You mean “stated effect”, which you should know by now is almost always a lie, like when a politician’s lips move.

But not gambling, cigarettes, day trading, doom scrolling, sub minimum wage gig work right ?

Sure if you have a drone but it’s not nearly as discreet as a fiber+ lens in your sleeve

Yes that makes sense, the range finding sensor from an old cell phone should do nicely.
You can 3d print a geared lens barrel for small M12 lens quite easily.
Just map the values to real gear position and bingo’s your uncle !

electronics and industrial supply places, you can rip it off a diode based laser cutter but they’re very chonk, if you’re handy, you’d get just the diodes, lens and then make your own PCB with powersupply. You need adjustable because the light has to be in focus at the distance between you and the camera or else it will be to diffuse to disable the sensor, both too short and too far. You don’t really need a galvo head in this case just mount the pcb on something that can randomnly vibrate the laser in a small radius at the effective distance. You won’t be able to hit the camera sensor steady, you need to paint over it randomnly, with the right focus it will work even on rare occasionnal hits since those sensor are very sensitive to laser light

You’re going to need a rather tight beam to hit that camera and it will only for milliseconds. It would take really bad luck to hit someone continuously long enough through a reflection (drastic reduction in power level by then) to damage their eyesight, plus camera optics are not very reflective of infrared as they need it for night vision, so they’re especially sensitive. But yes, this should be treated with the seriousness of a gun.

Handheld scanning infrared laser, 5 to 50 watts Basically laser-clean the sensor out of existence

As a user, I just want to go to /c/pancakes, and I think I should see the entire pancake fediverse, leaving the question of who is and isn’t included in that list up to me and maybe a informal discussion on /c/metapancake for users to trade blocklist of the really bad pancakes, to apply at my leisure client side.

Leaving as little decision making ability in the hands of instance owners and their moderation delegates. To free the pancake community as a whole from having a /u/spez or a /u/gallowboobs or some other creepy spook from Edwards Air Force base putting a noose around their neck !

ON the other hand, from Project MK Ultra to Echelon to Prism, from Cambridge Analytica to Palantir and the other Tech-Creeps Industrial Complex, on the matter of spying and I think there isn’t such as a thing “going too far”. Not even the dreams of Big Brother could go quite as far as the merciless depravity humanity is about to experience.

Thinking your phone don’t spy on you will be regarded as “quaint” and “hopelessly naive”

I agree, I believe the fediverse as it exists just create many “mini-reddits” the problem still exists and the incentives to concentrate attention into “big instances” and “big communities” will almost certainly recreate the same problem that reddit does. Except with a fragmented audience, the misdeeds and abuses of admins will be harder to detect and more confusing to escape.

So, I agree, without serious steps, taken urgently to disempower instance owners and their lieutenant moderators I believe Lemmy and the Fediverse are already doomed. An aristocratic class of server owners will have free reign to gaslight the small remnant of reddit refugees into believe whatever their interests desires.

And based on your username, I suspect that you are one of these owners, that this is the real reason of your objection to further disempowerment of instance owners and that what I see as a nightmare is in fact your dream.

The link above is broken but I think it was this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKQPey6L42M

Also here is a bonus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EpdtPDSlu4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9eipcOFEhY

Then just don’t make the post a crosspost ?

If you don’t want what your posts being seen, put them in increasingly obscure places, I’m pretty sure we can even have invite only communities, or undiscoverable communities that can stave off eternal september forever.

But this is a social network, it exists for pro-social reasons, it should not cripple itself for the sake of the unsocial. Without agglomeration systems, lemmy is becoming the same as reddit, and that will eventually lead to tyrannical owners and mods, community fragmentation where everyone becomes a mutual hostage-taker of everyone else to the benefit of moderators.

If you don’t want to become part of the community, there are many unfederated servers you can use which won’t even be visible by outsiders, from your description I think that’s what you problem is, you don’t want to be on a federated server. At least maybe one that doesn’t allow outsiders in.

Also, no way, leave the seat as is, it is the responsibility of every user to adjust the seat to their current need.

I’m the only one that uses my own toilet, this makes no difference when having to sit.
It would be super annoying to raise and lower the sit every single time that I piss…

My dignity refuses to piss sitting down !

I put the lid up, so I don’t have to raise the lid next time I’m there to piss, which is what I do the most often there.

Fuuuuuuuuck Metallica of course it was one of the grotesquely wealthy ones that tried to kill sharing. Maybe the entire industry eat itself and collapse !

Please understand, I am saying the Intellectual Property regime should be ABOLISHED, I don’t recognizes ANYONE’s right to limit the propagation of human expression in any form. I find this heinous enclosure of culture absolutely intolerable, I think it corrupts art, creates monetary incentive to create art which are always impure and a defilement of the sanctity of art.

I’m not proposing an alternative, I’m not giving you any kind of solution either.

Artists are not “entitled to wages”, the artists should be paid for in advance, in fact all humans should have the essentials of life provided at no cost. I find it obscene that distributors finance and profit art like they do. The financialization of art has been its downfall. This is why our intellectual world is filled with garish slop, pumped full of “integrated artvertising”.

I’m sorry this demolishes the “business model of art” in this corrupt economic system.

But I want you to you, I hate it, I HATE IT ALL !!!

How dare you ! Poly shore is a national treasure !

It’s not theft obviously, information can be duplicated infinitely at no cost.
Also I don’t think you understand, I want it to actively stop existing.
I pirate stuff, that I’m not even going to watch or listen to out of principle.
I want intellectual property abolished AND made illegal, not merely “change the business model” what kind of weak sauce is that, I want it flattened by bulldozers and erased from history books, it’s perpetrators treated as criminals.