Notices by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 (osma@mas.to)

Here's a good longer piece explaining why age verification solves nothing for children's safety, puts all of us at risk, violates fundamental privacy protections and lets the bad actors, "social" ad platforms off the hook. By @zackwhittaker
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/papers-please-age-verification-laws-threaten-everyones-online-security-and-privacy/

Estonia is correct. The responsibility to keep children safe falls on adults and platform operators, not on the kids. If social media isn't safe for children, it's not safe for adults either, because the safety this is about isn't about the content, but of what the platforms do with our data.
https://thenextweb.com/news/estonia-eu-child-social-media-ban-opposition

RE: https://mas.to/@osma/116305555604550817

A barrel of oil represents about 1.6 MWh of usable energy (depending on how it's processed, of course). Battery storage LCOE is $65 per MWh (over its expected lifetime). Plus, batteries enable a daily volatility arbitrage a fossil power plant will never achieve.

If oil remains over $100 per barrel, an important factor will be that battery storage installations have dropped below that cost level at end of last year. It is literally cheaper to build and operate a 100MWh battery facility than to buy oil at this price.

GDPR applies everywhere.
@aaribaud @patpro @Khrys

GDPR applies to protect the personal data of every EU citizen and every person domiciled in EU, never mind where and by whom that data is processed.
@aaribaud @patpro @Khrys

RE: https://mas.to/@osma/115926080124459252

This is not social media. Media has centralized editorial control.
@CordiallyChloe @dalias @neil

Nearly seven years after the start of Zelenskyi's presidency, Reuters continues to refer to him as a "former television entertainer". Reuters also claims russian invasion begun Feb 2022, when it actually begun Feb 2014, days after the Sochi winter Olympics ended.

Reuters, also known as TASS.
@hanse_mina

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645

This is wild.
1. An LLM agent of unknown ownership is used to post a personal attack against a developer.
2. Who notices this and writes an analysis.
3. Which is found by an Ars Technica reporter who writes a story.
4. .. in which he uses an LLM agent to confabulate details such as fabricated quotes from article 2.
5. We shall find out if Ars Technica is also wielding unmonitored LLM agents.

This is a sandbox jailbreak of Internet scale.

Chinese forestation effort in Taklamakan Desert is bearing results: a human created carbon sink around the edges of the desert. It has taken 66 billion planted trees so far.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/china-has-planted-so-many-trees-around-the-taklamakan-desert-that-its-turned-this-biological-void-into-a-carbon-sink

Bropocalypse

The Nuremberg trials were largely a show, though of symbolic importance. Fifty years later the Rome Statute established the International Criminal Court to set in place mechanisms to be more effective the next time such crimes would be perpetrated. USA never ratified that statute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_Statute

There's a surprising variety of random stuff on @loops already even though it's not actually launched. I'm a text guy so unlikely to frequent it any more than I have visited @PixelFed and even less likely to post, but there it is for those who like that sort of stuff. #loops

- GPLv2 not covering the hardware may have been an oversight
- GPLv3 specifically addressing that indicates the intent to cover that
- Linux continuing to use GPLv2 is not an oversight but an explicit signal that the kernel developers do not intend to make claims over hardware access
@ghul @pkal

Elon wants to divide Europe and is using X to sow hate. Threads and Bluesky aren't overtly hostile, but they're not European either. Fediverse is. Global, but centered in Europe. Federated, independent, sovereign.

And certain hereditary conditions are more or less probable in given familial lines so just like a doctor might ask if your family has a history of a disease, an insurance company might use the familial DNA to adjust actuary assessments.
@steter @mast0d0nphan

Just Bluesky being Bluesky. I wonder if the moderation action is intolerance against fungi or algorithms.

I'm not an expert on the subject, but..

https://hubzilla.org/page/info/timeline

https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/activitypub-nomadic-identity/

That is, to the best of my knowledge it's all Mike.
@feralthoughts

If Mike's pioneering work would be accepted by other developers (particularly Eugen), fedi would be in a much, much better shape. Alas...
@feralthoughts

It's not available in my local books infrastructure (the library) so could you please reference how it relates to sharing helmets (rather than safe road space) as infrastructure development? Thanks!
@inthehands @aubilenon @debcha