papertowels
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- Comment on Acquired a sliding mitre saw 1 week ago:
Excellent! I have the same one. If you’re cutting a lot of aluminum know that it’ll dull the blade, but a bit won’t hurt.
- Comment on Florida ounces 2 weeks ago:
The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.
- Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches, #4)
- Comment on selfh.st: improper etiquette by 2010 standards? (trackers, no RSS) Thoughts? 3 weeks ago:
This is such a Lemmy/self hosted problem lol
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 3 weeks ago:
Welp, as a wise person once said, you can’t argue with monkeys.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 4 weeks ago:
If you think so, then you should argue that point instead of trying to short-circuit the argument by being pedantic about a logical inconsistency.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 4 weeks ago:
You’re admitting the technology is in fact flawed if you think it needed to be implemented with supervision.
You’re absolutely right. The technology isn’t perfect if it needs to be implemented with supervision, but it can be good enough.
Great examples are self checkout lanes, where there’s always an employee watching, and speed cameras, which always have an officer reviewing and signing off on tickets.
An uno reverse is, every set of traffic lights needs a traffic controller to stop drivers running red lights.
Traffic lights are meant to control traffic. Yet you don’t expect them to prevent folks from running red lights. Folks don’t expect them to, because that’s not their role in their implementation - they are meant to be used alongside folks who will enforce traffic laws, and, maybe in fact, traffic controllers. This is arguably an example of an implementation done right.
This technology is meant to flag car damage. If there was a correct implementation, I would be able to say “folks don’t expect them to be perfect, because that’s not their role in their implementation - they are meant to be used alongside employees trained to verify damage exists, who can correct the algorithm if needed”, but the implementation in this case is sadly bad.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 4 weeks ago:
There is no human element to this implantation, it is the technology itself malfunctioning. There was no damage but the system thinks there is damage.
Let’s make sure we’re building up from the same foundation. My assumptions are:
- Algorithms will make mistakes.
- There’s an acceptable level of error for all algorithms.
- If an algorithm is making too many mistakes, that can be mitigated with human supervision and overrides.
In this case, the lack of human override discussed in point 3 is, itself, a human-made decision that I am claiming is an error in implementing this technology. That is the human element.
I work with machine learning algorithms. You will not, ever, find a practical machine learning algorithm that gets something right 100% of the time and is never wrong. But we don’t say “the technology is malfunctioning” when it gets something wrong, otherwise there’s a ton of invisible technology that we all rely on in our day to day lives that is “malfunctioning”.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 4 weeks ago:
Society typically understands “there’s nothing wrong with x” to mean it’s performing within acceptable boundaries, and not to mean that it has achieved perfection.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 4 weeks ago:
Do you hold everything to such a standard?
Stop lights are meant to direct traffic. If someone runs a red light, is the technology not working as it should?
The technology here, using computer vision to automatically flag potential damage, needed to be implemented alongside human supervision - an employee should be able to walk by the car, see that the flagged damage doesn’t actually exist, and override the algorithm.
The technology itself isn’t bad, it’s how hertz is using it that is.
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 4 weeks ago:
A fascinating theory I read is that MAGA is making a big deal out of Epstein because it provides an off-ramp that lets them save face.
Legit I’m like "bruh, you’re surprised that you’re billionaire ‘grab em by the pussy’, ‘accidentally’ walking into the miss teen usa, ‘I’d fuck my daughter if she wasn’t my daughter’ president is on a list of billionaire sexual predators? I’m glad that something finally looks like it might stick to him but c’mon guys.
- Comment on PrintGuard Is a New Open Source 3D Printing Failure Detector That Runs on the Edge 5 weeks ago:
It’s referring to edge computing, and can be thought of as essentially saying “self hosting”.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
I think I remember the dual thumb, but I just remember being amazed at how responsive it was
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
Typing on this thing was a dream.
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 1 month ago:
Active noise cancelling - noise cancelling that doesn’t just rely on making a seal between your ears and the earbuds/headphones.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 1 month ago:
Sounds like a you problem, I have it on good authority that it’s pretty common:
how many times does the average person use wireless charging? Seriously, I haven’t seen anyone do that yet, or know of someone who uses that.
and yet that’s still a major feature in lots of phones
You’ve shown everyone that you can, in fact, listen to wired headphones and charge at the same time with “major features found in lots of phones”, which solves your original complaint, which itself depends on some very specific scenarios.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 1 month ago:
Funny you bring up wireless charging.
Does that not solve your proposed problem? You can use a usb-c to audio dongle, which often comes with better sound quality than a phones DAC, and wirelessly charge, even via many powerbanks. These are features found fairly commonly in today’s phones, so problem solved?
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 1 month ago:
If I’ve asked a question twice and you’ve danced around it both times, that tells everyone what your answer is.
It appears you and I both know this is a loud but not statistically relevant need.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 1 month ago:
Sure, for simplicities sake let’s just say it’s impossible.
How many times has the average person needed to do so in a year?
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 1 month ago:
If we revisit the “loud” vs “statistically significant” paradigm, while it is a shame you will not be able to charge the phone with a dac in, how often does the average person do so?
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 2 months ago:
Here’s a relevant stack exchange question. Regarding what an ISP can learn. Of note, everybody is ceding that the ISP can tell you’re using signal, and they’ve moved on to whether or not they’d be able to fingerprint your usage patterns.
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 2 months ago:
Any number of other people. Primarily the government.
Right, so if the header isn’t encrypted, it’d be trivial for them to see who you’re sending to, which is why that’s important.
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 2 months ago:
You’re talking about encryption and signal because you’re worried about folks whose network you’re connected to being able to invade your privacy, right?
I’d say it’s a pretty reasonable suggestion to say we start with those guys. If you don’t worry about those guys, who do have access to traffic info, then why bother with encryption?
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 2 months ago:
If the header isn’t encrypted it’d be easy to inspect, and this easy to determine where it goes, which is why it matters.
Based on your questions, it sounds like you’re expecting the network traffic itself to be encrypted, as if there were a VPN. Does signal offer such a feature? My understanding is that the messages themselves are encrypted, but the traffic isn’t, but I could be wrong.
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 2 months ago:
Would you? Are the headers encrypted?
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 2 months ago:
How are they analyzing network traffic with Signal? It’s encrypted
Again, not my specialty, but signals end to end encryption is akin to sealing a letter. Nobody but the sender and the recipient can open that letter.
But you still gotta send it through the mail. That’s the network traffic analysis that can be used.
Here’s an example of why that could be bad.
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 2 months ago:
How exactly do you think encryption prevents the analysis of seeing when an encrypted message is sent?
- Comment on Let delivery drivers keep their 2 months ago:
Thanks for taking the time to walk through your thoughts - I appreciate the conversation.
I think the particularly egregious problem with interpreting the comment as referring to the association of man=top=dom is that the meme has a gal as the dom, as you’ve pointed out, which does go against heteronormativity.
- Comment on Let delivery drivers keep their 2 months ago:
I understand heteronormative to be about social norms centered around heterosexuality, and how that is the dominant cultural factor.
With that understanding, viewing things through a heteronormative lens is to exclude the views of non-heterosexual folks.
Then “heteronormative bullshit” is comparable to “heterosexual bullshit”.
I might’ve missed some nuance - this is not my forte. However my naive understanding is that saying this was commentary on “cultural norms” is similar to saying to civil war was about “states rights”. States rights to do what? (Slavery) Cultural norms centered around what? (Heterosexuality)
- Comment on Let delivery drivers keep their 2 months ago:
“heteronormative” doesn’t mean “it’s the fault of straight people” are you serious
But does “heteronormative bullshit” imply that?
What if they’d said “I’m tired of this homosexual bullshit that glitter goes everywhere?”
That definitely reads as “I believe it’s the fault of the queer people” to me, do you believe otherwise?
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 2 months ago:
Reusable rockets, in particular.
Imagine having a reusable car in a world where they were all disposable.