7/27*

combine whisper speech-to-text with any one of the numerous local text-to-speech solutions like picotts, piper, kitten, pocket-tts, outetts etc.

Just because the baseline has shifted doesn’t mean the change never happened

There can and will be change, sure, but my point was that OP’s “smalls steps towards something much worse” typically never happens because of the shift.

I definitely stay far away from either freenet as they have a huge CSAM problem.

Wait until the cotton gin arrives, all the hand weavers will become jobless and no one will have experience anymore.

Wait until the printing press arrives, all the scribe monks will become jobless and no one will have experience anymore.

Wait until the computer arrives, people will become obsolete and no one will have experience anymore.

Wait until the steam engine, automobiles, planes, calculators, telephones, bla bla

“Slippery slope” arguments like these assume that once a technology introduces a specific risk, society lacks the agency to create counter-measures, new norms, or alternative uses for that technology.

History shows that when a “slope” appears, regulation steps in, technology evolves to solve the problem, or the culture shifts to reinterpret the tool.

In almost every case, the feared “bottom” of the slope was never reached because humans constantly built ramps or bridges along the way.

What defines “mostly”? What defines “tolerated”?

The staff, arbitrarily at their discretion of course.

crimeflare strikes again

https://gcdnb.pbrd.co/images/v31C8iQo519B.png

Via uses the built-in WebView renderer included on the Android platform.

And it’s proprietary!

imagine complaining of too much freedom

this would be useful for when I need to talk on the phone near others without disturbing them

clownflare strikes again

crimeflare strikes again

surely gstreamer could’ve handled that easier?

Linux distros have the same kind of device ID mechanism (/etc/machine-id or /var/lib/dbus/machine-id)… the only difference is how applications use it.

Starting July 7, 2026, every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera aimed at your face

Patently false. The rule says nothing about how the ADDW system must function. All the sites claiming that a camera is even required are completely making shit up.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/2144/oj/eng

It is merely defined as:

‘advanced emergency braking system’ means a system which can automatically detect a potential collision and activate the vehicle braking system to decelerate the vehicle with the purpose of avoiding or mitigating a collision;

It’s up to each individual manufacturer to design a system that fulfills that purpose, however they feel like doing it.

Please stop spreading misinformation.

The one saving grace here is that the 100 mile zone only applies to federal authorities… so a local police agency still needs a warrant to track you.

someone who has no idea how networking and security works

I did read it, it doesn’t answer my question.

Is this not the exact same Cambridge Analytica? Wikipedia seems to say this is their domain.