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PierceTheBubble

@ PierceTheBubble @lemmy.ml

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    DuckDuckGo Launches Public Vote on AI and User Choice

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  • THIS is how you do it, looking at you Brave: requiring me to (re)type my queries in the URL bar (appending '&summary=0' to it), so I'm not required to store a persistent cookie, keeping the damn setting off...

  • There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths

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  • Phase 1: collect underpants, phased 2: ?, phase 3: profit. Seems like the gnomes' business plan might contribute to said problem

  • There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths

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  • Showering longer and hotter heats the room ;)

  • There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths

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  • I can't. I ran out of wash cloths

  • There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths

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  • Gotta have that hot Brazilian wax

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    He wants Greenland because he heard that it's actually Atlantis

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  • I really like to believe, he's blissfully unaware of the scale being completely off, because of map projection distortion. But it's HUGE, it's bigger than the United States!

  • Without vowels there'd be no singing

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  • I'm all crusted up and ready to eat

  • There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths

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  • Yeah, I've heard it's not best for one's outer coating, it might get flaky at times

  • There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths

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  • Interesting. If my hair is short, and I wipe most water off my body, maybe I could manage that too. I do like how the conversation is gradually shifting to drying efficiency haha

  • There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths

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  • There you go, free to shower as inefficiently as they see fit.

  • There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths

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  • Yeah, most towels are unnecessarily big, for the amount of moisture they're required to absorb. I simply folded the towel in half (as wash cloths are double too), which fitted 4x5 of them haha.

  • There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths

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  • Can't image what that must be like, that sound difficult...

  • Without vowels there'd be no singing

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  • I'm a scat man!

  • Facebook is forcing new users to use facial recognition

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  • My emails forced me to, locking me out of accounts I needed to access.

    Microsoft had me fill this form, to "prove" I was the rightful owner of the account, after some suspicious login-attempts from an African country. The form included fields like: name (I don't think I supplied at creation, or a false one), other email addresses, previous passwords (which potentially yield completely unrelated passwords), etc.; only for the application to be rejected and locking me out of my primary email for a full month. After that outright violation, I immediately switched to Disroot, and haven't had any of said problems ever since. I backup all its contents locally using Thunderbird, and delete the origins from the server afterwards.

    Many platforms have this messed up dark pattern, of revoking one's access to a real-world dependencies, unless giving in to the service's demands. Enforcement of 2FA is another one of those "excuses" for this type of misbehavior, and so is bot-detection.

  • Facebook is forcing new users to use facial recognition

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  • Yeah, I think they employ a pretty sophisticated bot detection algorithm. I vaguely remember there being this 'make 5 friends' objective, or something along those lines, which I had no intention of fulfilling. If a new account, having triggered the manual reviewing process, doesn't adhere to common usage patterns, simply have them supply additional information. Any collateral damage simply means additional data, to be appended to Facebook's self-profiling platform... I mean, what else would one expect when Facebook's first outside investor was Palentir's Peter Thiel?

  • Facebook is forcing new users to use facial recognition

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  • It's been like that for quite a while. I remember deleting all big-tech accounts in 2019, and shortly after, Facebook started requiring login for full public page access. Therefore I created a burner account using a 'this person does not exist' picture, which provided me short-lived access after manual review. For account recovery, I was required to supply additional selfies (or even video-selfies?), but at that point I gave up.

  • The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants

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  • Well, we are using them today for human programmers, so… :-)

    True that haha...

  • The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants

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  • I don't know: it's not just the outputs posing a risk, but also the tools themselves. The stacking of technology can only increase attack-surface it seems, at least to me. The fact that these models seem to auto-fill API values, without user-interaction, is quite unacceptable to me; it shouldn't require additional tools, checking for such common flaws.

    Perhaps AI tools in professional contexts, can be best seen as template search tools. Describe the desired template, and it simply provides the template, it believes most closely matches the prompt. The professional can then "simply" refine the template, to match it to set specifications. Or perhaps rather use it as inspiration and start fresh, and not end up spending additional time resolving flaws.

  • Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking

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  • No worries! :)