I love porn. Like. I’ve watched porn for 30+ years.

At no point have I ever thought: “let’s talk to people online about porn” or “let’s share porn I enjoy with other people” or “wow, it would be great if I could find porn of younger people”.

Everything this article talks about is fucking unfathomable to me.

If you are looking at CSAM it’s probably because YOU’RE A FUCKING PEDO. I’m sure there are varying degrees of that but I just don’t. Fucking. Get it.

It isn’t porns fault you’re a twisted fuck…And not once, ever, in 30 odd years of watching porn (ive definitely seen some out there shit but never anything illegal) have I randomly stumbled across CSAM.

This isn’t a fucking conspiracy. Porn isn’t a fucking gateway drug to CSAM. No one is going on pornhub and accidentally viewing images of eight year olds.

People access this shit because they fucking want to.

So. I have had some recent experiences that have been… Very educational about a lot of the less thought aspects of technology that most people take for granted. H Most faraday bags you can buy are fucking garbage. None of them hurt in the grand scheme of things but they more involved this but I can’t do calculus so feel free to do the math). At around the 5 and 6 ghz range (guess what frequency wifi 6 and 5g operate at?) the gap size in a faraday cage needs to be something like 1-2mm.

Of course you’re not talking about a farDy cage, but a shielded bag. So buy one, close it with the Velcro clasp, and ask yourself: how snug is sealed Velcro? How much can I roll this up? And all the other myrad questions that lead to the same fucking conclusion: this is not the radio blocking solution you thought it was.

This isn’t to say you can’t buy a faraday bag that works (even if it does you may need more than one) it’s that as the frequency it gets increasingly difficult to block the signals coming in and out.

And I don’t understand the math, at all, but I’m not sure how the power of a signal would effect a faraday bag. Like.im assuming it would but.

Anyway…my point is: if you’re bringing a faraday make very, very, very,VERY fucking sure it actually works.

How do you do that? I’m not 100% be t I’m pretty sure the equipment needed is complicated and expwnaive.

Someone more knowledgeable can expand on any of this, . Since everything I’ve learned on the subject has been severely limited by the fact that the Internet is a fucking wasteland.

Stop enabling this shit.

They can intentionally take space or they can talk it out but this shit is infantile and no one with any self respect should tolerate it.

Congrats. You’re an emotionally mature and aware adult. Most people never get to that stage. Its fucking bewildering.

You actually think there are going to be fucking elections in four years? Jfc you people deserve this shit.

I’m of two minds about this.

Like. If you’re present in another country on a student Vida you’re essentially a guest and a certain level of respect, and gratitude, I feel, is important for that privilege. Even if the right to protest is guaranteed for that country’s citizens you are not citizens.

That being said I think our shared duty to do the right thing should bear more weight than any sense of obligation or hospitality.

Given the long dick of the US, rising racist sentiment, and the personal risk it takes to put yourself on the line for a greater cause, I think protesting is probably the right thing even if it is kind of rude.

For better or worse activism can be a big part of campus life and I don’t think a culture of fear is conducive to a healthy academic sphere.

When I was in uni I was constantly dodging massive protests / counter protests from Israelis / Palestinians, having lectures interrupted. It annoyed the hell out of me at the time but in hindsight I’m grateful to have lived in a place where people could fight for their views, even if they supported Israel and were stupid dipshits.

I mean.

Probably not. I’m a straight white male.

I’m against bigotry because it is stupid, it holds everyone back, it’s always based on nonsense, and frankly I really don’t gibe a flying fuck one way or the other what someone else does if it doesn’t directly effect me.

Not self interest. Self interest is how this fucking mess starts.

Fucking chodes

I have spent a very considerable amount of time tinkering with using ai models of all sorts.

Personally, I don’t know shit. I learned about… Zero entropy loss functions (?) The other day. That was interesting. I don’t know a lick of calculus and was able to grok what was going on thanks to a very excellent YouTube video. Anyway, I guess my point is that suddenly everyone is an expert.

I’m not. But I think it’ neat.

Like. I’ve spent hundreds or possibly thousands of hours learning as much as I can about AI of all sorts (as a hobby) and I still don’t know shit. I trained a gan once. On reddit porn. Terrible results. Great learning.

Its a cool state to be in cuz there’s so much out there to learn about.

I’m not entirely sure what my point is here beyond the fact that most people I’ve seen grandstanding about this stuff online tend to get schooled by an actual expert.

I love it when that happens.