TaviRider

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[–] TaviRider@reddthat.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

And it’s the source of this quote by Worf.

[–] TaviRider@reddthat.com 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What the Time Cube is this nonsense?

I derive this conclusion from planetary phase shift theory, my systems framework for understanding the life-cycle of human civilisation in terms of energy, information, and organisation.

Planetary phase shift theory draws on C.S. Holling’s adaptive cycle model, which describes four phases to the life-cycle of any living system: a growth and accumulation phase, a conservation/stability phase, a release (collapse) phase, and a reorganisation (renewal) phase which is the creative incubator for a new life-cycle.

[–] TaviRider@reddthat.com 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

iCloud Private Relay and similar relay services should also protect against IP tracking.

[–] TaviRider@reddthat.com 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The original paper about microplastics in the brain seems to have a serious methodological flaw that undermines the conclusion that our brains are swimming in microplastics.

“False positives of microplastics are common to almost all methods of detecting them,” Jones says. “This is quite a serious issue in microplastics work.”

Brain tissue contains a large amount of lipids, some of which have similar mass spectra as the plastic polyethylene, Wagner says. “Most of the presumed plastic they found is polyethylene, which to me really indicates that they didn’t really clean up their samples properly.” Jones says he shares these concerns.

This is from other microplastics researchers. See this article. So before we panic about this, let’s wait for some independent replication and more agreement in the scientific community.

Microplastics are a serious concern, and we need to deal with plastic pollution. Let’s just stick to high quality science while we do that.

[–] TaviRider@reddthat.com 4 points 2 months ago

I haven’t seen any evidence that this is solvable. You can feed in more training data, but that doesn’t mean generative AI technology is capable of using that in the way you describe.

[–] TaviRider@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

Passkeys are a replacement for passwords. Passwords don’t solve the problem of a lost password, and passkeys don’t solve the problem of a lost passkey. How a site deals with lost credentials is up to them. It doesn’t need to be password + 2FA.

[–] TaviRider@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago

The 1:1 matching and the porn detection were separate capabilities.

Porn detection is called Communication Safety, and it only warms the user. If it’s set up in Screen Time as a child’s device, someone has to enter the parent’s Screen Time passcode to bypass the warning. That’s it. It’s entirely local to the device. The parent isn’t notified or shown the image, and Apple doesn’t get the image. It’s using an ML model, so it can have false positives.

CSAM detection was exact 1:1 matching using a privacy-preserving hashing system. It prevented users uploading known CSAM to iCloud, and that’s it. Apple couldn’t tell if there was a match or find out the hashes of images being evaluated.

Many people misunderstood and conflated the two capabilities, and often claimed without evidence that they did things that they were designed never to do. Apple abandoned the CSAM detection capability.

[–] TaviRider@reddthat.com 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m wondering why clergy were consulted. I can’t imagine a worse place to go for insight into the ethics of human sexuality. Was it a Catholic hospital?

[–] TaviRider@reddthat.com 4 points 5 months ago

Let’s require the 10 commandments be posted on every sensible gun regulation bill so they’ll get bipartisan support.

[–] TaviRider@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you have any other resource hogs running in the background? Perhaps a poorly-coded VoIP or VPN extension could do that.

If you have access to a Mac you can use Console.app to see what log events there are about Voyager when you switch away. That would explain why it’s being killed.

 

The legal situation is more complex and nuanced than the headline implies, so the article is worth reading. This adds another ruling to the confusing case history regarding forced biometric unlocking.

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