Armand1
@Armand1@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer 5 hours ago:
Let me guess:
Its because all.the money goes to billionaires.
- Comment on Vim Diesel 5 hours ago:
I just upload the image to Lemmy itself in my posts.
- Comment on Vim Diesel 14 hours ago:
If only I could see imgur posts
- Comment on FADED. 🥴 4 days ago:
Sometimes the conspiracy theorists pop out of their echo chamber and make a statement that seems reasonable and widely accepted to them but can only be believed if you first believe 17 layers of propaganda, leaps of logic and generally brainrot. Usually all fed to them by bigots and billionaires.
Then are then surprised by normal people clowning on them and instead of reflecting, they just tell themselves they know something the normies don’t and that makes them special.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I mean, they’re right.
- Comment on Wharf 1 week ago:
Nice house
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 1 week ago:
Our Pixel ⚒️🎵
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 3 weeks ago:
Wait, this is real? I thought this was a joke…
Like “Back in my day, bananas were bright purple, but that breed died out.”
- Comment on Synology RAM - a shitpost of its own kind 3 weeks ago:
16GB
Best I can do is $50. Take it or leave it.
- Comment on telepathy 3 weeks ago:
psychokinesis*
- Comment on telepathy 3 weeks ago:
telekinesis*
- Comment on “Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes: SAVE tool keeps mistakenly flagging voters as noncitizens 3 weeks ago:
Given that only 22 noncitizens over the course of like 10 years (can’t remember the exact statistic) tried to vote, the way to get the best accuracy would be to just hard code the answer to “yes, they can vote”. Then you get over 99.99% accuracy.
- Comment on Chrome extensions spying on 37M users' browsing data 4 weeks ago:
Another interesting one. These extensions are all related:
- Comment on Chrome extensions spying on 37M users' browsing data 4 weeks ago:
I’ve gone through the list a bit and out of the most popular ones that spied on you, most were adblocks, coupon finders or AI Chatbots.
Some notable extensions:
- Stylish. A theming extension, I used to use this back in the day!
- Smarty. Some sort of coupon code thing like Honey
- Video Ad Blocker Plus for YouTube™
- Video Downloader PLUS
- Karma - Another coupon thing
- Audio editor online Audacity. Some sort of web-based Audacity clone?
- GIMP online - Same sort of thing as above with GIMP
- Ground News Bias Checker - To be fair it probably makes sense this one sends the URL you are visiting, as it’s purpose is to look up the bias of the publication you are looking at.
Worth a read regardless.
- Comment on Chrome extensions spying on 37M users' browsing data 4 weeks ago:
Great work to the investigators here. I’m going to comb through this list a little. See what things stand out.
- Comment on A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad 4 weeks ago:
The point is that I’ve seen several comments on other posts about this vulnerability, and in the body of this one, saying that Notepad is bloated and terrible now.
I’m offering a counterpoint that this is not necessarily bloat. It’s debatable that this is the right tool to have this feature, but it can be a useful feature.
I’m fine with Markdown support, but I wish MS got the message about Copilot being unwanted. Not sure if they’ve added it to Notepad or not at this stage, but given all the places they’ve crammed it into I wouldn’t be surprised.
- Comment on A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, markdown is a very cool standard.
While I don’t know if it really makes sense for Notepad to be anything other than a plain-text editor, there are better tools for that, supporting markdown is kind of nice. Means you have support for it on fresh installs, which could be good for virtual machines.
It’s a shame they flubbed the implementation though…
- Comment on A Statement From The White House 4 weeks ago:
Ah, now the joke makes sense. Thanks.
Wasn’t sure if it was some sort of typo.
- Comment on A Statement From The White House 4 weeks ago:
Wtf is “depends” here?
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 4 weeks ago:
Or percentages
- Comment on "Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker 4 weeks ago:
Related video
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 4 weeks ago:
I’ve heard people mention Matrix, but I’ve not tried it yet.
- Comment on As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts 4 weeks ago:
Hmmm…
As the article correctly states, machine learning (“AI” is a misnomer that has stuck imo) has been used successfully for decades in medicine.
Machine learning is inherently about spotting patterns and inferring from them. The problem, I think, is two-fold:
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There are more “AI” products than ever, not all companies build it in responsibly and it’s difficult for regulators to keep up with them.
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As AI is normalised, some doctors will put too much trust in these systems.
This isn’t helped by the fact that the makers of these products are likely to exaggerate the capabilities of their products. This may be reflected in the products themselves, where they may not properly communicate the degree of certainty of a diagnosis / conclusion (e.g. “30% certainty this lesion is cancerous”)
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- Comment on British soldiers to get new AI radios, headsets and tablets 4 weeks ago:
AI radios
Looks inside
No AI
Jokes aside, this is a common thing in tech / software at the moment.
You can make fantastic software and systems, but unless you slap an AI label on it, big companies and organisations will not want to pay for it, or will pass you over for a product that says it has it, even if it’s dogshit.
AI (or, more accurately, machine learning) can bring value, but so can a lot of other features.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 5 weeks ago:
I’ve seen both in the UK. Personally, I’m a shoes off guy. Means less cleaning needed.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 5 weeks ago:
Shoes off means you don’t wear shoes inside your house. The reverse the opposite.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 5 weeks ago:
Is this sort of thing not protected by labour laws?
- Comment on Facial recognition to be rolled out nationwide in major police reforms 1 month ago:
Has anyone here actually read the article? As far as I can tell, facial recognition is being increased in availability, but it was already in use.
Every police force in the country will be able to use live facial recognition vans, with the number of vans set to rise from ten to 50.
It’s also worth noting that in the UK for a very long time now any data that is not E2EE can be seized by the government from companies without the consent of their users if a warrant is issued. That’s obviously bad but nothing new.
It sounds like what’s actually new here is that the police is becoming more centralised and organised. Instead of a lot of smaller departments in local areas with lack of expertise, more centralised organisations will do the policing.
The article covers some pros and cons from different people’s perspectives.
- There might end up being more policing in cities and less in rural areas.
- There might be some downsizing of policies forces
- Police forces may be less accountable as they grow.
- Police forces believe they will be better equipped to tackle cybercrime.
Overall, to me, this seems like a generally negative move. I don’t want the police to spy on people, and I want them to be more knowledgeable about their local area and more accountable to their people. It does look like there might be more surveillance, and that’s bad too.
Please read don’t take headlines for granted.
- Comment on No I don't have a receipt 1 month ago:
Just binged the whole thing and it’s pretty funny, though a bit objectifying.
- Comment on I liek tudles 1 month ago:
It’s not certain this is true, but it’s somewhat likely. At least, that’s what I’m getting from the Wikipedia article.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_(tortoise)
She was not kept as a pet by Darwin, but she may have been collected by him on a journey, then kept at a museum(?)
