micromacrofoot

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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
newspapers didn't follow you and your friends everywhere you went to feed all your metadata back into an addiction algorithm people massively underestimate how insidious having millions of data points about a person is, these companies
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
funny that no one said that to the parent comment that blindly speculated that holmes caused more sexism simply for being a woman yet bring up the ruling class and that gets called out for sexism despite the endless string of fraud cases
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
indeed one could find exceptions to every rule
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
alright but the point still stands? people were yelling out names carrying zipties... they broke windows hit police officers and a woman was killed while crawling through a broken window? if that happened to me at work it would be something
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
why not educate us
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
bro if 2k people broke into work looking for you, it would probably be something you think about a whole lot
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
pngs in emails are used for this http headers and CSS is used for this flash drives left on the ground outside are used for this
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
so let's shut down the US government?
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
yeah but it's an extreme fringe choice... I too make extreme fringe choices but I don't expect 99.9% of the people who don't make my extreme fringe choice to change on my behalf hell, use a browser in a sandbox if you're
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
I don't drive a car because I have deep knowledge of mortality statistics, but I don't complain when I can't easily get somewhere 100 miles away
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
JavaScript asceticism is a weird trend that has just never died out, no one treats any other language this way... and "privacy and security nightmare" can be used to describe most of the internet at this point with or without it
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
yeah but how do you contend with me beating the shit out of it
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
before you could get a social security card replaced online I lived in a poor area and getting a replacement took most of the day between getting there and sitting in an awful waiting room for hours... god forbid you forgot something or the
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
real id is also a massive pain in the ass, which is probably the bigger issue give people a moderate benefit to do it, like a tax credit, and I think you'll find the majority of people hold their beliefs not so rigidly
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
I don't think people are against it, we already have the social security identifiers as a government layer... it's just that no one in the government is willing to do it for free in a way that is accessible to everyone
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
age verification is the current mandate of multiple governments, not doing it for many services means shutting down
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
we've successfully distilled the definition of human consciousness down to the capacity to do what some rich guy considers average computer work
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
of course the digitization of more of our lives will take the natural course to unlockable cosmetic items
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
Nothing, none of these are good enough to do any home tasks reliably. These are all research/hobbyist devices that won't be interesting for another 5-10 years. Probably a bunch of fun to play around with though.
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
machine learning has been used to identify bird calls for a while now, it's more of a classifier than a content generator, so it identifies calls and provides a confidence level while it's not perfect it's not really producin
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
Right but it's not something you'd see on the website of an app built by a single developer without a marketing team, people are emailing each other this marketing slop now
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
indeed, a lot of people think watermarking means "these words in this order" but it's more like "given this sequence, choose token B rather than token A" and it's the difference between "yes you are right&
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
right, but with the amount of text LLMs generate and how often they use these patterns it's pathological
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
The text is a dead giveaway, this is llm style "something. something else. some short conclusion." > Tap start, allow microphone access, then make one clean strike. No upload. No account. Your microphone stays local.
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
many ebikes work this way, pedaling and the chain more or less signal the motor rather than provide meaningful power... though afaik none of them do backwards for obvious reasons she might enjoy an etrike, though more for recreation than no
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
Luigi accomplished nothing but folk hero status, United Healthcare premiums increased by double-digit percentages this year. Change requires a pattern not a moment.
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
We're already cooked, the Paris Agreement was aiming for avoiding 1.5°C global increase by 2030 and we're pretty much at that now. We're already seeing global weather shifts as the beginning of what appears to be rapid climat
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
a lot of people think that the time to do something is when your house is already flooded
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
Copyright shouldn't exist and AI (especially open weight models) is accelerationism to this point
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by micromacrofoot 2mo ago
Everything is kind of a predatory cesspit now

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