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- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 2 days 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.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 2 days 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.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 3 days ago:
PSA: Sharing that information was almost certainly a GDPR violation in the EU. It may also have been a criminal offense under German law (§128a StGB).
- Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along 1 week ago:
The EU does not have the military capacity to protect Taiwan.
That’s not mentioning that the EU is not a military alliance. That’s the first political challenge to tackle.
Anyhow, the channel ‘Asianometry’, has a video covering the physics of EUV machines. They are an incredible linchpin of our modern world.
So true. This stuff is absolutely mind-blowing. Especially if you are old enough to remember how some of that seemed like almost unsurmountable problems. Now the solution are used in mass production.
- Comment on How French spies, police and military personnel are betrayed by advertising data 1 week ago:
It’s a myth that the GDPR is a useful tool in such cases. You know the expression “protected by copyright”? That’s how lawyers protect data.
The GDPR grants people rights over data concerning them, similar to how copyright grants rights over data. That means 2 things.
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It’s rarely obvious that some data processing is illegal. It’s not obvious if it happens without consent. But even so, you often don’t need explicit consent to use someone’s data. EG when we write about French president Macron, then that is Macron’s data under the GDPR. Of course, you don’t need his consent to discuss or report on politics, and so you usually don’t need his consent to discuss his person.
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Enforcement is difficult and expensive. Think about the problems the copyright industry has. Surveillance tools like Content ID can at least rely on knowing what exactly they are looking for. Besides, much of the world has similar laws supported by influential industries. Little chance to do that for GDPR.
Basically, using GDPR to protect actual secrets is like using copyright for the purpose.
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- Comment on How French spies, police and military personnel are betrayed by advertising data 1 week ago:
ONCE AND FOR ALL!
/futurama
- Comment on How French spies, police and military personnel are betrayed by advertising data 1 week ago:
The Devs pulled out of France because of government pressure, but it wasn’t banned.
- Comment on How French spies, police and military personnel are betrayed by advertising data 1 week ago:
Good thing the EU has the GDPR, which solved this problem once and for all.
- NetChoice Wins Permanent Block of Louisiana Age Verification Law, Protecting Free Speech and Parental Rights - NetChoicenetchoice.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban 2 weeks ago:
Well. Step 1 is monitoring legal requirements around the world. In all the 50 US states, 200 countries, and whatever other kind of jurisdiction feels important.
You have to age gate social media for 16+ in Australia. Some content is criminal in some countries. Some content is 18+ in some countries but not in others. Some countries require such content to be age gated, others do not.
What kind of age verification is acceptable also varies…
You need to constantly have your eye on new laws, legal precedents, or decision by regulators and adapt.
And that doesn’t even begin to address the technological problems.
- Comment on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban 2 weeks ago:
they may also be required to implement age verification
They are already required. Australia is requiring them to do exactly that. It’s a safe bet that this will be ignored for now, at least outside of Australia.
Suppose the fediverse wanted to comply, what do you think the volunteers running it would have to do?
- Comment on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban 2 weeks ago:
I can’t really make sense of that. Do you understand that Lemmy instances are run by just some random people?
- Comment on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban 2 weeks ago:
I see that you’ve changed your opinion, OP, but I still have a question.
How did seeing this as positive go together with being on the fediverse? How do the volunteers running this thing cope with these demands?
More generally: How can the open internet survive if every local government makes its own rules about what information or service you may or mustn’t give its citizens?
- Comment on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban 2 weeks ago:
Come join the fediverse. Now illegal in Australia!
It gets my attention but I don’t really see the mainstream appeal.
- Comment on Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora 2 weeks ago:
Sensible strategy for both sides, though I think Disney was a bit more desperate for a deal. Licensing characters makes it easier for Disney to win Fair Use cases. Meanwhile, if Fair Use is beaten back, then OpenAI may be able to finally create a moat for itself. Challengers would have to either obtain a license or employ expensive filtering. Both would make it rather harder for start-ups.
- Comment on EU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally 3 weeks ago:
Very unlikely, in the eyes of the US court system. They have no EU physical presence, and aren’t advertising targeting EU people.
That’s exactly the thing. US courts don’t care about foreign laws in the first place. They don’t care about a EU presence at all.
Nevertheless, the EU demands that any websites, internet services, … that are offered to EU users follow EU laws like GDPR. If it’s in a language not spoken in the EU, then it’s probably fine. If lemmy.today declared that it was specifically for Oregonians, that would likely be fine, too. But anything in English that is offered globally, is a potential target.
That should not be taken lightly. If the 4chan people travelled to UK, they would probably be arrested. They will have to watch out when they travel abroad if the country might assist the UK and arrest and arrest them. If they ever acquire property abroad, that might be seized.
Fedi-servers in the EU certainly have to follow these regulations.
- Comment on EU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally 3 weeks ago:
You know how 4chan is doing business in the UK? In the same way, lemmy.today is doing business in the EU.
This ruling is not likely to have immediate consequences for the fediverse, since the GDPR is not enforced much.
I don’t think it is actually impossible, as the headline claims. Platforms that have already been on the receiving of enforcement are probably fine, eg Facebook.
- EU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legallywww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Apertus: Switzerland government release a fully open, transparent, multilingual language LLM 5 weeks ago:
Maybe I’m talking more about enforcement than actual law,
Probably. Different countries in Europe have very different traditions there. I think the former socialist countries are still more relaxed. But the EU-line is rather dominated by countries like Germany.
Come to think of it. Switzerland officially takes a very lenient approach. It’s legal to download media files for personal use. But as you can see here, that leaves research and business hanging.
- Comment on Apertus: Switzerland government release a fully open, transparent, multilingual language LLM 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know any European country that has anything like the copyright clause in the US Constitution, or anything close to Fair Use. I don’t see the argument.
There’s a good chance that European AI companies like Mistral are breaking the law. We will have to see how it eventually goes in court. Recently, there was a decision in a Munich court against OpenAI. By that standard, even Apertus might be in trouble. But I doubt that decision will stand.
- Comment on Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space exploration 5 weeks ago:
Plutonium-238’s half-life is 87.7 years, Americium-241 is 432.6 years. Which… is almost 5 times longer, so… not sure why that’s cringe?
What’s cringe is the word “staggering”. Natural radioactive isotopes have half-lives on the order of billions of years. All elements heavier than iron are created in supernovae. Billions of years have passed since the novae that created that heavy elements now on earth. Anything with shorter half-lives is no longer around. (More correctly, one should talk decay chains.)
What’s staggering is that these isotopes are available at all. They are artificially created in nuclear reactors. Mass production of Pl-238 began only during WW2 for bombs. That’s almost a half-life ago. The shorter half-life makes the availability of Pl-238 much more impressive.
I believe they’re referring to the fact that it’s not an element of major topic. This is the first time I’ve ever heard of it.
There are over 100 named elements. I don’t think I could name half of them. Americium is relatively prominent because of it’s use in smoke detectors. And while I’m at it: Americium is the element. Americium-241 is a specific isotope; a specific variant, chemically identical to other variants but with slightly different physical properties.
There are a number of isotopes suitable for RTGs. It’s a matter of trade-offs. There’s half-life, which is basically how fast the properties of the material change. There’s also energy density and how bad the radiation is for the device. And always, there’s cost. Fun fact, in Chernobyl they did try robots, but the electronics could not withstand the radiation. People don’t withstand it either, but there’s a lot of them.
- Comment on Apertus: Switzerland government release a fully open, transparent, multilingual language LLM 5 weeks ago:
Badly. This was released almost 2 months ago and completely failed to make a splash, just like the other European models you have never heard of.
There’s a lot of denial about this, but you just can’t make such models competitive in Europe. The copyright industry is too strong. This combines with a general culture of data ownership and control. Case in point, the copyright industry is especially strong in Denmark, and they are also champions of chat control.
- Comment on Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space exploration 1 month ago:
Yes.
Shout-out for The Radioactive Boy Scout. (RIP)
- Comment on Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space exploration 1 month ago:
Yes. And also:
Its half-life is a staggering 432 years, five times longer than plutonium-238.
Cringe…
AI slop?
- Comment on German court: ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics 1 month ago:
GEMA’s social media game is certainly top. Nice to see the money being put to good use.
If all seats are filled,
Sure. Everyone’s Taylor Swift. Let’s just assume that.
The actual truth is that if you do not play GEMA music, you have to provide evidence of that to GEMA. Young musicians who foolishly reason that they don’t have anything to do with GEMA will be dragged through court.
- Comment on Reddit mod jailed for sharing movie sex scenes in rare “moral rights” verdict 1 month ago:
Fair Use exists only in the US. I believe it is part of the reason why the US became so culturally dominant. It certainly is why the internet is US dominated. European copyright laws are stifling.
- Comment on German court: ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics 1 month ago:
GEMA was created by the Nazis to take over pop culture. There’s a certain logic there.
Of course, under the Nazis you could be sent to camp if you belonged to the wrong subculture. So there is a difference. The rebels of the time listened to jazz, to swing. “Negro music” was the social media of that age, corrupting the youth.
- Comment on Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine ‘Right to Compute’ Into Law - Montana Newsroom 1 month ago:
- Comment on Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine ‘Right to Compute’ Into Law - Montana Newsroom 1 month ago:
It wouldn’t be so easy. Such restrictions would have to be limited to those demonstrably necessary and narrowly tailored to fulfill a compelling government interest.
- Comment on Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine ‘Right to Compute’ Into Law - Montana Newsroom 1 month ago:
Yes. I think the last time I heard of Montana was in The Hunt for Red October.