sapient_cogbag
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- Comment on After Musk gesture, activists project 'Heil' on Tesla plant 3 weeks ago:
Its not just the gesture, its everything else as well. You know, repeating nazi conspiracy theories about jewish people wanting to eliminate “”“whiteness”“”, supporting the AfD, etc.
And I think that yes, he would do that. I mean, look at how many people are sanewashing this and trying to pretend he hasn’t even done it. Look at the fact he was cheered on by the people in the crowd while doing it.
America (or at least enough parts of it with political attentiveness and less apathy) is so far right that advocating for what amounts to mass ethnic cleansing/purges (as Trump/GOP has done, and as fascists do) is a completely accepted position by at least 30% of voters. Not to mention the plans to suborn the entire US government into a hyper authoritarian, totalising christian nationalist social-regimentation-enforcer, amongst so many other things I can’t even count.
- Comment on After Musk gesture, activists project 'Heil' on Tesla plant 3 weeks ago:
He did a nazi salute and supports the fascist party openly advocating for the naked use of state power to subjugate, destroy the life of, or kill millions (as is the logical conclusion of the logistics of finding and deporting millions) of people in nationalist “cleansings” and “purification” against minority groups.
Here is a salute comparison. Do not gaslight yourself or the rest of us: m.youtube.com/watch?v=pICDVb3jztA
- Comment on Rishi Sunak says people ‘can’t be any sex they want to be’ in new swipe at trans community 1 year ago:
We shouldn’t get bullied into believing people can be any sex they want to be. They can’t
They can’t
Sounds like a challenge for transhumanist tech to solve 😎✊⚧️Ⓐ💻.
(Other people have covered the factual incorrectness here - the short of it is that (1) gender =/= sex and (2) “sex” isnt some monolithic thing but a complex, multi-axis thing itself - most of these axes are changeable to various degrees as well ^.^)
- Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
It’s frustrating, because I have pronouns after my name and I dislike hexbear… a lot.
Their behaviour has made me constantly check if people with pronouns after their names are part of hexbear before engaging in any threads, because of the stress of dealing with them :/, sometimes I do engage anyway and immediately regret it /shrug
It is depressing, because normally using pronouns like this indicates trans supportiveness so I feel better about conversing with people with them on their names. Hexbear has ruined this because of their behaviour around all other topics and sometimes trans topics.
Just hope Jerboa gets instance-blocking features soon ;p, then I can block them on both my lemmy accounts ^.^
- Comment on Lemmy Safety now supports cleaning local pict-rs storage from CSAM 1 year ago:
Something that might be useful long term is trying to train an AI and release weights to identify CSAM that admins can use to check images. The main problem is finding a way to do this without storing those kinds of images or video :/
My understanding is that right now, the main mechanisms involved use several central databases which use perceptual hashes of known CSAM material. The problem is that this ends up being a whackamole solution, and at least in theory governments could use these databases to censor copyrighted or more general “unapproved” content, though i imagine such a db would lose trust quickly and I’m not aware of this being an issue in practise.
One potential solution is “opportunistic training” where, when new CSAM material gets identified and submitted to the FBI or these databases by various server admins, a small amount of training is done on the AI weights before the image or video is deleted and only a perceptual hash remains. Furthermore, if a picture is reported as “known CSAM” by these dbs, then you do the same thing with that image before it gets deleted.
To avoid false positives, you also train the AI on general non-CSAM content.
Ideally this process would be fully automated so no-one has to look at that shit - over time, ypu’d theoretically get a neural net capable of identifying CSAM reliably with few or no false positives or false negatives ^.^. Admins could also try for some kind of distributed training, where each contributes weight deltas from local training, or each builds up LoRA-style improvement modules and people combine them to reduce bandwidth for modification sharing.
- Comment on The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide, the EFF says 1 year ago:
Wish governments would stop trying this bullshit. I swear it seems to come up every few years. They just don’t seem to be able to accept the idea of people defending themselves against mass surveillance for more than a few years <.<
- Comment on Anyone else having trouble logging in to sh.itjust.works? 1 year ago:
It lives!
- Comment on [WSJ:PAID] Threads User Engagement Continues to Decline 1 year ago:
Here’s the data, from Sensor Tower
- Comment on [WSJ:PAID] Threads User Engagement Continues to Decline 1 year ago:
- Comment on What WiFi relay system can I host at home? 1 year ago:
A lot of phones can relay to wifi they are connected to, rather than just using phone signal. That is, instead of using mobile data to provide internet, it forwards connections through the wifi the phone is connected to, essentially acting as a mini router :)
