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- Comment on OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns 1 day ago:
It’s even simpler than that: In the first instance a human learned a thing. In the second instance a bunch of humans wrote software to ingest art and spit out some Frankenstein of it. Software which is specifically designed to replace artists, many of whom likely had art used as inputs to said software without their consent.
In both cases humans did things. The first is normal, the second is shitty.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 5 days ago:
Sorry, just to be clear, are you equating a human learning to an organization scraping creative works as inputs for their software?
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 5 days ago:
The OSI doesn’t require open access to training data for AI models to be considered “open source”, unfortunately. opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition
I agree that “open weights” is a more apt description, though
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 5 days ago:
uh sure. My point is that sharing weights is analogous to sharing a compiled binary, not source code.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 5 days ago:
The definition of “open source” AI sucks. It could just mean that the generated model weights are shared under an open source license. If you don’t have the code used to train the model under an open source license, or you can’t fully reproduce the model using the code they share and open source datasets, then calling a model “open source” feels weird as hell to me.
At the same time, I don’t know of a single modern model that only used training data that was taken with informed consent from the creators of that data.
- Comment on YouTube cracks down (again) on ad blockers. 6 days ago:
Invidious is switching to a new paradigm where the part that talks to YouTube will be split out into it’s own service called invidious-companion. While not part of the current release, they have instructions for setting it up, and it’s what I’m currently using. The only things that don’t work right now are live videos and the Clipious Android TV app (the phone app works fine). If you don’t need either of those things, I recommend starting with invidious-companion
- Comment on YouTube cracks down (again) on ad blockers. 1 week ago:
My self-hosted Invidious instance is still going strong
- Comment on Mozilla rewrites Firefox's Terms of Use after user backlash | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I really don’t know how they thought that was a good explanation for them to remove the “we won’t sell your data” stuff. Absolutely bonkers.
- Comment on How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars 1 month ago:
On your other points: Carbon bike frames can be repaired, so even though they aren’t recyclable, they can still last a long time, so they’re not the worst. Electronic shifting feels a bit gimmicky to me, but all the mount points for the shifter and derailleur are standard and they can probably be swapped out for a standard cable shifter in the future without changing other parts on the bike.
- Comment on How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars 1 month ago:
Oh, I’m definitely upset about ebikes with motors and batteries integrated in the frames, with no replacement parts available. Often you can’t even install used parts because the firmware needs to be flashed by a dealer for your specific bike.
I own an ebike now and I’ve built one in the past. The one I built had a powerful mid-drive motor and could easily have been reverted to a normal bike (I got hit by a car before I ever got to think about that) and the ebike I have now has a basic bafang hub motor with a bolt-on battery, all of which I could easily replace if they failed.
The motor controllers on both bikes are/were also able to be reflashed or replaced without going to a specific dealer.
There is no reason that companies could not design ebikes and their components to be repairable, replaceable, and reprogrammed by users except for profit, and it’s gross as hell.
- Comment on How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars 1 month ago:
You don’t need a crazy product like this, you just need a bolt-on bike computer mount, then.
- Comment on How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars 1 month ago:
This is e-waste. This could just be a decent bike computer and a light that you could slap on to any bike, but they had to go and make a thing that forces me to replace that handlebars that I picked to match my body and riding style? No thanks.
- Comment on How to Be Bad at YouTube 1 month ago:
That is correct. The public ones get blacklisted by youtube.
- Comment on How to Be Bad at YouTube 1 month ago:
to put the “youtube often breaks it” into perspective. In the last 6 months, I’ve lost access to youtube for a total of 8 days, with the longest continuous downtime being 3 days. selfhosting it works fine, for the most part.
- Comment on How to Be Bad at YouTube 1 month ago:
I self-host an invidious instance and combine that with sponsorblock. I only ever see the videos from channels I am subscribed to unless I explicitly search for something.
yt-dlp is a good tool for downloading youtube, and there are several GUI frontends built around that
- Comment on Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship [404 Media] 2 months ago:
They do that, too. They’re on Mastodon as well. They’re just doing POSSE. These social media platforms are basically just where they advertise their articles and sometimes get tips for new stories from readers. That’s outside of how they use them for investigating stories about those platforms.
- Comment on Amazon starts selling Hyundai cars, more brands next year 3 months ago:
This is the first I’m hearing about it. I don’t know why anyone would be excited about this.
- Comment on Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games 4 months ago:
HOLY SHIT Onslaught was definitely WICKED SICK
- Comment on Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games 4 months ago:
I know that. I mean why are they not part of this agreement with the Internet Archive.
- Comment on Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games 4 months ago:
Why the hell aren’t UT2004 and UT3 in there as well?
- Comment on Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X 4 months ago:
There are, however, also those who simply defer to the powerful — that assume that “this much money can’t be wrong,” even if said money has been wrong repeatedly to the point that there’s an entire website about it. They are the people that look at the current crop of powerful tech companies that have failed to deliver any truly meaningful innovation in years and coo like newborn babes. Look at the coverage of Sam Altman from the last year — you know, the guy who has spent years lying about what artificial intelligence can do — and tell me why every single thought he has must be uncritically cataloged, his every decision applauded, his every claim trumpeted as certain, his brittle company’s obvious problems apologized for and readers reassured of his obvious victory.
Nowhere is this more obvious right now than in The Guardian’s nonsensical decision to abandon Twitter, decrying how “X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse” mere weeks after printing, bereft of context, Elon Musk’s ridiculous lies about his plans for cybertaxis. There is little moral quality to leaving X if your outlet continues to act as a stenographer for its leader, and this in fact suggests a lack of any real interest in change or progress, just the paper tiger of norms and values that will only end up depriving people of good journalism.
- Comment on After is a new dating app that tries to tackle ghosting 5 months ago:
When I was in my early 20’s and first on dating apps, ghosting was frustrating, but as I became more aware and empathetic, and learned that I am not entitled to the attention of others, that frustration became a lot less of an issue pretty quickly. This looks like it was developed by people who haven’t realized that and it feels pretty cringe. I doubt this will go anywhere.
- Comment on The Plucky Squire Should Have More Faith In Its Players 5 months ago:
I played through it yesterday. It was interesting, and there were fun story beats, but it was very easy. With all the accessibility features and tutorials, it’s probably a great game to get people who don’t play games interested in platforming games and maybe even some RPGs.
- Comment on Are you embracing AI? 8 months ago:
And the Luddites were right
- Comment on [May 29] Introducing the new Framework Laptop 13 with Intel Core Ultra Series 1 processors 9 months ago:
Fitting a 100W battery in the 13 inch chassis while keeping everything easily serviceable would be impossible
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 19th 10 months ago:
Majora’s Mask Decompiled on my Linux PC
- Comment on Zelda 64: Recompiled for PC - Majora's Mask Release Trailer 10 months ago:
Just played a few hours. fantastic!
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." 11 months ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." 11 months ago:
I searched both Cory Doctorow’s post and the linked 404media article in his post for “air purifier” and found nothing. What author are you referencing?
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." 11 months ago:
I use Kagi, stract, and a self-hosted searx-ng instance. Kagi is so well polished that it’s what I use most of the time, but I keep an eye on the other two and continually ask myself if I’m ready to drop Kagi to get away from financially supporting Google and Microsoft.