Comment Where the heck is Jack Thompson... (Score 1) 53
Comment Re: No Thank You, OpenAI (Score 0) 23
Comment Re:This is not just about ads. This is an ad. (Score 1) 61
Comment Re:More evidence we made the right decision (Score 1) 177
Comment Re:More evidence we made the right decision (Score 2) 177
Comment The tools of the panopticon are inherently racist (Score 1) 162
And it's no surprise! because just like with Acusensus being used in Mississippi for automated traffic enforcement, or the surveillance dragnet that covered the entirety of Gaza (requiring people to install an IDF tracking app on their phones), or Worldcoin piloting in Kenya among a few other countries, these technologies are tested on more vulnerable populations before being applied to the general public, and having false positives fall on people where they may is the system working as intended.
We already knew the expression scanning software was racist, having been largely trained on white people, and its use will move on to the general population anyway. Those building the panopticon absolutely hate the public
Comment Re:World Cup rights (Score 1) 44
https://www.theguardian.com/co...
"The UN Environment Programme estimated last year that on each square metre of Gaza there was an average of 107kg of debris from bombing and destruction. Much of this rubble is mixed with asbestos, unexploded ordnance, human remains and the toxins released by weaponry. Munitions contain metals such as lead, copper, manganese, alumnium compounds, mercury and depleted uranium. There are credible reports of the IDF illegally using white phosphorus: a hideous chemical and incendiary weapon that also causes widespread contamination of soil and water."
Lebanon: Evidence of Israelâ(TM)s unlawful use of white phosphorus in southern Lebanon as cross-border hostilities escalate
https://www.amnesty.org/en/lat...
Amnesty also documented use of white phosphorus in gaza all the way back in 2009 during operation cast lead, so the time for feigned ignorance is over.
Comment Re:World Cup rights (Score 1) 44
Comment Re:World Cup rights (Score 1) 44
Comment RIAAA and MPAA be like (Score 4, Funny) 44
Comment Re:$3000 per book (Score 2) 114
Comment Re:Just rewrite it in Rust already (Score 1) 92
*monkey's paw curling*
https://blog.rust-lang.org/202...
Comment Re:whitelist sites that don't use Cloudflare (Score 4, Insightful) 87
This overlooks the spam traffic coming from cloudflare. Also cloudflare was an actual intelligence project (quoted here):
https://www.devever.net/~hl/cl...
"Back in 2003, Lee Holloway and I started Project Honey Pot as an open-source project to track online fraud and abuse. The Project allowed anyone with a website to install a piece of code and track hackers and spammers. We ran it as a hobby and didn't think much about it until, in 2008, the Department of Homeland Security called and said, 'Do you have any idea how valuable the data you have is?' That started us thinking about how we could effectively deploy the data from Project Honey Pot, as well as other sources, in order to protect websites online. That turned into the initial impetus for CloudFlare."
Comment Who are they? Penguins! (Score 1) 79
These unseen minions are penguins! And they fly under the radar because they don't need to fly at all.
Here's the article's actual answer to the question (not in the summary): "âoeThe most affected jobs are secretaries, are routine clerks,â said Michelle Yin, one of the working paperâ(TM)s authors. âoeTheyâ(TM)re not computer scientists or data scientists at all.â