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Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes – The Markup
  • I'm so grateful for living in a society that lacks this technology. Imagine being arrested out of nowhere because a machine said you were going to do something bad in a year from now.

    Hell, imagine not even knowing what you were going to do, but the algorithm said so.

  • DIY tinkerer invents MacBook tool that breaks Apple’s repair locks
  • People know what they are getting into when they but this products. Still, they make the surprised Pikachu face when they charge them 1000 for a simple repair.

    I understand this is a matter of legislation, but we also need to hold consumers responsible for their stupidity. This isn't a secret, this isn't hidden, everyone knows that Apple Apples.

  • Google’s claim that search users have choice is “bogus,” Microsoft CEO tells judge
  • They don't realize how much they fucked up when they forced users to download the Bing app in order to use GPT in Bing.

    They had the perfect chance to hijack Google by making users switch their default search engine in Chrome. But no, they had to get greedy as fuck, and now Bing is dead again.

    They went all-in and lost. Who is using Bing search now? Nobody, people want to use Chrome.

    I'd have probably used Bing for a longer time and maybe would have gotten used to it (only for GPT) if they hadn't forced me to download their app.

  • Welcome to the Age of Paid Social Media
  • I only get fake prank videos on Facebook. Like the most ridiculous situations. I have no idea why. Whenever I need to go to FB for a legit reason, I just need to close it ASAP before I get the next fake prank video.

    They have no idea what my interests are, which is great.

  • Apple blames iOS 17 bugs and apps like Instagram for making iPhone 15s run hot
  • My phones used to be hot all the time, even when idle. 8 years ago when I decided to drop Facebook for good, I noticed my phone was no longer hot. I have no clue what they do in the background, but they are killing your battery.

    Now, I always set my phone to battery saving mode to prevent this from happening with other apps. No funny background stuff allowed in my phone.

  • US issues first ever fine for space junk to Dish Network
  • Are all satellites coordinated in a mesh? If so, that's pretty cool. I thought it was chaotic and they were basically saying like "chances of collision are 0.0001%, send that mofo and good luck".

  • DOJ finally posted that “embarrassing” court doc Google wanted to hide
  • Yeha, that's monopoly talk. I guess I was expecting something else when I read "evil".

    I don't really think people are locked-in by any means, there are so many alternatives. People just prefer Google because it provides the best search results and they don't care about privacy. The alternatives are pretty good, but people just want the best. I usually have to go back to Google to query something whenever DDG isn't providing good results.

    Before downvoting, at least explain why people are locked-in. Aren't there alternatives to Google? They are definetely creating a horizontal monopoly by acquiring all the companies in the chain, from advertisers to operating systems... but there are alternatives to Google (the search engine). I use DDG everyday, how am I locked-in to Google? I'm not arguing against the monopoly, I'm arguing against the lock-in.

    Google- DDG, Swisscows, Qwant

    Google Chrome - Mozilla

    Google Cloud - DigitalOcean

    Android - /e/

    Google Phones - Fairphone

    Google Meets - Zoom

    Google maps - Waze

    Google photos - Dropbox

    YouTube - Vimeo

    I really don't see the lock-in. People just want monopoly-grade service quality without the monopoly. You can't have both.

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  • People downvoting you clearly don't know that school administration can be into bullying as much as the kids. Talking by experience. I think you can report the images in Instagram by saying you're in them and don't want to be.

  • (Mobile, Android) Stop audio playing on background

    I'm used to audio stopping as soon as I switch to another app. Is it possible to do the same with Firefox?

    The audio keeps playing, so I have to go back to the app and manually stop the video.

    Edit: just realized this also happens if I close the app (not just switching apps). Is this really the desired behavior? I want to give Firefox a shot but I may have to back to DuckDuckGo if this can't be changed :(

    Thabks.

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    Are there accent rules in Japanese?

    I'm currently learning with Duolingo and even though I can read, I've realized I never know which syllable should be accented.

    A simple example: みず.

    How can I tell if the accent goes on "mi" or "zu"? Is it like English? Like you need to hear the word to know where the accent goes? Or are there rules that let you know just by reading it?

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