government’s plan for “democratic renewal”, launched earlier this year after a judge began investigating Sánchez’s wife, Begoña Gómez, for alleged corruption and influence peddling.

A group with far-right ties that submitted the complaint admitted it was based on unverified media reports.

For additional context:

• Regional right-wing leaders, were responsible for not alerting citizens on time of the 2024 Spanish floods… then attempted to cover it over and over with unverified “news”.
• A judicial document in a case against the opposition’s government in Madrid, was leaked to the press… and promptly unverified sources started blaming the Government, which has been proven to be false.

On the flip side, ALL politicians have started using Twitter/X, TikTok, Facebook, etc. over the last decade or so… and they will ALL have to follow these rules, since they have more than 100k followers each.

TikTok Douyin has also been blamed for promoting harmful content in China… it isn’t politically correct to say so in China though, so you won’t hear about it on TikTok Douyin.

For reference, the CCP’s policies on social media have been swinging wildly, they’ve made several 180 turns over the years.

This is like when the police throw the murder weapon in jail and avoid charging anyone because it’s easier to find a scapegoat instead of holding parents responsible for what they teach their kids.

In Spain, living a the bottom of an apartment urbanization well, I get 2 hours of direct sunlight a day. Some people are luckier and get all the morning sun, while others get all the afternoon sun.

Installing panels may still be troublesome, since the urbanization has a requirement of “unified look”… so I’m afraid it would mean either everyone, or no one, installing a panel, and they better look all the same (had an issue with additional balcony railing, optional but single design allowed).

In the EU, not in UK, but stuff like this is why I decided to pull the plug on everything public several years ago. A single individual can’t afford to risk it.

What do you mean by “human oversight”? You must mean AI oversight… 🫠

The older something is, the more people grow used to it, but also have had a chance to get burned by it:

• C was released in 1972 (52 years), C99 was released in 1999 (25 years), hasn’t changed much since
• C++ was released in 1998 (26 years), there are 7 versions of C++ with notable changes
• Rust was released in 2015 (9 years), it’s still on the same 1.x version implying backwards compatibility

Rust was created to fix some of the problems C and C++ have had for decades, it’s only logical that people like it more… for now.

Depends on the definition of “being able to”:

(IANAL, but those two are)

No, it’s a MFA bypass. All a hacker needed was the ability to initiate new sessions (after stealing user:pass, for example via malware).

The problem lies in what is a “depiction”:

(5) “visual depiction” includes undeveloped film and videotape, data stored on computer disk or by electronic means which is capable of conversion into a visual image, and data which is capable of conversion into a visual image that has been transmitted by any means, whether or not stored in a permanent format;

section 2256(5) of title 18

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title%3A18+section%3A2256+edition%3Aprelim)+OR+(granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title18-section2256)&amp%3Bf=treesort&amp%3Bnum=0&amp%3Bedition=prelim

via: section 1309 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (15 U.S.C. 6851).

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title%3A15+section%3A6851+edition%3Aprelim)

via: the definitions section of the act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4569/text#idE946FA7637914C2F88ACBEDF472397DB

The way it is written, even cropped, rotated, blurred, or in any other way processed files of that “depiction”, even the values learned by a neural network (capable of conversion into a visual image), would fall under the “identical” part.

Since perceptual hashing does exist, there are open source libraries to run it, and even Beehaw runs an AI based image filter, the “reasonable effort” is arguably to use all those tools as the bare minimum. Even if they sometimes (or always) fail at removing all instances of a depiction.

But ultimately, deciding whether a service has applied all “reasonable efforts” to remove “identical copies” of a “depiction”, will fall on the shoulders of a judge… and even starting to go there, can bankrupt most sites.

That raises an interesting point, reminds me of the recent mockery on Twitter X of certain PhD thesis:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/callumbooth/2024/12/02/the-online-reaction-to-the-politics-of-smell-phd-examined/

We often force our own preconceptions of smell, noise, and other sensory contexts, when reading or looking at past works, missing the original intent.

Depends on “how identical” is “identical”.

The SHA hash of a file, is easy to calculate, but pretty much useless at detecting similar images; change a single bit, and the SHA hash changes.

In order to detect similar content, you need perceptual hashes, which are no longer that easy to calculate.

Neither.

If you can code it in a week (1), start from scratch. You’ll have a working prototype in a month, then can decide whether it was worth the effort.

If it’s a larger codebase, start by splitting it into week-sized chunks (1), then try rewriting them one by one. Keep a good test coverage, linked to particular issues, and from time to time go over them to see what can be trimmed/deprecated.

Legible code should not require “reverse engineering”, there should be comments linking to issues, use cases, an architecture overview, and so on. If you’re lacking those, start there, no matter which path you pick.

(1) As a rule of thumb, starting from scratch you can expect a single person to write 1 clean line of code per minute on a good day. Keep those week-sized chunks between 1k and 10k lines, if you don’t want nasty surprises.

As long as profit margins stay above the cost of theft prevention measures, nobody’s going to pay anyone more than the bare minimum.

As long as the ROI of forced labor stays positive, the USA will keep a higher per-capita incarceration rate than Russia.

Is anyone actually supporting Russia? Or are they fleecing Russia, waiting for it to become weak enough?

China is definitely looking towards regaining control over Manchuria, as it had during the Qing dynasty, and why not some more.

They won’t stop, but they can be slowed down until they implode. Whether turning Russia into another North Korea is part of the long term plan, is a separate question.

🙄… They’re experimenting with cutting access, precisely because the ship has sailed on controlling the devices.

NK is a paranoid Orwellian state with generational punishments, where everyone reports on everyone else. Russia has nowhere that level of control over its people, their only option is to control the ISPs… and I bet that when they do, people will sneak in some Starlink access points.

Goat Simulator, 62fps 1080p, 70% GPU use, 2W TDP avg, 5W peak.

My GPU? A smartphone’s Mali-G68 😁

OMG that site… 🤮

They could do that right now, but their priority seems to be different. NK controls its people’s Internet use by controlling their devices, in Russia that boat has sailed, 35% of people have a desktop or laptop, 85% have Internet access via uncontrolled devices.

Kind of… but I feel like Russia is more concerned with its plans to completely cut off its national Internet, which would leave all domains like this as either unresolvable, or inaccessible.