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cabbage@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party appsEnglish121·20 hours agoI believe /e/OS supports a broader range of devices, and it’s also pretty great in my experience. The focus is on getting rid of google (replacing all services with MicroG and nextcloud integration) and blocking trackers while providing a smooth user experience, so it’s security features are not as over the top as Graphene. It’s still a huge freaking improvement over stock Android though, and I find it to be a joy to use.
On devices supported by the online installer it can be up an running in like 30 minutes, no technical skills required. :)
cabbage@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Google Gemini is coming for your private apps. Here's how to stop itEnglish2·1 day agoAs long as it’s based on software rather than hardware I think it’s safe to assume it will be lost.
You can reinstall some things (such as the default camera app) from apks you find online, and apps such as Google Maps can be downloaded from the app store (which contains all apps from the play store). But by default it strips away everything that is installed on the phone by default and replaces it with a degoogled ecosystem, and I don’t think it differentiates between different devices.
cabbage@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Google Gemini is coming for your private apps. Here's how to stop itEnglish2·1 day agoPixel 6 is supported through community ports (6, 6 pro, 6a), but unfortunately it is not supported (yet?) by the online installer tool. So it’s for people who are a bit more willing to get their hands dirty.
cabbage@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Google Gemini is coming for your private apps. Here's how to stop itEnglish28·2 days agoIf you own a Fairphone (3-5), Pixel (4, 5, 7 or 8) Nothing phone (1) or OnePlus (7 or 8), it’s super easy to install /e/OS using this online installer. Most android apps work well out of the box, but all Google stuff has been stripped away and replaced with MicroG where necessary.
I’m never returning to Google anything.
cabbage@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in HiringEnglish8·3 days agoFor most jobs it’s hard to do a hiring process without in-person interviews, or at the very least video calls. So I’m not really sure how one could realistically get rid of biases. But I completely agree that whenever there are too many applications to interview everyone individually, the initial screening of applicants should be completely anonymized and rely only only technologies where biases can at least be understood.
For the final step I’m afraid we’ll have to try to train people to be less prone to biased decision-making. Which I agree is not a very promising path.
cabbage@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in HiringEnglish53·3 days agoIt’s not men against women, it’s people against billionaires.
It’s not the fact that these people are men that I take issue with, it’s that they are hypocrites capitalising feminist sentiments without making any actual effort towards real change.
Edit: Since I wrote my response the comment I responded to was changed into something even dumber. I’ll let it speak for itself.
cabbage@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in HiringEnglish56·3 days agoAt least where I’m from, it’s pretty well know that the education system is better suited to girls than boys, probably because it needs a reform
I didn’t say it doesn’t, clearly there’s a problem when half the population is systematically favoured.
To paraphrase: women can get pregnant and can’t work and it’s the man’s fault
Where the fuck did I say that it’s the man’s fault? It’s a societal problem, doesn’t mean it’s anybody’s fault. At least not an entire gender in general. Capitalism as a system, yeah, probably.
What I observe in society are a huge increase in the amount of advertising aimed at women with a feminist message because women are being programmed to flock to such messages
I’m the first to criticize corporate feminism (just like greenwashing and pride washing), but I suspect feminist messaging appeals to women because they are sick of the patriarchy, not because they are programmed by marketing agencies. The fuck are you on about.
That said, I think you’re right that the messaging of companies trying to appear feminist in their communications while nevertheless usually being run almost exclusively by men is a huge part of the source material that produces the bias here. I’m not sure we disagree much in substance, but I suspect we come from different starting points in how we see gender dynamics in society.
cabbage@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in HiringEnglish114·2 days agoAt least where I’m from it’s pretty well known that girls outperform boys in school, possibly because their brains develop slightly earlier in some ways useful to perform in a class room.
This could give women a head start and very well lead to them on average performing better in work life, until they are forced to choose between careers and families while they partners continue to advance their careers at full speed not worrying about being pregnant.
But that’s a different discussion. We should avoid biases in hiring because biases suck and make for an unjust society. And we should stop pretending language models make intelligent considerations about anything.
What’s fascinating here is that LLMs trained on the texts we produce create the opposite bias of what we observe in society, where men tend to get preferential treatment. My guess is that this is a consequence of inclusive language. In my writing, whenever women are under-represented, I make a point out of defaulting to she and her rather than he and him. I know others do the same. I imagine this could feed into LLMs. Whatever it is that causes this, it sure as fuck isn’t anything actually intelligent.
cabbage@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in HiringEnglish20·3 days agothe AI considered
Sorry to break it to you, but the “AI” does not “consider” anything. They are talking about a language prediction model.
cabbage@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable partsEnglish4·13 days agoThen again it seems battery life is a lot better this time around, so this should ideally be less necessary.
cabbage@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3English60·15 days ago“Creators led this revolution”
The same way cows lead a slaughterhouse.
Political defined as:
Pictures containing a politician from any country
Which is a prettyanageable definition. It’s a cliche that everything is political, but it’s also somewhat true. Banning pictures from protests would be a weird move IMHO.
cabbage@piefed.socialto pics@lemmy.world•Body Language and Behavior Analysis No. 4769: Man gets shot by LAPD officer for asking his name and badge number.English394·26 days agoI kind of agree, but on the other hand it’s quite a good snapshot. It really does capture a moment in history and the failure of a country, in all its blurredness.
If this was a photography community, I would be more reluctant. But it’s an interesting pic.
I think that would be most people these days.
cabbage@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•An earnest question about the AI/LLM hateEnglish42·30 days agoCould also be two separate things? I have a) dumped Windows and b) installed Lineage.
cabbage@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•An earnest question about the AI/LLM hateEnglish66·30 days agoWe’re outsourcing thinking to a bullshit generator controlled by mostly American mega-corporations who have repeatedly demonstrated that they want to do us harm, burning through scarce resources and rendering creative humans robbed and unemployed in the process.
What’s not to hate.
cabbage@piefed.socialto Videos@lemmy.world•Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still DriftingEnglish8·1 month agoPretty disappointing stuff, especially concerning the potential for joystick drift and the gluing of the battery. If they haven’t fixed drift I think I have no choice but to skip this generation.
cabbage@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 monthsEnglish30·1 month agoNot strictly a scam, but there’s a little money to be made creating viral content on Facebook. They receive a tiny portion of the ad revenue from Facebook when they generate engagement.
It’s just Facebook sucking really.
cabbage@piefed.socialto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•51-year-old man here; would I be a creep if I went out on a date with a 30-year-old woman?English42·1 month agoA rule of thumb for weirdness in age difference is age/2+7, leaving you at 51/2+7=32,5. So going by that, 30 is a bit on the young side, which is obvious also from the fact that you felt the need to create this thread.
If one person would be in a position to judge you for it (or rightfully feel weird about it) it’s your daughter. It’s safe to say she seems cool with it, so whatever.
In the sense of multiple users in Android settings? That works, it can be enabled in settings -> system -> multiple users. I haven’t tested it though, as I don’t have any need for that.
I use Microsoft Authenticator and Microsoft Outlook for work, and both work flawlessly with /e/OS. Thankfully I have not had any reason to test Teams, but I’m pretty sure that would work as well.