Oh nah, they don’t directly defend this - They claim to be worried about the genocide of palestinians and you should totally vote third party instead to show Kamala who’s boss!

Oh man, that would have been fun to compete in.

I collect these into a database I run locally out of a bad habit I had as a teenager. Back in the AOL days you could ‘Email-bomb’ someone, and rightfully it sounds exactly like it is – you’d just send them tons and tons and tons of email.

Well, turns out - that’s pretty easy to detect and block. So I came up with a better way, a more permanent way; and probably the reason so many people see their email address as a private/privacy thing now – You simply submit their email address to every known spam address in existence.

Now, you’ve got an infinite amount of spam being thrown their way, 24/7, at super high volumes, for essentially - what is the entire lifetime of that account. I haven’t done it in the past 20 years or so, and I don’t have any of my old ‘progz’ for it, but I figure one day when I need it again, it will be invaluable.

Not for being Russian. For being IN Russia. Jackass.

If an African immigrant were there, he’d be banned too – If a chinese guy were there, he’d be banned too - it has nothing to do with race and everything to do with nation and location.

I linked the mans github, which SAYS he’s in Russia, and mods deleted it.

Then why are you here using it as an argument?

It’s weird how you somehow managed to single that one thing out, even though my comments already included it. That’s so silly. It’s almost like you have some sort of agenda or something…

Pretty sure what I said was CRYSTAL clear.

Which is great that we’re not talking about groups of people, but national lines on a map, cool how that works right?

They are under the jurisdiction of the Russian government, that makes them Russian. No matter if they’re from China, Africa, or Tim-buk-tu for all anyone fucking cares. Countries – are – not – people.

Racism requires you targetting – get this – a group of people based on their shared identity. None of these people have to have whatever identity you’re assuming they have, because they simply have to be…TADA – IN RUSSIA.

If I hopped over the border into Russia, I’d agree with not being able to access this stuff – Oh now, I’m being racist against myself! But hey, can’t logic someone out of a position that they didn’t logic themselves into in the first place.

Bet you I would.

Russia gets sanctioned. That means all its inhabitants as well. Too bad, so sad.

Wow, good job mods! I linked the proof that he was in Russia and you guys delete it, niiiiiice.

Removed by mod

I’m not missing anything, I’m one of Louis Rossman’s Patreon members. I work in the same field as he does (or, well, used to, technically).

The only data they’re collecting is what swipe pattern coincides with which word. You swipe, it mispredicts, you choose the word that it should have been, and poof - a library of swiped shapes -> word gets created.

It doesn’t violate privacy, it’s anonymized, and it helps improve the system for others.

There’s no reason to go to the extent you claim they must.

Nowhere in their site does it say such a thing, and I think you’re interpreting it the way you want to believe it.

They simply say that people should have control over their information.

I agree. That’s why it should be built into the keyboard, and ONLY activated if the user opts-in. If they don’t, then they will be cutting off their nose, in order to spite their face.

Users will gladly contribute, so long as the path to contribution is the least painful it can be. Opting in via the keyboard app is the only reasonable route to do this; not via some website.

You’re welcome to read their beliefs here: https://futo.org/about/what-does-futo-believe/

We expect FUTO companies to have an honest relationship with their customers. Ideally revenue comes from customers paying directly for the services provided by the company. “The users are our product” revenue models such as those employed by Facebook and Google are prohibited.

If the data needed to help improve swipe accuracy goes to helping improve the product, and is not sold and used as a business model - then that is perfectly within reasonable use of the data as explained by their beliefs page.

Linux has a lot of cryptography related to it, so yeah - it’s sanctions related. And these maintainers were all people who were contributing from within Russia or have ties to Russia.

The Russian troll tactic of calling someone racist to get them to back down from an argument is hilarious so I’m gonna just go ahead and agree with you. I’m racist against war. I’m racist against human suffering. Oh no, I’m such a racist. Oh no whatever will I do?

Oh that’s right, I’m gonna live my life and be happy about opposing Russian aggression against the Ukrainian people! Slava Ukraini

Yes, that’s the point of my reply. I’m saying it should be built into the keyboard and not just a website, if that wasn’t clear.

“Russian Sanctions” due to Russia invading a peaceful nation and killing Ukrainians is not a race of people.

Russia is a country. Not a race.

Smart dude. He knows exactly why. To pretend that he doesn’t is a sham. This whole “I don’t know whyyyyyy” face he’s put on is an absolute facade.

They should simply allow collecting this data via opt-in. I’d gladly provide it, but I don’t want it to be opt-out, because then this feels sneaky.

Yeah, mostly I use the pinky for hitting shift. Apostrophe, question mark, and brackets are next used. I play games so I also use it for hitting ctrl quite regularly by bending my pinky in and hitting it with the top of my nail.

I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a price that high at my local Goodwill. Coats only go up to like $16 here.