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Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests

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Re: Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests

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Post by Minor49er »

jessaustin wrote: post #377
yters wrote: post #376

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i would ask you the same thing you have never met me, but seem to know a whole lot about what i do and do not know how did you get this information about me, and how do you know it is true? or are you just making a bunch of baseless assumptions?

Everyone in this thread knows you live closer to Minneapolis than to Ürümqi. You started the thread by discounting the difficulties of black people in USA. You wanted someone to give you some "facts" to "support" the claim that racism is a problem. All of us made the same assumption based on that evidence. We don't need to imagine anything else.

I, for one, have no idea where yters lives

Re: Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests

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Post by yters »

jessaustin wrote: post #377
yters wrote: post #376

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i would ask you the same thing you have never met me, but seem to know a whole lot about what i do and do not know how did you get this information about me, and how do you know it is true? or are you just making a bunch of baseless assumptions?

Everyone in this thread knows you live closer to Minneapolis than to Ürümqi. You started the thread by discounting the difficulties of black people in USA. You wanted someone to give you some "facts" to "support" the claim that racism is a problem. All of us made the same assumption based on that evidence. We don't need to imagine anything else.

how would you characterize your efforts to understand what i am saying and communicate in a clear and unbiased manner?

Re: Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests

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Post by livq »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #352
_bxg1 wrote: post #233

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A replacement for blur could just be black boxes. Seems easy and safe enough.

As soon as deepfakes and "thispersondoesnotexist" started happening I wanted a tool that would replace everyone's face with a auto-generated face just so I could do street photography without feeling like I was invading people's right to obscurity

I've always been partial to the laughing man from Ghost in the Shell. This would be a perfect use case :P

Re: Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests

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Post by vagab0nd »

mulmen wrote: post #334
vagab0nd wrote: post #287

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I don't get it. If I check for a password I used before, presumably I want to keep using it if it's safe. Otherwise what's the point?

If you think a password has been compromised then change it. HIBP offers you a way to validate a password has been compromised, HIBP does not offer you a way to determine it has not been compromised or is otherwise suitable for use. It’s a service for excluding compromised passwords from use.

> It’s a service for excluding compromised passwords from use.

How does this work?

2 cases:

1. I know password P is compromised. I check it in HIBP. If compromised, great, but I already know that. If not, well, too bad. I still can't use it because I know it's compromised. - decision doesn't depend on the result of HIBP.

2. I don't know if P is compromised. I check it in HIBP. If compromised, I don't use P. If not, I don't use P because I already put P in a text box connected to the internet. - decision doesn't depend on the result of HIBP.

Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware of the value of HIBP. I'm just arguing about this particular use case.

Re: Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests

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Post by vzidex »

sfj wrote: post #258
pera wrote: post #66

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> The more they expect to be held accountable, the more likely they will refrain from violence. The thing is people are already being held accountable for their skin tone, and the likelihood of changing your behavior when you have lived your entire life in an environment of constant oppression for fear of being identified in a protest is marginal, specially during catharsis, otherwise you wouldn't see for instance pe…

> The thing is people are already being held accountable for their skin tone, and the likelihood of changing your behavior when you have lived your entire life in an environment of constant oppression Actually, a lot more whites are killed by cops than blacks. And before you say that's because there are more white people than black people, blacks represent only 13% of the population but commit 52% of the crime. So, y…

>blacks represent only 13% of the population but commit 52% of the crime

Odd, my dogs are barking

Re: Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests

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Post by jessaustin »

yters wrote: post #382
jessaustin wrote: post #377

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone in this thread knows you live closer to Minneapolis than to Ürümqi. You started the thread by discounting the difficulties of black people in USA. You wanted someone to give you some "facts" to "support" the claim that racism is a problem. All of us made the same assumption based on that evidence. We don't need to imagine anything else.

how would you characterize your efforts to understand what i am saying and communicate in a clear and unbiased manner?

I've made no particular efforts in that vein; you are an open book. In reply to this observation you'll whinge on about how mysterious and unique and totally-not-racist you really are, but will offer no discernible arguments in favor of that proposition. It's really an HN trope by this point: say something totally privileged and douchey, and then insist that you may only be criticized by perfect and omniscient beings when other people call you on it. You're not the first person to do it; you won't be the last.

Re: Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests

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Post by ixtli »

jbay808 wrote: post #228
ixtli wrote: post #172

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Ghandi is the face of that movement but was just the tip of what was a very bloody revolution. It is important that we think the movement was "non-violent" such that we can point to it to dissuade people from challenging the status quo in a material way.

Would you say that his protests didn't change anything and were forgotten as soon as they were over?

No, the history taught about ghandi carefully selects instances of "non-violence". I don't think ghandi is responsible for how we learn about ghandi in the west.

Just like MLK is regarded as "peaceful" when in fact he and others spoke quite a bit about the fact that there was never any response from white people unless property was attacked.

Re: Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests

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Post by ixtli »

giggles_giggles wrote: post #131
zouhair wrote: post #116

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> It's going to be incredibly draining on law enforcement in the US for a few years to identify and prosecute criminals involved in riots Good. Black people factually live under an authoritarian regime in the US.

They should really have the right to vote!

This comment is why it's important to be more precise than the word "authoritarian." We all live under an "authoritarian regime" to one degree or another.

The problem in this case is that its institutionally racist towards, and extrajudicially assassinates, black people with impunity.

We must be more precise because otherwise it allows _this_ to happen.

Re: Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests

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Post by dicknuckle »

rixrax wrote: post #8

For meta data, exiftool is handy for removing metadata[0]. $ exiftool -all= foo.jpg And even better, save image first as .bmp or other format that doesn’t support metadata. Then reload and convert to jpeg, and run the exiftool on this image. [0] https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sau...

or if you're in a rush just post them to imgur where all exif data is dropped.

Re: Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests

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Post by yters »

jessaustin wrote: post #386
yters wrote: post #382

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how would you characterize your efforts to understand what i am saying and communicate in a clear and unbiased manner?

I've made no particular efforts in that vein; you are an open book. In reply to this observation you'll whinge on about how mysterious and unique and totally-not-racist you really are, but will offer no discernible arguments in favor of that proposition. It's really an HN trope by this point: say something totally privileged and douchey, and then insist that you may only be criticized by perfect and omniscient beings…

it seems you believe i am racist. how did you arrive at that conclusion? or do you assume people who disagree with you are racist?
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