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  • It's sad that we don't teach the history of symbolism / society media consumption patterns. Multimedia presentation of Fox News is way more televangelism than a dusty old book named The Bible. We just let advertising and marketing media act upon the population and people behave as if there are no side-effects or conflicting influence systems. We could educate everyone on the world-wide patterns of this and the history, but we do not. We behave somehow as if the Middle East / Levant is a role model of people fighting it out over their favorite story patterns.

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    I wish humans could get firmware upgrades
  • essentially that is what mythology has been for humanity. Too bad now we just let advertising borrow the techniques without education the population how it works.

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    Lemmy Safety now supports cleaning local pict-rs storage from CSAM
  • I think timestamps of files would be one of the easier things, and try to track back to postings and comments that references the upload... ideally the logged-in account (which is the standard install of lemmy, only logged-in users can upload to pictrs)

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    Lemmy Safety now supports cleaning local pict-rs storage from CSAM
  • Yes. odd how people think sharing CSAM is why people would post here, instead of actually tracking down and prosecuting those sharing CSAM. Details about the users who sharedl CSAM content, such as timestamps - would help identify the offenders for prosecution.

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    Lemmy Safety now supports cleaning local pict-rs storage from CSAM
  • It sounds like you’re encouraging people to share CSAM images found, which is obviously not the intent of this tool.

    Yes, that is in fact the context.

    Context: "which is obviously not the intent of this tool. "

    it is not my intent to share the images, nor is it the context of the tool.. Sharing details about the users, timestamps - would be the obvious context.

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    Conservatives aim to restructure U.S. government and replace it with Trump's vision
  • Conservatives aim to restructure U.S. government and replace it with Trump's vision

    Give me a break! Can people really not connect the dots of a very obvious time-line?

    1. June 16, 2013, during the Miss USA 2013 pageant in Las Vegas, Donald Trump, owner of the Miss Universe Organization, and Miss Universe 2012 Olivia Culpo announced that the Miss Universe 2013 pageant will take place in Moscow, Russia on November 9, 2013.

    2. June 18, 2013 - Trump on Twitter praising Putin as his best friend, BFF. evidence: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/donald-trumps-tweet-best-friend-939986/

    3. 2013 is when the Saint Petersburg social media troll army was already online. Notable, the same Twitter that Trump is posting on June 18... evidence: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america

    4. November 9, 2013 - Trump is on Twitter saying he is in Moscow: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/399171340042661889

    5. December 14, 2013 - Putin holds his annual "state of the union" address in Moscow and announces a new movement of global domination via "conservative values". evidence: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/vladimir-putin-conservative-icon/282572/

    6. February 20, 2014 - Putin orders Russia to invade Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation

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    Not even getting in the August 24, 2018 announcement by academics that Russia has seeded a pandemic response among the population with the troll army that went online in 2013 (#3 above).

    And 2018, and February 22, 2022 ... 2nd invasion of Ukraine response.... https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/6/17656996/trump-republican-party-russia-rather-democrat-ohio

    As far as I'm concerned, Russia is unstoppable. Nothing has reversed the trend that started over 10 years ago, and people think it is a domestic issue without understanding/learning one fact of how it played out... Oh my God, I'm so Happy!

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    Lemmy Safety now supports cleaning local pict-rs storage from CSAM
  • I hope people share the positive hits of CSAM and see how widespread the problem is...

    DRAMTIC EDIT: the records lemmy_safety_local_storage.py identifies, not the images! @bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone seems to think it "sounds like" I am ACTIVELY encouraging the spreading of child pornography images... NO! I mean audit files, such as timestamps, the account that uploaded, etc. Once you have the timestamp, the nginx logs from a lemmy server should help identify the IP address.

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    PSA: You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowing
  • and avoiding link rot

    Lemmy seems built to destroy information, rot links. Unlike Reddit has been for 15 years, when a person deletes their account Lemmy removes all posts and comments, creating a black hole.

    Not only are the comments disappeared from the person who deleted their account, all the comments made by other users disappear on those posts and comments.

    Right now, a single user just deleting one comment results in the entire branch of comment replies to just disappear.

    Installing an instance was done pretty quickly... over 1000 new instances went online in June because of the Reddit API change. But once that instance goes offline, all the communities hosted there are orphaned and no cleanup code really exists to salvage any of it - because the whole system was built around deleting comments and posts - and deleting an instance is pretty much a purging of everything they ever created in the minds of the designers.

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    Tesla founders
  • Steve Jobs main claim was that visual design and walling people into marriage of software + hardware as a package was important. And based on the loyalty, profits, he seemed to have focused on the right thing.

    As quick as Apple could, they went away from the kit Apple I into expensive unique-looking systems. The Lisa being US$9,995 (equivalent to well over $30,000 in 2023)... NeXT was pretty much the same high-end vision.

    Bill Gates bailing out Apple so there could be two main companies like Pepsi and Coke, I really don't get why people don't criticize that. Microsoft was ahead in the Smartphone area long before the iPhone, if they had not bailed out Apple...

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    Lemmyshitpost community closed until further notice
  • CSAM (Child Sexual Assault Material) posts

    The federal governments of several nations should be in pursuit of this, and IP addresses and specific time logs shared.

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    Temporary Changes to our Sign-Up Policy
  • Nothing like a little bit of corporate sabotage!

    The software developers who created Lemmy openly criticize systems of government and economics. These are nation-state battlegrounds too. The barrier to entrance is very low, as Lemmy doesn't even do routine tracking of account creation, rate-limiting alone isn't really defensive. 15 years ago sites like Reddit had major vote manipulation detection logic behind the scenes. This is pretty much unleashed playground for a lot of known tactics.

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    God, wouldn't that be nice?
  • Yes crazies are getting crazier and louder

    It isn't just their words, since 2014 they believe all kinds of wild things, and the pandemic was just one example of how they act out on these belief as business owners, neighbors, organizations. It isn't just politics.

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    God, wouldn't that be nice?
  • Already evidence that they didn't understand what Hitler was and just symbolically associated black color with bad things.

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    God, wouldn't that be nice?
  • I wouldn't be concerned about trending itself, it's that people seem to be favoring trends that are objectively bad. The pandemic people kept saying it wasn't real and would go away when summer of 2020 came... but that proved wrong, and so few seem to want to learn from the lesson of going against science in favor of Fox News or whatever other negative trend that crowds keep following. If we were trending towards building affordable houses for more people and sheltering the homeless and not making rent lock people into jobs they don't want - I'd thing it was progress. But right now, the crowds seem to be flocking to some negative-oriented Nazi kind of shit.

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    Every night, all over the world, hundreds of people see this face in their dreams.
  • This isn't shitpost material, this is reality of how the human mind works, and www.thisman.org that you linked is another example of the human brain works. This s the very meaning of 'Demon-Haunted World', where people compulsively flock and put their faith into someone without scrutinizing the actions the person or system is taking. People read a book and say they personally know Jesus... if you haven't met such a person in your lifetime if you have lived in North America, I'd be surprised.

    This isn't shitpost material, this is the nightmare of reality that's trending towards self-destruction. Since 2014 crowds have been flocking to icons and symbols of things that are objectively bad.

    Ok, I've got it wrong, you said hundreds, this is a shitpost.

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    'It's a cult': Former GOP lawmaker blames Republicans for contributing to the cult of Trump
  • I tend to witness it like you describe too. I do not see people saying "oh, we were wrong, the pandemic wasn't going to be over by Easter 2000 and it went on for years"... or really kind of admit that Fox News mislead them, or Alex Jones is a liar and they want to make sure that skills like his don't keep influencing the next generation.

    Why can't people blame advertising for being fat... do you really need McDonald's and Burger King reminding you all the time that they have food? At what point do you realize the influence that can be scientifically measured with advertising is real. What would the side-effects be of too powerful of advertising, Donald Trump? Obesity icon? If an advert does not work, they change technique, media outlet, agency, or they run it at a different time, they very much measure the increased sales. At what point do you look at your brain and go - oh, I can't defend against weaponized snack food and soda. It's engineered to make me crave it.

    It's a very personal experience. It really doesn't take long to be exposed to something, maybe even a movie, through advertising instead of a friend actually recommending it to you personally based on experience.

    why would you want to live knowing there are profiting manipulating you to purchase things you don't really want and vote for people that don't deserve it, etc. At what point do you stand up and realize that those people are organized and learning what other people will accept and using it on you? What kind of freedom is this, and why do you want everyone else to be treated this way too.

    it is a sort of bug and deep down I think these people either want a rigid hierarchical society

    sigh.

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    'It's a cult': Former GOP lawmaker blames Republicans for contributing to the cult of Trump
  • It’s quickly stomped out by groupthink.

    that's my observation too. Having lived in several parts of the world with very different religions and values... conformity is incredibly important to many people. The proven structure is to market some other group to hate.

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  • www.businessinsider.com OpenAI now tries to hide that ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted books, including J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

    A new research paper laid out ways in which AI developers should try and avoid showing LLMs have been trained on copyrighted material.

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3631252

    > OpenAI now tries to hide that ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted books, including J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series::A new research paper laid out ways in which AI developers should try and avoid showing LLMs have been trained on copyrighted material. >

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    AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US Federal Judge

    www.theverge.com AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US federal judge

    “Human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3475828

    > AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US Federal Judge::United States District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell found that AI-generated artwork can’t be copyrighted, putting to rest a lawsuit against the US Copyright Office over its refusal to copyright an AI-generated image.

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    AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says In Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause

    www.hollywoodreporter.com AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause

    A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection.

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    curl 'https://lemmy.world/api/v3/community/list?type_=Local&sort=Old&limit=1&page=250000&show_nsfw=true'

    Returns a result for page 250,000 - and if you edit that number +1 it still returns the same final item in the list. Does this on all the sorts I tried. I am not getting this behavior on lemm.ee or lemmy.ml

    With page limit at 50, it ends up returning the final same list of 50 no matter what page number you increment past the final page. This could be causing some front-end apps to endlessly load the list.

    the lemmy-ui interface seems to be having the same problem: https://lemmy.world/communities?listingType=Local&page=250001

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    I found one post from 12 hours ago that describes the problem: https://lemmy.ml/post/2650814 - but that's all I've seen. Content is way down on lemmy.ml with nothing coming in from .world

    EDIT: seems that lemmy.ml is getting some content delivered to .world, but .world communities seem islands on .ml that only have local new posts/comments.

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    Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works

    www.cnn.com Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works | CNN Business

    Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2191673

    > Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

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    https:// isitdownorjust.me /lemmy-ml/

    lemmy.world had a DDOS in the past 24 hours, Lemmy.ml was showing problem, but now it is entirely unreachable. lemmy.world was showing "Error!" page (server still reachable), but that seems to have only lasted for a hour or so.

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    PLEASE help test Lemmy 0.18 fixes, enterprise.lemmy.ml is the testing server with latest code

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/389587

    > Enterprise: enterprise.lemmy.ml -- Thank you!

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    PSA: federation between instances showing many comments not replicating. GitHub Issue #3101 · LemmyNet/lemmy

    github.com federation between instances showing many comments not replicating (2023-06-13 example) · Issue #3101 · LemmyNet/lemmy

    the normal bug report form does not serve this kind of issue. So far, the problem can be observed and reported, but not identified at the code or log levels. Even after lemmy.ml upgraded hardware y...

    Be aware that Lemmy federation, comments and postings going from instance to instance, is having serious reliability problems.

    There also seems to be no known tool to measure or fix these problems. I suspect many site operators are unaware of the extent of the problem and don't realize that comments and postings are not copying from server to server.

    Part of the growing pains of a complex app.

    Another symptom of the problem is 'pending' when you join a remote community and it never changes to 'joined'. This is a sign that your home Lemmy instance isn't communicating properly with the other Lemmy isnstance.

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