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r00ty

@ r00ty @kbin.life

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I'm the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.

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  • It's not "arbitrary" I'd say. It's part of a long term plan to probably push a fully trusted platform. Yes, so they can ID you by hardware etc but also lock down driver installs and maybe even software installs one day.

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  • It wasn't canon in my case, but I found with other network printers on Linux that not bothering with "auto finding" and just putting the IP address in manually (give fixed devices fixed IPs on your router to make this kind of thing easier). Most desktop environments have a printer tool that should allow manually adding a printer.

    I have to say with the work provided HP PoS I last had, it was equally as difficult to get windows to talk to it, to be fair.

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    Police Sketch of Kirk Shooter

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  • On mbin it looks great when you click it. The transparency makes it overlay the thread perfectly.

  • Pete Hegseth Says the Renamed ‘Department of War’ Stands for ‘Peace’

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  • I would have been very disappointed if no one had posted this.

  • Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse

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  • On the one-hand I think it would be similar to how usenet works now for binaries. That is, once notified under DMCA (for the USA) and likely similar laws in other western countries you're duty bound to remove it.

    I don't know if there would be other problems with hosting files when you don't know what they are. Also in terms of defence against DMCA, how would the original file uploader defend against it when you can't know what the file is without the key. Person A reports file xyz as infringing their copyright, Uploader B says it doesn't. Normally you could re-instate it and let the two parties fight it out in court. But, I wonder how it would play out when you hosting the file don't even know what it is.

    I'm really not sure how it would really stack up against copyright law in general and more specifically laws for truly illegal content (e.g. CSAM), since you could be hosting that and never know.

    Seems a bit more of a risky venture to me and more a question for an actually qualified legal advisor I'm afraid.

  • Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming

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  • Well, they were quite literally compiling all the worst behaviours of modern subscription services and applying it to the medical field. I guess the sad thing is that it could really happen one day.

    I would say each of the things that they applied has happened on a service somewhere before (just perhaps not all on a single one). It's fiction uncomfortably close to reality.

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  • Incoming Spotify premium plus subscription tier. With lossless audio. And then shortly after some previously premium tier features to go plus. Then ads appear on the premium, I mean basic tier (priced at the old premium price).

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  • I've said this before. The UK online safety act if they enforce it hard against fediverse instances, it will be the end of federation, for UK users without a VPN at least. Because it puts too much on the shoulders of small site operators.

    In this case though, the exception most countries have for site operators to avoid being responsible for their user's posts is usually reliant on action being taken when content on your site is reported to you. There isn't really an exception for saying "Umm, wasn't from my site mate. Go follow the trail and get the original guy". The argument will be, the site you control has the content, remove it.

    In the UK in the 1990s there was a court case [1] that might even form the part of the case law behind the publisher exception. In that case the claimant stated that the ISP was alerted to forged usenet articles (usenet was pretty much a good analogue for modern federated content) that he believed defamed him. They did not remove the articles (presumably because they did not originate on their usenet server, by their users I am not sure). He sued them and the court ruled in his favour. There's more nuance, but the take away is pretty much what we got in the law created later.

    Since then we have enacted the Defamation Act 2013 [2], which has section 5 that gives SOME exemption to operators of websites that allow posts by third parties (that pretty much covers the fediverse). That makes it clear that if the claimant cannot identify the user (which would be the case for 99% of threadiverse users), and if you are informed about the content and do not take action, then you may be held accountable for the defamation. Now that just means that if they tell you X post is defamatory or should be removed for another legal reason, if you refuse to do so in a reasonable time period, then you can be held responsible and treated as the publisher of that message. So if it were to breach some law, they could sue you for it as if you posted it yourself. Which is kinda why I'd say just remove it if there's any doubt at all. I'm not a legal expert, but that's how I read the act.

    I'm not sure how it works elsewhere. I live in the UK. But generally the rules are somewhat similar.

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_v_Demon_Internet_Service [2] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/26/section/5

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  • Well, legally there's no reason to comply. At the same time I personally have no skin in the game and deleting the account locally won't do much (unless you purge their content too).

  • Isn't it kinda weird how poop isn't considered a bodily fluid...

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  • I think the only way to be sure, is to try to take more than 100ml past airport security.

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  • So, here's what I would do. I would comply (you should be able to delete the local instance of that account). But I'd also reply pointing out that it's a mirror of the real account hosted at lea.pet and their real beef is with them, and should that user interact with or generate content pushed to you, the local copy would be re-created.

    Keep a copy of the email you send (because it's highly likely a human doesn't monitor that mailbox) and then move on with your life. If a real person then wants to complain you can just forward the email you sent and tell them the same still applies.

    It's automated and the email indicates as such.

  • Trump and Putin both agree: Blame falls on Europe as Ukraine peace effort languishes

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  • It's pure doublethink. Ukraine shouldn't have been so easy to invade but also should just give up sovereign territory for peace.

  • Trump and Putin both agree: Blame falls on Europe as Ukraine peace effort languishes

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  • With rust, yes. Seriously guy it's obvious I'm only using one property, let's not block out the entire object. (yes I knows why)

    With everything else, generally no.

  • Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ages identities?

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  • I think this is a real problem for the fediverse. Because I cannot imagine that ofcom will accept that "the home instanx should have moderated that" will be a defence. And here (and mayve for you) only I am moderating the content on my own instance. It's not possible to moderate all the remote communities I carry.

    Like I say. Once I see action (it will start with warnings) against smaller instances I'll just lock things down to myself and existing users. But it will destroy the threadiverse in the UK.

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  • From my end as a tiny instance with virtually no users I'm watching how enforcement goes on small systems like these.

    If they start sending warnings I'll just make browsing content required an account and close sign ups.

    I've already gone through and ensured none of the communities carried has the NSFW tag. But that's not really much in terms of protection.

    If they start getting around to us I think it'll mean fediverse users in the UK will either need to run their own instance or use a vpn. No way hobbyists can contract age verification.

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  • I think the issue is that there's usually competing targets here. From the top they wanted to see use of copilot. But direct reports likely expected the same performance.

    So are you going to a) do it the way you've done it for 10 years and know will deliver on time or b) ask hal9000 for help potentially actually slowing you down, at least initially.

    I think there's gains to be made for some jobs in some cases with ai. But most people probably just got on with their work.

  • It's been downhill since 2020

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  • It was obviously a very slow change starting in 2012. The mayans knew what was up!

  • Ding ding ditch is punishable by death apparently

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  • Well duh. Play outside... Somewhere else! :P

  • Europe is now Ukraine's main source of military support

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  • Germany really seem to still be hung up by a certain former leader and feel like full capitulation is the only way for redemption.

    The rest of europe I dunno what the deal is.

  • If we are living in a simulation, do you think it is running a FOSS OS/software or a proprietary one?

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  • That should all be covered in the unit tests.