mayniac

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by mayniac 9y ago
>For a person washing toilets, this could be the dream of sitting in front of that screen one day. For the person in front of that screen, it could be starting their own business or taking an early retirement and living the rest of their
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by mayniac 9y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but I had a boss at an old job who liked to make "your mum" jokes as often as humanly possible. It got annoying. Since we worked in forensics and did a lot of OSINT I decided to stop it usin
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by mayniac 9y ago
>Turn on the feature to hide photos you're tagged in and tell people you know they're not to show photos of you to other people then? That does protect you to some level. But throw in machine learning with image processing and
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by mayniac 9y ago
Some channels do it acceptably. CGP Grey comes to mind, usually an ad for a service at the end of the video the advertiser has effectively funded. It's far worse when people do it without saying, ie product placement. Can't think
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by mayniac 9y ago
It's scary once you start considering edge cases. What if the machine learning accidentally and unknowingly discovers that people with a certain mental illness are more prone to buying product X, then starts massively promoting product
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by mayniac 9y ago
I found LA absolutely horrible to get around. Second city I had visited in the US. Got a hotel room near Hollywood because that seemed like a decent idea as a tourist for a long weekend. On the first day I find that parking is $60/nigh
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by mayniac 9y ago
How is it manifestly wrong? From the article: "The documents also suggest that Geek Squad technicians report only material they happen to find while doing repairs, rather than actively searching for illegal content on customers' d
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by mayniac 12y ago
Easier PGP programs would increase the use of encryption, especially post-Snowden. I've walked people through using GPG4WIN/Kleopatra and it took a good half hour of explaining how everything works. People care about privacy, but