Me at a congress about technology and medicine.

Presentation about future of AI in medicine.

The speaker complains that current European laws blocks progress.

The laws? GDPR, medical data protection, and privacy.

In that congress there were two sides on AI in healthcare, one making emphasis on improving care and outcomes and huge emphasis on privacy and security, and the other envisioned a Medical Minority Report/Big Brother-like future where there is zero human connection with the patient.

It doesn’t matter how good is internet connection nowadays, the source in the server is still encoded losing some quality.

Tried to watch Batman Begins in HBO Max, despite being offered as 4K UHD, the loss of information was noticeable on my OLED tv, specially the blacks (as you know, there is almost no black colour in Batman /s).

A friend of mine lend me his Nolan’s Batman trilogy on BR 4K UHD and it was like night and day.

Since the lbs I’m buying physical for movies that I like the most and want to watch them in the highest quality possible.

I did not experience it personally, but in Spain LaLiga is forcing ISPs to do the same and lots of websites get fucked in the process.

In some places it is CSAM and in others it is being working into convert into law.

I think the issues are:

• It can pass as real
• Unlike run-of-the-mill cartoon porn, real photos of children (even not CSAM) are involved, either in the training or as input for the generation

This, this finally made me reach back my LG TV and disconnected the Ethernet cable.

Where I live there are two official languages, the one from the country, Spanish, and the one from the region, Valencian, so you have places and streets named in one and translated into the other and both are valid. Some important places have only one official name in Valencian.

Well there is a huge historical railroad station called Estación del Norte (North Station) that people called it by translating it into Valencian, and now the official name is Estació del Nord.

The thing is that the station was never located on the north of anything in the city, it is called Norte because that’s how it was called the company that built it.

Making the translation official not only increases the confusion about its location for people who doesn’t know the city, but it also hides its history, I know a lot of people living here that don’t know where the name came from and who build it.

I don’t have issues with making official naming in Valencian as long it does not change the name of a person or company.

In Spain, almost all of the Cajas de Ahorros (it is not the same but to not go in details, imagine a some sort of credit union) went under due the financial crisis.

They were merged and transformed into a bank that then was rescued with lot of public money from taxpayers and it never repay to the society (either by returning the money or lowering fees and mortgage interest, in fact it almost erased people savings while the board of directors increased their bonuses.

Now the bank no longer exists, it was purchased by another bank, the one with most egregious fees in the country.

Who doesn’t had an instance where the WiFi messed up a chatbot making it to ignore the instructions.

ChatGPT is a unstable connection away to become full Skynet, that’s why I only use it with the PC wired to the router.

The only American car I ever considered I would like to buy as a daily driver was a Tesla, and that was way long ago, when Elon seemed a good guy, way before he called the rescuers of those trapped kids pedo.

If I had the money and a real necessity to replace my car, I would buy a BYD almost 98% sure.

I have premium through a page that makes family groups and you pay a lot less. From time to time there is an issue with the group and you spend like two days without premium until it is fixed.

During those periods YT is unwatchable and I skip using it until the issue is fixed

https://youtu.be/7MFtl2XXnUc

I was worried that a high five was relegated to habits of the ancient past when the Lanthanite was initiating with no reciprocation, but then the post credits scene with Spock teaching human mannerisms showed it’s still a thing.

Wait. Post credits? There has been post credits in SNW and I didn’t noticed?

This needs to be a new meme

I didn’t questioned that, I saw him like those cameramen that were tasked to document the front lines during the WWII, or the journalists that go to the current conflicts.

Where I live the water is very hard, poor quality (but inside of the allowed limits), and also the pipes in my flat’s building are fucking old, so yes, I only drink from bottled or filtered water.

It might not pose a real risk, but I prefer err on the safe side. Additionally the Brita filter removes the nasty taste that the tap water has here and the kettle doesn’t have lime stains.

I love Fork, bought the license to support the developer.

The only thing I don’t like is that there is no Linux version, asked the dev and he told me that the issue with Linux is that there are different distros with different GUI libraries so it would require multiple versions for Linux.

A bit saddened it I completely understand.

HR: IT detected that you watch porn at work.

Employee: I’m not, it’s all SFW videos

HR: OK, no problem then.

That’s why I mention about make it as something that the user can decide.

As I said, AI is just an example, and it doesn’t work when they share the same instance as the communities I’m interested in.

Just checked Coccodrilo, seems a nice place.

Thanks