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Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
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Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
#462In 1932‘s Third Reich Language:
„German Smuggler thinks minorities‘s inability to escape discrimination is embarrassing“
Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
#463Earlier quoted context omitted.
My understanding is that not all of it was public posts. As an EU citizen, I can request that a company deletes my data. Unless this data dump is being treated as a crime scene or something, then the holders of this data will need some way to comply with these requests. Also, now AWS (or whatever cloud provider it is) is holding content that contains racist and/or illegal content. Are they not effectively now just an…
No, they're not. Holding a static, private archive is not the same thing as hosting a live, public site.
How so? Aren't people freely perusing all this data, extracting GPS metadata and reading both public and private conversations?
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#464Earlier quoted context omitted.
This sounds like double speak. Can you elaborate?
Anyone can say whatever they want on the Internet, but if your violence words become violent deeds you’re at risk of being dropped. So - don’t be violent.
I hope the platforms remember this line of thought the next time US is going to bomb a country
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#465Earlier quoted context omitted.
With CP it's also that making distribution harder might disincentivise the creation of the material, so removing it everywhere could have the very real effect of saving actual children. This might be a bit of a naive view on things, considering how some forms of content will always find ways of spreading, but it's still a very strong point to argue that it's different from content like 3D-printable pistol schematics.
It's not a strong point because you can make exactly the same argument for anything else you'd like to ban, including printable pistol schematics, anarchist cookbooks, terrorist propaganda, and so on. It's a cheap truism to say that if something is easily available this will make it more likely for people to become interested in it, will make certain people more inclined towards it, may create a market for it, and so…
Who gets hurt in the process of making pistol schematics? Or in the making of terrorist propaganda?
The hard difference is: With CP, harm is done in the process of creating the material. With most other things, harm could potentially be done as a result of the content.
Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
#466Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but what principle prevents Amazon from arsing some other group that we agree with? Parler had people discussing murdering Congresspeople and didn't do anything about it. No matter which faction of "what level of free speech is acceptable" one subscribes, this is never acceptable and it is no wonder that Parler got booted off.
"Parler had people discussing murdering Congresspeople " By that criterion we should immediately close down Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, ...
You missed one key difference, moderation, Parler straight up refused to remove these kinds of posts.
Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'
#467Parler decided not to buy their own hardware and rent their own rack space. Plenty of other unpopular websites have figured it out.
My guess is they won't struggle too much to get the site itself back online (they at least claim it was "bare metal", so charitably just containers), but replacing the email service providers and other authentication / SaaSy bits will be a challenge.
I'm curious about how they'll handle SMS. I once worked for a place that self hosted a message gateway by co-locating a bunch of cellphones alongside their servers. It worked but probably wouldn't scale for their purposes. Our setup also assumed that customers were in the same country as the servers.
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That's just, like, his opinion man. Let's see what comes out of this data dump before getting too sanguine about loss of "free speech".
> "free speech". On this topic, I've seen reports on Twitter and Reddit of people who don't fit Parler's "prescribed worldview" being banned. Not so free after all.
free speech is a human right, but it's limited (in the declaration of human rights, maybe read it?!) to things that dont hurt public peace, that dont negatively impact someone else's rights, etc.
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How precise is a sundial? How high is the resolution of the camera? I'd imagine that on a bright sunny day with a high resolution camera showing clean sharp shadows, it'd be possible to get a precision much better than +/-1h.
Sure, I was thinking about a photo of human subjects in the foreground, with some distant buildings in the background. But if you photograph the shadow of the Eiffel tower on a clear sunny day you may be down to the precision of a couple of minutes.
But that's only if you can resolve the "which day" issue?
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This is the proof to why I strip all metadata AND filename (esp. photos from camera include timestamp in filename) before uploading it to share one social medias.
Camera vendors are perfectly capable of storing a lot of metadata in the jpeg encoded image itself, in an steganographic way. If you want to really be sure, crop your image to a position that is not multiple of 8 on any direction, then scale it by a factor very close to 1, add some noise, and re-compress it again. Some steganography is yet robust to that, but only the really fancy stuff. Anyhow, if your image shows r…
Use image pool to train a GAN, publish the GAN images instead of the real ones.