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Clearview AI is Offering a Stake in Its Company to the People Whose Photos It Stole (petapixel.com)

Clearview AI, a facial recognition start-up that scraped more than 30 billion photos from social media, can’t afford to pay the settlement bill from its class-action lawsuit so is offering Americans a stake in its company instead....

wkk ,

Some places are like that

wkk , (edited )

I’m fine with bank heists but please don’t loiter :(

edit: English not my first language yada yada, I confused “loitering” for “littering”… I’m fine with loitering after all

wkk ,

One workaround has been to spoof your Firefox user agent so Teams believes it’s Chrome, and would you believe it the feature worked. I don’t know if this trick is still relevant.

wkk ,

Same energy:

False Knees: Where do you think we’re headed?

wkk ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f1f0e89f-3876-47ef-be2f-98dbc2d69f7d.jpeg

wkk ,

The 2022 nobel prize was given to experimentalists that observed the violation of Bell’s inequality.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theoremen.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_nonlocality

I’m genuinely not an expert but I get it to mean that there aren’t hidden variables created alongside the entangled particles.

wkk , (edited )

I mean you can setup a source of entangled particles and two very far detectors that would do measurements roughly at the same time on each particle in such a way that information traveling at the speed of light wouldn’t have time to travel the distance between both detectors.

You can then just gather roughly simultaneous measurements and at a later time join the datasets from both detectors to see what one measured vs the other for each pair.

If I understand correctly the current observations show that collapsing the state of one of the particle influences the other all the way at the other detector. Since there’s no hidden variables that predetermine the result of measurements while the result of the collapse is random, and the fact that particles still respect the correlation over any distance is why there seem to be a FTL communication between the particles.

Something has to be communicated between the particles for the influence to work FTL, but it also seem we cannot leverage this phenomenon to send “actual information” this way :/

edit: Important point with that experiment: once the particles have been observed, if you try the experiment a second time using the same particles, then you’ll get different results, this time in line with hidden variables because the particle’s state already collapsed.

wkk , (edited )

The message transferred between the particles supposedly FTL does contain information though. What I meant was that we cannot encode our own arbitrary information on top of it. The message has a physical effect on reality, without it the state we find the particles in cannot be respected.

Just reconsider this: If we agree that the result of a measurement is totally random (no hidden variable predetermining the result of the measurement) but that once we measure and know the state of one particle then we know with certainty the state of the other particle (entanglement): information about the collapse of the first measured particle was shared to the other so that it’s no longer random.

edit: If your argument is about “sharing information doesn’t imply transmission” then let’s stop here and leave this thread agreeing that “information was shared” :)

I have no opinions on what shape the information sharing takes. Nor am I interested in guessing.

wkk ,

It’s definitely not Rust’s fault, but it’s kinda Windows’ one and cmd.exe escape logic… It’s really difficult to write logic that will correctly escape any argument given to it, cmd.exe really is a pain to deal with :/

The Rust security team faced a significant challenge when dealing with cmd.exe’s complexity since they couldn’t find a solution that would correctly escape arguments in all cases.

As a result, they had to improve the robustness of the escaping code and modify the Command API. If the Command API cannot safely escape an argument while spawning the process, it returns an InvalidInput error.

“If you implement the escaping yourself or only handle trusted inputs, on Windows you can also use the CommandExt::raw_arg method to bypass the standard library’s escaping logic,” the Rust Security Response WG added.

I get that in situations where they can’t safely escape a parameter they’ll just stop with an error, which sound as sane as one could go with this!

wkk ,

…microsoft.com/…/nf-processthreadsapi-createproce…

To run a batch file, you must start the command interpreter; set lpApplicationName to cmd.exe and set lpCommandLine to the following arguments: /c plus the name of the batch file.

Because a batch file (.bat or .cmd) is basically a set of cmd.exe instructions I guess that’s why you can’t get away from it.

And as if making sense of this CreateProcessA system call wasn’t funny enough, you also need to figure out how to safely prepare that lpCommandLine for it following all of cmd.exe’s weird escaping rules… lol

wkk ,

If you can avoid running batch files altogether then great, amazing. But there are projects out there using Rust that still depend on running those and that’s the focus of the issue… But yeah I cannot wait until the day I won’t hear about cmd.exe again.

A Filipino villager is nailed to a cross for the 35th time on Good Friday to pray for world peace (apnews.com)

A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea....

wkk ,

It’s like piercings that healed except the hole is in the hands? I want to believe he did something so that they didn’t have to mutilate his hands every 35 times they did this… But at the same time the face he makes when they remove the nails is not reassuring me :/

How does data sent over the internet know where to go?

I saw a map of undersea internet cables the other day and it’s crazy how many branches there are. It got me wondering - if I’m (based in the UK) playing an online game from someone in Japan for example, how is the route worked out? Does my ISP know that to get to place X, the data has to be routed via cable 1, cable 2 etc....

wkk ,

www.khanacademy.org/computing/…/internet-routing

I wouldn’t call that “messy and inefficient” but you do you. I’d be curious to know what’s a “clean and efficient” solution for you when it comes to routing packets around the planet :)

wkk ,

Ever heard of CREDIT? /s

wkk ,

Long COVID Seems to Be a Brain Injury, Scientists Discover

Bad title maybe

wkk ,

Il ne faut pas avoir peur !

wkk ,

Dad?

wkk ,

what do they think WW2 was fought over?

wkk , (edited )

You’re completely right that people turned a blind eye to what the Nazis were doing for as long as they could. But once shit hit the fan the Holocaust was no null part of why people kept fighting while protecting the jewish people that were unfortunate enough to live in their region. The main goal was liberating themselves from the occupation, but what the Nazis were trying to do just made it so much more important to gain control back from these monsters.

Having a european perspective on the way this part of history is told I took the following phases away:

  • Allied nations tried their best to avoid confrontation.
  • Nazis attacked and WW2 began.
  • The Allied lost more and more territory.
  • Inside these occupied territories people did the following things:
    • Fight to liberate themselves.
    • Otherwise fight undercover to hide and protect jewish people living in their region.

So while the main reason was to gain sovereignty back, the Holocaust heavily contributed to people fighting back at all costs. Witnessing such atrocities marked europeans really hard, and teachings of this story try to emphasis the scale of the horrors that the Nazis were inflicting to occupied places. It’s documented, witnesses are still somewhat around to tell what they’ve seen and if not their testimony was properly shared with later generations.

All that to say that while WW2 was fought over protecting sovereignty, it became more than that once people ended up as the first witnesses of the ongoing genocide.

Now I have to say that I have no idea what’s a north-american perspective on that matter.

wkk ,

Brought to you by unchecked rent-seeking behavior:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

When the goal is no longer to be productive to earn money but to earn money in whatever way possible.

wkk ,

Reddit

wkk ,

Reddit or my username???

wkk ,

How is lab grown meat change for the sake of change? There’s obvious benefits to it: no more need to breed beings just to eat them, less resource-intensive, frees up land, and I might be missing others

How does an automatic road barrier decide when a vehicle is coming?

So just something that’s been on my mind. At my workplace there’s an automatic road barrier that lifts up and down when vehicles arrive. However, it’s not used for a carpark system when people wave their tickets or something. It just goes up and down when a vehicle shows up....

wkk ,

Technically speaking it would pick up the men in metal armors, not the wooden horse per se.

But the barrier would lift for the wooden horse full of men in armor indeed.

wkk ,

As long as people spend money on it the cycle will continue. Publishers seem to have found the quality threshold people are still willing to pay for. It makes me mad but I can’t control what other people do with their money…

wkk ,

Sorry that’s A-tier

wkk ,

If not immune then what, how do you explain someone that never bought something he saw in one of the countless ads thrown at him?

wkk ,

I am never sick when doing roller coasters or reading in a moving car, but I was really nauseous after my first 15-min VR session. I was pretty scared I fucked up buying a Valve Index only to get that much sick playing… But I had a feeling (hope?) that I could get used to it: After about 2 weeks of playing a bit every night I was no longer getting sick at all. I can go until the controllers run out of battery now.

To me the effort was worth it, but I have a friend that was the opposite and didn’t enjoy experiencing virtual worlds that way…

My advice: If you ever try it then try to ignore the sickness -as you can get used to it- and focus on how much you enjoy being immersed in virtual worlds.

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