A similar dangerous push by Microsoft to listen in to phone calls.
I should point out that Microsoft several months ago announced a similar plan for listening in on phone calls looking for "suspicious interactions" which would be offered via phone carriers. As with the Google case, the ways in which such capabilities could be abused by government entities is immense. And once the service exists, authorities could order it secretly added to anyone's service and used to scan for whatever sorts of conversations or keywords they desired. This is a disastrous direction that these firms are moving in; there are almost no words to adequately explain the nightmare scenarios such systems could easily empower.
@lauren Services like that exist for a longer time than you think. And it actually started with governments, then went to banks, and now they're trying to breach the last barrier to privacy
@lauren Depends how you define scale. Banks had the stuff for Dodd-Frank since 2008. With the "advent" of better transcription algorithms it became just more efficient and reliable. I used to be a dev for that tech back then.
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Picking up after my "mistrial" thread/ 1/...
All via McB for awhile:
Counsel approaches, brief sidebar
"Binoculars down."
As I mentioned, courtroom rules strictly enforced. During sidebar, court security doesn't allow reporters to use binoculars they had brought to see exhibits and facial expressions better
It's probably best not to engage with dead-enders who'd rather watch society burn than be adults & vote for #Biden, or at least try to persuade rather than scold. But it's so damn frustrating they haven't already figured out at this late date that #Trump is an existential threat.
@GottaLaff@atrupar Quite frankly this entire conflict situation feels like 2016 again. Instigated by (probably) Russian propaganda to create splits in the Biden support where possible.
@GottaLaff The people wanting to burn it all down should perhaps ask themselves "...and replace it with what?". Because the answer to that will not be something anyone likes.
Looks like the WIFI here on the ship I’m on is blocking all YouTube traffic and GitHub as well so I can’t go on and make my final video of the PhotosUI and Camera series public. I will do that when I return, In the meantime, you can access it at this URL https://youtu.be/1ZYE5FcUN4Y
This is my laptop C: drive and its many partitions. It was created from an sysimage backup to a new replacement drive. I now want to dump the D: drive and recover its space on the C drive. Can this be done? If so, what is the precise sequence of delete, extend, etc.
@shoq Nothing. And there even is the effect of degrading quality of training because of that. There was a term coined for that but i can't recall right now.
@shoq Somehow that "comprehension" part (3) appears intentionally misleading. GPT doesn't "comprehend" anything. It's not an AGI but an LLM. So what is it blathering about comprehension here?
It really looks like the Supreme Court is going to OK outlawing homelessness.
To punish people for not being housed, we're going to...house them…but In jail? And under what circumstances would they be released? If they agree to leave town so they can be locked up in another city's jail for the crime of homelessness? Maybe just straight-up house them, non-punitively, and skip the whole arrest thing? https://wapo.st/4d8H5N5
Ugh. It never ends. I accidentally used Revo uninstaller on Avast and when it called the avast uninstaller, I accidently closed it before it ran, thanks to stupid design. Revo scanned and removed stuff. Then I discover avast protected itself. I disabled that, Avast still present, but unintallers can’t see it.Arggggh. Suggestions?
@shoq The only suggestion i can offer is to never install snake oil like that to begin with. Huge attack surface with system (or even kernel) permissions. Really bad idea.