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New comment by yukkuri in "AI Determines Sex of Person from Brain Scans"

yukkuri — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:49:54 +0000

I do hope for your optimistic scenario, but I do not expect it.

New comment by yukkuri in "Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution"

yukkuri — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:47:29 +0000

Yeah the stench of that is quite nauseating at times...

New comment by yukkuri in "Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution"

yukkuri — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:45:33 +0000

Ah yes someone always rolls out the false dilemma of "the only options are completely unregulated capitalism or completely top down command economy communism".

It'd be shorter with the same meaning if you'd just scream "traitorous commie!!!!1111"

New comment by yukkuri in "Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution"

yukkuri — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:40:04 +0000

Yeah like all those external pressures that have kept private mega corps from polluting, monopolizing, pervasively surveiling, brutally exploiting labor, and generating false "science" that maintains their dominance even in the face of huge global negative effects... Oh, wait...

New comment by yukkuri in "Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution"

yukkuri — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:34:24 +0000

So because you don't like this naming scheme no name should be allowed at all?

New comment by yukkuri in "Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution"

yukkuri — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:31:10 +0000

Talking about and analyzing the problem might lead to mitigating or even substantially fixing it, which would remove its usefulness as a rhetorical attack on attempts to solve social problems.

New comment by yukkuri in "Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution"

yukkuri — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:27:32 +0000

Yes, sadly this is an easy way for people to dishonestly claim to themselves and others that any attempt to solve problems (other than the "problem" of how to generate ever greater wealth disparity which somehow never gets included in this) is completely worthless

New comment by yukkuri in "Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution"

yukkuri — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:20:51 +0000

There is a trap here of saying "thus we shouldn't do anything about problems" rather than the more reasonable "we should be prepared to iterate on our efforts".

New comment by yukkuri in "AI Determines Sex of Person from Brain Scans"

yukkuri — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 03:24:18 +0000

Exactly, it's going to turn out that it didn't work well but it will still get used harmfully.

New comment by yukkuri in "Wyze security incident update"

yukkuri — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 01:15:55 +0000

Doing a "job action" like that because people have lost trust in your profession isn't going to restore that trust.

The only thing that will is to stop being trigger happy menaces to public safety.

New comment by yukkuri in "AI Determines Sex of Person from Brain Scans"

yukkuri — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:47:07 +0000

This is going to turn out to be the new phrenology, completely flawed, but it won't stop phobic types from using it to "prove" their antisocial theories.

New comment by yukkuri in "Dark UX doesn't work in the long run"

yukkuri — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 12:01:18 +0000

Your positioning it as "entitlement" is gross. Expose yourself to "ads" that are intrusive and tracking you, deliberately deceptive to drive clicks, spread lies and bigotry because nobody curates the content, and sometimes malware vectors if you want, but it doesn't make you morally superior, it makes you stupid.

New comment by yukkuri in "The web won't be nirvana (1995)"

yukkuri — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 11:54:05 +0000

About the only thing he got right is the noise problem...

New comment by yukkuri in "Nextdoor's Heisensubscribe (and Other Dark Patterns)"

yukkuri — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:28:04 +0000

I grew up in it. I participated in it, until I got out into the world enough that I realized how wrong I was.

For this specific case, no of course I can't be sure, I don't know the specific neighbors.

New comment by yukkuri in "Nextdoor's Heisensubscribe (and Other Dark Patterns)"

yukkuri — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:20:20 +0000

Because they're racist and "crime" is a dog whistle for "existing while not white".

It's incredibly tiresome.

New comment by yukkuri in "Nextdoor's Heisensubscribe (and Other Dark Patterns)"

yukkuri — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:18:36 +0000

Same

New comment by yukkuri in "Unicomp's "New" Model M Keyboard"

yukkuri — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 02:16:14 +0000

My Unicomp model M is good and I appreciate it daily. Fit and finish are just a little cheaper than an original 1980s IBM (which I also had but it finally died) but it's USB and feels good to type on. I actually use the OS key so having that is a plus for me

New comment by yukkuri in "Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly"

yukkuri — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 05:22:08 +0000

I think both of you have points that are important parts of its success

New comment by yukkuri in "Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly"

yukkuri — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 05:21:12 +0000

Not saying they are the same, no, but you seem to think it is so different that it's impossible for NF to have a business model without stamping out bootlegging?

If so, they're done for, because it's not going to be possible to do that.

But I think providing a product that desirable and easy to view might work and they're just not doing it and blaming evil-doers for their own failure as a business.

New comment by yukkuri in "Feds Say Activision Layoffs Violate Promises Microsoft Made in Merger Deal"

yukkuri — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 05:15:40 +0000

I am glad you have never had to deal with a job search after being fired so someone can make the quarterly numbers that result in getting a bonus that is more than you will earn in a life time, but the rest of us recognize it as an unfair deprivation from the outset.