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by akersten 6y ago
> let any company that doesn't have the budget to have a proper cybersecurity team just die? Are you implying that without a cybersecurity team, you'll fall victim to ransomware and be forced to pay up to stay in business? Bec
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by akersten 6y ago
> Why would congress struggle to pass it through a constitutional review? Because a computer program is an expression, and the right to free expression is a cornerstone of the first amendment. So broadly, I don't think the governmen
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by akersten 6y ago
Have US ISPs ever been asked/told to block IPs (or even DNS) before? I don't think it's something the FCC could do, especially since they've abdicated most of their authority over the internet to the FTC. Even still, I d
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by akersten 6y ago
> Your last sentence shows you are not objective. Correct, I am not objective on this topic and made no such implication. If we were all simply objective observational automatons, it would make for a pretty sterile comment section. >
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by akersten 6y ago
While I still vehemently believe the crypto export laws are a stinking pile of 1st Amendment violation, we're talking about code import here, and I don't think there's legislative precedent (and certainly not executive ) t
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by akersten 6y ago
How would a network ban be enforced? TikTok doesn't even communicate directly with Chinese servers - I block connections to China on my home network, and my kids can still use TikTok on the wifi, so I'm confident there are US serv
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by akersten 6y ago
The executive branch taking wild swings to impose rules that even congress would struggle to pass through constitutional review, is a threat to the democratic principles on which the US is based.
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by akersten 6y ago
> What point are you trying to make here? That the US Government does not have the sovereign authority to determine what companies operate within its borders? My point is that the US president does not have the authority to tell a US c
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by akersten 6y ago
Preventing the purchase and import of physical equipment into the US is a lot different than preventing the import of code/speech. I fully understand the former is allowed, but I highly doubt the president possesses the authority to do
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by akersten 6y ago
> Tiktok is not a US-based software company, they're a private company from China It doesn't really matter, because the app code is repackaged at the Google/Apple level. At that point, it is from US-company to US-consumer.
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by akersten 6y ago
Fortnite was a widely successful mobile application for a long time, distributed outside of the app store and with the same audience as TikTok - it's not as hard as it would seem to teach people to sideload.
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by akersten 6y ago
> if an app was doing what is alleged here, they should be banned Yep, I also believe that would be in violation of Google/Apple ToS and they would be happy to ban it. > I'm sure they are provisions to do so without a vote
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by akersten 6y ago
Great, but that doesn't answer my question: What authority does a US president have to tell a US-based software company to not distribute code from its US servers?
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by akersten 6y ago
Under what authority? A dozen paragraphs in the article and not one questioning whether he can actually do this. What would such an executive action look like? An EO to Apple and Google to de-list the app from their stores? Why should they
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by akersten 6y ago
Certainly it will depend on who you bank with, but JPMorganChase has 250,000 employees[1]. If even 1% of them are customer service representatives, bank tellers, or in other positions with direct access to your account (which I hope we can
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by akersten 6y ago
> and there's no real reason why anyone should be able to post new tweets or access private messages without several approvals. Unless new information has emerged recently, this wasn't the attack vector. The attack was resettin
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by akersten 6y ago
I don't think that's a contradiction, I think you and Twitter have different understandings of what the size of a "limited group of employees" is. The usual advice of dismissing nebulous corporate statements like that ap
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by akersten 6y ago
Kind of sensationalist. There's thousands of people that have the ability to drain your bank account right now. Your average call center employee wields immense power. The real story here is Twitter's lack of spear-phishing traini
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by akersten 6y ago
So, asking non-facetiously, as an artist I have the right to decide how my work must be attributed, even if the platform I'm posting it to tells me in their ToS that my work will be altered in a standard way in the course of using the
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by akersten 6y ago
Well, a retweet is intrinsically attributed, that's the whole point. Does it need to be in any specific format (e.g. label on the image) that the photographer desires? That doesn't seem feasible. In the case that the original twee
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by akersten 6y ago
Is there some special right for a photographer in Japan to have their name shown on an image, that determines whether a reproduction of it is an infringement? As far as I know, you acknowledge the service will transform your work as part of
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by akersten 6y ago
Fair shake, this time I cropped the image too so that it wasn't looking at any of the boundary to identify it either. Here's the original image: https://imgur.com/a/Td4rhoy And the cloaked: https:/&#x2F
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by akersten 6y ago
It was pretty frustrating that they did not readily offer any example images for inspection, so against my better judgement I downloaded their binaries to run some experiements. First, a source image at an approximate resolution that you mi
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by akersten 6y ago
Reproducing the image in this way is essentially a manual low-pass filter (although with little control over the parameters), so it's certainly one valid data point with which to test the hypothesis.
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by akersten 6y ago
That bit was more of a forward-looking statement about the future capabilities of image recognition, but yes it is somewhat hyperbolic in the general case. I don't believe we'll ever achieve AGI, but I do believe we'll have s
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by akersten 6y ago
Color me extremely skeptical. A low-pass filter will make short work of any "tiny, pixel-level" changes designed to thwart ML. After all, one of the most tell-tale identifiers (space between eyes/nose/mouth) is still pla
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by akersten 6y ago
Wow, that's so much cleaner - why don't they just do it like this in the example? I'd be much happier learning standard web components if they were all a breath of fresh air like this. Personally I'd miss the JSX syntax,
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by akersten 6y ago
It's disgusting that we've allowed violation of copyright to be a criminal offense. It should be a civil offense at most, with no possibility of jail time. No wasting money extraditing Kim Dotcom from NZ, no ruining kids' l
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by akersten 6y ago
We don't usually talk about politics here, but this is open and blatant corruption and needs to be remembered. Whether we allow these defining moments in American government to continue will have long-lasting implications, especially i
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by akersten 6y ago
It's somewhat comforting that that's the case. For argument's sake, we can pretend instead that the 'a' in gmail.com is the Cyrillic 'a' for one of the addresses.

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