@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-10-16 17:00:04
us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-18 02:52:21
The US justice department has scrubbed a study from its website concluding that far-rightextremists have killed far more Americans than any other domestic terrorist group
The report, now archived, titled
What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism,
vanished from the Department of Justice website between 11 and 12 September,
according to Jason Paladino, an independent investigative reporter who first wrote the story.
The vanished study opened with: “Sinc…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-07-19 05:47:00
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-08-18 13:13:25
Really good clear explanation from @…, laying out various problems and risks with trying to implement "age verification" online.
"Firstly, in order to prove your age you’re being asked to hand over some fairly important personal details. ... Usually the company you’re handing these details to is a third party, often one you will never have heard of before. ...
"The data that is being collected for age verification purposes is extremely tempting to hackers ... and at the moment there is no specific regulation outlining the security standards that these companies should meet ...
"Let’s say all the current age verification providers are incredibly robust, though. ... The question still remains... should you be sharing this information with random websites anyway?
"... once you’ve trained the population of an entire country to routinely hand over their credit card details in order to access content, you have given them an incredibly bad habit that it’s going to be tough to break. ... You don’t just prove your age once, after all, you potentially have to do it dozens of times, to access a bunch of different websites. Everything from BlueSky to PornHub to Spotify and even maybe Wikipedia. It becomes a weekly or perhaps monthly occurrence. Just as individual users don’t tend to read every website’s terms and conditions, it’s unlikely they’re all going to do due diligence checks on every provider who asks for ID, especially once they’ve become used to just handing that data over.
"And although that may not be a problem for _you_, you tech-savvy cleverclogs, if you’ve ever found yourself in the position of unpaid IT support for one of your less knowledgeable friends or relatives, hopefully you can see why it’s a huge problem for the UK population more broadly."
And more!
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct #OSA
@mela@zusammenkunft.net2025-10-17 14:39:39
Quelle surprise: seriöse Webseiten blocken den Zugang für KI-Trainingszugriff eher als Seiten, deren Zweck der Desinformation dient.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10315
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-09-18 15:58:26
I would suspect that many birth-citizenship US citizens could not pass this citizenship test.
(I note that the USCIS website for citizenship test materials has many items blocked by Privacy Badger and Ublock Origin - in other words, the website has trackers, some of which are private companies.)
Just read the hogwash in this announcement:
"“American citizenship is the most sacred citizenship in the world and should only be reserved for aliens who will fully embrace our…
@jonippolito@digipres.club2025-08-18 17:46:58
Need to talk to your students about AI ethics this fall? I've uploaded a course module for the AI IMPACT RISK framework, with interactive website, video, infographics, and quiz, that you can import into your own courseware
This imscc file can be imported directly into Canvas/Brightspace/Blackboard, or you can cherrypick resources directly from the IMPACT RISK website. Also new: SVG versions of all graphics
@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-19 10:17:41
Quantum router of silicon-vacancy centers via a diamond waveguide
Wen-Jie Zhang, Xi Yan, Jun-Hong An
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14793 https://arxiv.org/pdf…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-09-13 15:00:04
us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-09-18 05:00:08
qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…
