Umbrias
@Umbrias@beehaw.org
- Comment on Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break 2 weeks ago:
it’s criticized in general as a dark pattern that encourages toxic habits and is anti consumer. it is secondarily a problem because aint nobody got time for that shit.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 3 weeks ago:
why do you care that someone didnt say it was worse enough? “x is a problem, if y is true then z is a problem” -> “why didnt you talk about x”
silly.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 3 weeks ago:
Because these are often sold with profile building features, for example, recall. Recall is sold as “local only” with profile building features. So it continues to be centralized pii that is a point of failure. As the quote says, as i said.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 3 weeks ago:
I don’t care if your language model is “local-only” and runs on the user’s device. If it can build a profile of the user (regardless of accuracy) through their smartphone usage, that can and will be used against people.
emphasis mine from the text you quoted…
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 3 weeks ago:
building and centralizing pii is indeed a privacy point of failure. what’s not to understand?
- Comment on USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world 4 weeks ago:
i see, the computer version of a prehensile tail…
- Comment on When Platforms and the Government Unite, Remember What’s Private and What Isn’t 3 months ago:
it is certainly spurred by the developing situation in the us and has examples from it, but otherwise nothing applie only to the us. and the us finalizing it going to shit effects you anywhere in the world.
- Comment on When Platforms and the Government Unite, Remember What’s Private and What Isn’t 3 months ago:
? eff has international reach and the article applies everywhere. it was clearly intentionally written to apply anywhere. your comment makes no sense.
- Comment on When Platforms and the Government Unite, Remember What’s Private and What Isn’t 3 months ago:
do you think the us is the only state that works with corps to surveil?
- Comment on flouride 5 months ago:
nah it’s actually pretty low, toothpaste isnt in your mouth for a huge amount of time and it needs to be a certain level of nontoxic for edibility. this is why dentists still do fluoride soaks. the fluoride in the water also accumulates in and hardens bones a bit, though not a ton.
- Comment on flouride 5 months ago:
yes fluoride diffuses into enamel and chemically and mechanically hardens it. this effect is strongly linked to better dental outcomes for children and adults. also, tons of blaces actually remove fluoride to the needed levels because it is naturally higher.
- Comment on Tiger Predators 6 months ago:
that’s not how that works, we cant regrow (most) vital organs (liver says hi) because of “engineering problems” not because evolution is random. we personify adaptations to understand them, it can lead to issues but yours is a massive overcorrection.
- Comment on Tomorrow's Problems 7 months ago:
you’ve got it. the period of the sun up/sun down cycle would be the orbital period.