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[–] 520@kbin.social 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Standard Ubuntu should have you covered.

One word of warning though, don't be too egregious with the parental controls. If your kids are motivated enough, they will find a way around it.

Education really is your best weapon here. Tell them about the dangers of the modern web and computing.

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The problem is the cat's out of the bag.

Open source image generators already exist and have been widely disseminated worldwide.

So all you'd end up doing is putting up a roadblock for legitimate uses. Anybody using it to cause harm will not be seriously impeded. They can just pick up the software from a Russian/Chinese/EU host or less official distribution methods.

It would be as effective as the US trying to outlaw the exporting of strong encryption standards in the 90s. That is to say, completely ineffective and actually harmful. Enemies of the US were still using strong encryption anyway.

[–] 520@kbin.social 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Would it be a crime to have access to the software, or would they need to catch the criminals with the images and video files?

Problem with the former is that would outlaw any self hosted image generator. Any image generator is capable of use for deep fake porn

[–] 520@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

It's not specific to e-girls. Can be twitch streamers, bloggers, etc

[–] 520@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What they mean is if you are a affiliated with a national government. You might also be a target if you are very very rich.

If you're an average Joe, they probably won't burn it on you.

[–] 520@kbin.social 48 points 8 months ago

There is no confirmation that this came from Nintendo, nor does it list the actual infringing parts like a normal takedown request should.

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

EAC doesn’t open up ports into your network as far as I’m aware.

No but the game code does. And that game code also interacts with EAC. You can argue it's a bug in Apex Legends, and it would be that too, but the fact is that EAC shouldn't be executing arbitrary commands based on what the game code has given it, so if that possibility exists in EAC, it is still an RCE in Apex Legends and a kernel privilege escalation flaw in EAC.

[–] 520@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

PC games. Too much of a worry about malware for that nonsense.

[–] 520@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The point isn't for other fedi users. It's to deter Threads users from becoming proper fedi users. It used to be those popups only appeared when something genuinely touchy came up. Now they're used for anything the parent company doesn't like as a scare tactic but people don't realise it. Google does this too with Play Protect.

[–] 520@kbin.social 68 points 8 months ago

Stage 1 of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

The government is already the one who makes that decision. The only thing new here is a line being drawn with regards to social media's push towards addiction and echo-chamberism.

[–] 520@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Linux Foundation - Linux is GPL and would be massively, negatively affected by an ability to suddenly un-GPL code

Google - their consumer OSes (Android and ChromeOS) use Linux as their base, not to mention their servers are almost entirely Linux.

IBM/Red Hat - RedHat is a billion dollar company specialising in providing Linux OSes.

Microsoft - surprising I know, but a lot of their internal and cloud stuff uses GPL code, including Linux.

Oracle - they ship a lot of GPL code, including a Linux distro.

EFF - The ability to un-GPL code would have catastrophic consequences on the internet, and this will be an issue they will weigh in on.

Apple - their servers don't run on macOS.

And just about any company you can think of with a Linux server.

I mention Linux a lot, but that is because it can't be understated how important it is in our global infrastructure. Linux is as much GPL as Yuzu, so if code can be retroactively un-GPL'ed from Yuzu, it can be done with one of the most important software projects in the world.

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