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by cvwright 5y ago
But the point is, once you accept something noble and difficult like "preventing CSAM" as your primary overriding goal, then there's nothing that's too far or too extreme if it will help you with your noble goal. Five ye
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by cvwright 5y ago
In Apple's defense here, there seems to be a reason they're using the longer acronym CSAM. It means not just pictures of people without clothes on, but actual images/video of children being abused. Stuff that would likely p
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by cvwright 5y ago
Agreed in principle. But in this particular case, I think it's difficult to exaggerate the badness of this scare. This strikes me as one of the "Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it" kind of things. Like w
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by cvwright 5y ago
It’s just sad how things have shifted. During the Cold War, the West in general and the US in particular were proud of spreading freedom and democracy. Rock & roll and Levi’s played a big role in bringing down the USSR. Then in the 90s
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by cvwright 5y ago
Fine, then let’s talk about other countries. Does anyone seriously doubt that Germany will use this mechanism to ban Nazi imagery? Then from there, it’s not a big leap to talk about controlling far right (or far left) memes in France or the
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by cvwright 5y ago
The implication -- and I think it's a valid one -- is that this client-side mechanism will be very quickly co-opted to also alert on non-CSAM material. For example, Winnie the Pooh memes in China.
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by cvwright 5y ago
From what I’ve read, part of the magic here is that Apple’s perceptual hash is an exact hash. Meaning, you don’t have to do the Hamming distance thing. Admittedly, I haven’t had a chance to read the original source material yet. It’s poss
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by cvwright 5y ago
The crypto here is for the private set intersection, not the hash. So your device has a list of perceptual (non-cryptographic) hashes of its images. Apple has a list of the hashes of known bad images. The protocol lets them learn which of
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by cvwright 5y ago
First it’s just CSAM Next it’s Covid misinformation Then eventually they’re coming for your Bernie memes
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by cvwright 5y ago
I think it's more that they both have cowboys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary_Stampede
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by cvwright 5y ago
You gotta follow TWIM. It’s the room where things get announced to make it into their Friday post on This Week In Matrix.
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by cvwright 5y ago
The proposal that you linked is all about portable identities, tied to public keys. Is that really necessary for Element to host a server on a user's domain? I would have thought it would work just like outsourcing your web server or
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by cvwright 5y ago
It looks like some of the Matrix devs were thinking about using IPFS for the Matrix "media" repository. It's basically an object store where the Matrix server keeps images and videos and files. Coincidentally, that spec chan
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by cvwright 5y ago
Agree wholeheartedly here.
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by cvwright 5y ago
The GP comment was well beyond honest feedback. Honest feedback is like "I find such-and-such piece of the UI ugly", or "All of my friends get confused by the way it does XYZ". What I object to is the way our community
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by cvwright 5y ago
If running an Ansible playbook [1] is "close to impossible" for you, then there are a few different companies who will host a server for you. Including the guys mentioned in the main article here. Sure, Synapse's performance
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by cvwright 5y ago
So much entitled whining in this discussion. With friends like open source users, who needs enemies? > Element is probably one of the worst matrix clients in terms of UX. If you ask nicely, I'm sure they will give you back all the
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by cvwright 5y ago
That was probably a problem with their main matrix.org homeserver, more than with the protocol or your particular client app. It was very slow for a while, until they worked out some scaling issues to handle the load. I’m on matrix.org pre
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by cvwright 5y ago
Hey, thanks! My app is called Circles, and it will be launching on the App Store next month. It’s built on Matrix to take advantage of their support for E2E encryption, so #4 about federation won’t be too difficult. At least not technicall
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by cvwright 5y ago
I think there are a few key requirements: 1. End-to-end encryption, like Signal. Without this, there's nothing to prevent the new platform from turning into another Facebook. (Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.) But with E2E,
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by cvwright 5y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot over the past couple of years. I even took a sabbatical from my job to build a prototype. IMO the big thing that most alternatives are missing is end-to-end encryption, like Signal. Otherwise there
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by cvwright 5y ago
Lots of keyboards with smart card readers already, for customers like the US DoD. They're not pretty though. Don't expect to see one on display at the Apple Store.
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by cvwright 5y ago
Yes it will! https://github.com/KombuchaPrivacy/circles-ios
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by cvwright 5y ago
> motion detection that doesn't actually require decoding the packets but rather looks at the motion vectors to estimate motion. There's a very cool package for the Raspberry Pi that does this: https://github.com&#x2
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by cvwright 5y ago
Or just grade other work that doesn't require proctoring. Personally, I removed exams entirely in the last courses I taught in Spring 2020, and it seemed to work out OK. I had no faith that the proctoring systems would catch everythin
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by cvwright 5y ago
> No matter what good engineers think they will achieve in the Trust and Safety / Risk divisions. You can have all the "Trust and Safety" effort you want, but when the core architecture of the system is built to reward the
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by cvwright 5y ago
Interestingly, there are hints that some countries are looking into providing Matrix accounts for all of their citizens. I don't think there's been a formal announcement yet, but it was mentioned in one of their Matrix Live videos
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by cvwright 5y ago
People keep repeating this trope about metadata being worth more than content. Where does this come from? I can understand that metadata is valuable -- of course it is. You can learn a lot from metadata. But more valuable than the actua
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by cvwright 5y ago
This makes the EU look pretty hypocritical for striking down the "Privacy Shield" agreement that they had with the US for GDPR. In fact, I have to wonder if this will put that ruling in danger of being overturned now? (And how muc
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by cvwright 5y ago
You want to put the next Trump in charge of your social network???

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