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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just 💚 them and think they're neat.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  the process has a great name: Kleptoplasty

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf. Why do Israeli tanks look like IRL Dall-E?

  I rescind my remark.

  no, you were right - even though it is based on an actual photo, it is also slop, because someone upscaled a low res version using a neural network.

  compare the tank tracks in OP’s image with the high res original photo:

  closeup of tank track on OP’s AI upscaled slop image same closeup in high-res original photo

• YSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed.en.wikipedia.org ↗
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• You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the suddenlemmy.ml ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t heard of academics and/or media from China advocating for applications of phrenology/physiognomy or other related racist pseudosciences. Have you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  one can also get the full paper directly from yale here without needing to solve a google captcha:

  …yale.edu/…/AI Personality Extraction from Faces …

  I don’t have the time nor the expertise to read everything to understand how they take into account the bias that good looking white men with educated parents are way more likely to succeed at life.

  i admittedly did not read the entire 61 pages but i read enough to answer this:

  spoiler

  they don’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plastic surgery would become more popular.

  One of the paper’s authors had the same thought:

  “Suppose this type of technology gets used in labor market screening, or maybe dating markets,” Shue muses. “Going forward, you could imagine a reaction in which people then start modifying their pictures to look a certain way. Or they could modify their actual faces through cosmetic procedures.”‌

  She also bizarrely claims

  “we are very much not advocating that this technology be used by firms as part of their hiring process.”

  and yet, for some reason:

  The next step for Shue and her colleagues is to explore whether certain personality types are drawn to specific industries or whether those personality types are more likely to succeed within given industries.

• The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"lemmy.ml ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the main device to hammer in a nail?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “is this a pigeon?” butterfly meme, captioned “is this numberwang?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same, honestly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The bears definitely took notice of the drone. The animals’ heart rate skyrocketed when the UAV flew overhead, and their stress response was stronger when the quadcopter flew in windy conditions that masked the sound of its approach — apparently bears do not like being surprised. One bear started moving faster after the quadcopter flew by. And the bear that had experienced the greatest increase in heart rate — from 41 beats per minute to 162 — moved nearly 7 kilometers in the next 28 hours, encroaching into a neighboring female’s territory.

  All in all, though, the bears weren’t stressed all that much, the researchers concluded.

  🤌

  At least there is this:

  Ditmer’s team says that their results reinforce the NPS ban on drones in parks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even do Price Discrimination on video games now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When Miamoto died,

  Myamoto isn’t dead

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto 🤦

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  Is the communications holofilter ready?

  Engage the overlay. Put them on screen. Commander Sisko disguised as Kobheerian Captain Viterian (Norman Large) by the USS Defiant’s Holofilter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, you know, just block domains that use Microsoft email

  I’m guessing you probably don’t realize how many organizations host their email with Microsoft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Roll Safe” meme (Kayode Ewumi tapping his finger on his head), no text

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i agree reactions can be useful, but adding them to email the way Microsoft has is obnoxious for recipients using any client other than theirs. and, i think this is probably their intention: receiving an email reaction in a client that doesn’t render it as a reaction feels wrong and MS probably hopes this will encourage some people to switch to using Outlook.

  the right way to add reactions to email would be to make it opt-in (and also not a vendor-specific header but instead something which aims to become a standard): clients should only allow reactions to messages which contain a header specifically signaling that the sender supports receiving them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  💯

• YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" headerneilzone.co.uk ↗
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• You can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" headerneilzone.co.uk ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Deep Space Nine?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  their fishing rods are invisible for you? including the hook and line? that must be rough. how do you avoid getting caught when you can’t even see them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have in fact read 1984. (As an aside, I highly recommend reading Isaac Asimov’s review of it…)

  Anyway, FYI:

  Obesity and hunger often go hand in hand

  What Is the Hunger-Obesity Paradox?

  etc etc 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  subtitled screenshot of the scene in The Big Lebowski at Johnie’s Cafe Shop Restaurant where Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) is saying to Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) “You want a toe? I can get you a toe.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  tell me you didn’t click either link without telling me you didn’t click either link 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Malnutrition perhaps, but nobody in the world’s richest, fattest country - where the fattest people are the poorest ones - is dealing with “hunger”. I wish we could just abstain from manipulative Orwellian language.

  The USDA differentiates food insecurity from hunger, and both exist in the United States. See www.ers.usda.gov/…/definitions-of-food-security and en.wikipedia.org/…/Food_insecurity_and_hunger_in_…

• The ELIZA effect: "extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program" can "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people"en.wikipedia.org ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most valuable advertising keywords could be "ublock origin"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Note that I am, despite your assertion, using the full uBlock Origin, not the Google-friendly uBlock Origin Lite

  Seeing your screenshot I was curious how that works, so I spent a minute searching and found this post from June 2024 where Vivaldi says:

  We will keep Manifest v2 for as long as it’s still available in Chromium. We expect to drop support in June 2025, but we may maintain it longer or be forced to drop support for it sooner, depending on the precise nature of the changes to the code.

  In my quick search I didn’t find anything more recent about their schedule for dropping it, so I guess (assuming your software is up-to-date?) they haven’t dropped it yet but presumably will do soon.

  But in any case, Vivaldi is proprietary/closed-source, so, I recommend against using it.

• Sam Altman prepares ChatGPT for its AI-rotica debutwww.theregister.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030 − and welcome in the age of commercial space stations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile the Tiangong space station began construction in 2021 and has been continuously crewed since June 2022. It currently has capacity for six people, and via UNOOSA-organized cooperation has plans to host experiments from 17 countries including Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Spain. The first non-Chinese person to travel there will likely be from Pakistan. (The US would be welcome too but Congress currently prohibits NASA from participating.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure it’s possible, but you can’t actually do it. Because you need a dedicated programer

  I try to avoid recommending proprietary software but FYI the multimedia authoring tool formerly known as FutureSplash Animator which you presumably knew as Adobe Flash Professional (or perhaps Macromedia Flash before that) in fact lives on today as Adobe Animate and it can now target HTML5/SVG/WebGL/etc.

  There are also many free/libre open source alternatives to it.

• MODPOD: The collapse of IETF's protections for dissent - new rules will go into effect unless enough people hear what's happening and file objections by October 7 (in any timezone, so 18 hours remain)blog.cr.yp.to ↗
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