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The Register of British Slave-Traders(britishslavetraders.org)
10 points by dabinat 2d ago|1 comments
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AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future(bbc.com)
3 points by dabinat 4d ago|0 comments
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by dabinat 6d ago
I always thought the show Person of Interest had an interesting premise: can you program a computer to have morals? Perhaps you can, but it’s just as easy for someone else to program it NOT to have morals, in which case your very moral comp
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by dabinat 6d ago
I think the only way discovering aliens will end well for them or us is if they’re equal to us in intelligence and military capability.
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by dabinat 7d ago
If it is illegal, I don’t know who will actually enforce the law. Certainly not the DOJ and most likely not the Supreme Court either. But it’s an empty promise anyway. Once they’ve got what they want they’re not going to pay out.
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by dabinat 7d ago
> While audio is not recorded and stored, and no speakers are attributed, consider those around you where conversations might be private or sensitive Apple seems to be putting responsibility for appropriate use of this feature on the use
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Resting your laptop on your lap for long periods could risk skin disfiguration(scimex.org)
1 points by dabinat 7d ago|1 comments
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by dabinat 7d ago
People put things out there for free and the AI companies used that data to replace them. I do wonder if the end result of that is that people will stop putting things out there for free. Open-source development was already a pretty thankle
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by dabinat 7d ago
It would be great if they could use the LiDAR scanner to sign a depth map of the scene in front of the camera. It would show if you photographed a flat image.
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by dabinat 8d ago
In the UK they passed laws a few decades ago allowing people to be surveilled, called RIPA. It was marketed as something necessary to catch terrorists and major criminals, that would only be used for those purposes. Within a few years local
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by dabinat 8d ago
The free tier is very generous and it’s only $300, no subscription. Those Fable credits would cost a lot more than that. You’d spend thousands of dollars to save $300. Moreover, not everyone wants to have the hassle of building and maintain
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by dabinat 8d ago
It’s the de-facto “standard” for color grading and it’s getting more and more capable for things like editing, audio mixing and VFX.
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AI cancer cures slowed by chip shortage, says Arm boss(bbc.com)
20 points by dabinat 9d ago|15 comments
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by dabinat 9d ago
My TVs (Samsung) are the only devices on my network that are locked down and quarantined. But I wonder if there will come a day when TVs contain cellular or satellite modems so you can’t block the telemetry.
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Alzheimer's treatment is advancing rapidly(vox.com)
3 points by dabinat 9d ago|1 comments
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by dabinat 9d ago
The franchising itself isn’t the problem - it’s a valid way for a company to scale up a service. The issue is that they’re rolling it out before Tesla’s self-driving software has been proven to be safe. And there are questions about whether
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by dabinat 10d ago
I actually prefer the swiping apps. As a man I’m expected to make the first move and on apps like OkC it’s easy to waste a lot of time and effort messaging people who are not at all interested in me. The swiping is a signal that there is at
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by dabinat 12d ago
I understand this logic, but voting third-party should be reserved for democracies that are healthier than the US’s. When the only choice is a flawed but sane person or an extremist, a third-party vote is effectively a vote for the extremis
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by dabinat 12d ago
More than that, in 2020 Trump got a record number of votes for any Republican or sitting president ever. In other circumstances he would have won. It’s just that Biden also got a record number of votes.
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by dabinat 12d ago
I guess it’s more accurate to say that corruption didn’t start with Trump (he wasn’t even involved in politics when Citizens United was happening, for example). The US has been marching in that direction for a while. The difference now is t
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by dabinat 13d ago
Is this actually an exercise pill? It seems like just a weight-loss pill. There is no way that I could gather from the article that this would increase muscle mass.
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by dabinat 13d ago
You may be right about that but they’re tearing things down overnight that took decades to build. And it will take more decades again to rebuild and repair. We’ll be spending most of our lives doing it.
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Rust stabilizes Never type on nightly(github.com)
2 points by dabinat 13d ago|0 comments
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by dabinat 14d ago
They only tested 400 out of 10,000, so there’s every chance when it goes back there’ll be another reason to reject it. You’re also assuming that the government’s data is accurate and the rejections are not disingenuous. If the ballots were
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by dabinat 14d ago
If Democrats were talented enough to rig an election with zero trace, they would have governed the country a lot more competently during Biden’s term. Also, why didn’t they rig it again in 2024?
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by dabinat 14d ago
Another reason is that if people only have one day to vote, it’s much easier to disenfranchise their vote just by delaying or inconveniencing them. Texas recently tried this by changing where people were allowed to vote, causing mass confus
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by dabinat 14d ago
Is it actually exploited for fraud though? It doesn’t matter if they send me 10 ballots - I can still go to jail for voting more than once. I think you’re giving too much credence to someone whose argument was disingenuous. It was never abo
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Svelte Custom Renderers(svelte-custom-renderers.com)
1 points by dabinat 14d ago|0 comments
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by dabinat 15d ago
> This required us to add a watermark—a numerical way of determining the likelihood that Claude was involved in writing a piece of text—to the outputs of models released after August 2, 2026. As we recently explained, this watermark is i
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Tracking the fatal Tesla Autopilot and FSD crashes hidden in its data(electrek.co)
5 points by dabinat 15d ago|0 comments

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