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  • What other great opening lines do you know?.

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  • Let's go with something more somber.

    Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

    -Lolita by Nabokov

    It's not strictly the opening, because it comes after a fake foreword presenting this, the main text, as a true crime story, written by the criminal himself. It sets the mood quite effectively. These sentences are the equivalent of drawing hearts around the name of your crush. And while the writer is shown to obsess over Lolita, he is only concerned with his own person. His victim is only presented as something within him (poignantly his loins and mouth) and not as a person separate from and outside of him.

    And mind: AI could not come up with something like that: No tongue or lips.

  • 55 EU lawmakers from 19 member states call for “immediate opening” of Moldova’s accession talks

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  • The enemy never sleeps. What's the time in Saint Petersburg anyway?

  • F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

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  • Google is collecting those names. They certainly have to comply. They are responsible for FOSS on their products. Wouldn't want Google to get out of regulations by going open source...

    The OSS community extensively lobbied for exceptions. You can click the link and see for yourself how much open source gets mentioned. The more professional foundations like Mozilla should be safe, as well as individual contributors. I'm not so sure about the in-between; individuals with FOSS repositories who collect donations.

  • F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

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  • Of course, the DSA already requires app stores to collect copies of identity papers, but it excluded small enterprises. I guess that's why F-Droid didn't have to do that, so far.

    The CRA takes effect in 2027. Maybe you could come up with some argument for how Google could do this differently. But why should they bother to lawyer this? It's not their problem, and they'd only be damned for pushing back.

    Article 23

    Identification of economic operators

    1. Economic operators shall, on request, provide the market surveillance authorities with the following information:

    (a) the name and address of any economic operator who has supplied them with a product with digital elements;

    (b) where available, the name and address of any economic operator to whom they have supplied a product with digital elements.

    1. Economic operators shall be able to present the information referred to in paragraph 1 for 10 years after they have been supplied with the product with digital elements and for 10 years after they have supplied the product with digital elements.

    https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02024R2847-20241120

  • With AI being what it is, how long do you think before digital media is no longer admissible in court?

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  • This is a rare useful (and frugal/practical) niche for blockchain. Immutable verification is a core principle.

    You're right on everything else, but this is just no. You never need blockchain.

    One just need someone who makes it credible that the hash and timestamp were not tampered with. Even posting the hash on Reddit would do it for most people. Reddit isn't going to commit fraud for some random person. And that random person is probably not able to hack the database undetected.

    Recomputing lots of hashes isn't difficult. A blockchain doesn't add any trustworthiness on its own.

  • With AI being what it is, how long do you think before digital media is no longer admissible in court?

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  • Forgeries are nothing new. Society has always worked on trust and best guesses. Nothing has changed.

    Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2650/

  • With AI being what it is, how long do you think before digital media is no longer admissible in court?

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  • Recomputing the hashes is not a problem at all.

  • Delusions of a Protocol

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  • Yes, but that doesn't seem sufficient for some. Conservatives certainly would like to remove trans people from the public completely. Aside: It's foolish for trans people to copy these tactics, assuming this comes organically from the trans community. These people are certainly acting like the heels in some right-wing propaganda play.

    Bluesky offers several ways in which users can remove unwanted content from their experience. Easiest is for users to block Singal; banning him from their personal part of the network. Blocklists can be shared easily. Users can also spin up their own moderation service.

    I probably shouldn't go into the details of what Bluesky can do on a technical level. Incidentally, that blog post contains errors.

    In short: On a technical level, the Bluesky company can greatly reduce the visibility of someone. But they would likely run into legal problems if they used that on Singal. The EU regulates what can be done quite strictly. Maybe they could benefit from some industry friendly "loopholes". I'd have to look that up.

  • F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

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  • I believe Google is doing this to comply with the Cyber Resilience Act; no chance that this requirement is going away in the EU.

  • Delusions of a Protocol

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  • That needs a longer explanation.

    An instance does not interact with all other instances. It only syncs with other instances when users follow someone there, join a community, ...

    But that's also a problem. It means you can't search the entire Fediverse from a particular instance and find new and interesting discussions and people. There is no discovery feed. For that, you need something like Bluesky's relay. That relay actually does keep up with what everyone is posting and archives it.

    But that's one aspect of Bluesky that draws a lot of criticism by Fedi people. A full relay is expensive to run and not something anyone can self-host. Pruned down versions are doable, though. If everyone actually did run their own relay, then one would get you the combinatorial problem.

    In practice, large instances are the Fediverse solution to the discovery problem. You can see what the many users on that instance post. Also, the many users subscribe to many things and so a large instance will cache much content from elsewhere. That architecture encourages centralization.

    There's other difficult issues. So you have a little server that serves your content to a few followers. Some celebrity with millions of followers would have to rent an entire server rack. But what if little old you interacts with a celeb and now all their followers try to fetch your content from your little server? Common problem. You just need caching. EG the celebrity rack also serves your content to their followers and takes the load off your server. But now whoever is doing the caching can also filter replies. There's no simply solution there.

  • Delusions of a Protocol

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  • Yes. On Bluesky, they could be individually muted or blocked. You can make and share blocklists, make your own custom feeds that exclude such posters, or even create your own moderation service that removes (or blurs, ...) posts for your subscribers. Obviously, that is not satisfactory for some people.

  • Delusions of a Protocol

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  • Yes. It's only a problem if you expect or want the Fediverse to be the future of social media, which it isn't.

  • Delusions of a Protocol

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  • This does raise a question relevant to the Fediverse. Some Bluesky users are lobbying to have Jesse Singal banned, whoever that is. Of course, a hallmark of a decentralized network is that there is no central authority that could actually do that. Implicitly, this demand is a rejection of the very concept of decentralization.

    Once people find out what decentralization means, are they even willing to tolerate it?

  • Ethical artificial intelligence ?

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  • Ethical meaning : “private”, "anonymous, “not training with your data”, “no censured”, “open source”…

    Yes. You have to be careful with the meaning of "ethical". Most often, people write about "ethical AI" to demand money for copyright owners.

    Case in point: Some people say that AI is only open source if the training data can also be shared freely. That means the training data has to be public domain or that permission by the copyright owner was obtained. If that's what you mean by "open source", then your options are extremely limited. EG some offerings from AllenAI.

    Uncensored is also tricky. Many say that ethical AI does not output bad content. Of course, what bad content is depends very much on who you ask. The EU or China have strict legal requirements but not the same, of course. In any case, when you train an AI, you steer it to generate a certain kind of output. Respectable businesses don't want NSFW stuff. Some horny individuals out there want exactly that. So it depends on what you want.

    Check out the SillyTavernAI subreddit (and also LocalLlama). There you find people who value private, uncensored LLMs, though not necessarily copyright. It's also where the above-mentioned horny individuals hang out for related reasons.

    Duckduckgo offers free, anonymous access to major Chatbots. Maybe worth checking out.

  • Delusions of a Protocol

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  • Bad rant. Wrong on technical aspects and self-contradictory. Anyway, off-topic here.

  • Fell off the horizon into a black hole

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  • It seems awfully coincidental that, of all the curvatures out there, the universe should just end up having none.

  • Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

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  • Interessehalber: Du hast wahrscheinlich schon mitgekriegt, dass Strafen für DSGVO-Verstöße verhängt wurden, zB gegen Meta. Meta geht aber nicht mit privaten Arztberichten oä um. Worum denkst du, geht es bei sowas? Oder was machen diese Cookies, über die ständig geredet wird?

  • Halloween is canceled this year

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  • Entering on wheelchairs, no doubt. Not so glorious now, our future life.

  • Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

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  • Ich halte auch nicht viel von Noyb, aber die juristischen Kenntnisse haben die.