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FourPacketsOfPeanuts

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  • Windows is not free as in freedom

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  • As a Windows "normie" for a long time I used to roll my eyes when people said try Linux. But getting ads in Windows when trying to do a simple admin thing was the last straw. I followed instructions to install Debian on a spare drive and gave it a go and do you know what, it was fine. It made me realise 90% of what I do is in a browser anyway, so why did I have a hang up about having the exact same browser experience in a slightly different operating system?

    Using libre office instead of word was a bit of a shift but, again, for the majority of what I wanted to do I it was fine. Libre office works with words .docx format. In fact, I noticed that for a quick document or spreadsheet I'd been using Google docs so much that this wasn't affected at all.

    Gaming was a concern, as this was something I (lazily) believed just didn't work on Linux. But I was totally wrong. Not only is steam available on Linux, but even very recent titles work fine run through a Linux based windows emulator. I guess the important thing is that far more of this was automated than I thought it was going to be. There's a stereotype that you're going to be buried neck deep in obscure command lines trying to get basic things working but in my experience I didn't have to do any of that, it all just worked.

    Bonus was along the way learning that those "obscure" command lines were not actually that obscure and were actually convenient. Typing "sudo apt install vlc" on the command line and having VLC installed and ready to use about ten seconds later was amazing. (I know package managers are available for Windows, I'm just referring to the 'norms' of each platform)

  • What are the pros and cons of a sterilizing (~95%) plague?

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  • Good luck convincing everyone to democratically support the same authoritarianism that would be required to pull that off while everything slowly falls apart. It would be chaos.

  • What are the pros and cons of a sterilizing (~95%) plague?

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  • Cons - lack of normal workforce replenishment ~18-20 years after plague would cripple economies, social safety nets and essential government spending (state pensions, road upkeep, military). Demographic would skew older and older with each year limiting democratic governments ability to pass any kind of rescue legislation until it's too late (assuming an increasingly older population votes in their own interest, being unable to work to help fix massive labour shortages, as so defensively protect government programs for elderly that government can no longer afford)

    Pros - I mean, what counts as a 'pro'? Less pollution as the world economy collapses I guess..

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  • You've apologized.

    Autism (and possibly a touch of other things) will leave you feeling like this is unresolved when it is, in fact, resolved.

    She may not want to be around people who try to kiss her without warning and her approval and this is perfectly ok. This is how most people work. It's a rule.

    If you are really convinced you should say something I would leave it as something very short and to the point..

    "Hi [name]. I just wanted to say sorry for the time I went to kiss you without warning. I realise now it was inappropriate and made you feel uncomfortable. I won't try to do that again. I understand if you don't want to talk to me, that's fine. I just wanted to make sure I've apologised. Regards ____"

  • If you could see back to any year in history, which year would you choose? You can skip around in time and space within your chosen year, but not affect anything.

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  • Would like to see the battle of alesia (52 BC) or battle of Cannae (216 BC) for pure epicness. (Not gore, just want to see the tactics in real life). Perhaps Waterloo? (1815)

    If it's more a historical figure. Would like to see the last 6 months of Jesus life and the first 6 months of the church just to see what in the hell actually happened..

  • Practices of Reliable Software Design

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  • It is much easier to add features to reliable software, than it is to add reliability to featureful software.

    Get in my veins!

  • Microsoft’s controversial Recall scraper is finally entering public preview

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  • Regular windows user: uses PC

    'Roommate' standing behind them: takes photo of screen

    User: dude..

    Roommate: what?

    User: what the fuck?

    Roommate: is ok.. it's so you can scan through them later and see what you've been doing

    User:

    Roommate:

    User:

    Roommate: takes photo of screen

    User: the.. fuck? that's... that's my credit card #

    Roommate: oh...uhh...I was going to delete that

    User: did you even notice it was there?!

    Roommate: yes! I mean no! I mean..err

    User:

    Roommate:

    User:

    Roommate: takes photo

    User: grabs baseball bat

  • Child safety org launches AI model trained on real child sex abuse images

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  • Yes true

  • Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen prompts

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  • I was simply trying to format a disk and so searched in the start bar expecting a suitable control panel item to pop up any would have happened in any sane era of windows. Instead fucking bing opened and it brought me back web results for "format disk" as well as unrelated ads. fucking web results!

    gargh

  • Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen prompts

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  • I recently installed Linux because windows pissed me off and I laughed out loud at this..

  • Child safety org launches AI model trained on real child sex abuse images

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  • Ok. I mean I have no idea how government agencies organise this. If these are exceptional circumstances where a system needs exposing to "every csam image ever" then I would reasonably assume that justifies the one off cost of making the circumstances exceptionally secure. It's not like they're doing that every day.

    You raise a separate important point. How is this technology actually used in practice? It sounds like photoDNA, being based on hashes, is a strictly one way thing, information is destroyed in the production of the hashing model. And the result can only be used to score a likelihood that a new image is csam or not. But AI is not like that, the input images are used to train a model and while the original images don't exist in there, it distills the 'essence' of what those photos are down into their encoded essence. And as such an AI model can be used both for detection and generation.

    All this to say, perhaps there are ways for photoDNA to be embedded in systems safely, so that suspect csam doesn't have to be transmitted elsewhere. But I don't think an AI model of that type is safe to deploy anywhere. It feels like it would be too easy for the unscrupulous to engineer the AI to generate csam instead of detect it. So I would guess the AI solution would mean hosting the model in one secure place and suspect images having to be sent to it. But is that really scalable. It's a huge amount of suspect images from all sorts of messaging platforms we're talking about.

  • Child safety org launches AI model trained on real child sex abuse images

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  • Wow I had no idea

    It sounds like a much needed improvement then!

    Any idea if Photo DNA needs training sets to the same extent AI does? It still feels like training currently LLM models, at least how I think they work, requires vast amounts of "examples"

    It still feels like that amounts to putting huge amounts of task csam just "out there" with tech companies. If it saves a bunch of human moderators the toil of having to review quite so much then that's definitely a great help. But can you say anything about the comparative scale of the content involved? My impression is that previous versions of something like photoDNA would need a set of something for testing purposes. But the quantity needed to train AI is going to be vastly bigger (and therefore it's possible leak vastly worse?)

  • Child safety org launches AI model trained on real child sex abuse images

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  • That's kinda of what I was alluding to. If they have zero op sec, they're almost certainly sharing known csam too, and that's the kind of stuff where just the hashes can be used to catch them. But the hashes can be safely shared with any messaging service or even OS developer, because the hashes aren't csam themselves.

    What I was calling "risky" about the above is it sounds like the first time law enforcement are sharing actual csam with a technology company so that that company can train an AI model on it.

    Law enforcement have very well developed processes and safe guards about who can access csam and why and it's thoroughly logged and scrutinised and supported with therapy and so on .

    Call me skeptical that these data companies that are putting in tenders to receive csam and develop models are going to have anywhere near the suitable level of safeguard and checks. Lowest bidder and all that.

    So it all seems like a risky endeavour, and really it's only going to catch - as you say - your zero op sec paedo, but those people were going to get caught anyway, sharing regular csam detected with hashes.

    So it seems like it has a really narrow target. And undertaken with significant risk. Seems like someone just wants to show "they're doing something". Or some data company made a reeeally glossy brochure..

  • Child safety org launches AI model trained on real child sex abuse images

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  • This seems like a lot of risky effort for something that would be defeated by even rudimentary encryption before sending?

    Mind you if there were people insane enough to be sharing csam "in the clear" then it would be better to catch them than not. I just suspect most of what's going to be flagged by this will be kids making inappropriate images of their classmates

  • The world's first foldable phone maker is now out of business

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  • So... they folded?

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    What if people pronounced the word TWO without the silent W?

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    What if people pronounced the word TWO without the silent W?

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  • Twelve's root is in meaning "two left". And similarly eleven's origin is meaning "one left". In both cases left over from ten, the base unit of counting.

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    What if people pronounced the word TWO without the silent W?

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  • Curiously in words related to 'two' the W is often pronounced!

    Twin, Twixt, Between, Twelve etc

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    How To Compress A Video Without Losing Quality

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  • Poorly written "advice" columns that exist only to hawk you some product is everything that's wrong with the way interactions over the internet work nowadays. It's ghoulish.

    Write an honest, well rounded guide and leave links to your product out if it. Of course it's hard to write an honest well written guide without mentioning very capable free and open source options. Pretending they don't exist hurts your credibility.

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  • Interesting. Is that because it blocks JavaScript, ads etc?