Comment Re:nothing new (Score 1) 82
Nah, it's more akin to just advertising, and the whole culture around that. Hence the 'negative connotations.' ;)
Comment And this will fix the Filter Bubble, how? (Score 2) 19
[...] limits political content from people you're not following
More echo-chamber sounds like a great idea to make the problem even worse.
Comment lolwat? (Score 1) 128
> Can we still avoid passing 1.5C?
What? You just said in the first sentence that we've already passed: "Earth had its first year-long, 1.5-degree rise in temperature."
Comment Re:Zero trust (Score 3, Informative) 19
Coudflare [sic] sells a zero trust security solution. Do they not even use it themselves?
Yep. if you'd actually read the article, you would've seen this paragraph: “Throughout this timeline, the threat actor tried to access a myriad of other systems at Cloudflare but failed because of our access controls, firewall rules, and use of hard security keys enforced using our own Zero Trust tools.”
Comment Re:Time for a new browser plugin (Score 0) 18
Done: https://www.trackmenot.io/
It got blocked by Google (no surprises there), but could be resurrected.
Submission + - AI Cameras Took Over One Small American Town. Now They're Everywhere (404media.co)
An anonymous reader writes: This is a demonstration of Fusus, an AI-powered system that is rapidly springing up across small town America and major cities alike. Fusus’ product not only funnels live feeds from usually siloed cameras into one central location, but also adds the ability to scan for people wearing certain clothes, carrying a particular bag, or look for a certain vehicle.
404 Media has obtained a cache of internal emails, presentations, memos, photos, and more which provide insight into how Fusus teams up with police departments to sell its surveillance technology. All around the country, city councils are debating whether they want to have a system that qualitatively changes what surveillance cameras mean for a town’s residents and public agencies. While many have adopted Fusus, others have pushed back, and refused to have the hardware and software installed in their neighborhoods.
404 Media has obtained a cache of internal emails, presentations, memos, photos, and more which provide insight into how Fusus teams up with police departments to sell its surveillance technology. All around the country, city councils are debating whether they want to have a system that qualitatively changes what surveillance cameras mean for a town’s residents and public agencies. While many have adopted Fusus, others have pushed back, and refused to have the hardware and software installed in their neighborhoods.
Comment Good (Score 0) 35
Even though the sale to Epic sucked, I hope Bandcamp wins against Google. Because fuck them even more.
Comment Re:Fermi paradox (Score 0) 89
This has nothing to do with the "Fermi paradox" and even then, the Fermi paradox is stupid.
Comment A better example (Score 0) 180
This is a better example.
Comment "Less toxic competitors"? (Score 0) 169
Lolwat? Tiktok is just as toxic, if not moreso. The data collection and sharing is immense, and its culture is also just as shit.
Comment Urgh (Score 1, Interesting) 175
Stop anthropomorphising machines. They're not and never will be alive. Next.
Comment Of course they are! (Score 1) 398
Precisely what happens when: 1) speech is been ceded to giant corporations to control, and 2) all such speech is commodified, because that's the sole purpose of their platforms.
It wasn't a very big stretch to see the end was built into the beginning.
Next!
Comment False premise. (Score 1) 104
There is no "actual good [AI] can do in the world." Technological escalation is a root cause of societal and ecological collapse.
The actual good thing to do in the world, would be to not have any of it the first place.
Comment Re (Score 1) 81
Who in their right mind thought they were signing up for this much surveillance back when they first joined Facebook?
The people who DIDN'T sign up for Facebook ever, because back in the day, they could see how intensely invasive it was even without all the crazy tracking that has been added in the past 15 years.
Comment Re:Well... duh? (Score 1) 78
... and 3 years before the Social Dilemma, the documentary Stare Into The Lights My Pretties. And 4 years before that, the book Mind Change by Susan Greenfield which had the same claims about screen culture creating dopamine addicts. But apparently she was too early for her time, cos ten years ago, when we could of done something to fix the problem, she was derided for being "alarmist."
