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[–] Yendor@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh no way, that’s awesome!!

New York City Children’s Services pays $75,000 settlement for removing newborn from home because black mom smokes marijuana — which is legal in New York in c/thepoliceproblem@lemmy.world

[–] Yendor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

People who work in Child Protection aren’t doing it because they’re power hungry sociopaths. They’re people who do an absolutely horrible job for shit pay because they feel compelled to protect children.

I’m not in NY, but I have a friend who works in Child Protection. The shit her and her friends see is fucked up.

In the case here, the baby was born with measurable levels of THC in their system. It’s not illegal to smoke weed while pregnant, just like it’s not illegal to drink alcohol while pregnant - but both can fuck up a child for life before they’re even born.

IT leaders alarmed by generative AI’s SaaS security implications in c/cybersecurity@lemmy.capebreton.social

[–] Yendor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Can we please stop calling things SaaS? “Software as a Service”, “Storage as a Service”, “Security as a Service”…

rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] Yendor@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They They

U.K. police say 88 people who bought sodium nitrite from Canadian websites have died in c/canada@lemmy.ca

[–] Yendor@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it’s not a mistake.

Details are withheld in the news articles to avoid promoting suicide, but this link gives some useful context: https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/toronto/2023/5/4/1_6384721.html

U.K. police say 88 people who bought sodium nitrite from Canadian websites have died in c/canada@lemmy.ca

[–] Yendor@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I mean, the product is being sold as a way to commit suicide, so it’s hardly surprising that many of the people who bought it are now dead.

Hell freezes over as Apple supports right-to-repair bill in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

[–] Yendor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The proposed legislation:

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB244/id/2832427

(ii) A product or component of an “alarm system” as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 7590.1 of the Business and Professions Code. Code, including a fire protection system, as defined in the California Fire Code.

Hell freezes over as Apple supports right-to-repair bill in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

[–] Yendor@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For the same reason you need a licence in most places to install fire and security systems. If you make a mistake, people can die.

Pharmaceutical industrial complex rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] Yendor@sh.itjust.works 67 points 1 year ago (7 children)

American pharmaceutical ads are weird. I guess I’m just not free enough to understand them?

The prevalence of touchscreens has probably resulted in a decrease in average fingernail length in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Oh. Wait, what? in c/atheistmemes@lemmy.world

Bleeding edge tech in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[–] Yendor@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Yea, but not really. The algorithms are available for free, but they don’t do anything useful by themselves. The RNN is built by training the neural net, which uses grading/classification of training data to increase or decrease millions of coefficients of a multi-layer filter. It’s the training data, the classification feedback and the processing power that actually creates the AI.