Oh nice. See, this is the kind of stuff I’ll have to look up lol

I need a practice laptop to learn Linux with…

In case people are wondering, this is the mentality that produced Nazis.

I’m down lol. Unfortunately friends still use it. I just found out about a friend’s birthday this weekend because I don’t use Facebook events. Why don’t people just text anymore? 😩

This is as big a problem as the Tik Tok thing. We have blatant evidence of a foreign country interfering with our biggest social media platform. It needs to be banned, too, or she needs to be fired.

Sites that have old forums. There aren’t many anymore, but ones I’ve seen that have been very helpful of late include car sites, a timeshare forum, and the Fantasy Grounds forum (my virtual tabletop of choice).

I’m sure there are others out there, but it’s definitely more rare than it used to be. Is Something Awful still around?

I’m definitely holding off on passkeys until that project is finished. I also don’t want vendor lock in and while that seems like the solution, it seems like they just started working on it.

What? I thought you were talking about the security and privacy issues, but now I’m not sure what you’re arguing against. Even your link admits that the changes for improved security only happened after all the security official in the world said how that feature was asking for trouble from a privacy and security standpoint. It was doing what stuff all along? Improved security features? Definitely not. Your screen shots don’t mention any of the stuff in your link, such as the dedicated VPN stored locally, with encryption and keys and PIN, etc.

But people know they will soon, considering Windows is the most popular OS and they have been forcing everyone as hard as they can to always update to the next and newest version.

The link is also interesting but it only happened after the whole world screamed at them about the privacy and security issues of the feature.

I’m definitely saving it though, because it also includes a way to not have to keep seeing the stupid re set up your system screen after every Windows update. Didn’t think I’d run into that in your link, but I couod use that information lol.

I do have a feeling cell phones have made more kids worse since we were in school. I can actively feel my attention spam getting worse from the clip nature of news, short form content on the internet, and endless scroll content of sites like Reddit or even here on Lemmy. And I used to be a good student who read constantly, now it’s just basically my phone lol.

Seems like a good compromise. The idea of the rule is probably just so they won’t have them out anyway.

Here’s my guess. Piracy provides a competition against the horrible practices of streaming and entertainment companies that doesn’t otherwise exist, forcing them to provide a better service.

Artists are just a single person making art and their service isn’t gobbled up by the capitalist machine and turned into something user unfriendly. They don’t usually make too much money, unlike huge entertainment corporations, either.

When it comes to piracy, individual content creators often don’t care as long as they get money to live. There have been people who work on video games or movies who say they don’t care if others pirate their work as long as others get to see it. But for AI, it copies and changes the work, stripping the art of its original watermark, and it sets itself up to be a replacement of the artist itself. It doesn’t just spread their work without having you pay for it, it replaces the concept of needing an artist altogether, but only by using their labor in the first place without paying them for it.

If piracy let movie studios replace the idea of needing individual content creators, writers, artists actors, etc then people would feel differently I think. As it is now, people don’t care about big studios, they care about the individual. Piracy currently only really harms the former and not the latter. AI is the opposite.

There’s no been proof that Tik Tok sends all the data to China or that China manipulates the algorithm. In fact, to appease the US before, they agreed to let Oracle and a purely US subsidiary look at all their code and data and content moderation. Oracle would spot check the data flows and where it goes. Tik Tok would report to Committee on Foreign Investment in the US on everything, even hiring practices. And a 2021 study found Tik Tok didn’t really collect data beyond the norm of other players in the industry, or beyond what it said it did in it’s policy.

Most of the claims by a Tik Tok whistleblower that alleged otherwise seem to be from one guy mad at being fired who’s made wild claims, like Merrick Garland instigated his firing, and he only worked there for 6 months.

All this scaring is literally just because politicians are scared that people in Gaza can use it to report what’s happening to themselves during the genocide, without the blatant censorship of American companies on the issue. Even Romney admitted that’s the reason. I don’t actually use Tik Tok and I think it’s algorithms are bad for our ADHD addled brains, but I would also apply that to YouTube shorts and Instagram stories. They should all be regulated, not banned. Hell, we actually could use more foreign companies that aren’t vulnerable to US censorship, not the opposite. This is especially important since reporters aren’t being let in Gaza and the ones who are are killed. And we’ll probably lose it once they finish their restructuring in Project Texas, although sounds like they’ll be banned before they do.

It’s the media’s job to make us angry at foreigners while ignoring and accepting our problems at home. They’re just doing their job.

NFT, Blockchain, dot Com boom, there’s always another one

Not to derail, but may I ask how did you become an AI Engineer? I’m a software dev by trade, but it feels like a hard field to get into even if I start training for the AI part of it, because I’d need the data to practice =(

But it’s such a big buzz word I feel like I need to start looking that direction if i want to stay employed.

I thought bringing Taiwanese working conditions to the US would help.

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All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.

Dammit. I like it for the same reason. Why does Google keep doing this?

And corn, which has been horrible for health in the US. But I guess that doesn’t count.