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Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It (www.wired.com)

For facial recognition experts and privacy advocates, the East Bay detective’s request, while dystopian, was also entirely predictable. It emphasizes the ways that, without oversight, law enforcement is able to mix and match technologies in unintended ways, using untested algorithms to single out suspects based on unknowable...

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Beat me to the punch, I was saying just as much, considering the history of forensic science in general. It won’t be long before they’re producing bogus “research” to justify it at a new investigative method.

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Dude facial recognition catches the wrong people all the time. It is not as infallible as they make it out to be and this is just adding an entire extra level of mistakes they can make.

Facial recognition tech is bogus and because of its technical limitations, unintentionally(?) racist. (ie the cameras are not designed well to take good photo/video of dark skin, leading to high false positive rates when it comes to dark-skinned people) edit: even further, the cameras are often too small of a resolution for quality matching.

Further, facial reconstruction based on DNA isn’t exactly super accurate on its own.

Please don’t fall for this bullshit.

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The title is “gold for house” and the body is “wood for sheep” implying they are a similar type of trade, not implying both are from Catan.

Neither “gold” nor “house” exist in Catan.

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Woke up this morning and it seemed to me,

That every night turns out to be

A little more like Bukowski.

And yeah, I know he’s a pretty good read.

But God who’d want to be?

God who’d want to be such an asshole?

God who’d want to be?

God who’d want to be such an asshole?

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Error: Problem: cannot install both at-spi2-core-2.50.1-1.fc39.x86_64 from updates and at-spi2-core-2.50.0-1.fc39.x86_64 from fedora

  • conflicting requests (try to add ‘–allowerasing’ to command line to replace conflicting packages or ‘–skip-broken’ to skip uninstallable packages)

Not OP, but this looks like the error message.

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I am, I will remove the codeblock markdown.

Edit: removed, let me know if you can see it now.

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There’s a fucking housing crisis and you’re the second chucklefuck to defend this dumb shit.

No, when millions of homes are owned but left empty because they’re unafforable for people to live in, anyone involved in keeping housing off the market for only themselves is a class traitor.

When millions are in the streets who have jobs but housing is unaffordable it’s a fucking indictment of our entire system and all the people who own more than one piece of property.

If he is renting it, he has a place to live.

What, you’re fine with paying this pricks mortgage for him?

In my city there’s a guy who owns a bunch of housing, but he tries to bring down property values with them, so people can afford to live in the neighborhood. He rents them well under market value and paints them entirely black, out of character for their neighborhoods. That’s class solidarity.

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No, when millions of homes are owned but left empty because they’re unafforable for people to live in, anyone involved in keeping housing off the market for only themselves is a class traitor.

When millions are in the streets who have jobs but housing is unaffordable it’s a fucking indictment of our entire system and all the people who own more than one piece of property.

If he is renting it, he has a place to live.

What, you’re fine with paying this pricks mortgage for him?

In my city there’s a guy who owns some of housing, but he tries to bring down property values with them, so people can afford to live in the neighborhood. He rents them well under market value and paints them entirely black, out of character for their neighborhoods. That’s class solidarity.

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Maybe he is donating to charity

Charity is a farce. We need progressive taxation. We shouldn’t have to rely on the flighty kindness of the rich to achieve anything in society.

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No, I’d rather eat the rich.

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A long screed but has this jackhole who writes so unprofessionally even reached out to Mullvad for comment or explanation? Because that’s usually what respectable journalistic outfits do.

They don’t post some screenshots, make inferences without knowing all of Mullvad’s backend, and say “what we are saying is definitely true and there’s no possible way we could technically be wrong.”

I can think of several ways they could be wrong, it would have been helpful to have any statement from Mullvad, because they might have a technical reason for this (up to and including making sure their emails aren’t disappeared as spam, because running your own email server sucks.).

Anyway, pretty unprofessional and makes me pretty skeptical of the claims until more solid evidence than a screenshot surface.

For example, who is to say that Mullvad hasn’t set up their own client side encryption keys? This is an option Google offers for use with business accounts. This effectively means Google doesn’t have your keys nor can read your emails.

support.google.com/a/answer/10741897?hl=en

It took me five seconds of searching to find this. Did the guy who wrote this article even try?

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pine64.com/…/pinetab2-10-1-4gb-64gb-linux-tablet-…

It’s still very much a beta in a lot of ways, but PineTab could maybe handle PDFs

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gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology

Considering their methodology, I wonder how many of these are Steam Decks registering as “desktops” when they visit a website in the web broweser?

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Student Loans have entered the chat.

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It’s that time of year, where we all want to partake in the spirit of the season.

Baileys Irish Cream.

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deep seated*

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I would never, ever suggest anyone get into crypto. It’s far too volatile for any type of reasonable investment scheme.

The only reason I even have crypto is so I can donate to the private torrent sites I am on.

Crypto isn’t outright evil, but you really should only use it if you have things to use it for, and aren’t trying to game the system to get rich quick.

Honestly, anyone playing such “get rich quick” investing games with crypto needs to be honest with themselves that maybe they’ve got a gambling problem.

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That’s Gale of Waterdeep of Baldur’s Gate 3 there on the right, here in the role of “Danny Bear.”

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Animals often love human food once they get a taste of it.

I feel like breaking my windows install was a rite of passage

Lately ive noticed that i was wanting to do certain things on Windows that just seemed much easier and more intuitive on Linux, based in the OS specific solutions i would see to problems i encountered. And i was more frequently using software where Windows support seemed like an after thought....

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rite* of passage

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The only streaming I do is taking a piss.

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Services that “listen” for commands like Siri and Alexa have to be, by default, always listening, because otherwise they would not be able to hear the activate command. They are supposed to dump the excess data like anything that came before the activation command, but that’s just a promise. There are very few laws protecting you if that promise turns out to be a lie. The best you can get is likely small restitution through a class action lawsuit (if you didn’t waiver right to that by agreeing to the Terms of Service, which is more often than not, now).

Of fucking course they’re listening.

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The reason for the season is banging babay.

theguardian.com/…/risk-of-penile-fractures-rises-…

It is very important that you all know that Sarah Silverman made out with Tim Russ during the time she was on Voyager. (www.cinemablend.com)

I kissed him [Robert Duncan McNeill] at the end of the episode, and he was standing on an apple box because God forbid you’re the same height as the girl. And then, I made out with him [Tim Russ] in real life....

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I grew up on Dr. Katz.

Due to that, Laura will always have a special place in my heart over Sarah.

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It’s also really, really easy to lose your job as a pizza delivery person.

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