Onno (VK6FLAB)

Your modem will likely keep connection statistics which will tell you how much data was downloaded and uploaded.

Ookla speedtest.net will give you an indication of your network speed. I have a cron job that logs the speed with their cli client every 5 hours and I use it to keep my ISP mostly honest.

The resulting data can also be used to map peak network congestion so you don’t end up with network buffering issues when you are watching the latest episode on your favourite streaming service.

It is again beginning to feel rather dysfunctional…

Next step: Apple removes hardware from box and ships aspiration only.

It absolutely is.

It’s possibly also how they’ll get broken up by the DoJ.

I think that every single provider tracks your activity and the vast majority of them use it to optimise their service income from you, either by giving you better engagement, ie. making you use the service more - endless searching for content for example, or by selling the captured tracking data to the highest bidder.

I experienced this crazy onslaught of advertising to the point of reducing how much I watched YouTube. I was pretty upset and not at all inclined to pay, especially since YouTube was even putting ads on my own videos without me seeing a single cent, because my channel is too small.

Then my partner bought me a few months of a Premium Subscription as a Christmas gift.

It was pointed out to me that I watched more YouTube than any other streaming service which I was paying for.

Combined with background music on mobile, it’s changed my life.

I’m still unimpressed with the business model, but the alternative is so far worse.

Find me a self publishing video platform with the reach of YouTube that doesn’t require self hosting and I’ll happily move my content there.

A.I., Assumed Intelligence

A.I. or Assumed Intelligence

So, a profitable half and the one that will go bankrupt?

It’s staggering to me the number of black cars being sold in hot countries like Australia. Not to mention just how hard they are to see against the background of a bitumen road.

Yeah, good luck with that. In Australia they stopped paying and now the media organisations that relied on this income are pretty much stuffed.

This reads like an ignorant rant about a transient fault at Google.

At what point does Microsoft Windows become illegal to install on your computer?

I find myself censoring my own commentary in relation to organisations I rely on for the functioning of my online activities.

The command you’re looking for is tape archiver, cunningly called tar.

For shits and giggles you should try to do a generative fill on an area already filled that way.

(After saving the work, quitting and relaunching the Photoshop.)

It’s more like a chemical chain reaction that explodes than anything to do with human behaviour.

No.

I think that the current generative models are fundamentally flawed and won’t last the decade.

Which is why I don’t think that they’ll be thought of much at all beyond academic curiosity.

It’s a lofty sentiment, but I don’t agree.

I think that in the future generative A.I. will be seen like the Turbo Button, Desktop Publishing Revolution and Information Superhighway of their day, ideas that over promised, under delivered and faded into obscurity. I suspect that Block Chain and Crypto Currencies will go the same way for similar reasons as outlined below.

Machine Learning is a useful tool to automatically generate a model for a multivariate system where traditional modelling is too complex or time consuming.

Generative models are attempting to take that to a whole new level but I don’t believe that it’s either sustainable nor living up to the hype generated by breathless reporting by ignorant journalists who cannot distinguish advanced technology from magic.

It’s not sustainable for a range of reasons. The most obvious is that the process universally disintegrates when it ingests content generated by the same process.

Furthermore, it doesn’t learn, specifically, the model doesn’t change until a new version is released, so it doesn’t gather new models whilst it’s being used.

And finally, it requires obscene amounts of energy to actually work and with the exponential growth of models, this is only going to get worse.

Source: I’m an ICT professional with 40 years experience

We never got that far to test that kind of issue and while I’ve been reimplementing it locally to search through employment advertising, I’m not at a point where I’d be able to test such a thing.

The original implementation used a data store written by another team member and it made the original project much too complicated.

Today I’d likely use duckdb to implement it. My local version uses text files for a proof of concept implementation.