Natanael

To be pedantic, transparency mod bots exists on reddit and server admins can redact the log here.

Server admins can set up moderation filters to deal with stuff like that, and should be coordinating with each other on detected spam patterns, etc.

Infrastructure costs

Lemmy has language tags. Clients could offer integration with translation tools.

Lemmy is built around forums, which is very distinct from microblogging when it comes to moderation and management.

You don’t get the same kind of context collapse as on Twitter. You don’t get the same kind of dependency on server wide shared culture like on many niche Mastodon servers. Although context collapse still happens to some degree on reddit and may happen here when threads gets popular, it’s possible for forums to be moderated to minimize it and enforce quality. You don’t get nearly as many people trying to enforce their rules in others’ spaces, because forum makes it clear that it’s not “your feed” (like how some try to control what they see not with filters but instead by harassing people who post stuff they don’t like), here it’s somebody’s forum and somebody else is the moderator. You can stop seeing specific content by blocking those forums instead of blocking the users. Forums which you don’t interact with doesn’t affect you!

Because of how the federation works here, volume alone is never the main problem. Forums can be hosted on small instances just fine. Users on small instances can use big forums just fine. If a particular forum is poorly moderated it can be blocked regardless of where it’s hosted. Admins for small servers can filter content from problematic servers, regardless how big they are, and can do it on a per-forum basis too in order to avoid collateral.

Spurious defederation between servers where one has a lot of users is where the problems gets complicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation

It’s losing cost advantages as time goes. Long term storage is still on tape (and that’s actively developed too!), and flash is getting cheaper, and spinning disks have inherent bandwidth and latency limits. It’s probably not going away entirely, but it’s main usecases are being squeezed on both ends

It’s also what Google Maps live view is using. Street view imagery plus rough location plus on-phone camera sensor calibration data allows it to compute highly accurate positions relative to surroundings.

Taxing liquid capital is fairly straightforward, especially if it’s tied to income (like company founders owning shares).

Taxing non-liquid assets is complicated because it’s hard to make it fair in cases of family home inheritance and similar situations.

But taxing use of assets as collateral for loans (to create liquidity from a non-liquid asset) should be reasonably fair, it can be treated as an advance on capital gains taxes on the collateralized asset.

The scaling attack specifically can make a photo sent to you look innocent to you and malicious to the reviewer, see the link above

Of course a group of people could use violence to oppress other people. But then you no longer have anarchy.

The irony is that the amount of coordination needed to protect anarchism would no longer be called anarchism

You will always end up recreating some form of organizations to manage resources. The best you can do is ensure those organizations are structured with accountability to make sure they’re fair to everybody

There’s basically ideologues versus hateful people versus indifferent sociopaths (overlap is common)

I consider political ideologues and “technocrats” and extremely pedantic rule-following bureaucrats to be different flavors of ideologues (has a specific worldview they try to enforce / uphold)

We don’t know if spacetime loops around or is infinite or has an expanding boundary. Best we got for reference is the cosmic background radiation, but it doesn’t tell us about any center

Yeah so here’s the next problem - downscaling attacks exists against those algorithms too.

https://scaling-attacks.net/

Also, even if those attacks were prevented they’re still going to look through basically your whole album if you trigger the alert

Apple had it report suspected matches, rather than warning locally

It got canceled because the fuzzy hashing algorithms turned out to be so insecure it’s unfixable (easy to plant false positives)

https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-making-process/types-eu-law_en

Each country may still have the equivalent of a constitution, and the majority of EU laws are directives which the country may translate to fit their local law, also there’s various negotiated exceptions to EU laws. But the general idea is that the treaties establishing EU are meant to require full cooperation

Not unless turned into EU law, or a lawsuit over it reaches EU court. Individual countries can’t change the rules of the union on their own.

There’s already EU court precedence against mandatory backdoors

https://cdt.org/insights/the-european-court-of-human-rights-concludes-encryption-backdoor-mandates-violate-the-right-to-private-life-of-all-users-online/

Judges can deputize if necessary

Found the alt for swiftonsecurity

Technically only for non-classified internal communication. Classified stuff is restricted to be discussed only using military approved locked down hardware. But still, issuing a strong recommendation for Signal above all other options when communicating using regular devices is a good thing. Lots of “regular” conversations can still leak more than you expect through metadata, timing, etc, so they trust Signal to protect that