Re: AI has its place
Yeah,
"Microsoft Copilot shows upeven when it's not wanted"
would probably be sufficient. Otherwise it's a bit tautological.
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Wow – every time I've seen your username recently, there's been a massive steaming pile of turd underneath it. You seem to have a direct pipe from the MAGA bullshit machine, down your throat, and out of your arse, without even stopping to digest anything on the way down (or is it perhaps the other way around?). You might want to get that looked at.
The US in particular is far too hung up on so-called "bad" language. Words are just words, and there is nothing in the House Rules specifically indicating that posters should avoid swearing. Indeed, the rules themselves use the words "arsehole" and "wanker".
In any case, if you think this is what's going to warp the fragile little minds of children on the internet, you really have no idea about what else they'll be stumbling across on a day-to-day basis.
I have a very small pool of domains, so it's not hard for me to check. But even in a larger organisation, it should be fairly simple to schedule in a basic sanity check on the renewals processes. This could even be something as simple as sending an email to a designated person every time a certificate renews, with part of their job being to check that the list of domains renewed doesn't include anything dodgy. The carrying out of this brief task and its result could then be recorded somewhere to make sure it was being done and for there to be somewhere to point the finger if it wasn't and something bad happened.
"this will generate lots of manual work"
It really shouldn't. I have no idea when my certs renew or how long they're valid for: they renew automatically and cost me nothing. How long they're valid for is about as important to me on a practical level as the fine details of the wear-levelling scheme used by the firmware in my SSD.
Domain-level certification (e.g., from someone like Let's Encrypt) is all anyone really needs. Before you harp on about needing a "higher level of trust" blah blah – nobody normal even actually knows what you're talking about let alone cares. Maybe there's some ISO 9000000001 shit going on that means your certificate needs to be particularly shiny, but it's all money-making nonsense in the real world and you know it.
My apologies for agreeing with Apple. I don't like it either.
"...will start scanning foreigners' social media for signs of antisemitism"
...and this is why you should stay completely off social media, only posting under pseudonyms on sites like this.
Here, I can feel free to say exactly what I think about Israel's blatant war crimes, such as torture, the ongoing murder of civilians, including children, and the state's general genocidal intentions. I strongly suspect that this would be interpreted as antisemitic by such a scan, and it probably will be seen as such by some on this forum. But Israel is not "the Jews"–such a conflation would be strongly resented by many Jewish people–it is a rogue state whose illegal actions continue to be excused by the US.
The international community should no more be supporting Israel's ongoing violations of human rights and international law than they should be condoning the 7 October attacks by Hamas. Just because a party has been wronged, it doesn't mean that they can do no wrong. The oppressed has now become the oppressor.
I look forward to downvotes and rabid comments from supporters of wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Sounds similar to my issues. Maybe try this test: https://www.colorlitelens.com/color-blindness-test.html#Redgreen
"why is the condition called red-green colour-blindness"
It's an unhelpful colloquialism. People with deuteranopia or protanopia would more accurately be called "green blind" and "red blind", respectively. It's not simply about distinguishing colours; it would be more accurate to say that those with certain forms of colourblindness have difficulty accurately perceiving specific ranges of colours, meaning that they can be mistaken for others. Interestingly, I have trouble telling blue from purple, despite being severely deuteranopic (green blind).
This is simply not true: perhaps you're getting confused with yellow/blue colourblindness. In both those with deuteranopia and those with protanopia, blue is very easy to distinguish from red, amber, or green. It may present problems for those with tritanopia (blue/yellow colourblindness), but they would likely already have been having trouble with red and green. Furthermore, tritanopia only affects less than 0.01% of people worldwide compared to around 5% who have the red/green forms.
Even if using red/blue were to cause problems for tritanopes, this would mean a change from 1 in 20 people having a problem to 1 in 10,000.
Evolution is a form of design: genetic algorithms have been used in the design of CPUs for a long time. I guess what I perceive as stupid design is therefore probably just a way to minimise energy or some other cost while providing the minimum functionality necessary for ongoing survival of our DNA. A more complex/accurate system would probably be too evolutionarily expensive.
Interestingly, there is a (surprisingly old but not yet debunked) theory that colourblindness evolved as a positive adaptive strategy to enhance the ability of humans to detect camouflaged objects/creatures.
It's all about the cones. In honesty, human colour vision is stupidly designed. Nobody would come up with something so vague if they had to start from scratch. Still, it means we can ridiculously trick our eyes into believing that monitors and TVs can show the full spectrum to us when in fact they can only show three small bits of it in varying proportions!
When will people stop using red and green to distinguish between two important things? A total of 8% of European Caucasian men (including me) are red–green colourblind. This is not a small number of people (and there are also smaller percentages of other groups). So many electronic gadgets I have seem to use something like amber and green to indicate charging status, and to my eyes, the two shades are all but indistinguishable. This can be incredibly frustrating, and in some cases potentially dangerous.* There does seem to have been some move towards red and blue, which is major progress (even if the blue can be a bit painfully bright), but red and green just seems to be the thoughtless default.
*Before you ask, no, traffic lights are not usually a problem because the "green" they use (at least in the UK) is actually almost white to my eyes and stands out notably from the red. The red and amber do usually look identical to me, but that's less of an issue.
I wonder if it will even be possible to stop people using Signal in any given country. If sideloaded, will it still prevent access based on IP addresses or something? I gather it's probably already banned in places like Iran (great role model there, well done), but I'm guessing people still use it.
"Apple's storage isn't in any way unusual other than it is ubiquitous."
You keep using that word...I do not think it means what you think it means.