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by prepend 2y ago
If you hand your car keys to a drunk driver, it’s on both of you. If I give root to a third party, then I’m liable for everything they do with that root.
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by prepend 2y ago
Yes, when it comes to face scanners at the airport. You’re standing in front of a government camera for a driver’s license or student id and it can (and likely will) take the same image data that the TSA cameras do. A high rez image is a ty
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by prepend 2y ago
> The solution becomes clear: make video, audio, still image, biometric, and behavioral data toxic waste. This doesn’t seem realistic to me because those data are useful for so many valid purposes and the tech is ubiquitous. So we’d have
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by prepend 2y ago
Worth it to some people. People opt out of vaccines too, or not using smartphones. I think it’s a situation where people can opt out, legally and ethically, but few will.
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by prepend 2y ago
It’s not like we chose. Cameras and transistors are just absurdly cheap and have millions of other purposes. So we’d have to shut down tons of other useful functions to change it. Just like dna sampling will one day be so cheap that air con
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by prepend 2y ago
Thanks. This is the most believable info on this so far. If you don’t mind me asking, how much was the implant. And how much was the PRP. Obviously, prices will vary, but all the existing info I find from googling is so far all over the pla
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by prepend 2y ago
If it was noninvasive and already pervasive, yes. It’s not that I like facial scanning. It’s that it is pervasive and can do nothing about it.
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by prepend 2y ago
iPhone 15 pro added it.
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by prepend 2y ago
Driver’s license. Passport. Student id. Employment id (for the millions employed by the government). Etc etc etc Not to mention the data legally purchased from data brokers and illegally captured by NSA/etc.
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by prepend 2y ago
Many. And having my social collected by the IRS does not impact my or my existing family’s chances of genocide.
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by prepend 2y ago
The State department isn’t collecting it for random reasons or for use as an identifier. It collects it for diplomatic purposes. So it is limited for a specific purpose. I agree that SSN shouldn’t be collected inappropriately, but for purpo
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by prepend 2y ago
I think the issue is that people don’t think about limiting their airline flights, so why think about limiting mmwave? Not that it isn’t additive, it’s that people don’t care like they don’t care that eating a banana vs eating another item
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by prepend 2y ago
There are no “naked” images. Unless you consider x-rays and other similar imaging systems to create “naked” images.
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by prepend 2y ago
So just like a smartphone camera nowadays?
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by prepend 2y ago
It’s your right. But the agent is probably annoyed because it takes longer for them, you, and everyone in line. It’s like your right to write a check or pay in nickels as well. But people get annoyed because you exercising your right and pr
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by prepend 2y ago
And I believe the hash is salted so that it’s only useful for that timesheet system. So an individual’s biometrics could not be extracted or reused for other purposes. Of course, I’d like to see auditing of the device and data to confirm ev
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by prepend 2y ago
> Furthermore, they say they do not retain the image. That may or may not be strictly true. But they do not say they are deleting the eigenvector, facial measurements, a hash of the image, or any other useful derivatives of the image So
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by prepend 2y ago
Why do people want to opt out? This perplexes me as “the government” already has scans of your face. So these devices aren’t used to collect data. I’m also perplexed when my parent won’t give the State department their SSN, but received SSN
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by prepend 2y ago
How long will hair transplants last?
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by prepend 2y ago
Free on Apple forever, right? Why would I pay for this feature? It seems so cheap to actually market since it’s so rarely used.
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by prepend 2y ago
Comically, the way I save mermaid images are through screenshots. But this is only if I need to put it in a paper or something as otherwise just point the user to the diagram in a browser. It is still much better than any alternative I can
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by prepend 2y ago
Could you just use a markdown table and have it generate from a csv of all your tools? Many ssgs will go this.
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by prepend 2y ago
Reading an email doesn’t mean accepting an email.
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by prepend 2y ago
I love the thumbs up on email. Even outside of outlook world, I’d rather get the robot template than have to open something to figure out it’s a sentence or two saying “ok.”
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by prepend 2y ago
Same place as museums. Benefactors. Check out Wikipedia for an example of a huge site that doesn’t make money and just runs on donations. I run my crappy blog and a bunch of other sites for “free” because I just pay the fees.
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by prepend 2y ago
I have an employer who pays me to do thing X. And they don’t care that I also work on thing Y a little bit. I think there’s lots of software written by people who have jobs and code because it’s fun. For example, Linus Torvalds made Subsurf
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by prepend 2y ago
> True but Firefox is mainly written by people who want to earn a living. Not, originally. Wasn’t Brandon Eich like 17 or something when he rewrote Firefox? And lots of people put out ad-free web content for free. It’s not that it doesn’
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by prepend 2y ago
I think Apple and Google probably has a more robust intelligence organization than most developing nations. Fortunately, no armies yet.
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by prepend 2y ago
This makes sense as their market cap and revenues are also larger than many countries. Max Barry wrote a book in 2003 called Jennifer Government [0] about a near future where companies were so big they had their own armies and intelligence
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by prepend 2y ago
Firefox is open source. I do pay for it as a tool. Toolmakers also work out of desire to practice their craft. Many projects are written, not to “earn a living.”

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