought by all the outdoor cats and stacked rocks.

It’s not good that cloudfare (or any single entity) “owns” half the internet.

100% this^. Even if they aren’t actively doing anything terrible that we know of, it still totally undermines people’s privacy, even those of us who try to be careful about that sort of thing. Cloudflare is fingerprinting you when you visit sites that use their services for security, and like google, their sheer ubiquity across the web means they can effectively watch and track you wherever you go.

More and more I’ve been running into the full-page error “please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed” while just browsing around the web. A site is completely locked to any user who runs into this error; it’s not just a popup notification, its a blank page with nothing but the error message and the only way to “fix” it is to whitelist their fingerprinting scripts. I use extensions like uBlock Origin of course, but for more fine-tuned script blocking, also uMatrix, so it’s usually because of one of those that I get the cloudflare error. I could of course whitelist it, but I never do, I just decide that page is not worth my time. But it’s getting harder to stick with that principle as I run into it more all the time, even for sites that it never used to be an issue. It’s also part of why it keeps getting more difficult to browse the web with TOR browser.

Fuck cloudflare. They’ve wormed their way into most of the web now but they’ve managed to do it in a quiet way that usually goes unnoticed if you’re not a privacy nerd. Everyone knows google and amazon are evil and do all that they can to track anything and everything people do, but cloudflare is becoming just as insidious.