EU plan to force messaging apps to scan for CSAM risks millions of false positives, experts warn.
A controversial push by European Union lawmakers to legally require messaging platforms to scan citizens’ private communications for child sexual abuse material could lead to millions of false positives per day, hundreds of security and privacy experts warned in an open letter Thursday.
I love it when people yell at me for not including alt-text with my images because they assume I must be the sort of person who neglects to include alt-text. It's so obvious that I'm that sort of person that there's no need to even check and see if it's true, apparently.
Dear #writers
I'm begging you, please just talk to a behavioral scientist/psychologist before publishing. Or read a textbook. Read Wikipedia. Anything.
"Psychotic" doesn't mean what you think it does. No, that's not why therapy works. Your armchair theories about mental illnesses and substance use need to be updated or scrapped altogether. Freud's theories were never any good and haven't been relevant for decades.
While I'm here: you also might not know what "bemused" means, and even if you do, please limit its use to perhaps twice in one book.
"#QuantumPhysics proves that all events are random and nothing can be predicted."
The phrases above are how ridiculous it would look if certain #writers wrote about physical science without consulting an actual scientist or even reading a couple of Wikipedia articles, like they do about behavioral science.
So, #police park down the street, no lights / siren , walk onto the #property, start shining bright flashlights around and through windows late at night, bunch of them bang on the door multiple times, with bright police flashlights shining in face.
#Home#owner opens door armed, police #kill him. No police will be charged.
OH, and BTW, the Police were responding to a disturbance / domestic violence call and arrived at the #WRONG#HOUSE. AKA they were banging on door.
The Biden administration has chosen to open up a new front in Yemen instead of pressuring Israel to stop its onslaught against Gaza. Air strikes are unlikely to deter attacks on Red Sea shipping, but they could undercut a deal to end Yemen’s bloody civil war.
The #mainstream#media's constant "On the one hand... on the other..." approach to pretty much every #issue is definitely not helping the general public's apparent endorsement of the #aphorism "For every #complex#problem, there is a simple, easy-to-understand #wrong#answer".
If we want an educated - or at least informed - public, we have to stop over-simplifying the issues and facts, turning them to blenderized pablum, and get people to appreciate that real life isn't simple, black-and-white.
I've placed half a dozen orders in the last month and a bit, and it seems that every single one hasn't even #shipped for 2 or 3 days after I place the order. Everything I've ordered was in #stock (and not marginally; "27,563 in stock" type of thing).
So, I wasn't going crazy. The replacement, stupidly expensive and complicated ECM motor they shipped me was in fact DOA. Confirmed with a 2nd replacement I got today. I was about half-convinced I had done something wrong with the first replacement, but couldn't even guess at what.
I purchased a #replacement from Rheem. It arrived; I installed it, reconnected everything, turned the power back on, and ... the control board still showed #error 68: "incorrect #signal from #ECM".
They sent me the #wrong bloody motor, and I stupidly didn't triple-check the part number before installing it.
The motor itself is identical, just the programming is different.
I'm going to have a bit of a #tech#rant (less charitable people might say #whine) here. If you just want jokes and cute bunny pictures, feel free to skip this one.
Object of my #ire this week? #Furnaces. I'm not even going to rant about their main control boards; most of that's been said better than I could say it, by others with more knowledge than I.
The actual 3-phase motor is #simple - that's one of the reasons they're used in industry, simple means less to go #wrong. And it appears to be well-made, so there are #quality#bearings and #windings and everything in it. But the motor itself isn't expensive. Rheem probably doesn't pay more than USD 100 for that part of it, and maybe less.
Yesterday's #WOTD was GYBE. Deep breath, here we go. When a fore-and-aft sail or boom swings across the boat, momentarily pointing into the wind, or to cause a sail to do this, or to cause a vessel to change course thus.
#please don't #forget to add me to one of your #lists. I'll probably want to #reach out to you again sometime. You need to keep #lists to be able to #register#posts of your #favorites. I'm #writing this for those who are used to their #feed filling itself. That's not the case here and for me that's a good thing. The feed doesn't have to be overwhelmed with #nonsense that some #algorithm assumes you care about.