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2mo ago

Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions
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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph
Stick a fork in it.

2mo ago

What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?

Embrace content sorting and filtering algorithms, but on the client side, with optional control by the user.

You can only filter and sort what was downloaded by the client. So that runs into resource constraints.

Standardize tags on all content. So many of the different ways different platforms classify or organize content can be implemented as tags, which increases interoperability between them.

I'm so with you. https://xkcd.com/927/

Transferable user identity (between instances)
User identity and authentication as separate service from social network instance

That's more the ATproto/Bluesky vision.

2mo ago

Study of men who embodied a young woman in VR finds they felt disgust & anger when catcalled

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

What made it so bad?

2mo ago

Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

In principle, the law makes it possible to coerce a monopolist to contract. Alternatively, contract clauses which create or abuse a monopoly may be void.

2mo ago

Study of men who embodied a young woman in VR finds they felt disgust & anger when catcalled

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

But that was real. It didn't artificially reify stereotypes of women being scared in subway stations at night. The take-away was simply that this stuff is annoying.

I thought of something: Anorexia. That condition where people, mainly young women, starve themselves to death. This is often claimed to be the result of unrealistic beauty standards in media. Women are also more often diagnosed with phobias. Why aren't we talking more about a possible role for stereotypes here.

FWIW, I am very skeptical about the role of beauty standards in anorexia. Vague societal expectations seem a poor explanation for something as drastic as starving yourself to death, especially given how most people are overweight. But I am also sure that my behavior would be different in many ways, if I wasn't expected to "man up".

2mo ago

Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Of course. Like you and me, they are more or less free to do as they please.

2mo ago

Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Makes sense. But then, why make the deal?

2mo ago

Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Not sure I'm following this. Why would Reddit not want paying clients?

2mo ago

Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

There are legal clients for Reddit from third parties. Building another client cannot be prevented from Reddit.

If you need Reddit's permission to connect to Reddit, then Reddit can grant or deny permission under the condition that you only use approved clients.

Adding comments from other social networks would be the only difference that is needed for the initially suggested mixing of social networks. I don’t think that Reddit has the right to prevent that.

It very much has that right in the EU. First, there's copyright. The US has Fair Use, the EU doesn't. The EU has a database right, a kind of intellectual property which does not exist in the US. There's also contract law, ie what it says in the TOS. In the US, you can't use contract law to override Fair Use. Then there's the GDPR, which is always a tough call. It might be legal enough for most purposes.

2mo ago

Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

I was thinking about a scenario where the moderators, or some part of the community, decide to migrate. I should have clarified that.

2mo ago

Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

True. It only makes migration easier, but that's still something.

2mo ago

Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

That's not quite what the judgment was about. Anyway, I don't understand what point you are trying to make.

2mo ago

Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Yes. The problem is that those are very American solutions. In Europe these ideas are just unacceptable. European values, fundamental values, and all that.

2mo ago

Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Maybe take a look at that link I posted above. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Inc._v._Power_Ventures,_Inc.

2mo ago

Ronald McRulegan

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

A number of things happened in those years. Most relevant might be the energy crisis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s_energy_crisis

1971 saw the end of the Bretton Woods System. That was a system of fixed exchange rates between the major western currencies, that facilitated international trade. Governments guaranteed that they would exchange their own currency for US dollars, while the US guaranteed that it would exchange dollars for gold, but only at the request of other countries. In 1971, the US, under Nixon, ended that guarantee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

The Bretton Woods System was created toward the end of WW2 to avoid problems that plagued the world after WW1. It was extremely successful. Some cranks, aka gold bugs, argue for a gold standard. That means that the government should guarantee to sell gold at a certain fixed price. Economically, that is simply insane. These people like to point to 1971. They won't tell you about the Bretton Woods System, though, or how that guarantee was only for foreign governments.

2mo ago

Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

You don't need an API. The law says that you need permission.

Another technological possibility is to scrape a subreddit to migrate the discussions to EG Lemmy. That might actually be legal in the US but certainly not in Europe.

2mo ago

Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

The lock-in comes from network effects that cannot be overcome easily.

That is mainly a legal problem.

EG you could have a combined Reddit/Lemmy client that fetches messages from both. You create a Lemmy community that complements a Reddit community. The client fetches posts/comments from both and combines them in your interface.

That's illegal even in the US (case law). In the EU it's hyper-illegal because you go up against copyright, database rights, and GDPR.

The EU has actually picked up on the importance of interoperability and mandates it in the DSA, but I have no idea how that is supposed to work, given all the other regulations.

2mo ago

Study of men who embodied a young woman in VR finds they felt disgust & anger when catcalled

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

This looks more like sexism dressed up as science, rather than science.

If the men really felt that they were in the body of a woman, then I would expect the overwhelming emotion to be gender dysphoria.

If not, then they answered whatever they felt they should. That's a well-known problem in such studies (eg Social Desirability Bias). Maybe they answered what they felt the interviewer wanted to hear. Or maybe they just regurgitated sexist stereotypes. Imagine putting the avatar in a dirty kitchen and asking: Don't you feel an overwhelming desire to clean?

But suppose that this is a good "empathy building" exercise. What is the take-away? Say, some years down the road, these men are hiring employees. There are qualified female candidates, but the job requires working at night, or maybe being alone with male clients. Hmm. Benevolent sexism is still sexism.

2mo ago

Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Not quite. Such official documents may be published by the government, but only if provided by law. It doesn't mean that the data may be used by others.

EU data protection activists are fighting against such transparency rules. I'm thinking of Noyb's lawsuit against the Swedish government, in particular. Sweden has a very strong tradition of transparency.

That German law was explicitly made to criminalize such lists compiled from public data. If the context suggests that the information is meant to enable illegal harm to the people, then it's criminal to publish the information. In the German understanding, that is fighting Nazis because Nazis create such lists of their enemies.

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Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.

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General_Effort @lemmy.world 2mo ago

GDPR works like copyright in that regard. Just because someone publishes something, doesn't mean you may re-publish it.

This data is especially problematic since it is about people's political views. That's defined as sensitive data. By default, it is a violation to even create or store such data at all, even if you kept it private. You could only do that legally if you benefit from specific exceptions.