Vorta for Borg Backup - for linux and MacOS. You use it remotely but I use it for local backup because a) its encrypted b) its Borg so awesome and c) easy to use. I just pointed it at my home directory, told it where to place the encrypted backups and how often to make them.

I’ve had to recover files twice and recovery is just as easy as set up.

Bad idea. Last time someone did this we ended up with this timeline.

Less privacy invasion, less corporate, less fash, less incoherent fury, less trolling, less need to doomscroll.

I’ve literally got no idea what you’re talking about or what your point is. Are you saying this person hasn’t committed a crime? Because that’s incorrect. Lots of jurisdictions have laws preventing things like CSAM generated imagery, deepfake porn and a whole raft of other things. ‘Harm’ doesn’t begin and end with something done to an individual for a lot of crimes.

The purpose of a game is to play a game through a series of objectives and challenges.

Even if I grant you that the purpose of viewing CSAM is to see child abuse

Very curious to hear what else you think the purpose of watching CSAM might be.

it’s still less bad than actually abusing them

“less bad” is relative. A bad thing is still bad. If we go by length of sentencing then rape is ‘less bad’ than murder. that doesn’t make it ‘not bad’.

so implying that viewing such content would increase the cases of child abuse is an assumption I’m not willing to make either.

OK?

I didn’t claim that AI CSAM increased anything at all. Literally all I’ve said is that the purpose of AI generated CSAM is to watch kids being abused.

Neither did I claim that violent games lead to violence. You invented that strawman all by yourself.

Intent is defined as intention or purpose. So I’ll rephrase for you: the purpose of playing a FPS is to play a game. The purpose of playing GTA is to play a game.

The purpose of AI generated CSAM is to watch children being abused.

This guy did do something - he either created or accessed AI generated CSAM.

There may well be the odd weirdo playing Call of Duty to watch people die.

But everyone who watches CSAM is watching it to watch kids being abused.

The difference is intent. When you’re playing a FPS, the intent is to play a game. When you play GTA the intent is to play a game.

The intent with AI generated CSAM is to watch kids being abused.

user: @username@instancenameuserison.tld

community: !communityname@instancenamecommunityison.tld

West Kennet Long Barrow is a Neolithic barrow over 5,500 years old. It’s part of the numerous neolithic structures in Wiltshire, UK (which includes the frankly far less impressive but more famous Stonehenge).

Going inside it is a very odd feeling. You can see and touch ancient work marks put there by people who are so remote to us we know very little about them. I’ve visited numerous ancient world heritage sites and its unique (to me) in how close you feel to those people.

The Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian - yes, I know there’s been a movie (Master & Commander with Russel Crowe and Paul Bettany) but the series is much richer and deeper than any single movie could be.

Also, Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings series. Concentrate on the Fitz storyline, maybe give the Liveship series a miss.

The same type of right-winger as JKR and EM now are used to accuse the Williams sisters of being men. The same type of right-winger JKR and EM now are used to accuse Michelle Obama of being a man.

Strange how its mostly always women of colour who have these utterly baseless accusations leveled at them by right-wingers like JKR and EM. And when I say ‘strange’ I mean its not strange at all and is deliberate.

Whereas the true insanity is to let people get away with openly inciting race hate which leads to life threatening real-world consequences for the people on the receiving end of the lies.

Absolute free speech is the refuge of those without the common sense and maturity to realise it has led to deaths. It is entirely appropriate to legislate for those who want, or encourage, life threatening harm to come to others.

If you decide to not use StickerMule again, as the org I’m part of now has, I’d suggest that rather than simply not using them to login to your SM account, then contact them via their Support interface and ask them to remove your account and all data associated with it or direct them to tell you how you can do it yourself and end by telling them exactly why.

Instead of u/username its @username@instancedomain which translates to https://instancedomain/u/username

Instead of r/subname its !communityname@instancedomain which translates to https://instancedomain/c/communityname

Basically, in the body of a post or comment, use the ! or @ format to create a workable link.

I’d been flirting on and off with Lemmy for a year or so, not using it seriously (different username) but then u/spez deciding to sell user data to LLM’s coupled with the general air of permanent aggro in just about every sub led me to finally ditch it. I’ve had to go back a couple of times and every time I did I regretted it. It’s become Twitter level users intertwined with bot armies all flinging shit at each other.

Depending on what part of the world these people live in, the actions of these vigilantes might screw up the chance of a successful prosecution.

I’m in the UK and I remember watching a copper interviewed on the the TV asking people not to do it as a lot of the time it results in inadmissible evidence and might even give pedos chance to delete evidence. I think he also said he was aware of multiple instances of the pedo-hunters getting the wrong person at the ‘sting’.

That said, I doubt these pedo-hunters really care about abused kids, it seems mostly about bragging rights and youtube views.

No, they’re not just assholes. If they were just that, nobody would give a shit. I understand what you think they’re doing and I understand why you think it’s a good thing. As I said to someone else, there’s literally no way for anyone to summarise everything. You can either watch it or not, I can’t make you.

It’s an oddity of the whole situation that 90% of the ‘ordinary’ members of TST are good people who want good things, but the owners of TST (and they are the owners, TST is also a registered business as well as a tax-exempt religion) are really not and they have absolute control over it.

Honestly, that feels impossible - there’s just so much there’s no way to summarise it neatly. And it goes way, way beyond just the racism eugenics, antisemitism etc. There’s the way TST are using the law as a weapon, the numerous comments about how women are treated the higher up the org you get. I really don’t know how to summarise it all.