For 1, there's no central authentication. Accounts prove themselves to other instances with a private/public key pair. I guess you could have some system where the old and new instance connect then transfer that private key so the new instance could prove it's really you nkt someone impersonating you.

For 2, we don't even backfill communities when they sync to an instance for the first time because of the volume. For a while, Lemmy instances would freeze (for everyone) when a user with a lot of content deleted their account, but if you wanted to achieve this I'm sure you could do some slow, async, progressive loading of the content that might happen over days, so volume alone wouldn't make this impossible. It would also have the potential for large storage requirements or a mismatch between what is allowed on different instances, e.g. you could create an instance, load it up with spam posts, then import it to a major instance to get thousands of views before they could ban you. So here you'd need some protection. Admin review from the new instance? Only allow import from trusted instances? What if someone faked dates or other metadata in their posts before the transfer?

1. On Lemmy, a community owns the content. So an upvote or comment will get sent to the community's instance then that instance will federate it to other instances. If one instance transfers a user, there needs to be a way for the owners of the user's content to federate that update. For something like Mastodon people directly follow a user so their instance is the owner, but for Lemmy with communities you need the user to tell the community about the change then that community would need to trigger the update to it's own content. You'd have hundreds of communities each triggering updates to hundreds of instances. I see a big risk here of a user being in two states, e.g. one community federated updates ok but another didn't, and now some instance has two records of the same user. I'm sure smarter people could work out some redundancy here.

I honestly do think this sounds achievable but like others have said, it's a lot of work with a lot of edge cases to cater for. So it's likely not a high priority.

What I take from this is that it's an attempt to get China to agree to oversight, which I don't believe will happen (who would provide this oversight, the US?).

These incidents are unlikely to cause the extinction of human kind. The idea they might want to replicate is just applying a human thought process to what is definitely not intelligent. The biggest threat to humankind today is definitely the huge increase in carbon emissions that may well kill everyone before intelligent AI (or fusion) is even invented.

If 2 suddenly drops slightly to the side, 1 will begin to plummet almost immediately and not many people have trained for that at the range.

I don't think this helps in that situation. My battery system will continue powering the house on loss of power from the grid, it just will not feed power back to the grid. That shutoff isn't that helpful when firefighters are probably worried about the power in the internal wiring.

I drove a 20+ year old car up until I had a kid, and suddenly I started to care about those safety features from the previous 20 years (like airbags and crumple zone improvements).

Shit, with the M2 chip (and I guess later versions), I saw tech people I would never have imagined as Mac users jumping over to Apple.

I have a Reolink doorbell cam. I bought the POE version, have it connected to Frigate on my server for object detection purposes and triggering alerts, and the alerts are delivered via Home Assistant notifications.

So I guess it's possible to do it reasonably privately, even if using the Reolink app isn't.

Lemmy definitely has LLM bot accounts, but the Lemmy is operating at a scale of tens of thousands of users where Mastodon has a couple of million. There's a lot of manual action by Lemmy admins that probably won't scale well when there are millions of users.

Damn, and I thought I was doing well building from the floor to the ceiling. Mine was freestanding though, it didn't need cranes to hold it up.

Ah so slash could be converted to wood pellets for this sort of activity. It probably won't happen because I'm assuming there are cheaper sources.

As someone else already mentioned, it's almost certainly already happening. Lemmy federates with Mastodon, and Mastodon has a user base and a volume of content that would be hard to ignore. So there are likely many Mastodon instances that are slurping up content from Mastodon, Lemmy, Piefed, Pixelfed, anything else across the Fediverse, and using this to train AI.

It would just be nice if they didn't crash servers doing it.

Bots scraping the website cause high levels of server load because compiling a page is an intensive activity, and so instance admins are taking active steps to stop this in order to stop all the scrapers bringing down the server.

But if they actually wanted Lemmy content (as opposed to the bots scraping everything on the internet they can find, and happening across Lemmy) then they can just start an instance and have other instances send them the content via normal federation. It would be almost impossible to tell this from a normal instance, and would be more efficient for everyone involved.

The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) is investigating allegations of bribery, corruption and fraud across the driver licensing system, RNZ can reveal.

I swear this is about the 3rd article I've seen over the past year about this. RNZ, I'm not sure you're revealing anything 🤔

e.g. these ones from July:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/708146/no-powers-to-suspend-licences-of-drivers-who-need-to-re-sit-tests-nzta

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/692159/we-will-act-16-driver-testing-officers-suspended-others-stood-down-by-nzta

Unfortunately Lemmy has one major problem when it comes to banning spam bots. Only the instance that a user belongs to can ban the user in a way that federates to other instances. This means if that particular instance doesn't quickly ban the user, then hundreds of other instances need to do it manually. Currently, a pretty significant percentage of spammers get banned individually by many instances.

If we had 100x as many users and 100x as many instances, we would have 100x as many bot accounts for every instance to ban.

The solution is probably something like shared ban lists or ban mirroring (setting an instance up to ban every user that some trusted instance bans). But right now it's just people clicking, and it's not scalable.

Sorry you're right, it's not cranes and they aren't holding it up just keeping it steady. But my tower didn't need that, I built it strong enough it could atand of it's own accord.

Only to the ceiling, mind you. I don't have enough lego to go up 36 metres.

It must be a difficult decision for DOC between publicly asking people to avoid the whale knowing many people may purposely go to look for it now they know it's there, vs not mentioning it and having people hear about it another way and go to try to approach it without knowing the rules around it.

I'm reading Holes to two of my kids. Had not read it before, it's a book about a kid that got sent to a work camp to avoid prison. I got a bit caught out having to explain some of the events in the middle to the kids.

On my own time I'm reading Before the coffee gets cold, a time travel book about a cafe that can transport you back in time.

Both of these books are in progress, haven't finished them yet.

Hot damn, and here's me thinking thefuck was the way to do this.

I once read an article advocating for collecting the forestry slash and using it at geothermal power plants to add extra heat to the water to create more power. I get that they would still need to collect the wood off the beach like they are trying to avoid due to the cost, but what if that cost could be subsidised by selling the wood instead of burning it?

Or just subsidised by the creaters of this forestry slash having to pay for its clean up?

I wonder if there's a separate record that doesn't allow the cables, where teams need to use these kinds of things to prevent it falling. Would probably have to be done indoors, away from wind.