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gedaliyah , 3 months ago

We told you that AI would be replacing workers, not that it would be any good at the job!

gedaliyah , 3 months ago

Just during the Super Bowl?

gedaliyah OP , 3 months ago

Likely. They want something for nothing - free translation without paying a translator, licensing an official translation, paying a voice actor, etc. If the TOS only said that it would already be extremely problematic.

In fact the language is so much more broad than that.

gedaliyah OP , 3 months ago

This is why we need laws for likeness rights. Every person should own exclusive commercial rights to their own face, voice, etc.

gedaliyah , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

It failed because replacing clocks is a lot more expensive than replacing yardsticks.

Plus, they couldn't decide on a two day or a three day week weekend. And the annual calendar was a mathematically impossible because of internal contradictions.

gedaliyah , 3 months ago

Lightning Round!

Someone's about to be penetrated.

They sure make a lot of noise when they come!

Riding bareback.

Hung like a horse.

Young Eurasian men are in your area!

gedaliyah , 3 months ago

What a stupid headline. That's true of every product. The iPhone 4 was the first good one. The same is probably true of the telephone. This is just an excuse for Apple to get more ink.

gedaliyah , 3 months ago

I mean the iPhone 4, the one famous for the first significant display upgrade, the first front-facing camera, and the first one with facetime. I'm no Apple fanboy - in fact I've never owned one. But it was the first modern smartphone. The original iPhone launched without an app store. First generation products are always overpriced and experimental. They are always missing core features (imagine buying a phone with no front camera today). It takes a few generations.

gedaliyah , 3 months ago

You just described commodity money.

gedaliyah , 3 months ago

It's already in all the service agreements that you click on when you sign up. They've already been harvesting data. They already have the right to use your posts and pictures for whatever they want

gedaliyah , 3 months ago

I mean, printing was originally for Bibles as long as we're getting nostalgic.

gedaliyah , 3 months ago

Meta's getting jealous of falling behind the competition on enshittification.

gedaliyah , 3 months ago

Kagi is nice

gedaliyah , 3 months ago

Kagi does this with web archive

gedaliyah , 3 months ago

Honestly, I hope it's around long enough. Right now it's very good and rapidly improving. Enshittification by definition only happens when a service is large enough and successful enough. Until that happens, I'm going to keep using what for me is the best search option.

Let's face it. Search is a fundamental necessity of the internet. How many models can functionally work?

• It could be free for the user, but supported by ads. We've seen how that works. Maybe it's run its course.

• It could be ad-free and paid for by users. The competitive incentive at least is to give users the best possible experience.

• It could be entirely free and provided as a utility. Literally no one is asking for a government run Internet.

• Maybe there's some futuristic solution like an Open Source distributed network in which users run the search themselves. As far as I know nobody has come up with a search that doesn't require a massive database with enormous costs.

gedaliyah , 3 months ago

If I understand correctly, isn't that just a meta search that is using corporate results as the back end?

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

No. A year or two ago they did a big redesign and added a lot of functionality. Of course, whenever you have changes to a software there will be some stuffy old dudes crying about it. So everywhere you look there are people who are upset because the interface is different from what they were used to even though it is way more modern and much more useful, and better for users - especially new users.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Shame. I never even heard about this. Like the spectacles, it seems like a neat idea, slightly before it's time, and poorly rolled out. Such a creative company, but what a sad track record for project launches.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

So... less than the failed Metaverse®?

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Wow, I really thought I broke the last printer I had at the office. Turns out it was HP. Too bad they replaced it with another HP.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Not to minimize the 2016 or 2020 elections, which a lot of sources say there was not a level playing field in the DNC, but this year there is an incumbent president. This is how incumbent presidents are always treated. It's normal and fair and strategically sound.

The same thing happened when Donald Trump was incumbent and nobody made a fuss.

Edit for clarity:

normal - The incumbent candidate has preferential treatment within the party in every election cycle. There are various ways that this manifests, and is usually different depending on the exact circumstances. If one chose, they could drill down into specific details to make it seem exceptional e.g. "It's never been done in with this specific mechanism or in this particular state."

fair - If you want access to preferential treatment, become President. The President is the figurehead not only of the country, but arguably even more so of their party. It would be unfair for the party leadership to undermine them while in office.

strategically sound - Incumbent candidates win elections. There is something like a 65% advantage to incumbency. Moreover, a party has limited political, social, and financial capital. If they spend that capital in the primary race, then they start the general election at a disadvantage. There is evidence (and common wisdom) that a primary race actually generates more capital, but I've never heard any credible suggestion that it could be a net gain in any area. Running a primary means a less unified party, less financial resources, less voter confidence in the victor.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Blocking doesn't really work on Lemmy like it does on other platforms. You can mute people but it doesn't limit them from interacting with you.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

You're actually proving the point. The people who ran against him demanded funding and equal access to Party resources, but they were denied. The incumbent party will always tilt the field toward the incumbent president.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

In every election, the incumbent is given preferential treatment and generally treated as the de facto candidate. In which election are you thinking of that this was not the case?

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Spaghet

gedaliyah OP , 4 months ago

Sorry, I didn't notice the date when I posted. I can take it down if requested.

gedaliyah OP , 4 months ago

Interesting! It could theoretically act like a Kinect if it were advanced enough, and you wouldn't need any additional hardware.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Does anyone here actually speak Chinese? What does it really say

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

I hate having to be on meta for work, and this is a REGULAR occurrence. Obvious fake scam profile -> report -> no action taken. On Facebook I think it's maybe around a 20-30% success rate for taking down impersonators. On insta, it's about zero.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Unfortunately, a lot of people have to use them. They are two of the three largest social media platforms. As much as I love the fediverse, I don't think businesses are finding many customers here just yet.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

It's a double-edged sword. I love the fediverse for what it is, and if it continues to be a niche place for good people to socialize, that would be okay with me. I would also love to see the Fediverse or some future version of it become a permanent replacement for corporate-owned social media. That can't ever happen if major social activities that humans engage in aren't represented.

I would like to eventually see government communications, brand engagement, sales (if not ads), dating, customer service, political organizing, event coordinating, ticketing, vlogging, etc. as a part of fedi, meaning that people don't have to rely on corporate-owned communication for online community. Would fedi also lose something precious in that process? Yes. would our society be a whole lot better? Absolutely.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

X is a Nazi bar and anyone still there is fine with that.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Frankly, people should be entitled to own their likenesses. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems like the examples they mention in the article; - parody, public figures, film rights, etc. - are already pretty well carved out in the courts.

I can't just make a biopic about Michael Jackson... I would need rights to the footage and permission from his estate.

I can't use a photo of Tom Hanks to promote a film he isn't i, even if I took the photo (and therefore own it). If I don't sign the release, they have to blur my face in a documentary.

Celebrities already have certain established rights to the use of their likeness, and in this day and age those rights should really extend to everyone.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Parody is an exception. That's just my point. These legalities already exist. Nixon is also a public figure so his public life is fair game.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

There is such a thing as life rights. According to this firm, they act as a protection against lawsuits related to publicity rights, invasion of privacy, and defamation.

So, a documentarian could report on the public aspects of Michael Jackson's life, but if I wanted to discuss or speculate about his private life, I would need rights from his estate.

There are lots of exceptions, such as public interest, etc. But again, I'm not a lawyer. (Is there a legal lemmy presence?)

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Depicting someone is not at all illegal.

Fraud would only be if you were using the likeness under false pretenses (such as claiming that it is the real person) to cause another person to act to their detriment in some way.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

🤣

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

This seems like the answer. If there is no proprietary code and they did not actually reverse-engineer patented technology, I doubt they have a leg to stand on.

It costs nothing to threaten to sue, and it sometimes works.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

I'm not sure why companies constantly try to buy up open source software. It's already open source. If they want to develop on top of it, in most cases they already can. They're not going to win any points with the open source community. The project will just be immediately forked and people will use the new FOSS version.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

I suppose it's silly of me to assume that anyone using a FOSS app is automatically not an idiot lol

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Outlook honestly was not that bad for a while, but of course Microsoft does what Microsoft does. I've been using Thunderbird for about a year now and it is very full featured coming directly from outlook.

gedaliyah , 4 months ago

Or maybe it's because the Israelis, Thais, French, etc., were kidnapped from their homes for the express purpose of wartime negotiation, i.e. hostages. The Palestinians are all held in connection with crimes, including convictions for violent crimes.

If anything, this has exposed major injustices in the Israeli criminal system, such as people being held for long periods of time without charges, unrealistically high conviction rates, etc.

However, let's also not buy into the Hamas line that the two groups are equivalent. That's just an attempt to whitewash their Oct 7 atrocities.

gedaliyah , 5 months ago

Well shucks, all they did was drive out their most active content makers and cut themselves off from hundreds of thousands of dollars in free moderation labor. Who could possibly have seen this coming?