Dirt_Possum [she/her, undecided]

The site could also be set to display whatever font it wants but also set to list standard fonts that also work which the browser can then choose from on the user’s end if the user doesn’t have the first choice font. That way you the user don’t have to worry about it and there is no way to fingerprint by the browser just handing out an entire list of fonts installed on the user’s system. There are plenty of ways to make things like this work, but the incentive is to keep them as they are or to increase uniqueness so people can be more easily fingerprinted.

Yeah I guess it was human expression that confidently insisted superglue was a safe ingredient to put on my pizza to hold the cheese on it. I don’t even give much of a shit about LLM slop on the occasions it’s accurate, it was your bad faith and absurd response to the other commenter that I was calling out which you ignored in order to shift the discussion to philosophical arguments about AI that make you sound like the entrepreneur genius Sam Altman or the other tech bro capitalists trying to keep that bubble from popping.

I was taking the statement about what you found “fascinating” in isolation because it was phrased as such. You were surprised that the other commenter could find enjoyment in “something” not knowing how it was produced then feel less enjoyment after learning more. That is a silly thing to be “fascinated” by because it is something that the vast majority of us are keenly familiar with. But because that commenter has qualms about AI which you don’t, you suddenly can’t understand how later information about something can alter one’s enjoyment of it? It’s an absurd thing to say. As is your sunset question. I don’t get upset looking at most AI slop either, but I absolutely do place it in a different category than either a natural phenomenon or something I know was made by human expression and if you can’t understand or recognize that difference, I don’t know that anything I could say could help you with that.

That’s a tankie. nutbutter is asking what a tankLe is. I think it’s safe to assume they’re just playing around because the title font (at least as seen from Hexbear) makes the letter ambiguous.

I also see that while you answered the perceived question correctly and succinctly as always, CobraCommander didn’t catch the joke either but went on to parrot fascist propaganda instead.

it’s also fascinating how you could enjoy something if you didn’t know how it was produced, and then the act of knowing would remove the enjoyment you were deriving from it.

Would you feel differently about, say a book you read and somewhat enjoyed if you later learned it was written by a fascist? It sure would make a difference to me. Have you never consumed any sort of media that you later felt was tainted by who created it, or used a product that you later decided not to use again after learning how it was produced? There’s even a colloquialism referring to this very thing, about “knowing how the sausage is made.”

It should be, yes. But browsers like Chrome are literally made by the company that stands to profit from fingerprinting you, so they’re always going to be made to make it easy to do just that. Firefox at least has “resist fingerprinting” option which apparently can limit font visibility to only base system fonts rather than fonts you installed and language-pack fonts. LibreWolf has this on out of the box.

Just like the Iranian diaspora chuds who were cheering the mass murder of children in their “homeland” are also wholly unbiased, totally and completely free of any distortion, leaning, or parti pri, right?

No, the people who bailed from their country are going to be the most biased. Not to mention there is an entire industry built around paying defectors to say bad things about the DPRK and that they even try to out-do one another on how extreme their stories are. See Yeonmi Park While you’re at it, see: What’s the Deal with Defectors? or Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul

edit: Some more from a Dessalines comment:

• Is north korea a totalitarian dictatorship? Are they all really required to get the same haircut? A short documentary.
• South Korea boosts reward for defectors to $860k USD.
• Are north korean defectors really paid to lie by the south? A short documentary.
• What is everyday life like? A conversation with a North Korean Citizen.

This is like something one of us hexbears would put in c/badposting as a mockery of liberals and how baseless and vapid their grievances are with us because they can’t even formulate any coherent arguments. But it’s so cringe and so on the nose that it would have to go in badposting rather than one of our quality shitposting comms. But here you are, actually posting it in .ml’s meme comm.

Seriously, without having checked their post history, just going by this post alone, I’m not convinced that u/Dragon here isn’t actually an ML doing a bit to make fun of the dingbats who use “tankie” as an unironic insult.