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I think the rightmost of them says welfare queens, but luckily for my mental health I’m not knowledgeable enough about right wing fear-mongering to guess the others

You can also just hold power + volume up while it’s locked, once you feel the buzz it won’t accept biometrics until you put in the password.

The joke is with the double meaning of “serve”, which is also slang for looking good or having good style

Private front end bot is MIA so here’s a google-free link https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=qW7CGTK-1vA

The face is from the “it’s free real estate” meme, with the unspoken words being the punchline

Never entered a giveaway before cuz I prefer to lurk w/o an account, but since I’m trying to be more active on here anyway… 😂

The username references a great song, so for anyone who doesn’t know it:
https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=AzlMeTxVdH8

I hadn’t, and it was definitely worth reading so thanks for the link. I’m still not sure exactly where I stand on the big AI companies relentlessly scraping everything for training data, but that was very convincing that copyright laws aren’t the solution (and I already believed better labour laws were needed for artists, though the details of exactly how music artists are getting shafted were new to me). Thanks for the link!

Whether or not you agree with AI image generation, the authors of this study have pulled off something impressive. This particular study isn’t going to be the single most important thing to humanity this year, sure, but they made a pretty clever stride in pushing a developing field forward and you don’t need to be excited about the field itself to appreciate that.
I’m assuming your dislike for AI image generation is based on the plagiarism issue, which is absolutely valid, but model architecture is separate from training data and the concepts here are perfectly usable with a more moral training set. The companies scraping all the data - OpenAI, google, and to a much lesser extent stability AI - are the ones to blame for that problem, not researchers working on model architecture.

Cannot believe how many people got wooshed by what’s clearly bait (brand new account, and posting this shit? To probably the most left-leaning form of social media you could find?) There’s so many reasons to shit on conservatives I’ve lost count - we really don’t need to astroturf more.

Face ID is also fully encrypted and 100% local, plus scans in 3D to be a lot more secure. I meme on Apple a lot but it’s genuinely one of the best features I’ve seen on any phone, period - fast, instant, secure, and private access to your shit. Third party apps can use it similarly to PAM in Linux, where they only get the Boolean result and no data about your biometrics, and the decryption key is stored in some apple-specific chip that’s only accessible at the root level iirc. I’d literally sell my soul to get them to open source Face ID; I haven’t seen another implementation yet that’s as good and even on Linux with a beefy-ass gpu I can’t replicate the wake/unlock speed even old iPhones can manage in my own algorithms. It works with sunglasses on, different facial expressions, while brushing your teeth - the fuckin thing even recognizes when you’re looking at the screen vs when someone’s just pointing your phone at your face. I’ve literally tested it with someone else holding my phone towards my face trying to get Face ID to let them in, and as long as I don’t glance at it (with my pupils alone, no head movement) it won’t let them in. Before it ever got to that point anyway, you can just press power+volume up while the phone’s locked to disable biometrics and require a passcode - this is one feature that’s seriously well thought out for privacy. My trust does not come easily to closed-source for-profit companies’ “privacy” features, but this isn’t your usual google or Microsoft bullshit that’s a thinly veiled attempt to get more of your data. I dislike apple’s walled garden bullshit, but I gotta admit it lets them focus on making baller features like this one instead of needing to steal data or show ads in all their shit like Samsung or google.
Anyway there’s like a million valid things to shit on apple for, just pointing out that this isn’t one of them lol. Promise I’m not a shill (I’m just as likely to do a rant hating on their bullshit as I am to defend them), I’m just way too passionate about Face ID.
Obligatory source on the privacy aspects

Dude clearly needed a fragile sticker