I live in the EU and the company I work at has been bought out by an american company. They now want me to sign a document that lets them transfer my personal data from my employer to the USA. They want my Name, full address and birthday. It says that they need this for some “compliance regulation” which includes the...
Think about it. Isn’t light+eyes and ears+sound just the same in terms of their “influence at a distance”? We don’t feel that as abnormal or magic - simply because we’ve sensors for them and are used to it. But physically speaking light and magnetism are based on electromagnetic forces.
Honestly this is absurd. These death machines shouldn’t be legal in europe. That thing doesn’t even fit in the parking space, even though the parking lot has the biggest spaces in the whole city. The Golf Polo is so small in comparison, it could even hide in front of the engine hood of the truck....
Might just be my experience but in the UK at least, it’s almost exclusively women who drive cars like this. Men more commonly drive vans and super large vehicles to be fair, but specifically larger than necessary, non-tradesman style cars (Land Rovers, very clean, empty pick-ups etc.)
They’re “complaining” about unique qualities of their art being used, without consent, to create new things which ultimately de-value their original art.
It’s a debate to be had, I’m not clearly in favour of either argument here, but it’s quite obvious what they’re upset with.
See attached image for example (not my post). The other day, I posted something and received an error (can’t post or something along the lines). I was returned to my draft and pressed post again. This time, the post went through. However, it now turned out to be posted twice, despite the initial error message. Why does this...
Without intending to be pinickity, I would just like to say that, long-term studies of stimulant medication show growth in the areas of the brain ADHDers are typically underdeveloped.
Making no comment on you decision, I just wanted to challenge that it merely covers up the issue. It may very well be that understanding herself and ADHD-educated parents are the only necessary tools (I wouldn’t know - sounds like she’s lucked out). But the medication does actually address (to some extent) aspects of the underlying problem enough to be neurologically measurable.
Obviously, this isn’t ideal. But this isn’t as damning as some of the other commenters believe.
The way reddit operates, is that they are “trusted” with all our data. They can (and do), sell any data they like, to whomever they like. They store much more information than simply who upvoted what. They can’t simply allow upvotes with no claimant, they’d have no way of stopping or identifying bots or illegitimate upvotes.
This system is not ideal, but it’s also not necessarily worse. We’re still operating under that system, the only real difference is, we get to choose who that trusted party is. We get to move instances if the hosters interests become misaligned with our own.
Ultimately, there needs to be a smart solution to this problem to ensure it’s not abused. We can’t completely remove collection of the data, otherwise upvotes will be meaningless and hijacked by agendas. We can’t simply encrypt the data, if there’s a genuine use for it (which we’ve discussed), who SHOULD be allowed to decrypt it?
I completely understand the concern, and I share it. But this isn’t an issue so much with Lemmy, it’s an issue with upvotes on distributed social media.
Edit: Okay, ANY instance admin is where the issue lies. That much I agree with.
I completely agree that sharing it with other instances is a problem.
You can bet your behind that Big Tech and governments are harvesting ALL of it as we speak.
This is super nitpicky, but assuming it exposed even a minute amount of the data that Reddit freely ships to whoever buys it (including governments), I actually think it’s far less likely to be seen. Social media companies are well-known to freely give access to anything law enforcement, governments or advertisers would like. Most if not all, have exposed APIs which allow law enforcement at least to collect almost any data at their leisure. This data is packaged up by the orgs who have the data.
Scraping Lemmy for this information would require their own solutions, and backends to handle all the data. Here in the UK, our tecnically-inept government famously broke their multi-billion COVID test-and-trace system because the excel spreadsheet they used as a database, ran out of lines…
Even assuming it’s true that all of these groups have bothered to make their own solutions and bought server space to store the data themselves for a relatively tiny (certainly until very recently), the only data they get is who liked what post/comment.
That is a small snowflake compared to the iceberg that other social media organizations collect, package and sell. Facebook for example collect enough data that they earn more per user than Netflix.
Certainly, as Lemmy and ActivityPub gain more traction, this is a privacy hole which deserves some consideration, and should be immediately plugged. But I just don’t think it’s in the same solar system as exposing data to any social media site.
Really doesn’t matter to be honest. Whichever distro you choose, you’ll be able to program somehow. Pop_Os! is a good bet for graphics cards issues though, so I’d say roll with it.
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Felt cute, contemplated futility of existence (feddit.de)
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I live in the EU and the company I work at has been bought out by an american company. They now want me to sign a document that lets them transfer my personal data from my employer to the USA. They want my Name, full address and birthday. It says that they need this for some “compliance regulation” which includes the...
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Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it
Think about it. Isn’t light+eyes and ears+sound just the same in terms of their “influence at a distance”? We don’t feel that as abnormal or magic - simply because we’ve sensors for them and are used to it. But physically speaking light and magnetism are based on electromagnetic forces.
We have come a long way (izzydata.xyz)
How many wiretaps do you have in your home?
Bar scene, 1950s. (lemmy.world)
[image] Both cars fit the same amount of people (feddit.de)
Honestly this is absurd. These death machines shouldn’t be legal in europe. That thing doesn’t even fit in the parking space, even though the parking lot has the biggest spaces in the whole city. The Golf Polo is so small in comparison, it could even hide in front of the engine hood of the truck....
Too close to home (feddit.uk)
A response to the Sarah Silverman suing OpenAI post from yesterday: [AI doesn't read or write like humans, and we shouldn't act like it does.] (agrobertson.substack.com)
A long form response to the concerns and comments and general principles many people had in the post about authors suing companies creating LLMs.
What are your favourite analogies for explaining difficult or complex concepts?
Explain any one particular complex topic using an analogy you found interesting or easily understandable.
If you know, you know… (i.imgur.com)
Why do I see duplicate posts so often and how can we prevent this? (feddit.nl)
See attached image for example (not my post). The other day, I posted something and received an error (can’t post or something along the lines). I was returned to my draft and pressed post again. This time, the post went through. However, it now turned out to be posted twice, despite the initial error message. Why does this...
Oof… (i.imgur.com)
YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private (i.imgur.com)
Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)…...
Tip for finding something you know is right in front of you
Touch everything...
Which Linux distro is the best for programming?
Currently I’m using Linux Mint but I’m having issues with my Nvidia graphics card....