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  • The decline of democracies, ideas and freedom around the world is one of the results of the downfall of social media

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  • I'm not sure what they even meant. Possibly that social media replaced real communication and made inroads into our social lives, all of which have now been taken over by all the bullshit? Because yeah that sounds right

  • Take a guess 🤣

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  • The other explanation is right but what's freddo?

  • Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again?

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  • No. "In practice, inference [which is to say, queries, not training] can account for up to 90% of the total energy consumed over a model’s lifecycle." Source.

  • People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?

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  • You can't say with certainty that you'd derive no stimulation from that, since you have not tried deriving stimulation from it.

    The multi-billion dollar entertainment industry isn't there because we need it. It's there because we like it. What we need is to connect with the real world, which is a skill, and as such requires practice.

  • And now I'm reminded I have two of these to repair.

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  • Afaik, it's not recommended to have them in kitchens, because harmless culinary mistakes can set them off so people end up disabling them in annoyance. You have to have one in a common area on every floor, but ideally not the kitchen.

  • A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

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  • She wrote a book a couple years back that explains where she vanished to. It's good.

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    if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people?

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  • If you aren't willing to work on your social skills, you need to stay in a position where you don't need them.

  • Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?

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  • The radios would need to have a very, very short range to avoid this. You'd need to know that everyone who can hear you can also see you (and potentially follow you if they'd like a word face to face), which is the accountability aspect that's missing from online interactions.

  • Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while?

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  • Yeah, password on its own is weak. Any factor + password will always be a lot more secure than password alone OR the other factor alone, but pairing stronger factors of course results in stronger pairings.

    Passkey is a device check (the key lives on your device and nowhere else), so it relies on your device security, even if it's just a PIN...and there has to be a backup option in case you lose access to that device, in which case the account only ends up as secure as that authentication method...which hopefully isn't password alone.

  • Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while?

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  • I see that the comment I initially replied to has been edited, but it still reads as though the second factor of 2FA is itself 2FA:

    Because passwordless authentication is awesome and needs to be the standard. It's basically just skipping the password and going straight to 2FA, which is the main security behind any account that you've got 2FA on.

    2FA stands for two-factor authentication. The typical case you're describing:

    Factor 1: password Factor 2: device check, usually

    That second step of device verification itself isn't 2FA, it's only the second factor of that particular 2FA, and the reason your account is more secure behind it isn't because it's a device check but because it's a second factor. There's not really a "main" security check in 2FA because having two is the whole point.

    I do have thoughts about passwordless as a standalone security measure, but that's not at all what I'm addressing here. I will add, however, that since passwordless can only ever be as strong as the security on your email account...it might seem like enough if your email is protected by 2FA—but not if you mistakenly leave your email logged in on a device someone else has access to, which may sound stupid but it definitely happens.

  • Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while?

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  • Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while?

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  • I'm not defending passwords specifically. You could do better 2FA with email + biometrics, although of course device authentication is only as secure as the device itself—but that's entirely beside the point, which is that there must be two factors if you're going to call something two factor authentication.

  • Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while?

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  • If you skip the password then you're back down to just 1FA, it just happens to be the factor that used to be second.

  • thats all

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  • What do you carry in there?

  • I'm disappointed

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  • No, not morally. What? The Luddites have not always been wrong about the adoption of a particular technology ultimately being a net negative on society/individuals/humanity. Citing their "failure" as a reason to blindly champion any use of technology is kind of weird.

    Luddites "fail" to hold back technology insofar as many technologies are indeed adopted, but that doesn't mean their message of temperance has never had any effect on how technology is adopted, or that all technologies have improved life on Earth. And of course not all technology has taken off. Yes, it's hard to stop a moving train once an idea is getting popular, but we all get to choose whether to climb aboard. I wonder why it seems to ruffle your feathers to hear from people who don't.

  • I'm disappointed

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  • Ludditism always fails

    But not necessarily because they were wrong.

  • whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders?

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  • TJ's isn't boutique, though. Before I actually shopped there, I conflated it with Fresh Market for years, but it turned out they were far and away the cheapest grocery option anywhere near me until we got Aldi.

    I shop Aldi more now because our TJ's is always so busy, but since they're all store-brand, their prices are still usually on the low side (other than meats).

  • nostalgia

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  • In a way, sure. What's unfortunate with such a medium is what a small proportion of the thoughts in the final product are the prompter's. The machine references countless works that the prompter has no knowledge of, whereas in a medium controlled by the artist, those references (both conscious and subconscious) add meaning to the piece.

  • nostalgia

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  • Art is about thought, not skill.

    Skill is required for craft. Can art be well crafted? Hell yeah. Does it have to be? Hell no.