ChatGPT rewrites Umberto Eco's 14 signs of fascism as Jeff Foxworthy.
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    Jean_le_Flambeur
    3d ago 100%

    It references exactly what is meant, for the people in my home country Hitler was considered a strong handed, good, democratically ellected leader. For a lot of people in america trump is a strong handed, democratically elected, good leader, for a lot of people meloni is a strong handed, democratically elected leader.

    The very point is, that people fall for fascists, believing they are "strong handed" and "people who get the job done, even if the means of archiving it are hard"

    The point is that the trope of "having a vision/plan better then everyone else, which you demand is followed strictly is always the first step in delegitimizing opposing voice, minorities, foreigners etc. The first step in taking power is always to convince the public you know better then everyone else (usually with scapegoats which in your narrative only you can fight, mostly you use the groups you delegitimsed before). Then you get power and take mesures to secure that power, normally by silencing or buying the press. You give yourself ever more freedom to do what you want (like spy on everyone) and your reason why this is OK are always those scapegoats or general " terrorism"

    If you collected enough power, you can prevent the next elections or fake them.

    Trump tried this. He is exactly the bilderbuch example for why this point is in the list

    Fascists never come and say "hi, I am the fascist and I want to opress 80% of you, please elect me" They come and say "look, those 5%, they are the root of all your problems, but I can save you from them, all others are to blind to see, but I will finally put drastic measures in place to save you from them! I am the strong leader who will get you through this"

    Wise people on the other hand mostly talk about where they're unsure in their theories, what could go wrong, and mist importantly listen to their opposition and other opinions

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  • ChatGPT rewrites Umberto Eco's 14 signs of fascism as Jeff Foxworthy.
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    Jean_le_Flambeur
    3d ago 100%

    Its not that you are surrounding yourself by ass kissers, its that its in the very nature of power that people around you will try to profit off this power.

    I'm not saying that for a short amount of time a single person cant make good decisions on a large scale. But if this works, it does so because there are checks and balances put in place that limit the power to the position, not the person itself and has means of democratically replacing that person, there is civil control and media control of their actions, etc. Pp.

    Its not so much the person that is like the personification of Jesus, can't be coaxed, can't be bribed, can't be frightened, can't be mislead, can't be misinformed in any way, its the system that secures the people of oppression.

    Sure you need someone reasonably upright and good for even the best system to work, but if there is no system limiting the power, even the best leader will get corrupted by it over time. We see it everywhere in history, time and time again. Power corrupts.

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  • ChatGPT rewrites Umberto Eco's 14 signs of fascism as Jeff Foxworthy.
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    Jean_le_Flambeur
    4d ago 100%

    In the scale of nations I would disagree. A single strong leader can"t solve all the problems. No matter how "good", progressive, collaborative etc. He is.

    As soon as one holds all the power people around them will start to please them for their own benefit instead of telling the truth so it becomes impossible for the leader to make I formed decisions in the spirit of ALL the people In a whole nation

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  • Scheiße!
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    Jean_le_Flambeur
    3w ago 100%

    Is this supposed to be mock up german? Not German words, not German accsent and word composition rather Scandinavian.

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  • Is there a working Spotify downloader that actually downloads from Spotify?
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    Jean_le_Flambeur
    1mo ago 100%

    Spotydown.media worked for me, but sometimes it gets stuff so wildly wrong that i am guessing he pulls the stuff from another library and takes the closest match for the name. Doesnt seem to be YouTube though, never had intros, outros or music video noises

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    Firefox 1mo ago
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    If people have to hack your privacy-respecting browser to make it respect their privacy, maybe your privacy-respecting browser isn’t really privacy respecting.
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    Jean_le_Flambeur
    1mo ago 100%

    Jap, but chromium based is a big Problem...

    Firefox is the only (major) browser stopping google from nearly 100% market share. If this is the case, they can easily patch "features" into chrome and not into chromium to force people to switch.

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  • Why do you care about privacy?
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    Jean_le_Flambeur
    2mo ago 80%

    Well opressivs governments dont work by serving good policys to the people, they work by blaming a part of the people for all problems and then promsing to get rid of them/punish them. A scapegoat basically. The opressors don't make it better for the people, but the people are happy because the ones they think causing their suffering get punished.

    Historically this has been the communists in Nazi Germany, or faschist italy, modern faschists try to make gay people and people from the far east this scapegoat atm.

    The problem is: the scapegoat is never the real cause of the problem. After taking them all to the kz, and life for people still not getting better you need a new one. For Nazi Germany those where Jewish people, just because of their religion, has Hitler proposed the "kommunistisch-jüdische-weltverschwörung" (world conspiracy of Jews and communists) When after the pogromes stuff still would get better, they would blame everyone not arian. (Not blonde, blue eyed, northern heritage)

    If a fascist government tries to exclude you or not is just a matter of time, at some point they will rum out of scapegoats and come for you.

    You never know which aspect someone picks to exclude you (gender, political view, haircolor, Parents, lastname, sexual preferences, religion, mental health, physical health etcpp.) So it's better to not have someone gather all that info about you in the first place.

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  • linux
    Linux 2mo ago
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    How dare you use a text editor because it's easy to use
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    Jean_le_Flambeur
    2mo ago 100%

    If something is "easy to use" this includes the time you need learn said thing.

    Drinking rahmen from the bowl is easier then using chopsticks (even if you are more elegant with chopsticks)

    Driving automatic is easier then driving manual (even if you may be more efficient with manual if you practised shifting a lot)

    Walking is easier then flicflacs (even if you may be faster with flicflacs if you practised a lot)

    Using Ubuntu is easier than using arch (even if arch gives you more control and opportunities if you understand it)

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    Linux 2mo ago
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    How dare you use a text editor because it's easy to use
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    Jean_le_Flambeur
    2mo ago 100%

    Well its shown to you at the bottom of the screen what it does...

    And if you want Ctrl v,c,s etc. To work like in word etc you can always use nano --modernbindings

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  • Hey guys n gurls, I was wondering if it is smart to disable my VPN connection for casual browsing. Reasons: when having VPN constantly running it may be possible to track me via browser fingerprinting. Szenario: the connection coming from the VPN which hypothetically downloaded a torrent, tries to watch capitalist propaganda while living in China, etc.pp has this screen ratio, this locale, this addons etc. And (more important) the YouTube login cookie we know belongs to this physical person/telephone number etc. So I am wondering if I should only use the VPN when "needing" it (read articles not available in country, Netflix, read information government doesn't like, things like that.) Or if I'm missing something here and I could obscure my causal day to day browsing as well without decreasing the security of the VPN. For reference, the VPN doesn't log anything (for more than a day) to my knowledge EDIT: From what I understand from the comments: switching the VPN has little to no impact on widely used tracking and if at all makes it easier to corelate data. People emphasize the general lack of full privacy if you are wanted by entities willing to spend enough resources. But for the general need of privacy in normal usecases it makes more sense to just leave the VPN running.

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    ![Screenshot_20240401-141407_Berechtigungssteuerung](https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/b7510955-a594-44db-b0c0-11218f463ac3.jpeg) Edit: got told by the kind folks in the community that this is expected and the sentence "can access position while in background" actually just means: will ask you for the permission to access the position from the background but only does so, if you allow it" - that's what I figured, but now im sure. Thanks for the clarification everyone! Hey guys n gurls, I recently learned about exodus, and installed it to check my apps. While exodus shows some apps (like bike computer for reference) are allowed to track my position (quite logically). The strange thing: in system settings it says seeing position is not allowed. Does this mean that the app wants those permissions but I don't granted them? Or are my system settings bricked? Is this because of lineage? Is this expected? Would greatly appreciate someone who understands this a little bit more to explain :) P.S: Is (the tracker part of) exodus even useful when i already use neo store which shows known tracker? Is this maybe even the same database?

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    Hallo liebe Wiener, ich bin über Ostern in der Stadt und wollte mal fragen ob ihr Gedanken habt was man sich als alternativer Mensch hier anschauen könnte/sollte. Bin zum ersten mal hier, es gibt also keine falschen antworten ;) Ob ein schöner Park, ne nette Kneipe, ein gutes punk Konzert dieses WE, ein sehenswertes museum oder sonst was, ich würde mich freuen von euch zu hören, was ich gesehen haben sollte bevor ich am Dienstag wieder fahre :)

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    As the Title says, i am wondering if there is a way to have the pictures big enough that i can see them without clicking on them in my feed. At the Moment it looks like shown in the picture above

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    Offtopic: can anyone tell me how to post/ crosspost in multiple communities at once?

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    This is a repost (but hopefully New in this site)

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