joshuaacasey

@joshuaacasey@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just developed and deployed the first real-time protection for lemmy against CSAM!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  so you admit that like most people you don’t actually give a shit about protecting anyone. You would rather protect imaginary fake fictional characters because it’s easier and makes you “feel good about yourself”. I genuinely hate performative assholes (which is 99% of humans, let’s be honest. 99% of people only care about their feelings and making themselves feel good by thinking that they are doing something good, not actually doing a good thing). There’s no evidence that fictional material is harmful, in fact, quite the opposite there is some evidence that access to fictional material may actually protect kids and prevent abuse from occurring, by serving as a harmless sexual outlet. I mean let’s put it this why, go ask a victim of sexual abuse “If you had a choice, would you prefer that your abuser abused you or that your abuser relieved their pent-up sexual frustration to some fictional material” I guarantee 100% of them will say that they would prefer to have not been abused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just developed and deployed the first real-time protection for lemmy against CSAM!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  an imaginary person has no ID because an imaginary person doesn’t exist. Why do you care about protecting imaginary characters instead of protecting actual real existing human beings?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just developed and deployed the first real-time protection for lemmy against CSAM!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  false positives not only leads to unnecessary censorship, but it also wastes resources that would be better used to protect *ACTUAL victims and children (although, the optimal solution is protecting people before any harm is done so that we don’t even need these “band-aid” solutions for reacting afterward)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just developed and deployed the first real-time protection for lemmy against CSAM!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s no such thing as “AI-generated CSAM”. CSAM literally is created by abusing a real human child. There’s no such thing as an “AI child”. It would be a much better idea to protect *ACTUAL existing children instead of wasting resources on *checks notes* fiction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just developed and deployed the first real-time protection for lemmy against CSAM!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  ok then use Cloudflare’s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just developed and deployed the first real-time protection for lemmy against CSAM!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  disappointed that this uses AI instead of something like Microsoft’s PhotoDNA that compares image hashes. AI has too much (unnecessary & unacceptable) risk of false positives that results in overbroad censorship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨recommendations for selfhosted photo backup solution: folders vs albums?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  to be fair, all cloud services scan. It’s unfortunately necessary to detect CSAM to stop people from spreading it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨recommendations for selfhosted photo backup solution: folders vs albums?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  sounds like to much work. I just use the privacy-oriented photo backup solution ente. (And, because I’m an android user – plus having multiple backups – I also use Google Photos)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SanDisk Extreme SSDs are “worthless,” multiple lawsuits against WD say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SanDisk Extreme SSDs are “worthless,” multiple lawsuits against WD say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  wait. Does Western Digital own SanDisk?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember Xfire?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  jesus christ. xfire. that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news and websites he dislikes | The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times,...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Saw someone else make a good point. I hope all these people that shouted about supporting net neutrality back in the day will make noise about how anti net neutrality this is. (I doubt it, but it’d be nice)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨providing dad with more toys⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Was thinking of a different, more adult kind of toy. Which technically I guess you could use a light saber for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  they can’t even keep their power grid functioning in extreme hot or cold weather 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s crazy how much the creator of pixelfed does. And it’s literally only 1 person working on all the things he does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Session too. Not a big fan of signal since it requires giving them your phone number.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Apple users say its parental controls aren't working properly. A CEO who has 4 kids called it 'frustrating.'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  and this is why I’ll always choose Google over Apple. Despite Google’s flaws of surrepticiously killing their products. At least they don’t have these ridiculous walled garden that Apple has. See, for example, Google’s parental control app/solution: families.google/familylink/

  Anyway, small side rant. I am a big big big advocate of parent’s doing their job as parents of setting up parental controls on devices their kids have access to. It is SO MUCH of a better option than the government requiring us adults to give up our privacy to verify that we are indeed adults to see adult content. Like, yes, I do want to see adult content. But hell no there’s no way in hell I’m violating my privacy with privacy invasive big brothery bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically. Mastodon is a Twitter alternative. Pixelfed is an instagram alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Now, if only the import from instagram would work🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is the current recommendation for a simple home NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll probably never happen because the unemployment rate for autistic people is 85%. But in an ideal world, I’d love to build my own (if there’s any sugar mommies/daddies out there that feel like spoiling someone 🤔):

  • Motherboard: www.amazon.com/dp/B089D34SZT
  • Processor: www.amazon.com/dp/B092L9GF5N/
  • RAM: www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y4ZZ7LQ/
  • Power Supply: www.amazon.com/dp/B07JFLGGQ6/
  • SSD (Cache): www.amazon.com/dp/B09MF8G7KF/
  • SSD (OS: www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZGK3K4V/
  • Drives (x4): www.amazon.com/dp/B09TBF6GHJ/
  • Case: www.aliexpress.us/item/3256802939459512.html
  • Operating System: www.truenas.com/truenas-scale/
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LED lights are meant to save energy. They’re creating glaring problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  especially on mobile. On desktop, where you have a keyboard and mouse, and even tools like browser extensions or whatever it’s definitely easier.