[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

At my modest scale, I was banned from reddit/worldnews for pointing out that the title of the stickied thread "Iran attacks Israel" was not suited anymore to the events in gaza, and that this thread's very low upvote count was a show that its content was not so consensual.

There are lots of efforts by Likud extremists to reshape the narrative and suppress dissent.

But I'm optimistic that their efforts won't work: the students protests are strong enough, alternative communities like r/internationalnews are developing, so that a more balanced perspective emerges, that doesn't downplay Israeli crimes against humanity.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

My aunt visited Afghanistan as a tourist, in a christian group of women, in the 1960's. I really wish I could do the same when I retire.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Usually, an impact study is made before such type of laws are made:

  • if this law is enacted, how much will it cost to the manufacturers to update their factory settings?
  • how will this be impacted on the device cost in the UK compared to other markets?
  • how many users will get stuck when losing the unique ID of the device, what are the recovery procedures, how costly is it to end users?
  • how many users will be protected by the measure and what cost for society does it represent?
  • how many users will set a dumb password anyhow and what is the cost for society?

I’d be curious to see the impact study, as many of those are actually botched.

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A savoir le Centre de recherches internationales (Ceri) et le Laboratoire interdisciplinaire (Médialab) de Sciences-Po.

(Le MediaLab, j’en connais des membres, et pour moi, c’est un gage de sérieux).

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Too bad neither Israel nor the US are member of the ICC. That gives them far less leverage, even though they will likely put pressure on some weaker members of the ICC.

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Baku (AFP) – When Russian troops deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh four years ago, their task was clear: keep the peace between bitter foes Armenia and Azerbaijan and prevent another war in the volatile region.

But as Azerbaijani forces swept through mountainous Karabakh last September and crushed Armenian separatist forces in a matter of hours, the Russian mission looked lost.

The Kremlin this week quietly confirmed that the peacekeepers were withdrawing, taking with them their weapons and hardware, as well as Russian clout from a region it long considered its own backyard.

"We are witnessing a historic process -- Russians are leaving for the first time in two centuries," independent Azerbaijani analyst Elhan Shahinoglu told AFP.

[...]

"Russia has once again betrayed the Armenian people and sold us out. That's it," said Valery Harutyunyan, who lived in Karabakh before fleeing to Armenia in September.

"We can't rely on the Russians again. It's impossible. We should kick Russians out -- not only from Karabakh -- but also from Armenia," he told AFP.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

That's why trade unions in France maintain their own security forces, trained to spot troublemakers or hysterical militants and reign them in. Perhaps is this what makes for successful démonstrations.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

What prevents you from revoking your payment mandate at your bank?

In Europe at least, your bank must honor this request and there's nothing your debtor can do about except spending 1000's to recover at most 3 months of payments with the current legal apparatus in Europe.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

The product advertises its AI, the person who implemented the feature was hired as a data scientist, and the technical solution is called logistic regression.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm afraid forcing watermarking generated content is doomed to fail, for 2 reasons: first it has to be voluntary, second, watermarking can always be removed if one does not care about preserving the exact content.

Rather, I believe systematically signing original content may alleviate some of the issues created by algorithmic content generation.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Does this means we can invade truth social or reddit/conservative and they won't be allowed to ban their contradictory?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Then a docking tax in domestic harbors matched to the carbon tax would seriously reduce the usage of those yachts.

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Est-ce une prémonition du logiciel de traduction automatique qui a pondu ce magnifique titre?

Notre électroménager bardé d'IA viendra-t-il avec un guide permettant au système de mieux nous comprendre?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

At one of my clients, a large institution, they go further: you're not allowed to use the local browser's password manager. And still have to abide by the usual password rules: rotate every 3 months, complex passwords, etc.

As a result,, users store a plain text file on their desktop (some go as far as printing it), that conveniently allows them to retrieve their passwords.

Too much security kills security.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

When the fine for littering and the cost of repair or recycling is higher than what you can recoup from this sort of lost property, it's a win win for the police.

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