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PierceTheBubble

@ PierceTheBubble @lemmy.ml

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    COVID's "new normal" = safety hysteria, digital dependence and "expert" obedience?

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  • I think COVID gave big-tech a rather HUGE boost, as it restricted non-tech businesses, while actively promoting tech as the substitute. As for safety hysteria, I want to clarify I don't believe COVID itself was pure hysteria, although I do believe policy makers overstepped, and in turn caused excessive harm to youth for instance. Instead I'd argue the hysteria for COVID surrounding safety, extends into modern society, and is applied to subjects like social media bans and occupancy levels at buildings for instance. And finally for the "expert" obedience part, or rather a technocratic approach over a democratic one, can be seen in politics being "advised" by "experts" rather than by democratic will, the excessive presence of "experts" at talk-shows for instance, and the most obvious being social-media censorship surrounding COVID skepticism, as outright "misinformation". Even though a lot of it is purely nonsensical speculation of course.

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  • Well then what concepts did it introduce, which extend into modern society? I see no arguments against my question, indicating a quest for discussion. Calling someone a crackhead doesn't contribute to the discussion it seems; who would've thought?

  • Comitis Capital announces the acquisition of Threema

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  • Still, if the service is supposed to be security and privacy-oriented, how about you make the source-code available, so users can verify this for themselves?

  • Would tech-CEOs still use shampoo in the shower, or would popping bubbles make them anxious?

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  • Fair point

  • Comitis Capital announces the acquisition of Threema

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  • proprietary encryption algorithms verified by thought-leading cybersecurity experts and communities worldwide

    Trust the experts bro

  • UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake

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  • AI risk management, what could possibly go wrong?

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    Flowers nut on unsuspecting bees

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  • Your nose or...?

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    Flowers nut on unsuspecting bees

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  • The queen B be pimpin' the worker beeatches

  • Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer

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  • Of course, make an anti-feature part of an integral part, which coincidentally also happens to handle personal files...

  • How the UK is shaping a future of Precrime and dissent management - Freedom News

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  • Great article! "education" ... "risk assessments" ... "early intervention" ... Got to break their spirit while they're young

  • How the UK is shaping a future of Precrime and dissent management - Freedom News

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  • It's almost as if they're seeking to replace these with technology. They've purposefully neglected social services and will continue to do so, to lower the bar for AI and grant themselves an excuse for the poor "substitute". And this isn't at all restricted to the UK, in The Netherlands we're in the midst of it too: the same exact playbook. Modern surveillance cameras (like Axis' for example) have NPU's built in, or camera footage (even from legacy analog cameras, by use of encoders) is linked to either an onsite server, a cloud-service, or a combination of the two, facilitating the functionality. I hardly believe AI to be the limiting factor here, storage of footage is another story however. But I think they instead strategically place facial-recognition cameras, while the other cameras simply store abstractions from the footage. Of course if one of those cameras senses an event, which it recognizes might be of elevated relevance, it might store the raw footage. An example being: railways doing face-scanning for "depression detection", instead of implementing 'platform screen doors' of course...

  • Do bats have an option on their phones that turns photos upside down automatically?

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  • I'm not that up-to-date on my bat-lore, but I've always thought they were primarily active at night, and navigate themselves using sonar there. But perhaps eyesight is also complementary to sonar at night, or vise versa? Again, my bat-lore's lacking

  • Do bats have an option on their phones that turns photos upside down automatically?

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  • Photos, as in sonar depth maps?

  • Zuckerberg eyes massive [datacenter] expansion with Meta Compute play

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  • McCormick, who Zuck noted would be focusing much of her energy on "partnering with governments and sovereigns to build, deploy, invest in, and finance Meta's infrastructure."

    Meta last week signed three new long-term contracts with TerraPower, Oklo, and Vistra for nuclear energy. Combined with the company's existing commitments with Constellation Energy, the Social Network has now contracted for roughly 6.6 gigawatts of atomic power

    It's all just so soul crushingly in the open and shameless

  • Meta names Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump adviser, as president and vice chairman

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  • Ah, the good ol' revolving door politics

  • Wing's drone deliveries are coming to 150 more Walmarts

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  • More eyes in the sky. It seems like even pigeons aren't save from being replaced by technology...

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    Flowers nut on unsuspecting bees

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  • I would suspect it expects to get nectar, only to be brutally violated in the process

  • Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete

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  • Couldn't agree more

  • Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete

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  • Honestly, the tech seems quite impressive. But I wouldn't touch Amazon-backed smart glasses, which "could also provide health insights, such as detecting dry eyes or monitoring posture", with a ten-foot pole; especially when there's also entirely passive bifocals and progressives.

  • India proposes forcing smartphone makers to give source code in security overhaul

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  • India proposes requiring smartphone makers to share source code with the government and make several software changes as part of a raft of security measures.

    How does that sound promising at all? Especially when initiated by a government, previously having attempted to enforce government spyware, to be installed on all consumer smartphones. The following excerpts are from India's proposed phone security rules that are worrying tech firms

    Devices must store security audit logs, including app installations and login attempts, for 12 months.

    Phones must periodically scan for malware and identify potentially harmful applications.

    Defined to be potentially harmful by who? Right.

    Phone makers must notify a government organisation before releasing any major updates or security patches.

    We cannot approve of the security patch just yet, as we must first extensively exploit the vulnerability...

    Devices must detect if phones have been rooted or "jailbroken", where users bypass built-in security restrictions, and display continuous warning banners to recommend corrective measures.

    Phones must permanently block installation of older software versions, even if officially signed by the manufacturer, to prevent security downgrades.