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Rambler OP wrote

Imagine the backlash if any facial recognition technology targeted and flagged minorities in other nations?

An archived record of the technology shows it can perform such tasks as "glasses inspection", "smile detection", whether the subject is "ethnic" and, specifically, "Is it Uighur".

Consequently, if a Uighur livestreams a video on a website signed up to Cloud Shield, the software can detect that the user is Uighur and flag the video for review or removal, IPVM researcher Charles Rollet told Reuters.

IPVM said mention of Uighurs in the software disappeared near the time it published its report, and that Alibaba told it the feature has only been used "in a testing environment". Alibaba did not provide a comment following a Reuters' request.

Also, relevant (comedy): https://invidious.tube/watch?v=XyXNmiTIupg

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Rambler wrote (edited )

I'm just going to assume this is spam at best and a scam at worse. Members have been warned.

Domain:
27 days old
Created on 2020-11-20
Expires on 2021-11-20
Updated on 2020-11-20

Edit: Yeah, no history online or on reddit so I'm just going to go ahead and assume this is a scam.

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Toxicant wrote

I feel like that is most PC's in general but then again I'm always installing/uninstalling one thing or another for whatever project I'm working on and some times just nuking my hard drive from orbit fixes my problems.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to comment by hideyourlies in Drug of choice? by hideyourlies

Yeah it's not bad. The other stuff is honestly just for some calories and because 3 spoonfulls of espresso mix is over powering no matter how much you like the taste or can stand the taste of coffee. Despite the powdered milk, cacao and peanut butter it still tastes very much like strong ass coffee.

Sorry for hijacking your drug thread to talk about coffee though, haha.

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Rambler OP wrote

I run Mint on one of my machines and have for years. But somehow, over the course of time, my Linux machines start having weird dependency conflicts and issues and after 3-5 years it's time to backup the important stuff and start fresh. Sometimes that's easier than going down the rabbit hole of figuring out why "something that should work" doesn't work, haha.

I've gotten to that point on my Linux Mint machine and not sure what I'll replace it with. May just go raw Debian like I'm using now.

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Rambler wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by hideyourlies in Drug of choice? by hideyourlies

My thing lately is just Cafe Bustelo instant espresso mixed in with Nido (powdered whole milk), and some powdered cacoa and powdered peanut butter.

Just mix it in a water bottle and shake, then drink. Coffee snobs will probably vomit at the idea but I think it tastes good and has some calories to it too so you're not dumping it on a completely empty stomach...

I used to do the French Press, good beans, good whipping creme... But too much work.

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hideyourlies OP wrote

Reply to comment by Rambler in Drug of choice? by hideyourlies

I myself am a victim to caffeine I drink a fuck ton of coffee in a day, and I tried to stop drinking it but I was never able to.

I also smoked cannabis in my teens but the novelty wore off for me now when I smoke it I turn into a psychopath and end up in a state of disbelief and disconnection from myself.

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jack_walking wrote

Sitting comfortably on Manjaro KDE Plasma at the moment.

Having replaced Kwin, default KDE window manager, whit i3wm, I got great experience both on laptop and on bigger screens.

Plus, not the pain of installing Arch but all the wisdom from ArchWiki and packages from the AUR.

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Space_Toad wrote

If anyone is interested there are also some apps that help with deleting little internet footprints such as

Jumbo Privacy, you can switch privacy settings, delete posts, comments on applications like Google based apps, facebook, instagram, and linkedin all from the jumbo app, and they make it really simple.

Exodus Privacy, notifies which trackers are embedded in apps installed on your phone aswell as letting you know which permissions are required.

Using the same email can be a security risk, as emails are sold online and can be found by scammers for spam mail, often if said email is attached with a phone number you will also get telemarketers. Be sure to minimise your online presence by obscuring, I personally use many emails for many different applications, for shopping, for social media if any, for work, for friends, etc. This can be tiring using many emails and many passwords, so a password/account manager is optimal, I reccomend Bitwarden, they store logins in an encrypted AES-256 vault that syncs across all of your devices as well as a password manager.

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Rambler wrote (edited )

Caffeine.

Though I was quite the lil' stoner in my younger years. If I lived in a legal state and didn't have to worry about my life getting ruined over a harmless plant I'd be doing that.

Yeah I know, hardcore.

With that said, I don't care what other people do in the privacy and comfort of their own homes. What my neighbor does in their spare time doesn't impact me personally.

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jack_walking OP wrote

Reply to comment by yidakee in Bitcoin Hits All-Time High by jack_walking

Don't really agree about that. I think much of bitcoins (if you don't count burnt bitcoins and early miners' wallets) are now owned by large investors / bank / funds, so professional guys and not the average shaky-hands Tom.

The difference between now and 2017 is institutional investment, which is made by professionals, who are supposed to take a more rational approach.

Besides, we were floating around 10,000 USD before this bull run, so we're now at 2x, while in 2017 we went from 4,000 USD to 20,000 USD, which means 5x.

I'm confident that 18,000 USD may be a good support level, and the sky may be 30,000 USD at the end of 2021.

Of course mine are pure speculations.

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yidakee wrote

Reply to comment by Rambler in Bitcoin Hits All-Time High by jack_walking

Same thing is to be expected now. Expect a bumpy ride, remember, a heck of a lot of folk got in between 15k-20k, and then BTC crashed to 3.5k. Three years later, many will be around break even, and happy to exit at zero ROI. A lot of hands will be shaking before moon rockets are engaged.

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