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  • You don’t have to know how to write your own software to install another App Store on Android.

    Amazon has their own competing app store, with boomer-friendly instructions for installing it:

    And Amazon’s phones and tablets use their own “FireOS” remix of Android without Google Play Store available.

    I prefer the OS being open to third-party installers over any legal mandate that app stores not being allowed to curate their own store’s offerings. Closing off Google’s app store to competing app stores only makes sense if other app stores have no reasonable access to customers, which is clearly not the case.

    Complete bullshit that they’re throwing this ruling at Android when iOS doesn’t even let you download and install a third-party app without either jailbreaking, or hooking up your iPhone in developer mode to a computer running xcode. Apple treats Cydia like it’s malware. Google perfectly tolerates Amazon and F-Droid running their own operations.





  • I suspect that this was something of a test case, with the regulator flexing their censorship muscle, and I’m glad it didn’t work out.

    This was a POV stabbing video that people spread around to glorify violence. It’s in the same category as beheading videos.

    America may have decided that child porn is the only media exception to free speech, but other more sane countries draw the line a little bit more broadly to include all forms of extremely violent crime filmed to be glorified, including things like murder, attempted murder, torture, and the rape of adults.

    If you want to operate a business in places like Australia or New Zealand, you cannot be distributing violent gore videos within their borders.

    I hope they revisit this as X users are pretty routinely celebrating things like the Christchurch shooting and other violent extremist incidents. Sometimes censorship makes sense, and when people are antagonistically spreading videos of people being maimed and killed, the “free speech” argument absolutely doesn’t fucking cut it.


  • Did you actually read the article? The designers of this vision model used a software trick (inspired by the concept of quantum tunneling that has nothing to do with quantum computing) to allow inputs to bypass hidden layers at random, resulting in results that were able to see certain optical illusions in a way that other vision models cannot.

    This can be done by just adding some noise to the image. Sometimes it gets recognized as one thing and sometimes like another, just like humans would.

    Word soup by someone who knows way less than these researchers.


  • Signal is bad then?

    Yeah. Why use X3DH when there are algorithms that already exist and we know are secure?

    So in which direction you want it go? More private or more moderated?

    Privacy is good, but when the public chatrooms are distributing child porn, you can’t use encryption as an excuse not moderating. Failure to moderate illegal content is a crime.

    Let the pedos run their own Matrix server or something. You can’t be knowingly providing comms and distribution to child pornographers.