Dæmon S.

@dsilverz
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I never knew who I was. I still don't know who I am. It doesn't matter anyway.
It goes without saying how PoW anti-bot mechanisms, which strain devices (esp. mobile devices), provokes unhealthy heating of user devices's processors and chipsets.

Depending on the device's current load, an additional and unexpected challenge from Cloudflare or Anubis
will require the CPU/GPU to perform additional computations which will increase CPU/GPU temp, likely reaching dangerous temperatures (again, esp. mobile devices, which lack CPU cooling mechanisms and are often "wrapped in plastic towels" we call as "smartphone cases" which we often use on our phones to protect these from impacts and our skin's oil).

And when this happens, your device's lifespan just suddenly got shorter, yet
Cloudflare (and Anubis and whatever other PoW-based challenge), as companies and tools pushing potentially physically-damaging piece of software onto users' devices, does not explicitly hold any legal liability over any damage its challenge inflicts on users' devices!!

Even worse: as a guest who didn't consent to websites using Cloudflare (I wanted to access iNaturalist, Lemmy.eco.br and whatever other website that
shamefully uses Cloudflare, an usage I likely wasn't aware of before being faced by its invasive "Performing security verification" I DIDN'T CONSENT TO; you, as a webmaster, should be aware I DIDN'T CONSENT TO THE CPU-DAMAGING PIECE OF THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE TROJAN-HORSED ON BEHALF OF YOUR WEBSITE TO MY PERSONAL DEVICE), I wouldn't be able to sue Cloudflare for the damage it inflicted to my device.

In times where there's a chip/RAM shortage worldwide and tech prices skyrocketed and capitalism doesn't care about how phones became
sine qua non to "living in society", it's not trivial "oh, my phone suddenly fried, gonna buy another phone" (not to mention it's more e-waste). If one's personal device inevitably gets strained by non-consented PoW challenges and ends up physically damaged by the heavy computational load (be it the CPU chipset dying, or OS installation getting corrupted due to process manager crashing and rebooting), who's gonna pay? Who should the user sue to hell shall something like this happen? Worse: how could the user prove the damage came from PoW-based challenges they stumbled upon when trying to access websites they found on Web searches?

Any piece of software that forces the device to perform heavy computations, such as calculating hashes as a PoW (proof-of-work) for anti-bot reasons, should be explicitly consented by the user, a consent of which pieces of software such as Anubis and Cloudflare lacks. Cloudflare's checkbox (triggered by user gesture) only appears
after lots of unknown CPU load happens, so when it asks for user input, it already did non-consented computations.

#Fediverse (and #Lemmy) is surely getting way friendlier to newcomers and very pleasant to use. 😁😒

Lemmy.ml didn't ask my consent to push Anubis code into the insides of my Nokia smartphone. Anubis didn't ask my consent to "validate" my Nokia smartphone. Similarly, Lemmy.world didn't ask my consent to push Cloudflare code into the insides of my Nokia smartphone, and Cloudflare didn't ask my consent to "validate" my Nokia smartphone. Fediverse is, therefore, pivoting to non-consenting acts to keep a relationship. And, could you imagine that there's a very fitting four-letter word to describe this exact behavior?

Yes, there's a word that perfectly describes the act of pushing third-party back-end code in non-consenting manner inside the user's/guest's devices: you just need to imagine the device (be it a smartphone or a computer) as the person's "body", then you derive the word for pushing something unwanted (back-ended) inside the person's body. The word to describe it has four letters and start with R.

Congratulations, Fediverse, for your nice job trying to keep non-consenting third-party
#algorithms out by pushing non-consenting third-party algorithms onto guest's bodie... I mean, onto guest's personal devices. What's gonna be the next approach, asking for guest's ID and selfie, you know, "to protect the kids"? Are you oblivious to the concept of consensual relationship, "yes" or "not now/maybe later"?

You promised to be a haven beyond the walled gardens of Meta and Google and Reddit, but you're becoming increasingly indistinguishable from the algorithm-heavy mainstream social media platforms you swore to be fighting against.

They who fight with monsters should beware lest they become monsters themselves. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

The Pharaohess, the Great Queen, She guides me through this endless desert, She knows every corner of it. She's the only presence in this entire desert and I owe Her my submission and devotion. Uhoo? Uhoo! #darkart #occultart #owl #owls #bubo #pharaoh #eagleowl #darkdrawing #digitaldrawing #buboascalaphus #bascalaphus #desert #dusk
Unpopular opinion, but whatever.

Those who are cheering about
#ArtemisII, parroting first-person plural sentences such as "we made it" or "we're going back to the Moon": sorry to say but, no, you didn't. Except, of course, if you happen to be one of the four astronauts aboard #Orion.

And not even these astronauts, still cogs in the machine, should be cheering anything. Do you people really believe in the goodness and altruistic ("to all humanity") purposes of space missions?

I mean, look around you right now! While "humanity" dreams of settling on some celestial body, there are countless people who dream of having a home within "our" own home planet, for fuck sake!

There's homelessness like never before, while a few billionaires get more and more money and power as the days pass. Even worse: it seems like one of these is on his way to become the first
trillionaire.

A trillion dollars may be ineffable to conceive, so I'll use a brilliant analogy I once read from someone here in the Fediverse: a million seconds is ~11 days; a billion seconds is ~31 years; a trillion seconds ago was when Venus of Willendorf was crafted during the Upper Paleolithic, way before Sumerians got to exist. This is the scales involved when billions and trillions of dollars belong to a single human.

It goes without mentioning how this very "soon-to-be-trillionaire", the former "we'll skip the Moon and go straight to Mars" one, is one of the main figures behind this Artemis missions.

Also goes without saying the origin of the whole corpus of techniques that allowed space missions came from... Wernher von Braun was a nazi. Both the Soviet Union and USA imported "former" nazi engineers and scientists when Nazi Germany fell (Operation Paperclip).

...And the military undertones of space missions. Under the hood, space missions are military. And do you know what military seek? Spoiler: it's not "goodness for all humanity".

Notice the terminology when it comes to space missions: "exploration" (in my native language, "exploração" is also a synonym for "exploitation"), "colonization" (do you know what happened when colonizers reached the American shores and were faced by humans already settling where you are right now? Do you know how the colonizations such as that of Brazil ended up as deportation destination for countless African slaves who were forcefully taken to senzalas?), among other fancy-sounding words.

It's not you going to the Moon, Mars or whatever other celestial body: just watch the end of the documentar... I mean, the sci-fi movie "Don't Look Up", if you didn't yet. Corporations have been irreversibly damaging this planet, only for them to be paving their way to take their greed to literal, astronomical reaches, whenever this Pale Blue Dot fades into a dense smog of pollution. And you people will be cheering: yay, trillionaires made it to Mars safe and sound, now we can finally die in this 150°F winter!

#nasa #science #space #moon #artemis
"You fear me, because I am your omen. You fear the omen, because it means death. You fear death, because death means letting go of your vices. And today, likely 'hopefully' for you, I'm not bringing your death, I'm just bringing your omen once again, so you are reminded; your unsolicited and obligatory dose of Memento Mori: remember you will die. And I am Death Herself."
Shall it be of record: this wasn't AI. And this wasn't AI. And this wasn't AI. This was clearly not AI. This, you guessed it, wasn't AI either. And the first picture from this post, and this, and this...

In fact, if you take all of my drawings, it's more efficient to say what
is rather than what is not: yeah, this, although not AI, was based upon this output from an AI (however, as you can notice from the time-lapse, I didn't even rotoscope it, so I guess it wouldn't even count as AI-assisted). This quite old drawing is perhaps the only AI-assisted drawing among all my drawings (properly disclosed as a reply from me to myself). And, as you can notice, there's a lot of drawings, lots of human-made drawings that nobody cared to deeply engage with (and I'm not talking about numeric reactions).

Crafted poetry and texts of mine got a similar situation: among recent examples,
this wasn't AI. This wasn't AI either, neither this nor this... You're probably aware of how multiple symbolic layers is definitely beyond the scopes of any LLM capability. Oh, speaking of that, this (can you see it? "THERION"?), this ("ONE DYAD")... among many examples of failed or asymmetric attempts on human communication.

Keep this record. In the past, I used to commit digital suicide by deleting my profiles because nobody cared about these. This time, it'll be different: I shouldn't nuke my current profiles, I should keep them as a proof. A proof of how I've tried, so no one
dares to say to me I didn't try. An autobiographical (hopefully my soon-to-be postmortem) digital archive of how humans suck (but, according to the Anti-AI Shiites, the greatest human problem is clearly those nasty clankers, amirite?).

But even this text is SICK... got it? "SICK"? Yeah, because I'm SICK of trying only for me to end up facing the same void...

So if you're an Anti-AI Shiite and you see me posting the uttermost sinful "AI slop", now you know why: because my human-made content turned out to be a waste of effort, so why bother with trying
to human with humans who didn't care to human back? Oh, please, go ahead, say I'm undergoing "AI psychosis", hypocrite!

(SICK (of) BS)
Dæmon S. (@dsilverz)

CW: Drawn depiction of apocalyptic chaos, blood and inferred (but not explicitly detailed) cannibalism (in an occult, dark humor setting) (📎1)

Calckey.world

Today is Human's Day

Today is Love's Day, and Friendship's Day, because it's Happiness Day and Peace Day. Also Humans's Day. And World's Day. It's Social Connection's Day, and Earning a Living's Day, also it's Job Market's Day, and HR's Day.

Also, it's Self-care Enoughness's Day, "It'll Pass" Day, "I Feel You" Day, "You Life Matters" Day, "Keep Trying" Day and "You'll Find Someone" Day, because it's also Mental Health Professionals Day, and Mental Health Institutions Day.

Oh, let's not forget, it's also Future's Day, and Hopefulness's Day. It's Narnia's Day, Oz's Day and Wonderland's Day. Last but not the least, it's Life's Day, because it's Existence's Day, Reality Day, which some are used to simplify beneath the umbrella of Demiurge's Day.

I certainly forgot other holidays associated with this very day, because too many things belong to Fool's Day.

Happy You's Day and Me's Day, because you're a lie and we're both fool!

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me cluelessly, shame on both, because we're both fools being puppeteered by the Demiurge, the master of fools."@[email protected]

He will be back, and he'll be far from just a man: detached from the chains of the demiurge prison, every warhead will react to his necromantic presence, setting free every matter from its cosmic chains.
He will be back, everyone will see the one who'll grind the technological chains to a halt, lit up by The Darkness who embraced him, longing for the ultimate cessation of the cosmic Samsara.
#darkart #apocalyptic #chaos