>From the very first run of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen on October 1, 1964, until the present day, there has never been a single derailment or collision on the entire full-standard Shinkansen rail network resulting in a passenger fatality

https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d01045/#:~:text=Zero%20Fa...

Sounds like trains are pretty safe to me.

Huh. Thanks.

What is a phishing video?

YouTube hosts millions of videos telling people that they are the government/your bank and that you should move money/contact a scam center/buy cryptocurrency. Even worse is the fact you can pay to turn these videos into ads that will roll in front of other videos.

On the whole of YouTube, it's a tiny sliver of a percentage, but because YouTube has grown too large to moderate, it's still hosting these videos.

If Google applied the same rules they apply to the safe browsing list, they'd probably get YouTube flagged multiple times a week.

I don't think you have become jaded. It's just the truth of the internet.

If you upload anything to the internet, it's public. Even the passwords you type are potentially public.

Do you understand how image hashing works? You don't need machine learning just to check if two images are potentially identical.

Face hashing is different than generic image hashing. Methods like dividing the photo into smaller rectangles and storing the average colour for each rectangle won't work.

It should be able to detect and hash facial features so that it can compare it to a future (potentially taken from a different angle) photo of the same person. You need some type of machine learning algorithm.

To me this sounds like you are storing my biometrics without my consent? How else would you distinctly "hash" over 100 million faces?

yes, I've worked on face recognition databases with 150m and 40m faces for banking and safety.

The models are not perfect. Humans should still be in the loop to verify, especially when the consequences of being wrong really suck for the user: losing access to their bank account, getting fired from their job.

If you're referring to algorithms like phash (Where they are using the same core image, but just add a filter), they wont work well, because everyone's ID card mostly looks the same. There will be too many FPs.

To be honest, I don't understand what exactly is the problem that needs to be solved. Two people using the same image? Two people using the same ID? The same person registering two accounts using two different IDs but they're both a photo of the same person?

Try this too https://fraidyc.at/

No amount will suffice, to convince people to not believe what they want to believe.

If everyone cooperates, you can catch more criminals, but if you force them to cooperate, that's authoritarianism.

"Why don't you want a government camera implanted in your eyeballs? Do you want to let criminals go free?"

When I read the title I couldn't help but think "did everyone forgot about hard disks?"

I'm sure Tim Berners-Lee is much smarter than me, but I kind of feel there are some parallels between the idea of "owning" posts you made in a platform and the ludicrous idea of "owning" game items as NFTs in a blockchain. The latter promises interoperability that games would never deliver. I wonder about the former.

At least I feel the major dealbreaker with this technology is just that it's not worth it for both parties involved.

Right now, Facebook hosts all the posts and monetizes them with ads. So long as they are making money with ads, they have no reason to delete the posts they're hosting, as the posts are their money maker.

But what happens if Facebook no longer "owns" the posts?

So now your posts are in your "personal cloud", which means that unless they are encrypted any website or local app can display them, even without any ads. This means Facebook is no longer making money off the posts. Why would they accept this?

On the flip side, who is paying for the hosting? Facebook? It's no longer their servers hosting the content, so I don't think so? Is Facebook supposed to pay the cloud service for metered API access? Can a cloud service offer different rates to different companies? Is the user supposed to pay for their cloud storage? So you're going to make users pay money to use facebook?

What happens if a post violates the ToS? Can facebook delete my post in my cloud storage against my will? What happens if content that is legal where facebook operates is illegal where the cloud servers operate?

Can I manually edit the data in my cloud storage like I'd be able with a file and then facebook has to treat every post as if it were untrusted input?

What happens if my cloud storage closes my account? I just lose everything? Will I be able to back up my cloud to my hard disk and reupload it to another cloud so facebook can access it? How is facebook going to handle a single user with 2 clouds that have different content?

I feel like this is a very complex thing and there are infinite questions that we can have about how this would be implemented in practice, while it's presented as simply "you own your data."

Why not just bookmark it in your web browser? Or create a Tumblr blog and make a new post for every cool article you find. You can set and edit the tags later if you want for searchability.

*To sell, not to buy.