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  • ijon_the_human@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Chat Control isn’t dead, Denmark has a new proposal − here’s all we know
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    12 天前

    The European Court of Human Rights has next to nothing to do with the EU.

    It is an international organization operating under The Council of Europe, which again, has little to do with the EU.

    The Council of Europe predates the EU and is closer to the UN in its manner of operation. It does not make binding laws.

    It has 46 member states (the EU has 27) including countries such as Albania, Armenia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Russia was expelled in 2022.

    What can be confusing however is that The Council of Europe uses the same flag as the EU.

  • ijon_the_human@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Chat Control isn’t dead, Denmark has a new proposal − here’s all we know
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    12 天前

    The EU has treaties which serve as a constitution of sorts – duties, powers, and limits of the EU, and its legal relationship with its member states. These treaties are signed by all member states and together make up the EU’s constitutional basis.

    New treaties are signed every now and again with the purpose of amending, extending and redefining previous ones.

    There’s e.g. the Maastricht Treaty (1997) which laid the ground work for a single currency and strengthened the power of the European Parliament (each member state has a number of seats and the representatives are elected nationally by a public vote).

    The most recent one is the Lisbon Treaty (2009), which among other things, again, shifted the power balance in the EU in favour of the Parliament. It also strengthened EU’s position as a full international legal personality. Other changes were to make the union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights legally binding and to explicitly allow a member state to leave the union.

  • ijon_the_human@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Rubio condemns German intelligence’s decision to classify far-right party AfD as extremistEnglish
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    7 个月前

    I agree, it’s not a fix. However it’s also not just “calling them extremist”. It’s an official classification not just something haphazardly mentioned in a speech.

    The move, announced Friday by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), means that the AfD is no longer merely under suspicion. The agency says it now has definitive evidence that the party works against Germany’s democratic system.

    A 1,000-page internal report, according to German public broadcaster ARD, underpins the decision, citing violations of core constitutional principles such as human dignity and the rule of law.

    The new classification doesn’t ban the party, but it allows German authorities to intensify surveillance, including the use of undercover informants and monitoring communications, under judicial oversight.

    Politico

  • ijon_the_human@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Choose a number, 1-5!
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    7 个月前

    EDIT:

    The University of Edinburgh has a publically available visual dataset of 59 forks:

    https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/UTENSILS/DINNER_FORK/dinner_fork.xml

    I guess one way to approach this would be to use something like Skyrim’s character generator. Not sure how challenging it would be to put together something like that but it’d be a laugh.

    Your suggestion about a 3d model with adjustable parameters is something I could do in Grasshopper. There is the problem of defining the parameters though. Not impossible by any means but determining which features are the most critical and which could be excluded could end up being surprisingly difficult.

    As far as copyright is concerned I don’t think we’d encounter problems when using product photos from Ikea and the like. But your right about the combination part. Not only do the variations need to exist, we’d also need comparable photos of relatively high quality.

    If we were to actually do this though, I think it would be best to start simple, do a sort of goldilocks prototype and see how it goes from there. For instance splitting ten (maybe even less) of the most popular forks into three parts and poll people on those (either separately or as combinations). If the number of initial fork designs is not too high, I could even model each of those separately to avoid copyright issues. Then again this works better for determining the preferred shapes and not as well for preferred scale – e.g. how long the tines are compared to the handle etc. I guess there would need to be two stages, shape and proportions. The proportions would be quite simple though and the initial images could just be scaled and skewed to achieve the desired look.

    Another idea would be to go through the features one by one, having a poll at each stage. Every time the result is split, we could “fork” the design into multiple ones. This would require a whole lot of orchestration though and I have a gut feeling this wouldn’t work very well in practise. This is also based on the assumptions that there is only one perfect design for each respondent and that the preference for features is not interdependent.

    Then again we could utilise gen AI to turn simple proportional sketches / illustrations (modifiable or user drawn) to more realistic images which maybe users could then rate.___

  • ijon_the_human@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Choose a number, 1-5!
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    7 个月前

    I have a couple of ideas but I don’t know which would be the easiest.

    We could analyse and break down forks to their design features and then let people mix and match. This would take a lot of time though.

    Alternatively we could scrape a bunch of fork images and build a large dataset. Then show two at a time to users and let them pick their preferred one repeatedly until we know the preference hieararchy for that user. Then compare users and divide them into demographics.

    I guess it would also be possible to have a visual model and some edit options like make different parts longer / thicker. I feel this is unnecessarily complicated.

    Another idea would be to break the fork into two or three parts. Not perfect but faster than exploring all design features. Tines, body, end for instance and let people either mix and match or do some for of a/b testing.

    My expertise is in design so I can help with those aspects but coding I unfortunately cannot do. Would be a really fun project designwise too…