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by intended 7mo ago
It’s already happened tho, I recall a case in 24 ish, where a person got phished into joining a zoom call with their CFO and team. They were told to transfer money and they complied. Heck, I think it was in 23/24, after an apple launch
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by intended 7mo ago
I don’t know how applicable this is for you, but if this were someone close to me, my first question would be what’s good for the other person. In most cases, if they are happy and getting on in life, and are able to take care of themselves
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by intended 7mo ago
> On HN itself, no way. Too many people here make far too much money on ads to want that. Ya know, this might explain why the warnings seem to fall on deaf ears here. New favorite person on the internet.
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by intended 7mo ago
I dont think parents going up against psychologists, data scientists, product managers and software engineers with the best pay in the world is any kind of fair fight.
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by intended 7mo ago
Meta is not pushing for mandatory age verification laws.They are pushing for age verification burdens to be pushed to the OS / App Store layer.
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by intended 7mo ago
Man you are definitely blessed if that’s the first result for NCII. That is the acronym for non consensual intimate imagery, the superset that contains revenge porn. https://www.meta.com/en-gb/help/policies/14
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by intended 7mo ago
I think that report has multiple issues, but it’s currently popular and people are fond of blaming meta. Even your point - meta is not after mandated IDs, but they see the way public opinion is moving and are using it to their tactical adva
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by intended 7mo ago
Well it’s not going smoothly. People on HN are talking about it now, but they are really talking about privacy. For the rest of the world this has been brewing for more than a decade. Australia was the actually the one to tip the first domi
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by intended 7mo ago
Oh hell no! Its been decades of work to even get social media to court. No one wants to talk about this or look at the issues when it’s not sexy. $@&$$ - I’ve been at conferences and had safety teams cry on my shoulder about how THEY do
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by intended 7mo ago
I’ve made better friends later in life than I did earlier. I think the thing is to have fun first. If people aren’t on the same wavelengths it’s ok. It’s also good to have a fun thing to do which does involve other people or even a competit
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by intended 7mo ago
This particular verdict is a long time coming. How it drives meaningful change is the bigger question. One of the challenges we need to resolve is the race to the bottom for online communities - engagement metrics will always result in a PH
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by intended 7mo ago
Meta is lobbying to push age verification to the OS level. I have read the OSINT report from Reddit. The data it has is being interpreted as Meta orchestrating a global lobbying scheme. However the data is equally if not more supportive of
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by intended 7mo ago
> Sure. And the outpouring of support for ratification of OOXML as an ISO standard wasn't motivated by Microsoft. Nor was the large influx of new "P" members who arrived just in time to vote to adopt OOXML. Absolutely. Yes
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by intended 7mo ago
Well, the problem is that the “don’t do it” arguments have children as the collateral damage. We are at a point where we are picking and choosing collateral damage targets.
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by intended 7mo ago
The reason we are having this discussion, is because the private route worked up to a point. Firms have a fiduciary duty to shareholders and profit. On the other hand, You ultimately decide the rules and goals that operate government organi
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by intended 7mo ago
Rock meet hard place? Harm to kids is actually happening, and this is always going to be a hot button topic. E2E is critical for our current ability to communicate online, but will be a lower priority when pitted against child safety. Fight
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by intended 7mo ago
For some reason, conversations on HN and in tech circles are behind the curve when it comes to social media bans. Most countries are looking at social media bans, and there is a deep groundswell of public opinion against tech today. Yes, in
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by intended 7mo ago
This... is a very selective remembering of history, no?
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by intended 7mo ago
People will charge less when there are more people fighting for the same plumbing roles no?
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by intended 7mo ago
Eh, the line of better quality output is suspect. I’ve been looking at AI productivity gains, and the idea that it’s better quality output is the weakest claim that can be made. There ARE more software project starts, yes. This also means i
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by intended 7mo ago
Remove Epstein from the news cycle?
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by intended 7mo ago
Democracy is a collective thing. Americans may strongly believe in individualism, but democracy is a collective responsibility. Its kind of a key design feature.
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by intended 7mo ago
While being largely correct, looking at his popularity misses the forest for the tree. Trump is very much a symptom, not a cause. He is simply the kind of personality most fit for the media environment. The media environment on the right ha
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by intended 7mo ago
I play around with adding, subtracting, or multiplying license plate numbers. Does that count? I am so rusty, that I just do add and subtract. On the other hand, my grandparents, and father, could look at financial documents and do the calc
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by intended 7mo ago
Didn’t research show that models get worse at translation the more languages get added in? The curse of multilinguality? Lauscher 2020? It looks like meta found a way forward. Reading meta’s abstract, it seems that they have found ways to
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by intended 7mo ago
There’s many nation states working on this, have you looked into availability of those data sets? What languages are you prioritizing?
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by intended 7mo ago
Looking at the media ecosystem at large, gives me a case of gallows humor. In some sections of the ecosystem, firms still penalize journalists for errors. In other sections, checking reduces the velocity of attention grabbing headlines. The
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by intended 7mo ago
I’m tempted to agree, but this is a case where I think there’s more human than AI. Maybe he used LLMs for a bit, and changed parts of it. Maybe he is patient zero for LLM speak?
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by intended 7mo ago
Nope. This is not how the adult world works, and we are all in organizations to know how difficult it is to spin up teams, and get them to a degree of excellence. America with project 2025 has basically been burning libraries of experience,
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by intended 7mo ago
The point that its fall is not quick, concedes that it is falling. A fall that looks completely avoidable given what we have been taught about how the world works.

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