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nalinna

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  • Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people”

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  • That is entirely true and one of my favorite things about it. I just wish there was a way to nurture more of that and less of the, "Hi, I'm Alvin and my job is to make your Fortune-500 company even more profitable...the key is to pay people less!" type of AI.

  • Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people”

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  • Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people”

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  • But the people with the money for the hardware are the ones training it to put more money in their pockets. That's mostly what it's being trained to do: make rich people richer.

  • Undocumented "backdoor" found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices

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  • Please correct if inaccurate, but I don't see in that article where the folks at Espressif refer to it as a backdoor, only the security company. This seems to me as though it is no more vulnerable than any other device which can be compromised by physical access, which is most of devices. The vulnerability really looks to be more in the ability to pivot to other devices remotely after one has been compromised physically, which isn't ideal, but still doesn't seem to me to be any less secure than most other devices.

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    Why are Americans so litigious?

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  • That's a fantastic point I hadn't considered. Thank you!

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    Why are Americans so litigious?

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  • Pure conjecture here, but I certainly do wonder if the number of lawsuits would decrease if healthcare wasn't cost-prohibitive to people. I don't expect they'd go away entirely (legitimate grievances, greed, etc), but I imagine they'd probably go down quite a bit if people didn't have to wonder how to pay rent and pay to have their broken leg treated.

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  • Thank you for the convenient link to uninstall!

  • The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad.

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  • Yep. Worked there for a bit. They're contractually obligated to show ads on certain content. Doesn't matter what tier you're on. As a paying customer (a rather long time ago), my partner became so incensed at the ads that played even though he paid for ad-free that he rage-cancelled his membership.

  • Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30

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  • You're 100% correct and I wish the article would call that out. I was pretty disappointed when I read that at first, but I think that, not only are the union workers going to see a victory here as well, but I also suspect that we have the union to thank for the non-union pay... idustries with solid union presence tend to see improvements to both pay and work environments merely because the union is there, effectively setting a standard that has to be at least loosely followed in order to be competitive. In this case, the union isn't strong in this industry per se, but it is strong within Costco, driving the worker satisfaction up right along with it...which is a pretty great phenomenon.

  • Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30

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  • This is what happens when you have good union representation and collective bargaining agreements. Great job, Teamsters!

  • Trump administration offering buyouts to nearly all federal workers

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  • Stay and risk having to work for a leadership committing atrocities. Leave and risk there only being loyalists working for the them, further enabling the atrocities.

  • Judging by all the downvotes, you'd think they'd get the hint lol

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  • Yes, but boundaries are extremely important if you're going to do it. 100% agree that people become extremists in the first place because an extremist group welcomed them with open arms when no one else would. But you run the risk of falling into the tolerance paradox...under no circumstances should anyone's intolerance be tolerated.

  • TN’s age verification law allowed to take effect

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  • Tennessee: a state in the USA.

  • Ads in popular apps exposed a mountain of your location data to hackers

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  • That totally sucks, I'm sorry. I will freely admit to being annoyed when I try to click a top link on Google and being black-holed. Still worth it to not deal with the ads.

  • Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-check policies

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  • The Video Game Industry Is Unionizing

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  • Making a career change from an industry with several active unions (all of which continue to be proven as vital, even after over 100 years), into the tech industry in the mid-2010s, where there was no union and you'd hear horror stories (especially from the video game industry), I can't help but feel like this was inevitable and I've been excited to watch it happen for almost 10 years. I hope it continues.

  • Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting

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  • Who's going to get rich making the app that actively trashes this data before it can be read by fingerprinting-ware? Because shut up and take my money.

  • Recall of raw and frozen cat food in Oregon after feline dies of bird flu

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  • Well, that's slightly more encouraging

  • Recall of raw and frozen cat food in Oregon after feline dies of bird flu

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  • Last I heard, early numbers were reporting a 100% fatality rate in cats. Doubtful it's still 100%, but that goes to show that it's exceptionally dangerous to our friends of the feline persuasion. I'd previously been giving my cat freeze-dried chicken hearts as an iron supplement with the added benefit of dental health...not so much these days.