Is this new law allowing the police to go to carrier companies and demanding to know the phone numbers of people near the riots, or is this closer to the police using your camera without your permission? I would have thought security restrictions on devices would have blocked such intrusive ability.
Borg286
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Noob Question: If you aren't willing to deal with custom OSes like Linux (for computers) and Android Custom Roms (for phones), do you just not have any privacy at all?
3·3 years agoIt depends on what you consider spying. The vast majority of devices want some form of push notification capability, which requires being connected to Microsoft/Google/Apple servers, and thus the company knows your IP address. But doing pretty much anything on the internet and you expose your IP address.
If what you mean by spying you think it is looking at what app/program you are doing, recording your keystrokes, recording what your camera sees, the vast majority of devices don’t do any of this. Those are done on hacked laptops and school laptop admins that are either creepy and unchecked or overly intrusive.
Somewhere between these two extremes you would say it crosses the boundary into spying. You don’t need a custom OS to stop it unless you your threshold is all the way to the push notification level.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there any more ethical solution to our current circumstances than "murder all billionaires"?
251·3 years agoThe problem isn’t the exact rate, it is their ability to pay for tax experts so they can avoid having most of their wealth taxed at all. This is why Biden wanted to beef up the IRS and sic them on billionaires. Scrutinize the cracks they slip through.
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: If you work in the U.S. as a W-2 worker, you can check to see how much money you've paid into Social Security and learn when you'll become eligible to draw from it in retirement
6·3 years agoActually, the mouse running the wheel powering the server also needed to clock out for the night.
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World News@lemmy.world•Russia-Ukraine War Mega Thread | June 25 - July 8 2023
0·3 years agoI strongly suspect world leaders would agree that Russia using nukes would be justified according to their nuclear plan. An internal civil war is really the best bet for regime change.
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News@kbin.social•Facebook and Instagram to restrict news access in Canada
1·3 years agoSpain also tried to tell Google News to pay up for what they offered for free to people. Google simply shut it down. I haven’t checked up to see if news agencies floundered, went elsewhere or thrived as the rich touted would happen.
Canada is claiming the same issues. I suspect there is a symbiotic relationship between news agencies and social media that connects eyes with publishers.
I agree with the general sentiment that Facebook users are more siloed than those heading to Google News. But paying to show a snippet just isn’t feasible.
Borg286@kbin.socialto
World News@kbin.social•All street surveillance cameras just got shut off in Rostov-on-Don
1·3 years agoWhat is the interpretation?
He may be trying to give Pootin a way to blame the ministry of defense for providing Pootin, Wagner and the Russian people false information. A way for Pootin to blame someone not named prigozhin. Sadly with the ministry of defense making public statements against prigozhin they are trying to force Pootin to pick between the two. Either way it is a win for us.
Borg286@kbin.socialto
Doctor Who@lemmy.world•I have a theory, the current doctor when you started watching is your favorite doctor. Would this apply to you?
1·3 years agoNeither me nor my son. I started with the reboot and didn’t like the first doctor, and loved matt Smith. My son adores Christopher and got into it the same order.
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Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•Sub Rehab - See where reddit communities have relocated to
1·3 years agoI created an issue on their GitHub page
https://github.com/GeorgeSG/sub.rehab/issues/3
Feel free to reply there with a better change proposal
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Technology@kbin.social•UC Irvine scientists create long-lasting, cobalt-free, lithium-ion batteries
1·3 years agoDoes anyone know what exactly this doping did? The article was lacking on specifics.
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Technology@kbin.social•Reddit’s average daily traffic fell during blackout, according to third-party data | Engadget
8·3 years agoThose 5 million users didn’t seem to come here? We still have improvements to make a layman resume their reddit activity here. This just seems like a loss of the community overall.
But if the same percentage of people come over we are looking at roughly a 10x growth, at a minimum.
Borg286@kbin.socialtoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Kremlin decides that goal to "demilitarise" Ukraine has largely been achieved
01·3 years agoDid anyone else notice that this is the Kremlin saying this rather than Pootin? Is the Kremlin getting ready to tell poopypants-poopin to sit in the corner? This might be a shift in leadership.
Today people append Reddit to their search to find human replies to their question. If the Reddit community fragments into the fediverse what keyword would they type in then?
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ELI5@kbin.social•ELI5 - How does artificial intelligence understand what is right and what is wrong for humans?
1·3 years agoAI doesn’t really exist yet. Media, back in 1870, called Tesla’s magnetically controlled boat artificial intelligence, and again in the 80s when computer scientists invented the game of life. But even now nothing we’ve made so far can do decision making. ChatGPT, the smartest out there, is really just a versatile prediction engine.
Imagine if I said, “once upon a” and asked you to come up with the next word, you’d say, “time” as you’ve heard that phrase hundreds of times. I then asked you to come up with the next word, and the next you might start telling me about a princess locked in a tall tower protected by a dragon. These are all stereotypical elements of a “once upon a time” story. Nothing creative, just typical. Chat GPT has just read way more than you or I ever could and is really good at knowing more stereotypical stories and mixing them together. There is no “what is best for humanity” only “once upon a time…”-made up stories.


Interesting that a mere 5 million samples could train ChatGPT so strongly. I see attack vectors.
I predict that like Akinator the beginning will be smart till the internet trolls feed it garbage. From there on put it will be severely flawed