Hizonner

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by Hizonner 2y ago
> I think it's very hard to deny that of course it will catch a non-zero number of people, Sure, but it is still completely valid to argue that it won't quantitatively be effective enough to justify its cost, either in mone
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> If I take pictures and never share them, no scanning is done. If I copy private pictures to my wife's phone when we are meeting in person, no scanning is done. Similarly, I can archive pictures to my PC or print them out and all o
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> the backlash will inspire a new generation to consign fossils to the dustbin of history Most of what I've seen of "a new generation" leads me that, on average, they're disturbingly willing to comply with any kind of
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Unless you have positive evidence, I'm gonna guess that the "powerful people" aren't that organized or that on top of things. But, sure, they'd like to be.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> Maybe you underestimate machine learning, if you check HN on any given day [...] Maybe I actually know something about it. > But flagged known images was the point of Apple's algo, for example. You whined at me a little while a
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by Hizonner 2y ago
It would attempt to identify child porn by scanning images (using both hashes and ML if I remember right, but it doesn't matter). This takes place on the local device, but under control of Apple, not the user. Upon detecting a suspect
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by Hizonner 2y ago
No, you can't. Machine learning doesn't work that way. You can keep the false positive level reasonably low for copies of already known and flagged images. You can't do it for new images.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> Apple's solution did not involve any spying. Spying by your own device is still spying.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> And the problem keeps getting worse. You're swallowing the propaganda. The problem hasn't changed to speak of.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
There is in fact no "smart" way to compensate for this particular "bad side effect". Either your communications are spied on to weed out unapproved material, or they're not. And there is no way to make the system ar
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by Hizonner 2y ago
No. A user owns each endpoint. Whatsapp provides a service to the owners of the endpoints. Yes, Whatsapp is in a position to act unethically and steal information, but that does not make Whatsapp the owner of anything.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> It's almost impossible to solved political issues using only technology. True. > Laws can be ammended faster than implementations. Really, really false.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
I hope you're not a parent.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
"Resolved" in that it seems to get no attention, and hasn't since shortly after it originally blew up. As far as I know, she never retracted her claim of "sexual, physical, emotional, verbal, and financial abuse". A
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by Hizonner 2y ago
In every single city I've ever lived in or paid attention to, the water system has been directly operated by employees of the municipal government, not private companies and not even contractors. And the regional projects they buy from
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by Hizonner 2y ago
They made the right choice by firing him, and the wrong choice by reinstating him. If firing him had blown up OpenAI, that would have been better than leaving him in charge.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Why not just stop listening on port 80, period?
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Apple doesn't need to explain anything to you, peasant. What are you going to do, buy Microsoft?
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Yeah, so if half your kids are failing your class, that's a you problem. Especially if half everybody else's kids are not .
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by Hizonner 2y ago
I'd say the biggest problem is the pretense that they have a copyright at all.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
The OSD is literally as old as the phrase itself, and was popularized along with the phrase. I actually don't like some parts of the OSD that much, but it's as close to a universally accepted definition as you'll ever get f
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> Copyright for me but not for thee. Especially amusing because, although you can argue about whether training a model is an infringment, most of the training data actually have copyrights. ML models, on the other hand, are not works o
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by Hizonner 2y ago
What is with these ML idiots and their compulsive abuse of the phrase "open source", anyway?
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by Hizonner 2y ago
There is a special place in Hell for people who "helpfully" rewrite email bodies in transit.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> I want to work with high trust places. OK, so get off the Internet. Don't fuck it up for the rest of us.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
The problem isn't that Stack Overflow is allowing people to scrape the content. The problem is that Stack Overflow is preventing some people from scraping the content, in order to collect money from others. And, incidentally, passi
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by Hizonner 2y ago
I saw that movie when it came out, and it did not gratify my intellectual curiosity.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Deadly nitrogen is being dumped into our atmosphere!
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> Where was brown rice the traditional way of eating rice (for non-elites)? Everywhere. > During what centuries roughly? At all times up until at least the late 19th century. > What is your evidence? https://en.wikipedia
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by Hizonner 2y ago
You can also never be 100 percent sure that not doing something is safe, so the "hard" form of the Precautionary Principal is simply obvious stupid garbage.

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