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- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 10 hours ago:
Is it sold in EU with the face collection?
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 11 hours ago:
This cannot happen in EU with the current GDPR, they would need to request and receive consent prior to collecting the face.
- Comment on Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors 5 days ago:
Not sure which is which, it seems to be applicable to both.
- Comment on Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine 5 days ago:
If it’s like GDPR, it applies to the citizens currently residing in the country, the location of the company or servers do not matter. Now if Imgur doesn’t have anyone there, no business happening and the website is already blocked, I don’t think they have much leverage.
- Comment on geography is neat 1 week ago:
It’s the current state of confusion floating above the country.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t the phone less private than an encrypted app?
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s the one I am fearing, the enshitification of Whatsapp, I think it already happened in some countries.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes it’s a tactic to discourage escalation because it adds confusion.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 4 weeks ago:
What if the platform you use with your relatives suddenly requires this?
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 4 weeks ago:
As of 7 September 2025, there are 7,052,247 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.9 billion words (giving a mean of about 706 words per article). The total number of pages is 63,983,130. Articles make up 11.02 percent of all pages on Wikipedia. As of 16 October 2024, the size of the current version including all articles compressed is about 24.05 GB without media. en.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
The following graphic illustrates how large the English Wikipedia might be if the articles (without images and other multimedia content) were to be printed and bound in book form with a format similar to Encyclopædia Britannica. Each volume is assumed to be 25 cm (9.8 in) tall, 5 cm (2.0 in) thick, and containing 1,600,000 words or 8,000,000 characters. The size of this illustration is based upon the live article count manually adjusted by the average word count on an irregular basis on a user subpage of the graphic’s creator Tompw. The growth rate is approximately one full volume every three days if the increase in average article size isn’t accounted for over time. The print volumes as shown in the illustration would take up just over 9.34 m3 (330 cu ft) in total volume.
- Comment on New infostealer malware snaps webcam photos when you watch porn 4 weeks ago:
Good point
- Comment on New infostealer malware snaps webcam photos when you watch porn 4 weeks ago:
Does this work? Sound is hard to stop, it goes through solid matter.
- Comment on New infostealer malware snaps webcam photos when you watch porn 4 weeks ago:
If you’re a candidate for some election, sometime this kind of stupid thing is enough to make you lose credibility and lose an election.
- Comment on New infostealer malware snaps webcam photos when you watch porn 4 weeks ago:
What about the microphone?
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 4 weeks ago:
I believe Lemmy is quite smaller than Mastodon (hence it is not even mentioned on the diagram), so it’s probably a Mastodon instance.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 5 weeks ago:
Which server is representing 25% of the index on the Fediverse?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I thought ME was an acronym for some popular politician here, took me time to understand.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Some monarchist defend their views by saying that it allows to have a successor determined without being biased by a populiraty contest and which can be educated from birth to become the perfect monarch.
- Comment on A look at search engines with their own indexes 5 weeks ago:
It should mention that Qwant (France) and Ecosia (Germany), announced last year a joint project for an independent European search index, although only for French and German according to this publication. …qwant.com/…/ecosia-and-qwant-join-forces-to-deve…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It seems the dad is your friend now. You don’t need your ex opinion about who you can be friend with.
- Comment on What Does Palantir Actually Do? 1 month ago:
For reference, Palantir are not the only ones to provide supposedly fancy UIs on top of data messes, there are many others like Talend, Datahaiku, Alteryx etc. Those platforms are not magic, they will still need a lot of little hands to wrangle the data to get it in a useful state, if there’s ever an actual motivation to do that, and it’s not all pretending to be “data driven”. Usually, the data engineering community hates those graphical tools that are designed to convince executives rather than help engineers because no UI can be as powerful as a code base in this field. Palantir is special in how they managed to convince the executives of the police and administrations.
- Comment on Expert here. 1 month ago:
I heard it was discovered many times but it did not stick.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 1 month ago:
Completing the circle with le citron de Menton, that is mild and sweet enough to be eaten raw with the peel. bbc.com/…/20220328-the-return-of-frances-lost-men…
- Comment on Every RPG subgenre acronym, decoded 2 months ago:
Guild Wars 1 made its own little style called CORPG.
A competitive online role-playing game (CORPG) differs from the standard massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) in that they are less focused on the massive group experience. All outside areas are instanced, meaning that a player and his group are the only ones there, so that every player gets his or her own unique version of the game’s story without the headache of killstealers or people disrupting the fun.
In Guild Wars, as opposed to one of NCSoft’s other offerings, like City of Heroes, a player might roam the countryside with a group of 1 to 11 other heroes. In an MMORPG like City of Heroes, the group would be surrounded by other similar groups, all wishing to kill the same mobs and achieve the same goals, at the same time, in the same space. Guild Wars eliminates this scramble, letting players take the game at their own pace while playing player versus environment.
The competitive aspect of the name derives from the player versus player, guild versus guild, and an international war called the War of Worlds. In many respects, the PvP version of the game is a very different experience from PvE, using different strategies and playing styles to battle human opponents instead of the computer AI. …fandom.com/…/Competitive_online_role-playing_gam…
- Comment on You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media 2 months ago:
You should be able to prevent your device from adding the location to your photos. I never felt the need to have it, given the date and the photos around, it is easy to remember where it was.
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 2 months ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 2 months ago:
I think he said that’s Tor.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 2 months ago:
I used my indignation as fuel to do good around me. The more I read sad need the more I want to contribute to positive projects.
- Comment on Software engineering may have been one of the few modern engineering roles that combine both engineering (designing) tasks and technical craftsmanship (coding) tasks. Maybe until LLMs gets perfected. 2 months ago:
Doesn’t it take some years of study and then some years of practice with seniors to master it, just like a craft, except it is words instead of physical matter?
- Comment on Software engineering may have been one of the few modern engineering roles that combine both engineering (designing) tasks and technical craftsmanship (coding) tasks. Maybe until LLMs gets perfected. 2 months ago:
I would rather compare my point to the mechanical engineer who designs the mechanical system and the factory worker who actually builds the system with their hands.
