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Age Verification isn't a technical problem to solve. If you think that, you're missing the point.
It's a social problem used by authoritarian governments as an excuse for population control and censorship.
It's a fundamental attack on free speech and democracy.
It must not be accommodated.
It must be stopped.
#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
Hear hear!
I'm so tired of everyone like it's normal to upload official identification to every app and website. Without any proper background checks on those services!
This is literally how you get your identity stolen. So the exploitation isn't just happening at the panopticon level, these policies leave us all more vulnerable.
Even people who know better have to comply to function in this society. It's horrendous.
How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)
Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/how-i-launched-3-consoles-and-found-true-love-at-babbages-store-no-9/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074671
大統領就任したら大判プラナーで撮ってICチェックしてみたさあるな
Age Verification isn't a technical problem to solve. If you think that, you're missing the point.
It's a social problem used by authoritarian governments as an excuse for population control and censorship.
It's a fundamental attack on free speech and democracy.
It must not be accommodated.
It must be stopped.
#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights
@Em0nM4stodonEm
Hey parents, your kids are in danger! But don't worry about it. We'll take care of it for you.
All we need to do is just check their ages. It'll be just like getting ID'd in a shop. You remember that don't you? Nothing to worry about.
[quietly]
We'll just take a photo of your children and their ID, put them in a database, track their every movement, record who their friends are, what they think, their every hope, dream and aspiration.
[back to normal volume]
So don't you worry, your children are safe with us and our billionaire backers, whoops, I mean with us, just us. We'll take care of everything. You can get back to feeding your own dopamine addictions, we'll claim your children are safer now, and big tech will have their giant, totally not sinister databases of real world identities that surely aren't going to come back to bite us later. Anyway that'll be for a different government to deal with.
大判プラナー、もうちょっとだけイメージサークルあれば無敵のレンズになってたかもしれん
寝ます
かといってプラナー80mmの色も好きなんよな～
でも色が好きなのはプラナー50mmなんよな～。。。ディスタンスが取れるならプラナー80mm。。
@Em0nM4stodonEm Thank you! This means a lot, I received a lot of support, and I guess that people needed to hear these things. Stay tuned for more! 😀
One of the companies you identify in the List of 17 is Sigma - their testimonial on Persona is worth a read: https://www.sigmacomputing.com/customers/how-persona-transformed-customer-insights
And really, their highlighted list of customers is a list of extractive data orgs.
As someone who has read more privacy policies and terms of service than is healthy, thank you, and very nice work.
Planar...いい...
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchangeEm There are technical solutions without mass surveillance.Any technology is generally insufficient when it comes to resolve social deficits.
@timbray 
@carnage4lifeDare Obasanjo this is a very narrow bandwidth channel, suggest switching to higher bandwidth for this topic, which is complex
@timbray @carnage4lifeDare Obasanjo
"The lyrics of the song were written by Waters. They describe the senseless nature of war and the ignorance of modern-day humans who have been taken over by consumerism and materialism. In an interview, Waters shared the significance of each verse:
The first verse is about going to war, how on the front line we don't get much chance to communicate with one another because someone else has decided that we shouldn't. The second verse is about civil liberties, racism and colour prejudice. The last verse is about passing a tramp in the street and not helping."
645プラナー80mmホンマに切れ味が凄い。くっそキレイに撮れてる。
@dalias@hachyderm.ioCassandrich But that's not gonna happen.
@divVerent If you don't want them confronted with this, but it still exists, all you're doing is setting them up not to be equipped to deal with it once they do. And either way they're still stuck living in a world ruled by adults whose brains are rotted on this stuff. I get that this is all very unpleasant and people want an easy solution, but there is none short of attacking the root problem.
If you think hiding it from children (not with trojan internet passport schemes, which are a non starter, but as a parent or whatever) is best, you do you. I think educating and conveying values to them so that they can see the rot for what it is and be ready to protect themselves and fight it is probably better.
一旦厳選終わったので寝ますか・・・
Mastoblaster is a nice clean app for Mastodon. Early days, and I will be contributing observations to the developer but so far it’s a refreshing and modern app.
Silky Anteater (Cyclopes didactylus)
via mammalidentifier
@dalias@hachyderm.ioCassandrich @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchangeEm My approach is actually one of the former category - "trivially" bypassable.@divVerent You said the solution to your actual problem right there: ban these abusive platforms entirely. Or at least regulate them into not being able to do the really harmful things they do - to people of all ages. None of that has anything to do with policing children or policing whether users are adults.
7歳でカメラを触る⇒17歳でバイテン
これだ
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchangeEm There are technical solutions without mass surveillance.@divVerent @Em0nM4stodonEm No there are not. This is a fundamental fact of mathematical logic. Given a proposed age verification system you can prove that it's either trivially bypassed (doesn't actually verify age) or violates key privacy properties.
Em's point is spot-on. If you think of this as a problem to be solved, you are going to be wrong and you are going to be a useful fool for fascists.
나는 챱츄다
A black swallowtail visiting the #garden last summer.
#SilentSunday #photography #Stunday #butterfly #butterflyphotography #flowers #zinnia
는 챱츄다
A black swallowtail visiting the #garden last summer.
#SilentSunday #photography #Stunday #butterfly #butterflyphotography #flowers #zinnia
Snoozel poezel
寝もうす
놀 아 줘!
텔 레 그 램 할 사 람
A new edition of ~ this week in security ~ is now out, featuring stories on: Ivanti's private equity cuts cost it security; Copilot summarizing confidential emails; ATM jackpotting hacks on the rise and netting hackers millions; Def Con bans Epstein-linked technologists from its conference; and much more.
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How far back in time can you understand English?
It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.
"... as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler."
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
My own utopian vision from the landscape of wooden skyscrapers now has name: Project #Woodhattan. Probably silly, but at least most people would somehow associate it with megacity built from wood, which is more or less all we need just now.
The utopian community members in the story are not the only inhabitants of the landscape. The wooden skyscrapers are not towering over entirely postapocalyptic or dystopian society, but neither it is entirely utopian landscape. Community centers in wooden towers form something like fractal network of self-repeating patterns, consisting of sustainable and artistic elements, but not everywhere they were given chance. They were unexpected result of failing local regulatory framework, because at least the earliest examples of the structures would hardly meet construction, safety or fire hazard regulations of the previous era.
The landscape between creative fragments consists of traditional family houses, traditional suburban dependence on cars, traditional TV sets in living room and lot of other traditional or normie something, which was not really based on idea of utility the space to its inhabitants, but rather around inevitable of concept of the property having value on market, be attractive for someone else, who would try to bet what value the building would have for yet someone else. While this sometimes resulted in expensive looking habitable space, it was never really focused on the people who would actually live there, but rather on impressing someone else and trying to belong to certain social group. Which maybe even worked sometimes in the past - but no longer worked in the era, in which this story takes place.
The old society was no longer functional, but the new one was available only as ever evolving beta version. And there were also numerous intermediate mutations somewhere in between those two concepts.
This N.J. Trump voter’s husband was detained by ICE: ‘I thought they’d focus on criminals.’
Sandra Hafraoui, who identified as MAGA and voted for Trump three times, now says the president's immigration policy has "ruined our lives."
Abdellatif arrived in the United States at 22. He has now lived here for more than 38 years — longer than he lived in Morocco.
During one visit, Abdellatif reached over to brush crumbs from her sleeve. A guard intervened, shouting obscenities and threatening to end the visit. “There was no compassion,” Sandra said. “Just constant humiliation.”
About two and a half weeks after his arrest, Abdellatif said officers pressured him to board a commercial flight and sign away his rights. “They told me if I didn’t get on the flight, I would be punished,” he said.
He refused.
The punishment was 10 days in solitary confinement.
Glow mode: activated. ✨🌍
This timelapse taken from the International Space Station shows green aurora ribbons dancing across our planet while the thin orange glow of Earth’s atmosphere traces the edge of home.
Source: © NASA’s Johnson Space Center
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misskeyのフォロワそれぞれにイラスト描いた時用にフォルダを作ってるんだけど
MDP っていうフォルダがあって
なんのこっちゃと思ってよく確認したら
マジでデカいプリンさんだった
Somebody asked yesterday if advertising really works in these days of ad-blockers etc... My answer was that if it wasn't working on most people, big business wouldn't be spending 1.4 trillion dollars on it every year.
But I was reminded of a friend of mine, a student of Russian, that went to study in Moscow in the early 80s. He got what he called an 'eerie' feeling walking around the city, in the metro, etc. At first he thought it was the stories about foreigners being watched - but eventually he worked out what it really was: the absence of advertising - no bill-boards, posters, vehicle liveries, shop window displays, etc...
We swim in an ambient sea of advertising - and its effects go way beyond its immediate purpose of extracting our hard-earned money so that we keep working hard for more, surrounded by mountains of stuff we could easily do without.
The most pernicious effects of advertising are, precisely, ambient...
1. It makes us unhappy. That's the whole point. It is fundamentally based on making us feel we'd be better, more attractive, popular, successful, etc, if only we buy this or that latest cosmetic, car, whatever; and
2. It shapes social expectations - it makes having new, more expensive things, holidays, etc, look and feel desirable, it associates happiness with wasteful consumerism, so we come to really believe that striving for a 'luxury lifestyle' - big house, fancy car, swimming pool, jet-setting, etc - is the meaning of our lives, is better than living simply, contentedly in caring families, communities and the natural world.
The usual visualizations of general relativity that show balls moving in a curved potential are misleading not because spacetime is four-dimensional, but because spacetime has the weird Minkowskian metric, with the square of the time componen being subtracted rather than added to the distance. I have no idea how to visualize curved spacetime where distances can be positive, negative, or zero.
の7歳すごいな…
10年前に見てたらショックでワシ、写真辞めてるレベル。
https://x.com/y___watanabe/status/2025195995567673794
The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore. It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that isn't remotely relevant...
@0x4d6165 @Em0nM4stodonEm How is it bad faith? I am genuinely confused at why it's ok to have age checks in person but not online. The Internet might not be physical, but it's still real life with real people.
@Azarilh@mastodon.socialAzarilhⓥ because showing a bouncer your ID is very obviously different from sending a picture of your ID to some random company's database where it can be stolen or used by authoritarian governments???
I'm not using any LLM or "AI" for anything that I write or draw. Never had, and never will.
I'm making this choice because:
• This technology was built by unethically stealing the hard work of millions without any consent or compensation.
• This technology has and is still constantly scraping data, including personal data, from people without their knowledge or consent, in complete disregard of the privacy laws we have to protect us.
• This technology unnecessarily uses vast amounts of energy in a world where using more energy sadly usually means more pollution.
• This technology is working on devaluating labor in order to enrich even more the already rich, aggravating poverty everywhere.
• This technology is misleadingly being sold as a solution to problems it cannot solve.
• This technology is supercharging disinformation and manipulation online, centralizing an incredible power of influence in the hands of a few controlling billionaires.
• This technology is increasingly being used by authoritarian governments in order to surveil and control the people.
• This technology atrophies our creativity and capability to think, as well as harming our social relationships.
• This technology makes my writing voice feel flat and boring. I'd rather learn to live with my human tipos.
• This technology...
じゃ、おやすみ
Interested in organizing a #LibreLocal meetup but don't know where to start? We've got a meetup guide to get you going: https://u.fsf.org/45l
RE: https://mastodon.online/@vwbusguy/116105608250025802
ICE is “de-escalating” in exactly the same way that cockroaches de-escalate when you turn on the light.
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This coming Tuesday (the 24th!) I'll be speaking at FediMTL, super stoked to be talking about my experiences building community on the fediverse.
If you can't make it in-person (the last day to buy in-person tickets is today!), the Social Web Foundation is offering a 50% discount on live streaming tickets with the code SWF50.
Just go here! ➡️ https://lepointdevente.com/billets/mns260224002?lang=en
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