leftzero

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Garbage in, garbage out.

  Especially when you shove it into a garbage maker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are more extreme things, but then that starts being something other than “protest”.

  Eh, watch some French protests, especially ones involving French farmers. Spraying manure into government buildings is one of the classics.

  As long as you don’t kill anybody (or any pets or livestock), it’s still just a protest.

  (And Medialab AI doesn’t seem to have any human employees left, only executives and marketing drones, so no one would get hurt if it got burned down, on the contrary, it’d be a net benefit for humanity).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I understand it correctly, they’re arguing that any unauthorized “modification of the computer program” (i.e. the web page) is a copyright violation.

  This wouldn’t only affect adblockers… this would affect any browser feature, extension, or user script that modified the page in any way, shape, or form… translators, easy reading modes, CSS modifiers (e.g., dark mode for pages that don’t have it, or anything that improves readability for people with vision problems), probably screen readers…

  This would essentially turn web browsers into the HTML equivalent of PDF readers, without any of the customisability that’s been standard for decades…