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  • A big part of this site’s pitch to its clients, including the “hyperscale” customers with gigantic data centers nearby, is that each device is labeled, tracked, and inventoried for its drives—both obvious and hidden—and is either securely wiped or destroyed. The process, commonly called ITAD, is used by larger businesses, especially when they upgrade fleets of servers or workers’ devices. ITAD providers ensure all the old gear is wiped clean, then resold, repurposed, recycled, or destroyed.












  • Man, you guys really get upset and uncivil just because somebody said they don’t like tattoos

    No, the downvotes are because you said

    I’m honestly ok with this

    It’s fine to not like tattoos. Other people in this thread have also said that they also don’t like tattoos, but they’re not being downvoted. You’re the one arguing in bad faith here.

    There’s always been healthy discussion online about people not liking tattoos, regretting a particular one, discussing the costs of removal, and discouraging others. There’s no conspiracy pushing for one side over the other. What people do agree on is that detention based on the presence of tattoos alone, is wrong.




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    You can just paste the link normally. If you want custom text on the link, you do this

    [Custom text](https://example.com/)

    Renders this

    Custom text

    Also I think the post is talking about hiding the data to begin with. There are already some tracking tools out there that look at the existing data. If the data isn’t accessible to you, then it’s not accessible to the AI either. Nothing for anyone to look at

    Although I’m not familiar with flight details to know what exactly is being hidden, or if there are workarounds




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    The description sounds more like an AI receptionist than an AI nurse. It would be helpful if patients could ask follow-up questions to the automated phone call before an appointment. Some clinics don’t have the manpower for that, and especially not in all the languages that the local population might speak.

    I’d be interested in seeing how good the model actually is, and how it determines when to pass it along to a human

    The concern is with making sure the AI model is only used where it makes sense. Those who are looking to cut costs will try and use it everywhere, and that needs to be kept in check





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    Users are concerned that this moderation tactic could be abused or just improperly implemented.

    This is the key bit. It’s good to try and make safer online spaces. But Reddit’s automated moderation has been bad for a while, and this might get more users caught up in false positives

    I’ve seen comments tagged as abusive regardless of the context:

    • someone quoting a news article
    • someone making a hyperbolic joke (especially in gen-Z subs)
    • actual abuse

    For well moderated subs, the vast majority of those reports became false positives over time. For the mod queue, this didn’t affect the end user since mods can dismiss the false positives. But automated ‘scores’ won’t account for that.

    We’re going to see even more annoying algospeak like “unalive”, only it’s going to be in news quotes as well


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    I think it’s a joke about dead internet theory, rather than userbase size

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

    The joke comes from an increase in bot use on Reddit, and the subsequent false positive / false negatives in trying to figure out which ones are bots

    Lemmy has that problem too, but it’s much smaller in scope. Mostly because there’s less of a reason to try and control the narrative on this smaller platform, but also because the goals are different. Lemmy instances get no benefit from a bunch of fake engagement, and public upvotes makes it easier to catch manipulation