are they fucking serious with this shit?
what the hell...
@feddit.org
is weight even that useful of a statistic to track in this context?
the reason american light trucks and some SUVs aren't street legal in the EU is not their weight: it's their geometry.
their hoods are too high and massively increase the likelihood a pedestrian is pushed under the wheels, instead of tumbling over the hood and windshield.
they also have stupidly bad visibility when it comes to children or generally smaller persons.
i wouldn't think that weight matters as much as the general shape and size of a vehicle, but i don't have the energy to do research right now...it's too hot to think :(
that's got nothing to do with being autistic; that's just insanely rude!
yelling is absolutely warranted in that situation.
seriously fuck those people.
you're already in a state of stress due to having major surgery ahead of you. unnecessarily withholding information, for absolutely no reason, would stress out anyone, regardless of wether they're neurotypical or not.
fuck that bullshit.
i mean...an app directly copying a black mirror episode (but almost exclusively targeting a specific demographic) does ring some very, VERY loud alarm bells...
like, this is literally the plot of nosedive.
it's a social credit system.
and none of the people even know they HAVE a score, so it's somehow even worse than the fictional scenario.
this will, absolutely, hurt innocents and it will do so by design.
"fuck them innocents!"...just because they happen to be men?
how is that anything other than misandrist?
how is that defensible?
how is doxxing, mass libel, and targeted harassment a solution to sexism and rape culture?
I'd be really interested in hearing anything about how this is supposed to help women, because i struggle to see how sowing massive, unearned distrust between men and women is going to make anyone any safer...
I'm really, REALLY glad that the GDPR would nuke this sort of nonsense from orbit...uploading pictures of strangers, for the explicit purpose of gossiping about them behind their backs, spreading awful rumors?
what. the. actual. fuck. is wrong with you people?
and i don't mean women, or men: i mean americans and their total disregard for privacy and digital safety. what the hell...
afaik, there actually aren't any reliable tools for this.
the highest accuracy rate I've seen reported for "AI detectors" is somewhere around 60%; barely better than a random guess...
edit: i think that way for text/LLM, to be fair.
kinda doubt images are much better though...happy to hear otherwise, if there are better ones!
you are confusing the assignment and the grading.
they are two separate things.
the assignment was:
- A discussion of why you feel the topic is important and worthy of study (or not)
- An application of the study or results to your own experiences
the submission failed on both these points, and thus it is automatically disqualified, no grading is even applied.
there was no discussion in the submission.
"discussion" in an academic context is a technical term that means "examining a topic based on evidence from some point of view". you may have encountered something similar in school as a pro/contra essay. in academia this gets expanded on by requiring evidence in the form of citations in order to support one's positions and conclusions (or lack thereof).
since the student did not provide sources, this point of the assignment is not fulfilled.
the same goes for the second point, for the same reasons: insufficient evidence was provided.
the teachers explain this in their response.
since neither part of the assignment is fulfilled no grading is applied: it's an automatic failure.
this is also explained in the response.
you may want to carefully read the responses again, and keep in mind that all of this is happening in an academic context. providing evidence is expected by default.
"i believe", "i feel", 'the bible says", etc., are NOT evidence in a scientific context....
Microsofts documentation is also increasingly just outright wrong:
if you spend enough time looking up things about their newer products like M365, defender, or azure, especially when it comes to scripting related to those, there's a ton of simply outdated info on the official docs that makes it really difficult to figure out why your setup isn't doing what it's supposed to.
from changed variable names, to missing functions, to unexplained buttons, etc., etc.
the newer docs are straight up trash!
you're better off searching around for forum posts or whatever, than using the official docs...
it's exactly why ignoring nazis doesn't work:
fascists rely entirely on being perceived as the "majority", the "normal people".
it's why they get so, so mad when you call them "weird": they HAVE to believe they are "normal" and their egos can't take it if you point out that they're...not normal.
that's why it is so important to publicly shame them: fascism dies, when it is denied fertile ground to fester in.
fascists are inherently cowards:
the slightest bit of resistance and they immediately fold. (see TACO, for example)
resistance DOES work!
afaik the client does collect a bunch if data, most (all, i think? but not a 100% on that) of which is opt-in.
they do need stuff like IPs for internet related features.
telemetry wise there's the steam hardware survey, which is opt-in, and it asks every single time it attempts to collect your systems hardware and OS information. this could technically be identifying information, but since it's opt-in it's not a privacy violation and it's entirely optional. (plus it's super useful for all involved: users, devs, and steam. it's kind of a win-win and straight up necessary info for devs to know which hardware they should optimize for)
they might be putting it at the top because steam has native support for DRM?
but that's also weird, because DRM isn't a privacy violation. it's a shitty practice, barely does anything, barely works, and keeps breaking or hobbling otherwise perfectly good games, all of which is shitty, but it's little to do with privacy. and the dev has to specifically opt-in and integrate it as a feature...unless they're thinking of 3rd party DRM that can be waaay more intrusive, like Vanguard... THAT'S a privacy and security nightmare just waiting to blow up in people's faces.
otherwise...i haven't really heard anything bad about steam privacy wise?
doesn't mean that there's nothing to be concerned about, but i feel like there'd been some news about it if there was...
yes, exactly!
what i think is rather important to point out:
even in theology this shit wouldn't fly!
that's how absurd this "controversy" is.
because even in theology you need to provide sound argumentation and sources. even there you need more evidence than this "student" submitted.
it's just...so, so absurd.
you generally don't take short trips by car in vienna.
most of what you would need is within walking distance, almost everywhere has excellent public transport, which is also mostly faster than taking a car anyway.
just isn't necessary to make people walk to their cars: if they're using their car, it's likely because they need to, not because they want to... public transport is just more convenient most of the time, because of the reduced parking options within the city! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i know it's not the point of the thread, but FYI:
bunker busters can't destroy cities. not practically, anyways.
they're hyper-specialized munitions that get dropped from high up in order to pick up a lot of gravitational momentum to then penetrate deep underground and through multiple layers of concrete.
they're long, extremely resilient, stupidly heavy rods with relatively small warheads.
they're the "rods from god"s little cousins, essentially.
although there's some speculation that some kinds of modern concrete might be strong enough to withstand even multiple direct hits...
the kind of munitions that could cause enough destruction to level a city are M.O.A.B.s, for conventional arms, or straight-up nuclear bombs.
...or you could use a LOT of smaller bombs, like the russians in ukraine, or the israelis in gaza.
but bunker busters, while having an objectively badass name, are not actually that scary a weapon, unless you're sitting in an actual bunker; they're more of a precision weapon!
it's intensely funny to me that space genocide simulator 3000 (stellaris, a paradox game), which offers myriad ways to abuse and torture alien races, has a player base that mostly plays as pacifist xenophiles and the bio-compatibility ascension!
(bio-comp means interspecies breeding, so that falls under horny i guess)
this information is from a devblog some years ago, no idea wether that's still the case, but I'd assume it is, since at the time this playstyle dominated at somewhere around 2-3 times the percentage of the next highest playstyle... I'm pretty sure it's still the case, because some major patches ago the devs reworked bio-comp to be less of a lag generator, i assume because a significant number of players still use it (despite the insane lag it added, and pretty sure still does)
the evidence is: this is a university course.
this is normal for every university in the world. everyone that's ever taken a university course knows this.
it's quite literally the scientific method.
it's almost never spelled out anywhere, because students generally have dedicated courses that teach this method and related things like researching, proper citations, writing structures and styles, etc.
usually called something like "scientific working" or something (don't know what it's called in english, german is usually something like "wissenschaftliches arbeiten").
this isn't kindergarten; there are prerequisites and they are expected by default.
these aren't children, they're adults.
and everyone involved knew this in advance.
this is not "hidden" or "secret".
it's a standard.
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