Good thing the perp wasn't part of the Epstein class, otherwise they would have done all that work for nothing.

On a more serious note, there is a subreddit where police can post redacted pics of CSAM and they crowd source info on the background. I can't remember the name of it though.

They post godbolt style questions like "where is this beach/playground/parking lot", or ask what brand an object is. I don't know how much success they have had but it's a worthy cause and the more people who try, the higher their chances.

The agencies already have massive collections of csam from every arrest and site seizure. They already have systems that can identify existing csam by fingerprint or computer vision, so very little needs to be seen by humans, only newly produced material.

The investigators will be able to calculate how many rounds of abuse the victim suffered. The more it happened, the less likely it is the mother was unaware. And if course, the victim can tell us directly whether the mother knew. If so, she deserves a decade of her life in prison as well.

Equal rights also means equal accountability. It's very unlikely she was unaware of the abuse taking place for 6 years.

You were rude but I understand what you mean. People can obviously Google "reverse engineering tutorial" or something similar. And certainly "what are good resources for X" can be a way to signal interest in something, get people to respond, and not necessarily do anything about it. But I think the most charitable interpretation of that question is they want a group consensus for the best place to start, since Google might return a heavily promoted site that had deprecated info. I remember years ago people hated "cplusplus.com" because out of a volume that is the size of a textbook, it had a few bad examples. So instead they promoted cppreference. (For learning C++).

I think we should conclude people want to maximize learning while minimizing wasted time, hence they ask for the "best resources". Even though the question seems tiring at times (when I was on reddit I heard this constantly, and cynically projected that very few people actually used the resources they requested. But I solved this problem by quitting/getting banned from Reddit and never looked back).

> can be a way to signal interest in something, get people to respond, and not necessarily do anything about it.

I can explain my intent, since I asked the question :-).

"Signal interest in something in the hope of starting a discussion with people who share that interest and may have interesting stories to share".

I loved IRC for that. I could join a channel, ask a question and sometimes someone knowledgeable would engage in a discussion with me. Often nobody answered, but because IRC was "ephemeral", I could ask again another time, and another one, hoping to eventually find someone interested.

> I think we should conclude people want to maximize learning while minimizing wasted time

In my case (and I want to believe that in many other cases), it's really just that people (me, here) would like to have some human interaction about a topic.

I know how to learn, I was not asking about that. I was trying to start a conversation with humans, that's all.

> I was trying to start a conversation with humans, that's all.

Totally fair, and I'm sorry you got a hostile response.

My (very low-value) opinion is don't waste your time learning how exploits work. Yeah it's kinda neat seeing clever misuse of components. But there is very little upside to investing in that knowledge.

0. You look at old exploits and marvel at them for a while, but they are long ago patched and technically useless.

1. You waste a bunch of time looking for a sploit but don't find one.

2. You find one but nobody cares, you don't get street cred. The sploit is patched in the next release, and you don't get back your time spent finding it.

3. You find a sploit but all you get is a thanks from the billion dollar company, followed by a patch.

4. You create an exploit and use it maliciously or sell it to a criminal syndicate. you are a criminal. Or you get sued because it's a civil/copyright issue.

5. You find a sploit and other people treat you as a criminal even though you didn't do anything with it. You even intended to help.

6. You find sploits but still can't get a job as a white hat because other people who found more sploits got the job.

The only good outcomes are:

7. You found a very clever sploit and got a bounty for it.

8. You got hired in cyber security and get paid for sploits or countering them.

9. You seriously just love decoding machine instructions and find joy from making it do unintended things.

Overall, I think the risk/reward ratio is suboptimal for this field unless you go black-hat which is obviously fraught with moral and legal hazards.

I think the household names are perfectly able to start their own league and deprecate FIDE. Maybe they are already? This is a situation where the org needs the players more than the players need the org.

I think it was F1 auto racing that recently (10 or so) years ago went through a revolution that changed the rules (for fans, in that case) that dramatically increased the viewership of the sport, mainly because the previous owner was so out of touch with the times.

This is an incredibly ironic comment. "Freestyle" chess was an attempt to do exactly this with Magnus's support, and it failed to secure funding after its initial run. This event is them running back to FIDE in shambles to salvage their tour. Kasparov attempted something similar in the 90s, making his own world championship title, and similarly failed horribly.

The stability of a 100+ year old international organization that's led by serious politicians with connections in every major country is hard to contend with. FIDE's current president was Russia's Deputy Prime Minister for 6 years.

But notice they changed the game AND started a league. I'm suggesting they ignore fide, start a new league based on vanilla chess, and try to get sponsors and modernized it. Relative to how many people love following the drama, it should be cheap to start a league compared to racecars or even bike racing. There's only travel, lodging and broadcasting as expenses.

Why not regulate thrift stores and force them to have 40% of their inventory at fixed prices? $3 for shirts and $7 for pants/shorts? Part of the problem, at least in the US, is that thrift stores are filled to capacity. But just like everywhere else, their prices are high as well. If we want to interfere with a free market, why not start there, to force higher turnover and keep them from rejecting donations?

They’d be filled to capacity even if they literally gave everything for free, because the unsold stuff is mostly the kind of things that people don’t want in the first place. The good stuff would be snatched, and the things nobody wants would linger there forever.

> AI might write such a way that I can't filter out if its written by AI or not.

This is precisely the point for "farmers" that have no other motivation than to make money. They're not trying to troll us or promote a political view or sell something. They farm accounts and sell them on a secondary market for people who do use them nefariously. An aged, well-upvoted account has value for those groups. So they have every incentive to blend in by parroting back the most popular or neutral talking points.

And it will have second-order effects where real humans will reduce their participation because they believe there are only bots or tired of accusations of being one.

If you choose not to upgrade, it is stable. There is no QA department for Linux (or windows, they were let go around 2015) so someone has to endure the instability if there is to be any progress. We should all thank those who run nascent software so those who run stable distros can have stability.