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@ flamingos @feddit.uk

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  • I was curious to see how they handle this on the fedi side, because they obviously can't stop you from uploading images to other instances, so decided to do some digging myself.

    The fedi code for this is here and looks like this:

     python
        
    # Alert regarding fascist meme content
    if site.enable_chan_image_filter and toxic_community and img_width < 2000:  # images > 2000px tend to be real photos instead of 4chan screenshots.
        if os.environ.get('ALLOW_4CHAN', None) is None:
            try:
                image_text = pytesseract.image_to_string(
                    Image.open(BytesIO(source_image)).convert('L'), timeout=30)
            except Exception:
                image_text = ''
            if 'Anonymous' in image_text and (
                    'No.' in image_text or ' N0' in image_text):  # chan posts usually contain the text 'Anonymous' and ' No.12345'
                post = session.query(Post).filter_by(image_id=file.id).first()
                targets_data = {'gen': '0',
                                'post_id': post.id,
                                'orig_post_title': post.title,
                                'orig_post_body': post.body
                                }
                notification = Notification(title='Review this',
                                            user_id=1,
                                            author_id=post.user_id,
                                            url=post.slug,
                                            notif_type=NOTIF_REPORT,
                                            subtype='post_with_suspicious_image',
                                            targets=targets_data)
                session.add(notification)
                session.commit()
    
    
      

    The curious thing here, apart from there being both an environmental variable and site setting for this, is the toxic_community variable. This seems to be a renaming of the low_quality field Piefed applies to communities, which are just communities with either memes or shitpost in their name.

    You also don't get social credits docked for this.

  • Sorry I misspoke, when I said it wouldn't work I was thinking of the negative knock-on effects that make this approach unworkable, not that it was entirely ineffective. What I'm trying to get at is that there were more effective options that the government for achieving it's stated goals, only allowing legal adults to access pornography, that didn't require you to send a picture of your ID or face to every website that happens to have nudes on it. But other, more privacy-friendly approaches wouldn't make adults hesitant to access porn websites and I think this quality of the current approach was a desirable effect.

    Obviously it’s not the case that everything popular with the public is popular with politicians for the same reason, but if something is popular with the public you need quite a good reason to believe that politicians are in favour of it for some other motivation, and with all of that, we just don’t have that good reason.

    I think politicians hating the concept of porn and liking the idea of having your real identity linked to your social media accounts are actually pretty good explanations for the government knowingly going with an inferior approach to all this.

    Again, I think we're at an impasse, you're giving the former government a level charitably I can't. That's not to say prospective is unreasonable, I think it's perfectly reasonable, I just don't believe it.

  • This is just getting into pure speculation now, neither of us knows for sure. It just lines up too perfectly with the Tories history of anti-porn stances for me to believe that it wasn't a motivating factor in choosing this approach to others that were pitched to the government (the lobbying from the age verification industry probably helped as well).

  • So wait, they pull in Tesseract and don't use it to make search better? Talk about missed opportunity.

  • The government absolutely has access to people with the knowledge to tell them that this approach wouldn't work, Aylo (the company who owns Pornhub) has been advocating for device based age verification for years (Yes, Aylo are a shitty company, but they're right about this and have been vocal about it). But sure, a piece of Tory legislation, the same Tories who banned porn with bondage and even women ejaculating in 2014, didn't choose this approach because it'd discourage adults accessing porn.

  • how did you miss “Trans,” ”Feliz,” e “Nacional”?

    I didn't? That just felt more natural to me. (Besides isn't it tomorrow)

    Because it describes what’s on the image? Do you want me to paragraph what we are seeing on it?

    I don't mind (I can see the image), I just found it weird.

  • [In Portuguese] Happy visibility day!

    (Also, why is the alt text a bunch of image tags?)

  • It's honestly maddening that we're being subjected to this mass surveillance in the name of preventing children seeing porn when we've had much more effective tools for decades now. An OS or ISP level DNS filter takes more work to get around than just finding a more shady website. Microsoft, to its credit, have pretty good parental controls built into their OSs (Windows + Xbox).

    But it's like I've said before, this isn't about preventing kids seeing porn; it's about preventing adults seeing porn because the political class finds it icky.

  • Most parents apparently don't agree with you, or are too lazy to do anything:

    back in 2011 the government worked with ISPs (internet service providers) to come up with a Code of Practice on implementing ‘parental controls’ for all new customers. In 2013 this was adopted by all the major players. So when you (an adult – because you have to be over 18 to do this) register for an internet connection, you are offered adult content filtering by default. You can tweak this, if you like, for example you can decide you’re happy for your family to access social media sites but not pornography. Or if you don’t anticipate any children using your connection, you can opt out of adult filters altogether. Research conducted in 2022, however, found that although 61% of parents were aware of these filters, only 27% actually used them

    From: https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/age-verification-whats-the-harm/

  • Lollypop is actually a GTK3 app (it looks pretty dated on my mostly GKT4 GNOME setup) and it's imo still the best GNOME music app. I'm honestly suprised they say Lollypop's UX sucks but then praise RecordBox's because I can't stand RecordBox (why make me double click to play a song and don't get me started on the Artist+Album view). Also surprised Gapless didn't get mentioned here, I think this is actually pretty decent though its queue system could use work.

    The dev says this choice is so you can select songs and instead you should use the little play button next on the right side of all playable entries.

  • 😳

  • Femcel Memes @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    plz respond :(

  • Opensource @programming.dev

    Matthew Garrett: Free software alone isn't sufficient to establish trust (Mastodon thread)

    mastoreader.io
  • There's also the issue of how you'd tell between a new user and a user with an account on the wrong instance. Imagine how confusing it would be to hit subscribe, see it goes through and when you go to your mobile app it's not there.

  • What a reasonable and not uncharitable interpretation of a pun. Everything is 100% serious all the time and must be interpreted through the most literal lens possible.

  • If a user taps “subscribe,” store it locally. When they finally create an account, they should be able to “claim” those subscriptions. This is a small UX move that has an outsized effect on conversion.

    Any evidence for this? Twitter tried something like this, but then moved to putting everything behind a log in wall so I'm led to believe that the latter has better guest-to-registration statistics.

  • The Eternal Playlist @crazypeople.online

    Metro Exodus - In The House In A Heartbeat

  • Given Ubuntu is testing replacing the GNU coreuitils with uutils, we might have to start unironically calling it systemd/Linux.

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world

    How to annoy a Linux evangelist

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    ACAB rule

  • I just guaranteed you on fediseer, so you should be good now.

  • That's just how Mastodon renders Lemmy posts unfortunately, it just takes the title, makes it bold and adds a link directly to the post.

  • Russia have proven themselves to be true to their word

    Ukraine literally gave up its nuclear arsenal because Russia promised not to invade them in 1994, what are you on about.

  • Kasane Teto 🥖 重音テト 🥖 🔻🔴🔻 @ani.social

    Authko – To You Standing At The Bounds Of This World feat. Kasane Teto and Ritchy

  • Kasane Teto 🥖 重音テト 🥖 🔻🔴🔻 @ani.social

    Kasane Teto UTAU Joins An Emo Band (jdAlcantara)

  • Kasane Teto 🥖 重音テト 🥖 🔻🔴🔻 @ani.social

    Mizu – Sugar Sweet (Ft. Kasane Teto)

  • The Eternal Playlist @crazypeople.online

    Chimaira – The Impossibility of Reason

  • Kasane Teto 🥖 重音テト 🥖 🔻🔴🔻 @ani.social

    pips - SALAD HE4RT (feat Kasane Teto)

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    Rare good Linkedin post

  • Animemes @ani.social

    Misunderstanding (mirei_with)

  • Digital Art @lemmy.world

    Contrasts (skytofu)

  • The Eternal Playlist @crazypeople.online

    Slow Rush - Be Your Movie

  • The Eternal Playlist @crazypeople.online

    Blind Guardian – Traveler in Time (Remastered 2007)

  • Kasane Teto 🥖 重音テト 🥖 🔻🔴🔻 @ani.social

    Stoodarion – i miss // Kasane Teto

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Collapse rule

  • Femcel Memes @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    sorry babe, inflations bad 😢

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world

    C-h C-c, the sacred text 🙏