ViatorOmnium
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- Comment on Israel Is Considered a "Genocidal, Apartheid Country" Abroad, According to Israel’s Own Research 2 days ago:
Israel's own reports admit they are killing more civilians by an order of magnitude, even if you count only the people that were directly killed by the IDF. That's not even up for debate.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 2 weeks ago:
Meta got a fine of over a billion euros.
Google got a bunch of smaller fines, but it's probably way above everyone else in terms of fines.
Microsoft got half a billion.
Even Apple got an 8 million euro fine, but that was more a tap in the wrist to make them think twice about some data collection.And besides this, large companies are constantly in contact with the authorities and in smaller violations the general policy is to give a warning and let companies stop the illegal data processing voluntarily.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 2 weeks ago:
You cannot use an algorithm to corelate it with other data without express consent.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 2 weeks ago:
GDPR article 9 (1) says you can't play algorithmic guess with people's religion or political opinions unless you gave express permission to the service provider to do it (i.e. it's not covered in the general GDPR boilerplate)
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 2 weeks ago:
GDPR also applies to data you get from public sources.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 2 weeks ago:
That's probably a massive GDPR violation. Automated processing of extra sensitive data like political beliefs and religion is not outright forbidden but it subject to extra protections.
- Comment on xkcd #3127: Where Babies Come From 4 weeks ago:
That's where Americans come from. Thanks all gods, most babies are not American.
- Comment on ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results 5 weeks ago:
The trick is reading checkboxes before pressing them.
I don't know what people expected the option
☐ Make this chat discoverable
Allows it to be shown in web searches
to do.
I also don't know why it would have been implemented in the first place, but at least it was very clear.
- Comment on Zero-hours contracts: Peers accused of ‘trying to block stronger UK workers’ rights’ 1 month ago:
said the Lords was “doing the bidding of bad bosses” and ought to “get out of the way” of the plans.
I think someone didn't notice who the "lords" are yet.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 1 month ago:
In terms of private banks, a basic savings account wouldn't really be a big risk for them nowadays because it's a bare bones account. It doesn't include things like access to credit cards or other forms of credits, or any form of long term investments.
If anything, banks might even like the idea, because it gives them a way to offload their riskier (and let's be honest less profitable) customers without making society fully collapse.
If the system is implemented properly it's a win-win for everyone.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 1 month ago:
For all other Europeans out there, avoiding this situations is another thing the EU did for us.
For the Americans, write to your representatives demanding the same rights.
Excluding people from having a bank account in 2025 is basically condemning them to ostracism even without sending to concentration camps.
- Comment on The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics 1 month ago:
It's almost like most customers prefer function over form.
- Comment on This comic hung in my office for years 1 month ago:
Journalists are not the source of the claim the LLMs are the path to AGI.
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 1 month ago:
They are hoping people are going to be afraid of being caught with one. (yeah, idiots)
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 1 month ago:
Because the manufacturer and seller are in China and they want to make an example out of someone?
- Comment on Parents urged to get children vaccinated after measles death in Liverpool 1 month ago:
If a child dies of measles in a school all parents of all unvaccinated kids at school should be jailed for manslaughter.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 2 months ago:
So does not allowing food companies to sprinkle lead and uranium in food. What's the point?
- Comment on Spain ruling party bars members from hiring sex workers 2 months ago:
I hope they are not hiring people's bodies to build their houses. Or to move their furniture. Or to do any other job that's damaging to the body.
- Comment on Is there a federated LinkedIn? 2 months ago:
If you work in tech in Europe, lots of people are already on mastodon.
- Comment on 32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site? 2 months ago:
If any work it's a bug. "Dating" apps don't want to be dating apps, they want to be hookup apps because that's how they can keep repeat customers.
The only way dating apps would remain dating apps under for profit companies is if they found a way to charge a subscription for long term relationships. - Comment on Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy 2 months ago:
That's why monitoring and digital calendars exist.
- Comment on New Fairphone turns into a dumbphone at the flick of a switch 2 months ago:
The problem with most dumphone modes is that "normal" Phone and SMS (RCS makes the latter better, but your provider needs to support it, and it usually adds one more Google dependency) are useless if your social network extends past one country, and that's not that uncommon in Europe. I would need to at least be able to include Signal for it to work for me.
- Comment on Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order 2 months ago:
You are thinking about dignity and imagining a British aristocrat drinking tea from a fine porcelain cup with the pinky held up while plotting world domination. That's the vernacular meaning of dignity.
In the context of human rights, dignity is the natural right of every single person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically.
You don't infringe it by saying that your government is being managed by incompetent or immoral people. You infringe it when you say women belong in the kitchen and not in the office, or that black people are naturally inferior to black people, or that gay people don't have right to love who they love, etc.
- Comment on Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order 2 months ago:
The same way your right to wave your hands ends before they reach other people's faces, free speech can't include speech infringing on other people's dignity (in the legal/philosophical sense).
Regulating speech within this frame is as bad as stopping a bar fight by dragging the participants away.
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 2 months ago:
Of the SI system. The metric system started with cgs (centimeter, gram, second) and evolved from there.
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 2 months ago:
They were all done by scientists or engineers.
The meter was defined based on what they calculated as the length of Paris' meridian.
The second was 1/86400 of a day, which makes sense with the angle/circle nomenclature on the clock.
The gram was initially set to be the mass of 1cm³ of water at 4°C - which is why 1l of water ≈ 1kg.
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 2 months ago:
There's nothing in the SI system that says ratios have to be between base units. Units that involve mass are defined against the kilogram not the gram.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 2 months ago:
Because neural networks aren't known to suffer from model collapse when using their output as training data. /s
Most billionaires are mediocre sociopaths but Elon Musk takes it to the "Emperors New Clothes" levels of intellectual destitution.
- Comment on Yeah failed successfully 2 months ago:
- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 2 months ago:
The same legal terms might mean vastly different things in Germany and the US. This is often the case in arbitration and warranty clauses.