perviouslyiner
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- Comment on Police to be able to run face recognition searches on 50m driving licence holders | Facial recognition | The Guardian 11 months ago:
Well that’s one way to deter car usage in future generations.
You could almost call it a “war on motorists”, Mr Sunak?
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 11 months ago:
“buy”
- Comment on Christmas tree rings 11 months ago:
If you’ve got a ‘fake’ christmas tree, then absolutely display that thing every year for twenty years to beat the environmental impact of christmas tree farms without the fire risk of a bringing tree without roots indoors.
- Comment on Annual report on education spending a ‘damning indictment of Government’s failure to invest’ 11 months ago:
Did they say exactly how “The National Funding Formula and Minimum Per Pupil levels have siphoned money away from the areas in greatest need”?
- Comment on Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home 11 months ago:
problem with wormholes is that you can send information into the past - so if you receive a message, does that mean you’re predetermined to subsequently send that message
- Comment on the best feeling 11 months ago:
When you’re 90% through a ASOIAF ebook and it finishes b/c the rest is a list of family names
- Comment on Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked rolling stock maintained by competitor 11 months ago:
and how hackers being able to change train software is in any way a less-damaging thing to claim!
- Comment on Ex-commissioner for facial recognition tech joins Facewatch firm he approved 11 months ago:
Do you want to be featured in Private Eye? Because this is how you get featured in Private Eye.
- Comment on HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated' 11 months ago:
Subhead “apparently they’re being serious” - The Register knows what people think!
- Comment on Japanese experimental nuclear fusion reactor inaugurated 11 months ago:
So does this also mean that glow-in-the-dark watches (the non electronic type) get cheaper?
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 11 months ago:
halfyear includes people trying out different instances; monthly shows just the one(s) they settled on
- Comment on Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data 11 months ago:
“We don’t infringe copyright; The model output is an emergent new thing and not just a recital of its inputs”
“so these questions won’t reveal any copyrighted information then?”
(padme stare)
“right?”
- Comment on I'll just be a quick 3h 11 months ago:
Newspaper: Hackers are announcing a trove of personal data leaked from [company] after a forwarded spreadsheet inadvertently contained more data than the sender realised.
- Comment on "Earth-like" 11 months ago:
like when the whole world froze en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician
or thousands of years of lava pouring out …wikipedia.org/…/Permian–Triassic_extinction_even…
- Comment on When someone starts with I'm not racist it usually means they are. 11 months ago:
- Comment on Games with characters you miss most after completion. 11 months ago:
- Comment on At some point in time people will link to stack overflow, forum or similar support articles that are over 100 years old. 11 months ago:
And The Art of Computer Programming will finally be finished?
- Comment on 'Impossible' Crystal Was Forged in World's First Nuclear Bomb Test 11 months ago:
- Comment on New Private Eye just dropped 11 months ago:
Don’t do what I do, just read the cartoons and take measured dips into reading the sea of corruption that they expose.
- Comment on Attempted right-wing takeover of National Trust backed by Nigel Farage fails! 1 year ago:
“Participation in the organisation’s AGM hit record levels this year” - Nice! I saw on Mastodon some discussion about how it was actually important this year.
- Comment on Disabled people are trying to tell us how benefits system is killing them. It’s time we listened. 1 year ago:
It’s all in the website they link?
- Comment on How SIM Swappers Straight-Up Rob T-Mobile Stores 1 year ago:
still a good story to tell people who are designing a security infrastructure, they need to think about things like this
- Comment on Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages 1 year ago:
All of them - …mozilla.org/…/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-…
- Comment on 1 year ago:
think they mean a plastic jug to fill up from the tap and pour over your head
- Comment on What can i do with 3d models as an everyday joe? 1 year ago:
could also make them a available as asset libraries for other people to make into games - it seems hard to find consistent sets of 3d models for games
- Comment on Microsoft Launches Fresh Cybersecurity Strategy After New Attacks 1 year ago:
direct link: …microsoft.com/…/secure-future-initiative-sfi-cyb…
- Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like. 1 year ago:
Another more successful operation in Rwanda and Ghana is en.wikipedia.org/…/Zipline_(drone_delivery_compan… delivering 1.8kg over 300km and dropped by parachute.
- Comment on Boris Johnson asked experts if you could kill Covid by blowing hairdryer up nose 1 year ago:
advertised lies about brexit on buses
Or ordered a quite impractical routemaster replacement that was more for decoration than for transport (the company who built it couldn’t sell any and went bankrupt)
- Comment on German court declares “Do Not Track” to be legally binding 1 year ago:
“oh we can’t possibly understand that field as there is no agreed industry standard for how to treat it” - get out, you know exactly what it means.
- Comment on What makes a bicycle so expensive? 1 year ago:
No, just a salt flat, deep mud, a dust storm, etc. and fording a river.
