A U.S. Air Force general said Thursday the Pentagon's artificial intelligence ethics are better than adversaries' because "our society is a Judeo-Christian society."
Apple has said planned changes to British surveillance laws could affect iPhone users’ privacy by forcing it to withdraw security features, which could ultimately lead to the closure of services such as FaceTime and iMessage in the UK.
I think you underestimate the deep stupidity and tech-ignorance of our politicians, coupled with their burning desire to know everything that we do. This is a set of people who think hidden == illegal.
I’m pretty sure that’s the end-game, yes. At least as far as communication based tools go, which would include chat apps, VPN’s, cloud storage etc etc. The ruling classes in the UK are very nanny-state and genuinely believe that a persons right to privacy comes a distant second to being able to rule over us and control us more effectively.
The issue for non-UK countries is that when world governments see that its possible to pass these sort of laws, they’ll be keen to do the same. And most people are not tech-savvy, they’ll have no real idea why it’s important or invasive. It’s difficult enough to get people to switch to Signal. Imagine trying to explain why breaking encryption is a bad thing for them.
As a new user to all these sites, I’m confused about they interact with each other. For example, on Lemmy, I can view a Mastodon account, but I can’t view that account’s posts. This makes sense, as sorting your home feed by “all” could hypothetically result in your feed getting flooded by popular Mastodon posts....
Lemmy’s federation code is not as mature as Mastodon’s. Mastodon is probably the most mature codebase in the fediverse. This means that a Mastodon user sees a Lemmy community as just another user, so they can ‘subscribe’ to that community and post to it and join in the comments section of posts they’ve created.
So it’s not so much that Lemmy knows not to show Mastodon content, it’s more that right right now it’s not able to (in a Lemmy-to-Mastodon direction), Lemmy federates very well with other Lemmy instances but not so well with non-Lemmy instances. That will improve as Lemmy gets developed further.
The other thing to bear in mind is that Mastodon and Lemmy present content differently. Mastodon is a microblogging service like Twitter whereas Lemmy is a link aggregator like Reddit. This means that Lemmy content is usually longer and has a title whereas Mastodon content is shorter and has no title. All these things will need to be ironed out as integration deepens.
So they could now post to that Community and see every direct reply to that post and reply to those replies but they can’t currently just stumble across Lemmy Communities in their federated timeline because Lemmy can’t do that yet.
The quality of players coming in is a big step up in quality and to attract players of this standard means they believe in Emery too. These aren’t big names at the end of their career, they’re young and hungry.
I’ve been loving Lemmy and mastodon and feel they are coming along as good replacements for Reddit and Twitter. Outside the fediverse, I occasionally enjoy posting dumb little video shorts and I put them on TikTok, Facebook and Insta because I have friends, family and followers on each. (TikTok, Gen-Z, my daughter…Facebook,...
I mean, it’s a meme community reacting to a meme where both the inference and message are crystal clear - how many interpretations and how much logic can there actually be?
While I understand the lack of proper open source alternatives for some software like AutoCAD and After Effects, it always felt weird that the best IDEs/Text Editors are made by big corporations, because you know, these are the tools programmers use....
What I’d like is to be able to add a link to the main side menu (where the links to ‘timeline’, ‘notifications’, ‘chat’ etc are) that I can link to a page I’ve created for all users of my instance. The reason being, I’d really like the instance rules page to be more accessible and visible....
A poll by YouGov(educational data starts on page 15) shows that Religious Education (RE) is seen as either ‘not very important’ or ‘not important at all’ by 58% of British people....
It’s what happens when there’s a state-mandated religion. A lot of people don’t realise it’s still law in the UK for state schools to have a certain amount of christian content per day. Obviously a lot of schools ignore that with zero repercussions but it’s indicative of what happens when theist religions have a choke hold on the tools of state, particularly one religion.
Legally enforceable christianity in schools, the rise and rise of single faith schooling, the fact that we’re only one of two countries in the world that have unelected religious leaders actively participating in forming the laws of the land (the other, notably, is Iran). And all in a country that is no longer a majority christian country.
I don’t think anyone is saying that learning about religion in context is a bad thing. There’s nothing wrong with learning about Papal supremacy prior to the Reformation or people like Wycliffe within the context of how a nation and/or culture evolved. And if that was how students in the UK did learn about religion I think more people would find it educational and interesting but that’s not how it’s taught. In my day it was just more evangelism dressed up as education and from all I’ve read that’s still pretty much the case.
My dad used to do this thing where he would pronounce any word ending in ‘es’ to ‘EZ’ so an innocuous work like ‘plates’ became ‘plat-EZ’. He extended this over time to any word with a plural so ‘roads’ for example became ‘road-EZ’. According to family lore, this started at a terrible Italian restaurant before I was born.
‘Judeo-Christian’ roots will ensure U.S. military AI is used ethically, general says (www.washingtonpost.com)
A U.S. Air Force general said Thursday the Pentagon's artificial intelligence ethics are better than adversaries' because "our society is a Judeo-Christian society."
Apple Suggest They Will Withdraw iMessage and FaceTime In UK If Law Changes Go Ahead (www.theguardian.com)
Apple has said planned changes to British surveillance laws could affect iPhone users’ privacy by forcing it to withdraw security features, which could ultimately lead to the closure of services such as FaceTime and iMessage in the UK.
ELI5: How does Lemmy know to not show Mastodon posts?
As a new user to all these sites, I’m confused about they interact with each other. For example, on Lemmy, I can view a Mastodon account, but I can’t view that account’s posts. This makes sense, as sorting your home feed by “all” could hypothetically result in your feed getting flooded by popular Mastodon posts....
Aston Villa announce Moussa Diaby signing! (www.avfc.co.uk)
Fediverse equivalent use of TikTok/Instagram/Twitter for short video sharing..need tips on use/platforms/formats
I’ve been loving Lemmy and mastodon and feel they are coming along as good replacements for Reddit and Twitter. Outside the fediverse, I occasionally enjoy posting dumb little video shorts and I put them on TikTok, Facebook and Insta because I have friends, family and followers on each. (TikTok, Gen-Z, my daughter…Facebook,...
Alternative Discord client?
Are there any privacy friendly Discord clients or frontends?...
The difference between Science and Religion (lemmy.world)
Visual Studio Code alternatives for Linux?
While I understand the lack of proper open source alternatives for some software like AutoCAD and After Effects, it always felt weird that the best IDEs/Text Editors are made by big corporations, because you know, these are the tools programmers use....
Adding a top level link to the main side menu?
What I’d like is to be able to add a link to the main side menu (where the links to ‘timeline’, ‘notifications’, ‘chat’ etc are) that I can link to a page I’ve created for all users of my instance. The reason being, I’d really like the instance rules page to be more accessible and visible....
Over 58% of Brits Think Religious Education is Unimportant At Schools
A poll by YouGov(educational data starts on page 15) shows that Religious Education (RE) is seen as either ‘not very important’ or ‘not important at all’ by 58% of British people....
whats your family's wee inside jokes or names for things that other folk (or better - your kids) find weird and annoying?
We’ve got a bunch and the ones that annoy the weans, like calling Jalapeños Jalpaneros in public, are our favourites.