I don't think that it's all that hard to blacklist Fediverse hosts, if that's the comparison made. You just have a spider that walks the federation network, builds a list of hosts, and update your blacklist accordingly. A larger blacklist will mean more entries to stick on routers or whatever, but I assume that they're gonna be able to scale pretty well.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
M-DISC's design is intended to provide archival media longevity.[3][4] M-Disc claims that properly stored M-DISC DVD recordings will last up to 1000 years.[5] The M-DISC DVD looks like a standard disc, except it is almost transparent with later DVD and BD-R M-Disks having standard and inkjet printable labels.
In 2022, the NIST Interagency Report NIST IR 8387[25] listed the M-Disc as an acceptable archival format rated for 100+ years, citing the aforementioned 2009 and 2012 tests by the US Department of Defense and French National Laboratory of Metrology and Testing as sources.
That being said, that's 100GB a disc. You can stuff a lot more on a typical hard drive, and I appreciate that people want to easily and inexpensively reliably store very large amounts of data for the long term.
EDIT: At least in a quick search on Amazon, while there are plenty of drives rated for M-DISC, I don't see any kind of "take hundreds of discs, feed them mechanically in and out of a drive" device that'd let one archive very large amounts of data automatically. You'd need 100 of those to fully archive a 10TB hard drive.
I haven't been looking recently, but I assume that most image hosting services have been stripping EXIF metadata, or at least some of it, for years. Imgur strips it; it was used for image hosting for Reddit for a long time.
On lemmy, pict-rs strips EXIF metadata. It's a real annoyance on !imageai@sh.itjust.works, because the AI image generators I've seen attach metadata to indicate that:
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The image was generated via AI
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Prompt keywords used to generate the image, if using something like Automatic1111.
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In the case of ComfyUI, the entire workflow, so that someone can go produce the entire workflow that led to the image.
I'd kind of prefer that there be some software that try to identify personally-identifiable data and have pict-rs run that and only remove that. Or, alternately, let the user opt in to not stripping EXIF metadata.
It sounds like the issue isn't telling him unpleasant truths, but rather refusing to go along with manufacturing a false narrative of a stolen election.
Fine if it gets annexed by Russia
If you're in the EU, you probably retain an obligation to keep Russia from annexing Hungary even if Hungary were to hypothetically leave the EU, since there are also obligations to Hungary via NATO.
Aside from possibly Ireland and Austria, which have declared neutrality
and there are some disparate interpretations as to how this impacts EU mutual aid clause obligations
EU members are obliged to defend each other:
https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/article-427-teu-eus-mutual-assistance-clause_en
Article 42(7) TEU: If a Member State is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other Member States shall have towards it an obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power, in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. This shall not prejudice the specific character of the security and defense policy of certain Member States.
Commitments and cooperation in this area shall be consistent with commitments under the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, which, for those States which are members of it, remains the foundation of their collective defence and the forum for its implementation.
NATO members are as well:
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_17120.htm
Article 5
The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security .
Article 6
For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack:
- on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France 2, on the territory of Turkey or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer;
- on the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over these territories or any other area in Europe in which occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer.
These are not precisely the same obligations. For example, NATO does not oblige other members to defend metropolitan France in the Pacific, whereas the EU mutual assistance clause does. The EU mutual assistance clause does not oblige other members to defend their vessels against attack in the Mediterranean or Atlantic, while NATO does. But there's enough overlap that I'd expect Russia rolling into Hungary to trigger both.
EDIT: I'd also add that there is no mechanism to expel a member from NATO without them choosing to leave; probably the closest you could come would be to have all other members leave and then form NATO 2.0. There is also no mechanism to expel a member from the EU, but given the more-expansive scope of EU powers to impact member states, I imagine that the rest of the EU could probably de facto achieve the same thing by stripping a given members voting power (which is an option with otherwise-unanimous agreement) and then making their life sufficiently miserable using EU powers that they want to leave and choose to do so themselves.
My own view
and this is as an outsider, an American, so some of this doesn't affect me, in fairness
is that it wouldn't be a good move to try to eject Hungary. I remember some people on /r/Europe
well before Brexit
frustrated about the UK's position on some matter complaining that they wanted the UK out of the EU. I think that the reality of a member leaving is probably less-pleasant than the hypothetical. I think that when someone is frustrated, it is easy to see the negative points of membership, and easy to miss positives. Among other things, Hungary leaving would create a deep geographic split in the EU, cutting off most access among other EU member states in the area, like Romania-Slovakia. Just in general, it would impact the EU's scale. A Hungary outside the EU might prove to be more-problematic to remaining EU member states than a Hungary inside. Much of the upset seems to me to center around Viktor Orban; countries tend to outlive men and their time in power; and my belief is that the EU can probably afford to take a long-term view of things. I do not think that Hungary-under-Orban has represented any kind of existential threat to other EU member states; just an irritant on a number of matters.
I remember a while back, when the EU had the UK undergoing the Brexit procedure. Hungary and Poland were under separate Article 9 attempts to strip their voting powers. And then Macron, in some Franco-Italian dispute, called Italy a "rogue EU member". There were too many people trying to drive divisions and create fights then, I think. I don't think that moving back to that kind of situation would make the EU a better place.
In this case, because you're an EP legislator and Hungary is part of the EU.
One lawmaker on the trip confirmed to POLITICO that the Parliament officials joining the delegation were offered Faraday bags — special metal-lined pouches that block electromagnetic signals — by the Parliament’s services and were also advised to be cautious about using public Wi-Fi networks or charging facilities.
If you legitimately have concerns, why wouldn't you just leave your phone at home? It does no good to have it with you if it can't come out of a bag. If you must have a phone there, just get a burner one.
I'd guess that it's probably broader than LGBT issues, if they're taking
and the article is not clear on this, and the source anonymous
issue with hate speech laws in general.
“No free speech, no deal. It is as simple as that,” the Washington source said.
Hmm. If that's correct, that's interesting. I wonder if similar criteria might apply to other countries to which he's talking on trade.
It looks like in the past few years, in the EU, there's been effort to require member states to prohibit hate speech. I'm not sure if that's gone through.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9086657/
Criminalising Hate Crime and Hate Speech at EU Level: Extending the List of Eurocrimes Under Article 83(1) TFEU
In September 2020, President von der Leyen announced the Commission’s intention to propose to extend the list of EU crimes or Eurocrimes to all forms of hate crime and hate speech, as later reflected in the Commission Work Programme 2021.
In the US, member states may not prohibit hate speech; hate speech is not a legal concept here, and speech that might be classified as hate speech elsewhere is protected under the First Amendment.
EDIT: Though there is a related concept in the US of a "hate crime". A crime's sentence
and the crime itself cannot simply be engaging in speech
may be elevated if done when the motivation is hate against some protected groups. That is, the First Amendment would prohibit any form of government ban on saying saying "transexuals are abhorrent". But it is permissible in the US to pass a law to punish someone who physically assaults a transexual person, not merely for their assault, but also for performing assault with a specific motivation, if that motivation can be shown to be that the victim was transexual.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_crime_laws_in_the_United_States
Hate crime laws in the United States are state and federal laws which are intended to protect people from hate crimes (also known as bias crimes). While state laws vary, current statutes permit federal prosecution of hate crimes committed on the basis of a person's characteristics of race, religion, ethnicity, disability, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity.
Forty-seven states and the District of Columbia have statutes criminalizing various types of bias-motivated violence or intimidation (the exceptions being Arkansas, South Carolina, and Wyoming).
I mean, a camera is an easy thing to block, as long as you're aware of it, understand the implications, and have the desire to block it. Just obstruct the lens. Roll of black electrical tape, put a strip over it, done. Now, most people out there may not actually do so...
Only becomes an issue if other services that you actually want are tied to the camera, or if the TV refuses to operate without a usable picture of the viewer or something.
LG TVs will soon leverage an AI model built for showing advertisements that more closely align with viewers' personal beliefs and emotions. The company plans to incorporate a partner company’s AI tech into its TV software in order to interpret psychological factors impacting a viewer, such as personal interests, personality traits, and lifestyle choices. The aim is to show LG webOS users ads that will emotionally impact them.
“As viewers engage with content, ZenVision's understanding of a consumer grows deeper, and our... segmentation continually evolves to optimize predictions,” the ZenVision website says.
Going beyond ads, if you start training AIs on human preference based on mass-harvested emotional data, I imagine that you can optimize output quite considerably. Like, say I have facial recognition being converted to emotional response data, maybe something like smartwatch pulse data, some other stuff, and I go train an AI to try to produce a given emotional output in a viewer. I bet that they can do a pretty good job of that. Like, maybe how to piss people off at a target in political campaigns, build an AI that has a potent ability to emotionally-manipulate and flirt with humans, or ensure that interest doesn't waver in television content by determining at what points people have less interest.
I think that you can have as many as you want, though if you're in Texas, it'd be technically illegal to have six or more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_obscenity_statute