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  • On the post: Next Week, The Supreme Court Could Destroy Everything Good About The Internet

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2023 @ 04:32pm

    Everything you see on a site that isn’t static is a form of algorithmic recommendation.
    And excluding advertising and user content, there’s not much on a common site that isn’t static. Sorting by date isn’t so much an algorithm as it is a function. I’m not going to argue with the post google laziness of internet searching. Google doesn’t offer enough filtering options (that aren’t broken). It’s my opinion, and why I don’t use google for searching. I have no problem finding what I want via pre-algorithmic data scrapes and spider caches. But that’s because I grew up before people let a company make decisions for them on everything. Sorting data results isn’t that hard. That’s what modifier functions are for. For those who grew up with the google era of internet, there was a time when online research actually required, you know, research. Today people in general look at the first page or top hits and let that be the end of it.

  • On the post: Next Week, The Supreme Court Could Destroy Everything Good About The Internet

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2023 @ 04:22pm

    I didn’t say it was how the law is written. It is a fact though.reconditions are publications.

  • On the post: New York Legislators Once Again Trying To Curb Law Enforcement Access To Military Gear

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2023 @ 12:24am

    Our police forces are not located in foreign countries.

  • On the post: US Military Continues To Violate The Law By Limiting Access To Court Records

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2023 @ 09:05pm

    Reality

    The military court system is NOT part of the public system in this country. It never has been. It was never intended to be. Congress has no authority over the military other than the use of funds and a declaration of action. There is no doubt if pushed the minimal compliance will close up and the law will be overturned. You wave most of your rights when you enter the military. Why non-military think they have any right into the closed system…v

  • On the post: New York Legislators Once Again Trying To Curb Law Enforcement Access To Military Gear

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2023 @ 08:55pm

    The other benefit of passing this bill? The portion of the US population that doesn’t reside in the state of New York will no longer be asked to foot the bill for arming and outfitting New York law enforcement officer
    I guess it’s better we just hand over our leftovers to foreign countries to use against us later? Like we’ve been doing for a century? Or destroying them at $0?

  • On the post: Wisconsin City Decides It’s OK To Eavesdrop On Private Conversations In Its City Hall

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2023 @ 07:55pm

    Reminder

    No expectation of privacy in a public facility.

  • On the post: Next Week, The Supreme Court Could Destroy Everything Good About The Internet

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2023 @ 07:53pm

    algorithmic recommendations

    So often this is an issue. An actual issue to be dealt with outside of the court system. When a platform pushes recommendations, it is, in fact, making a publication. The solution is simple, don’t make unrequested recommendations. This whole debate goes out the door then. And we can return to discussing if “ai” algorithms trained by humans, and by fact taking on a pre bias of those trainers, constitutes censorship, publishing, or just plain stupidity. And on that, inside with the latter. End of the world if you actually have to research and not just take the first 5 links in a search.

  • On the post: Kansas State Police Facing Multiple Lawsuits For Pretextual Traffic Stops

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2023 @ 07:35pm

    What’s funny?

    Anyone with half a will to fight back is going to win. It just preemptive stops. Federal law allows for interstate transport of legal items from on legal location to another legal location even if the in between locations prohibit transport. Multiple anti-censorship cases have decided this fact. From the mailing of adult magazines and later videos, to the trade in weapons and drugs. Now, there are issues here with federally prohibited drugs. And I’m guessing the cops plan to bank on that issue if anyone did push back. But still, it’s a very close call on disruption of interstate traffic.

  • On the post: A Look Into What Advertisers Elon’s Twitter Has In Its Future

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2023 @ 03:09pm

    Boycot?

    They’ll be back. Twitter with or without Musk has a major user base. Any claims of leaving the platform is short lived political posturing.

  • On the post: GOP Stops Pretending It Ever Actually Cared About ‘Antitrust Reform’

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2023 @ 03:02pm

    I’ve taken my time

    Debating with myself if it’s even worth a commentary. It is. Nobody is going to deny that there are a few republicans from the extreme fringe that got elected. Rational people also recognise there are some fringe leftists too. But let’s not pretend that there’s some major racist undertone to the party. The dems do have big names supported by the nation of islam now. The issue isn’t so much “censorship” as much as it is censoring language for political points. Calling illegal aliens as such isn’t racism, it’s fact.if your. It born here your an alien. And if you didn’t enter officially your illegal. Period. But the big thing here is what is “misinformation” about C19. Questioning the value of disposable paper masks is not misinformation, it’s rational debate. It’s a proven fact that post vaccination infection rates are higher than any other vaccine. That’s why they keep rolling out modifications to the vaccines. The problem isn’t so much the localised censoring of discussions. Private company. Private law. The question is what the government should or should not do about it. When you look at the mess without partisan glasses you notice there definitely is a large slant. Should the government protect public speaking in private? That’s a dangerous cliff to be fighting on. And I chose to say no. Right of assembly and rights of property outweighs the greater good. But let no rational thinker hang their hat at monopoly busting. Time and again I say point out a single breakup that ultimately benefited the greater public. The few that respond can all be debunked by looking at a longer time line. Breaking up social media isn’t going to solve free speech concerns. It’s simply going to create more fiefdoms. The actual fact of the issue? Most Republicans don’t use social media anywhere near the democrat base level. Sites like truth and parole and gab don’t fail because of content. They fail because there aren’t enough republicans on social media to move to the platforms to ever make a viable platform. What you end up with is the extremes alone. The reality is there’s not enough social users in the right wing of US politics to build a platform. And seriously! A breakup does nothing for the cause. how the hell could you break up the likes of twitter or Facebook in any way useful anyway?!!? It’s the same stupidity as telling a gas station they can’t have EV chargers. But, no. It’s more like telling a gas station it can only sell gas. What is there to take from a social company that in any way disrupts the social company?

  • On the post: NFL Loses Lawsuit Over Phoenix Super Bowl ‘Clean Zone’

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2023 @ 05:45pm

    For the rest of us

    As usual, the following day I can go online and stream the superbowl advertising without any of the sports garbage interrupting my advertising blitz. 😜

  • On the post: Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s TikTok Ban Is A Dumb Performance That Ignores The Real Problem

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2023 @ 03:05pm

    Here’s the thing

    Karl has the msnbc stick up his bum on xenophobia. Finding cases where they don’t exist. Blocking travel from the source of the virus was logical Baring travel from states that directly sponsor, fund, hand harbour terror is responsible. Asking and demanding people enter the country legally, is how law works. The problem with TikTok is it supplies a direct line of access to the Chinese government. The moral panic is overblown. There’s no real threat to the average citizen. But it makes sense for a ban on government use devices. It’s not an issue of privacy. Only paranoid idiots or criminals worry about generic data sharing. It’s about protecting real-time access to government data. We live in a country that directly involves itself in other country’s business on a regular basis. As long as we do that, we need to protect the people we risk.

  • On the post: AMC’s ‘Fix’ For Declining Movie Theater Attendance? Charging You More Money To Sit In The Same Seats

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2023 @ 01:49pm

    Movie theatres are dead

    Note to theatre staff, your platform is dead. Even with the original movie pass service I still only went once a week. Since that service died, I haven’t gone back. I have no drive for it. My iMac with stock speakers sounds better than most theatres without the mess and crowd noise. I have the new movie pass service… yet I haven’t used it. Nothing has come out that deserves a screen larger than my 4k HDTV. And with special service screens (iMax etc) not included… just why? The problem is theatres were loud, dirty, and stank. Maybe post divide they’ve cleaned up. But the image is permanent for many. Why should I spend $20 for a ticket, popcorn, and drink to sit in a theatre that smells, dodge stick seats and floors, sit with dozens of necking teens and crying baby’s. To be interrupted further by roaming employees with night vision goggles looking like aliens as they stumble around. No, there’s no real draw today. There are, and always will be, those who actually like that experience. The rest of us? Pay 9.99, less money, to enjoy it at home. Oh, and the 9.99 goes completely to the film company.

  • On the post: Current Classified Document Scandals Show The Government Is Still Classifying Way Too Many Documents

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2023 @ 01:36pm

    Too much

    My stance on classification is well described here: don’t do it. Oven if you ignore the material with no records, Trump declassified more documents than most, if not any, president in history. Millions of documents with the stroke of his pen. The solution is a transparency president. One who simply say “fuck it”. Again, I’m a localist. We have no business being in other country’s business. If we stop getting involve in nonsense that doesn’t directly concern us, we are no longer a threat to target. If we’re not a threat, most countries will leave us alone. The whole secrets and spies crap is left over nonsense from the Christian crusade against atheist communists. We need to stop classification period. No more closed congressional hearings. No more spies. No more secrets operations.

  • On the post: No Immunity For Cops Who Shot Man Multiple Times, Then Searched His House For Evidence Of ‘Assaulting An Officer’

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2023 @ 06:49pm

    Not sure what that has to do with the article… but you are correct. To bring down a balloon such as the one from China, you would need multiple rounds of at least 50cb in size. Which won’t pass 3000 meters on a good clean above ground horizontal shot, let alone vertical. No non-propelled round would make it past 4km. All you’d do is kill some poor person a few kilometres away with the bullet landing.

  • On the post: No Immunity For Cops Who Shot Man Multiple Times, Then Searched His House For Evidence Of ‘Assaulting An Officer’

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2023 @ 11:10pm

    Much is Many are. Lol

  • On the post: Netflix’s Unnecessary Password Crackdown Is Already A Hot Mess

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2023 @ 03:38pm

    Is it time yet?

    Even HBO and discovery+ are available on Amazon as subscription channels. Is it time yet for Netflix to do so as well? Maybe it’s past time? Maybe it’s too late.

  • On the post: Court Gives Its Blessing To FBI’s J6 Geofence Warrant, Denies Motion To Suppress

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2023 @ 03:28pm

    The mess of 6 Jan

    This entire situation was and remains a mess. First you have a few brain-dead fools militarised for a man who specifically said multiple times to remain peaceful and ovary the law. Then You have the prosecution round up. Where nearly a thousand people who broke no law, and are overwhelmingly lower income, are threatened with major (and unsubstantiated) crimes in order to pad out many plea deals that are, at best, political theatre. Now we find out many of those arrested were found by less than perfect data searches. And The growing number of people being released, saying they made the plea because they couldn’t afford to fight? And the reactions of the Judges is not to investigate prosecutorial misconduct… rather they threaten the released with further time for perjury. The whole situation is a mess. A few dozen break the law. Thousands more fall to the jackboots. A political roundup for exercising the constitutional right to protest. We have seen this for years now. Every protest has criminal elements. The looters and anarchists of Antifa. The Nazi thugs of counter protest. But both sides play the wrong tune! There is nothing wrong with peaceful protest. That is what the majority of recent protests have seen. BLM, historical statues, police misconduct, 6 Jan. video footage when looked at completely and objectively shows every one of these protests (excluding Seattle) has been overwhelmingly peaceful. This nonsense needs to stop. The media, be it CNN or FN, needs to stop cherry picking footage. Prosecutors who target based on politics need to be healed accountable. And people need to stop pretending that either BLM or 6Jan actions were, except for a small group, anything but peaceful.

  • On the post: No Immunity For Cops Who Shot Man Multiple Times, Then Searched His House For Evidence Of ‘Assaulting An Officer’

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2023 @ 03:06pm

    Facts only please

    Cases like this are why I believe all law enforcement should have always on non-disruptible cameras. This comes down to one thing and one thing only. Did the man aim a gun at officers. Here’s a side question though. If so many of law enforcement is former military… what happened to one shot one kill? I see body cam footage where an idiot empty’s a clip and loads another. It makes no sense when the target is line of site a few meters away!

  • On the post: Charter’s $7 Billion Penalty For Murdering An Elderly Customer Reduced To $262 Million

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2023 @ 02:53pm

    One thing the left and right loose with the globalist mindset is reason within our system. Relative: Sure, to much of Europe (sorry buddy, most of the planet is much further than our system, right or left), we’re conservative. It to former Spanish and French colonies in south east Asia were extreme liberals. Same with Western Asia. We’re twisted liberals and Europe is disgusting. Just something to think about. Within our relative bubble, the presidential semi-parliamentary republic known as the United States of America, we are one of the most diverse active no -totalitarian systems in the world. This country has hundreds of parties. 5 of which presents candidates with a chance of winning when they move into one of the two electable parties for candidacy. This country has literally the FULL Spectrum. From liberal anarchism to militant religion. For all our problems, this country really does tend to get along well enough. Sure things could be better. But mimicking other countries is not going to help. We need to peruse the best of foreign actions and Americanise it.

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