For those interested in the original scientific publications about this, check the references here:

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/4

I was being sarcastic. EU is anything but democratic.

We must remember that EU is a democracy (not): therefore this is what the majority of EU citizens want.

I wonder how many new vulnerabilities the fixes (likely LLM-generated) to these vulnerabilities will introduce.

This kind of empty sentences do not make EU a democracy. “The democracy is in the process” – no, the process shows that there’s no democracy. “It’s how a functioning democracy is supposed to work” – no it isn’t. A democracy establishes a referendum for such invasive measures.

We aren’t speaking about empty technical definitions here. Also China is a “republic of the people” then – it’s even in its name.

This kind of empty legalese, this Newspeak, does not help anyone. Call slavery ‘freedom’ and then tell the slaves “you’re free! you see? This is how functioning freedom is supposed to work. It’s in the process”.

🤝 It should be posted in other interested communities on Lemmy (and Mastodon). I imagine it has already; yet this is the first time I heard of it.

Great piece, thank you for sharing!

As events unfolded, the participant who drew attention to the posts was banned first. The author of the offensive material was banned later after their identity was verified.

I’ve also noticed a tendency of censorship in KDE’s forums, for posts that are simply inconvenient, even if written in a civilized way.

Funny that instead of learning from Windows 11’s failure, some people just want to follow the same path…

Because just fuck false negatives and false positives, right?

Do the EU citizens want this? Where’s the democracy?

Slow Horses on nyaa?

Any way of letting the AA crew know about these issues?

We are generally governed at all levels by adults with teenager intellects.

I’m having that problem on my mobile’s Firefox browser, but not on my laptop’s. My impression is that there are two problems:

1. There’s a first computing-based check from Cloudflare. The mobile is too slow to pass it in time, so it’s redirected to the captchas. My laptop is fast enough, so I don’t see captchas there.

2. Something with Ublock or Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection or similar settings breaks the captchas. So I’m stuck in a loop. Though I heard other users who were not stuck even with ETP and Ublock…

Maybe worth trying to access via Tor Browser, or a clean profile on Firefox.

With the important reminder that top-management people typically have the IQ of a beetle, or less.

At first I was afraid that they would allow for an irresponsible use. But no, they explicitly say “responsible”, so that danger is no more. I’m very much relieved.

Also they explicitly mention that humans will remain accountable. Not Nature, or Fate, or the gods; mark that. Good thinking there!

Problems solved.

This initiative is just a smokescreen; it actually pushes things down the slippery slope.

Citizens must not be forced to identify themselves to access lawful online content or services unless strictly necessary, proportionate and provided by law. The legislation should require anonymous or pseudonymous proof-of-age, data minimisation, selective disclosure

Define “necessary”. Define “by law”. The pushers for proof-of-age already say it’s anonymous – but it can’t be.

So it turns out it was webgl.disabled, which was set to true. Setting it to false bypasses the captcha page completely.

Thank you for checking! Useful info actually. I’m using QUAD9, will try to change DNS then.

Absolutely agree on all points. We’ve entered the idiocracy era.