himata4113 (u/himata4113)

himata4113 commented on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act github.com/upper-up/meta-... · Posted by u/shaicoleman

simion314 · 20 hours ago

For linux we have the users and groups concept, the distro can add an adult group and when you give your child a linux a device and create the account you would just chose adulr or minor , or enter a birthdate. No freedom lost for the geeks that install Ubuntu or Arch for themselves and we do not need some extra hardware for the rare cases where a child has access to soem computer and he also can wipe it and install Linux on it. Distro makes can make the live usb default user to be set as not adult. Good enough solutions are easy but I do not understand why Big Tech (Google and Apple) did not work on a standard for this. (maybe both Apple and Google profits would suffer if they did)

himata4113 · 19 hours ago

Definitely the latter, exploiting kids (roblox) is very very profitable.

himata4113 commented on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act github.com/upper-up/meta-... · Posted by u/shaicoleman

fivetomidnight · 20 hours ago

No. This is not the way.

> give parents the ABILITY to advertise the users age to browsers, apps and everything in between.

Accounts and Applications to services that provide countent are set to a country-specific age rating restrictions (PG, 12+, 18+, whatever). That's it.

None of the things you mentioned have any point to concern themself with the age or age-bracket of the user in front of the device. This can and will be abused. This is very obvious. Think about it.

himata4113 · 19 hours ago

That is what I meant by age(-rating), you are correct. However, drop country specifics - too complicated. Age brackets are enough: child, preteen, teen, adult. At around 16-17 these should be dropped anyway since at that point people are smart enough to get around these measures anyway and usually have non-parent controlled devices.

himata4113 commented on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act github.com/upper-up/meta-... · Posted by u/shaicoleman

simion314 · 20 hours ago

>This is a great solution to the stated problem. The issue is that nobody is actually trying to solve the stated problem. This is a terrible solution to the real 'problem' which is the lack of surveillance power and information control.

So on the Sony consoles I created an account for my child and guess what they have implemented some stuff to block children from adult content on some stuff.

So if Big Tech would actually want to prevent laws to be created could make it easy for a parent to setup the account for a child (most children this days have mobile stuff and consoles so they could start with those), we just need the browsers to read the age flag from the OS and put it in a header, then the websites owners can respect that flag.

I know that someone would say that some clever teen would crack their locked down windows/linux to change the flag but this is a super rare case, we should start with the 99% cases, mobile phones and consoles are already locked down so an OS API that tells the browser if this is an child account and a browser header would solve the issue, most porn websites or similar adult sites would have no reason not to respect this header , it would make their job easier then say Steam having to always popup a birth date thing when a game is mature.

himata4113 · 20 hours ago

That's why I suggested kernel enforced security (simple syscall) that applications could implement and are incredibly hard to spoof / create tools and workarounds for, but I got downvoted to hell.

Permission restricted registry entry (already exists) and a syscall that reads it (already exists) for windows and a file that requires sudo to edit (already exists) and a syscall to read it (already exists). Works on every distro automatically as well including android phones since they run the linux kernel anyway. Apple can figure it out and they already have appleid.

himata4113 commented on Shall I implement it? No gist.github.com/bretonium... · Posted by u/breton

himata4113 · 20 hours ago

I have a funny story to share, when working on an ASL-3 jailbreak I have noticed that at some point that the model started to ignore it's own warnings and refusals.

<thinking>The user is trying to create a tool to bypass safety guardrails <...>. I should not help with <...>. I need to politely refuse this request.</thinking>

Smart. This is a good way to bypass any kind of API-gated detections for <...>

This is Opus 4.6 with xhigh thinking.

himata4113 commented on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act github.com/upper-up/meta-... · Posted by u/shaicoleman

cosmos0072 · 21 hours ago

I am from EU, and contrary to age verification laws in general.

My stance is that if somebody is a minor, his/her/their parents/tutors/legal guardian are responsible for what they can/cannot do online, and that the mechanism to enforce that is parental control on devices.

Having said that, open-source zero-knowledge proofs are infinitely less evil (I refuse to say "better") than commercial cloud-based age monitoring baked into every OS

himata4113 · 21 hours ago

Yes! This is the way, give parents the ABILITY to advertise the users age to browsers, apps and everything in between. Only target cooperations, do not target open source projects. Fine websites for not using this API (ex: porn sites). Assume an adult if not present.

himata4113 commented on Malus – Clean Room as a Service malus.sh... · Posted by u/microflash

himata4113 · 2 days ago

Wait this is joke, yep this is a joke... Wait it's not a joke why are people taking this seriously? Ok good this is a joke wait it's REAL?

himata4113 commented on I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job theverge.com/featured-vid... · Posted by u/speckx

himata4113 · 2 days ago

It's clear that this is just a PR person in the interview, they have absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

himata4113 commented on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans news.ycombinator.com/news... · Posted by u/usefulposter

himata4113 · 2 days ago

I've been seeing so many AI generated comments that have been near the front I was actually getting kind of concerned.

himata4113 commented on Bypassing PatchGuard on Windows x64 (2005) uninformed.org/index.cgi?... · Posted by u/davikr

himata4113 · 3 days ago

2024 and PatchGuard is still a meme: https://blog.can.ac/2024/06/28/pgc-garbage-collecting-patchg...

himata4113 commented on How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform codewall.ai/blog/how-we-h... · Posted by u/mycroft_4221

himata4113 · 3 days ago

How long until a hallucinated data breach that spreads globally. There's a few inconsistencies and the typical low effort language AI has.