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127361 commented on Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers spectrum.ieee.org/satelli... · Posted by u/frasermarlow

quailfarmer · 2 years ago

The US State department provided specific authorization empowering telecom companies (incl. Starlink) to operate in Iran and disregard local restrictions. If you can smuggle a dish into the country, you can use it. But the signal wouldn’t be too hard to detect, so it’s risky.

127361 · 2 years ago

What about a special reduced uplink power mode, with only 128Kb of bandwidth for example? Additionally, you can conceal the dish from terrestrial detectors, by putting it in a forest clearing for example. Those two things combined might make it a lot more difficult for the Iranian government to find a Starlink dish.

127361 commented on Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers spectrum.ieee.org/satelli... · Posted by u/frasermarlow

marsokod · 2 years ago

They can make SpaceX life hell through the ITU. Eventually SpaceX can only operate if they get the licences to operate, and if they bypass this, they would show that they have a disregard of RF regulations and this will be used against them the next time they need to get/renew a licence.

127361 · 2 years ago

I wonder if SpaceX has enough clout to influence the ITU decisions somehow, through political lobbying, for example?

127361 commented on Three ways we can fight deepfake porn technologyreview.com/2024... · Posted by u/laurex

127361 · 2 years ago

From the article: "With current techniques, it will be hard for victims to identify who has assaulted them and build a case against that person."

The author is trying to claim it is as serious as assault. That is madness. It's defamation at most.

Some very primitive instinct is involved in anything to do with sex, that explains why we are so irrational about it.

127361 commented on Gnome Code of Conduct conduct.gnome.org/... · Posted by u/127361

127361 · 2 years ago

The GNOME code of conduct is just so toxic, I encourage people to disobey it deliberately in protest, e.g. by making some offensive jokes.

" Influencing or encouraging inappropriate behavior. If you influence or encourage another person to violate the Code of Conduct, you may face the same consequences as if you had violated the Code of Conduct. " - I encourage other people to violate the Code of Conduct, in an act of disobedience, as long as they stay within the law.

127361 commented on Viewing Illegal Streams: No Cautions, Fines or Arrests Say GM Police torrentfreak.com/viewing-... · Posted by u/CTOSian

mmh0000 · 2 years ago

Yes. Imagine how easy it is to get people you dislike arrested with a bit[1] of CSAM.

On the other hand, I feel that creating and/or distributing CSAM should result in instant death for the creator.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Solon

EDIT: Creating and/or distributing.

127361 · 2 years ago

This is just the tip of the iceberg:

Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux macOS and iOS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38661182

These laws which criminalize viewing or reading things need to go now.

127361 commented on Viewing Illegal Streams: No Cautions, Fines or Arrests Say GM Police torrentfreak.com/viewing-... · Posted by u/CTOSian

WheatMillington · 2 years ago

Do you honestly believe that viewing CSAM shouldn't be a crime? Is this really the logical end-point of this style of techo-libertarianism?

127361 · 2 years ago

Yes, absolutely. It is today's equivalent of moral puritanism. It is absolutey inconceivable to me that a 21st Century society could be prosecuting people for viewing images. Distributing and making those images should remain a crime, of course. But absolutely not viewing. And we can continue to shut down the sites hosting such material, and encourage those who come across them to report them.

It is not acceptable to prosecute someone for the act of viewing a web site, regardless of it's content. Doing so is absolute totalitarianism.

In a free society, people should be able to browse any part of the Web without fear of punishment, it is fundamental. That includes exploring the darknet, one of the most interesting parts of the Web, without having to fear prosecution for unintentionally coming across child pornography.

127361 commented on Protecting Secrets from Computers (2023) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36... · Posted by u/antlai

127361 · 2 years ago

What about reducing our usage of the Internet and using local resources instead? Personally I have local mirrors of various code repositories, and thousands of ebooks. If you want to nearly eliminate all surveillance, then you can air-gap your computer?

So we shift back from the collective (networked) systems to a more individualistic local information store? We already have local AI models, which is a step in the right direction.