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Ross_audio ,

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Exceptions are possible. Money isn't everything for everyone.

As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

Ross_audio ,

Is the internet scarier?

Or is it just millennials and "internet natives" having kids and more of them knowing better what the internet actually is.

I tell people to imagine a public place with everyone in it, the majority wearing masks or costumes. With constantly recording surveillance. Do you take off your mask.

Sure the mask is not perfect protection, and there are areas off to the side where people seem to not be wearing masks. But go ahead and choose a way to keep your kids safe.

Ross_audio ,

Honestly, Zoom just has a hilariously high frequency of vulnerabilities being discovered.

"Permission is Hereby Granted" -- MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI (arstechnica.com)

On Wednesday, prompt engineer Riley Goodside tweeted an AI-generated song created with the prompt "sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License," and it began to circulate widely in the AI community online.

Ross_audio ,

There are sandwich artists and sanitation engineers. Everyone knows they get paid like crap.

Unfortunately "prompt engineers" seem to be getting paid small fortunes when their job is essentially using a massive amount of computing power to commit various levels of intellectual property theft they hope no one will notice.

Ross_audio ,

There are 20 fl oz. to a pint

Instead of cups you should use half pints.

There are 8 pints to the gallon.

Unless you specify which pint, gallon then you're probably wrong anywhere outside the US. Even then you could have to deal with vintage Canadian equipment with imperial labeling.

US Cups are random in measurement and only sometimes half a pint.

The imperial fluid oz. has one value 28.413 ml

The US fl. oz used to be 29.573 ml. But now can officially be 30 ml in some settings.

Metric is the best system, followed by imperial which at least is still a consistent standard.

Then US customary measures where the written value may or may not have to meet a standard these days.

The US has been using metric for everything important for a long time now like the rest of the world. Except the Mars probe NASA crashed.

Ross_audio ,

Thanks.

Important to put the blame where it actually lies.

Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" (futurism.com)

Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on...

Ross_audio ,

The problem is artists often make their actual living doing basic boiler plate stuff that gets forgotten quickly.

In graphics it's Company logos, advertising, basic graphics for businesses.

In writing it's copy for websites, it's short articles, it's basic stuff.

Very few artists want to do these things, they want to create the original work that might not make money at all. That work potentially being a winning lottery ticket but most often being an act of expressing themselves that doesn't turn into a payday.

Unfortunately AI is taking work away from artists. It can't seem to make very good art yet but it can prevent artists who could make good art getting to the point of making it.

It's starving out the top end of the creative market by limiting the easy work artists could previously rely on to pay the bills whilst working on the big ideas.

Ross_audio ,

No it doesn't.

It's meant to illustrate a change and it does so perfectly fine. It's not a scientific paper.

It's a 32-34% increase looking at the graph. That's significant enough to shout about.

Imagine any change you could make surprising competition by 25% in any market. That's huge.

Ross_audio ,

A 0.001 difference on a 0.004 total would be worth showing.

Ross_audio ,

I'm sticking with relevance. A >25% rise is what we're talking about.

Ross_audio ,

During setup there is a keyboard shortcut to get to command prompt.

Then a command you can use.

Then the machine restarts and you can setup without a Microsoft account.

(For reference I'm on my dual booting Linux phase. I'd like to ditch it altogether but Wayland isn't quite there yet and x never will be.)

Ross_audio ,

Actually yes.

And this kind of thing actually happens occasionally with discharged national debts or medical debts for example.

https://www.reuters.com/article/africa-debt-idUSL5N11L42V20150916/

But the systems still in place tend to just cause debts to rise again.

Ross_audio ,

PENGWINGS!

Ross_audio ,

Firefox has also had issues in this regard.

"Firefox's built-in support for web feeds and Live Bookmarks was removed with the release of Firefox version 64 in December 2018."

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacements-firefox

They pushed "Pocket" over RSS.

Now they're depreciating the Mac pocket app and it's clearly not going to do well in the future.

5 years of moving people away from RSS to another service, to then start to depreciate that service.

5 years from the major redesign of google reader from 2008 to 2013 and closing it down.

My lesson. Expect to change your software for the web every 4 years or so. If it lasts longer it's a bonus. But chances are if you make the effort to move to the best (and most recently developed) candidate every 4 years you'll be in a good place.

You know when software gets stale, you know when there are better options, use them.

Sometimes your current choice gets a new round of development, sometimes it goes stale.

Ross_audio ,

Absolutely. The reason these things don't last is because it's not worth the investment to redevelop and maintain.

I'm just pointing out that's the reason to move to where there is investment and sustainability in the product.

Firefox cut funding for maintaining an option due to low usage. Speculative investment in a replacement fell flat.

Google cuts investment for the same reasons and that happens often. They speculate on a new product then cut it if it doesn't work out for them.

Neither company doing this is a bad thing.

The problem most people have is they are late to move to a mature product, which then having reached maturity is assessed as either a success or failure. Then due to low usage it's cut.

Then they're looking for the next mature product. Again ignoring sustainability. Which is then also cut.

Ross_audio ,

No headphone jack means fairphone now encourage Bluetooth earbuds and electronic waste.

They're dead to me.

Ross_audio ,

I'd prefer a smaller phone too but my main problem is fairphone ditched the headphones jack.

Then sold Bluetooth earbuds.

They don't care about electronic waste, they want their customers to throw away wired headphones and buy earbuds with batteries and wireless.

Ross_audio ,

Making a modular phone is complicated.

If they can't deal with complicated things they should shut up shop and get out of the way so someone genuinely ethical can take their market share.

To be clear, if they only failed to produce a phone with a headphone jack I'd be happy to just not buy it.

The fact they went on to produce electronic trash in making Bluetooth earbuds means it's clear they've reached the enshittification point
They are just out to make money from their user base now like every other manufacturer.

Ross_audio ,

A Nokia.

5 years of security updates. Cheap. Repairability commitment.

Headphone Jack
Dual SIM

Very good camera.

Ross_audio ,

Which has consequences. Spontaneously staying out if you didn't decide to charge to 100% the night before and running out of battery.

It's not "on demand" it's "in stock ready for dispatch."

I don't want to have to order a day ahead to get a non-degraded battery.

Ross_audio ,

If anyone is living a life where they might not spontaneously "leave their charger" they've given up or have young children they have to be responsible for.

On weekdays I know what I'm doing from when I leave my house until work ends. I might have plans after that, I might not. But I'm not going to short charge my phone because I usually go home after work in case I don't.

A phone battery should last as long as I might stay awake, that way I don't have to think about it.

People generally underestimate the mental effort of tiny decisions and micromanaging things.

In general the most freeing thing someone can do to is ensure their future self doesn't have to think about something.

Anyone micromanaging their phone battery is micro-damaging their mental health.

Ross_audio ,

I strongly disagree.

I have yet to buy a phone without a headphone jack.

I've got earphones that are 17 years old and sound great. An audio jack in the car that connects way faster than Bluetooth. A hifi older than me.

The amount of electrical waste and incompatibilities caused by ditching a universal standard is not small.

Ross_audio ,

Adapters are more electric thrash.

Ross_audio ,

Making up theories that don't match reality.

Is talking to you worth any time at all?

All dongles break, especially the fairphone ones.

They are initially unnecessary to manufacture, then become unnecessary waste.

Ross_audio ,

The hypocrisy of encouraging waste while pretending to be against that is what I'm calling out.

They're hypocrites and the worse they do the better a competitor for the ethical market can rise.

To be honest I'd just buy a Nokia. They're more committed to actually producing a sustainable product at volume.

Ross_audio ,

They've probably lost to the competition already.

Nokia are more sustainable and offer more options for a lower price.

Fairphone are a virtue signalling brand at best now and a hypocritical one at that.

Anyone with a fairphone 4 might have made an honest mistake, a 5 or later and they're just gullible.

Ross_audio ,

The EU and Nokia are at the forefront of what you're asking for.

Ultimately the more appetite for sustainability the better and the less custom sent to companies which are not actually sustainable the better.

Fairphone isn't a sustainable company it's pretending to be one and taking market share from more reputable companies.

Ross_audio ,

A lot of radio equipment.

BBC News on the monitor.

Maps of Iran on the wall.

I'd bet on amateur/independent journalist picking up as much radio traffic as possible.

Ross_audio ,

Definitely a hoarder too, but too much is on for them to not be using any of it.

Ross_audio ,

It's actually more difficult. Previously those wheels had no drive and no issues being fully independent.

Adding a motor to the wheel makes this more complicated than in the 20s but much more advantageous.

Ross_audio ,

If society collapsed, resources required to survive have primary value. Food, water, clothes.

But the idea of money will still exist. Precious and rare metals will be worth something in a barter economy.

If you think it would be difficult to defend, you know it would still have value.

The easiest way to defend it is to keep it secret.

This is the way the world worked for a long time. That's why the idea of a treasure map exists.

Ross_audio ,

As a public, we've gone back to the days when the internet was a techies platform.

The difference now is it's a techies platform Vs. a corporate platform.

The more convenient FOSS social media is, the less techie it will be, and the closer we'll get back to the more open internet for all.

Until then we have an open internet for techies alone.

Ross_audio ,

Soon. Oura rings exist so they could be an alternative.

Invis make straps without sensors but with NFC payments.

There's clearly a market for rings as fitness trackers so people can avoid a watch altogether

Wanting a watch strap is a bit more niche but it'll come around as a product I'm sure.

Ross_audio ,

I never said they were good. Just that products are filling that gap in the market.

Ross_audio ,

There is literally no way to prove whether you're sentient.

Decart found that limitation.

The only definition in law is whether you have competency to be responsible. The law assumes you do as an adult unless it's proven you don't.

Given the limits of AI the court is going to assume it to be a machine. And a machine has operators, designers, and owners. Those are humans responsible for that machine.

It's perfectly legitimate to sue a company for using a copyright breaking machine.

Ross_audio ,

And someone created the AI programming too.

Then someone trained that AI.

It didn't just come out of the aether, there's a manual on how to do it.

Ross_audio ,

Machines aren't culpable in law.

There is more than one human involved in creating and operating the machine.

The debate is, which humans are culpable?

The programmers, trainers, or prompters?

Ross_audio ,

Unfortunately I have studied this.

So we'll just have to decide to agree to disagree and hope neither ends up on the wrong side of the law.

Like I say. Copyright is based upon damage to the copyright holder. It's quite obvious when that happens and it's hard to do enough as an individual to be worth suing.

But making a single copy without permission, without being covered by any exemptions, is copyright infringement.

Copy right. The right to copy.

You don't have it unless you pay for it.

Ross_audio ,

It doesn't matter whether AI is sentient or not. It has a designer, trainer, and owner.

Once you prove the actions taken by the AI, even as just a machine, breach copyright liability is easily assigned.

Ross_audio ,

That was not my example. The murder machine was someone else.

Ross_audio ,

The liability of industrial machines is actually quite apt.

If you design a machine that kills someone during reasonable use. You are liable.

Aircraft engineers have a 25 year liability on their work. A mistake they might make could kill hundreds.

There is always a human responsible for the actions of a machine. Even unintended results have liability.

If you upload a program to a machine and someone dies as a result you're in hot water.

Moving away from life and death, unintended copyright infringement by a machine hasn't been tested. But it's likely it will be ruled that at least some of the builders of that machine are responsible.

AI "self-driving" cars are getting away with it by only offering an assist to driving. Keeping the driver responsible. But that's possible because you need a license to drive a car in the first place.

AI images like this are the equivalent of a fully self driving car. You set the destination, it drives you there. The liability falls on the process of driving, or the process of creating. The machine doing that means designers are then liable.

Ross_audio ,

Who knows how the laws will change because of AI. But as the law currently stands it's just a matter of proving it to a court. That's the main barrier.

This is strong evidence an AI is breaking the law.

Ross_audio ,

That's why it's a massive legal fight.

They'll delay a ruling as long as possible.

They're definitely developing a new model on vetted public domain data as we speak. They just need to delay legal action long enough to get that new model to launch.

This is the same thing YouTube did. Delay all copyright claims in court, blaming users, then put their copyright claim system in place that massively advantages IP owners.

Ross_audio ,

AI owners would love to do that.

Copyright owners would not.

Hence the legal battles.

Ross_audio ,

If you try to bread with an autonomous knife and the knife kills you by stabbing you in the head. Is it solely your fault?

Ross_audio ,

If your country is a signatory to the international copyright treaties with most of the Anglosphere (Like the EU, US, AUS, NZ). Then that is not correct.

You cannot draw anything.

It's just never worth suing you over.

A crime so small it's irrelevant is almost a legal act. But it's not actually a legal act.

Ross_audio ,

So you're saying if it's easy to accidentally get copyright images out of this AI by prompting ordinary worlds. Then the AI designers have some questions to answer.

Ross_audio ,

"The Joker" is a generic description of a character. Going back to medieval courts.

If the result is a copyrighted version of that character that's not the promoters fault.

That's the fault of the ones who compile the training data.

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