Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.
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2·1 hour agoThis is like when the police throw the murder weapon in jail and avoid charging anyone because it’s easier to find a scapegoat instead of holding parents responsible for what they teach their kids.
2·1 day agoIn Spain, living a the bottom of an apartment urbanization well, I get 2 hours of direct sunlight a day. Some people are luckier and get all the morning sun, while others get all the afternoon sun.
Installing panels may still be troublesome, since the urbanization has a requirement of “unified look”… so I’m afraid it would mean either everyone, or no one, installing a panel, and they better look all the same (had an issue with additional balcony railing, optional but single design allowed).
In the EU, not in UK, but stuff like this is why I decided to pull the plug on everything public several years ago. A single individual can’t afford to risk it.
What do you mean by “human oversight”? You must mean AI oversight… 🫠
5·2 days agoDepends on the definition of “being able to”:
(IANAL, but those two are)
No, it’s a MFA bypass. All a hacker needed was the ability to initiate new sessions (after stealing user:pass, for example via malware).
Nobody cares about “international law”, it’s a bully-vs-bully out there, “laws” are not laws when they can’t get enforced. There are agreements, and disagreements, that change over time. Don’t be mistaken, this or that country’s “support” for this or that war, is just an excuse, a propaganda bite.
Touching China’s assets, is too dangerous for as long as they’re the main source of slave labor worldwide. As India’s slave capabilities grow, things may change though… and India is being smart, buying arms from everyone, for the time being.
As for democracy, “representative democracy” is little more than a step away from a full dictatorship. Keep in mind that Russia is still “a democracy”… they just happen to pick the same guy over and over 🙄
There is not really an alternative, countries will force onto each other whatever they manage to get away with.
Putin will keep trying to “Make Russia Great Again”, as in the Soviet era USSR “great”, stopping at East Berlin at the very least… only that’s another bunch of propaganda 😮💨
Russia needs to secure its inland waterway system, and its resource extraction areas. That includes control over the Sea of Azov. Any less, and the country might as well break up already, so they’ll throw the whole country under the bus rather than surrender any of that.
The problem lies in what is a “depiction”:
(5) “visual depiction” includes undeveloped film and videotape, data stored on computer disk or by electronic means which is capable of conversion into a visual image, and data which is capable of conversion into a visual image that has been transmitted by any means, whether or not stored in a permanent format;
section 2256(5) of title 18
via: section 1309 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (15 U.S.C. 6851).
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title%3A15+section%3A6851+edition%3Aprelim)
via: the definitions section of the act
The way it is written, even cropped, rotated, blurred, or in any other way processed files of that “depiction”, even the values learned by a neural network (capable of conversion into a visual image), would fall under the “identical” part.
Since perceptual hashing does exist, there are open source libraries to run it, and even Beehaw runs an AI based image filter, the “reasonable effort” is arguably to use all those tools as the bare minimum. Even if they sometimes (or always) fail at removing all instances of a depiction.
But ultimately, deciding whether a service has applied all “reasonable efforts” to remove “identical copies” of a “depiction”, will fall on the shoulders of a judge… and even starting to go there, can bankrupt most sites.
Depends on “how identical” is “identical”.
The SHA hash of a file, is easy to calculate, but pretty much useless at detecting similar images; change a single bit, and the SHA hash changes.
In order to detect similar content, you need perceptual hashes, which are no longer that easy to calculate.
As long as profit margins stay above the cost of theft prevention measures, nobody’s going to pay anyone more than the bare minimum.
As long as the ROI of forced labor stays positive, the USA will keep a higher per-capita incarceration rate than Russia.
Is anyone actually supporting Russia? Or are they fleecing Russia, waiting for it to become weak enough?
China is definitely looking towards regaining control over Manchuria, as it had during the Qing dynasty, and why not some more.
Yeah, I was afraid that would be the case. Recently we’re getting some “consent or pay” popups, which are also being debated and will likely become illegal.
Guess it makes even more sense to use a VPN in the US, then.
Is this a EU-only feature?
They won’t stop, but they can be slowed down until they implode. Whether turning Russia into another North Korea is part of the long term plan, is a separate question.
110 million in cities vs. 36 million in the countryside. That’s about the population of all of Ukraine.
Paying for the service, works like in every other conflict area. Internet is the new Radio Free Europe.
restricted this service upon request from Moscow in the past
When? If it’s about that one Ukraine drone attack, it was a US restriction.
Blocking the signal is trivial? Then why is Russia losing inland tankers on the Black Sea after they’ve messed up the passage of seaworthy ones into the Sea of Azov while trying to stop those Starlink controlled Ukrainian drones. Why not simply block the signal?
🙄… They’re experimenting with cutting access, precisely because the ship has sailed on controlling the devices.
NK is a paranoid Orwellian state with generational punishments, where everyone reports on everyone else. Russia has nowhere that level of control over its people, their only option is to control the ISPs… and I bet that when they do, people will sneak in some Starlink access points.
Goat Simulator, 62fps 1080p, 70% GPU use, 2W TDP avg, 5W peak.
My GPU? A smartphone’s Mali-G68 😁
Feel free to read the long-form definition:
For additional context:
On the flip side, ALL politicians have started using Twitter/X, TikTok, Facebook, etc. over the last decade or so… and they will ALL have to follow these rules, since they have more than 100k followers each.