Olives @olives@social.cleverlibre.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
The Borg are the best part of Star Trek though, lol.
"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your cultu...
"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."
Threads and co even fit the Borg's distinctive phrase, lol.
Life in the United Federation of Planets here continues. But, will the federation come under siege by... The Borg...?
@ceoln I haven't, although to be fair, people are probably preoccupied by the nightmarish privacy / security implications.
Saw Rurouni Kenshin on my feed and it was... Actually normal content.
If this was the gossipy bird site, I have no doubt I'd see more people complaining about the Rurouni Kenshin guy.
A bit less toxicity.
Apparently, Techdirt was removed from Bing until Mike posted a blog post about it, it blew up, and they quietly added it back.
Ugh...
What's interesting about this is how there was so much less friction, and more freedom, for all kinds of things... Right up until 9/11.
Ugh... That ruined a lot.
https://reason.com/2023/07/28/say-goodbye-to-permissionless-travel/ What do you think of this?
https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-ministry-of-justice-invests-in-social-listening-tool What do you think of this? o.O
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/mastercard-demands-termination-cannabis-purchases-its-debit-cards-2023-07-26/ MasterCard has told financial institutions to stop allowing people to use their cards for cannabis transactions.
https://reclaimthenet.org/meta-patent-scan-voices-voiceprint Ugh, another privacy invasion from Facebook.
Someone tells me that ChatGPT's quality continues to degrade.
It makes you wonder if the whole thing wasn't just some publicity stunt. Perhaps, they turned it up to a level which wasn't financially sustainable?
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/web-environment-integrity-is-an-all-out-attack-on-the-free-internet Yes, these people are right. Web Environment Integrity is such, such a terrible idea.
Complaining about "the fediverse" is a lot like complaining about "something on the internet". Lol.
Apparently, the instance which must not be named (lol) was acquired by a cryptobro (still based in the same country, it seems).
Olives
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Deposits on cans got introduced a few months ago in this country to eliminate littering.
The result?
Trash bins are ripped open in search for cans with a deposit on them, causing more littering.
Maybe, we should revisit whether it's really good to have these gigantic corporate-y instances, rather than smaller more community based instances.
It's not just the "think of the children", it's been a bit problematic for a while now.
@jdp23 @thisismissem Noting that at one point, a Japanese friend of mine who runs an instance did tell me that people in the West tend to send a lot of bogus reports, because they don't like one kind of expression or another.
So, it might be preferable, if those were limited to ones which are actually actionable. Likely not relevant though.
@jdp23 @thisismissem "that would be illegal in the US" In the U.S., free expression is protected by the First Amendment (and honestly, that's a good thing).
In Japan, it would fall under Article 21 of the Constitution, which in this case, is seen as protecting free expression.
It would be inaccurate to suggest that this expression was "illegal in Western Europe".
Naturally though, real child porn is not protected by any of these.
Also, the E.U. e-Commerce Directive (similar to the U.S. Section 230) limited intermediary liability (which is a good thing for innovation / online expression) for communicating with another service.
There are additional measures which could be taken, such as not storing external content.
Of course, if real child porn appears, that can be dealt with accordingly, but it's important to give services a bit of breathing room.
As for that instance, I think it was acquired by a different company, at some point. I can't comment further on their moderation.
I've seen a post on the fedi that when it comes to moderation, you can't just look at the world the way it is today, you have to adapt to changes which come along.
@thisismissem @jdp23 Our admin caught sight of the smoke and defederated that specific instance around a month ago.
From an administrative perspective, it's hard to say he made the wrong decision (although, hard to say it's good either). It wasn't made lightly.
If there was better collaboration, you wouldn't be learning that there might be a bit of a problem from an outsider's report (who probably only discovered the fediverse not long ago).
Some parts of the network do not cache images.
This is probably done for peace of mind, more than it being likely that something will happen. It seems the person who developed Mastodon (but not other tools) didn't think about this at all.
Scanning discussions were held within communities for other software years ago, although that didn't go anywhere as it didn't look like a problem.
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
