Only rich studio bosses and investors are allowed to exploit Hollywood.

As said: it’s not just the current government. As soon as the data is on a government server, it’s every single government for the rest of my life. And that’s a gamble I wouldn’t be willing to take.

And there’s a big difference between a police agency spending lots and lots of time and money to get to the people they’re interested in (gestapo, stasi, whatever) and them already having the data and being able to filter by whatever criteria they want at zero extra cost within seconds.

When it comes to my data, I treat everyone like they’re my enemy. Some of those enemies I do have to trust with parts of my data, otherwise I couldn’t live a normal life but I still would want to avoid giving a single entity (especially one that literally has power over people) too much at once.

Also, I do live in a country with plenty of public services and a more or less functioning government. Still, 20.8% voted for literal Nazis in February and no matter how often I vote for someone more sensible and how many protests I join, that probably won’t make those people less hateful.

Explain to me how running the registry office gives them nearly as much info about people’s preferences as a dating app does. They may know who people are married to and if they have children. From that they might have a rough idea if someone is straight or not and that’s about it. They don’t know if some who’s in a heterosexual marriage is actually bisexual or even uses the marriage as a socially accepted front to hide being gay from their family. The state has no idea where an umarried person lies on the spectrum from aromantic-asexual to bouncing from orgy to orgy on a daily basis. They don’t know if someone is into BDSM, roleplay, doing it outdoors or threesomes. They also rarely know much about non-sexual hobbies.

All those things may show up in dating site profiles or if not there, in the private messages sent between users. And this is not even about a government not being trustworthy now. Anything that gets put in such a site will stay there for the foreseeable time and even the most stable democracy might be just one freak election away from having a weirdo in power who thinks that people who like sex with their socks on don’t deserve health insurance.

Of course that’s also a risk with private dating platforms but at least for those the government would have to subpoena this kind of data from them instead of having it always available without the public even knowing if and what they’re analyzing.

I would rather not have the state sit on a huge database of people’s sexual orientation and other preferences, thank you very much.

That’s the one I went with. Two at the bottom and two on the inside of the wall

Erstes Bild ist oben, mehr werden folgen: https://lemmy.helios42.de/post/610055

Wäre einen Versuch wert

Dann weißt du bestimmt, ob es hier eine gute Community für Plüschifotos gibt. Ich hab da eine ganze Sammlung an Fotos von Fuchsplüschis, die ich bisher nur auf Mastodon rumzeige.

That as well

Just saying, this is not the fault of a single engineer but of a whole company that didn’t think “try all common cable types” should be a required testing step before a network switch goes into mass production.

How did that not get caught in the prototype stage? Like, did nobody ever test that thing with that type of RJ45 plug?

Just poking fun at the people who were absolutely convinced that said company was evil ™ and would never do the right thing.

So you‘re saying all the panic was for nothing? Shocking.

Important note: this is about quantum teleportation. They transferred data between two quantum computers without a cable or wifi. Teleporting matter, let alone matter in useful quantities is far off.

Und deshalb immer schön den Durchschnitt der letzten paar Umfragen anschauen. D. Kriesel hat ein Skript, das das immer sehr schön zusammenfasst und bunte Bilder dazu malt.

Actually, isn’t this the optimal outcome? The new “security” features are now optional for those who want them. Everyone else can choose developer mode, has all the old features and is responsible for securing their network. We could argue if opt-in or opt-out is better but I see the argument for having “security” features enabled by default.

Are we sure this is MK8 and not some MK9?

Guter Knecht. Schnapspraline?

Ich persönlich lasse einfach für jeden (bzw. jedes Paar) einen Kalender mit Fotos, die ich im Lauf des Jahres geschossen hab, drucken. Manche kriegen noch was oben drauf, aber so hat jeder zumindest eine Kleinigkeit.