It is simple, it is not easy.

‘Take a picture of the entire ocean and look for ships’ is simple, but executing that plan is not.

It requires hundreds of millions of dollars of reconnaissance satellites, and an entire branch of personnel to operate and digest the information.

This is why the US operates carrier battle groups instead of just sailing their carriers everywhere with a small escort. They can’t hide, but they can pack enough offensive and defensive power into a tiny area to make most attacks infeasible.

Anyways, there’s a reason submarines exist

True, and even they’re vulnerable when they surface (if they’re moving), the v-shaped wake is also very detectable from space where satellites can detect wave heights within 3cm. It’s not easy for humans to find, but with billions of dollars to spend on computers, these kinds of things are very much within the reach of sovereign nations.

The delay is almost assuredly to prevent live scamming. Like a grandparent picking up a random call or text and being tricked into thinking they’re a family member/bank worker/etc.

I’ll admit it’s annoying, and could be used by Google later to do more annoying shit.

Taking their explanations in good faith and looking at it from an customer security point of view, I can see this cutting back on some common scam types. This is kind of like how, when you go to rustdesk.com there’s a giant ‘YOU’RE PROBABLY GETTING SCAMMED’ banner across the top of the page:

These little steps can seems pointless or annoying to us, as most of us are probably in the upper range of tech skills, but consider the average user and it starts to make a lot more sense.

False positives are fine, you assign 1, 10, 50, 100 analysts to review hits. You only need to find it once, then the search area becomes incredibly small for each subsequent satellite pass.

I’m not saying that it is easy, just that you don’t need to have a surface ship within 15 nm in order to see it.

You need to know the server and share name. You don’t have to use /mnt/sambashare, just make an empty directory somewhere.

sudo mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt/sambashare -o username=your_user

It’ll prompt you for the password.

This won’t work if you’re on a domain (I think?) but it works for regular SMB shares.

While the resolution could be good, have fun looking for that spec.

Seems like an simple but tedious job. Something that a computer can do.

Object detection algorithms are incredibly fast and can learn to tell the difference between an aircraft carrier and an ocean.

e: nm, mod got 'em

I can understand this workflow being created to protect the legions of people who are tricked into installing spyware.

It doesn’t remotely affect me because I use GrapheneOS and if this is an issue for you then you’re probably someone who should look at installing GOS or Lineage.

I don’t think Google should be able to do this and it is likely part of a longer-term strategy to strangle any competition. At the same time, I can understand how this change will save a lot of grandparents from clicking a link in a text from their ‘grandchildren’ and installing spyware that’ll steal all of their bank information.

emotional contagion

If that doesn’t sum up all of social media for the past decade, I can’t think of a better term.

This is no different than the tobacco companies discovering that tobacco was bad and then sitting on the data and muddying the waters for decades so that they could make profit… but instead of lung cancers, Zuckerberg’s machine is causing genocide and destroying democracies.

The default web interface doesn’t do it and the images are not tagged in a way that you could easily fix it with CSS. You could possibly do it with a greasemonkey script (see your local LLM).

I’m here to engage with reality, and not create science fiction scenarios to worry about.

But what if they passed it as a pretext to pass a different law later to kill your nan.

Hot takes and creative fiction is more entertaining than boring reality and that behavior is enforced by social media systems (like likes). It isn’t fun to read ‘they passed a law that’s largely symbolic’ as ‘The end of the Internet is upon us’.

It’s disappointing to see the lack of good conversation around this isn’t due to tool limitations or reddit being terribly moderated, but rather there are a lot of people who genuinely just want to invent stuff to get mad about and if you point out that isn’t what’s happening they’ll just yell slippery nipples the sky is falling!!! Over and over.

Outrage and self-righteousness feel good and appearing cynical is a cheap way to look intelligent.

Alternatively, something like half of social media traffic was shown to be bot-sourced and a goal of adversarial influence campaigns is often to simply stir up conflict so I keep my sanity by believing that a good portion of them are not actual human people, just evil LLMs trying to piss everyone off (and a lot of the rest are simply people who’ve been fooled by the false consensus into aping those same bot tactics and/or literal children)

Some topics, like discussions around AI, are so heavily toxic that I find it hard to believe that it isn’t being signal boosted in some way.

I’ve been slippery sloped already in one of these conversation threads.

Literally nobody: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_people

AFAICT even the oldest unverified person was born in 1900 https://en.iz.ru/en/node/2061564?main_click

Someone in the future may be born before 1900, we can’t know for sure.

Sorry in that case, I’m juggling a few threads

e: lol don’t downvote them! People come to the meme community with no sense of humor, smhing my head.

That’s system76, not systemd.

Yeah oops, I’m just dumb.

Meanwhile systemd already has the commits ready it seems, no questions asked.

Because it’s a trivial addition that was requested by a large user of systemd.

I don’t like these laws either, but they do exist. Go after the politicians who’re making them. Don’t go after the, volunteer, developers for not making a political stand on your behalf.

It’s an optional field, unverified, unenforced and in the worst case, this is open source software so you can simply revert that PR and build it yourself without the extra field or if you feel super strongly about it you can fork the project.

Heaping ire on the development team is the part that I’m taking issue with.

Based on my years of community experience, whichever you pick is wrong and you’re a bad person for thinking that it was the right choice.