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  • Copyright Industry Continues Its Efforts To Ban VPNs

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  • That made sense at a time when media was physical and could be stopped at the border. There are no border posts in the internet.

    So now we could either a) make the copyright industry draw up new licenses that make sense for the internet, or b) make everyone else spend billions to create and suffer border posts in the internet.

  • Google, Cloudflare, Cisco Lose Pirate Site DNS Blocking Appeal in France

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  • Amazingly stupid it may be, but it is also a typical decision. This is how copyright rolls in Europe.

    Over the last few years, the media has managed to create this narrative where a few US companies make billions by violating the rights of Europeans and stealing their data. This case was US companies against European data owners. Social media is full of people accounts calling for more law enforcement to fight back. Well, here you go.

  • Google, Cloudflare, Cisco Lose Pirate Site DNS Blocking Appeal in France

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  • So you know where this is going.

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    Google, Cloudflare, Cisco Lose Pirate Site DNS Blocking Appeal in France

    torrentfreak.com /google-cloudflare-cisco-lose-pirate-site-dns-blocking-appeal-in-france/

  • Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform’s New AI

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  • Speaking of which. Attie is supposed to enable anyone to create this sort of thing, although Claude Code is way overkill for the examples given.

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    Copyright Industry Continues Its Efforts To Ban VPNs

    www.techdirt.com /2026/04/01/copyright-industry-continues-its-efforts-to-ban-vpns/
  • Europe @feddit.org
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    Copyright Industry Continues Its Efforts To Ban VPNs

    www.techdirt.com /2026/04/01/copyright-industry-continues-its-efforts-to-ban-vpns/

  • Android's new developer verification rollout begins, sideloading changes are next

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  • You misunderstand. They are not exempt at all. F-Droid is exempt from collecting their identities.

  • Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform’s New AI

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  • The people in these AI hate mobs are generally the opposite of tech-savvy. You'd have to know what weird ideas they have about this.

  • Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform’s New AI

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  • Android's new developer verification rollout begins, sideloading changes are next

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  • I doubt it. EU regulations demand all manner of documentation, including who supplied software. Tech companies should also protect users and enforce "our" laws, which means a lot of surveillance.

    App stores already have to do developer verification, under the celebrated DMA.

    There's a pro-business loophole meant to keep bureaucracy low. Very small companies are exempted. It's kind of ironic, because Lemmy usually hates this kind of pro-business anti-regulation thing. To be fair, using this loophole to shield devs, as F-Droid wants, is an abuse. It's only meant to allow small companies to grow until they have the resources to handle the verification.

  • Building Tanks While the Ukrainians Master Drones

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  • These are estimated to cost EUR 12M per unit.

    If drones cost EUR 10k - 50k, then you can get over 200 to 1000 units for that money.

    Will it be able to stop several hundred drones coming at it?

    It will probably be guarding something that's worth another couple 10M, like a tank platoon.

    I'm sure that these will have many good uses. In many cases you can be sure that you won't be facing huge drone swarms. But for large scale warfare, we really need some new ideas.

    Also: This has been in development since 2018 and is still not rolled out. There's another issue raised in the article.

  • Building Tanks While the Ukrainians Master Drones

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  • The better comparison would be the Maginot-line.

    It's not that the Maginot line didn't work, though new technologies like shaped charges made it more vulnerable. It got by-passed. And it's not even like that was a sure thing. If the german tank columns had been caught by bombers on those narrow, winding roads through the Ardennes, the offensive might have ended in a massacre. But somehow, they failed to spot huge armies invading their country.

    Eventually, what we have is a failure to accept paradigm shifts. They take new technology to make existing tools better. They fail to anticipate and prepare for the changes that new technology means for the way things are done.

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    Building Tanks While the Ukrainians Master Drones

    www.theatlantic.com /national-security/2026/03/who-needs-tanks-age-drones/686540/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore

    www.theregister.com /2026/03/26/greg_kroahhartman_ai_kernel/

  • With Reddit flirting with requiring Age verification, the next Rexit might be around the corner, are we ready?

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  • I know a few marxist-leninists IRL who, as you say, are quite normal.

    Really? How does that work? Like, in what way are the ml?

    Just surprised and curious.

  • With Reddit flirting with requiring Age verification, the next Rexit might be around the corner, are we ready?

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  • It's a design feature of the fediverse that larger instances are better. Bluesky goes a long way towards solving these issues. So there's no point in complaining about people not making sacrifices.

  • Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For

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  • Announcing ARC-AGI-3 - A benchmark that tests if AI can explore, learn, and adapt in unfamiliar situations. Humans score 100%. Frontier AI scores 0.26%.

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  • Ok. I'm sure AGI-1 and AGI-2 weren't real AGI. What number is the real AGI? Is it AGI-3?

  • European Union finds PornHub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos in breach of the Digital Services Act for allowing minors to access their services

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  • Someone who uses the /s is no better than an emoji user.

  • European Union finds PornHub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos in breach of the Digital Services Act for allowing minors to access their services

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  • But the parents are doing it wrong! Most don't even disown their kids when they come out as gay or trans; which is the fault of social media anyway.

  • European Union finds PornHub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos in breach of the Digital Services Act for allowing minors to access their services

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  • *Canada

  • Announcing ARC-AGI-3 - A benchmark that tests if AI can explore, learn, and adapt in unfamiliar situations. Humans score 100%. Frontier AI scores 0.26%.

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  • ARC-AGI-3

    What happened to ARC-AGI-1 and -2?

  • Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For

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  • Yes, but everyone on Lemmy knows that the law only applies to the bad guys.

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    Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For

    www.techdirt.com /2026/03/26/everyone-cheering-the-social-media-addiction-verdicts-against-meta-should-understand-what-theyre-actually-cheering-for/
  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    Precognition proven! Parapsychology vindicated!

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    When Harry met Juche

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    The First Multi-Behavior Brain Upload

    theinnermostloop.substack.com /p/the-first-multi-behavior-brain-upload
  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    A Real Page Turner

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    Bugger!

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Back Then We Had More Regulations

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    Visualizing Rectified Flows

    alechelbling.com /blog/rectified-flow/
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    Australia social media ban hits 4.7 million teen accounts in first month

    www.reuters.com /world/asia-pacific/australia-social-media-ban-hits-47-million-teen-accounts-first-month-2026-01-15/
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    Wikimedia UK and the Online Safety Act: A deep dive into the story so far

    wikimedia.org.uk /2026/01/wikimedia-uk-and-the-online-safety-act/
  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    Oh no! Linus doesn't know AI is useless!

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    Crude!

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    NetChoice Wins Permanent Block of Louisiana Age Verification Law, Protecting Free Speech and Parental Rights - NetChoice

    netchoice.org /netchoice-wins-permanent-block-of-louisiana-age-verification-law-protecting-free-speech-and-parental-rights/
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL Tonka Beans are illegal in the USA