Last week, as this discussion was getting media attention, Meta said that “most of those posts only stay up for 4-8 hours before the (uploader) deletes it, before we’ve had time to review”

Dunno how truthful that statement is, but that really shows how easy it is to game their system

Right now at least, AI is being more of a headache than anything in coding. Microsoft itself was responsible for one such gaffe in May, as an actual coder had to tell the AI to fix an error, again and again, as each time it’d make a different mistake

The main problem is that the platforms have a money incentive to keep spam and scam posts online. They pay meta and TikTok for boosts, the scam gets boosted, all done.

Frankly, it seems like the problem could be solved by forcing the platforms to get a Know Your Customer level of information and putting that info on every boosted post, so people know who’s paying for that.

Buuuut, it’s Brazil. Justice and fairness only ever happen as side effects from judges’ decisions

The main downside is that you need a specific browser, or an extension for your average browser, to load gemini sites.

The moth is near a desk lamp that’s turned off, the human’s shadow is coming from another light source. Dunno, guyse, but I think this is fake

Wouldn’t you have to have some sort of MITM to be able to inspect that traffic?

That, or a court order telling your ISP or mobile operator to allow the sniffing. Or just the police wanting to snoop your stuff because they can. Not every country cares about individual or human rights, you know

TOR is what their already-existing tip tool uses.

Yes, but tor can be blocked at a firewall level, its packets are easy to identify. “Nations like China, Iran, Belarus, North Korea, and Russia have implemented measures to block or penalize Tor usage”

Packet data has headers that can identify where it’s coming from and where it’s going to. The contents of the packet can be securely encrypted, but destination is not. So long as you know which IPs Signal’s servers use (which is public information), it’s trivial to know when a device is sending/receiving messages with Signal.

This is also why something like Tor manages to circumvent packet sniffing, it’s impossible to know the actual destination because that’s part of the encrypted payload that a different node will decrypt and forward.

Both newpipe and pipepipe fail from time to time due to “being caught”. You can go days or weeks with them failing to load videos, then they update and things work again, until google fucks them again, rinse and repeat

Add Real Life Lore to the Nebula list, great for understanding current geopolitics and conflicts

The other is the world’s biggest bully and largest exporter of “freedom”, as seen in Lybia, Iraq and even Iran back in the 1950s

It’s like that saying goes: “The law is the same for everyone, neither the king nor the beggar may sleep under a bridge.”

Brazil has something of a problem of minors committing crime, since they don’t get the full jail time adults do. There is a significant political push for lowering the minimum age to throw kids into prison, asking for 16 or 14yo to be judged and jailed like adults - which means the typical “Lock 'em up and forget them for a minimum of 10 years”.

Everyone defines themselves by their role

I don’t and I bet many people don’t as well. I define myself by what I know, who I know, what I believe, like and dislike, have done and can do. Roles can be assigned, but they only serve as oversimplifications of what’s expected of people. The role of “mother” only means that a woman has one or more children. Whether said children are blood related, adopted, whether she’s a “good” or “bad” mother, whether she’s married, widow, single, etc etc, is up in the air.

Your second argument there doesn’t need roles to be answered either, or do you think only specific roles can help people? Life isn’t an RPG with clear-cut classes

Define “being useless”. It certainly seems that “being useless”, to you, it is either “not working” or “not creating monetary value”, which would be super ironic given that there are many jobs around the world that make the person feel useless or worse

I’d say that anyone that feels the need to define themselves “by their role” has no clue on who they are or can be, needing the rest of society to direct them

Nothing like comparing a technology that took more than 10 years to get “released in the wild” and had several “killer apps” built using it very early on (email, instant messaging, web pages, online games) and many companies had no idea how to get money with it, vs. a “content generator” that is run almost entirely on promises of increased productivity and profit.

You have a very limited view of what life should, or even can be.

'Round my parts, robbers just target the armoured trucks that move money to ATMs.

Brazilian under a similar situation. Gambling and casinos are illegal within the entire country, but in 2018 online gambling/casinos were allowed to run ads everywhere. Every other week there’d be a new betting site throwing ads on every TV channel and tiktok/instagram influencer. Some regulation started showing up last year, people on Bolsa Familia (govt money for people in extreme poverty) were dumping that money straight into the gambling sites, but it’s too little, too late. A significant portion of the political right is now being bribed lobbied to legalize casinos again, “It’z gun generert jerbs and tworism!!!”

If you make it illegal, they’ll just run back to a tax haven like so many are already doing, but at least people will be less likely to find them. If you tax them to hell, they’ll also run to a tax haven and do money laundering+tax evasion. Gambling companies are lose-lose-win for people-govts-themselves.

Same energy