toxik

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by toxik 5y ago
Direct democracy is not a panacea. In fact, it can be quite the opposite. Fair and effective governance is a very difficult thing to achieve, tending either to be subvertible, or totalitarian.
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by toxik 5y ago
So stop the circulating. This is like trying to stop people from using drugs by searching EVERYONE’S homes and reporting suspicious looking substances.
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by toxik 5y ago
This is really a difficult problem to solve I think. However, I think most people who are prosecuted for CP distribution are hoarding it by the terabyte. It’s hard to claim that you were unaware of that. A couple of gigabytes though? Plausi
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by toxik 5y ago
I'm not defending any specific point of view. I'm merely pointing out a problem of map-territory conflation.
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by toxik 5y ago
This topic is really fascinating to me, how we deal with images of bad things. Clearly, murder and assault is fine to reproduce at 100% realism - but even plain consensual sex is forbidden in the US for a wider audience. This reminds me of
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by toxik 5y ago
Right, my question is of course a rhetorical one. If I similarly draw other crimes being committed, the same does not apply. Why is that? And to address your explicit question, it is far too complex and specific to a given community to answ
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by toxik 5y ago
I think you'll be hard pressed to show this with any kind of evidence. What happens when you effectively ban some expression? People hide that expression. Likewise, if you are successful in this CSAM pursuit, you'll mostly drive p
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by toxik 5y ago
I don't think market forces are what drive the production of CSAM. Rather, it's some weird fetish of child abusers to share their conquests. I'm sure you're aware, but when CP collectors are busted, they often have terab
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by toxik 5y ago
That does simply not follow from logic. Child abuse existed before cameras. Edit: People are unhappy with this refutation, so a second one then. The claim, specifically, is that CP is CA because CP requires CA to happen. So a photo of theft
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by toxik 5y ago
You should maybe read about the work [0], or just read the rest of what I said. Surrealism has nothing to do with the argument I made, so why do you bring it up? CSAM databases can by necessity not contain novel abuses, because they are nov
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by toxik 5y ago
I think there is a very deep and troublesome philosophical issue here. Ceci n'est pas une pipe. A picture of child abuse /is not/ child abuse. Let me ask you a counter-question. If I am able to draw child pornography so reali
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by toxik 5y ago
This seems fatalist and goes against what we have learned from internet society: making a ruckus is exactly how you sway large companies.
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by toxik 5y ago
Please talk to non-tech people around you about this. This overreach simply cannot stand, and from a company that sees success from touting itself as a privacy-centric alternative? These really are some dark times. I imagine that if the wor
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by toxik 5y ago
I might have phrased that ambiguously, I mean "an affront to me" as in "to me, that's an affront", not that you have somehow insulted me. I say let children be free, no court is going to indict you because you have
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by toxik 5y ago
I mean I’m offended on behalf of the parent poster.
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by toxik 5y ago
If the details of the "hashing" scheme used is publicized, I imagine it will be near trivial. It's a long-standing problem in computer vision, to find a digital description of an image such that two similar images compare equ
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by toxik 5y ago
It cannot be a cryptographically secure hash, simply because avoiding detection would then be trivial: change one channel in one pixel by one. Imperceptible change, different cryptographic hash.
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by toxik 5y ago
> in a few years the offline Notes app will be phoning home if you write speech criticising the government in China. A totalitarian autocracy like China does not need this technology to search for wrongspeech, sadly. You are of course aw
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by toxik 5y ago
> No genitals are in shot That you even have to consider sexual interpretations of your BABY'S GENITALS is an affront to me. I have pictures of my baby completely naked, because it is, and I stress this, A BABY. They play naked all
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by toxik 5y ago
I find this line of reasoning weak for one reason. Things want to be as simple as they can be. DRM adds cost and complexity, it will _always_ be fighting an uphill battle. An electric drill is just an electric motor + chuck, MOSFET + pot, a
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by toxik 5y ago
How do you know it doesn't?
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by toxik 5y ago
I’m pretty sure you can just open the battery pack up and disconnect whatever circuit lives in there. The batteries are just packs of chemicals.
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by toxik 5y ago
Maybe smart watches are not super common in general. Actually, even wristwatches are rare to see. But, among those that do wear smart watches, it's often the Apple products IME. iPads are doing exceptionally well, I'm surprised yo
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by toxik 5y ago
> The worlds brain trust is moving away from Apple Not really, the M1 is a smashing success with most techies. People seem to like the phones too. The watches are doing really well too. Oh, and the tablets are really popular also. Even w
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by toxik 5y ago
It is generally the case that things don't exist without funding, correct. Different countries have different political consensus on how much tax money to pour into funding PhDs for basic research, but /all/ do to some extent
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by toxik 5y ago
It’s much less sinister than that. Facebook funds PhDs in some fields because they want experts in that field to a) exist, b) like Facebook.
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by toxik 5y ago
I find it unlikely, this would quickly earn them the reputation of being a turncoat. A bad reputation is pretty hard to shake off. Ten good deeds weigh the same as one bad deed.
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by toxik 5y ago
Agreed, on low-res screens, I actually prefer completely unaliased text rendering. It looks jagged and I like the kind of retro vibe it gives.
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by toxik 5y ago
I don’t understand how it can ever be secure unless you let some DRM representatives basically come and do inspections. Fundamentally, you are going to show a video and play an audio stream. Fundamentally, it can be recaptured perfectly bec
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by toxik 5y ago
For these people, I think a manual backup is what they actually want. “If I fuck up so bad I have to roll back.” I don’t think it’s wrong necessarily either, and GitHub actually encourages this behavior with the easy Web file uploads. Many

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