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General_Effort

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  • It's true

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  • What do you expect from a train that stops at a place called "student city"?

    It provides a convenient connection between various installations of the technical university, like the hospital, the nuclear reactor, and the research brewery.

  • Is there a term for exploiting the letter of the law for malicious gain, particularly knowing that the opponent will be bound by the letter of the law despite the negative outcome?

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  • It's not quite the same, I think.

  • Is there a term for exploiting the letter of the law for malicious gain, particularly knowing that the opponent will be bound by the letter of the law despite the negative outcome?

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  • No. Not imagery and not intimate as defined.

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    What's the worst way to use statistics?

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  • ...as a drunken man uses lamp posts — for support rather than illumination.

    The question makes me remember Daryl Bem, a celebrated social psychologist. He published a much cited article called "Writing the Empirical Journal Article". About 15 years ago, he used this advice to prove that humans can see into the future. His advice is probably still used to teach. That's probably the worst thing you can do.

  • The Places Where the Recession Has Already Begun

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  • It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

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  • Humanity is the CEO of earth.

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  • That's a lot of parameters. Wow. I didn't know they'd go this big.

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  • The fediverse has a bullying problem

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  • I think I can contribute something to the "privacy" aspect. But I'll say first that I have noticed the same thing. There are some toxic behaviors that feel more common in these circles than what I have experienced elsewhere.

    There is a lot of confusion around European data protection rights and privacy. EG the GDPR is often wrongly called a privacy regulation. In reality, privacy and EU data protection rights are entirely separate.

    In the Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union, you will find privacy in Article 7 and data protection in Article 8.

    Article 7

    Respect for private and family life Everyone has the right to respect for his or her private and family life, home and communications.

    Article 8

    Protection of personal data

    1. Everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning him or her.
    2. Such data must be processed fairly for specified purposes and on the basis of the consent of the person concerned or some other legitimate basis laid down by law. Everyone has the right of access to data which has been collected concerning him or her, and the right to have it rectified.
    3. Compliance with these rules shall be subject to control by an independent authority.

    EU data protection works similar to copyright in that you have rights over data. Personal data is defined as any data that is "directly or indirectly related" to you (GDPR). It does not matter if the data is public or private, sensitive or banal. It doesn't even matter if the data can be connected to your real identity. That's quite unlike what one would think of as privacy.

    So, it does not matter if people expected their communications to be secure or not. "Reasonable expectation of privacy" is a concept in US law.

    Comments, posts and DMs are personal data because they are connected to a user who is a person. If any other person is mentioned, then this mention is their personal data. You could even argue that some post or comment also becomes someone else's personal data when they reply to it. Such texts cease to be personal data only when the connection is irreversibly broken. As long as the connection can be restored, it remains personal data, even if that requires access to information that isn't readily available.

    When a DM is sent to some unauthorized recipient, that is literally a violation of the senders fundamental rights. In truth, this is relatively serious compared to some other stuff that causes outrage or gets the authorities involved.

    It might have been legally required to notify the authorities of such a data breach within 72 hours.

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  • Look again. The explanation is that these images simply don't look like any kind of CSAM. The whole story looks like some sort of scam to me.

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  • When I saw this, 2 questions came to mind: How come that this isn't immediately reported? Why would anyone upload illegal material to a platform that tracks as thoroughly as Meta's do?

    The answer is:

    All of those accounts followed the same visual pattern: blonde characters with voluptuous bodies and ample breasts, blue eyes, and childlike faces.

    The 1 question that came to mind upon reading this is: What?

  • SoA day of action following allegations of Meta’s mass theft of authors’ work

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  • Yeah, that's another one of the deliberately deceptive talking points being spread.

    First of all, average people did this. The dataset Books3 was created by a jobless individual named Shawn Presser using one of Aaron's scripts. Later he shared it with Meta. What makes the difference for Shawn is that the legal department of Meta stands between him and the copyright industry. As far as I can tell, Shawn is way more average than Aaron in that he doesn't rub shoulders with the likes of Sam Altman.

    It's interesting how this talking point works. Someone shills for the copyright industry against the interests of the average person. And the justification is that the copyright industry persecuted Aaron Swartz. That doesn't make sense, does it?

  • The final boss

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  • I read that in an Austrian accent. In my head, of course.

  • SoA day of action following allegations of Meta’s mass theft of authors’ work

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  • I don't see how this fair use case is different from those in the past. There's a tech company defending. Organizations like the EFF or the Internet Archive issue supporting statements.

    I don't see the hypocrisy. The content industry is suing tech companies now just like they have in the past, and just like they sue individuals now and in the past.

    If I had to guess at the cause of the difference, I'd say that there is a lot of money being spent on social media PR. But perhaps it also is a result of the right-ward shift of society. I wonder how much that has to do with propaganda by the content industry.

  • Arkansas social media age verification law blocked by federal Judge

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  • For just a few minutes, while reading this, it felt like the good old times.

  • SoA day of action following allegations of Meta’s mass theft of authors’ work

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  • A dbzer0 user agitating against Fair Use? You a narc or something?

  • California dog owners, amirite?

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    1. Get humped by a dog.
    2. Whine like a bitch.