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but apparently it only protects 'subscribers' in a financial sense:
>In a continuing effort to limit consumer's privacy violations, Malley filed a class action involving Hulu in 2012. A San Francisco federal trial court found the VPPA's subscriber protections apply to users with Hulu accounts.[10] In 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit found that those protections do not reach the users of a free Android app, even when the app assigns each user a unique identification number and shares user behavior with a third-party data analytics company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act#C...
Additionally in the case of ipv6 it can be tied to a specific device more often. One cannot rely on ipv6 privacy extensions to sufficiently help there.
-1912 newspaper (New Zealand) https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ROTWKG19120814....
OP is not emailing people, but it is the same thing: revenge using explicit imagery. Except not only might the people behind the sites see the image but their visitors which probably include minors will too.
I have actively tried to use bitcoin to pay for daily life stuff in 2022/2023 and its basically impossible without converting to fiat. The only 2 bills I can pay directly with it is my VPS host and AT&T. I can't buy groceries with it, pay my rent, fuel my car, or see a doctor. I was once able to buy steam games and Chinese food with it but both have since dropped it.
I would not call bitcoin a scam but I also would not say it is useful currency for Americans.
If you're lucky you also get a distribution center or meat packing plant!
(I mean by society not new vector)
>People who run inference and fine-tuning themselves get a certain speedup if they host a part of the model locally. Some may be also motivated to "give back" to the community helping them to run the model (similarly to how BitTorrent users help others by sharing data they have already downloaded).
>Since it may be not enough for everyone, we are also working on introducing explicit incentives ("bloom points") for people donating their GPU time to the public swarm. Once this system is ready, we will display the top contributors on our website. People who earned these points will be able to spend them on inference/fine-tuning with higher priority or increased security guarantees, or (maybe) exchange them for other rewards.
It does seem like they want a sort of centralized token however.