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  • First the direct answer: you can’t.

    Some more context: there’s usually ways to deal with this issue. There’s voir dire for example, where you can do a practice run of the questions and answers for a specific witness, or the party can profer (idk if it’s spelled correctly) the testimony, giving the judge a general idea of the direct or cross-examination.

    This usually only happens if something goes wrong. It can be things like the lawyer overstepping a boundary by accident, but it’s very frowned upon and they can be admonished and sanctioned by the judge.

    For why to do about the “can’t put the shit back in the horse”, usually the judge gives the jury an admonishment and maybe even a curative instruction right before deliberation, but best case scenario it’s been handled in advance and doesn’t even happen.

    Basically the idea is to keep the jury “as clean as possible in their decision”. Best case they only hear the stuff that’s relevant, but any other case you try to tell them to disregard things or remind them what to consider, and you hope they feel duty-bound to uphold this.

    Generally it is understood that juries take their obligation extremely seriously and most of the time they genuinely make an effort to rule out evidence that shouldn’t have come in. Of course there are outliers.










  • That’s unrealistic. In the grant scheme of things Lemmy is small. There’s not enough activity for bigger criminal activity to occur here yet. Generally, there’s a bunch of three letter agencies who could probably get search warrants or permission to go after instance owners, but they’d need to be aware of Lemmy and they’d need a good enough reason to convince a judge. It’ll be a while until then. Maybe on mastodon first, we’ll see but that’s all speculation.

    And should we be concerned? Maybe about those 3 letter agencies, but not about platforms like these, and most definitely not about Lemmy instances.

    As long as we keep defederating from actually scary ones with csam on there, we’re more than good.

    Also if this is a rhetoric question with a strong insinuation to get angry at lemmy.world then get bent, I like my Lemmy instances drama-free, thank you.







  • After looking up the Wikipedia definition I kind of disagree; my definition is more narrow but I also think it’s more akin to what we currently understand AI to be.

    That said, even with the very loose Wikipedia definition of AI I don’t know how the hell you conclude that the internet / the web is AI. Yes, specific parts of it are AI, but the Internet in my understanding does not fit the definition.


  • A statistical model built on neural networks solving black box problems.

    I don’t hate AI but 99% of applications currently are just vanity, there are big energy problems with it, monopoly consolidation is getting exacerbated by it, identity theft is becoming easier than ever and then stolen training data and information clusters will be the next big issues.

    What I’m saying is, a lot of experts (those who survived from the older field of machine learning and its various applications like genetic algorithms and classifiers) are critical of AI, and most people should be. It’s a big opportunity but we could destroy our society with it if we don’t come up with ethical constraints codified in law.



  • I second syncthing as a solution.

    I personally use an smb server and tail scale client + Headscale and then those smb files are locally backed up to a different drive / different PCs that remain in the network, but that doesn’t automatically sync and instead works by connecting to the server directly.

    What you’re describing sounds like a solution that automatically resynchronizes on connection, and that means you’re looking for versioning / sync, thus probably syncthing is the easiest.