OK, slow down there, pardner.

First off, advertising data is already used to do this. The WH app probably doesn’t really provide anything new that the CCP can’t already buy, the same way the USG buys ad data to track both Americans and non-Americans alike in violation of spirit of the 4th Amendment. The app might be vulnerable to targeted attacks and zero days, as everything made by this administration is twice as expensive and a quarter as good as what’s available to the general public because corruption is the only metric for success with them.

Second, if it’s a classified device, then (using the DOD as a proxy) the WH app isn’t secure enough to be allowed as installed because it wouldn’t pass NSA vetting because it is an attack surface for targeted hacks. Meaning that nothing beyond emails that are FOIAable anyway are on the devices.

Third, real life isn’t movies. Calm down, Liam Neeson.

I wasn’t talking about government employees. I was talking about the elected officials :)

These people literally give away classified documents to friends as party favors. No one that isn’t an idiot thinks they’re doing anything other than undermining the US in every thing they do. It’s literally part of Peter Thiel’s goal, to pump and dump the whole country. It’s been pump for too long, so they’ll crash it, buy cheap, and then act like kings.

Can’t get it off their…work phones.

Probably also can’t get their work email and Teams and whatever else is on there off their work phones. Because they’re work phones. If you’re not on, put your work phone in a shoe box far from where you sit and hang out. faraday bag, even better.

Wired, c’mon. Only a genuine idiot would use a work phone as a personal phone. Anyone complaining about this gets what they deserve.

Plus a large, 6.9 earthquake in Japan at almost the same time, and a number of 5-ish quakes around the Pacific rim and even one in the Mediterranean.

Full on WTF is happening moment. If you live in an earthquake zone, have a go bag ready.

He invented this group to have his own Bilderberg group.

So Superman is actually bi, and it’s only the “fruity drinks kryptonite” that lowers his inhibitions enough to be himself?

All or nothing is right - nothing. No images depicting child sexual abuse. None. Not AI, not animated, not drawn, not real CSAM. WTF is even wrong with you?

It’s based on Chromium, which is open source. It IS the fork.

Do you honestly think people who make AI CP and want to see CP are training models on a ton of things to get them close, and then figuring out how to nudge it all just a bit further? Or do the people already in the CSAM world with access to CSAM that want to make CP just use the CSAM to train the model? I expect the second. Meaning there’s victims.

Plus, it’s disgusting and should be illegal anywhere that it isn’t just in general. It’s weird that you’re defending it like it’s diet coke or something.

If you spend some time understanding how AI image generation works, it’s essentially iterating on known images to make images that are probably also close to what it was rained on.

So if someone took some CSAM pictures printed up, and cut them up and made a collage, is that no longer CSAM? Of course not. It’s still CSAM. If someone took digital CSAM images and photoshoped the victims into different settings, it’s still CSAM. Real people were victims in the base material.

If you trained a Stable Diffusion model on only pictures of Rwandan people, and asked for an image of “a man sitting on a chair” the man will look vaguely Rwandan.

When you train an AI on CSAM, it produces images that are based on CSAM. Real people were victims in the base material, too. Close e-fuckin’-nough. Real people’s victimization is literally the core of how those images are made.

Except that these cameras easily go anywhere, they aren’t just outside on the street.

Spas? Pools? Gyms Locker rooms? Find a nice spot sitting on a bench near a women’s dressing room at the mall that peeks in a bit? Set your glasses at your side and record while you look ahead at your phone, not freaking anyone out. They’re pervert enablers just as much as Grok is a CSAM machine if you pay for it.

Great advice. I found an old laptop and I’m putting it through the paces now, and I’m really surprised at how easy all of this is. Setting up my own Invidious instance took minutes. Immich is where I’ll need to plateau out, I expect. My partner will immediately fill up the laptop by dumping her phone onto it, so that will need to wait for a long-term solution. That being said, a Lenovo mini whatever seems like a solid standard.

Oh, I can deal with something that’s larger…

-wait, not like that.

Thanks for this, this sounds like where I’m headed. I just hadn’t even considered thin clients/mini PCs, and it sounds like a lot of people are using Lenovos for this exact thing. I’m not at the point yet of doing something big, just small home lab, but I would like to get to the point of hosting immich for the family, and maybe having an LLM or SD in there at some point. But by then I’m hoping the RAMpocalypse is easing up. For now, it’s just privacy front ends until I know what I’m doing.

Thanks - I’ve put it off for a while, and didn’t realize how easy this all was to set up!

Thanks- I found an old laptop to give things a test run. I’ll do some thin client shopping once I cut my teeth a bit.

Yeah, I was looking earlier, and sort of didn’t know what to even look for, but then everyone here made suggestions of what to look for. I’m all over this!

Thanks!

Yep, I forgot we have an older MBP that can still manage minimums for Docker. Already had redlib up on it.