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  • could the black box be lifted revealing the contents of what it covered

    If we’re talking raster images, then no, you’re not using some mathematical model to morph an image, you’re just overwriting pixels arbitrarily, so there would be no way to recover what’s “under” the box because there’s no second layer.
    If instead it’s something like a PDF (vector), then placing an object over another without flattening the result would allow you to move it out of the way to reveal what’s under.

    I would add, of course, make sure that the black box covers enough to prevent the possibility of inferring what’s under, so if it’s text or other organic things that can be “statistically” regenerated with some model, don’t leave any borders that can identify the item, reconstructed data may be synthetic, but can provide informed guesses



  • Wow, that’s a very thorough review, nice!
    I do hope that these companies start to dig one inch deeper at least before providing grants and stuff, it really is a slap in the face of proper distributions (though I feel like the author’s recommendation of Manjaro is misguided 👀), of course at the end of the day they can give money to whoever the hell they want, but if they want to make good publicity, they’d better make sure they get it right











  • The project looks a bit sketchy being in big part written by some Manus AI agent, I wouldn’t trust probably lightly reviewed code to take on the task of data erasure on my device.
    It’s also unclear from reading the documentation if it treats SSD data erasure correctly as you can’t simply overwrite data a bunch of times anymore on most SSDs.
    Of course, both things can be checked from reading the source code, I’m just giving a heads up.
    Being written in big part by an LLM the question of copyright is also important, can it really be released under any open license as is?

    That aside, you might want to post to !scienza@feddit.it for Italian content.