So… How do you set a passcode?
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The original article says women. Unless they are using women with small hands as code for children.
I would hope a social studies teacher would understand the pitfalls of Western orientalism and Western cultures obsession with describing other groups as ‘its’ rather than as whole persons.
But if we’re going to objectify people, why don’t we get real technical about it. Why not move manufacturing to other east Asian countries? Even outside of East Asia, you can find many countries with less labor protections and large populations where you can select for millions of people with small hands. Why China? Anyone who is being intellectually honest knows that hand size was not the central reason.
If this is widely accepted then Western culture has a long way to go when it comes to facing its history of racial objectification. Because this sounds less like a valid rationale and more like modern phrenology presenting itself as business and engineering acumen.
Young Chinese women have small fingers, and that has made them a valuable contributor to iPhone production because they are more nimble at installing screws and other miniature parts in the small device, supply chain experts said. In a recent analysis the company did to explore the feasibility of moving production to the United States, the company determined that it couldn’t find people with those skills in the United States, said two people familiar with the analysis who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/technology/apple-iphone-trump-india-china.html
They’re supposedly paraphrasing “supply chain experts” but they could definitely paraphrase better.
Western culture is built on a foundation of race based hierarchical brain rot and isn’t it remarkable how it always finds a way to remind us of that?
Found it, for anyone reading don’t bother. It is still images with an AI voiceover. I was hoping for half baked AI generated video.
Anyone have a link to the video? Looking for a good laugh.
shawn1122@lemm.eeto
Technology@lemmy.world•Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted teens with advertisements based on their ‘emotional state’English
74·9 months agoAh yes having to lick the boot of an autocrat with no freedom to dissent. That sure sounds like its working to me.
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Games@lemmy.world•Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the consoleEnglish
6·10 months agoThey must enter a unique switch serial number (that corresponds with inventory) to make the purchase? Don’t see why it has to be contigent on a subscription.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thoughtEnglish
18·10 months agoThis is what the ARC-AGI test by Chollet has also revealed of current AI / LLMs. They have a tendency to approach problems with this trial and error method and can be extremely inefficient (in their current form) with anything involving abstract / deductive reasoning.
Most LLMs do terribly at the test with the most recent breakthrough being with reasoning models. But even the reasoning models struggle.
ARC-AGI is simple, but it demands a keen sense of perception and, in some sense, judgment. It consists of a series of incomplete grids that the test-taker must color in based on the rules they deduce from a few examples; one might, for instance, see a sequence of images and observe that a blue tile is always surrounded by orange tiles, then complete the next picture accordingly. It’s not so different from paint by numbers.
The test has long seemed intractable to major AI companies. GPT-4, which OpenAI boasted in 2023 had “advanced reasoning capabilities,” didn’t do much better than the zero percent earned by its predecessor. A year later, GPT-4o, which the start-up marketed as displaying “text, reasoning, and coding intelligence,” achieved only 5 percent. Gemini 1.5 and Claude 3.7, flagship models from Google and Anthropic, achieved 5 and 14 percent, respectively.
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Technology@lemmy.world•McDonald’s Customers Will Get Their Meals With a Side of AIEnglish
91·10 months agoMcDonalds app already does this. Their shit food is absolutely terrible value if you don’t use their app. You’re basically trading your personal info to get a few dollars off a Big Mac.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Teleperformance Uses AI to ‘Neutralize’ Indian Accents of AgentsEnglish
61·11 months agoDefinitely true. We had a German professor with an essentially incomprehensible accent teaching calculus at our college. Basically everyone had to learn it from the textbook.
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Games@lemmy.world•Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gamingEnglish
3·11 months agoIs there a guide you’d recommend following?
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Technology@lemmy.world•CVS Is Turning Locked Shelves Into an Excuse to Make You Download Its AppEnglish
2·1 year agoThis might be too complicated for the average consumer at CVS, which tends to skew towards an older demographic.
Colonialism is essentially theft with a pretty red ribbon on top to make it look good so we can all unequivocally say fuck colonialism.
But my point is beyond that. It’s that the progress that’s been achieved through those ideas you’re celebrating was predicated on theft from and suffering of people in developing countries. In a sense those in developing countries have an ownership stake in Western industrialization and China is the first previously developing nation that’s coming to take back what is, in part, theirs. The West needs to come to terms with the fact that they won’t be the last to do so.
‘Investment’ is a nice way to put it. A more apt description would be that the developing world invested in the West’s industrialization (or the West stole it, whatever floats your boat) and the Western world chose to give essentially nothing back to its investors, directly contradicting the new capitalist world it had created.
Which is why many in the developing world feel that China’s rise to prominence is the West’s chickens coming home to roost.
A Kenyan official once said: ‘When China visits we get a hospital. When Britain visits we get a lecture’
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Technology@lemmy.world•Here’s What Happened When India Banned TikTok in 2020English
3·1 year agoIt’s hard to beat a network with an already established user base (Meta, Google)
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Technology@lemmy.world•Here’s What Happened When India Banned TikTok in 2020English
2·1 year agoNot sure how this is feasible unless you’re certain your audience is going to use a VPN too. Seems like a risky way to lose views ie. your revenue stream.
As of their last filing in September it is 10 to 12%
How is MPVs impementation? Does it work fairly well?


I’m dumb, password is passcode in this case. Just don’t include any letters lol.