If I were a digital rights activist, I would see this time as a golden opportunity.
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If I were a digital rights activist, I would see this time as a golden opportunity.
#Grok, the #AI "assistant" powered by Musk's xAI, has become an engine of non-consensual image and video generation at a mass scale - including pornographic and pedopornographic content. Creating and distributing this imagery has never been quicker or easier. All one has to do is reply to an image posted by someone on X with a mention of Grok and a prompt. This feature was restrained recently but people who pay an $8 subscription to X can still do it. As Sam Cole writes on @404mediaco : "Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery" https://www.404media.co/x-premium-grok-paywall-images-ai-generator/
How many politicians pushing for #ChatControl are still using X? How many official government accounts? You know, the same people who screamed WE NEED TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN and pushed for the scanning of all digital communications and files (including E2EE encrypted ones) of European citizens? An "Orwellian nightmare" as @Em0nM4stodon wrote on Privacy Guides: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/#act-now
In the Privacy Guides article by Em, the French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Irish governments (amongst many others) were in full support of Chat Control. As far as I can tell, prominent politicians, Prime Ministers and official government accounts from these countries are still posting on X.
Is there anything we can do to point out the hypocrisy? Or have the abuse machine that is Grok sanctioned and fined? And - this is key - use this horrible incident to push politicians to FINALLY quit X? It's about time.
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If I were a digital rights activist, I would see this time as a golden opportunity.
#Grok, the #AI "assistant" powered by Musk's xAI, has become an engine of non-consensual image and video generation at a mass scale - including pornographic and pedopornographic content. Creating and distributing this imagery has never been quicker or easier. All one has to do is reply to an image posted by someone on X with a mention of Grok and a prompt. This feature was restrained recently but people who pay an $8 subscription to X can still do it. As Sam Cole writes on @404mediaco : "Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery" https://www.404media.co/x-premium-grok-paywall-images-ai-generator/
How many politicians pushing for #ChatControl are still using X? How many official government accounts? You know, the same people who screamed WE NEED TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN and pushed for the scanning of all digital communications and files (including E2EE encrypted ones) of European citizens? An "Orwellian nightmare" as @Em0nM4stodon wrote on Privacy Guides: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/#act-now
In the Privacy Guides article by Em, the French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Irish governments (amongst many others) were in full support of Chat Control. As far as I can tell, prominent politicians, Prime Ministers and official government accounts from these countries are still posting on X.
Is there anything we can do to point out the hypocrisy? Or have the abuse machine that is Grok sanctioned and fined? And - this is key - use this horrible incident to push politicians to FINALLY quit X? It's about time.
@elena @404mediaco @Em0nM4stodon Absolutely agree. I imagine there are quite a few politicians who instinctively feel they should be off X being advised by their political parties comms teams that they are losing a huge advertising opportunity, especially during elections, if they leave, and that they would be at a disadvantage to their opponents. Until the stigma of using X outweighs the electoral cost, I'm just not sure how much change we'll see.
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@elena @404mediaco @Em0nM4stodon Absolutely agree. I imagine there are quite a few politicians who instinctively feel they should be off X being advised by their political parties comms teams that they are losing a huge advertising opportunity, especially during elections, if they leave, and that they would be at a disadvantage to their opponents. Until the stigma of using X outweighs the electoral cost, I'm just not sure how much change we'll see.
@robhardware excellent point Rob. I also feel that vanity metrics play a lot into it too... they are reluctant to leave behind a platform - and rebuild from scratch in a new place - if they had accumulated a lot of followers over the years.
IMHO it's all about optics and ego - even if X has armies of bots and engagement has plummeted for real users... when will they see the light?
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If I were a digital rights activist, I would see this time as a golden opportunity.
#Grok, the #AI "assistant" powered by Musk's xAI, has become an engine of non-consensual image and video generation at a mass scale - including pornographic and pedopornographic content. Creating and distributing this imagery has never been quicker or easier. All one has to do is reply to an image posted by someone on X with a mention of Grok and a prompt. This feature was restrained recently but people who pay an $8 subscription to X can still do it. As Sam Cole writes on @404mediaco : "Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery" https://www.404media.co/x-premium-grok-paywall-images-ai-generator/
How many politicians pushing for #ChatControl are still using X? How many official government accounts? You know, the same people who screamed WE NEED TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN and pushed for the scanning of all digital communications and files (including E2EE encrypted ones) of European citizens? An "Orwellian nightmare" as @Em0nM4stodon wrote on Privacy Guides: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/#act-now
In the Privacy Guides article by Em, the French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Irish governments (amongst many others) were in full support of Chat Control. As far as I can tell, prominent politicians, Prime Ministers and official government accounts from these countries are still posting on X.
Is there anything we can do to point out the hypocrisy? Or have the abuse machine that is Grok sanctioned and fined? And - this is key - use this horrible incident to push politicians to FINALLY quit X? It's about time.
@elena @404mediaco @Em0nM4stodon Italy vote was unclear it wasn't supporting it, but now Italy Abstains it
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@elena @404mediaco @Em0nM4stodon Italy vote was unclear it wasn't supporting it, but now Italy Abstains it
@Kurosetii thank you for pointing this out! Still, the Italian government is currently using X as a press release / communications platform. I'm eager to see if they will say anything about Grok
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If I were a digital rights activist, I would see this time as a golden opportunity.
#Grok, the #AI "assistant" powered by Musk's xAI, has become an engine of non-consensual image and video generation at a mass scale - including pornographic and pedopornographic content. Creating and distributing this imagery has never been quicker or easier. All one has to do is reply to an image posted by someone on X with a mention of Grok and a prompt. This feature was restrained recently but people who pay an $8 subscription to X can still do it. As Sam Cole writes on @404mediaco : "Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery" https://www.404media.co/x-premium-grok-paywall-images-ai-generator/
How many politicians pushing for #ChatControl are still using X? How many official government accounts? You know, the same people who screamed WE NEED TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN and pushed for the scanning of all digital communications and files (including E2EE encrypted ones) of European citizens? An "Orwellian nightmare" as @Em0nM4stodon wrote on Privacy Guides: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/#act-now
In the Privacy Guides article by Em, the French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Irish governments (amongst many others) were in full support of Chat Control. As far as I can tell, prominent politicians, Prime Ministers and official government accounts from these countries are still posting on X.
Is there anything we can do to point out the hypocrisy? Or have the abuse machine that is Grok sanctioned and fined? And - this is key - use this horrible incident to push politicians to FINALLY quit X? It's about time.
@elena @404mediaco @Em0nM4stodon You would think the bad press attracted by Facebook's origin as an app for rating college girls would have been enough of a warning to prevent this. Musk's moral compass is so broken he must navigate by astrology. He clearly shouldn't be trusted with a planet, space ships, cars or a skate-board.
Just 'banter', Elong! LOLs, huh?
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@elena @404mediaco @Em0nM4stodon You would think the bad press attracted by Facebook's origin as an app for rating college girls would have been enough of a warning to prevent this. Musk's moral compass is so broken he must navigate by astrology. He clearly shouldn't be trusted with a planet, space ships, cars or a skate-board.
Just 'banter', Elong! LOLs, huh?
@woo absolutely! wholeheartedly agree with you except for one point: I don't think his moral compass is broken... I think he has NO moral compass, never had. To me he's a sociopath devoid of basic human decency and empathy
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Pawel Kuczynski - Bomb.
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Gli italiani, come sempre, si schierano dalla parte del più forte. Per poi abbandonarlo appena questo va in in difficoltà. La storia non mente.
Dopo quattro anni di guerra in #Ucraina, gli europei vogliono ancora che Kiev vinca? https://it.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/03/02/dopo-quattro-anni-di-guerra-in-ucraina-gli-europei-vogliono-ancora-che-kiev-vinca
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@stefano What a nice story.. and so italian, with all those motorcycles.
I think for a lot of italians, it is really the very first sign of independence. And for many years, also probably the last one. Me, not being an expert on Italy, yet still knowing that many youngsters are staying at parent's house for a bit longer than needed because of the financial situation and lack of opportunities.
So they're dependent on their parents for very long and their Vespa or similar transportation device is the only thing that gives them a bit of the freedom, like they can do and go anywhere they want to.
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@pthariensflame
the reason for the attribute is simplicity (no extra parameter), which maximizes usability since you don't need to specify the rounding mode every time. Since in most cases the rounding choice is the same in a block of code, this makes the code simpler to write. Imagine if instead of being able to do a + b for floats you'd have to do plus(a, b, rounding_mode, exception_handling_mode). For every instance of every operation 8-D
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Iran, super attacchi cyber: massima allerta per le aziende italiane
@informatica
Usa e Israele hanno fatto anche attacchi cyber contro l'Iran, di proporzioni eccezionali. Molti adesso molti temono una rappresaglia cyber dall'Iran, anche contro le nostre aziende. Alcuni analisti, Crowdstrike e Anomali, già vedono i primi segnali
L'articolo Iran,
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@ilarioq @snow la app su telefono può usare il GPS del cellulare !
Come dice @snow c'é solo da inscatolare (aggiungo : con un minimo di delicatezza perché son piccolissimi connettori, se ci dai pesante potresti danneggiarli) .
nota bis : mai dare corrente alla scheda (usbc o batteria ) senza aver PRIMA connesso l'antennina.
Edit : nella mia scheda dice GPS nei vari menu, ora guardo bene...guardate la foto, su display dice no gps
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#YunoHost App Upgrades - Progress Report:
I successfully upgraded all the apps EXCEPT for PeerTube and Pixelfed because of reports of bugs/failures on their respective GitHub pages.
PeerTube: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/peertube_ynh/issues
Pixelfed: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/pixelfed_ynh/issues
I will wait another week for #PeerTube since my channel is so essential, running the Fediverse promo video and all...
I haven't been using Pixelfed all that much but I don't wanna break anything, so I will keep it as it is.
Life of a self-hoster: never a dull day 😅
#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting
