AFAIK the IPs used by VPN providers are getting flagged and blocked by certain sites in an attempt to force you off of the VPN so they can suck up your data. I'm sure there are other reasons too.

Google used to be amazing at this. You could literally search "who dat guy dat paint dem melty clocks" and get the right answer immediately.

This country fucking sucks, Ontario fucking sucks, and the Fords can lick my sack. Let me tell ya folks, if you don't want to live the rest of your life aching to leave this shithole, don't ever go live outside of North America. You would experience great public transit and would experience the the wonder of walkable cities. Once you return to Canada you'll retch and gag every time you're forced to travel along a stroad or god forbid ever having to walk along one. I'm speaking from experience.

You have to be an actual troglodyte to think this law makes any sense at all. Unfortunately, that's exactly who Ford is targeting with this shit and there's way more of them than I ever imagined.

The way I see it is that when I've run out of content on Lemmy, that's my indication to put down my phone and do something else. My buddy framed it in that way during a discussion we had the other day and I think he hit the nail on the head.

The mistake is the assumption of a certain level of end user knowledge.

I think the security is adequately managed by the need for a massive transmitter as well as the question "what is there to gain via a hostile takeover and re-programming the probe?"

I bet there's actual security of some kind going on, but those two points seem like a massive hurdle to clear just to mess with a deep space probe.

This sounds like the kind of shit you'd hear in that "defending AI art" community on Reddit or whatever. A bunch of people bitching that their prompts aren't being treated equally to traditional art made by humans.

Make your own fucking AI art galleries if you're so desperate for validation.

Also, this argument reeks of "I found x instances of derivative art today. That must mean there's no original art in the world anymore".

Miss me with that shit.

ADHD had me noticing "accordion" immediately. Shout out to all my ADHD friends!

Why not have a cozy pair of slippers?

You're literally responding to a post in a community named greentext. What do you expect? Just block the community and move on.

We can't forget that a lot of people have absolutely no idea that this is happening or what it means. Many folks just think the Chrome icon is how you access the internet and have no idea that there are other options. Helping to educate those folks is going to be a significant part of minimizing Chrome's dominance.

Agreed. Very well written. Clearly Leif is a person that should be a leader in the communication space. Its such a shame that we're losing him to this fight. :(