Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

[Katheryne Helendale]

Notepad++

 

[bubblesort]

Now I keep running into pluses everywhere. Today was the 30th anniversary of the first web page, so I thought I'd read up on the history of the world wide web a bit...

HTML+ was a thing! It was a standard that competed with Tim Berners-Lee's HTML, and was also known as Hypertext Markup Format... so why wasn't it HTMF? Engineers are terrible at naming things.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

HTML+ was an attempt to document and standardize what randos were already doing with HTML.

 

[Free]

so why wasn't it HTMF?

Because HYPERTEXT MUTHAFUCKA!

 

[Free]

This teardrop trailer could be perfect for electric vehicle camping

It has a low-drag shape and a 75 kWh battery, plus DC fast charging.

arstechnica.com

Posted only for this image, which to me says "You can build me using mesh, but prims will do just as well."

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

They didn't even render their low quality CGI over a real background.

 

[danielravennest]

This teardrop trailer could be perfect for electric vehicle camping

It has a low-drag shape and a 75 kWh battery, plus DC fast charging.

arstechnica.com

Posted only for this image, which to me says "You can build me using mesh, but prims will do just as well."

Why camp in an egg when you can stay in a castle?

 

[bubblesort]

I just found out that Google will give you a blue verified checkmark for signing your emails.

Also, you can still get free MIME certs from an Italian cert authority called Actalis.

 

[Essence Lumin]

I just found out that Google will give you a blue verified checkmark for signing your emails.

Also, you can still get free MIME certs from an Italian cert authority called Actalis.

Just an FYI, this is only for people who use their own email client such as Outlook or Thunderbird. It doesn't apply to anyone using webmail based clients which is most of us.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Just an FYI, this is only for people who use their own email client such as Outlook or Thunderbird. It doesn't apply to anyone using webmail based clients which is most of us.

/me uses a REAL e-mail client as the Nerd Goddesses intended.

 

[Clara D.]

/me uses a REAL e-mail client as the Nerd Goddesses intended.

I'm not giving up 20 years worth of accumulated filters.

 

[Essence Lumin]

I'm not giving up 20 years worth of accumulated filters.

Eww!

 

[danielravennest]

Just an FYI, this is only for people who use their own email client such as Outlook or Thunderbird. It doesn't apply to anyone using webmail based clients which is most of us.

I use Thunderbird because I want a local backup of my emails.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I only recently quit using my own mail server because filtering the spam was too painful.

 

[Noodles]

I only recently quit using my own mail server because filtering the spam was too painful.

Yeah, I have been doing this for some secondary mail but it's kind of a hassle and I think occasionally stuff gets bounced back. I am working on converting a lot of that email to an outlook account.

Also I am starting to hate that now I am also tied to some domain names, which are not expensive but maybe I might decide I don't want that domain anymore.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Had that domain since 1991.

 

[Free]

Sometimes I think we need a Politics in Technology forum...

The four numbers Apple won’t let you engrave on your iPad in China

New report reveals Apple’s engraving filters globally

www.theverge.com

Apple does not offer a complete list of banned phrases by region, but analysis by CitizenLab found that the company filters 1,045 keywords in China, compared to 542 in Hong Kong, 397 in Taiwan, 206 in Canada, 192 in Japan, and 170 in the United States. While no political phrases are filtered in the US, Canada, or Japan, nearly half of all blocked keywords in China and Hong Kong were political in nature. CitizenLab’s analysis looked specifically at engraving requests for AirTags and iPads, but the only differences it noted in restrictions between the products were related to keyword length and lowercase words.

Keywords filtered in China include 政治 (politics), 抵制 (resist), 民主潮 (wave of democracy), and 人权 (human rights). For AirTag engravings, which are limited to four characters, Chinese customers are not allowed to use the four numbers 8964 — which refer to the Tiananmen Square protests, which took place on June 4th, 1989.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

A research team from USA, Canada and Australia found out that AI is able to determine the correct ethnicity of patients just by analysing x-ray images, despite this type of meta information was not fed into the neural networks at all.

The reasons why and how this happens are a mystery to the scientists. This is a problem, because in the US health system an AI system used to prioritize the handling of the most ill patients penalized Afro-Americans, as it was found out in 2019. So they are now looking for solutions how to prevent such a bias.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2107/2107.10356.pdf

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Archaeologists are able to derive ethnicity, to a degree, from skeletal remains, so I guess it's not too surprising that an AI would notice the differences while looking at x-rays.

But I don't understand why this would be a difficult problem to solve. Just because the AI is able to notice ethnicity doesn't mean it has to use that data. Now that it has it, it can be told specifically to ignore it.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Because it's not really an AI, it's a poorly understood pattern matching search engine that doesn't lend itself to such commands.