A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.
I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things, too.
Sure, they’re being regulated in other countries. I guess in the EU for example, it’s the Digital Services Act and other legislation which mandate moderation, cutting down on hate and disinformation. They’d need to be sanctioned if they don’t comply. Or leave the market if they don’t like the law…
Saying: “Google says stalking is a crime in 50 US states.” gave me 29 downvotes. The question was: “Would it be legal to crowdfund a licensed private detective to investigate a public figure and publish their results publicly?”
No. I don’t know why woelkchen said there are X other mods in the community. TragicNotCute didn’t respond (yet) but it’s only been 23h and they don’t seem very active with moderation anyways, their last mod action is from 3 months ago. I guess they should have seen my DM by now.
Do you have any specific course of action in mind? I’d say lets wait another day and give them some time. But I’m not holding my breath.
Bring a book or newspaper/magazine. Those people are the minority but it’s still fairly common to see people read on the train or at the bus stop.
I’m playing “Stray” right now. I think it’s awesome. (It is from 2022 btw)
Why not a linked list? Or a hash-table?
Yeah, the article also doesn’t make it clear enough what it’s even talking about…
I found a description of Proton Mail’s e2ee: https://proton.me/blog/what-is-end-to-end-encryption
Seems it’s using PGP behind the scenes?! And sending unencrypted mails to everyone who isn’t using Proton or PGP… How is that handled in the UI? Is that transparent to the user once encryption gets turned off? Because then I don’t see any issue. Yeah, they also offer regular mail. But that’s not a crime. It’d be of concern if the UI misleads the user into thinking a mail is encrypted when it isn’t.
Which kind of software and end to end encryption solution is this referring to? PGP or something? Because then every single argument would be wrong. Except for searching body text via the server.
It’s far more pronounced on the internet anyways. People come here to vent. And the (social media) platforms incentivise them to do so, the way they’re build. I’d say it’s far less a thing in real life.
For transparency reasons: I’ve DMed @tragicnotcute@lemmy.world (As suggested in the earlier conversation… To have another mod look at it.)
I think the other mods in !fediverse@lemmy.world are more nominal members. I can’t see any activity from them. It’s mainly @woelkchen@lemmy.world doing all the work there. Ruud is the instance admin and probably the last person we want to bother with small drama, and the other two don’t have any activity federated to me for months.
(And maybe you want to contact the inactive mods in your community and see if you want to replace them.)
More. Because they’re more involved with the actual business, doing evil. But the amount depends on what they’re doing.
I think it’s difficult to impossible to prove what went into an AI model. At least by looking at the final product. You’d need to look at their harddisks and find a verbatim copy of your text as training meterial as far as I know.
Well, last time I checked the news, content moderation was still a thing in Europe. They’re mandated to do it. And Meta doesn’t like to lose millions and millions of users… So they abide. We have a different situation with AI. Some companies have restricted their AI models due to them fearing the EU come up with an unfavorable legislation. And Europe sucks at coming up with AI regulations. So Meta and a few others have started disallowing use of their open-weight models in Europe. I as a German don’t get a license to run llama3.2.
You can do a lot of things with regulation. You can force theaters to be built so some specification so they won’t catch on fire, build amusement parks with safety in mind. Not put toxic stuff in food. All these regulations work fine. I don’t see why it should be an entirely different story with this kind if technology.
But with that said, we all suck at getting ahold of the big tech companies. They can get away with way more than they should be able to. Everywhere in the world. And ultimately I don’t think the situation in the US is entirely hopeless. I just don’t see any focus on this. And I see some other major issues that need to be dealt with first.
I mean you’re correct. Most of the Google, Meta and Amazons are from the USA. We import a lot of the culture, good and bad, with them. Or it’s the other way round, idk. Regardless, we get both culture and some of the big companies. Still, I think we’re not in the same situation (yet).
Idk. I’ve also used company email or storage to do one-off private stuff. If allowed. It gets yet more complicated once you’re a freelancer. Or do social media stuff or programming and it’s both your hobby and your job. I can somehow relate to that. We don’t know that person’s exact situation and reasoning. All we can do here is speculate and either give them the benefit of the doubt, or not.
And ultimately I think companies have a right to exist, too. I like that they write articles for me to read. I invite journalists over to have a look at the nice projects I’m doing. I don’t see a big issue with that. Of course they’re very different from me. All their professional life revolves around reach, publicity and attention. That’s probably some big category in their thinking and less so in mine.
Yeah, the post wasn’t particularly great quality. More an experiment. I mean the atmosphere in the comments was good. I’ve seen worse.
Idk. Let’s stop talking about this. It’s getting late here and I think we could go on forever about some details. Things happen and I think not everything is worth writing a novel about. And ultimately none of that is my call. I wish you the best.
Well I don’t know that guy. But seems to me he is a tech journalist. And as such probably dabbling with all kinds of things and curious. And heise frequently reports on Free and Open Source Software and the Fediverse. So naturally, they’re taking part in it. Or they’d be bad journalists. I also read your interaction. He wasn’t demaning you consult him. He was super snarky.
Yeah, I think you’re wrong. There wasn’t any advertising or links in that post. Just what Mastodon adds to a post and a picture. And naturally those link to a user’s home instance. It’s the same with your profile. That’s also on a certain instance and has that domain name everywhere. Still that’s not an ad for lemmy.world.
I think it’s bad publicity for us. We have too much drama here, and it shows. I suppose Mastodon isn’t perfect either… I don’t really know, I do not use it.
I’d have left that post stay up. It’s nice to celebrate the Fediverse. And despite possible shortcomings of that post, I do not see any ill intent. And linking to heise isn’t unheard of… In fact we link to their articles every other day in the German speaking part of the Lemmyverse…
But I’m not a moderator. It’s your decision what to make of this, not mine. I mainly wanted to make sure we agree on the facts. And seems we mostly do.
Edit: And I think this call to upvote the post is a misunderstanding. Boosts, Upvotes and likes work differently on Mastodon and Lemmy, as far as I know. I think that wasn’t meant as a call to do the Lemmy upvote thing. But to press that button on Mastodon that makes that post spread to your friends. I believe this is a misunderstanding between you and that person, due to the terminology.
I also think that post looked off, especially with all the hashtags. But honestly, most Mastodon posts look off to me. And they also speak in a different tone over there. At least that’s my experience.
Nevermind, I pulled out the numbers:
Upvotes:
I also have 4 votes from other software in my database. And 21 Lemmy downvotes plus one from mbin.
Now tell me, how doesn’t that add up to exactly 302 upvotes from Lemmy? And that’s just the ones that made it to my instance… Do you believe me now? Or is there something I’m not aware of?
Would you like the numbers, or just make some numbers up and/or just stay with your opinion? Because what you said just isn’t true. I can look it up if you like. At least the votes that got federated to my instance. If you look at my username, I’m not from LW. And hence I wasn’t speaking about the aggregate numbers of LW.
There is one way to do it, and that’s regulation. We need the legislator to step in and settle what’s allowed and what’s disallowed with copyrighted content. And what companies can do with people’s personal/private data.
I don’t see a way around this. As a regular person, you can’t do much. You can hide and not interact with those companies and their platforms. But it doesn’t really solve the problem. I’d say it’s a political decision. Vote accordingly and write emails to your representative, and push them to do the right thing. Spread the word, collect signatures and make this a public debate. At least that’s something that happens where I’m from. It’s probably a lost cause if you’re from the USA, due to companies ripping off people being a big tradition. 😔
I don’t think so. I mean you can read the post in the screenshot yourself. It doesn’t link to anything (except the image) and doesn’t promote anything except the Fediverse. The hashtags are a bit excessive for Lemmy standards. And heise is a German computer magazine publishing company. So the author writes articles for a living. But I believe they said in the comments, the post was done in their own time. And I don’t think anyone except the moderator took offense… The post got like 300 upvotes.
Media competency and how technology works. Because that includes things I’m good at, and it’s desperately needed.