atrielienz
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- Comment on Amazon’s DNS problem knocked out half the web, likely costing billions 14 hours ago:
Did they defend MS and Cloudstrike?
- Comment on These nonprofits lobbied to regulate OpenAI — then the subpoenas came 1 day ago:
So basically, Open AI is upset that Musk sued to prevent them becoming a for profit company, and they’re upset that so many tiny non-profit companies are opposing them for various reasons. So they have decided to subpoena and or sue all those tiny non-profits under the ‘assumption’ that they must be funded but Musk in order to further his opposition to the company and their for profit plans. And intimidate these small non-profits, which kills two birds with one stone.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 5 days ago:
I did figure it out and it’s been awesome although I don’t know what the difference is between high refresh and regal.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 1 week ago:
I need to figure out how to do that because I’ve been manually refreshing if I need to and keeping the refresh rate somewhere in the middle.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 1 week ago:
I own the Boox Tab Mini C. It’s fine for reading ebooks. The screen refresh isn’t really fast enough for a lot of apps , especially apps with pictures or things other than text. This causes a lot of artifacting.
You can read news papers, magazines, ebooks, and comics and it’s fine for that although I think perhaps would be better without the color e-ink for most things. If it had a color setting and a grey scale setting I’d like that.
But it makes the page illegible if you scroll for too long otherwise, so stuff you would use it for like reading web pages get progressively more difficult the longer you scroll.
I think the size is good and I also think you’re likely to have the same problem on a Kindle to some extent.
Additionally, it is android but it doesn’t natively come with a lot of android apps you might be used to. You can remove some of the apps but it’s not as easy as just going to the app store and deleting them.
It’s nice to see this kind of thing in person before you buy it.
I recommend buying it from a store where you can return it if you don’t like it.
- Comment on Researchers achieve breakthrough integration of 2D materials on standard silicon chips 1 week ago:
How do they know/how did they measure the 10 year data retention?
- Comment on Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way 2 weeks ago:
I’m honestly not sure (given the price the cable likely adds to the price of the device vs the quality/longevity of the cable) that I want it. Apple has been notorious for selling their charging cables at a premium while making them basically as cheaply as possibly. Other companies have literally made their brand on being better than the OEM cables and chargers you get with devices.
Other phone manufacturers aren’t exempt from the phone cable failure thing either. It’s crazy to me that they were allowed to sell such shoddy accessories in the first place.
When you add in the ways that countries are trying to cut down on e-waste I can’t say I’m surprised.
- Comment on Daniel Ek stepping down changes nothing for the artists boycotting Spotify 2 weeks ago:
That doesn’t mean the Board doesn’t think that “the CEO stepping down” will make the company look better to the people they pissed off by shoehorning AI into everything.
- Comment on Daniel Ek stepping down changes nothing for the artists boycotting Spotify 2 weeks ago:
Probably their Board.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 2 weeks ago:
Are they going to be paying for extended support? My job is still on windows 10 (after they tried to upgrade to 11 and ended up having business applications not work as they should), but they are paying for extended support.
- Comment on Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure why she’s being banned from criticizing the company? Like she signed a “non NDA” that included a clause about disparagement of the company, I get that, but I don’t really understand how that’s not a violation of her rights and therefore an invalidation of the contract.
And on further reading it’s claimed that she hasn’t been forced to pay any damages for breach of that contract so how is she on the verge of bankruptcy? Is it that she can’t promote her book?
- Comment on Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools 5 weeks ago:
So, let me get this straight. Spotify uses AI, is developing AI and is allowing (and possibly seeding the platform with) AI generated music.
And the company [Spotify] is upset that the users are downloading their own data and putting in it trust in a collective for the purposes of selling it to an AI company to analyze?
And Spotify made it part of their TOS that you have the right to download your own data as a user, but also made it part of the TOS that you can’t use the data you own to train AI (which only makes sense if you don’t own your data).
Have I got this is right?
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 1 month ago:
s3nd.pics is also a possible successor.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 1 month ago:
www.imgcat.io is being built by an imgur user but it’s not ready yet.
- Comment on Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline 1 month ago:
And the people who use Tik Tok don’t see this as a red flag.
- Comment on Meta is going to stuff Midjourney AI images into your feed 1 month ago:
What feed. Mm y Facebook exists to face tank all the photos my MIL shares. That’s it. I don’t like… Use it. Open it? Scroll the feed? Absolutely not. Don’t have insta. Don’t have messenger.
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 2 months ago:
Most of what I watch on YouTube are science videos, history videos, and cooking videos. I don’t get the “jailbait click bait” and I have never gotten that. My biggest problem with YouTube besides their ad BS is the random right wing propaganda videos that creep in.
I don’t watch a lot of shorts but if I happen to see one it’s most definitely not “jailbait”.
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 2 months ago:
I mean. Let’s be real here Vine did it before Tik Tok was even a sperm in Bytedance’s ballsac. And it’s not like YouTube didn’t start out with short form videos. It’s just that they didn’t make it a separate video feed until 2020.
I can certainly understand not liking shorts (I often don’t have that kind of attention/need something more substantial than a 60 second clip). And yeah. Hatred for YouTube. I hear you. I get that too. But like this isn’t a new phenomenon.
- Comment on LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name 2 months ago:
You know that’s not what I’m saying. They would have been content to leave this woman without her account except that the threat of them looking worse in the media was held over their head. That’s the part that shouldn’t have happened. No company should be allowed to terminate an account used in the professional sphere while leaving no recourse to reclaim the account or appeal the decision in a straightforward and relatively low effort way.
- Comment on To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model 2 months ago:
I don’t like the way this article is written. There are concepts that it tries to convey that have major caveats it glosses over. Additionally it posits some ideas for alternatives that aren’t new currencies and doesn’t explain how most of them would work. It also seems to ignore the fact that content creators very often get paid in ad revenue by the very same companies that are exacerbating this problem with their GenAI models, as well as companies that are being hit hard by the lack of actual ad generated revenue due to loss of clickthroughs and impressions.
That being said it does actually somewhat explain a lot of the problem with the internet being sustained via ad revenue and ads.
Several of the companies who’s business model is built around ad aggregation are either investing in or developing/have launched GenAI products that are in opposition with their current business model.
They seem content at the moment to starve other places on the internet of the very ad revenue they rely on to make money. This will hurt them in the long run but they are focused on the short term profits they will make in the meantime and they do not seem concerned about the future so long as they can be seen to be on the cutting edge of the new technology.
I don’t really know if this will lead to a downturn in creator made content. A lot of paid creators are so invested in that eco system that they’d rather hop from one service to the next forever than give it up and go get a 9-5.
The pay as you crawl system is going to be difficult to implement, especially when crawlers already ignore the .txt file. The startups are not in a position to necessarily pay to license data and I question if they’d be able to pay as they crawl either. Meaning there will be big conglomerate gate keepers like Meta and Google and MS. The pay as you crawl system also only works if it’s regulated in some way so that normal users and small creators don’t get caught up in being victimized by bots/crawlers ignoring such rules or laws, with those victims unable to have their case taken seriously or heard at all.
As for determining where the information came from and providing attribution. Most people still aren’t going to click through to those pages. This is in part because a lot of them don’t want to see ads in the first place (for security reasons and because ads are an imposition on their increasingly limited time, energy, and attention). It’s also because they already have the information they need. You don’t care if Wikipedia gets your ad revenue so long as you can prove you were right about Brad Pitt’s height or his first job to your friend you made that bet with at the bar last night.
They say sources would be compensated. By who? And how? We have already established that people don’t think there’s a lot of value in pay for chatbots. The vast majority of Gen AI LLM users have shown (through polling, and introductory costs that go up in price later) that they aren’t interested in and don’t find value in pay for them. So conglomerates (many of whom run chatbots at a loss) would be on the hook both for paying for their crawlers and for providing such services to their consumers (corporate or not)? That most definitely not sustainable.
The other option is licensing but a lot of data has already been crawled and continues to be crawled without licensing or compensation.
I’m not sure that changing this business model will lead to anything good.
- Comment on LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name 2 months ago:
For it to have happened as a matter of course, and not when they faced the prospect of bad press over it, for a start.
- Comment on YouTube prepares crackdown on 'mass-produced' and 'repetitive' videos, as concern over AI slop grows 3 months ago:
They’re targeting actual creators rather than AI Slop though. Lots of creators have been talking about this.
- Comment on Desktop Linux distros similar to Steam OS? 3 months ago:
I already have some issues with my public tone sounding… Too official. Using the em-dash just makes it seem like I might be a bot. I’m not going to bother with that.
- Comment on Desktop Linux distros similar to Steam OS? 3 months ago:
I like the em dash and am very upset that AI has stolen it.
- Comment on PSA: Get Your Parents Off the Meta AI App Right Now-This is bad, folks. Very bad. 4 months ago:
I don’t think it’s just parents falling for this or older people.
- Comment on Discord's CTO is just as worried about enshittification as you are 4 months ago:
I doubt that.
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 5 months ago:
Ah. That no upvote rule. I’ve heard tell the corporate overlords don’t like Luigi.
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 5 months ago:
What “don’t upvote” rule?
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 5 months ago:
Rofl… Oh. They’re serious. Well. I’m that case. Rotflmfao.
- Comment on Can't believe we have to say this but, don't use your work email for adult content 5 months ago:
At one point the IT department where I work were asking questions about why I tether my phone to my work laptop when I’m out of the office (working from home). I told them very specifically that I would not connect any device I didn’t have administrator control over to my home network. They didn’t ask anymore questions after that. I have a work phone and work laptop for work things. I use both only for work things. I have two personal computers, and two personal phones (one for messing with roms). I don’t need their hardware for anything in my personal life. Nope. Not even a Google search.
They also asked me if I wanted my personal phone logged into the wifi and I gave them serious side eye before saying no thanks.