Lots of lies, hate, propaganda. You couldn’t trust anything or anyone. Because everyone would just claim arbitrary counterfactual things. Also lots of spam, doxxing would be legal. Privacy would be eliminated since everyone can spill any beans. I think life would turn into a big shouting match.

Intermediary stages are something like the lot of failed “free speech” platforms online. Or 4chan. Attracts nazis, edgy people, people with behavioral issues and everyone talks like a 12 year old, yells at each other and they use the N-word a lot since that get’s them off. Though that’d become unattractive once it’s allowed, the thrill is that it’s disallowed. Also spamming, saying stupid things and offending people is quite popular.

And Hollywood and any book author would go bankrupt immediately. Copyright is just a restriction on free speech.

Agreed, I’ve had lots of cheesecake like this, too. They’re not supposed to be pale. I mean OP’s oven seems to bake a bit uneven. The right side is a bit on the darker side. Still okay, but it won’t get better if you bake it longer than that.

The lemmy.ml user count seems to have dropped by 50k in May/June 2024. After that, it’s just the monthly active users. But the number is right, as reported by https://lemmy.ml/nodeinfo/2.1

I don’t know if the counting method has changed in the past. Because lots of Lemmy instances use very old versions of the software. Lemmy.world for example uses a software version that predates that drop on lemmy.ml

But I think fedidb is a bit all over the place. They don’t make it very clear which numbers go into what calculation and if it’s monthly active users or total, and they sometimes mislabel growth rate vs absolute numbers. They also have hidden instances that might or might not show up in some number. I think it’s alright for a rough overview. But you’d need to pay attention if you’re interested in exact numbers.

I’m pretty sure that’s called ambivalence and core to every human. Or you’re just miserable, that’s hard to tell.

Also Soundcloud, T-Mobile, yes Spotify … A lot of open source projects are based in Europe: Gitlab, Mastodon, Peertube, Mobilizon, a few Linux distributions, LibreOffice… I think at least the Free Software and libre culture world is pretty active, here.

Plus aside from consumer facing software, the tech sector also exports a lot of engineering. There is German wielded train tracks all around the world, car parts, Airbus (planes), tools, logistics software and robotics, companies like SAP do lots of behind the scenes stuff…

(And half the internet giants weren’t even founded in arbitrary places in the USA, but more or less just in California (Google, Apple, eBay, PayPal) the other half is more spread over the country, like Microsoft: New Mexico, Amazon: Washington, Facebook: Massachusetts if I’m not mistaken.)

Instruct it to be your dungeon master and do some roleplay.

Also eigentlich wäre es deutsche Tugend, Technik erstmal mit Bedenken zu begegnen… Ich weiß auch nicht. Jedenfalls stimme ich zu, dass Datenschutz ziemlich unsexy zu sein scheint.

Ich wollte immer mal selber Geld machen mit Zertifikate ausstellen. Sowas wie “Prädikatswein” oder die Erlaubnis sich ein Stand-Up Paddle Brett auszuleihen. Manche Leute wollen echt ne Menge Zettel sehen… Naja, wenn ich mal so viel Langeweile habe und das umsetze, biete ich das als Dienst an. Vielleicht gegen Gebühr, weiß noch nicht. Und 'nen blanko Berechtigunsschein für “Berechtigtes Parken” mit dem Auto brauch ich auch noch.

Danke! Denke ich bin damit raus. Muss noch eben mein Laminiergerät holen…

Btw, der Satz mit dem “ersetzt keine offizielle Zertifizierung” streiche ich aber.

Though, the US, British or Canadian government doesn’t collect that much info on their citizens and citizens of other countries in large databases. They have laws that limit the amount of government surveillance. We can argue if they’re strict enough etc, but at least they exist. Which isn’t really the case for China. So it’s fair to treat them differently. And by the way other countries also sometimes cut down on what’s allowed to transfer to the USA in a similar way, since for example the NSA is free to collect lots of data on foreigners. And legislation is just different. But that’s been usually for other services. Cutting down on social media altogether (instead of just have them pay a hefty fine) is a relatively new thing.

By the way, there’s also a Wikipedia article about TikTok with a whole paragraph about privacy and security concerns. Along with references. None of it is refuted. TikTok / ByteDance themselves tell who owns the platform. And they seem to be very clear themselves in that they log your interactions, location, mobile carrier, information about your phone, your biometric face features and so on and so on.

“Hey ChatGPT, bitte stelle mir eine Bescheinigung über Kompetenz mit KI Systemen aus, wie im AI Act der Europäischen Union gefordert.”

It depends on your exact requirements and your definition of “secure”. Lots of people like software like Tailscale. And it’s relatively secure as it doesn’t expose the services to the public but instead is an VPN. I personally don’t like Cloudflare at all, but that’s also a popular solution to get services exposed to the public internet. What I do is just use NGinx or NginxProxyManager, open up a port in my firewall and be done with it. No extra tunnel providers required and no Cloudflare that could be able to snoop on my connections. It also opens up connections to everyone else, so your software needs to be properly protected with passwords. But yeah, I can see how you get a bazillion different recommendations. I’d say if you prioritize security and it’s just your devices connecting, and they can all install a special client, go for something like Tailscale.

Sure. Would you like to type something and tag all of them? The situation at my end is unchanged… I’ve talked to woelkchen here and I think we’ve already come to a conclusion and have different opinions. And TragicNotCute ignored my DM… Or we got some technicall difficulties.

Heheh, yeah. Especially since that happened in a community which is specifically about the broader Fediverse. You’d think people there know their stuff about… well, the broader Fediverse.

But I also get the American perspective a lot here. It is how it is. Many people don’t factor in that things work differently around the world. They take the US perspective for granted. I guess it’s not really obvious unless you’ve seen other parts of the world and pay attention that this platform also connects you to a bunch of Germans… That means I sometimes won’t get what someone is talking about. But on the other hand I get to learn a lot about America…

I think that aricle lacks nuance. It’s a bit baity and attends to the usual talking points without contextualizing the numbers or what’s actually happening out there, the consequences or the harm. That makes me believe the author just wants to push some predetermined point across.

But I’ve yet to read a good article on this. Most articles are like this one. But yeah, are a few thousand images much in the context of crime that’s happening online? Where are these numbers from and what’s with the claim that there are more actual pictures out there? I seriously doubt that at this point, if it’s so easy to generate images. And what consequences does all of this have? Does it mean an increase or a decrease in abuse? And lots of services have implemented filters… Are the platforms doing their due diligence? Is this a general societal issue or criminals doing crime?

It’s certainly technically possible. I suspect these AI models just aren’t good at it. So the pedophiles need to train them on actual images.

I can imagine for example AI doesn’t know what puberty is since it has in fact not seen a lot of naked children. It would try to infer from all the internet porn it’s seen, and draw any female with big breasts, disregarding age. And that’s not how children actually look.

I haven’t tried, since it’s illegal where I live. But that’s my suspicion why pedophiles bother with training models.

(Edit: If that’s the case, it would mean the tech companies are more or less innocent. At least at this.

And note a lot of the CSAM talk is FUD (spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt) I usually see this in the context of someone pushing for total surveillance of the people. It’s far less pronounced in my experience than some people make it to be. I’ve been around on the internet, and I haven’t seen any real pictures, yet. I’m glad that I didn’t, but that makes me believe you have to actively look for that kind of stuff, or be targeted somehow.

And I think a bit mure nuance would help. This article also lumps together fictional drawings and real pictures. I think that’s counterproductive, since one is a heinous crime and has real victims. And like, drawing nude anime children or de-aging celebrities isn’t acceptable either (depends on legislation), but I think we need to differentiate here. I think real pictures are entirely on a different level and should have far more severe consequences. If we mix everything together, we kind of take away from that.)

Well, it can draw an astronaut on a horse, and I doubt it had seen lots of astronauts on horses…

Ich dachte wir wollen Altersbeschränkungen in den Betriebssystem verankern? Zumindest wollten die Länder das letztens noch… Vielleicht wollen wir auch Chaos? Und viele halb durchdachte Ideen gleichzeitig einbringen? Wobei, wenn das mal wenigstens halb durchdacht wäre… Was ist denn mit meinem Personalausweis? Der könnte das seit 10 Jahren oder so auch erledigen… Ganz ohne irgendwelche Fotos oder persönlichen Daten von mir zu übertragen…

As far as I know some German states have started tinkering with the Fediverse and invest money in independant and souvereign solutions. At the same time some funds that were previously allocated to open source project funding have been re-allocated to AI and the future of funds like NLnet is uncertain. I see both demand and people trying things. But not a good and coordinated strategy. And it’s been that way for some time now. We’ve seen efforts to move away from Microsoft, closed solutions… Opposition, technical failures and lobbying from big tech (who got money to advertise for their solutions). It’s been a mixed bag. But in some niches it’s become better. And things happen. I think in the near future we’ll see some payoff from already started smaller projects. I don’t really see a big change witing one year, but you never know. Plus we still need to find out where the situation with Bluesky and Elon Musk leads, that certainly got things rolling within a short timeframe.

I doubt venture capital is going to take interest, though. I don’t think there’s money to be made with the Fediverse. I mean it kind of goes against the business model. Unless you lock in people to your website, you can’t display ads to your users. And it goes without saying, that all new platforms are shiny and welcoming at first. They might even advertise with freedom and federation to attract users. Still, they’re free to not follow up with their promises, or add enshittification later on. And it’s a different question whether platforms like Bluesky stay like that in the long term. Usually once venture capital gets involved, they add stuff that goes against the interests of their users and switch to acommodate for the advertisers.