inspxtr @ inspxtr @lemmy.world

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“a dream of a thousand [animals]”

Wow they chose to semi-hijack a common acronym for explainable AI (XAI), for a new company that’s likely unethical. Why do companies do this, hijacking existing words with benevolent meanings then eventually dirty them?

inspired by iasip: pay the troll toll so u don’t get ur soul sucked, eat from its big bowl for free u might get ur hole ****

This is actually an interesting question. First thing to note is that any estimation is by accounts, not by actual people (one person can have multiple alts on both). Honestly I don’t think it’s possible to have meaningful estimation.

That said, I think the first task is to figure out if we can estimate the number of accounts deleted on Reddit during the controversial period (let’s say April when the API change was starting) up til now.

I’m not aware whether there’s public daily data on it from Reddit, but there have been attempts at archiving reddit during this time and of course before. So one can theoretically use the archives to find out “all” existing users. And check the links now via browser (or curl) to see if they still exist, treat that as a good-enough proxy for deleted account.

One may get an estimate of when they were deleted by checking the links in the archives if possible. If not, there’s also Wayback machine that we may use to get a sense, but there are limitations of that.

Lemmy tracks account registration daily, I believe. I don’t know what stats one needs to run but maybe if we can line up the time series of account creation on Lemmy and account deletion on Reddit, we might have some sense of what a lower bound is for those who jumped ship forever.

Let me see if I get your point. Are you saying most questions on Lemmy ask for opinions, which makes them look like they are asked to use for training AI models?

If so, I’m not entirely sure I agree. There’s tons of info online about any given topics, which can be very overwhelming. Maybe that causes people to prefer to seek out personal experience and opinions from others on such topics, rather than just hard cold facts.

It may also depend on which communities the questions you’re sampling are asked as well.

how does this work with universities and companies that use GMail/Outlook for their emails?

similarly to people from different races/countries … it’s not only that their conditions might vary and require more data, it is also that some communities don’t visit/trust hospitals to even have their data collected to be in the training set. Or they can’t afford to visit.

Sometimes, people from more vulnerable communities (eg LGBT) might prefer not to have such data collected in the first place, making data sparser.

Does defining in a “loop” work in C? Like

    
#define main A
#define A B
#define B C
…
#define Z main

  

Not related to warp, but just out of curiosity, which protocols have you tried? In one or two univs I visited, I had to switch to TCP instead UDP for it to work. Not sure why.

Here are some options:

• crypt.ee: I tried this before, I don’t think it’s selfhostable but quite usable, and nice UI. Encryption available. Ghost folders if you want to. Multimedia available, not sure about storage
• joplin: you can use Nextcloud (or many other options like Dropbox) for sync and hence storage depends on your cloud solution. E2EE, has plugins, and simple enough to use.
• anytype.io and logseq: I’ve seen these mention in many places but I haven’t used either. But they seem to have very rich features, not sure about selfhosting though.

Cats, (en)tangled … This feels like the beginning of a quantum physicist’s joke.

You have 5 duplicates of the same post in WorldNews

Airlines increasingly use facial recognition systems for when travelers board aircraft. Generally, a passenger looks into a camera, the system compares their face to images on file, and confirms if the passenger is who they claim to be.

I’m very confused by this. What is the justification for taking another picture? Usually government ID/passport already has a picture on it.

Unless they are pushing for full automatic ID confirmation (which is a very bad idea), the people at the boarding gate could just confirm with their eyes, no?

In addition, I could see this especially concerning for international students, foreigners and visa workers. The mentality is not to disturb the system and it is highly likely that they will submit without a fight. Those without a law background like in the article are less willing to stand there and argue.

I fear this will further create conformity for those around before take off. No one wants to be the little bugger that makes a scene or holds off the line. Plus, this will further foster such submissive mentality for international travelers (eg their friends, their family) to expect and submit to these intrusive practices without question or the possibility to repeal. Slowly this adds onto the 75% target, and then it will keep growing, to 97%, then to 100% …

do you know how this compares with other file transfer/sync like syncthing?

off topic about the site: does anyone have weird scrolling with it? It kept jumping to different pages for me.

anw, the tool looks really cool. Been looking for something that supports different mobile options like this.

Not OP. But I’m personally curious about the question regarding how decisions are made, but with more focus from the perspective of user experience. As in, how do they decide which features to focus on?

While I’m a fan of Proton, sometimes they seem to be doing too many things simultaneously, which is good but I worry them spreading themselves thin.

How do they do user experience research, especially with many people in the privacy community usually turning telemetry off? What do they rely on to make decisions about features and user experience? Do surveys work for them? Who make the decisions afterwards?

Thank you for taking the time to write out your explanation and analysis! Very well put!

My initial thought is perhaps this anti-corruption unit is itself corrupt, so it’s making up an excuse to justify its own existence.

Can you clarify on the logic of this? I’m not sure I get it.

I’m out of the loop here. I thought Cantonese is popularly spoken in China (and other parts of the world with Chinese immigrants/descendants). So even in China (like Guangdong), is Cantonese used very limitedly?