Supermariofan67 @ Supermariofan67 @programming.dev

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Do you realize that you are fighting against an open Internet?

I agree with you in instances where it's not generating a real person. But there are cases where people use tools like this to generate realistic-looking but fake images of actual, specific real-life children. This is of course abusive to that child. And it's still bad when it's done to adults too, it's sort of a form of defamation.

I really do hope legislation around this issue is narrowly tailored to actual abuse similar to what I described above, but given the "protect the children" nonsense they constantly moan about just about every technology including end to end encryption I'm not very optimistic.

Another thing I wonder about, is if AI could get so realistic that it becomes impossible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that anyone with actual CSAM (where the image/victim isn't known so they can't prove it that way) is guilty, since any image could plausibly be fake. This of course is an issue far beyond just child abuse. It would probably discredit video footage for robberies and that sort of thing too. We really are venturing into the unknown and government isn't exactly know for adapting to technology...

But I think you're mostly correct, because the moral outrage on social media seems to be about the entire concept of fake sexual depictions of minors existing at all, rather than only about abusive ones

How is this relevant to the technology community?

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It bothers me that a circlejerky and oversimplified answer like this one is more highly upvoted than the numerous high effort, highly detailed, and technical explanations for why it happens.

This is starting to sound a bit too Epstein-like...

Oh okay, my mistake. Thanks for pointing that out

Women Who Code might not be a good choice... https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5v53w/girls-who-code-team-up-with-tomahawk-missile-maker-raytheon

But I'm definitely excited to see Tor and Fight for the Future on the list!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBP0lUzAp5if-Mo5-0KwspreeYGHkWvjn

Given that Facebook and meta's other platforms are one of the largest distributors of that, if they scrape Facebook for data this is not exactly a surprise unfortunately...

It would be more newsworthy if a Chinese exporter did label the customs disclosure accurately. Every time I order a package internationally it comes labeled as "books" or something similarly vague

Nope, the source code is available but it is proprietary software because the license forbids distributing modified versions, among other things

Lots of malware gets hosted using dynamic DNS domains, so they (or more likely some bot) probably saw the domain frequently showing up in malicious activity and blocked it without understanding that it itself isn't the source of the malicious activity.

They are an anti science organization. They oppose nuclear power, GMOs, etc.

Yeah, it's the second one you said, see https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-if-we-kissed-in

You can use cryptsetup-reencrypt to encrypt an existing disk in place with LUKS. Then you just have to modify the initramfs/bootloader/fstab to point to the new configuration. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Device_encryption#Encrypt_an_existing_unencrypted_file_system

When it was brand new there were some edge case bugs that broke on certain workflows and hardware, but that's pretty much entirely fixed now and I'm guessing for a long time now it's been more universally stable than pulseaudio was.

Also, some people just pointlessly dislike anything that's new, or because it breaks their spacebar heating

Obscenity law needs to be eliminated entirely at this point. It's archaic entirely. Luckily, convicting under the Miller test is rare since pretty much everything has "serious artistic or political value", but these laws shouldn't be on the books at all. Needless violation of the first amendment to punish victimless crimes.

It disturbs me that we live in a time when the idea of words being copyrighted is one even worth thinking about, and that people would feel that they may have to self-censor their expression out of fear of it.

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