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wcbdata

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Data, privacy, ethics, old houses, and food
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wcbdata, to UXDesign
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Not sure whether to place this under #DataPrivacy or #UXDesign, but it's a fun one.

For US users, at least, when exporting all of a LinkedIn account's data, if a user selects "Download Larger Archive" to get the full archive, when they click to request the archive, the UI just switches their selection to "Select the data files you're most interested in" instead, then selects ALL THE OPTIONS, and finally disables the form and submits the request. I guess the BE developers were busy that sprint.

BigAngBlack, to ethelcain
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‘We did it in cattle’: Republicans falter before IVF patients | | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/29/alabama-embryo-ivf-republicans

> Patients and doctors gather at state house following IVF ruling searching for answers from lawmakers – but find none



wcbdata,
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@BigAngBlack You know what else we use in cattle for breeding?

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Anyone who has had will know that one of the significant aspects is a 'brain fog' that can effect memory, reasoning, functioning of the body & other mental facilities.

A new study has confirmed that these aspects are very real for those infected & have a significant effect on cognition.... however, they also confirm that while relatively slow, recovery is possible & widespread.

It also suggests that these effects have become weaker as Covid has mutated.

So qualified good news

h/t FT

wcbdata,
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@ChrisMayLA6 Careful with the conclusions there. 1) The authors only state that patients whose self-reported symptoms improved over time saw concurrent improvements in cognitive scores, but indicated that in general, declines could persist for years. 2) Although the authors indicated that there was less cognitive decline when Delta was predominant (compared to earlier strains), they a) suggest that this was due to high vaccination rates and 2) only cover strains through March 2022

wcbdata,
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@fifilamoura @ChrisMayLA6 Agreed. I'm worried that incomplete readings (or outright willful ignorance) of this sort of research are making it difficult to mount the public health efforts we really need. A current example outside the COVID scope would be the bizarre push against measles immunization, when the long-term effects of measles-induced immunosuppression are so clear.

wcbdata,
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@fifilamoura @ChrisMayLA6
Along similar lines, a paper I read recently indicated that sars-cov2 has many of the hallmarks of a bug able to produce something very delayed, like post-polio syndrome, but we probably won't know for another couple of decades what that looks like.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01810-6

TerryHancock, to random
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"You won't have to write code! You just have to tell the computer what you want it to do and it'll do it!"
-- the failed promise of every new generation of programming language :welp:

wcbdata,
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@TerryHancock I do love to point out to the cheerleaders for this stuff that "code" is literally "telling the computer what to do in English"

eclectech, to vinyl
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There is a bit of a pre-spring clean underway at house eclectech, and one of the things being sorted is a rather eclectic collection of inherited vinyl. Some I remember from my childhood and teen years, and some... some I do not.

But who wouldn't want to give this a listen?!

I'm deliberately not looking for it online. Going to listen to it as nature intended.

wcbdata,
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@eclectech Holy crap we had that album. Right next to Stormy Weekend, and a John Denver live album iirc.

karengregory, to random
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I feel really angry and sad that Wordpress is churning into the churn. It was such a good space for so long. Can you also opt out (sorry, lazy web, haven't read more here)?

wcbdata,
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@karengregory You can opt out, but from what I have read today, it appears that a transfer has already happened, so the setting will not affect work you've already published.

jeff, to ai
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    wcbdata,
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    @jeff Recommendations for other hosts?

    molly0xfff, to random
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    super cool that all these companies have decided to make customers opt OUT of having their data sold for AI training purposes

    "but no one would do it if it was opt-in!"

    yeah, THAT IS THE PROBLEM

    wcbdata,
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    @molly0xfff I would very much like to see consumer protection legislation that preemptively outlaws doing anything to a consumer or with their data that they would have said no to had they been directly asked.

    design_law, to random
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    Just blocked my first reply guy on checks notes LinkedIn.

    wcbdata,
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    @design_law LinkedIn has become very FaceBook-like over the last several years. I've ended up in some very ugly corners of it by accident and had to unfollow or just remove several contacts I had once respected.

    CatherineFlick, to random
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    Yay positive for covid, this blows

    wcbdata,
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    @CatherineFlick Day 14 positive and symptomatic here - I deeply sympathize and hope you are on the mend soon!

    skrishna, to space
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    We got the first photos back from Odysseus!

    Blurry, the moon’s surface with a bit of the spacecraft on the right.

    wcbdata,
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    @skrishna
    Same energy

    wcbdata, to random
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    Who knows a fedi-present artist who sells embossed metallic Linux badges for rescued PCs? 😁

    MLE_online, to random
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    It's hard to write a concise sentence when you have to identify the person in the sentence with a title like, "The Edmund R. and Fanny L. Robertson Endowed Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology and Human Behavior; Dawes Leadership Chair of Social Science; and Hawthorne-Croft Medical Institute investigator."

    e.g.
    A new theory by Jim Smith, the The Edmund R. and Fanny L. Robertson Endowed Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology and Human Behavior; Dawes Leadership Chair of Social Science; and Hawthorne-Croft Medical Institute investigator, is changing the way we view interpersonal conflict

    wcbdata,
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    @rose_alibi @MLE_online
    Even as a cis white guy, when I was 15 years younger than all my peers and had a long ponytail, a title was often the only thing that would get other professionals to get over their shit and talk with me.

    kristinHenry, to random
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    Hey vis.social folks!

    Please do NOT harass our moderators when they ask you to add a CW to a post. Harassment of anyone is not acceptable in this community.

    Please read the rules and code of conduct for this community instance. They are listed on our About page: https://vis.social/about

    If you don't understand them, then ask us...without calling them "dumb".

    If you don't agree with them, then please find a different instance or platform.

    --vis.social moderation team

    wcbdata,
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    @kristinHenry And the vast majority of us support our mods on this. They have a mob. Don't get us angry.

    atomicpoet, to random
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    With the whole “Doom runs on everything” meme, it was only a matter of time before a company leaned into it by pre-installing Doom on an appliance, and making everything official.

    Which is why Doom is coming to Husqvarna lawnmowers.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXkOdvDfPFU

    wcbdata,
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    @atomicpoet This is wonderful.

    janeadams, to kpop
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    Our paper just won "Best Paper Engaged in Quantitative Description on an Under-studied Phenomenon" from JQDM for 2023! 🏆 I'm no longer in work, but it's still dear to my heart, and this paper was a blast :) Spoiler: We learned a whole lot about

    "Fame and Ultrafame: Measuring and comparing daily levels of ‘being talked about’ for United States’ presidents, their rivals, God, countries, and K-pop."
    https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2022.004

    wcbdata,
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    @janeadams CONGRATULATIONS! I probably need to go read the paper now, too 😁

    Gustodon, to random
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    It's obscene that someone's religious beliefs can affect someone else's ability to access medical technology.

    wcbdata,
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    @Natanox @Gustodon @benroyce In the US, 50-75% of the electorate does NOT vote. This means, simply, that shirkers could easily change the system but choose not to.

    wcbdata,
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    @AutisticMumTo3 @Natanox @Gustodon @benroyce There is no such thing. If there are multiple candidates, you vote for the one closest to your ideal. If lots of people do that several times, the widow starts to shift. That's how we ended up where we are - just with people who are invested in shit candidates shifting the window away from where I'd prefer it.

    wcbdata,
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    @AutisticMumTo3 @benroyce @Natanox @Gustodon The two are the same. There is no such thing as a "protest vote" or "protest non-vote " In a democracy, every action and inaction is a decision with consequences.

    wcbdata,
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    @thesquirrelfish @jztusk @AutisticMumTo3 @benroyce @Natanox @Gustodon And so you are the problem.

    gedeonm, to random
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    Anyone out there drive an Ioniq 5? I’m looking at it for my next car and need to gather opinions both good and bad. If you have thoughts you wanna share please let me know. Thx!

    wcbdata,
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    @gedeonm @stealthv I just read that the Bolt has a dog mode - 20 minutes, max twice in succession for 40 min.

    zackwhittaker, to random
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    New, by me: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it will ban the antivirus giant Avast from selling consumers’ web browsing data to advertisers.

    Avast will pay $16.5 million to settle the FTC's allegations that it sold the sensitive browsing data of millions of its customers collected from its browser extensions (ostensibly to provide privacy) to more than a hundred other companies.

    More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/ftc-bans-avast-selling-customers-sensitive-browsing-data/

    wcbdata,
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    @zackwhittaker I'll repeat this here:

    Data from "100 million devices"
    ...
    Sixteen point five
    ...
    carry the ten
    ...
    move the thing
    ...
    um
    ...
    16.5¢ per person. AT MOST.
    😡

    jasonkoebler, to random
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    p good

    https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-started-speaking-gibberish/

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    wcbdata,
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    @jasonkoebler Tagging @universalhub for the local connection

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