szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Those considering the use of the PhotoDNA surveillance process in the fediverse are advised to inform themselves on it first. It doesn't just detect "positives", it can also auto-report them to authorities. Implementing it could turn this network into an automated police-state snitching system. Admins who do not choose auto-reporting may be legally obligated to manually report positives.

Also (independently verified and officially contradicted), PhotoDNA is utilized not just to detect CSAM, but also "terrorist and violent extremist content". So who decides what constitutes this content? Why, the private unaccountable black box which is Microsoft Corporation, that shining beacon of privacy-respect to which a hash of every image uploaded to and federated across enabled instances would be sent. Microsoft indicates the data can be utilized for facial recognition and "AI" ingestion as well.

Do they - or will they - rate advocacy of Palestinian equality and Kurdish feminism as extremist, as governments they do business with would demand? Do they or will they accept the inputs of oil and pipeline corporations in determining what constitutes terrorism? How will they expand the parameters of disallowed sexual deviance if Trump wins the election next year?

Understand that this is already happening. Elements are in the Mastodon Github Issues calling for the addition of PhotoDNA right now. The Pixelfed project may also be adding it very soon. If that is true, antiauthoritarian instances should consider the feasibility of defederation from Pixelfed altogether.

For all those considering this: Stop. Please. All the "report" issued by the Facebook-mafia describes is the fediverse - and in fact, mostly its evil twin, the defediverse - just as it existed last month, last year, years before most on here had ever heard of it. The purpose of their influence operation is scare everyone into turning the fediverse into the kind of policed and surveilled space suitable to Mark Zuckerberg.

Microsoft FAQ on PhotoDNA:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/PhotoDNA/FAQ

Microsoft Digital Safety Content Report, indicating use of PhotoDNA to detect extremism:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/digital-safety-content-report

Technical analysis of the PhotoDNA process:
https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?archives/931-PhotoDNA-and-Limitations.html

UN report referencing use of PhotoDNA to detect terrorism:
https://www.un.org/counterterrorism/sites/www.un.org.counterterrorism/files/countering-terrorism-online-with-ai-uncct-unicri-report-web.pdf

Transcript of 2018 US Senate hearing on terrorism and social media, referencing use of PhotoDNA:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-115shrg31316/html/CHRG-115shrg31316.htm

Journalism indicating use of PhotoDNA to detect extremism:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/a-tool-to-delete-beheading-videos-before-they-even-appear-online/488105/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-hatred-goes-viral-inside-social-medias-efforts-to-combat-terrorism/

Wikipedia pages:
PhotoDNA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA
Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_Forum_to_Counter_Terrorism

#FediPact #FediblockMeta #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #FacebookFediverse #PhotoDNA #Surveillance

#silentsunday #southafrica #kwazulunatal

When you start writing and have no idea where it’s going, it’s very exciting. I did end up with 1000 words that I’m now completely destroying and reorganizing. But it’s all good. Don’t knock the recursive process of writing.

Hmmmm... Maybe keep allowing workers who can work remotely to continue to work remotely, eh? Saves on energy/fuel required to commute, and look what can be done with empty office space!

Empty Office Buildings Are Being Turned Into Vertical Farms

With office usage hovering near 50 percent of pre-pandemic levels, cities are putting the underutilized space to new use growing food

Ciara O'Brien, Modern Farmer
July 11, 2023

"In an old paper company and warehouse building, machines are whirring again. But instead of reams of paper pressed and cut, this warehouse is home to Area 2 Farms, which now pumps out greens, herbs and root vegetables. There’s even a weekly CSA serving customers year round, all in an effort to bring locally grown food to the Washington, D.C. area. Really local. “When was the last time you picked up a strawberry and could confidently say you knew the farmer’s name?” asks Jackie Potter.

Potter, along with Tyler Baras, helped co-found the farm in Arlington, Virginia, where office vacancy rates reached 23.7 percent in the first quarter of 2023."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/empty-office-buildings-are-being-turned-into-vertical-farms-180982502/

#RemoteWork #NoCommute #IndoorUrbanFarms

Scary

#Mastoart #ArtWithOpensource #krita
#twitter #x

Oh no - those bastards!

Imagine you’re a humble #beaver , doing your beaver thing. Then you get kidnapped (beavernapped?), placed in a box, and dropped from an airplane into an unknown land.

https://earthsky.org/earth/parachuting-beavers-dams-fire-resistant-wetland/

When I was a child and a teen,
I was called a monster, an alien, and a weirdo by strangers.

At an age when I needed so much to belong, these words hurt more than swords.

It tuned me down overtime. It desaturated my personality. I learned that I could not both be myself and be accepted.

Now that I am older, I am trying to find back who I really was meant to be. Being myself isn’t just an instinct, it is a vital need. I cannot be with people whom I cannot be myself with anymore. It has become unbearable.

I know many of you here have had similar experiences and much worse.

I just wanted to tell you that
I see you
and you are not alone

This is a communal orchard around here - the yellow ribbon means that picking fruit is free. Besides apple trees I found pear, cherry, plum, mirabelle and chestnut trees. The location of the trees was published on https://mundraub.org - that's how we found them.
#gardening #orchards #sharing #germany

[error]: lp0 on fire

Tried some croissants in the solar oven. 50 minutes was too long, but still. Bread from the sun! ☀️

#SolarPunk #SolarOven #GoSun #SolarCooking #Food #Solar #Cooking #Sustainability

https://coreysnipes.com/croissants-in-the-solar-oven/

That x on my home screen is the final nudge to switch fully over, and dedicate myself to rebuilding my network here. Looking for #FollowFriday recommendations for #CitizenScience #OpenScience #ScientistRebellion #ClimateAction

Nie jestem anglojęzyczna (szok, c'nie?). I dlatego na #Mastodon mam problem. W TT jest automatyczne tłumaczenie tweetów. Dało mi to szansę śledzenia kont w tym języku. A tu - kiszka. Nie umiem sobie poradzić. Czytam Masto w komórce. Mam appkę Mastodon i w niej nie ma takiej opcji. Nie widzę też wpisów znajomych, którzy mają konta w innych instancjach. Albo są nieaktywni, albo coś robię nie tak. Może powinnam przenieść konto na inną instancję? 🧑‍🦳🤔
Helpunku #pomocy #pomocpl

I spent the whole day, from early morning till now in my garden. I am exhausted, but I planted a field of lupine for aftercrop, a few flowers between my beans, and finally some dill for autumn pickling of cucumbers. #gardening #gardensofmastodon

No, your body cannot build tolerance to endless extreme heat. Unless you’re a soulless capitalist right-wing fascists ghoul. The shite these ghouls try to peddle in late-stage capitalism to the masses just beggars belief.