Armand1

@ Armand1 @lemmy.world

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2w ago

Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children
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Armand1 @lemmy.world 2w ago
Or percentages

2w ago

Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up

Good job gender criticals. At the cost of the lives of 22 children in 2022 alone, you have made bigoted parents feel slightly more comfortable.

Truly protecting the children.

2w ago

Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up

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Armand1 @lemmy.world 2w ago

There's also, anecdotally, been a lot more self-harming since both rulings. Including children as young as 6 years old. So I've been told by trans activists I know.

2w ago

"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker

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Armand1 @lemmy.world 2w ago

Every time

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Armand1 @lemmy.world 2w ago

Of course. It's not like I want this. I was out there messaging my MP when the UK law had just been pushed through and filling out the petitions. It didn't help though.

You can send a message to Discord by leaving, but they won't revert it for places where it's legally required.

2w ago

Every time

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Armand1 @lemmy.world 2w ago

I will say that this has been in the works for a little bit now and it's more related to the UK's new laws. We've had this age verification stuff on Discord for some months now.

As for why it's being rolled out globally, not sure. The UK is not the only country / state starting to ask for ages verification on "social media" so maybe they thought it would be easier to use the same approach everywhere? Seems like a bad idea though as everywhere it's implemented it's unpopular.

My experience with it so far has been that... well... It hasn't affected me at all. Mostly because I only use friends servers and activism servers. Those aren't age restricted, so you never hit this check.

As far as age verification law compliance / implementation goes, this is not the worst one. That data leak early on was a clown show though.

2w ago

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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Armand1 @lemmy.world 2w ago

hunting for alternatives

I've heard people mention Matrix, but I've not tried it yet.

2w ago

Don’t Let Elon Musk Implant a Device in Your Skull

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Armand1 @lemmy.world 2w ago

As the above comment goes, I agree with the sentiment but not with the language.

I'd go further: seize all his assets and redistribute them. That will never happen though.

2w ago

Don’t Let Elon Musk Implant a Device in Your Skull

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Armand1 @lemmy.world 2w ago

Don’t Let Elon Musk Implant a Device in Your Skull

He can't be trusted

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

That said, I can understand the draw for people who have disabilities who would benefit from these tools. It could be life changing.

It's sad that society seems to rely on insane billionaires to move science forward over properly funded state healthcare and research.

The immediate result of this overdrive was roughly 1,500 dead animals, either killed directly by Neuralink’s experiments or euthanized afterward.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but "move fast and break things" is being taken very literally in Musk's companies, even when those things are living things.

We'd heard of the bypassing regulations too, like around pollution and planning when building AI server farms, and that's fully present here.

2w ago

All of X-Files, summed up.

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Armand1 @lemmy.world 2w ago

Use spoiler tags my boy. Most people who come through here will have seen it, but still.

2w ago

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

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Armand1 @lemmy.world 2w ago

Hmmm...

As the article correctly states, machine learning ("AI" is a misnomer that has stuck imo) has been used successfully for decades in medicine.

Machine learning is inherently about spotting patterns and inferring from them. The problem, I think, is two-fold:

There are more "AI" products than ever, not all companies build it in responsibly and it's difficult for regulators to keep up with them.

The gutting of these regulatory agencies by the current US administration does not help ofc, but many of them were already severely undermanned.

As AI is normalised, some doctors will put too much trust in these systems.

This isn't helped by the fact that the makers of these products are likely to exaggerate the capabilities of their products. This may be reflected in the products themselves, where they may not properly communicate the degree of certainty of a diagnosis / conclusion (e.g. "30% certainty this lesion is cancerous")

2w ago

All of X-Files, summed up.

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Armand1 @lemmy.world 2w ago

Well, I'd summarise the X-Files as (no spoilers):

Mulder has his sister (purportedly) kidnapped by aliens as a child.
As a result, Mulder is an occult nut who wants to spend all his time investigating supernatural stuff.
For some reason the FBI lets him spend all his time doing that. (Kind of nepotism maybe?)
They send Scully to go watch him, but she does a terrible job of that.
Every episode there's a different monster or paranormal thing. Mulder says something like "It's Bigfoot", Scully says "That's silly, Bigfoot isn't real", then they see it is Bigfoot but Scully tries to rationalise it away.
At some point Mulder gets tangled up in government conspiracies.
He makes it his side job to try and crack those conspiracies, but continues his monster-of-the-week formula of normal paranormal investigations for the most part.
As time goes on, there's more and more conspiracy unwinding stuff, but they never fire him or kill him because one of the secret cabal members has a soft spot for him.

More stuff happens in the later seasons, but I'll leave it out for spoilers.

TLDR; Mulder is not anti-government / FBI, he's anti-secrecy and anti-conspiracy. He's an occult nut who just wants to engage in his hobbies on the government dime.

2w ago

British soldiers to get new AI radios, headsets and tablets

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Armand1 @lemmy.world 2w ago

AI radios

Looks inside

No AI

Jokes aside, this is a common thing in tech / software at the moment.

You can make fantastic software and systems, but unless you slap an AI label on it, big companies and organisations will not want to pay for it, or will pass you over for a product that says it has it, even if it's dogshit.

AI (or, more accurately, machine learning) can bring value, but so can a lot of other features.

2w ago

Trump accused of role in Epstein’s death in tip sent to FBI, files reveal

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Armand1 @lemmy.world 2w ago

The disgraced financier’s brother

You mean convicted pedophile sex trafficker. Let's not mince words here.

The article does not reveal any actual new facts, only that Mark Epstein agrees with the general public that Trump and Epstein were close, and that Mark thinks he had him killed. No new evidence is provided for this.

So basically this is all a bit of a nothing-burger.

Hardly a "bombshell email".

2w ago

Fearmongering

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Armand1 @lemmy.world 2w ago

Genuinely not sure what she thought it was.

2w ago

Weather App of Choice?

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Armand1 @lemmy.world 2w ago

I discovered it when I found it was shipped with CalyxOS and honestly it's way better than anything else I've found.

2w ago

Liberal Double Standards

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Armand1 @lemmy.world 2w ago

When a country does war crimes, the entirety of its populace is not to blame, the systems, power structures and people in charge are.

Most people in a country are not for wars or other attacking other countries. This is true for America and Russia alike, to the best of my knowledge (which granted, is anecdotal).

More people should be engaged in activism and should push back against the inhumane actions of their state, and people should be less gullible to the promises of their leaders.

Both America and Russia are overdue for major reform. Their systems are broken and many of their people brainwashed. Wishing harm on them does not help and imo is not a constructive approach. If anything, hate just begets more hate, making things worse.

If you are going to have hate, it should be more focused on the people in power.

2w ago

Liberal Double Standards

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Armand1 @lemmy.world 2w ago

Splitting hairs. If you think a group of people are intrinsically worse than others, you are effectively racist.

We can come up with new names, but ultimately it's all the same. If you think racism means black vs white then your understanding is kindergarten level.