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  • What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?

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  • In the client, you wouldn’t need to be sorting and running extensive calculations on all data. You could, e.g, build the front-page by indexing/scoring posts and comments that have been created since your last visit with a hard cap on some time window (last 48h) or total data points (e.g, keep only the most recent 10k objects in a local hot database, freeze/archive everyhing else.)

    Absolutely. There's a lot you can do. The "For You" Feed on Bluesky is quite instructive. https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mb2r5qei322a

    But when you're talking about sending a lot more data to clients, you really need to consider what that means for the internet bill of instance owners.

  • Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions

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  • What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?

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  • Embrace content sorting and filtering algorithms, but on the client side, with optional control by the user.

    You can only filter and sort what was downloaded by the client. So that runs into resource constraints.

    Standardize tags on all content. So many of the different ways different platforms classify or organize content can be implemented as tags, which increases interoperability between them.

    I'm so with you. https://xkcd.com/927/

    Transferable user identity (between instances)

    User identity and authentication as separate service from social network instance

    That's more the ATproto/Bluesky vision.

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  • China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along

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  • The EU does not have the military capacity to protect Taiwan.

    That's not mentioning that the EU is not a military alliance. That's the first political challenge to tackle.

    Anyhow, the channel ‘Asianometry’, has a video covering the physics of EUV machines. They are an incredible linchpin of our modern world.

    So true. This stuff is absolutely mind-blowing. Especially if you are old enough to remember how some of that seemed like almost unsurmountable problems. Now the solution are used in mass production.

  • How French spies, police and military personnel are betrayed by advertising data | Le Monde

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  • It's a myth that the GDPR is a useful tool in such cases. You know the expression "protected by copyright"? That's how lawyers protect data.

    The GDPR grants people rights over data concerning them, similar to how copyright grants rights over data. That means 2 things.

    1. It's rarely obvious that some data processing is illegal. It's not obvious if it happens without consent. But even so, you often don't need explicit consent to use someone's data. EG when we write about French president Macron, then that is Macron's data under the GDPR. Of course, you don't need his consent to discuss or report on politics, and so you usually don't need his consent to discuss his person.
    2. Enforcement is difficult and expensive. Think about the problems the copyright industry has. Surveillance tools like Content ID can at least rely on knowing what exactly they are looking for. Besides, much of the world has similar laws supported by influential industries. Little chance to do that for GDPR.

    Basically, using GDPR to protect actual secrets is like using copyright for the purpose.

  • How French spies, police and military personnel are betrayed by advertising data | Le Monde

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  • ONCE AND FOR ALL!

    /futurama

  • How French spies, police and military personnel are betrayed by advertising data | Le Monde

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  • How French spies, police and military personnel are betrayed by advertising data | Le Monde

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  • Good thing the EU has the GDPR, which solved this problem once and for all.

  • Looking for witchy, gothic, mischievous, or devilish songs for my DND character

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  • Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

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  • Well. Step 1 is monitoring legal requirements around the world. In all the 50 US states, 200 countries, and whatever other kind of jurisdiction feels important.

    You have to age gate social media for 16+ in Australia. Some content is criminal in some countries. Some content is 18+ in some countries but not in others. Some countries require such content to be age gated, others do not.

    What kind of age verification is acceptable also varies...

    You need to constantly have your eye on new laws, legal precedents, or decision by regulators and adapt.

    And that doesn't even begin to address the technological problems.

  • Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

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  • they may also be required to implement age verification

    They are already required. Australia is requiring them to do exactly that. It's a safe bet that this will be ignored for now, at least outside of Australia.

    Suppose the fediverse wanted to comply, what do you think the volunteers running it would have to do?

  • Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

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  • I can't really make sense of that. Do you understand that Lemmy instances are run by just some random people?

  • Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

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  • I see that you've changed your opinion, OP, but I still have a question.

    How did seeing this as positive go together with being on the fediverse? How do the volunteers running this thing cope with these demands?

    More generally: How can the open internet survive if every local government makes its own rules about what information or service you may or mustn't give its citizens?

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  • Come join the fediverse. Now illegal in Australia!

    It gets my attention but I don't really see the mainstream appeal.

  • Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora

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  • Sensible strategy for both sides, though I think Disney was a bit more desperate for a deal. Licensing characters makes it easier for Disney to win Fair Use cases. Meanwhile, if Fair Use is beaten back, then OpenAI may be able to finally create a moat for itself. Challengers would have to either obtain a license or employ expensive filtering. Both would make it rather harder for start-ups.

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  • EU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally

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  • I expect, the operators will adopt the stance that this doesn't concern them. They might end up being right, though I'm not particularly hopeful. Given how impractical this decision is, national courts and regulators may try to find ways of limiting its fallout. But if that's enough to let amateurs run social media servers ...

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  • Very unlikely, in the eyes of the US court system. They have no EU physical presence, and aren’t advertising targeting EU people.

    That's exactly the thing. US courts don't care about foreign laws in the first place. They don't care about a EU presence at all.

    Nevertheless, the EU demands that any websites, internet services, ... that are offered to EU users follow EU laws like GDPR. If it's in a language not spoken in the EU, then it's probably fine. If lemmy.today declared that it was specifically for Oregonians, that would likely be fine, too. But anything in English that is offered globally, is a potential target.

    That should not be taken lightly. If the 4chan people travelled to UK, they would probably be arrested. They will have to watch out when they travel abroad if the country might assist the UK and arrest and arrest them. If they ever acquire property abroad, that might be seized.

    Fedi-servers in the EU certainly have to follow these regulations.