literallyaduck (u/literallyaduck)

literallyaduck commented on Strengthening our efforts against the spread of non-consensual intimate images about.fb.com/news/2021/12... · Posted by u/arkadiyt

literallyaduck · 4 years ago

Would it not be easy to stop the spread of intimate images through your platform?

If you have a platform for "intimate" images maybe have a record on file that shows everyone is of age and consents. If an image, or video providence can not be confirmed you don't put it up for consumption. There is no shortage of "intimate" images and it would not present a hardship or be a barrier to entry to those that want to produce or consume the content. Please, explain how it is ethical to do otherwise.

literallyaduck commented on Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022 surgehq.ai/blog/is-google... · Posted by u/echen

AlbertCory · 4 years ago

I've been gone from G for 4 1/2 years now. When I was there, the weekly meetings often featured "search quality" measurements that were rigorous in their objectivity (I thought). They bent over backwards to be non-self-deluding.

I distinctly remember Udi Manber saying "if the web is slow, it's our fault" (actually, the speech was that everything is "our fault"), meaning, really, "take responsibility for problems and don't throw up your hands."

However, the natural tendency of any organization is to reward the suckups and promote mediocre people who just get along with everyone. It wouldn't surprise me if that's what's happened with Google, too.

literallyaduck · 4 years ago

Go to image search and type in "white people" without quotes.

Now repeat the search but with "black people" without quotes.

Try the same for "white couple" without quotes.

Try the same for "black couple" without quotes.

Do you have any insight to this phenomenon?

literallyaduck commented on Imagine another American Civil War, but this time in every state npr.org/2022/01/10/107108... · Posted by u/evo_9

literallyaduck · 4 years ago

Nonconcensual government has no place in modern society. Most people are born into countries and it makes sense to have a regular opt in vote to continue.

Most "civilized" people will starve or die horrible deaths if the current cold civil war goes hot. People who don't know how to grow crops, hunt, fish, or setup logistic pipelines. The side has military backing will end up killing a lot of people until one side gives up and by that time China and Russia will win. An armed conflict is a real loser for everyone. Lots of Americans on either side are armed and obstinate and it will get ugly fast. It might be time to visit a friendly foreign country until it all blows over, just don't expect much to come back to, wars are ugly things, and civil wars are often worse.

The only question is are we going to be flexible enough to let people go their own ways peacefully or try to hug a mountain lion until it hugs us back? The cart is being pulled in two directions and a peaceful legal separation is much better than the alternative.

No one is going to counseling and "live and let live" is dead. Irreconcilable differences between at least two factions exist.

literallyaduck commented on U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient apnews.com/article/pig-he... · Posted by u/danso

pm90 · 4 years ago

Not necessarily. Life expectancy is affected by the most mortal part of your species: it might be that pigs’ hearts are fine, but they’re prone to cancers after a certain age.

literallyaduck · 4 years ago

Then could they yeet the old one into the sausage grinder and transplant a fresh one. It could even be a nice 12 year ritual, pay 1 million dollars for the most expensive sausage you'll ever eat.

http://www.culinarypen.com/2014/02/pork-heart-sausage.html?m...

literallyaduck commented on Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’ vice.com/en/article/v7d7j... · Posted by u/yoelo

literallyaduck · 4 years ago

Google/Alphabet needs to be broken apart: "The National Labor Relations Act forbids employers from interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees in the exercise of rights relating to organizing, forming, joining or assisting a labor organization for collective bargaining purposes, or from working together to improve terms and conditions of employment, or refraining from any such activity. Similarly, labor organizations may not restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of these rights."

literallyaduck commented on noDRM's GitHub repo DeDRM_tools is disabled due to Readium's DMCA notice github.com/github/dmca/bl... · Posted by u/xxyzz

literallyaduck · 4 years ago

Stop thinking of github as source control. It is source out of your control.

Decentralized source code is required.

If another entity can take your repo it isn't your repo.

If another entity can ninja commit to your repo with a bot it isn't your repo.

If your code can be taken down by a corporation or government, it isn't your repo.

literallyaduck commented on Chrome Dev Tools Team, can we please have import/export in the Devices list? · Posted by u/adrianvoica

literallyaduck · 4 years ago

Can you do it yourself with a pluggin?

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/devtools/

literallyaduck commented on Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed? · Posted by u/dazeandconfuse

literallyaduck · 4 years ago

Work to specification while you find a new job. Get the requirements via email or send a confirmation email for anything that you believe might be an "offhand remark".

The market is hot and jobs are currently plentiful.

Realize that a lot of the tech world reads this site so be careful.

literallyaduck commented on My Many Girlfriends thedailywtf.com/articles/... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac

andrewla · 4 years ago

This is classic "pets" vs "cattle". At small scale, it's "Frank the frontend is down, let's get him working again because otherwise our users can't do anything", up to "front017.xxy is down, take it out back and shoot it".

I wonder if the notion of machines naming conventions being just about where to locate it on the rack, or which AWS data center it lives in, require further levels of abstraction about "pet" and "cattle".

literallyaduck · 4 years ago

A name generator makes the cattle herdable. Humans may remember zombie-wombat-kitten but not 3991. You might not ever interact with the machine directly but if you are hunting down an issue from log files it reduces cognitive load.