This is going to get interesting. Major culture clash.

I fear this will end with Sweden losing and being forced another step to the right.

That’s a lot of parameters. Wow. I didn’t know they’d go this big.

Look again. The explanation is that these images simply don’t look like any kind of CSAM. The whole story looks like some sort of scam to me.

When I saw this, 2 questions came to mind: How come that this isn’t immediately reported? Why would anyone upload illegal material to a platform that tracks as thoroughly as Meta’s do?

The answer is:

All of those accounts followed the same visual pattern: blonde characters with voluptuous bodies and ample breasts, blue eyes, and childlike faces.

The 1 question that came to mind upon reading this is: What?

Yeah, that’s another one of the deliberately deceptive talking points being spread.

First of all, average people did this. The dataset Books3 was created by a jobless individual named Shawn Presser using one of Aaron’s scripts. Later he shared it with Meta. What makes the difference for Shawn is that the legal department of Meta stands between him and the copyright industry. As far as I can tell, Shawn is way more average than Aaron in that he doesn’t rub shoulders with the likes of Sam Altman.

It’s interesting how this talking point works. Someone shills for the copyright industry against the interests of the average person. And the justification is that the copyright industry persecuted Aaron Swartz. That doesn’t make sense, does it?

I don’t see how this fair use case is different from those in the past. There’s a tech company defending. Organizations like the EFF or the Internet Archive issue supporting statements.

I don’t see the hypocrisy. The content industry is suing tech companies now just like they have in the past, and just like they sue individuals now and in the past.

If I had to guess at the cause of the difference, I’d say that there is a lot of money being spent on social media PR. But perhaps it also is a result of the right-ward shift of society. I wonder how much that has to do with propaganda by the content industry.

For just a few minutes, while reading this, it felt like the good old times.

I mean, howany people are you really going “to get” with this?

Depends what you are looking for. They want to use this to find “child porn”, meaning any nudes of people under 18. How careful are horny teens going to be when they exchange nude selfies? Would a 13yo even know to be careful?

A dbzer0 user agitating against Fair Use? You a narc or something?

The EU has funded a bunch of such little portals for various things but no one uses them. There are also portals to share code made for/by some european governments, like France, Germany, Netherlands, and some others.

nes game programmers

Were these guys even Real Programmers?

Here’s a great talk by a guy who worked on a 1982 game for the Atari 2600, a game console first released in 1977. It’s a fascinating insight into the early evolution of computing. They didn’t work around limitations. They used a machine to do whatever it could.

If anyone has ever wondered by what standard C is a high-level language, this is for you. Or if you want to know how we ever could have developed something to connect the abstract logic of some algorithm with some glowing pixels on a screen.

Pitfall Classic Postmortem With David Crane Panel at GDC 2011 (Atari 2600)

There’s an ancient myth that a god created the first pair of tongs. Tongs need to be forged in a smithy. Obviously, you need tongs for that.

I guess most people don’t get how terrifyingly dystopian this is.

In the EU, there is a serious push to make this mandatory.

Here’s the press release by the anti-trust agency: https://www.autoritedelaconcurrence.fr/en/press-release/targeted-advertising-autorite-de-la-concurrence-imposes-fine-eu150000000-apple

TLDR: Apple made it too complicated for third-party publishers to track users.

That’s a very artful headline. It’s really bouncing around in my head.

out-of-context quote about

That didn’t exactly look like animation. Looks like they trained an AI to control a humanoid figure in a virtual environment. It learned completely new and inhuman means of locomotion. Not very impressive from the technical angle, but the pitch about using it as a model for Zombie movement was clever.

You can use that for CG animation, of course. But those bi- and quadrupedal robots are also trained that way.

I feel the filmmakers manufactured some drama there. Knowing the real context of the quote makes it much more sensible.

It depends on where they did it, but probably yes. They had the right to do it in Japan, for example.

How dare you accuse me of being of the same caliber as Qanon. You don’t know me.

I know that you recklessly spread disinformation and react to proposed facts with hostility rather than curiosity. I don’t know more about the qanon people either.

Yes, but that’s not the only reason. It’s also done to track users; specifically to detect ban evasion and such things. Detecting DDoS attacks or scrapers might also be a purpose. Your instance only gives the first as a purpose, though. EU sites are legally required, per GDPR, to disclose such things.

I don’t know how I should reply to this level of aggressive ignorance and willful disinformation in a way that does not appear arrogant.

Yes, which is why I think a company like Reddit plausibly holds less information than an Australian Lemmy instance.

If identifying-information-storage was so vital, logless VPNs wouldn’t exist.

I see no technical reason why a VPN would need to store outgoing connections. I would be surprised if they didn’t store incoming connections, but I don’t actually know.

Anyway, just don’t make stuff up. You’re not making the world a better place. You ever heard of these Qanon guys? They made up a lot of shit and they didn’t make the world a better place.