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@smallcircles A question that keeps me awake at night, is what to do about CP and other exploitation materials being readily shared in a free and anonymous cyberspace? If we build a decentralised web with untraceability embedded, how can we fight those who cause harm? /2

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Coder Jason Mar 30

@smallcircles First step is what you are doing - create and maintain public debate/discourse. Next, remind everyone that there is no answer but a set of answers, and their applicability varies with time and context. We have a variety of licenses, now we need to figure out how to have free collective activity gain the ability to enforce spirit and word of licenses. I'd also pose the question, how can our collective actions ensure the effects of bad players is minimised? /1

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Coder Jason Mar 30

@smallcircles Absolutely. Constant reflection is a must. We also need to review positions and decisions made in the past, and check if their merit persists. Simplifications have their place, but sometimes their power lays in obfuscation, which might be unintended and certainly unwanted. I think "Are we in the clear?" is the wrong question to ask, though, as we are never in the clear as citizen. You ask correctly what can, and should we do? And that, that's a difficult one... very difficult.

Coder Jason Mar 30

RE: https://mementomori.social/@juhani/116316794732185026

Maybe it was just a question of time, but #advertising has been out of control for far too long, and it will just get worse. With time, most have become numb, and entrenched in #learnedhelplessness.

The next frontier are our #dreams, which is actively researched[1], but our dreams are already affected merely through constant commercial bombardment in the environment we live in[2].

[1] https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/advertisers-are-hijacking-your-dreams-scientists-say/
[2] https://the-media-image.com/insights/market-insights/brands-entering-our-dreams-consumer-research-report/

Coder Jason Mar 30

Finally using Qubes OS ... wish I had dived in earlier. It forces me to do everything I kept putting off, because I was "too busy", had no time for, and a series of other terrible excuses. Now, I have to work in a manner that should be our default behaviour. A decent #learning curve, but well worth it.

@solene has a great article on using Flatpak.

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-09-15-flatpak-on-qubesos.html

Back to learning and setting up my new system...

#qubesos #linux #security

https://www.qubes-os.org/

Solene'% : Flatpak integration in Qubes OS templates

In this guide, you will learn how to setup your Qubes OS templates to integrate flatpak programs

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Coder Jason Mar 30

@smallcircles Far too simplistic. It seems like the equivalent of asking, are we complicit in destroying the planet by using an electric stove? Let's say I abandon all tech use, & instead merely indulge in abstract higher maths. Complicity remains. How far will we take it? If I merely farm food, am I not complicit, allowing engineers to survive and build the tech? Finding ways to protect our work doesn't address the problem, it just covers our arses with a fig leaf, while leaving front exposed

Coder Jason Mar 30

The Forest Jar[1] creates interesting and thoughtful content. Remember, we don't have to agree with everything to appreciate it. Below is a video re #AI and #control

#art #politics

https://youtube.com/shorts/H_oQiTDCoIA

[1] https://theforestjar.com/

AI and control

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Coder Jason Mar 30

Inspiring article shared by @Dassoniou does raise some interesting concerns re "AI photo restoration."

https://www.howtogeek.com/ai-photo-restoration-is-erasing-your-familys-real-history/

It reminded me of how our memory work and these ease with which it can be compromised. This is not merely a semantic issue for #philosophy. This is not about what is and what is not #real. Imagine it becomes fashionable to generate photos based on descriptions of family members, and the images then becoming "real" photos. Because, everyone does it. #foodforthought