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KungFooBob wrote: ↑Sat Dec 23, 2023 10:31 am Pete Waterman?
I thought Louis Walsh after an extended period of binge eating. 🤣
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I am a Viking! 8-)

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I have a suspicion that this 'I'm a Viking' thing that's all the rage with my friends on social media is simply a means to cheaply and easily harvest tons of likenesses for facial recognition projects...
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It's like that "post a pic of yourself 10 years ago and now" thing innit? Not at all useful for someone trying to make AI tools which can age photos :think:
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mangocrazy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 5:21 pm I have a suspicion that is simply a means to cheaply and easily harvest tons of likenesses for facial recognition projects...
A few more won't hurt.

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202311/ ... n-database

Nov 2023

Clearview AI’s reference database for facial recognition searches has surpassed 40 billion images, double its volume of just 20 months ago.

The milestone was revealed in a Time article
Even bland can be a type of character :wave:
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Taipan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 5:03 pm I am a Viking! 8-)

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mangocrazy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 5:21 pm I have a suspicion that this 'I'm a Viking' thing that's all the rage with my friends on social media is simply a means to cheaply and easily harvest tons of likenesses for facial recognition projects...
So the old first pet/street you grew up on porn-name thing again?
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Taipan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 5:03 pm I am a Viking! 8-)

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I tried that and I looked like the first Viking spiv.
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JackyJoll wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 8:20 pm
Taipan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 5:03 pm I am a Viking! 8-)

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I tried that and I looked like the first Viking spiv.
Ragnar the Spiv! Sounds very marauding!
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I’d be going round Vinland, trying to sell igloo insurance to the Skraylings.
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JackyJoll wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:01 pm I’d be going round Vinland, trying to sell igloo insurance to the Skraylings.
Pah! I'm pillaging Poundland. 8-)
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Taipan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:46 pm
JackyJoll wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:01 pm I’d be going round Vinland, trying to sell igloo insurance to the Skraylings.
Pah! I'm pillaging Poundland. 8-)
Haven’t they got an alarm thing on the exit though?
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JackyJoll wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 10:12 pm
Taipan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:46 pm
JackyJoll wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:01 pm I’d be going round Vinland, trying to sell igloo insurance to the Skraylings.
Pah! I'm pillaging Poundland. 8-)
Haven’t they got an alarm thing on the exit though?
I'm in a longship, tides are a bigger problem!
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Taipan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:46 pm
JackyJoll wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:01 pm I’d be going round Vinland, trying to sell igloo insurance to the Skraylings.
Pah! I'm pillaging Poundland. 8-)
Whilst that particular app is pillaging you Facebook data
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Yesterday enjoying a bit of pensioner January Sun in Morocco 8-)

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Get some factor 50 slapped on that sunroof. :thumbup:
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Thought he had that old bike to get fixed up...and here he is swanning around Morocco. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Dodgy69 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:49 am Thought he had that old bike to get fixed up...and here he is swanning around Morocco. 🤦🏻‍♂️
He may be under orders for that one. :shhh:
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Dodgy69 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:49 am Thought he had that old bike to get fixed up...and here he is swanning around Morocco. 🤦🏻‍♂️
:D Back now so will be back on the spanners (and rattle cans :think: ) over the next few days.
Straight out for a full day out on the orange bike yesterday and have to say the temperature change was a bit of a shock!
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Took some pals into the volcanoes today
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