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Facial Recognition is slowly
getting embedded in most systems in the name of security.
This needs to stop.
Not only it will not help, but it will definitely harm a lot of innocent people: Identity theft and doxing when the inevitable data breaches happen. False positives, which can be very high and even higher for people of color. Normalized discrimination for many.
We collectively need to
refuse each time facial recognition is requested, and we need to write to our public representatives to demand better legislation against it.
If we do not refuse to participate and
we do not fight for our privacy rights collectively, we will lose them.
Here's how it works for airports in the US: https://gizmodo.com/senators-say-tsas-facial-recognition-program-is-out-of-control-heres-how-to-opt-out-2000528310
@kagihq is often pitched as a better web search than Google search. I'm here to tell you they're so much more than that: Kagi is a better Google than Google full stop
In the aughts and '10s, google used to make cool, nerdy products and features just because they were cool and nerdy. They didn't need a better reason than that. They don't really do that anymore but it was good times
So here's the deal. Go to translate.kagi.com and choose "reddit speak" for the to: language. Do this in a desktop browser because you get a different UI. Thank me later
This is at least as cool and internet-nerdy as peak aughts Google ever was. Don't snooze on Kagi
#kagi
#google
#reddit
The craziness about private businesses collecting biometric data very unnecessarily for basic identification purposes needs to stop.
Say NO to biometrics collection everywhere you can 🚫✋
Privacy is a human right.
好きなアニメ何回もみがち
FYI for Brandi Carlile fans: she’s performing live this evening in Minneapolis. The concert is sold out, however The Current (https://www.thecurrent.org/) will be broadcasting the audio on-air (89.3 FM in the Twin Cities area) and on their website.
Additionally! You can purchase an online stream viewing ticket here if you want to watch the concert:
https://veeps.com/brandicarlile/10bee30f-604a-40a8-9c39-6a0a6553d878
Job description includes this, regarding desired values:
> “You move fast, act like an owner, and thrive in ambiguity.”
How do they pack so many red flags into one sentence? Must be some new toxic compression algorithm.
I want a politician to pass a law that reigns in ICE hard as fuck and call it the "SALT Act."
Don't care what it stands for.
Tiny reminder FediFriends to add alt-text
to your images and media so that your posts are accessible to all, and (bonus point) more people will boost them.
Thank you! 
Grown-ups can have the right to grumble at leisure all day long, as a treat
@GossiTheDogKevin Beaumont sure, but it did that so much faster than a human could!
@hohokamh0h0kam @GossiTheDogKevin Beaumont
The LLM can fuck up your project much faster than human developers ever could.
This post is disgusting, claiming gender discrimination when the real issue is that people didn't like the use of AI in a brand that used to stand for DIYers everywhere
It's not DIY if you have AI do it for you.......
This is so incredibly fucked up.
Can we do Universal Basic Income already?
Can we implement Medicare For All?
Income inequality is literally sucking us dry.
An underground site is using facial recognition to unmask cam models across platforms.
Camgirlfinder lets users upload a photo and find a performer’s other accounts, usernames, and last-seen activity.
https://www.404media.co/underground-facial-recognition-tool-unmasks-camgirls/
This is doxxing infrastructure, built on open-source face matching, aimed at sex workers who may be trying to separate work from private life.
Facial recognition is no longer just state surveillance. It’s being weaponized against the most vulnerable people online.
2/2
TIL that you can block sites from your searches in DuckDuckGo. So if you never want to see a result from Grokipedia, you just click the three little dots next to that result in the list and choose "Block this site from all results." Easy! Satisfying!
@mcc i'm pretty sure the latter; cargo uses the first non-zero field in a version as the major, then goes minor and patch, so it'll think that any 0.x.y and 0.x.z are compatible as long as x == x
@linaLina Isidora 
@mcc in this case the two variants are equivalent, but if you had a major version specified, "1.2" is equivalent to "later than or equal to 1.2.0 but earlier than 2.0.0" whereas "1.2.*" is equivalent to "later than or equal to 1.2.0 but earlier than 1.3.0"
https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/specifying-dependencies.html#default-requirements
AI will improve humanity 🤡
@HorayNareaThomas @mcc That is not what that page says. “Leftmost non-zero component is the same.”
Getting a bit depressed as, no matter how I slice it, basic economics would seem to indicate that the software developer job market is largely fucked no matter what happens now. No matter whether the LLM tools work or not and no matter what happens to the bubble
(short thread)
Since AI training requires storing massive amounts of data, data centres are buying up high-capacity HDDs... gouging the rest of us while AI SLOP is prioritized over proper computer programming and machine learning.
Never mind the data centres physical and carbon footprints...
Never mind the energy these data centres consume...
Never mind the energy these data centres waste...
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/ #internet #technology #noonelistenedtosarahconnor
Not a gift from the geeks. A gift from the grifters
Wife just called Oy a "fuzzy observer" and that sounds like it should be a quantum physics term, like strange and charm quarks, qubits, fuzzy observers.
寝。 
Jonesy peeking around a corner, somehow looking dignified (which isn’t really his thing). #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustJonesy #Caturday
LRT: “AI” SaaS CEOs have been chronically, pervasively wrong on nearly every prediction about “AI” dominance and supremacy they’ve made. And yet for some reason, many folks who are not “AI” CEOs still parrot the “it’s inevitable” “it’s here to stay” “it’s not going anywhere” lies.
It’s almost as if the “AI” inevitability is less about reality and more about the stories we tell ourselves.
Like any other speculative finance foray.
If in a Rust Cargo.toml I assign a crate to use version "0.3", will Cargo take this to mean "0.3.0" or "0.3.*"?
다들 초등학교 이야기를 좋아하시는군요 저는 이 이야기를 좋아합니다... 옛날 묘지를 밀고 지은 학교가 많아서 학교 괴담이 많다지만 실제로는 아이들의 양기에 귀신들이 나올 수가 없다는 와귀신이다 진짜 귀신이에여 왜 죽었어요 몇살이에여 이름 뭐에여 근데요 왜요 어디 살아요 그 옷 뭐애여 왜 얼굴이 허얘요 우리 엄마는 나는 어쩌고 질문 백 만 개
The debate: Are facial recognition cameras in shops a step too far? - BBC News
Yes. Yes they are.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-bb93a137-9b73-498b-ad8f-f948d6071dee
The current fediverse is an evolutionary dead-end for 2 reasons:
1. It has painted itself in a small niche of decentralizing typical social media use cases, by means of post-facto interop and the introduction of protocol decay.
2. Lacking a proper grassroots standardization process, and with the primary mechanism for fediverse extension being only post-facto interoperability, there is no way out.
Congratulations to the early adopters, who managed to "cross the chasm" with their own app platforms. It took true grit to become deep #ActivityPub experts, and plug holes needed for your app, but you have made it. Post-facto interop works in your favor now. You are unrestrained to productively add more features in your app, and put them on the fedi wire for others to deal with.
To avoid fedi to become less and less attractive to newcomers, we must now consider:
“Why do we want to grow the open social web, and for whom?” -- 
@benBen Werdmuller
100% agree.
Darn thing's getting worse every day
Here’s a little something I put together this week: Pinhead Map Icons. I was tired of digging through a bunch of different sources to find good cartographic icons, so I compiled all the public domain sources I could find into one unified set. You’ll see familiar faces from the likes of iD, OSM Carto, and National Park Service maps, plus some newcomers. Let me know what you think!
I'm not using any LLM or "AI" for anything that I write or draw. Never had, and never will.
I'm making this choice because:
• This technology was built by unethically stealing the hard work of millions without any consent or compensation.
• This technology has and is still constantly scraping data, including personal data, from people without their knowledge or consent, in complete disregard of the privacy laws we have to protect us.
• This technology unnecessarily uses vast amounts of energy in a world where using more energy sadly usually means more pollution.
• This technology is working on devaluating labor in order to enrich even more the already rich, aggravating poverty everywhere.
• This technology is misleadingly being sold as a solution to problems it cannot solve.
• This technology is supercharging disinformation and manipulation online, centralizing an incredible power of influence in the hands of a few controlling billionaires.
• This technology is increasingly being used by authoritarian governments in order to surveil and control the people.
• This technology atrophies our creativity and capability to think, as well as harming our social relationships.
• This technology makes my writing voice feel flat and boring. I'd rather learn to live with my human tipos.
• This technology...
What Not to Write on Your Security Clearance Form
Link: https://milk.com/wall-o-shame/security_clearance.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102576
夕暮れ時に現れる謎のフワフワにゃんぷバス。行き先はにゃんぷっぷーの気分次第… #猫の日
Silhouettes and lights
AI bots and agents from Meta, OpenAI, ByteDance, Amazon, Apple, Anthropic and Huawei ate my (Stamen Toner) map tiles. I'm mourning my little piece of the open internet. 😭
'Abstrakt'
The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
nooooo my niri :(
LRT: “AI” SaaS CEOs have been chronically, pervasively wrong on nearly every prediction about “AI” dominance and supremacy they’ve made. And yet for some reason, many folks who are not “AI” CEOs still parrot the “it’s inevitable” “it’s here to stay” “it’s not going anywhere” lies.
It’s almost as if the “AI” inevitability is less about reality and more about the stories we tell ourselves.
Like any other speculative finance foray.
how to think about "default" values on lexicons? what is the semantics of that? are codegens expected to hydrate these?
Do you have any advice on learning programming in bash? Did you learn in a course or a book or some other way? I've just spent a couple weeks with a book on Perl and have decided that since I'm more familiar with bash, it might be better to learn a bit of it.
다들 초등학교 이야기를 좋아하시는군요 저는 이 이야기를 좋아합니다... 옛날 묘지를 밀고 지은 학교가 많아서 학교 괴담이 많다지만 실제로는 아이들의 양기에 귀신들이 나올 수가 없다는 와귀신이다 진짜 귀신이에여 왜 죽었어요 몇살이에여 이름 뭐에여 근데요 왜요 어디 살아요 그 옷 뭐애여 왜 얼굴이 허얘요 우리 엄마는 나는 어쩌고 질문 백 만 개
Darn thing's getting worse every day
'Abstrakt'
Chris Siebenmann
Stefan Bohacek
Andreas Freise
nicole mikołajczyk
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