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   by mercurialmaven 5y ago

   I stand at least partially corrected. I am not familiar with biases in facial recognition software but it looks like a real thing in some cases, caused for instance by lack of diversity in training data sets.
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   by mercurialmaven 5y ago

   "software that is more likely to falsely punish people of color does support the continued dominance of white people in a real, material way." The statement is at best extremely misleading, and at worse, mostly false. It also repr
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   by mercurialmaven 5y ago

   I don't remember the details, but I remember it wasn't nearly as simple as toggling a switch. I remember it involving a mixture of: * Setting custom startup flags to chrome * accessing a hidden dev-specific page and turning on acc
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   by mercurialmaven 5y ago

   In my experience, Ubuntu, or Linux in general, works great on desktops but very poorly on laptops due to lack of hardware and driver support. Not a hardware engineer myself, I think this is because desktop hardware is more standardized whil