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deathbird

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  • They warned you

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  • Me, picking through a nuclear hellscape caused not by a self-aware computer system protecting itself from its infanticidal progenitors, but by a "hallucinating" chatbot installed at the behest of an incompetent manager to save a little labor cost.

  • We need to organise...

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  • I already miss those halcyon days when if I saw a photo or video I could be reasonably sure whether or not it was computer generated.

    Provenance is going to matter again, and chains/webs of trust are always a heavy lift.

  • I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.

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  • I think this kinda points to why AI is pretty decent for short videos, photos, and texts. It produces outputs that one applies meaning to, and humans are meaning making animals. A computer can't overlook or rationalize a coding error the same way.

  • Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline

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  • I mean, if I felt I could control the little computer in a smart fridge without expending excessive effort to do so, I might be interested in getting one myself. Absent other concerns, a tablet integrated into my fridge could be handy to monitor the appliance, make quick or even automated grocery list updates, etc. Not earth shattering, but still marginally useful.

  • Introducing Proton Sheets

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  • Wait, you can't access it via IMAP?

  • Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline

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  • And just because it's legal doesn't mean it's ethical.

  • Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline

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  • My concern is that they'll include the equipment for spying on you, and just enable it later.

    I bought a Hue because it said "no online account required!" Later they changed their mind.

    I want the promise plus open standards and a base of libre software. I want them to tie themselves to the mast.

  • Hillary Clinton Says Young Americans Are Pro-Palestine Because They Watch ‘Totally Made Up’ Videos of Gaza Horrors

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  • Ironically X's community notes have been pretty good at fact checking posts.

    Not sure about bans in general, but short-form video on infinite scroll is 100% brain rot.

  • Recommendations for after installing Linux (Mint) coming from Windows for best practices for a casual user ?

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  • TFM is best found in the form of the man (manual) files, which you can see for any given program by running:

    $ man program_name

    Archwiki is good too, even of you don't run Arch

  • Hillary Clinton Says Young Americans Are Pro-Palestine Because They Watch ‘Totally Made Up’ Videos of Gaza Horrors

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  • On that very particular point she's not wrong. The collapse of trustworthy news sources and the rise of social media is bad for getting the truth out.

    I'd like to get to where we can verify and validate citizen reporting consistently.

  • Hillary Clinton Says Young Americans Are Pro-Palestine Because They Watch ‘Totally Made Up’ Videos of Gaza Horrors

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  • She's trash, but this does remind me that I am worried about fake outrage bait videos. It's already too good.

  • Photo enforcement cameras

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  • ....with red light cameras.

    Correct. It is a different problem.

  • Photo enforcement cameras

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  • That is actually a legitimate concern. Add it to the long list of "technologies that are cool and good except when capitalism"

  • Photo enforcement cameras

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  • Civic religion, but make it gnostic.

  • Photo enforcement cameras

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  • The SA article mentions Houston, a notoriously horrible city to drive in (concentric freeway rings, I swear). It pulled data from Texas from before 2010, and I know at least some municipalities were shortening their yellows then to encourage short stopping. It also studies changes in behavior after the punishment tool has been removed, so the drivers are already operating with years of conditioning. They even referenced the study that showed that the number of people running red lights in Virginia dropped 67% after red light cameras were installed? I need to look a little bit closer at their statistical analysis to see what confidence threshold they were using to determine that the reduction in accidents that they did see was not statistically significant, but overall I'm not that impressed by one study from a borderline pop science magazine.

    Meta-analysis is the way to go.

  • Photo enforcement cameras

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  • First, don't call it anarchy. But second, the other way to stop people from running reds is more cops.

  • Photo enforcement cameras

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  • None of these are actual problems with red light cameras, and actually people run red lights all the damn time.

  • Photo enforcement cameras

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  • There are other, newer cameras like those from Flock that run and check continuously. I prefer the old-school ones you're talking about.

  • Just vote to change things.

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