Aceticon

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[–] Aceticon 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You're still thinking it at a the level of "can", rather than the level of "is it worth it".

"Possible" isn't the same as "profitable" - the whole point of stores doing it would be to sell that data to entities such as Health Insurers, and that data would be sold at pennies (and I don't mean pennie-per-entry, I mean pennies-per-thousands), so it has to be possible to do it extremely cheaply, which it is if you already have the necessary information in digital form in a database (user id from the payment card and the list of items purchased along with date, time and location of purchase), but it's not if you have to do reverse image search in bulk, not least because the providers out there won't just allow other businesses to do it for free to make money out of it - they'll demand a cut for doing the computationally hardest part of the process (or, if the supermarkets want to do it themselves, for access to their store of pictures).

Also, the quality of results from reverse image search is pretty bad in terms of actually finding and correctly identifying a person from a picture - it often just outright fails or gives false positives, which means data obtained that way is a lot more polluted with false results than just finding the person ID via the card used for payment, which is near perfect (not quite perfect because somebody might let somebody else use their card or the card might have been stolen, but way more reliable than identifying somebody via a picture).

So all this hassle and cost to have a parallel process to try to ID people like me who pays in cash to sell my purchasing habits information, when most people are like you and just give them their ID on a platter by paying with card, doesn't make any business sense.

They ain't doing it because they can't, they ain't doing it because so long as the market is flooded with customer purchasing habits data obtained cheaply by just using the information from their card payment, deploying facial recognition technology to match buyers to purchases wouldn't actually be profitable.

Just because it's technologically possible to go after the hard to get info using a complex process, doesn't mean it makes business sense to do it, especially when they're already making money with a far simpler and cheaper process.

[–] Aceticon 11 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

No Windows, no such Windows "features".

[–] Aceticon 9 points 3 weeks ago

Never forget that this time around the Holocaust has the full support of the US, the UK and (once again) Germany.

[–] Aceticon 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a XXI century Holocaust.

This was expectable ever since Israeli leader started openly making statements about Palestinians when were extreme similar to what the Nazis said about the Jews and the Roma, for example calling them "human animals" and "vermin" and talking about having a "Final plan" for Gaza.

The Zionists are the present day version of the Nazis, and they're well on track to doing the same thing, this time around with the help of pro-Nazi governments in the West, especially the US, UK and Germany.

[–] Aceticon 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The whole "pro-Palestine = antisemite” was a naked appeal to Racism.

Those who are pro-People (Humanists) don't care about the ethnicity of the aggressors or the victims, only the inherent character of the actions being committed.

It's only the Racists who would judge the actions differently depending on the ethnicity of the aggressors or the victims.

[–] Aceticon 77 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

As does Linux.

[–] Aceticon 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well, running pirated games in Linux does mean doing diagnostics of why a game won't work - i.e. figure out the missing system DLLs and adding them with Winetricks - rather that having the fansy-pantsy install scripts in something like Steam or Lutris do it for you.

On the upside you can sandbox the pirated games in Linux.

For one of my games the official Steam copy wouldn't run in Linux, yet a pirate version runs just fine.

In summary, if you're doing the normal, expected thing, it's generally fine (with but a few exceptions) and works out of the box because there are scripts configuring Wine/Proton with the right DLLs for that game, but if you do anything outside that, you do have to understand how to get Wine/Proton to output the appropriate log information, what to look for in it to figure out which DLLs you need, and how to add the right DLLs (and which version: built-in or native) to that Wine/Proton environment once you figured out that you need it.

[–] Aceticon 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"We use Arch in this house, BTW"

[–] Aceticon 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Heroes don't all wear capes!

[–] Aceticon 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's what pisses me off about these tribalists coming out to parrot the post-defeat "it wasn't our fault for not trying to be appealing, it was the fault of the plebes for not supporting us" DNC propaganda.

"Always blame the peasants, never the kings!"

It's hilariously subservient and the avoidance of change inside the Democrat Party that this "let's not criticize our leaders" aims to achive pretty much guarantees a similar result next time the Democrats face a Republican populist - Fascism - and that part is the very opposite of hilarious.

It's also seriously hypocrite to cloak yourself in a "we want to protect trans people" cloak whilst fighting against the criticism of the Democrat Party that can change the very leaders whose choices and strategies resulted in the current situation where trans people are getting harmed: if they genuinelly wanted to protect trans people from harm, they would not spend their time trying divert criticism away from their holy cows.

[–] Aceticon 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There are at least two major axis in politics: the Left-Right axis and the Freedom-Authoritarianism axis.

It might not seem so for people who grew up and live in subverted Democracies with Mathematically-rigged voting systems to enforce Power Duopolies (not as bad as Dictatorship but not actually having Free Choice) because they've grown up immersed in the "Two Sides" propaganda framing where all political and social subjects are portrayed as only ever having two possible options rather than the multitude of options that pretty much all human affairs have, so they naturally have a perception of politics that collapses everything into just this one line with two ends.

Stalin was Left + Authoritarian, same as the Communist Party in China.

In Europe there are Leftwing parties which are Left + Freedom such as Social Democrat parties.

In the US there's only Right + Authoritarian and Right + Center (Democrats do have some Authoritarian tendecies, as seen in the continued militarization of police under them, their crack down on Occupy Wall Street and their reaction to the anti-Genocide movement in Universities, so I hesitate in considering them to be on the Freedom size of that political axis, but they're definitelly nowhere as Authoritarian as Republicans).

[–] Aceticon 2 points 3 weeks ago

Accepting that "if it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander" would require them not to be hypocrites.

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