Olives @olives@qoto.org

Trying to use better wording.

Hey, it's me. Lol.

I also discovered that people apparently still use old school forums (which I guess is cool as it doesn't involve using, say, Facebook).

Since we're on the subject of what hosts not to use (Hetzner is on the list), I'd advice against using Linode. I've heard horror stories about it, including one involving a competing site making a bogus "copyright claim".

Remember that in Australia, the government denies A LOT of FOIA requests, so I wouldn't read into a denial too much.

Space elevators are a cool sci-fi idea.

If "AI" are people, then I guess deleting a file is the same as murder.

"AI developers working under humans."
"AI" are not people, they don't "work" in any way like humans do -.-

I'm not going to name names here, because frankly, I don't care for Internet drama.

So, uh, I've been looking at a few Bluesky profiles (although, I haven't spent a lot of time on that), and wow, quite a bit of drama.

It is pretty ugly to see the "co-founder" of a company sit around on Bluesky seemingly trying to smear competing websites.

I mean, I'm sure he does good work to make sure that people's free expression is protected, but it's interesting how even here, in a policy discussion, sex seems to be taboo to talk about.

https://www.eff.org/pages/speaking-freely-tomiwa-ilori This is interesting but doesn't tell us anything about sexual expression.

Even if it was extended a tad beyond "SFW", I don't think it would make a difference to the point in my post. Hype.

The Japanese Parliament (called the "Diet") has two houses. The House of Representatives (lower) and the House of Councilors (upper).

Financial censorship was mentioned in a committee in the Japanese House of Representatives.

Seeing Japanese discourse that is critical of using "AI" powered search engines.

He seems to be going into things this time with the assumption that Australia is some sort of fascist state that arrests people left and right for ridiculous things.

And maybe, Australia does have human rights issues, particularly in how the legislature words language in statutes or "guidelines", or that "social media ban for minors".

And transparency is important. FOIA requests which peel the curtain back a bit on the government are important.

But, I think it's premature to make these kinds of assumptions about the government.

He makes stronger claims then he waters them down.

To tell you a short tale, I was thinking of something he said one day (this was a few months ago), and I decided I would check up on it, and it wasn't there.