dsilverz

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazil Bans X from Using Children to Power Its AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Brazilian here. I wasn’t aware of this thing until I saw this thread (to be fair, I’m more aware of USA things than things from within the country where I live).

  It’s a rarely situation where I completely agree with a “Brazil bans something” headline. It’s a right thing to do, IMHO (well, no photo should be used without photographed’s consent whatsoever, be them children or adults, but OK, it’s indeed a priority to guarantee children’s safety, so… maybe Brazilian adults can wait their turn to have their privacy respected in the future as well?)

  There’s a slight technicality I should point out, however: there’s no way for “ANPD” (“Agência Nacional de Proteção de Dados”, or National Data Protection Authority) to check whether Xwitter is complying with such policy. I mean, how could Brazil confirm that Xwitter really stopped using photos from Brazilian children? Technically, Xwitter could say “yeah, Brazil, we’re complying, look, here’s the checkbox forcefully turned off for every photo containing Brazilian children”, while they’d be secretly using mirrored content from their CDNs from other countries to train their xAI, outside the reaches of Brazilian eyes and jurisdiction… It’d not be surprising, coming from big tech companies who seeks profit.

  Perhaps if Brazil decided to do this alongside with other nations, it’d be way more effective. But Brazil seems to be struggling with diplomatic relationships because of its involvement with BRICS, so the lonely effort may be a consequence of an isolated diplomacy landscape.

  In summary, IMHO, Brazil did the right thing, although through somewhat weak means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google reacts angrily to report it will have to sell Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol… it’s funny how sometimes the reality seems like a simulation or a comic movie. The judge deciding against the Google monopoly is called Mehta. Remove the letter “h” to see this fun fact.

  It’s just a curiosity I had to point out. Good thing that Google’s influence will become smaller. I mean, in a scale between 0 and 10, Google’s power is going from 10 to 9.5 (Google still has Android, Google search, Google ads, among many other things), but it’s better than 10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Before opening the article, I was thinking of something really, really sophisticated involving high-pitched sound and microphones (e.g. coil whine modulation through I/O processes), electrical inductance and electromagnetic fields carefully modulated to directly interfere on CPU instructions, Van Eck Phreaking (something like TempestSDR but fancier), precision-grade voltage meters to try and identify ongoing CPU instructions through quick teeny-tiny microvolt fluctuations over the power grid but, no, it’s the old fashioned way of malware transportation: portable disks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X says it’s closing operations in Brazil⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It just that when billionaires get billionaire, money is not as funny as before, so they need to pursue other sources of dopamin, such as playing gods or dealing with politics. In case of Musk, both of them (Neuralink, although an interesting advance in scientific knowledge, is commercially his “god role” trying to find a way to the human brain, and Xwitter is his political tool).