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Post by siltpotato »

prionassembly wrote: post #470
enriquto wrote: post #392

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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.

I'm tired of NN stuff being opaque to me. Tell me, how do you do this? What do you use? Is this something I must program myself, or is there somebody else's application out there that does it anyway and better?

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Post by LarvaFX »

toomim wrote: post #329
koyote wrote: post #82

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I do not know if it was the original intention of the founders, but you can't ignore that the people who are/were funding it are influential far-right figures.

When you say "far-right" I think you mean "moderate conservative."

The Mercers??! Rebecca Mercer?

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Post by LarvaFX »

Number157 wrote: post #317
koyote wrote: post #82

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I do not know if it was the original intention of the founders, but you can't ignore that the people who are/were funding it are influential far-right figures.

Are they though? Maybe I just lack some knowledge but it seems there's a trend where these definitions are shifting so that right become far right, and sometimes even people who would have been left are suddenly being called right. That said I don't know much about these particular people.

Strange I have the feeling it's quite the opposite. The "progressive" democrats would just be center-right in my country (Germany).

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Post by philshem »

gerikson wrote: post #433
secondcoming wrote: post #426

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She is probably liable for that data egress bill. Also, how does some randomer have ten of terabytes of disk lying around?

Wasn't this an ArchiveTeam Warrior project? https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior If so it's distributed among many volunteers. But the data still has to end up somewhere... Archive.org?

the data is being processed by archive team https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Parler

Grab status: https://tracker.archiveteam.org/parler/

and will be hosted by archive.org

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Post by ghaff »

secondcoming wrote: post #472
ClumsyPilot wrote: post #471

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Have you ever been to r/Datahoarder or r/Homelab? 10TB fits on one desktop drive, it's completely pedestrian

I have not. I have one 4TB HD in my machine and I've never come close to filling it!

It's really a matter of multimedia: video, raw format photos, music, ripped movies. That's the vast bulk of the probably 8TB or so I have.

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Post by jamesponddotco »

MivLives wrote: post #217
jrochkind1 wrote: post #92

Also embarrassing: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vqew/the-hacker-who-archiv... > donk_enby had originally intended to grab data only from the day of the Capitol takeover, but found that the poor construction and security of Parler allowed her to capture, essentially, the entire website. That ended up being 56.7 terabytes of data, which included every public post on Parler, 412 million files in all—including 150 m…

I'm curious where someone just gets 56.7 tb of storage that quickly.

I got two 90 TB servers that I pay a small amount of peanuts per month at Hetzner to server as backup servers. As long as you stay away from the cloud, storage is dirty cheap.

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Post by einpoklum »

Codazoa wrote: post #358
wang_li wrote: post #258

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Free speech is a cultural value and a philosophy it, can apply to anyone and everyone. The first amendment of the US constitution protects the people from politicians and bureaucrats. Just because it’s done by a private party doesn’t mean it’s not censorship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4t6zNZ-b0A

So does that mean if I am hosting a dinner at my home on my own private property and someone starts spewing hate at people I have to let him because it's his free speech? No, I'm kicking that asshole off my property and banning him from returning. It's the same for these tech companies. They are private companies and if you break their ToS for inciting violence or posting illegal shit then they have the right to ban…

> So does that mean if I am hosting a dinner at my home on my own private property and someone starts spewing hate at people

Well, if that "private property home" is the only place where people in your surroundings can get something to eat; and if that someone "spew at others" but says something vile quietly to his friends, so that only people actively listening in on the conversation hear it, then - maybe you should not be able to police what that person says.

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Post by specialist »

Thlom wrote: post #456
frollo wrote: post #379

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> what principle prevents Amazon from arsing some other group that we agree with? Honestly, none. It's their business and they can handle it however they want. What you can do (and this is exactly what Kolmisoppi was suggesting) is build your platform to work without relying on other people's business. I'm happy that companies like Amazon don't want to get associated with people who organized a failed coup. That shou…

These huge Internet companies really should be regulated. Last weeks we've seen these companies, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple act like governing bodies by banning Donald Trump from their platforms and essentially shut down a business (Parlor). This is problematic because these companies have monopolistic power, not only in the US, but also internationally.

Only POTUS can silence POTUS.

POTUS has the biggest bully pulpit in the world. whitehouse.gov, daily press briefing, C-SPAN, etc.

No third party should serve as alternate bully pulpit, allowing a democratically elected leader to speak directly to their audience, bypassing the fourth estate.

I'm not saying Twitter was right to shut down POTUS. I'm saying never should have hosted POTUS in the first place. Further, no leader should be allowed to speak as a private individual.

If Twitter wants to feature POTUS, then let Twitter attend the daily presser along with all the other reporters and journalists.

Everyone is responsible for allowing this undemocratic violation of norms. Social medias are just the one that profited most.

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Post by mcv »

meibo wrote: post #478
minot wrote: post #429

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Is there still no easy straightforward way in $current_year to put an absolute spend cap of say USD 0, USD 5, or USD 10 per month on Amazon.com web services or Google Cloud Platform? I’d think I’d like to prepay a fixed dollar amount like USD 200 IF I anticipate some major event but really this is problematic for students. I just want to use the free tier. Why is this so hard?

The common excuse is "billing is heavily distributed and every product does it differently, so it's impossible to implement limits", but yeah, you're probably not the target audience.

A coworker runs a charity site (online monument for Market Garden), and because of its charity purpose, he got some free budget for Azure. He calculated that at the expected usage, that year budget was more than enough to last him a year. Until he activated some innocuous function, and suddenly it ate through his entire budget in a month, so he couldn't afford to stay on Azure anymore.

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Post by chefkoch »

alborzb wrote: post #421
philshem wrote: post #405

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They were downloading at 50 Gbps for a while https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348497204940595201 https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348440720504401921 Also, auth provider (twilio?) removed Parler as a client so for a short while it was possible to create accounts without a phone number (2FA). https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348298836930867204 edit: okta, free trial, thanks: https://news.ycombinator.com/…

Just a note here, it wasn't Twilio. It was a free trial of Okta that they were using for their entire userbase. https://twitter.com/okta/status/1348191370528256002?ref_src=...

How cheap can you be to run your whole site on a trial and fail open if it doesn't work anymore?
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