Armand1
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- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 1 day 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 1 day ago:
16GB
Best I can do is $50. Take it or leave it.
- Comment on telepathy 2 days ago:
psychokinesis*
- Comment on telepathy 2 days 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 6 days 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 1 week ago:
Another interesting one. These extensions are all related:
- Comment on Chrome extensions spying on 37M users' browsing data 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Wtf is “depends” here?
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 1 week ago:
Or percentages
- Comment on "Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Just binged the whole thing and it’s pretty funny, though a bit objectifying.
- Comment on I liek tudles 3 weeks 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(?)
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s why I’d like them to build more social housing.
The lifecycle of social housing projects like these, as I understand them, is meant to be that you continue to build them, and as the old ones reach the end of their lifetime (around 60 years?) you demolish them and move the people into the new ones.
In practice, most places are not continuously building them as they should, so many of them are reaching the end of their lives without a plan for where to move people afterwards. This shows a lack of foresight and long-term planning.
Of course, politics are a fickle thing so the latest government can choose to decide that actually, poor people should be punished for the failures of the system and long-term initiatives fail.
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 4 weeks ago:
For me I found out when I wanted them to fix something and they refused to honour the warranty because of the blown fuse.
As far as I know, this is illegal, btw. They have to prove that the error you are reporting is caused by user action. If your battery craps out, they can’t blame it on you rooting your phone.
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 4 weeks ago:
Samsung has been blowing fuses in your phone when you root since at least 2015. I know because it happened to me. Never bought one again after that.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 4 weeks ago:
Social housing typically doesn’t look as good as high-end apartments, but it doesn’t have to look terrible. Here’s some pretty neat looking social housing in south Paris.
It’s kind of the China Town of Paris.
It’s right next to an accessible tram station, has green spaces and social areas spread around, a couple of malls with great independent restaurants right next door. There are cycle lanes all around the place.
If you’re curious, here it is on Google Maps
I’d live here. I only wish there were more neighbourhoods like this.
- Comment on New research finds that ChatGPT systematically favours wealthier, Western regions in response to questions ranging from 'Where are people more beautiful?' to 'Which country is safer?' 4 weeks ago:
This is obvious. It’s literally trained off of English-speaking Reddit comments and designed to give the most likely answer to a question.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Return of the Obra Dinn be like:
- Comment on Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028 5 weeks ago:
Micron: “But guuyyyyyyys… What about the money? We could be making so much more money!”
