simon

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[–] simon@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 months ago

Sounds like Sweden. They are like that.

[–] simon@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is there any clarity about what the future with chat control will look like? As in what exactly apps will need to implement.

This part about self evaluation confuses me:

Under the new rules, online service providers will be required to assess how their platforms could be misused and, based on the results, may need to "implement mitigating measures to counter that risk," the Council notes.

I assume all chat apps would have to take measures, since generic data can be sent through them, including CSAM. Or could this quote be interpreted otherwise? I wonder what exactly is meant by voluntary then.

Does this "mitigating measure" in practice mean sending a hash of each image sent through the messenger to some service built by Google or Apple for comparison against known CSAM? Since building a database of hashes to compare with is only realistically possible for the largest corporations. Or would the actual image itself have to leave the device, since it could be argued that some remote AI could identify any CSAM, even if it is not yet in any database? Perhaps some locally running AI model could do a decent enough job, so that nothing has to leave the device during the evaluation stage.

But then again, there will always be false positives, where an innocent person's image would be uploaded to... the service provider (like Signal) for review? So you could never be sure that your communication stays private, since the risk of false positives is always there. Regardless of what the solution is, the user will have to give up fully owning there device, since this chat control service can always decide to take control of your device to upload your communication somewhere.

[–] simon@slrpnk.net 0 points 10 months ago

Is this any different from getting a sharing link from other chatbots, Google Docs or anywhere else? Seems like expected behavior. Or are the others not indexable by search engine for some reason?

[–] simon@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People generally agree that you should have privacy from your neighbors, yes. Not having that would have real consequences for people. Like it could affect what people think of you etc.

But often the discussion is about if the government should be able to snoop on your web traffic or if large corporations should be allowed to gather data about you so they can customize advertising.

It is a logically consistent position to be okay with Google accessing your phone's data but not wanting your neighbor to have such access. No one is advocating the latter, so I think we need to sharpen our arguments. Otherwise we're just making a strawman argument.

[–] simon@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago

Cool, didn't know where they were stored exactly. Thanks for investigating :)

[–] simon@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Will this copy saved passwords as well? They might not want saved personal passwords to go on the work computer.

[–] simon@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago

Ooh, I don't know why I assumed that XD

Makes Obsidian way more interesting.

[–] simon@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wiki.vim https://github.com/lervag/wiki.vim

It let's you create a wiki with links between pages.

Unlike obsidian, it doesn't put your personal data in the cloud.

Unlike the similarly named vimwiki it doesn't use a custom file format. It uses markdown. Although I think you can configure vimwiki to use markdown as well, but with reduced functionality of the plugin.

 

Android's Gboard always suggests replies in chat apps that fit the context of what my contacts write.

If my previous message had been related, I would assume it predicted what my contact would say in response and make a suggestion based on that. But even if the contact changes the topic, the suggestions are appropriate.

I don't expect that the apps all share the conversation with Gboard. So how are the predictions made.

It seems unlikely that it would take screenshots and base predictions on that. But otherwise I don't know how it is possible.