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taladar, to privacyguides in UK proposes selfie-based, AI age verification system for porn sites

Not to mention it is all based on the questionable assumption that porn is somehow harmful for teens to watch but the exact same porn is not harmful for adults.

taladar, to linux in Does `cp -v` print out the file name when it starts copying it or when it's done?

True if the initial state is unknown but if you do your initial copy and all the later syncs with rsync it is not really necessary since rsync puts the partial files in a temporary location (there are same parameters to control the details of that too).

taladar, to privacy in UK porn watchers could have faces scanned

That is not what they were asking. They were suggesting you use someone else’s ID (say, your parent’s) and a picture or video of the person the ID belongs to.

taladar, to privacy in UK porn watchers could have faces scanned

I don’t think so. Porn is very much a mental thing too, not just a visual one. Knowing none of the subjects of the pictures and videos exist will ruin it for a lot of people.

taladar, to linux in 100 Million Firmware Updates Supplied By The LVFS

Ads have just absolutely fucked most web browsing and that’s sad.

It is actually much, much worse than that. Ads have pretty much fucked up

  • our privacy since most tracking of your personal life is ad-related (pretty much all besides government surveillance)
  • our health (smoking, alcohol, sugary foods,… are all heavily pushed by advertising)
  • our climate (dito with fossil fuels, cars and other climate killer technologies)
  • our politics (Cambridge Analytica and similar propaganda campaigns as well as closely ad-related propaganda in movies and other types of media)
  • our attention spans and emotional stability (content optimized to keep us watching/clicking/… tends to be super-short and enraging)
  • our freedom of speech (“advertiser friendly” (self-)censorship and demonitization)
  • our news (what gets ad clicks gets reported and in the way to optimize clicks)

There are probably a few things I forgot but this should give you an idea of the scope of the problem.

taladar, (edited ) to linux in Does `cp -v` print out the file name when it starts copying it or when it's done?

Just use rsync -va (possibly with --chown if you want user/group to be different at the destination and with --delete if you want removed files to be deleted) to continue the copy operation, it automatically takes care of figuring out which files still need to be copied and which are already there.

taladar, to linux in An open-source, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows

And even if you did, why would you need Javascript to integrate that, just integrate it the same way the shell completion does.

taladar, to fuck_cars in Simple proposal to force politicians to improve road design

Maybe not just to their own workplace but also the occasional commute of a randomly chosen resident of their city.

taladar, to privacy in Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data

Actually compared to most of the image generation stuff that often generate very recognizable images once you develop an eye for it the LLMs seem to have the most promise to actually become useful beyond the toy level.

taladar, to linuxmemes in I bet the rest of the world has better paper

X11 fanboys not wanting to explore the idea of contributing to Wayland,

People have tried that, those projects are all dead for 3-5 years now because Wayland’s design turned out to be so much more flawed than originally expected with its “Oh, you know all that stuff the X server used to do, you now have to do all of that yourself in your compositor even though you don’t care about any of it and there is no benefit from having multiple implementations” approach.

taladar, to linuxmemes in I bet the rest of the world has better paper

I don’t think you can change foundational architectural things like that in a fork. A lot of systemd’s strengths also come from the integration of doing many things, e.g. process management and the sandboxing features together are certainly easier to read and write than having the process management call some sort of external sandboxing tool (potentially multiple nested ones) with a bazillion parameters all in the ExecStart line of the systemd unit.

taladar, to linux in Navigating around in your shell

I have the zsh option autopushd set which calls pushd in interactive shells for every cd, that way 90% of the time when I want to go back up to another path I can just use popd

taladar, to linuxmemes in Using Fedora Atomic is like...

You also pay in security holes.

taladar, to privacy in What the actual fuck?!

Leaking it because someone they know personally asks? Sure. But the software side via social networks and other apps can absolutely be nailed down a lot more than it is.

taladar, to privacy in What the actual fuck?!

Generally information gathering from public sources like that is called OSINT in case someone wants to look up more details.

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