Posts by SUDO-SU 9 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Apr 2019
With RDBMS I've seen a lot of garbage. Most people don't have the skills or a dedicated dba that will solve these problems for them or architect a good schema.
So if a graph DB can provide benefits of a well architected relational DB, without needing to be an advanced user, then graph dbs may become something
One, what projections say billions of people will die from climate change? Unless we just lump every human issue and link it to climate change. How many lives have been saved by modern technology and fuels? You know that currently there are an estimated 2million deaths a year from indoor cooking with combustion due to the fumes and particulates? What would that number be if not for the industrial revolution? How many people would be starving without nitrates used for fertilizer?
It will be people like you who bring about a world of mass starvation, death from winter cold because heating is too expensive, all while you run around with your tin pot locking people up because they don't think that in 2100 the world is ending.
Really, there should be checks, but idk why ISPs aren't the place for it. When you have an account, you should be able to associate account levels and have decent parental controls for content filtering, web traffic reports, Mac filtering. Make it opt in for adult content. Really think about what children have access to, and the crap tools parents have to manage access.
Of course phones should also build that in much better, but I don't think it's sunk in yet.
It would be the best option in my opinion, because there isn't enough tech literacy in parents to have it be opt out.
Heck, web reports would be enough for most.
I think supercomputing goes far beyond simpley more powerful nuclear weapons. This could lead to something beyond hyper warfare. Imagine weapons systems that can reach targets so quickly that a human intervention would mean that the threat could not be stopped. And then you rely on ai systems taking in info and auto deploying countermeasures and counterattacks. It's a new arms races beyond what we've seen before.
It seems like AWS was saying that their content moderation team was not up to the task to handle violent content review and removal. Parler was using the legal definition of incitement for enforcement. What's really interesting about this was that Facebook and Twitter were actually much more largely used to coordinate the riot on Jan 6.
What the move from AWS actually did was make it close to impossible for new platforms to compete, as content moderation is a beast that still has not been tamed by Facebook and Twitter after billions of dollars as well as years of market dominance.
What's also interesting is that AWS is holding their customers to a higher standard than they themselves are held to under Section 230. AWS would not be the juggernaut it is if they were held responsible for the amount of copyrighted material being illegally hosted on their platform.
As someone who has been dealing with this law, let me tell you, it is a nightmare. I understand and care about privacy, but how vauge and overreaching this legislation is is crazy. Their definition of Personally Identifiable is huge and peices of data that are fine by themselves can be considered PI when combined. Things things like and SSO ID, username, or even a PK that can be mapped back to PI is considered PI. We have to take into account things like, does our third party logging tools capture a username, ip address, etc. How about data stored in 1000's of schemas in a db that is feeding a program that's been running since the 80's. How about access databases? Excel spreadsheets? Employee info is included in this. A boss having the contact in their phone is something has to be tracked.
At least in my company's case, we don't sell or share your data, but we are crap at normalizing it. The next phase is trying to figure out how to remove it, or even if it can be removed without breaking dozens of downstream processes.
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