There are ways of cooking shrimp

It is the food of the sea, after all.

Familiarity, I’d imagine. You go to Chipotle in any part of any city, and you already know what’s on their menu, how much it’ll cost, and how it’ll taste. But smaller restaurants, even a local chain, can vary wildly from store to store, and most people probably don’t want to spend their limited lunch time experimenting with restaurants they’re unfamiliar with.

Just for what it’s worth, you don’t need CSAM in the training material for a generative AI to produce CSAM. The models know what children look like, and what naked adults look like, so they can readily extrapolate from there.

The fact that you don’t need to actually supply any real CSAM to the training material is the reasoning being offered for supporting AI CSAM. It’s gross, but it’s also hard to argue with. We allow for all types of illegal subjects to be presented in porn; incest, rape, murder, etc. While most mainstream sites won’t allow those types of material, none of them are technically outlawed - partly because of freedom of speech and artistic expression and yadda yadda, but also partly because it all comes with the understanding that it’s a fake, made-for-film production and that nobody involved had their consent violated, so it’s okay because none of it was actually rape, incest, or murder. And if AI CSAM can be made without actually violating the consent of any real people, then what makes it different?

I don’t know how I feel about it, myself. The idea of “ethically-sourced” CSAM doesn’t exactly sit right with me, but if it’s possible to make it in a truly victimless manner, then I find it hard to argue outright banning something just because I don’t like it.

There are some devices that do this, but as you’ve already noted, they’re crazy expensive. There’s cheap(er) ways to accomplish the same thing, though.

Assuming you don’t need to do any heavy-duty computing on either screen, you could probably get away with a very cheap laptop for the primary display, and something like a Wacom display tablet for the touchscreen element. I’m not sure how compatible such touchscreen displays are with Chromebooks, but most Chromebooks easily have Linux installed on them, which I’d imagine has much better support. Or pretty much any low-spec Windows laptop would also work just fine.

You could probably get away with a decent setup like this for the $500-600 range. The tablet could rest over the keyboard of the laptop, or if you’re clever with drafting and have access to a 3D printer, you could probably easily print yourself a mount of some sort to secure the touch display over the laptop keyboard to avoid pressing keys and give it a more intentional design. I don’t know how well using an on-screen keyboard would feel, so something modular like this, where you could easily expose the real keyboard without too much fuss, may be a good route to take.

For file management, especially if you plan on interacting with a file on both screens at any point, that would get very cumbersome very quickly.

Just use the calendar on your phone. Set an event for a year from now titled “Go back and see if I was right” with a link to the comment in the description.

This is my thought on it, too. I don’t disagree with any of the point OP is making, but I think a larger issue is people misusing ActivityPub platforms and trying to make them into something they’re not. It’s not meant to be a messenger, it’s not meant for privacy. Everything being public and transparent is part of the core design of the Fediverse. The idea of private groups/posts on the Fediverse seems counterintuitive to me.

Japan.

Sony audio products are terrible about this. Earbuds with names like WF-1000XM5, like how am I supposed to shop for that?

Ergorotic literature.

always give them a wide berth because there’s no way to know if they see you and they’ll often behave erratically and unpredictably in crosswalks

All of this applies to dealing with human drivers, too.

The word off is a zombie doing the Thriller.

That post is from 2021. Is there a more recent udpate?

Yeah, probably a lot of Rittenhouse wannabes out there who wanna test the limits of castle doctrine.

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Hmmmmm… 🤔

This has been my approach so far. I try to walk with a particularly heavy footfall past that area, so that hopefully my presence is known in advance. So far, nothing’s gotten close enough to be a concern. I’ve sometimes looked back and seen them crossing the street some distance behind me so I know they’re active at the time, so maybe they are hearing me and keeping a distance.

Yeah, I was going to suggest a data export, as this will often give you a handful of files, most importantly would be a CSV containing all your posts. It would probably be relatively easy to automate the process with that file.

Erdogan is a dictator who has the power to block X altogether.

Does it really make a difference whether it’s Erdogan or Musk who silences these people?

Google Now and Google Inbox were legitimately some of the most useful products any tech company has released. They were such game-changers, and I’ll never stop being angry about their cancellation.