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Frogodendron

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  • Students Horrified When Error Message Appears on Vending Machine, Revealing Something Dark (Facial Recognition)

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  • I’ve seen vending machines with cameras 10 years ago at least. Allegedly to prevent people from shaking and pivoting them so that the goods drop. Which people did. And started doing less once the cameras appeared. However, at that time, the message that “you are being recorded” was printed quite clearly on the front of the vending machine. Not mentioning that seems unlawful to me.

  • Rule

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  • That vile contraption may harm Blåhaj my beloved!

  • “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement

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  • So, podcasts are not ADHD-friendly, it seems. Because for me it’s either full focus or none at all.

  • rule

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  • There’s a top comment here being kind and welcoming but I’m concerned about overburdening the person with responses after many other people have answered.

    Similarly, it’s difficult in discord servers to provide some comment of substance (sometimes a find a right moment, post, and disappear for months lol), and talking without substance feels weird.

  • Rule

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  • Or are they just exacerbating them?

  • You've heard of Elf on the Shelf

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  • en passo on quaso

  • The Valkyries will sing of my valor!

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  • I thought you had to die with weapon in hand? Or is it a fictional interpretation? (well, invented as a later interpretation, I mean)

  • They have played us for absolute fools

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  • I agree with the message but it feels weird considering this flavour of memes was meant to be a hyperbole / sarcasm / laugh at your own expense.

  • Can the government decrypt your WhatsApp chats?

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  • EU usually frowns upon that though. Sure, the fines are so small that it’s negligible for Meta, but there should be some fines. But all I find via quick googling are this year’s sanctions over personal data processing in Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp. The nature of these data is not clear though.

    I am not trying to say that WhatsApp is safe to use, mind you. I am pretty sure they will hand over all the info along with encryption keys at first government’s request (or any other highest bidder for that matter), but that’s only my perception of them as a company, with no hard proof at hand.

  • Can the government decrypt your WhatsApp chats?

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  • Why is it legal for them to advertise it as end-to-end encrypted then? I thought the main danger lies in WhatsApp insistence on backing up non-encrypted history to Google Drive/iCloud.

    Of course, the existence of backdoors is usually not disclosed (duh), but can they actually read any message?

  • EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation

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  • Don’t warn. Act. Fine him. It won’t hurt him much, but would generate additional funds for European needs. Actively create Fediverse accounts that interact with the public. And so on…

  • Why do you use firefox?

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  • For the price of mild inconvenience in some cases I get to add a tiny little bit of resistance against chromium monopolistic rule.

  • title

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  • Thank you. Saved, as I know some of these are great, so might be others. (Going through top posts in my feed, hence late comment. )

  • Time is an illusion

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  • Hear and heed the words of the wise.

  • Christopher Nolan Forgot To Credit Over 80% Of VFX Crew On ‘Oppenheimer’

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  • I don’t understand why this keeps happening. It’s zero effort to add a person, a dozen or even a thousand to the list, and nobody loses anything by simply writing in a name.

  • I’m NOT excited about coding by AI [venting]

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  • I will cautiously say that these tools have their use for non-programmers. For example, I have to store some data in the format that would be easy to plot. I could spend half an hour doing that in Origin each time and hope its quirks won’t crash it… or I could use my rudimentary Python knowledge to shove comments into Copilot and correct my output by trial and error and have an ugly script that would nonetheless do the task every time in 5 seconds. Or I could learn to actually program and have non-ugly scripts. But I probably won’t in the foreseeable future, because it’s very time-consuming and what I do with AI tools is for myself, not for production.

    For those who program for life it’s a different story. I won’t give up my primary research tasks to AI and I hope programmers won’t give up their primary job to AI too.