I thought about this before, and mostly agree. My mom knows nothing about computers and could probably use Ubuntu if I stick it on a machine and gave it to her. The thing preventing me from doing it is that when things go wrong in Linux, it often requires extensive terminal usage to fix. And my mother can often find new and creative ways to break a computer. If something went wrong with it, I would have to fix it. There is literally no one else she knows who would even know where to start. At least if she’s on windows, she can find someone to help her.

Taking a picture instantly after would probably create a different hash value. The thing about hashing is that even if one bit is different between source images, the resulting hashes would look entirely different.

I suppose I could conceive of a proprietary hash algorithm that would allow for fuzzy matching of iris photos, but as you said, eyes taken years apart in different conditions wouldn’t match the original hash. Or falsely match similar looking eyes. It’s not like this system allows them to get high resolution perfectly lit iris photos, after all.

The whole thing sounds dubious, and I suspect AI is mentioned solely to secure investor funding, much like how several years back everything mentioned Blockchain.

But there are things that would constitute NSFW that aren’t porn and also not NSFL. I think a way to designate porn makes the most sense so you know whether you’re clicking on a video of a bad car wreck or a video of a woman being raw dogged from behind.

I think that people need to get this idea of “winning” out of their head. We need to try and cultivate the userbase we want rather than focus on “beating” Threads/Reddit/Twitter/etc.

Don’t focus of numbers, focus on good content.

Oooor…

Start a new cover band led entirely by children called the antlets and put the magazine to good use.

I think something like this is necessary at some point, since duplicate posts across duplicate communities is an inconvenience when compared to more centralized communities in Reddit. Some thoughts:

When you go to the comments, which instance’s comments are we seeing? If we make a comment, which instance is our comment posted to? My idea would be to throw everyone’s comments into a singular bucket as you said, but then you’ll have to select which instance you’re posting to when commenting. This does introduce an issue with moderation though, as different communities may have different rules. So there may need to be a moderation option on whether you’ll allow post collation across other communities.

Aside from grouping duplicate posts like this, we could also group different communities. If we have a kbin.social/m/technology and lemmy.world/c/technology, we could just combine the posts from both communities into one group. This could be done automatically for communities with the same name, but a better option may be for moderators to add “sister communities” whose posts will appear in the magazine. That way, from the user’s perspective, there is just one technology magazine that assembles content from multiple instances.

No, I have people to do that for me.

Kuh-bin, with the first syllable short and emphasis on the second.

@ernest, if Kbin starts making okay money, don’t be afraid to give yourself a salary. It’s important that you get to eat too.

I really like this. Even if it’s not adopted by @ernest to be officially incorporated into Kbin, mods could create little variants to use as the thumbnail for magazines. Really hoping it catches on.

Hey, as an American I…well…yeah, pretty much.

You Russians sure are a contentious people.

Oh, way dumber than the Titanic. Titanic was one of the safest ships of its era. It could withstand 4 of its watertight compartments being completely flooded and stay afloat. The issue was that they grazed the iceberg in such a way that 6 compartments ended up being compromised. Despite that, it still stayed afloat for 2 hours. Look how much crap its sister ship the Olympic went through and stayed afloat.

This stupid thing was a disaster waiting to happen.

His point is he doesn’t want to be shown everything. He wants a distinction between material that’s inappropriate for a workplace environment, and porn.

Yeah!

You all need some longer usernames, sheesh.

Nuke it from orbit.

@niktemadur The dev enabled DDOS protection due to how swamped the server has been from reddit shenanigans. That verify screen is a result of that. Once the infrastructure is improved, that’ll go away.