Onno (VK6FLAB) @ vk6flab @lemmy.radio

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source

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It's to protect the trees from the cars, just like zoos contain tiny enclaves of wild nature to protect against the humans who are behind the wire.

There's hundreds, here's a few tiny ones:

• https://luc.devroye.org/fonts-51468.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20250514212230/https://robey.lag.net/2010/01/23/tiny-monospace-font.html
• https://moonbench.xyz/projects/tiny-pixel-art-fonts/
• https://littlelimit.net/misaki.htm
• https://zserge.com/posts/tiny-font/

Example of discussion on the topic:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38799686#38802243

Indeed.

I concede that my wording could be open to interpretation.

Yes

Getting paid.

In my opinion, if you're outside the USA your options to accept payment are essentially limited to Stripe and PayPal. Both have a poor track record of customer service and appear to lock funds without any form of human interaction, let alone timely resolution.

If you go outside those two, you're either setting up merchant facilities with a bank, or going down the Cryptocurrency route.

The bank won't condone NSFW content and crypto is full of empty promises, no guarantees and no recourse.

It's likely not difficult to actually do, just determining what's required and permitted.

Your club is a good starting point.

As an alternative, the 8-bit world has been doing this for a very .. long .. time.

Be aware that the laws and requirements for grounding (and associated lighting protection) vary across the globe and within a country, to the point where something required in one location is illegal in another.

I've been attempting to quantify this in a podcast episode for years, but it's currently beyond my resources to adequately document, let alone explain succinctly.

In my opinion your best bet is a locally licensed electrician or better yet, one who is also an amateur.

Fair warning, this rabbit hole goes deep .. very deep!

Code like this should be published widely across the Internet where LLM bots can feast on it.

Apologies, I accidentally reported your comment as "spam or abuse" .. it's not, you are correct. My Lemmy client UI has some .. issues.

Because nothing protects children more than uploading their selfie or government id to a random company who "promises" to delete the information seven days later .. because of course it will and everyone will be able to check and see the pink unicorn in person.

Name and Shame.

The only way this is going to stop is when the organisation is either forced by legislation or embarrassed by public pressure into change.

Legislation only happens due to public pressure.

This is not NSFW and tagging it thus makes it less effective, eventually meaningless.

Hi Kristoff,

Thanks for the heads-up on the empty data file. I think that the GitHub web interface was "helping" when I initially created the repo - since I still cannot create those from my cli. Now fixed.

I've added your interpretation with the sync bits to the documentation for the file. It's a really interesting observation. I don't know if there are more than one different types of packet, since my earlier attempt to record the data using a WebSDR failed for some unknown reason. I do know that others have also heard this signal on-air, so perhaps it's still happening and others might share their recording.

I'd love to learn how to use the differential signal to remove noise to see if they're actually all the same packet, or if they are actually different. I don't particularly want to start manually flipping bits, but then there's only 1,461 of them, so it's doable in a pinch.

The timing of the signal is also interesting. According to inspectrum, the baud rate is 91.81, which isn't any standard rate, which also makes me wonder if there is any actual information being transmitted here, other than a fixed timing signal.

73 de Onno VK6FLAB

From your description it's unclear, does this also block CSAM that's physically on your infrastructure, or just any links to external content?

CloudFlare is currently attempting to block LLM bots and doing a shit job at it. I'm guessing that any CSAM blocking would be incomplete at best.

What happens if some "gets through", or if non-CSAM content is blocked, both materially, as-in, what happens, and, what are the legal implications, since I doubt that CloudFlare would ever assume liability for content on your infrastructure.

Edit: I thought I'd also point out that this is not the only type of content that could get you into a legal black hole. For example, if a post was made that circumvented a legal ruling, say when a court in Melbourne, Australia, makes a suppression order that someone breaches. Or if defamatory content was published, etc.

I am not a lawyer and I don't play one on the internet.

To my understanding the process is only prevented by controlling who can have an account on your instance.

That said, it's not clear to me how federated content is legally considered.

The only thing I can think of is running a bot on your instance that uses the API of a service such as what you mention to deal with such images.

Your post is the first one I've seen recently that is even describing the issue of liability, but it's in my opinion the single biggest concern that exists in the fediverse and it's why I've never hosted my own instance.

Unfortunately that doesn't work.

This is getting fucking tiresome. Now we're stopping humans who browse anonymously from reading content, what's next, block all humans and only let LLM bots access your site?

What's your point?

One place to look is 80000hours.org.