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uyzstvqs commented on EU: Protecting children without the privacy nightmare of Digital IDs   democrats.eu/en/protectin... · Posted by u/valkrieco
uyzstvqs · 14 hours ago
> The paper suggests a simple approach: using a signal from the device’s operating system, activated by the parent during configuration. The option “is this device for a minor?” would generate a flag that cannot be bypassed with a reset and would allow online services to receive only binary information — isMinor: true/false — without names, documents or other personal information. “I’m not talking about ‘stamping’ every network request with a label,” the author clarifies, “but a simple API check on request, very similar to accessing geolocation data”. A solution that, from the EDP’s perspective, demonstrates how security can be strengthened without sacrificing privacy.

This is great! Absolutely the correct solution. Finally, at least some politicians who get it?

uyzstvqs commented on Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/rbanffy
zbiggistardust · 4 days ago
There are much better places in the world to move to than the Netherlands
uyzstvqs · 4 days ago
You can expect 25%-50% the salary, with a cost-of-living similar to the SF Bay Area throughout the entire country. Relatively little jobs, a lot of legacy tech stacks, and these days a lot of stuff is outsourced to American SaaS platforms. High taxes, but they cover next to nothing for the average person.

Go to Eastern Europe, Switzerland, Scandinavia, maybe Italy or Greece.

uyzstvqs commented on Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued   www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/e... · Posted by u/lattis
uyzstvqs · 5 days ago
Official map with wave observations: https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.html#5/33.909/141.192/&conte...

0.7m observed about 40 minutes ago.

uyzstvqs commented on Keep hitting US Big Tech with fines, Europe's Greens tell von der Leyen   politico.eu/article/keep-... · Posted by u/saubeidl
saubeidl · 6 days ago
The authoritarians are the ones owning the platforms - X is owned by somebody who's openly calling for the abolishment of our democratic structures, is supporting far-right extremists in our countries and has done a Sieg Heil on the world stage.

Getting their toxic propaganda out of our continent is the minimum we need to preserve our democracies. The paradox of tolerance applies.

uyzstvqs · 6 days ago
Even if that'd be true, two wrongs don't make a right. If a government centrally determines whether something is propaganda and censors it, then it's authoritarian. A free society is built on free information and free debate. If you don't have that, then you don't have a democracy to protect. There's no wiggle room or grey area there.

Your government would be no better than Putin starting a "special military operation", and censoring all "foreign propaganda" calling it an invasion. Russia also holds elections, and yet Putin keeps winning.

uyzstvqs commented on Keep hitting US Big Tech with fines, Europe's Greens tell von der Leyen   politico.eu/article/keep-... · Posted by u/saubeidl
throwawayffffas · 6 days ago
It's clear that a faction hostile to the EU has taken hold of key institutional and corporate positions in the US. Fines are not enough, it's time to start fostering an independent tech ecosystem in the EU and start raising a "Great Firewall" equivalent.
uyzstvqs · 6 days ago
> and start raising a "Great Firewall" equivalent.

May I suggest relocating to China or North Korea? I'd suggest Russia, but I doubt Putin is authoritarian enough for you.

Let's turn our free internet into an authoritarian splinternet! It'll make everything better! /s

uyzstvqs commented on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image   bbc.com/news/articles/cwy... · Posted by u/josephcsible
ChrisMarshallNY · 7 days ago
I think we’re just getting started, with fake images and videos.

I suspect that people will be killed, because of outrage over fake stuff. Before the Ukraine invasion, some of the folks in Donbas made a fake bomb, complete with corpses from a morgue (with autopsy scars)[0]. That didn’t require any AI at all.

We can expect videos of unpopular minorities, doing horrible things, politicians saying stuff they never said, and evidence submitted to trial, that was completely made from whole cloth.

It’s gonna suck.

[0] https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/02/28/exploiting-cadave...

uyzstvqs · 7 days ago
People were able to make very realistic fakes of anything 10-20 years ago, using basic tools. Just ask the UFO nuts or the NSFW media enthusiasts. And like what you mentioned, staged scenes have become somewhat common as well, including before the internet.

We can expect more of the same. Random unverified photo and video should not be trusted, not in 2005, not in 2015, and not today.

I believe that this "everything was fine but it's going to get really bad" narrative is just yet another attempt at regulatory capture, to outlaw open-source AI. This entire fake bridge collapse might very well be a false flag to scare senile regulators.

uyzstvqs commented on Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025   blog.cloudflare.com/5-dec... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
uyzstvqs · 8 days ago
What I'm missing here is a test environment. Gradual or not; why are they deploying straight to prod? At Cloudflare's scale, there should be a dedicated room in Cloudflare HQ with a full isolated model-scale deployment of their entire system. All changes should go there first, with tests run for every possible scenario.

Only after that do you use gradual deployment, with a big red oopsie button which immediately rolls the changes back. Languages with strong type systems won't save you, good procedure will.

uyzstvqs commented on Commission fines X €120M under the Digital Services Act   ec.europa.eu/commission/p... · Posted by u/nabla9
uyzstvqs · 9 days ago
When is Reddit going to get fined? There's no transparency or reason in content moderation, no consistently enforced ToS, no appeal mechanism, and they're very aggressive in stopping public access to public data. Seems a bit more relevant than blue checkmarks.
uyzstvqs commented on Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down    · Posted by u/bakigul
heisenbit · 9 days ago
If the deployment was related to the React Server issue then maybe it was unavoidable.
uyzstvqs · 9 days ago
Cloudflare's entire WAF depending on React is an issue in itself IMO.

u/uyzstvqs

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