You need some #yggdrasil in yo life. Small web vibe all the way.

What also do we think of #neocities?

@catsalad Its fucking evil, and they're working with apple, and various "high security" companies like financial stuff.

The web will be closed to anyone who doesn't have a verified android or ios device, you won't be able to use online banking without a verified android or ios device, your verified android or ios device will be your dystopian "multi-pass"

@catsalad since "scan" is the operative word that determines proof...

Step 1: buy a burner

Step 2: burninate

Step 3: humanity restored

Warning: may not be as effective without a bonfire

Edit: in hindsight, I have realized how retarded this actually is, but the risk of someone having already seen it prevents deletion. So just pretend this did not happen.

@catsalad just need a "remixer" app that shares the QR code in real time for strangers to scan and verify - make any data that's collected this way useless.

@catsalad

The web is large. I have already walked away from yahoo, facebook, twitter, whatsapp, reddit, digg, and several others. I have never even been tempted to return to any of them.

I was an adult when the web got going. I don't need to know what people I grew up with are doing. I don't need to know the next dance craze. I don't care what is popular. I will not prove anything to your site.

If your site is not frictionless, I'm not interested.

@catsalad How on earth can scanning a QR code with an Android (sic!) phone not be done by a robot?

@catsalad

The web is large. I have already walked away from yahoo, facebook, twitter, whatsapp, reddit, digg, and several others. I have never even been tempted to return to any of them.

I was an adult when the web got going. I don't need to know what people I grew up with are doing. I don't need to know the next dance craze. I don't care what is popular. I will not prove anything to your site.

If your site is not frictionless, I'm not interested.

@catsalad Very easy to fake to get mindless rubes to scan your QR codes and load malicious code I would think. This is such a bad idea I don't even know if the people who designed this even thought this through, consequences and all.

@catsalad
i want to agree.

but for some important sites, i need to use workarounds.

if the site is not crucial, avoid or boycott it.

@catsalad

Es ist wirklich erstaunlich, auf was für perverse Ideen diese TechBros kommen.

#unplugtrump

@catsalad does not share your details with this website or app... And what about sharing details with Google? Weird it omits what it shares with Google.

For me to scan it with my "mobile device" means downloading and decrypting on the device I'm on, which may well not work, because it doesn't share enough/the right data with Google.

@catsalad 'owns a smartphone' does not imply, nor is implied by, 'is a human'.

This reCaptcha is bullshit.

@catsalad It would be a great idea to do a "black" (or red?) list of those sites

@catsalad im getting the gut feeling the #broligarchy has pushed it too far. Are the bunkers for the end of the world, or to protect them from the inevitable?! Regardless; " a cave is a grave." -* Some random prepper from some random reality show

@Daojoan The argument is that they should be able to get around in a world designed for humans with two legs, and the argument is plausible.

@Daojoan

It is our desire to play God...

Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."

@Daojoan

Aaakshully

Two legs makes sense.

1. Minimum suspension mats (vs tripod or quad+)

2. Nature doesn't do wheels.

3. There are other ground propulsion methods (wigglies etc) but not fast.

4. Once you got the balance software going, legs are super fast.

5. You could have alternatives, but they are medium specific (arboreal, hydrous), legs are universal.

6. Flight has specific downsides mass/energy also medium specific

Just about the only half decent alternative is snake.
But legs > snake

@Daojoan
There is an interesting mixture of videos with ridiculously failing androids...
and astonishing abilities of others.
In one sort they look harmless and acceptable clumsy, even adorable mainly because of their human shape.
In another way they look very ..useful.

None of this should distract from their frighteningly rapid development.
None of this should distract from the question of who could benefit from their future capabilities and mass production.

#Armament #followthemoney

@Daojoan A bipedal design is hardly efficient for what we're trying to use robots for today.

@Daojoan Those gizmos that open greenhouse windows wider depending on temperature/sunlight are pretty cool (and purely passive, with no "intelligence" at all)

@Daojoan a lot of the engineers take ideas from fiction as well : )

@Daojoan

I always cringe at illustrations of “office AI assistants”. Humanoid robots who look at a big monitor and does input using a keyboard and mouse. JUST USE THE USB-C CONNECTOR ALREADY!!!

Of course, they are almost always white and the female bots have nice boobs. So infantilising.

Sarah Connor’s biggest mistake was failing to develop military grade glue guns. The first robot uprising would have been too sticky to do much damage 😁

@Daojoan Humans are the only mammal that walks upright on two legs. Humans are not natural to this planet. Discuss.

@Daojoan well, uh, you've got an excellent point there about the fear aspect of duplicating the look of the Terminator or other villainous robots from popular entertainment, but...uh...having spent too much time on Twitter (in previous years) in mudfights with Elon Musk fanboys, let me add that they're also hopeful for humanoid sexbots. there's such a tremendous overpressure of sexual desperation in that crowd...