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  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eetoTechnology@beehaw.org•Australia's internet watchdog says she received "death threats" and that her children were doxxed after she was targeted by Elon Musk for attempting to regulate Xitter
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    9 days ago

    I suspect that this was something of a test case, with the regulator flexing their censorship muscle, and I’m glad it didn’t work out.

    This was a POV stabbing video that people spread around to glorify violence. It’s in the same category as beheading videos.

    America may have decided that child porn is the only media exception to free speech, but other more sane countries draw the line a little bit more broadly to include all forms of extremely violent crime filmed to be glorified, including things like murder, attempted murder, torture, and the rape of adults.

    If you want to operate a business in places like Australia or New Zealand, you cannot be distributing violent gore videos within their borders.

    I hope they revisit this as X users are pretty routinely celebrating things like the Christchurch shooting and other violent extremist incidents. Sometimes censorship makes sense, and when people are antagonistically spreading videos of people being maimed and killed, the “free speech” argument absolutely doesn’t fucking cut it.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eetoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Is there any proprietary Android app for which you wish there would be an open-source alternative?
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    11 days ago

    The issue is that the digital tap-to-pay cards are actually reissued cards with their own unique numbers. They also require significant security measures to protect from cloning attacks.

    So banks need a party that they can safely issue a digital card to, knowing that the card data will be stored safely.

    Even a FOSS app that covers all the user’s needs is going to have a lot of trouble actually getting a card loaded into it under current standards.

    I hate to say it, but crypto wallets are likely the closest thing we’re ever going to get to a FOSS tap-to-pay system. Banks are inherently corporate and capitalist, so it’s not really in their nature to make things open source.

    Perhaps if there were an industry standard for issuing digital cards, instead of banks partnering with centralized wallet apps, we could procure our own digital cards to load onto our phones and watches, or integrate into other devices. But that’s a whole other battle that nobody is fighting right now.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eetoTechnology@beehaw.org•*Permanently Deleted*
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    17 days ago

    Did you actually read the article? The designers of this vision model used a software trick (inspired by the concept of quantum tunneling that has nothing to do with quantum computing) to allow inputs to bypass hidden layers at random, resulting in results that were able to see certain optical illusions in a way that other vision models cannot.

    This can be done by just adding some noise to the image. Sometimes it gets recognized as one thing and sometimes like another, just like humans would.

    Word soup by someone who knows way less than these researchers.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Companies that use desktop Linux
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    21 days ago

    I said free as in freedom, not free as in gratis.

    But since you want to double down on this bad idea, let me explain why it’s shit:

    If your employer expects you to use tools to do your job, they should pay for those tools if they cost something. Passing off operational expenses to the employees that use more expensive tools is hideously anti-worker, and it’s not even funny as a joke.

    Employers should pay for the tools used to run their businesses, and you should learn what the “free” in “free open source software” means, because it’s not about money.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eetoTechnology@beehaw.org•*Permanently Deleted*
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    21 days ago

    Signal is bad then?

    Yeah. Why use X3DH when there are algorithms that already exist and we know are secure?

    So in which direction you want it go? More private or more moderated?

    Privacy is good, but when the public chatrooms are distributing child porn, you can’t use encryption as an excuse not moderating. Failure to moderate illegal content is a crime.

    Let the pedos run their own Matrix server or something. You can’t be knowingly providing comms and distribution to child pornographers.