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  • Red Dwarf and Constellation: could we skip the Bridge?

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  • I realize my title has little to do with the post

    I was going to say. Red dwarf is the name of a ship and Constellation is a class of ship. In any case, you can't have a proper ship without a bridge.

  • Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration

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  • I expect phones in the EU are going to become a lot more locked down in the next 14 months, like Samsung is already showing. But also think that Google will try its best to make developing for Android easy to get into.

  • Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration

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  • This is forced by EU regulations. I doubt Google would have introduced this on its own. If they wanted to do this, then why wait until forced?

  • Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration

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  • That's only if the apps distributed are unverified. Mind, the EU already requires app stores to document the identities of devs, but there are loopholes for Small enterprises. In 2027, manufacturers need to document the identities of their suppliers. There are still exceptions for non-profit open source projects, but that's not what Google is. Surely, no one here wants Google to avoid regulations by investing in open source.

  • Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration

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  • I'm sure the EU is not the only jurisdiction demanding this sort of thing, but I doubt Singapore has the pull needed to get Google to move.

    Brussels effect. Imagine Google were to still allow unverified apps in the US. Most devs would still opt for verification so as not to lose the EU market. The proportion of malware is probably going to be higher among the few remaining unverified apps. Sooner or later, some US scam victims would sue Google for failing to protect them like it protects Europeans. Hard to refute.

  • Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration

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  • Google is doing this to comply with EU regulations supposed to increase security. Now imagine that Google was pushing back against this instead of complying. As per usual, Lemmy would be up in arms against Google for failing to protect people's data and not complying with our laws and culture. You'd be downvoted to oblivion for asked that question and called a corporate bootlicker.

    I think these rules come from German legal culture, which traditionally has a strong need to control information exchange and processing.

  • Dutch chips star exec slams EU for overregulating AI

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  • With friends who work in AI, I can tell you not all are motivated by money alone, some of them actually do want the scary potential (aka Flock, etc) regulated and are working from Europe.

    If they are in favor of the AI Act, they don't know the AI Act. But never mind... I'm curious what your friends are working on (and if it has a future in the EU). That's Flock.io, promising decentralization?

  • With AI being what it is, how long do you think before digital media is no longer admissible in court?

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  • This is a rare useful (and frugal/practical) niche for blockchain. Immutable verification is a core principle.

    You're right on everything else, but this is just no. You never need blockchain.

    One just need someone who makes it credible that the hash and timestamp were not tampered with. Even posting the hash on Reddit would do it for most people. Reddit isn't going to commit fraud for some random person. And that random person is probably not able to hack the database undetected.

    Recomputing lots of hashes isn't difficult. A blockchain doesn't add any trustworthiness on its own.

  • With AI being what it is, how long do you think before digital media is no longer admissible in court?

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  • Forgeries are nothing new. Society has always worked on trust and best guesses. Nothing has changed.

    Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2650/

  • With AI being what it is, how long do you think before digital media is no longer admissible in court?

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  • Recomputing the hashes is not a problem at all.

  • Delusions of a Protocol

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  • Yes, but that doesn't seem sufficient for some. Conservatives certainly would like to remove trans people from the public completely. Aside: It's foolish for trans people to copy these tactics, assuming this comes organically from the trans community. These people are certainly acting like the heels in some right-wing propaganda play.

    Bluesky offers several ways in which users can remove unwanted content from their experience. Easiest is for users to block Singal; banning him from their personal part of the network. Blocklists can be shared easily. Users can also spin up their own moderation service.

    I probably shouldn't go into the details of what Bluesky can do on a technical level. Incidentally, that blog post contains errors.

    In short: On a technical level, the Bluesky company can greatly reduce the visibility of someone. But they would likely run into legal problems if they used that on Singal. The EU regulates what can be done quite strictly. Maybe they could benefit from some industry friendly "loopholes". I'd have to look that up.

  • Delusions of a Protocol

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  • That needs a longer explanation.

    An instance does not interact with all other instances. It only syncs with other instances when users follow someone there, join a community, ...

    But that's also a problem. It means you can't search the entire Fediverse from a particular instance and find new and interesting discussions and people. There is no discovery feed. For that, you need something like Bluesky's relay. That relay actually does keep up with what everyone is posting and archives it.

    But that's one aspect of Bluesky that draws a lot of criticism by Fedi people. A full relay is expensive to run and not something anyone can self-host. Pruned down versions are doable, though. If everyone actually did run their own relay, then one would get you the combinatorial problem.

    In practice, large instances are the Fediverse solution to the discovery problem. You can see what the many users on that instance post. Also, the many users subscribe to many things and so a large instance will cache much content from elsewhere. That architecture encourages centralization.

    There's other difficult issues. So you have a little server that serves your content to a few followers. Some celebrity with millions of followers would have to rent an entire server rack. But what if little old you interacts with a celeb and now all their followers try to fetch your content from your little server? Common problem. You just need caching. EG the celebrity rack also serves your content to their followers and takes the load off your server. But now whoever is doing the caching can also filter replies. There's no simply solution there.

  • Delusions of a Protocol

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  • Yes. On Bluesky, they could be individually muted or blocked. You can make and share blocklists, make your own custom feeds that exclude such posters, or even create your own moderation service that removes (or blurs, ...) posts for your subscribers. Obviously, that is not satisfactory for some people.

  • Delusions of a Protocol

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  • Yes. It's only a problem if you expect or want the Fediverse to be the future of social media, which it isn't.

  • Delusions of a Protocol

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  • This does raise a question relevant to the Fediverse. Some Bluesky users are lobbying to have Jesse Singal banned, whoever that is. Of course, a hallmark of a decentralized network is that there is no central authority that could actually do that. Implicitly, this demand is a rejection of the very concept of decentralization.

    Once people find out what decentralization means, are they even willing to tolerate it?

  • Delusions of a Protocol

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  • Bad rant. Wrong on technical aspects and self-contradictory. Anyway, off-topic here.

  • Fell off the horizon into a black hole

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  • It seems awfully coincidental that, of all the curvatures out there, the universe should just end up having none.

  • Halloween is canceled this year

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  • Entering on wheelchairs, no doubt. Not so glorious now, our future life.

  • Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid

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  • Bear in mind that an open source license is a contract and it usually involves some form of reciprocity, like crediting the dev by name. That's in principle not different from a sponsorship deal, where some sports stadium gets the name of a corporation.

    The actual definition is even wider, though. I don't see who you get out of that.

    ‘trader’ means any natural person, or any legal person irrespective of whether it is privately or publicly owned, who is acting, including through any person acting in his or her name or on his or her behalf, for purposes relating to his or her trade, business, craft or profession;

    https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/En/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX%3A32022R2065#art_3

    If F-droid ever has more than 50 employees, annual turnover over EUR 10 million, or over EUR 10 million on the balance sheet, then they will have to collect the same information.