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by 127361 3y ago
The laws regarding child pornography, which were likely drafted by moral entrepreneurs[1] who created a moral panic out of it, are completely insane. Such persecution belongs in the 17th Century, not the modern age. 1. https://en
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by 127361 3y ago
And deaths resulting from cancer and a whole list of other ailments. The act of living itself carries risk.
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by 127361 3y ago
Many of the prosecutions are for simple possession of such images. On top of that the "chilling effect" it causes means we can't download large collections of data such as historical web archives (e.g. GeoCities, etc), just i
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by 127361 3y ago
No, we accept road traffic accidents as fact and do not shut down entire road intersections due to deaths that occur. The same thing applies to child pornography, and 0.5ppm is certainly a tolerable amount in an extremely large dataset. The
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by 127361 3y ago
Trouble is it's so difficult to know what your adversary is doing, it's better to switch to a different medium i.e. reduce dependence on the Internet (as I detailed in another post). The fundamental nature of the Internet itself p
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by 127361 3y ago
Team Cymru claim to be able to trace through VPNs using widely collected flow records from Internet core routers. ISPs sell these flow records to third parties. So the whole fabric of the Internet itself is one giant spy machine, in effect.
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by 127361 3y ago
Try the I2P anonymous network where by default every user is also a router. You can chain the two together, set I2P to use an outproxy and set the Tor browser to connect through I2P. I have no clue as to what security this provides nowadays
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by 127361 3y ago
However so many sites are using CloudFlare and other DDoS prevention and CDN services. I'm sure the NSA has fiber taps (beam splitters) at the point where the data travels unencrypted on the internal datacenter network. CloudFlare itse
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by 127361 3y ago
Yes, you can customize it, both the color scheme and the element spacing. And the font scaling (the internal resolution in the texture) can be fixed to make the fonts look nicer. Someone made a subpixel font rendering patch for ImGUI as wel
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by 127361 3y ago
Beautiful interface design there, and it's fully customizable to your liking as well. It also supports keyboard shortcuts.
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by 127361 3y ago
Absolutely, and we should do what's reasonably possible to reduce the number of images out there in circulation. But we can't do what is the equivalent of shutting down the whole Internet, in order to stop it. Society and AI devel
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Arcan Display Framework Receives Funding as Innovative Wayland Alternative(phoronix.com)
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by 127361 3y ago
" Arcan will use the private funding to improve client compatibility, initially with a focus on the KVM / QEMU UI / audio driver integration and then working on to enhancing integration with X.Org, Qt, Imgui, SDL/GLFW, a
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by 127361 3y ago
https://imgur.com/hiUqXuK
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by 127361 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38708099
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by 127361 3y ago
So much for the license terms, as it runs offline there's little they can do to enforce them for personal usage at least. Good.
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by 127361 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38708099
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by 127361 3y ago
Yes, I am, when it comes to imprisoning people for simple possession of data, where there is absolutely no intent to distribute. I think nobody should be going to prison for looking at or storing any image on their computer. Or reading any
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by 127361 3y ago
No, that's the same "common sense" we used to justify discrimination and other abuses towards people who were different in some way, e.g. by race, or by sexual preference (e.g. homosexuality). And at the time in history the d
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by 127361 3y ago
I agree with your stance here so much. Possession data should not be illegal. There are thousands of images of real murder[1] and other absolutely heinous acts committed against humans and animals out there. Millions and millions of murder
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by 127361 3y ago
It is a problem, just as crime in general in society. But our efforts to stamp it out completely could cause more harm than good. The price of liberty, is unfortunately crime. Otherwise if we go too far in preventing crime, we will be livin
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by 127361 3y ago
Well I would consider a 0.55ppm contamination rate very low indeed? Mistakes happen in the creation of such datasets, it's human nature? Just as we can't police a society to the extent it's completely free of crime, otherwise
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by 127361 3y ago
These "illegal content" moral panics have ruined Internet freedom, they are now ruining AI as well. Such moral panics have been used as an excuse for absolutely heinous mass surveillance of the entire population.
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by 127361 3y ago
That's just completely ridiculous, I can't believe what the world's come to nowadays over such moral panics. There's likely images of animal and human torture and mutilation in there. And there are people that fantasize
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by 127361 3y ago
I think, over a dataset of nearly 6 billion images, it's just impossible to ensure that it contains no child pornography. Like trying to ensure all my kitchen surfaces are 100% free of germs. Not possible, or the amount of effort and d
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by 127361 3y ago
This dataset contains over 5.8 billion images, so 3226 of them being child pornography is a contamination rate of 0.55ppm. It's likely you will find this material anywhere there are large collections of images.
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by 127361 3y ago
I wonder if it's a trend towards collectivism in the West? That would explain a lot.
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by 127361 3y ago
I feel the author's reactions are still in the range of behavior that shouldn't be considered abnormal. I feel that saying people have to go to therapy for expression negative emotions at such things, is unfairly pathologizing peo
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by 127361 3y ago
Very disturbing to read this, the author's article is in no way paranoid. That's what they did in the Soviet Union, if you went against the state ideology they would accuse you of having mental health problems [1]. It's the s
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by 127361 3y ago
Early stages of a police state or totalitarian regime. Consider the mass surveillance of all our communications, that's an absolute hallmark[1] of a police state. And getting people to rat each other out as well, that's shocking.

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