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New comment by fyltr in "Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity"

fyltr — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:23:35 +0000

there are claims that llms might be taxing on the planet to run BUT that they will solve [some, all] problems including climate change and therefore be beneficial in the long run.

New comment by fyltr in "Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity"

fyltr — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:09:11 +0000

Wasn't the parent post referring to 'legitimate' demands? I often use them to get a broad overview of a technical field before reading human stuff on it, and it might be me but those clankers tend to spend half their reasoning on whether they are allowed to reply to my request. Censorship is an annoying waste of capacity for certain use cases, although it certainly has its boons when shipping commercial models.

New comment by fyltr in "France moves to break encrypted messaging"

fyltr — Sun, 10 May 2026 13:28:14 +0000

I would love to take the time to inspect your answer more thoroughly as soon as I have the time, but your premise is wrong. Most CSAM creators are neither teachers nor coaches, but parents i). The French state is not some cynical entre-soi that protects child abusers who are on their payroll. In my personal experience, which, while it isn't generalizable does prove the existence of consequences, I've come across three teachers accused of incorrect behavior with children ii). All three disappeared from the schools within months.

i)> Research suggests that a significant proportion of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is produced and distributed by parents who victimise their children. An online convenience sample of 150 adult survivors of CSAM found that, of those abused by a single perpetrator, 42% identified their biological or adoptive father or stepfather as the offender; and of those abused by multiple perpetrators, 67% identified their biological or adoptive parents or step-parents as the primary perpetrators (Canadian Centre for Child Protection (CCCP), 2017). https://bravehearts.org.au/research-lobbying/stats-facts/onl...

ii) the first one had us do sexual education at age 8 and was gone five weeks after he began, the second had been on the radar for racism and was gone two months after complaints of staring at girls skirts, the third, a sport teacher, disappeared at the end of the semester for systematically correcting girl's stances while squatting and such. In the two last cases, the schools were relatively big and rumors of worse offenses were around, but I don't know if those were true.

New comment by fyltr in "France moves to break encrypted messaging"

fyltr — Sun, 10 May 2026 13:07:52 +0000

It seems so, yes. While I do trust eff, it seems to me that their article barely skims over the explanation of why this is a problem, although the second one does mention the ability to arbitrarily decide what triggers the filters. I would however like to point out that in France, the police cannot arbitrarily arrest people for more than 24 hours, after which they need an investigating judge's approval to prolongate detention. They also need those judges' permission to access a device. Free access to any channels of communication has never been on the table, but extrapolation of that technology to other kinds of governments with more liberal law-enforcement remains the obvious issue.

Still, I kind of fail to see how full privacy as a default is a necessity, if and only if it remains a possibility. Furthermore, by using non open source messengers such as WhatsApp, we are blindly trusting Zuckerberg, a random dude who got lucky and rich and wishes to remain on good terms with Trump, to keep our data as safe and as unreachable as he pretends.

New comment by fyltr in "France moves to break encrypted messaging"

fyltr — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:39:54 +0000

I have talked about it with a high-ranking french policeman. That person is mostly active in fighting sex-crimes on children, which is the angle I will mostly be referring to. From what I understood, it is very clear to them that even if these laws comes to pass, a good amount of criminal activities will move to other safer options. However, the general criminal is not technically competent. Currently, with WhatsApp providing end-to-end by default, access to pedophilic content is extremely simple. By suppressing these simple means of end to end encryption, the goal is to reduce the amount of people accessing these networks due to a higher entry bar.

What's of course concerning is that it renders anyone using encryption suspect, which includes pedophiles and narcotrafficants, but also activists and co.

Also, if we're only targetting pedophile networks, one option that comes to mind to me is the following : Most of those images are known and have been circulating for a while. By hashing any sent images and comparing them to the checksum of known ones, one could easily flag suspicions senders and proceed to access the phones of those users. Does that seem feasible to you or am I missing something?

New comment by fyltr in "France moves to break encrypted messaging"

fyltr — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:35:34 +0000

New comment by fyltr in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

fyltr — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:39:39 +0000

Might choux hit that dark breakfast abyss? They aren't breakfast per se, but it might show that you can do things with those proportions.

New comment by fyltr in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

fyltr — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:23:02 +0000

Would you mind rectifying the wrong parts then?

New comment by fyltr in "'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010)"

fyltr — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:29:55 +0000

a link to the non-paywalled article is at the top of the hn post

New comment by fyltr in "Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49"

fyltr — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:18:34 +0000

There are some of them in this article https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-017-0604-0

New comment by fyltr in "Advent of Sysadmin 2025"

fyltr — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:22:46 +0000

Well, 12+12=24, so now we can complete two advents

New comment by fyltr in "The realities of being a pop star"

fyltr — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:08:57 +0000

For the record, eskimo is a derrogatory term meaning "raw meat eater". The term Inuit is nowadays preferred.