J. R. DePriest    :EA DATA. SF:1d ago
Aral Balkan

RE: https://alpaca.gold/@seldo/116286295716964968

“Tedious bastards” aka people who actually care about things like privacy and human rights and maybe even want to create alternatives to your toxic brand of technology.

Have you tried fucking off again? Maybe it’ll stick this time.

Mar 26 at 7:05pmWeb
Show threadNoortje Van Leeuwen1d ago

@aral so he came back just to post this?

isnt that something Tedious bastards do?

Show threadAral Balkan1d ago
@Noortjevee Silicon Valley techbros? Tedious? Never! ;)
Show threadNoortje Van Leeuwen1d ago

@aral

if he doesnt read it then how the hell does he know they are angry?

are all these [redacted] so fucking [redacted]?

Show threadAral Balkan1d ago
@Noortjevee They’re whiny little privilege muppets.
Show threadDavid Culley1d ago
@aral Oh, these tedious bastards on Mastodon who don't like being farmed for data. They're so much worse than the fine folks at Bluesky who digitally erase genocide victims.
Show thread[HANDMAIDEN] xan1d ago
@aral "union buster" is probably the most unlikable personality type to exist
Show threadEdward L Platt1d ago
@aral if consent is tedious, then I'm your bastard 👍👍🧐
Show threadL'égrégore André ꕭꕬ1d ago
@aral Chump's off mastodon for a year because he thinks it's a drag, returns with an app or w/e for harvesting "content" without consent, and gets pissy because no one likes him or his slopinator.
Some people…
Show threadÆrion1d ago

@Mabande
Slopinator… love it! 😍😂

@aral

Show threadtivasyk1d ago

@aral given time and resources, every laurie voss has a potential to grow into a mark zuckerberg.

these guys tend to see others – us – as a resource, then ignore or actively oppose multiple, multiple polite attempts at reasoning with them… until suddenly and out of the blue of course «there really are a bunch of tedious bastards».

he’s not the last.

Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK1d ago
@tivasyk @aral TBH I'm also concerned about those who are likely *quietly* scraping Fedi and feeding data to who knows what (not merely LLMs but various authorities, govts etc - maybe a combination of both) - which I suspect is easy enough to do by exploiting the very openness of ActivityPub that makes our clients mostly work in the first place - as much the fools who brag about their crime as well as commit it (and are thus easily caught)
Show threadtivasyk1d ago
@vfrmedia except it’s not a crime! but communities, real ones can’t survive on simple legal/illegal logic, ethic is part of the game somehow, and part of it seems unencodable as law because then it’s suddenly an authoritarian society :-| not a simple topic to untangle.
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK1d ago

@tivasyk even meatspace law is be a grey area - for instance there is no max speed limit on a bicycle in Britain and they have far less regulation than cars, but cyclists are expected not to ride at 30 km/h in the busy shared area and scatter pedestrians (or even collide with them).

Most have the ethics not to behave like that, but some do not (and might even take to cycling because they feel they can get away with more than in a car, rather than it being a lower impact form of transport).

Such attitudes are also widespread on so-called tech "community"...

Show threadskua1d ago
@vfrmedia @tivasyk
The grey area extends on past "Have you got the money to go to court?", prosecutors deciding "It is not in the public interest", Microsoft's "It's not a crime unless a court of law has ruled on that specific case, but then it is not really decided until every avenue of appeal has been tested." and even Trump's "It's my Supreme Court, my friends gave it to me." and "We are sanctioning ICC judges."
Show threadCairo Braga1d ago
@aral I mean... https://gts.cairobraga.com/@cairobraga/statuses/01KMNSB6X7DMH2QEN97N348VZK
Cairo Braga (@[email protected])

@seldo @janl so you consider people who care about CONSENT, a concept that permeates every aspect of our lives and has a specially heavy prominence in our widespread "sexual crimes against women" problem as a society, to be "tedious bastards"? interesting.

gts.cairobraga.com
Show threadOrca 🌻 | 🎀 | 🪁 | 🏴🏳️‍⚧️1d ago
@aral
"I remember why I left" is so hilariously self-important 🤣
As if someone wanted him to be there.