rockskon

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by rockskon 8mo ago
That's not for Discord or you to decide nor is that guaranteed!
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by rockskon 8mo ago
No law mandates Discord impose this globally. To be clear - this is a wholly discretionary act on their part to implement this in jurisdictions that have no such legal requirement.
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by rockskon 8mo ago
Horseshit. There's often a degree of uncertainty with the data advertisers have. This would heavily reduce that uncertainty and enable worse behavior on the part of advertisers.
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by rockskon 8mo ago
Because financial sanctions are one of our main tools to pressure enemy countries into calming the fuck down in hopes of avoiding an actual kinetic conflict. In 2025, North Korea managed to steal from the world over 10% of its GDP worth in
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by rockskon 8mo ago
No no - I am agreeing with you that AI evangelists are not a singular group of people! Im fact I agreed so much I even gave a couple examples of how they're not a monolithic group!
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by rockskon 8mo ago
For state actors - they frequently have issues "connecting the dots". Or heck - maybe connecting the dots is easy but it's a manual process that introduces too much friction for them to do casually. Maybe some of the data t
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by rockskon 8mo ago
Last I checked, IRC wasn't really mobile-friendly.
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by rockskon 8mo ago
This is categorically unacceptable. People's livelihoods and safety are threatened when there's people's personally identifying information associated with their Discord chats - even if linked by "anonymous" identif
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by rockskon 8mo ago
You're right! Sometimes even the right-here-right-now claims of AI capabilities are horseshit too with people in actuality remotely controlling the product. It's not common for present-capabilities to be lied about too. But it d
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by rockskon 8mo ago
Not to mention collecting them at all means those servers are a primo location for state actors to stage themselves to make copies of data before being deleted. To say nothing of insider threats of which likely exist across every major soci
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by rockskon 8mo ago
Maybe if AI evangelists would stop lying about what AI can do then people would hate it less. But lying and hype is baked into the DNA of AI booster culture. At this point it can be safely assumed anything short of right-here-right-now pro
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by rockskon 8mo ago
Evidence is evidence - of which there are enormous amounts of.
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by rockskon 8mo ago
Yeah - they'll take these lessons learned for future batches of releases.
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by rockskon 8mo ago
It does change people's behavior. Perhaps the average person will use more polite language? But it's not uncommon for me to see dehumanization, threats, and calls for literal mass-murder-of-entire-demographics genocide promoted
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by rockskon 8mo ago
Our experiences differ in that regard. And no it isn't a false equivalence since Facebook's "use your real ID" commenting system is directly comparable to any proposed system to mandate use of someone's ID to post o
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by rockskon 8mo ago
I'm always puzzled by such a claim. One can look at Facebook to see the comments people put up tied to their real name and find no shortage of utterly abhorrent comments. Not sure why there's such a pervasive memory-holing of th
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by rockskon 9mo ago
A non-exhaustive list that has, time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time again, to downplay the grossly cavalier approach they take to the "privacy" of your location data. They value it alright. At seve
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by rockskon 9mo ago
If a company wants to offer its service as a loss-leader to outlast its competitors who offered their services at a cost its users were willing to pay, then that company has no room to complain if people don't want to pay the last-ga
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by rockskon 9mo ago
Not relevant to the reputational damage which is particularly punishing in their line of work.
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by rockskon 9mo ago
Naming their tool after the program where private companies run searches on behalf of and give resulting customer data to the NSA....was certainly a choice.
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by rockskon 9mo ago
And you think their internet was to harm? I'd argue the overwhelming majority was agnostic at best to harm being a factor.
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by rockskon 9mo ago
95% of what is posted on the Internet is placed with intent to harm? What?
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by rockskon 9mo ago
Adafruit is in the wrong for not advocating for collective action from the public? I do not understand what exactly your argument is there.
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by rockskon 9mo ago
Not all bad things are the same. Raiding a reporter's house is very much an abnormal act to have taken place.
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by rockskon 9mo ago
The suitability of the remedy (ZKP) for the purpose of age assurance is the entire problem. The non-cryptographic aspects cannot be handwaved away as something not worth discussing when they're the primary area of concern here.
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by rockskon 9mo ago
That's nice and all for the cryptography but now think about what's needed to associate it with the physical attribute (such as the age) of the user of the device which may or may not change hands over time.
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by rockskon 9mo ago
Zero knowledge proofs based on too little information are trivial to abuse. To combat this, you need to have it based off of more and more personal info....which is at odds with the privacy-preservation goal. Sadly when it comes to age assu
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by rockskon 9mo ago
I find claims of any technology being able to simultaneously validate your age while "respecting privacy" to be suspect at best. Even if the technology could work in theory, it would be built on top of an ecosystem designed aroun
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by rockskon 9mo ago
Europe wants so very much worse in many cases.
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by rockskon 9mo ago
So are Nevada lawmakers using Westlaw as there reference for the base document to build "edits" off of?

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