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by autoexec 3mo ago
It's not even the authoritarian dictatorship that scares me as much as it is how many regular people with nothing to gain and everything to lose happily and fully support it.
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by autoexec 3mo ago
"get them to agree" is one way to put it. If they want this our government can just show up with guns and force it to happen. The government already collects data from corporations (including apple according to snowden's leak
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by autoexec 3mo ago
Spamming, leaking, or selling. Either way, I now know that I want nothing to do with Pangram.
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by autoexec 3mo ago
A smart bayesian filter would catch email with invisible text. Legitimate email shouldn't have any, but I have seen it more than once in spam
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by autoexec 3mo ago
Don't even bother having the website ask the browser anything at all. Just have the website TELL the browser the content is intended for adults via HTTP header and let the browser decide to display it or not depending on parental contr
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by autoexec 3mo ago
> buy a card with a UUID from anywhere that sells alcohol/tobacco that is valid for some period of time. most people are comfortable with flashing their ID at the clerk. the UUID card is non-identifying. This could be a good system
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by autoexec 3mo ago
He wants to collect and profit from insider info by joining in on the newest unregulated gambling scheme. I'm sure plenty of cheaters and suckers will be happy to make him more money.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
> You can go on YouTube right now, search for any niche genre, and instantly access thousands of artists. And while that’s undeniably convenient, I do think it cheapens the experience. I feel the opposite. Finding gems in all the trash a
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Just at the desktop, but not in actual folders. There were registry changes that allowed it in some versions of windows 10 https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/14856-enable-disable-aut...
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by autoexec 4mo ago
> The current Windows UI is less customizable than Windows 2. I'm guessing that's just Microsoft conditioning people to accept that Microsoft owns their computer. Same with their "we'll reboot your computer/make
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by autoexec 4mo ago
One of the things I miss being able to do in windows is arbitrarily drag around and arrange icons in a folder the same way you can on the desktop. Sorting files into piles of icons before selecting a pile and dragging and dropping it into a
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Just an crazy idea, but if I were an unethical AI company that wanted to make better AI generated images of people's bodies, I might be tempted to offer very cheap full body scans in an unregulated fancy looking pop-up "med spa&qu
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by autoexec 4mo ago
It might not actually cause harm or strange effects to people's bodies, but I'd certainly feel better if it was tested and used by doctors in a hospital and not some "spa" since those tend to be poorly regulated and wher
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by autoexec 4mo ago
One thing invents a bunch of fake bullshit using artist's work and the other is supposed to give you an image of something real and meaningful that wasn't just hallucinated or patched together. All from the guy who brought us Leap
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by autoexec 4mo ago
You're old enough to get the reference, but then maybe you had an i/PowerMac at the time and wouldn't.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
It was always an option to have the technology without the bullshit. We can have GPS without allowing Google or Apple to track our every movement. We can have useful websites without allowing the people running those websites to mine every
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Who is going to buy what they're selling? More AI?
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by autoexec 4mo ago
> The wild thing is that these tech "systems" (aka companies) are made up of ostensibly good people. I don't think that's the case. The people running these companies certainly aren't good people and everyone els
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by autoexec 4mo ago
I worry that you're right, although they might change what "alive" means https://www.science.org/content/article/not-alive-not-dead-d...
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by autoexec 4mo ago
"Nazis are fine, but touchscreens aren't" seems like a weird place to draw the line, but I guess it's good that you have one at all.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
> From what I understand roundabouts make accident rate go up, it is the severity of accidents that goes down which probably still a positive. That's the argument I keep hearing, but I'm not sure I buy it. Fewer people might be
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by autoexec 4mo ago
> Apart form all other comments which are mostly from IT insider perspective, which most mankind simply doesn't have, AI means real rather than potential job loss in future. I mean, I haven't seen AI being used to replace even
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Considering the many embarrassing failures huge fast food chains have had trying to get AI order takers in their drive-throughs I'd be very concerned about an AI at some random local pizza place getting my order accurately
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by autoexec 4mo ago
The university should suffer consequences as well since their thesis committee completely failed to do their job, especially those who didn't even notice they were the people whose work was being plagiarized. Since it's been demon
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by autoexec 4mo ago
The actual fines under GDPR aren't a huge deal. There are companies who get fined over and over and over and over again year after year after year. It's not running them out of business, it's just cost of business.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
I don't think facebook needs some kind of age verification scheme at all. They are already fully aware of how old their users are. The kids post photos and messages every birthday. They use these platforms talk with their school friend
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by autoexec 4mo ago
Unless that percentage was over 100% of the profit they'd still be making money from doing illegal things and the fines just become a cost of doing business.
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by autoexec 4mo ago
If books were collecting every scrap of data they could on you, and every new page you turned to was algorithmically changed using data collected from your reading history and from additional information purchased from data brokers, and the
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by autoexec 4mo ago
It's not that people can't learn something from youtube, but that's not where most of people (not just the children) are spending most of the time. Just because someone watches a few videos about something useful to them that
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by autoexec 4mo ago
I had a kind of social media when I was a teenager. It mostly involved dialing into a BBS or two, and its easy to think that it was harmless because it was a positive thing for me, but even I have to admit that there were dangers and even t

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