SnoringEarthworm
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- Comment on Chat Control isn’t dead, Denmark has a new proposal − here’s all we know 2 days ago:
As per the text shared by the Danish Presidency, the October 30 compromise proposes removing all provisions on detection obligations included in the bill (Articles 7 to 11). These are the obligations to monitor all users’ chat activities.
Voluntary CSAM scanning would then be made permanent and included in Article 4 as a possible mitigation measure.
Yet, the Danish Presidency still leaves a door open for mandatory scanning by planning to introduce a “review clause.”
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This, Director of Government Affairs and Advocacy at the Internet Society, Callum Voge, told TechRadar, allows for the file to be revisited in the future if new detection technologies are developed as alternatives to client-side scanning.
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According to Breyer, though, this may instead be a way to “introduce mandatory Chat Control through the backdoor,” rather than a real fix.
Another amendment could also require providers of high-risk services to develop relevant technologies to mitigate the risk of child sexual abuse identified in their services (Article 5).
This indicates, Voge explains, the Danish Presidency’s high-level intention. Yet, without providing the details. “To say definitively, we would need to see the concrete compromise text.”
What’s certain, both Breyer and Voge also believe voluntary scanning may carry some security and privacy risks.
Breyer said to TechRadar: “Even where voluntarily implemented by communications service providers such as currently Meta, Microsoft, or Google, chat control is still totally untargeted and results in indiscriminate mass surveillance of all private messages on these services.”
- Comment on AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’ 2 days ago:
Here before this becomes the backing track for a million conservative TikToks.
- Comment on Why a Reliable Compressed Air Dryer Is Essential for Every Industrial Air System 2 days ago:
Reported. Less than a day old, first post is shilling something.
- Comment on Funding Mirlo Federation 2 days ago:
Mirlo is the Bandcamp alternative, right?
I don’t mind federating all the things. But why does it need federation?
- Comment on 6 days ago:
There is no substitute for Hank Green.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
A lot of creators I watch are YouTube exclusive with their content.
If they were on Peertube, I’d delete YouTube in a heartbeat.
But I also understand that a lot of them make their living off ad revenue, so I don’t blame them for staying.
- Comment on Why Does So Much New Technology Feel Inspired by Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies? 6 days ago:
For people who know they would be the average guy in that future, they were warnings.
For the tech lords who believe they’ll be in the penthouse suite with sex droids serving sushi, they were advertisements for cool toys.
- Comment on Controversial opinion 1 week ago:
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 1 week ago:
If they put out a press release about fixing it, I won’t believe it until I see “click the squares with a cat in them” captchas.
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 1 week ago:
The safety record of these cars has been no less than stellar until now.
Typo?
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows 1 week ago:
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- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 2 weeks ago:
“You know we have cameras in that town. You can’t get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing,” Milliman said to Elser, according to Ring doorbell footage of the Sept. 27 encounter viewed by The Colorado Sun.
And he saw nothing wrong with that.
- Comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading 2 weeks ago:
Does this mean sideloading is going away on Android? Absolutely not. Sideloading is fundamental to Android and it is not going away.
This statement is untrue. The developer verification decree effectively ends the ability for individuals to choose what software they run on the devices they own.
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Wikipedia’s summary definition is:
the transfer of apps from web sources that are not vendor-approved
By this definition, Google’s statement that “sideloading is not going away” is simply false. The vendor — Google, in the case of Android certified devices — will, in point of fact, be approving the source. The supplicant app developer must register with Google, pay a fee, provide government identification, agree to non-negotiable (and ever-changing) terms and conditions, enumerate all their current and future application identifiers, upload evidence of their private signing key, and then hope and wait for Google’s approval.
I’m glad to see this bullshit called out.
- Comment on Apple becomes third company in history to crack $4 trillion market value 2 weeks ago:
Billionaire transcends all other identities.
A trans billionaire (if it was ever allowed to happen) would be a shitbird by default.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 2 weeks ago:
What kind of services?
I’m having trouble imagining what’s possible and worth hosting for friends and family.
- Comment on a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service 2 weeks ago:
Flood the feed with a million twinks and AOCs and Republican Congress will coom itself until early retirement.
- Comment on Anime watchers & Manga readers be like 2 weeks ago:
I don’t spoil anime-onlys.
I heavily imply that something terrible will happen to their favorite character next episode.
(Even though it’s not true this time).
- Comment on Pure inspiration from AOT 2 weeks ago:
The real OG
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
This secret stays between you, me, and Elon.
- Comment on Software by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that, when linked up with the correct hardware, becomes a Stingray for detecting Stingrays. 3 weeks ago:
I went to EFF to find out wtf stingrays are (besides a type of fish).
Cell-site simulators, also known as “Stingrays” or IMSI catchers, are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower.
Cell-site simulators operate by conducting a general search of all cell phones within the device’s radius, in violation of basic constitutional protections. Law enforcement use cell-site simulators to pinpoint the location of phones with greater accuracy than phone companies. Cell-site simulators can also log IMSI numbers (unique identifying numbers) of all of the mobile devices within a given area.
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The fact that government agencies are using these devices without the utmost consideration for the privacy and rights of individuals around them is alarming but not surprising. The federal government, and in particular agencies like HSI and ICE, have a dubious and troubling relationship with overbroad collection of private data on individuals.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 4 weeks ago:
let’s rewrite the entire operating system around AI
This should be the headline.
Then everyone can make up their minds about whether or not to stay with Microsoft or finally move on.
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- Comment on Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World 4 weeks ago:
They’ll wait until the bubble bursts (or OpenAI shows signs of weakness) and then they’ll eat it alive.
It’s not profitable to go after them when the government is tweeting out Pokémon ICE commercials and the president is making deepfakes of himself.
- Comment on Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop 4 weeks ago:
The difference is your comment managed to say the same thing without being a dick.
- Comment on Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop 4 weeks ago:
Blocked for being a dick.
- Comment on Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop 4 weeks ago:
In fact, according to The Register, the GPU computing performance of the GB10 chip is roughly equivalent to an RTX 5070. However, the 5070 is limited to 12GB of video memory, which limits the size of AI models that can be run on such a system. With 128GB of unified memory, the DGX Spark can run far larger models, albeit at a slower speed than, say, an RTX 5090 (which typically ships with 24 GB of RAM). For example, to run the 120 billion-parameter larger version of OpenAI’s recent gpt-oss language model, you’d need about 80GB of memory, which is far more than you can get in a consumer GPU.
Or you could’ve just made GPUs, and then we’d all be gaming and calling each other shitheads in Valorant instead of - checks notes - literally stealing the water from poor communities.
- Comment on OPM S3 is going to be great ok? 4 weeks ago:
It would be hilarious if they still manage to outclass season 2.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’d run my microwave for an hour if I would make him go away.
