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ebegnwgnen··on Facial recognition can predict person’s political orientation with 72% accuracy
wow, I didn't said "bouhou Google are such Nazi omg". I'm taking about a very serious issue of a company practicing Scientific Racism on people.

All I'm saying is :

- Faception is accusing people of terrorism from analysing the shape of their face.

- Faception is pretenting some people have "higher IQ" (== is a naturaly superior race) based on the shape of their face

I'm not making this up, just check their website :

--> https://www.faception.com/

Pretending that some race are naturally dangerous criminal while other race is "higher IQ" is straight Scientific Racism.

One of the main example of scientific racism on Wikipedia is WWII : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism

If you prefer another example of Scientific Racism such as Colons measuring African's skull to justify the Caucasian superiority (on the same wiki page) then be my guest.

In any case I really in courage you to check the picture with "High IQ" and "Terrorist" on https://www.faception.com/ . Maybe you'll better understand crazy those people are and how dangerous it can be for society

ebegnwgnen··on Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux
I think it does :

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/3797

"Recent versions of Steam can optionally put each game in its own container, using a Flatpak-derived tool named pressure-vessel."

ebegnwgnen··on Facial recognition can predict person’s political orientation with 72% accuracy
Yes, but I suppose you can't use them in a publication on Nature if they are scrapped illegally.

This dataset directly from the dating website

ebegnwgnen··on Facial recognition can predict person’s political orientation with 72% accuracy
"The dating website sample was provided by a popular dating website in 2017. It contains profile images uploaded by 977,777 users; their location (country); and self-reported political orientation, gender, and age."

It doesn't sound like people were consenting/aware that they'll endup on a facial recognition study.

But I'm not even surprised dating website would sell their such data

ebegnwgnen··on Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux
I believe Valve is working on Flatpak sandboxing for games. If this happen that would be one more reason to game on Linux instead of Windows.

It's not as good as open source but let's be real, you'll never get AAA open source games.

Games don't need to access personal data (such as contact, phone number, photos, files, private messages, etc.) so with strong sandboxing I guess it could be a okay solution privacy-wise

ebegnwgnen··on Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux
Maybe the Valve Index works through SteamVR ?

For oculus it won't work because it requires the oculus windows app.

(Even when you use SteamVR with an Oculus, actually it's using Oculus app behind)

There are also some projects to reverse-engineer / implement open tracking for VR headsets : https://monado.freedesktop.org/#supported-hardware

ebegnwgnen··on PyTorch 1.8, with AMD ROCm support
"Future plan"... it's been years and it's still "future plan".

I want to buy AMD because they are more open than Nvidia. But Nvidia supports CUDA day one for all their graphic cards and AMD still don't have rocm support on most of their product even years after their release [0]

Given AMD size & budget, the reason why they don't hire a few more employee full time on making rocm work with their own graphic card is beyond me.

The worst is how they keep people in waiting. It's always vague phrases like "not currently", "may be supported in the future", " "future plan", " we cannot comment on specific model support ", etc.

AMD doesn't want rocm on consumer card ? Then say it. Stop making me check rocm repos every week to get always more disappointed.

AMD plans to support it on consumer card ? Then say it and give a release date : "In May 2021 , the RX 6800 will get rocm support, thanks for your patience and your trust in our product".

I like AMD for their openness and support of standards, but they are so unprofessional when it comes to Compute

[0] https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/887

ebegnwgnen··on Navigate your code like it's 2021
It makes me think about this concept https://desktopneo.com/ . While not perfect, there are definitely some interesting ideas
ebegnwgnen··on Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation
This is a professional open source game engine freely available to all thanks to a few dev that accept being totally underpaid when they could get the highest salaries of the industry at big companies.

I think we owe at least them the right to express themselves in a small paragraph. Anyone offended by that, is free to go back abusing their users addiction in another game engine that better fit their "view" of the world.

Open source has a societal/education/ethical role to play. Mozilla is not only making Firefox but also writing about privacy ethics. So It could totally make sense for Godot to do the same about game ethics

ebegnwgnen··on Firefox 86.0
Go to Menu -> Customize.

Tick "Title Bar"

Drag & Drop the "search" widget aside your URL bar

Drag & Drop the Five buttons you mention where you want

You're welcome.

(for the status bar URL link preview on hover it's already the case by default)