Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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One the biggest problems with the internet today is bad actors know how to manipulate or dodge the content moderation to avoid punitive consequences. The big social platforms are moderated by the most naive people in the world. It's either that or willful negligence. Has to be. There's just no way these tech bros who spent their lives deep in internet culture are so clueless about how to content moderate.
I know them. I worked in this industry. They're not naive. What basis do you have for these comments?
I think you're conflating with business executives running said social and gaming companies. Stop calling them techbros. Meta is not a tech startup. They're a transnational corporation. They have capitalist execs running the companies.
The thing is that words can have a very broad range of meaning depending on who uses them and how (among many other factors), but you can't accurately code all of that into a form that computers can understand. Even ignoring bad actors it makes certain things very difficult, like if you ever want to search for something that just happens to share words with something completely different which is very popular.
I reported loads of content on Instagram, genuinely creepy accounts of "athletic teens" and they all got rejected.
I got caught in a horrible recommendations loop because I'd like family photos of running and gymnastics for my nieces and cousins.
I had a post of mine flagged for multiple days on there because it had an illustration of a woman in a full length wool coat completely covering her and not in any way sexual. Shit is so stupid
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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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The spartans were children at one point
I'm fine with abducting children for a Super-Soldier program. But I draw the line at having photos of them on Instagram. Honestly, a deserved warning. Be better π
This should be obvious. Photos of classified military assets shouldn't be posted online.
Based on that one Senate hearing, it looks like big companies like Facebook, Discord and Twitter are aiming for the maximum percent of false positives and false negatives when it comes to CSAM.
The only thing I know about that screenshot is that it used to say "show results anyway" which is probably worse in most cases
with any luck this will destroy them and funnel disgruntled users our way, where the servers are too numerous to ever fully take down and many aren't even US based anyways
Unfortunately, I don't think so. Most of the politicians were virtue signaling, asking questions that were impossible and demanding timetables that they weren't going to get anyway. One woman actually had some half decent data prepared, but I don't think anybody else was really taking it seriously.
Now if there was some legislation passed, specifically stuff that wasn't KOSA, that would be something else. KOSA seems prepped to simply destroy free speech on the internet, and it would mostly harm smaller social media networks that don't have lawyers and around-the-clock moderators to police every single comment and post.
"LOOK!! WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING!!! ALL OUR USERS ARE NOT PDF FILES!"
Well, the Spartans were pederasts...
How do we know they didn't type something more explicit to get the result and just change what's in the search bar? Has anyone verified this?
I actually don't know, I'm not sure it is possible (I never used Instagram, the search might be auto-submitting for all I know) but intentionally flagging yourself as potential child abuser, for clout, is a bit extreme...
Attribution since poster forgot.
I literally used the embed link from XKCD's website
I have no way of seeing that on my client. Do you see that information on your's?
Not directly on the rendered comment, but if you view markdown for my comment you can see the link to the source.
No such option sadly.
Edit: select text does it.
That's just for embedding the image, not citing. If it's not clickable by the end user, then an embed link is not a source, merely a delivery method.
That's a problem with your client, not the link
Perhaps. Regardless, if it's a limitation that most people's clients face, then it is not a reliable method of attribution. Either way, most people just put the source in the title or comment. It's more reliable. Β―\_ (γ) _/Β―
Ignorance is bliss
Here's a hot tip. If you're on android, open the developer settings and turn on "demo mode" before taking screenshots. It makes the battery and signal display as 100% so you don't get judged by internet commenters who don't go outside.
so you donβt get judged by internet commenters who donβt go outside.
I also go outside. I just stop using my Phone at 30% to preserve Battery. That's why I judge these People. Turn it off and preserve the Battery.
My phone is constantly either dead or under 40%
your cue to stop using it as soon as it drops to 30%
Are you trapped in the wilderness? If you've been abducted by hyenas, hoot like an owl twice.
hoot hoot wolves hoot hoot not hyenas
16% is pretty good. the ones at three to one percent are the weirdos.
To prolong your battery's lifespan you shouldn't let it drain below 20%.
You ever seen a phone at 0%?
My skin crawls if it goes below 30%.
I really hate and avoid when my phone switches into battery saver at 15%, so in my mind 16% is like 1%
That's what you get for all the teabagging you've been doing..
