closed-model for now, of course. (clickbait??? ) but imagine in a few years when we will be able to make supreme shitposts like MLK headshotting JFK in fortnite

Google killing off services, many such cases

Check Snappy for link without paywall.

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Imagine throwing away your life at 17 for a videogame lmao

DU:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217203708

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/xqfgua/is_this_the_beginning_of_the_end_of_the_internet/

https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/xqc3gd/this_atlantic_analysis_article_goes_over_the/

https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/xqo2gs/is_this_the_beginning_of_the_end_of_the_internet/

https://nitter.net/search?f=tweets&q=Is+This+the+Beginning+of+the+End+of+the+Internet%3F

Occasionally, something happens that is so blatantly and obviously misguided that trying to explain it rationally makes you sound ridiculous. Such is the case with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’s recent ruling in NetChoice v. Paxton. Earlier this month, the court upheld a preposterous Texas law stating that online platforms with more than 50 million monthly active users in the United States no longer have First Amendment rights regarding their editorial decisions. Put another way, the law tells big social-media companies that they can’t moderate the content on their platforms. YouTube purging terrorist-recruitment videos? Illegal. Twitter removing a violent cell of neo-Nazis harassing people with death threats? Sorry, that’s censorship, according to Andy Oldham, a judge of the United States Court of Appeals and the former general counsel to Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

A state compelling social-media companies to host all user content without restrictions isn’t merely, as the First Amendment litigation lawyer Ken White put it on Twitter, “the most angrily incoherent First Amendment decision I think I’ve ever read.” It’s also the type of ruling that threatens to blow up the architecture of the internet. To understand why requires some expertise in First Amendment law and content-moderation policy, and a grounding in what makes the internet a truly transformational technology. So I called up some legal and tech-policy experts and asked them to explain the Fifth Circuit ruling—and its consequences—to me as if I were a precocious 5-year-old with a strange interest in jurisprudence.

Techdirt founder Mike Masnick, who has been writing for decades about the intersection of tech policy and civil liberties, told me that the ruling is “fractally wrong”—made up of so many layers of wrongness that, in order to fully comprehend its significance, “you must understand the historical wrongness before the legal wrongness, before you can get to the technical wrongness.” In theory, the ruling means that any state in the Fifth Circuit (such as Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi) could “mandate that news organizations must cover certain politicians or certain other content” and even implies that “the state can now compel any speech it wants on private property.” The law would allow both the Texas attorney general and private citizens who do business in Texas to bring suit against the platforms if they feel their content was removed because of a specific viewpoint. Daphne Keller, the director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center, told me that such a law could amount to “a litigation DDoS [Denial of Service] attack, unleashing a wave of potentially frivolous and serious suits against the platforms.”

To give me a sense of just how sweeping and nonsensical the law could be in practice, Masnick suggested that, under the logic of the ruling, it very well could be illegal to update Wikipedia in Texas, because any user attempt to add to a page could be deemed an act of censorship based on the viewpoint of that user (which the law forbids). The same could be true of chat platforms, including iMessage and Reddit, and perhaps also Groomercord, which is built on tens of thousands of private chat rooms run by private moderators. Enforcement at that scale is nearly impossible. This week, to demonstrate the absurdity of the law and stress test possible Texas enforcement, the subreddit /r/PoliticalHumor mandated that every comment in the forum include the phrase “Greg Abbott is a little piss baby” or be deleted. “We realized what a ripe situation this is, so we’re going to flagrantly break this law,” a moderator of the subreddit wrote. “We like this Constitution thing. Seems like it has some good ideas.”

Barely a W, but an in the future unless Google commits to letting adblockers be adblockers in Chrome.

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https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/xqpw6i/more_details_on_the_transition_to_manifest_v3/

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/xqpz88/more_details_on_the_transition_to_manifest_v3/

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Last year, we announced a timeline for the phasing out of Manifest V2 extensions as we shift our focus to Manifest V3.

In support of that goal, we’re providing more details about how Chrome will phase out Manifest V2 support.

Additional details may be found on our Manifest V2 support timeline page.

We also have a few updates on how the phase-out will look on the Chrome Web Store: In January 2023 , use of Manifest V3 will become a prerequisite for the Featured badge as we raise the security bar for extensions we highlight in the store.

All existing Manifest V2 items with visibility set to Public at that time will have their visibility changed to Unlisted.

In addition, we have been working with extension developers to improve Manifest V3 and to incorporate feedback from our community.

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https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/xqr10q/brands_blast_twitter_for_ads_next_to_child/

https://nitter.net/Reuters/status/1575207819317547008#m

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Sept 28 (Reuters) - Some major advertisers including Dyson, Mazda, Forbes and PBS Kids have suspended their marketing campaigns or removed their ads from parts of Twitter because their promotions appeared alongside tweets soliciting child pornography, the companies told Reuters.

Scottish Rite did not return multiple requests for comment.

The emerging pushback from advertisers that are critical to Twitter's revenue stream is reported here by Reuters for the first time.

NBCUniversal said it has asked Twitter to remove the ads associated with the inappropriate content.

For the accounts identified by Ghost Data, nearly all the traders of child sexual abuse material marketed the materials on Twitter, then instructed buyers to reach them on messaging services such as Groomercord and Telegram in order to complete payment and receive the files, which were stored on cloud storage services like New Zealand-based Mega and U.S.-based Dropbox, according to the group's report.

The more that Twitter cracks down on certain keywords, the more that users are nudged to use obfuscated text, which "tend to be harder for (Twitter) to automate against," the documents said.

(tw: anime, chuds, neurodivergency)

Poa.st is a popular Fediverse instance that's essentially the equivalent of Twitter. Poa.st recently gained more prevalence after the great #DropKiwifarms debacle flocked thousands of displaced Kiwis to the site.

What was initially a symbiotic-relationship has since soured over the past few days due to Poa.st's operator, graf, ing at the new clientele; vowing to defederate the Kiwifarms.cc instance as soon as it comes back online.

The linked post contains CrunkLord420, operator of the KiwiFarms.cc instance, leaving Poa.st. A minor slapfight ensues in the replies:

CrunkLord420: I'm moving to [clubcyberia.co] because graf arbitrarily blocks instances and users due to his personal whatever. I'm a hypocrite for even being on poa.st in the first place, I knew this is how it was.

KFcc will probably be back in a week or two anyways.

graf: cya

graf (replying to another user in the thread): I'm not sure what response he wanted after I asked him to not add purported dox imagry to their user emojis and he told me to pound sand so the same can be said here. we had to write an MRF to deal with the spam in the past but if it escalates I will just defed KF.cc

CrunkLord420: no response was expected. I just didn't sub-poast your name.

But since you bring it up: I told you the emoji wasn't doxing, and told you to come up with a definition of doxing for your rule. In the end you agreed it wasn't doxing. Plenty of people have criticized your moderation because you take server-wide actions over your personal disputes. You can say "I can do anything I want it's my server" but don't try to act like your moderation comes from some sort of strict code or policy.

graf: I'm not reading any of this. I don't care at all

Kiwi thread begins discussing here with making a brief appearance: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/poa-st-is-trash.129204/page-3

Null: graf's committed to defederating us for the dumbest reason ever, just fyi.

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Starting today, we are removing the waitlist for the DALL·E beta so users can sign up and start using it immediately. More than 1.5M users are now actively creating over 2M images a day with DALL·E—from artists and creative directors to authors and architects—with over 100K users sharing their creations and feedback in our Groomercord community.

Responsibly scaling a system as powerful and complex as DALL·E—while learning about all the creative ways it can be used and misused—has required an iterative deployment approach.

Since we first previewed the DALL·E research to users in April, users have helped us discover new uses for DALL·E as a powerful creative tool. Artists, in particular, have provided important input on DALL·E’s features.

Their feedback inspired us to build features like Outpainting, which lets users continue an image beyond its original borders and create bigger images of any size, and collections—so users can create in all new ways and expedite their creative processes.

Learning from real-world use has allowed us to improve our safety systems, making wider availability possible today. In the past months, we’ve made our filters more robust at rejecting attempts to generate sexual, violent and other content that violates our content policy and built new detection and response techniques to stop misuse.

We are currently testing a DALL·E API with several customers and are excited to soon offer it more broadly to developers and businesses so they can build apps on this powerful system.

We can’t wait to see what users from around the world create with DALL·E. Sign up today and start creating.

You can smell the soy

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When binge-watching TV became a universal pastime at the height of the pandemic, one of Europe’s top officials called the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Netflix Inc. and told him to make his product worse.

“It’s time to see if our regulation and organization of the infrastructure supporting our digital space is relevant or not,” Breton said in an interview with Bloomberg this month.

Netflix has installed thousands of server boxes in more than 700 EU cities, to compress and store video locally so it doesn’t jam networks.

Social Network Meta spending on infrastructure like cables and data centers has soared In the US, there are now just three big mobile companies, while the EU contains nearly 40 large players, whose mergers have been blocked, making it nearly impossible to keep up, the telcos argue.

Although experts question how accurately companies can determine where data comes from, it’s clear that usage is only likely to increase.

For now, European carriers are avoiding lawsuits like SK Broadband Co, in South Korea, which sued Netflix claiming the rush to watch hit show Squid Game meant the streamer should be liable for millions of dollars in higher network costs.

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thanks to some sql help from intrepid data scientist @LucasWerkmeistr, i have compiled a list of the 206 articles in english wikipedia with the suffix -ussy. here's a threadussy of a few of them pic.twitter.com/VctAF5dZLJ

— depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwiki) September 28, 2022

Never thought I find my hidden niche.
A High Quality Victorian Era Painting of A Lady With Large Breast pic.twitter.com/k0sh0cdRCx

— Coco 🥜 (✦Commission(Closed)✦) (@setawar) September 26, 2022

Frick it this goes in slackernews

I love my ai overlords

Your "Too long, didn't click"

In your “Content you see” settings, you can now choose to show, blur, or hide content that depicts the following topics:

• Drug and alcohol addiction: Contains discussions of substance abuse or addiction experience.

• Violence: Contains violent or graphic content similar to what you might see in an age-restricted movie.

• Sexual themes: Contains sexually suggestive subject matter, such as erotic writing or imagery.

Some examples of content that would require a community label:

• Fanart of your favorite ship engaging with each other in...a very private moment

• Euphoria GIFs showing Rue’s substance abuse

• A movie trailer depicting graphic war scenes

• A graphic 50 Shades of Grey edit

It's close to the end of the year, you know what that means! More expensive shit that holds little to no tangible benefit compared to the expensive shit that came out last year!!! The current focus is on CPUs and boy oh boy this is one of the product launches ever.

To start off with, AMD's new zen 4 processors operate at 95°c regardless of how beefy your cooling solution is. This is by design, apparently.

AMD went on to say that 95C is not running hot, rather Zen 4 will intentionally go to this temperature as much as possible under load because the power management system knows that this is the ideal way to squeeze the most performance out of the chip without damaging it.

Good stuff.

Additionally, the big expensive ryzen 9 7950x only barely outpaces the significantly older ryzen 7 5800x3D which is really really funny.

Intel has also recently decided to make it known that they exist too, announcing their new line of "raptor lake" processors. The graphs speak for themselves.

In the midst all of this, many are still waiting for somebody to announce a product that isn't completely pointless.

Reminder: Absolutely NO anti-CCP sentiment

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/xpqpu7/facebook_busts_chinese_influence_network/

https://old.reddit.com/r/China/comments/xpqflu/facebook_busts_chinese_influence_network/

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/xpsf3c/meta_disrupted_chinabased_propaganda_machine/

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Meta removed a Chinese influence network that attempted to inflame political tensions on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ahead of the midterm elections.

Ben Nimmo, global threat intelligence lead for Meta, says the activity marked a shift for Chinese influence operations which typically seek to shape public opinion abroad by pushing pro-China propaganda and attacking the United States.

The influence operation targeted primarily the United States and the Czech Republic.

"I don't think China is trying to change the outcome of various issue-oriented political dialogs in the United States or trying to change the outcomes of specific elections," he said. "

Fewer than 10 accounts followed one or more of the Instagram accounts, according to Meta.

Meta said it removed all of them for violating its policies against "coordinated inauthentic behavior

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Generated from TLDR This:

Where is the heart of the technology industry?

The simple answer is “Silicon Valley,” a term that now generally means the San Francisco-San Jose-Oakland area of California.

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

To answer that question, we have to understand how Silicon Valley compares to the larger United States venture capital and startup market; if Silicon Valley is truly losing its dominance domestically, it certainly cannot claim an international title.

https://t.co/5UabCGkHqb — Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) September 26, 2022 In time, I do anticipate that a more global tech industry will dilute Silicon Valley’s former hegemony as the spawning point for what’s next, and it will become more figurehead than anything else.