xorollo

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Gotta roll with it in c/womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone
[–] xorollo@leminal.space 2 points 45 minutes ago

Mine is the opposite. Two years without a salon cut "please chop it off to my shoulders" gets its cut to mid back. Ok thanks.

Mole or cancer? The algorithm that gets one in three melanomas wrong and erases patients with dark skin in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] xorollo@leminal.space 1 points 2 hours ago

I would prefer that as a community, we acknowledge the existence of this bias in healthcare data, and also acknowledge how harmful that bias is while using adequate resources to remedy the known issues.

There is a more specific word for it: Institutional racism.

Institutional racism, also known as systemic racism, is a form of institutional discrimination based on race or ethnic group and can include policies and practices that exist throughout a whole society or organization that result in and support a continued unfair advantage to some people and unfair or harmful treatment of others. It manifests as discrimination in areas such as criminal justice, employment, housing, healthcare, education and political representation.[1]

Mole or cancer? The algorithm that gets one in three melanomas wrong and erases patients with dark skin in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] xorollo@leminal.space 0 points 2 hours ago

There is a more specific word for it: Institutional racism.

Institutional racism, also known as systemic racism, is a form of institutional discrimination based on race or ethnic group and can include policies and practices that exist throughout a whole society or organization that result in and support a continued unfair advantage to some people and unfair or harmful treatment of others. It manifests as discrimination in areas such as criminal justice, employment, housing, healthcare, education and political representation.[1]

Mole or cancer? The algorithm that gets one in three melanomas wrong and erases patients with dark skin in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] xorollo@leminal.space 1 points 2 hours ago

There is a more specific word for it: Institutional racism.

Institutional racism, also known as systemic racism, is a form of institutional discrimination based on race or ethnic group and can include policies and practices that exist throughout a whole society or organization that result in and support a continued unfair advantage to some people and unfair or harmful treatment of others. It manifests as discrimination in areas such as criminal justice, employment, housing, healthcare, education and political representation.[1]

Mole or cancer? The algorithm that gets one in three melanomas wrong and erases patients with dark skin in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] xorollo@leminal.space 9 points 6 hours ago (11 children)

Why is there a lack of robust training data across skin colors? Could it be that people with darker skin colors have less access to cutting edge medical care and research studies? Would be pretty racist.

There is a similar bias in medical literature for genders. Many studies only consider males. That is sexist.

If you could get something for free the whole year, what would it be? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] xorollo@leminal.space 3 points 6 hours ago

My thought as well.

Current affairs in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
[–] xorollo@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago

Sorry friend. Zoning out and walking is probably even better for you.

Current affairs in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
[–] xorollo@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago

I do use RSS feeds as well. Another good recommendation, but they're easily too much as well. I can't rely on my inner circle telling me about important things. Unfortunately we often disagree on those kinds of things.

Girls are fighting again in c/enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world
[–] xorollo@leminal.space 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These two aren't girls. Second time I've seen a similar headline.

Current affairs in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
[–] xorollo@leminal.space 25 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Turn your doom scrolling into doom walking by switching to podcasts.

Save The Planet in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
How do you know when it's time to end a relationship? in c/relationship_advice@lemmy.world
[–] xorollo@leminal.space 2 points 2 days ago

Agreed, not wasted. It's just time to grow differently.

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Blogging from the ground up: Active history and working against ‘post-truth’ discourses (activehistory.ca)
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immich question (leminal.space)
 

Looking to switch my photos over to immich hosted on my PC. I want to be able to:

  • send photos from my phone to PC
  • delete them off of my phone and have them safe on my PC
  • I don't need to do this all the time, so I figured immich on my local network is fine. Then I don't have to figure out wireguard.

However, right now I have free VPN on my phone. I can't access immich, but I suppose this is why. I also believe that if I have VPN features that allow me to select which apps use VPN and which do not, I could route immich to ignore the VPN, and I would be able to see it on my local network.

Am I on the right track?

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Do what you can, and what you can do is enough. What are you doing? (leminal.space)
 

What are simple things you are doing to help yourself and your neighbors right now? (US)

A lot of people are overwhelmed, and that is the point of the rapid fire changes we are seeing. Small actions can make a difference, and can grow into big impacts.

I live in a deeply red state, so a lot of my peers have to battle some cognitive dissonance before we can acknowledge there is a problem, much less begin to pin down actions that may help. So, I'm focusing on teaching my social circle on the tech basics. I have taken these things for grated, but I am finding many people do not use them. Plus, they don't have to battle their cognitive dissonance with me in order to make these changes. Changes that will make everyone on the Internet safer and ensure we have information access to stay informed.

  • Install a VPN - talking about it helps to normalize this. It doesn't mean "I have something to hide" it means "I need to protect my privacy in an ever increasingly online world". It means "I need to make sure my banking passwords stay secure." If it is normalized for everyday use, then when somebody needs it to obscure their search for critical healthcare information that is now censored in their country or area, their VPN usage alone doesn't give them away.

  • Install a password manager - this one is best practice anyway, and good advice across the board. These things do not need to be equated with being a hacker.

  • Establish secure lines of messaging - I recommend signal to people. This one has a high social cost, but you may be able to point out that normal text group chats often drop messages when the group has mixed apple and android users. YMMV and this one is a harder one for many people. I don't push it too hard. I do censor myself on unencrypted messaging. If you want all the memes, you can join me on encrypted chat! Lol

  • Secure chat doesn't have to be signal if you're on android, and you message others on android, note if you have the encryption lock or not. If not, encourage them to look in their settings for RCS messages and make sure they have encryption turned on.

Also, start small. And teach small. Plant the seed. Help get people set up where you can. If people as for your advice, think about suggestions that are easy to implement, even if they aren't perfect. Encourage others to do what they can. You don't need to self-host your own cloud server to take steps in the right direction and be a little safer online. We just need to slow them down.

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