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Facebook open-sources Detectron

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Re: Facebook open-sources Detectron

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I actually like poisoning them. Not to be malicious but I feel manipulated into training their software for free. "Oh you wanted to sign up for that web forum? Sorry, but you have to do some free work for us first" And if you think that it's somehow good because it's mutually beneficial to train AI to better the future of humanity, don't. That is what their marketing department wants you to think.

The value they're providing is to the forum owner, who has reduced spam-handling workload. So the forum is providing you value, you are providing Google value, and Google is providing the forum value.

Sure, but if the public has to provide Google with free data, we should make laws requiring Google to open source the entire ReCaptcha training set.

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The idea that you have no requirement to is wrong - your site may not have sensitive information but without SSL it can be MITM'd and used as a vector for malware, ad injection, etc.

You argument is valid (somewhat), but I don't think that I attract enough traffic on a constant basis, to invest the time and effort to SSL up all my domains. So far I've had a less than stellar experience with letsencrypt, so I'm not quite ready to go all free-certs just quite yet. It also requires a rebuild of my web-server[1] which I've been putting off for a very long time already. --- [1] See my other post in th…

Why not just use Cloudflare? They do SSL termination for free, plus you'd get caching to boot.

Re: Facebook open-sources Detectron

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> Beyond research, a number of Facebook teams use this platform to train custom models for a variety of applications including augmented reality and community integrity. Any idea what they mean by "community integrity"?

Maybe you want to censor internally part of an image for privacy reasons. For instance, in my country you cannot use or publish children images without parents consent. The fine for doing that is way higher than your benefits even discounting bad press.

What country is that?

Re: Facebook open-sources Detectron

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Also noteworthy: the Apache 2 license, which includes a patent grant (unlike the previous Facebook licenses that have caused concern in the past).

caffe2 (which this is built on) was switched from bsd+patents to Apache2 a while ago too.

I think if either a project that FB uses upstream has Apache 2 or if you are a large organization (for example the Apache Software Foundation) you can use your clout to force Facebook to use Apache.

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I'm not expert on this but what I'm seeing is that port 443 is serving up a response when jaruzel.com is requested on that port. While you may not be actively advertising that domain with https URLs, it is valid for clients to request one speculatively. There isn't a valid cert for that domain and for some reason for server is offering a different one. Presumably you need to unbind 443 from that host header name (thi…

So... I have an IP... that IP points to a router, that router port-forwards ports 80 and 443 blindly to a web server, on that web server is a bunch of websites. IIS knows which ones to serve to clients based on a) the host-header, and b) the port. jaruzel.com:443 is not valid, but because I run an older version of IIS[1], that does not support SNI, the cert is bound to the port, not the host-header. As such any domai…

Thank you, I appreciate the detailed response :-)

Re: Facebook open-sources Detectron

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I'm happy that tech companies are open sourcing basic research all the time, and thinking a lot about what would have happened if large pharmacy companies did the same thing. I'm just hopeful that with new biotech companies the science behind curing people will get faster as well.

Sounds like you might enjoy Annalee Newitz's _Autonomous_ (https://www.techsploitation.com/#/sciencefiction/)

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The value they're providing is to the forum owner, who has reduced spam-handling workload. So the forum is providing you value, you are providing Google value, and Google is providing the forum value.

Sure, but if the public has to provide Google with free data, we should make laws requiring Google to open source the entire ReCaptcha training set.

Why?

Re: Facebook open-sources Detectron

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Sure, but if the public has to provide Google with free data, we should make laws requiring Google to open source the entire ReCaptcha training set.

Why?

Anything created with free work should be free in return. Anything created by the public should be available for the public.

Re: Facebook open-sources Detectron

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It's a bit disappointing, when caffe2 was released it was stated that mobile is a big focus, but things like this don't support mobile (even though some of this was demoed by FB on a phone).

FWIW we have some similar R-CNN models using this codebase running in the FB apps on iOS/Android with Caffe2 - with some neat bells and whistles (eg full execution of the compute graph on the device GPU where available via Metal/OpenGL). I’ll look into adding a mobile tutorial for Detectron if you’re interested.

That would be awesome. But - is a tutorial enough? From what I gather from the readme the custom ops have cuda implementations and no CPU ones, which you'd like to have as a fallback on mobile (even if metal/opengl implementations exist), or am I wrong?

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Google doesn't even show a catpcha if they have enough tracking info for toy to verify you're a human, which is pretty simple for them if you don't clear all your cookies for a few days. I'm pretty sure Google thinks if they have to show you a catpcha they've failed, but along with that they don't feel the need to make the catpchas particularly easy if they do have to show it.

I take it you don't use a VPN. I often have to pass a captcha just to use google search when in an IPv4 address. (Considering that ISPs are now allowed to sell my data, using a VPN seems to be an obvious choice.) It's annoying to the point that it's pushed me to use DuckDuckGo more often and I tend to avoid platforms that require me to continually take their captchas. I used Discord for a little while, but once it st…

Have you tried Startpage? Lets you Google search via their proxy servers, no issues with tor/vpn that I recall.
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