General_Effort

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3w ago

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds | Google DeepMind
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General_Effort @lemmy.world 3w ago
Genie, quit livin' on dreams
Genie, life is not what it seems
Genie!

4w ago

Britisches Oberhaus will Altersverifikation für VPNs und Social Media

Wär das positiv? Ausufernde Vorschriften sind doch genau, warum wir immer tiefer in diese Misere rutschen. Wenn du nicht profiliert werden willst, könntest du vielleicht ein Burner Phone benutzen. Aber halt, anonyme SIMs gibt es in Deutschland ja nicht. Bleibt noch ein VPN, erstmal noch ...

Das muss man sich klarmachen: Wenn man Vorschriften hat, dann wird deren Einhaltung überwacht.

An diesem Urteil kann man sehen, wie das läuft. Wir haben Datenschutzvorschriften, die uns vor den bösen Datenkraken schützen. Also soll jetzt eine chinesische Firma deutsche Nutzer überwachen und profilieren, um das Alter zu schätzen. Ich glaube nicht, dass DSGVO-Fans sich das so vorstellen, wenn sie mehr Durchsetzung fordern. Was würde wohl bei einem Verbot von Werbeprofilen rauskommen?

4w ago

Britisches Oberhaus will Altersverifikation für VPNs und Social Media

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 4w ago

Kostenlos ist nicht das Gegenteil von kommerziell. Im Text steht "in the course of a business". Ich denke, das wird alles abdecken, was nicht privat, für die Familie oder den engsten Freundeskreis, betrieben wird.

4w ago

Britisches Oberhaus will Altersverifikation für VPNs und Social Media

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 4w ago

Da geht's um das Berliner Urteil gegen Tiktok. Das wird noch durch die Instanzen gehen. Die logische Schlussfolgerung ist natürlich Altersverifikation.

4w ago

Europe Prepares for a Nightmare Scenario: The U.S. Blocking Access to Tech

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 4w ago

Heh. No way. The EU has much more onerous IP laws than the US. That's one reason why the EU can't compete in tech.

EG search engines like Google process copyrighted content to make it searchable. When they started in the 1990s that would have been plain criminal in Germany. Once the internet turned out to be a big thing, this was legalized.

We can now see the same thing with AI. It's just not possible to be competitive for European companies. Companies like Huggingface (originally French) or Elevenlabs (Polish) fucked off to the US. Mistral stayed in Europe and is being left behind. The early models with which they made a splash were almost certainly trained illegally, but the AI Act made it clear that Europe would double down on past mistakes.

Despite the fact that European IP laws hurt our economy and culture, they have only been expanded in the last decades. Despite the fact that the major content owners are American.

4w ago

Bugger!

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 4w ago

Oh. So that's the same tom as in atom.

4w ago

‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 4w ago

Is this a joke about the EU's desire to curb misinformation? Like, I'm 90% sure that you can't be serious.

4w ago

‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 4w ago

Everything you wrote is factually wrong.

4w ago

Bugger!

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 4w ago

Oh come on. Going all the way back to PIE doesn't count. Like, both has to do with insides. But enterology does not inherit the suggestion of entry, which would have been funny.

4w ago

Bugger!

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 4w ago

Etymology note: The word enterology does not seem related to the word enter.

@TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works You made me look this up.

4w ago

Bugger!

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 4w ago

There are also people who can't distinguish between entomology and enterology.

4w ago

‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 4w ago

4w ago

‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 4w ago

Europe has a lot less social resistance to this stuff. You can see it here. Watching the watchmen turns out to be one of the best tools for defending democracy. And still the call is for more censorship. It's insane.

Did you pick up, like 2 weeks ago, when Italy fined Cloudflare for not censoring hard enough? Italy is literally ruled by a fascist party. They literally present themselves as being in the tradition of Benito Mussolini. No one bats a fucking eye.

Of course, the censorship is about copyright; protecting the Italian media industry. Maybe people here are too young or unpolitical to remember Italian media billionaire Silvio Berlusconi. In the 1990s, he used his media empire to get himself elected prime minister and escape prosecution for corruption. At one point, he used his office and some lies to get an underage prostitute, he'd been fucking at one of his sex parties, released from police custody. That guy was Italy's longest serving prime minister since WW2. He then was an MEP until 2022.

Italian intellectuals, identified Trump as a Berlusconi-type populist 10 years ago, when Berlusconi was fading out and Trump rising. Maybe something could be learned from that experienced.

So it's not like Europeans believe that “It can’t happen here.” It is happening all the time. I think the pro-censorship people are simply so privileged that they can't conceive of the state ever not being on their side. They seem to feel that being harassed or doxed on the net is the worst that could ever happen to them, personally, and they might be right.

4w ago

Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 4w ago

No offense. I just never know how widely understood such facts are. People do not seem to appreciate that open social media requires that the data be stored anywhere.

4w ago

‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 4w ago

Right. Merely making the recording may already be criminal; not only sharing it. I didn't want to sound too alarmist. But when we're ad it. Pixelating the faces means processing personal data which may already be illegal.

What it boils down to is this: If some lawless government goons arrest anyone recording their deeds and seized their phones, no honest, law-abiding judge or police officer would see a problem with that. Anyone live-streaming, just in case, would be guilty of violating fundamental rights in the eyes of all defenders of European values. The government could rely on the technical and organizational infrastructure to enforce GDPR to suppress inconvenient videos without bending the law.

But no problem. Freedom of information is in the constitution. So you just go to court and insist on your right. Of course, a far right government will have packed the highest courts with its people, and so you lose. Well, everyone has rights. Freedom of information isn't everything. No problem there.

4w ago

Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 4w ago

That's something that may cause some grief in Europe. Moderation in ATproto is opt-in. You don't have to subscribe to a US moderation service or any moderation service. One will probably want someone to filter spam, harassment, or content that one finds objectionable. But moderation according to EU regulations is about removing content that other people don't want you to see. I'm not sure if that's going to be super popular.

4w ago

Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 4w ago

how the data is used and stored

That's a tricky one and will potentially cause a lot of problems to open social media in Europe. Just know that there is no such thing as "looking" at a post, comment, or profile. It gets downloaded to your device and stored for as long as it's needed, or maybe longer.

4w ago

‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 4w ago

Just bear in mind that many Fediverse instances are in Europe and Europe has no free speech culture. EG In Germany, people who upload videos of police are commonly prosecuted for GDPR violations. It violates the fundamental rights of the police officers. When European activists oppose Big Tech in the name of democracy, they want more censorship; more government control.

1mo ago

Europe’s digital reliance on US Big Tech: Does the EU have a plan?

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Let me save you a click:

“Decoupling is unrealistic and cooperation will remain significant across the technological value chain,” an EU digital strategy report draft reviewed by POLITICO in June 2025 said – which means the EU will, for now, continue to promote collaboration with the US and other tech players including China, Japan, India and South Korea.
The draft report's admission that untangling from the dominance of US tech companies is “unrealistic” only fuels fears about the EU’s reliance on their unpredictable transatlantic ally.

1mo ago

Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Y'all will enjoy this: https://w-social.eu/