ArmchairAce1944
@ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
- Comment on Facial recognition to be rolled out nationwide in major police reforms 6 hours ago:
Reform just ultimately means change. Meaning they can get rid of those pesky things like privacy and search warrants and right to silence. If the AI says you are guilty then you are. No appeals. If it turns out later that you aren’t then you still must serve your sentence but we will correct the problem only if it impacts the provider’s bottom line.
- Comment on Facial recognition to be rolled out nationwide in major police reforms 6 hours ago:
Yes. I apologize. I should have mentioned it.
- Comment on Facial recognition to be rolled out nationwide in major police reforms 7 hours ago:
That’s the idea, I am afraid.
- Comment on Le Tits, Now! 8 hours ago:
I found it and watched it shortly after writing that comment. It is all good.
- Comment on Facial recognition to be rolled out nationwide in major police reforms 8 hours ago:
But it was. George Orwell knew what they wanted and how they thought.
- Comment on Facial recognition to be rolled out nationwide in major police reforms 9 hours ago:
They will account for that.
- Comment on Facial recognition to be rolled out nationwide in major police reforms 10 hours ago:
I remember hearing about how Britain had so many cameras that it was a privacy nightmare as early as 2000 or 2001. The more time passes and the worse it gets and when Snowden even revealed that the UK government was trying to build a master database of all UK citizens internet activity as early as the mid 2000s it became EXTREMELY evident to me where and how Orwell got his ideas for 1984. While it might have seemed unthinkable to many, the ideas that would lead to that kind of surveillance is a lot older than many people think.
And the reason why they didn’t do it earlier is because… well, how do you do it at a time when recording equipment was costly to setup and extremely obvious AND posed no obvious benefit to the person it was being targeted at. Things like wire tapping phones has been possible since the earliest days of telephones (wire tapping became a known police/spy technique as early as 1928 in Olmstead v. United States), but in practice wiretapping all phones at the time was impossible. You couldn’t record all calls and those calls had to be listened to by a human. It was not possible. But today it is absolutely possible to do all that and more.
At least smart phones and the internet are both extremely useful and highly critical things. Having a camera in your home that doesn’t let you use it does not… but you can also use your ring camera that you set up in your home.
- Comment on Facial recognition to be rolled out nationwide in major police reforms 11 hours ago:
I hate to say it, but it remember around 2000 the UK being called the most surveilled country in Europe due to massive numbers of cameras. I thought it was bad back then, but I had no idea how much worse it would be.
- Comment on Facial recognition to be rolled out nationwide in major police reforms 12 hours ago:
I am Canadian, too (naturalized citizen) and can I have the legislation that banned facial recognition?
- Comment on Le Tits, Now! 12 hours ago:
Oh god I miss that flash. I wanna see it now.
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- Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires 4 days ago:
They need to have a policy change… public figures like those calling for these edits need to be shown in the most realistic light imaginable… meaning the darkest possible.
- Comment on Bo'le of wa'er 4 days ago:
I like how they just made the British dog’s nose massive.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 4 days ago:
And make it repeat you’re the man now, dog!
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 4 days ago:
Local only is the way to go.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 4 days ago:
They deliberately disabled an option in order to coerce you into buying a new one? That is insane.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 5 days ago:
I will never have a goddamn camera in my home. If I did it will HAVE to be an old school disconnected one that records to a DVR or some SSD HD. I have zero interest in having any unauthorized or unknown access to the interior of my home. This is a goddamn outrage, how is everyone not throwing their ring cameras out already?
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 5 days ago:
How can anyone forget NFTs? I never understood them and from what I understand they were probably a giant money laundering scheme.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 5 days ago:
The entire world order was built on crushing dissent and monitoring anyone inching to do anything. They probably let people vent by not censoring stuff online but they are probably documentating every we say. My question is not why, but how the hell can it be organized? I am honestly afraid to show up anywhere because I feel like the moment I do I will be blackbagged and disappeared.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 5 days ago:
College degrees are scraps of paper to then. They go to those places to find people and make connections.
I went to university to learn and earn a degree. I didn’t make connections. Hence why I never landed a job.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 5 days ago:
AI is the way capital is trying to acquire skills cutting off the skilled.
They are banking on that. They have been talking about replacing humanity for decades. But what rhat means is a few select humans (I.E. them) will survive and be tended to hand and foot by AI who will also invent things for them.
They want that. We aren’t there yet… and probably never will. But that is what they want.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 5 days ago:
The only thing I use AI for right now is spouting nonsense at it for a joke. For example I would ask ‘why didn’t (insert well known figure here) buy me lunch?’ Or ‘I farted and they cleared out a 10 block radius and called in a chemical weapons cleanup crew, is this normal?’
Shit like that.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 5 days ago:
Anyway…
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 5 days ago:
And eco-terrorism in the sense of destroying the environment, as opposed to destroying attempts at destroying like thr Unabomber.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 6 days ago:
Allrecipes has you covered.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 6 days ago:
I did take a few courses on excel over the last 25 years. I don’t use excel that much but most features will never be used by most people.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 6 days ago:
APPLY PRESSURE TO THAT WOUND PRIVATE OR WE WILL LOSE YOU!!!
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 6 days ago:
The best comedies will be made by them… like the NFT cartoon that was made using the bored ape pictures that was so bad that even the biggest advocates of NFTs had no idea what the hell they were doing.
- Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives 1 week ago:
I got 64gb of DDR5 ram. I got my computer from Dell and maxed out all what was available on their option. I have zero regrets.
- Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives 1 week ago:
I am intensely lucky and smart to gave gotten my new computer and a 14TB HDD right before this insanity happened. I am thinking of buying another 8TB HDD just for the hell of it.