I was never a TikTok person, so I have no idea how equivalent this platform is. I wonder if it will do as well without its algorithm.

Content moderation is a very difficult thing. I expect there will be a lot of grifters on there soon enough, and they’re going to have to employ a bunch of people to make sure it doesn’t become a shithole.

I hope TikTok crashes and burns so the Trumps and Saudi Arabian princes of the world lose all their money. Then again, some people still use Xitter, so my hopes aren’t super high.

Soon, the word strike will be against community guidelines and will be censored out of existence.

The Trump regime:

You’re being spied on and censored by China!

Every accusation, an admission.

If they claim someone is doing something, that means they are doing it themselves.

“Don’t protect yourself or others, even peacefully. You’re obstructing the oppression.”

Has anyone here actually read the article? As far as I can tell, facial recognition is being increased in availability, but it was already in use.

Every police force in the country will be able to use live facial recognition vans, with the number of vans set to rise from ten to 50.

It’s also worth noting that in the UK for a very long time now any data that is not E2EE can be seized by the government from companies without the consent of their users if a warrant is issued. That’s obviously bad but nothing new.

It sounds like what’s actually new here is that the police is becoming more centralised and organised. Instead of a lot of smaller departments in local areas with lack of expertise, more centralised organisations will do the policing.

The article covers some pros and cons from different people’s perspectives.

• There might end up being more policing in cities and less in rural areas.
• There might be some downsizing of policies forces
• Police forces may be less accountable as they grow.
• Police forces believe they will be better equipped to tackle cybercrime.

Overall, to me, this seems like a generally negative move. I don’t want the police to spy on people, and I want them to be more knowledgeable about their local area and more accountable to their people. It does look like there might be more surveillance, and that’s bad too.

Please read don’t take headlines for granted.

Just binged the whole thing and it’s pretty funny, though a bit objectifying.

When you log into Windows with a Microsoft account, your recovery key is often automatically uploaded to Microsoft’s servers as a backup in case you forget your password. Legally, this means Microsoft owns the key and must surrender it under the U.S. CLOUD Act.

I find that really quite shocking, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

Given the legal and technical risks, the advice for business travelers is clear: do not carry data.

The US really is a hostile surveillance state.

Yeah, that’s why I’d like them to build more social housing.

The lifecycle of social housing projects like these, as I understand them, is meant to be that you continue to build them, and as the old ones reach the end of their lifetime (around 60 years?) you demolish them and move the people into the new ones.

In practice, most places are not continuously building them as they should, so many of them are reaching the end of their lives without a plan for where to move people afterwards. This shows a lack of foresight and long-term planning.

Of course, politics are a fickle thing so the latest government can choose to decide that actually, poor people should be punished for the failures of the system and long-term initiatives fail.

For me I found out when I wanted them to fix something and they refused to honour the warranty because of the blown fuse.

As far as I know, this is illegal, btw. They have to prove that the error you are reporting is caused by user action. If your battery craps out, they can’t blame it on you rooting your phone.

Samsung has been blowing fuses in your phone when you root since at least 2015. I know because it happened to me. Never bought one again after that.

A small snippet of the article (which is long and detailed, but only accessible if you sign up)

Screams echoed through the halls of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility as women begged for their solitude to end. The sound of desperate hands banging on cell doors rang out like a solemn chorus. Exhausted, an incarcerated woman named Cici Herrera reached for a book. “That’s the only way I can keep myself from thinking too much,” she said. “I’m going crazy.”

At Bedford Hills, a maximum-security women’s prison in Westchester County, New York, a new superintendent and a recent policy change have sharply restricted the limited freedom incarcerated people in the general population once enjoyed. They could no longer count on regular showers — times were limited to tightly controlled shifts — and indoor recreation was eliminated even on the coldest days of the New York winter. The women found themselves locked inside of their single cells for the majority of the day, in conditions detention experts and survivors of solitary confinement compared to solitary confinement.

“Nothing is consistent,” said Herrera, one of three people incarcerated at Bedford who told The Intercept about the conditions. “We have to scream for everything.”

The conditions likely violate state law, according to multiple detention experts, all of whom have spoken with people incarcerated at Bedford. The new restrictions put the women in the middle of a political battle between activists who fought to place restrictions on the use of solitary and prison guards who have protested their implementation.

New York’s Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act, or the HALT Act for short, limits the amount of time an incarcerated person can be forced to stay in their cell and when a prison guard can put a person in solitary, taking into account the punishment’s severe harm to physical and mental health. Researchers have found that solitary confinement increases the risks of premature death both during and after incarceration, from deaths of despair like opioid overdoses and suicide.

“We have to scream for everything.”

“People should be receiving at least a minimum… seven hours out of cell time under the HALT Act,” said Sumeet Sharma, director of policy and communications at the Correctional Association of New York. Most people at Bedford previously had some freedom of movement to access communal spaces, shower, and cook. But when his team conducted a two-day monitoring visit at Bedford in November, they found that “that’s just not happening anymore,” Sharma said. “Essentially, people are locked in.”

The New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has denied these accusations.

…

For nearly a decade, Kit, who is transgender, was held in solitary confinement in multiple men’s prisons before being sent to Bedford. The federal Prison Rape Elimination Act technically prohibits placing trans inmates in solitary confinement for their protection without their consent, but in practice, the overwhelming majority of trans people incarcerated in the United States have spent time in solitary confinement.

“I almost lost my life on numerous occasions,” said Kit. “These are women who have never experienced solitary confinement, who are used to regular programming … are being thrown into days and days with nothing to do, literally overnight.”

Social housing typically doesn’t look as good as high-end apartments, but it doesn’t have to look terrible. Here’s some pretty neat looking social housing in south Paris.

It’s kind of the China Town of Paris.

It’s right next to an accessible tram station, has green spaces and social areas spread around, a couple of malls with great independent restaurants right next door. There are cycle lanes all around the place.

If you’re curious, here it is on Google Maps

I’d live here. I only wish there were more neighbourhoods like this.

This is obvious. It’s literally trained off of English-speaking people’s online comments / posts and designed to give the most likely answer to a question.

Return of the Obra Dinn deaths be like:

Agreed, but recommended specs are >4GB RAM which should be achievable even with a really old secondhand computer or SBC like a Raspberry Pi.

Been using it for about 7 months.

After about 2 months I decided to completely move away from Google Photos and now I only use Immich.

This was a big move for me. I have over 90 000 photos and 1000 videos totalling over 200GB.

The performance is great even on spinning rust, though I am running it on a Ryzen 2700X and 32GB RAM. That said it’s only when the machine learning background tasks take off that that CPU horsepower is used. You really don’t need that much. The recommended specs are fairly small.

Since I first installed it, they’ve added an auto-OCR feature which is a godsend. I can search my entire library for text on a screenshot and it works really well.

Weirdly, the missing feature that really pissed me off on Google Photos and got me to move over was the lack of the ability to search for images not currently in any album. The search functionality is much better on Immich.

I think the only feature I’m missing from Google Photos is the non-destructive editor, and that’s coming real soon (the PR is already merged as of last week).

Elon Musk: “I play both sides so I always come out ahead” (i.e. richer)

Also, can we add rakes and other garden equipment too?

DISGUSTING

I think you mean “hilarious”.

I prefer this over people outright shooting ICE agents, which would escalate things even further.

Micron: “But guuyyyyyyys… What about the money? We could be making so much more money!”