xXthrowawayXx

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[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah. It’s real good. I wish we were federated with more instances, but thats a process and will take time.

[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Also if the normal invocation of your program produces more than 3k lines of stdout, sanitize it and default to a file.

[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Only if your fifteen minute comment recorded during the morning commute is transcribed by the most limited speech to text system possible and put as alt text.

[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I uh actually agree with you almost entirely. Except at the end I’m like “and that’s why it won’t work as protection”.

Software hasn’t been treated like other fields of engineering and all operators have needed for protection from liability was the twin shields of “nothing I could do” and “I was doing nothing” to come out of any courthouse relatively unscathed.

That type of “aww shucks technocracy” is only possible if you do the bare minimum or nothing at all. Once an operator implements some kind of protection (yes, even one with warning labels all over it), both defenses are rendered unusable.

Now that you’ve done something you’re able to be held liable for the effects of what you’ve done and for knowing there was a problem.

The picture gets even murkier when we look at how things are going! Lawsuits against Tesla for their self driving deaths are making waves not because they impugn the dignity of Americas biggest car manufacturer by market cap but because every judge who sees one raises the biggest eyebrow possible at software engineering not being held to the same standard as any other type, both in a court of law and within its own process.

There’s a good chance that software PEs will become a thing (again?) as a result.

The long and short of it is that because the only reason monsters like moot are able to exist is their sly lethargy and looking at the legal storm rolling into software engineering, having something bolted onto the backend like this would be a bad idea.

I think automated tools like this can be put to use though if they were hosted separately and provided with an api that linked up nicely with some moderation queue standard and returned something like “entries 1,5 and 9 are likely csam” back to the moderator. It would at least save the mod from dealing with the material directly.

So I guess I agree but come to the opposite conclusion.

[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think you’re off base here. The utopian socialists were arguing against the methods and outcomes of revolutionary socialism, this person is trying their best to explain that this particular tool has serious legal repercussions within the framework we all live under. Those are pretty different.

The reason I see the logic in their arguments is because there’s longstanding legal precedent for misuse of a tool or material because it’s better than nothing to not be a defense even if there are no other options available.

So if you built a car so big no type of shock absorber could handle it cornering at speed and you knew it, using some amazing whiz bang material for shocks isn’t a defense because even though it’s the best thing you knew it wouldn’t work.

Legally speaking, the right choice there is not to make an excessively dangerous vehicle if you don’t want to be held liable for negligence.

It’s also the argument throughout unsafe at any speed although the courts always seem to side with the automakers 🤔

Or if one were to get sued for hosting csam, using the latest whiz bang ai system for detection wouldn’t be a defense or even a point in your favor because you knew it wasn’t a reasonable use of the underlying technologies. You can’t say “judge, I was relying on the ai csam detector!” When the component parts of the ai csam detector have big “prototype, do not use in production” stickers all over them.

Ultimately while these tools might protect mods and users from having to view csam in the moderation process, that’s just one side of the struggle and on its other side they’re a paper shield at best and proof of negligence at worst.

[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Lay off. This person is right.

We here at hexbear are concerned about protecting people from seeing csam. That’s good. The rest of lemmy is concerned about that and the very real consequences of csam uploads for the sites, which is getting dropped by hosting and registrar and prosecuted for distributing.

There are already cases where that kind of legal dos attack has worked, there’s even cases of anti csam organizations uploading it to reverse image search sites and then serving them papers when the reverse image search site displays the uploaded image to compare with nonexistent results.

The person you’re replying to isn’t trying to fuck shit up, they’re telling you that this tool won’t actually solve the problem it’s marketed for.

E: edited for clarity and kindness

[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh no, not the constitution!

Stay away fellow hexbears! Let my shrunken corncob shaped corpse be a warning to you all, this poster has the power of the constitution on their side!

[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

T480 is the one people tend to recommend. Processor not replaceable iirc so get the i7 gen 8 if you can find it.

Look to spend 100-200 on the chassis with the display you want and another 100 on the 32 gb of ram and ssd. 64gb of ram is the maximum but you might not decide you need that. You can use both a little baby nvme drive and a normal size sata disk in the 480.

I have a t420 and 430 in daily use too and they’re both perfectly fine despite positively ancient processors.

[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes! Yes!

cat-confused

Join the struggle, .zip!

[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

no one buys phones outright (but you should!), everyone just gets it through their carrier for some monthly price added to the bill over three years.

[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

it's always been time to stop using chrome.

ungoogled chromium isnt good enough either. if you want to get away from topics you need to be using firefox or safari based browsers.

[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

It’s both.

On average everybody is already over the rf safe exposure limit and the high band and fr2 ranges of 5g are more energetic than the stuff we get exposed to every day with wifi.

It’s hard to learn about rf exposure effects because everyone wants to turn it into a Get the Facts situation. I worry about it because osha considers its own limits “unenforceable”.

 

This is the shitposting thread for the week of September 3-9!

Talk about your shitposting journey here!

Health is of paramount importance: we can’t struggle, do praxis, act in solidarity, read theory or even post if we’re unhealthy.

But how can we know we’re healthy?

We can rely on doctors, but even if a bear has the resources and opportunity to see the doctor they might not be able to do so as often as they worry about their health.

We can rely on how we feel, but just like our pets can conceal pain from us, our feelings aren’t always the best indicator of what’s going on inside us.

We could just go by what we put in our bodies, but that relies on the assumption that we’re healthy and has no diagnostic value.

To borrow a car metaphor: we have to look at the exhaust gasses and used motor oil and transmission fluids to have a clear picture of what’s going on inside the sealed engine of our bodies!

I’m eating Raisin Bran 3-4 times a week to maintain a safe, healthy diet and keep myself regular!

Some resources:

Bristol stool scale - use to judge the amount of time food is staying in your digestive system. Most bears will want a 3 or 4.

 

Lots of ppl in the “stay with .ee/hook up with shit” thread said everything is fedi drama. They’re not wrong.

There’s a new kind of posting in the air and it’s suffused everything. It must be given space to grow without interfering with the other posts.

If we had a lemmydrama and/or a lemmydunks comm and quarantined that stuff there it would allow for avoidance of fediverse stuff and give space for lemmy drama and dunking culture to develop.

Thedunktank is for non-fediverse shit. Twitter, Facebook, etc. it should stay how it is.

It wouldn’t stop the problem of federation stealing our posting energy but it’s a start to help people who don’t want to see the new hotness lib of the week.

Pic unrelated.

 

Pic unrelated.

No subscription ones plz.

Most interested in stuff that doesn’t need a tablet or computer but if I gotta put a nexus or mba in the toolbox that’s fine

 

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