1. I’m disinclined to believe that purely because of the inconvenience of doing so. Much easier to scrape the entire internet.
2. How so? If you sell your stuff and someone makes it public, it’s still your choice to sell it.
3. That’s only true as far as recreating the content is concerned. Reading and viewing is by definition fair use for publicly visible information.
4. Define fair compensation. I feel like the creatives are just upset that their work is “easy” to replicate with these models. And that isn’t even true, they never appear as unique or interesting as truly new work.
The problem is their greed is unlimited and their power/influence and purchasing power is relative to all of the other billionaires corrupting government and making every little facet of life of ordinary people more expensive, miserable, transactional, and punitive.
A lot of the changes are due to dark patterns. This was nowhere near as bad as the one that broke access to files and gallery, which would break saves for old games. There was another new breaking change on notifications, which probably prevented spoofing.
I'm still in full support of these. I keep telling people that social media apps are just massive violations of privacy and can just copy your password from clipboard or trace your location through images – I've been asked to code these at one time. At least these updates keep me from thinking I'm the paranoid one.
> All of a sudden sites that never did track users were forced to start tracking them -- in order to set the flag to suppress the harassing cookie warning.
If the site never tracked the user, they wouldn't need to show the cookie banner in the first place.
Optimization with the objectives we have today, and more generally financialism are all about splitting up end-to-end tasks into pieces and removing redundant common work. This is obviously good...upto a point. It gets bad because morals and a bunch of other stuff also gets split up.
Like someone mentioned below, it's unrealistic to expect people to think about second or third or nth order effects of their job. Heck, those effects are not even visible in 90% of cases.
To answer your question, the engineer at meta is just building a graph database. It takes a `void* node_data` as argument. Another is just building a kafka-clickhouse data pipeline that can transfer so many millions of `void* message`s a minute. The android engineer is just improving the percentage of requests without location data by using wifi ssids as fallback. The CEO just sees "advertising revenue WoW" in his dashboard. And so on. That it is actually being used for spying is many steps away from each of them -- OK, in the case of meta I'm sure the employees know to an extent. But it's still very different from the feeling they would get if they were doing the end-to-end task themselves.
It's the same thing with other questionable products. It's split up sufficiently across the supply chain that no one is actually aware enough of the task end-to-end.
In some cases, the same participant in the supply chain will be a supplier for something really good and necessary..but they will also be a supplier for something despicable. In this case, it is easy for everyone involved to sweep the latter under the rug.
As far as I have thought about it, there is no way to get rid of this larger problem without also losing the (unfathomably massive) benefits.
I honestly don't think the modern web is a legitimate hypertext system at this point. It was already bad enough 20 years ago with flash and serverside CGI but now most of the major websites are just serving JavaScript programs that then fetch data using a dedicated API. And then there's all the paywalls and constant CAPTCHA checks to make sure you aren't training an LLM off their content without a license.
Look up hyperland, it's a early 90s documentary by Douglas Adams and the guy from doctor who about the then-future hypermedia revolution. I can remember the web resembling that a long time ago but the modern web is very far removed from anything remotely resembling hypertext.
The fundamental operational principle is different. Trams operate (typically, on street running sections) on sight - they are responsible for monitoring traffic, and stoping if necessary. Contrast with the block-based approach used for trains, especially in combination with Euro-style positive train control systems.
I don't support protests turning into riots but the news media I put heavy blame on for not accurately reporting on what's going on in the Trump administration in the immigration enforcement. So I understand why these protesters would be turning violent because so many legal and documented immigrants have had their rights violated. Why should they protest peacefully when the government is clearly violating rights at a massive scale and the news media is largely ignoring it. The government has forgotten the lesson of Timothy McVeigh. The government chooses the rules of engagement.
Documented immigrants are being picked up by the immigration department for no reason at all. They are being denied habeas corpus rights. The Trump administration has actually said they want to suspend habeas corpus rights, which is totally bizarre for anyone who says that they believe in the Constitution. The foolishness of so many acting like the Constitution applies only to citizens shows the breakdown in our educational process. The Constitution is about how the government deals with people, not just citizens but all peoples in any place that its jurisdiction is exercised. I wonder if these staunch second amendment supporters understand that people who are legally here within the United States, citizen or not, are allowed to exercise the second amendment and own firearms. Based on the way that a lot of conservatives are treating legal immigrants, either intentionally or through ignorance by ignoring what's going on, I suspect that they don't.
Just as an example of what ICE is doing, that is really not being reported. They are picking up people on their detainers which have a much lower standard than any kind of probable cause. They are detaining them in facilities and scheduling court dates. Of course immigration courts are so overloaded these are often times a month or more from when they were arrested. So they are detained for long periods of time without ever having a habeas corpus hearing. It gets even worse because immigration has wide latitude to move detainees from facility to facility. My friend who was picked up had a court date that was scheduled and they were 3 days from being required to appear in court. ICE decided to move them to a different facility in a different state. This triggers a change in jurisdictions so they would have been released within 3 days because there was no probable cause to continue to detain them but now they need to wait another month for another hearing. Quite likely within a few days of that they will be shifted to a different facility so their case will be moved again.
This is the kind of egregious and intentional violations that immigration is doing right now. They are waging a war of attrition against legal immigrants to encourage them to voluntarily deport themselves. I do not understand why every news media outlet is not reporting on this. You either support people's rights or you don't care. I would think that there would be big money in this lots of eyeballs on the news but it seems that the liberal or conservative media outlets literally don't care. Perhaps it's their way to show that they can go along to get along because if legal immigrants can have their rights egregiously violated, guess who's going to have their rights violated next?
That’s true it’s ridiculous. But I kind of view most on my phone as a toy/convenient gadget. Ofc there are important things on it, mfa keys etc, but somehow I just care that I own my laptop and desktop computers. But maybe I think so because iPhone is locked down..
> is just human nature to want to consume than create
That may be true.
But it doesn't really explain why the tools for simple popular creation are not there. There are a lot of people in the world who would use them, even if its only 1%.
Better grades: could've spent more time in the library while paying rent anyway.
Learned a lot living at people's places: you could plan a month of no accomodation and couch surf, don't think that's such a stretch. More fundamentally, the tent piece was just a "social opener" to learn more about others. Many other things can be this social opener.
Material freedom: I buy that the experiment showed you that and that's awesome, but I also think some solid therapy around one's understanding of material reality could play a similar role.
> Tools like Ansible exist and can do everything you mention on the deploy side and more (...)
Your comment is technically correct, but factually wrong. What you are leaving out is the fact that, in order to do what Docker provides out of the box, you need to come up with a huge custom Ansible script to even implement the happy path.
So, is your goal to self host your own services, or to endlessly toy with the likes of Ansible?
Surely you're missing the wood for the trees here - isn't the point of asking for no 'AI' to avoid low effort slop? This is a relatively high value post about adopting new practices and the human-LLM integration.
Tag it, let users decide how they want to vote.
Aside: meta: If you're speaking on behalf of HN you should indicate that in the post (really with a marker outside of the comment).
A friend of mine would always put `<blink>` around his middle name as a quick and dirty way to test for missing escaping and possible xss. Back in the day this was surprisingly effective at uncovering problems :-)
No. It’s not fundamentally different. Big copyright holders are better at asserting their rights, and had their information under lock and key from the start, but I don’t think for a moment all these models haven’t been trained on all the content on the disney website (or all the websites with disney derative work).
Disney is just better at preventing the LLM companies from allowing it to regurgitate that stuff.
I lasted about 18 months at Canonical (thankfully I didn’t have to deal with this interview process) and I can say that this description of an interaction with Shuttleworth rings true. The poster really did dodge a bullet by not getting hired. Enough time has passed that this now gives me amusement instead of making me feel outright angry. Shuttleworth is an autocratic micromanager who sprinkles arbitrary mandates into every aspect of the business, which accumulate to make it impossible to deliver anything effectively. The promise of the project was huge (this was over 10 years ago) and he hired many brilliant people but then largely ignored their expertise in favour of his own whims. You may notice that the things Ubuntu does well are mostly things that he didn’t find interesting enough to interfere with.
I notice that there's a comment on video from Ross Scott (Accursed Farms), who started the related Stop Killing Games (https://www.stopkillinggames.com/) campaign; it's not mentioned in the video itself but you may want to check it out.
Oddly enough, I try to search for paid software because if I buy a game, I want to be able to complete it. Not like pay $5/month to access half the game, and another $50 to get to the final 20%, and another $100 to get to the final 5%.
It's not letting me do that either. Google Play Games (the separate app) has such a filter but it's seemingly random.
Yes, FF was revelatory (features and performance) and, relatively, very popular for a time. 31% was a massive share considering it was up against a browser that was the default for the vast majority of people using computers.
Mozilla have had so many chances to position themselves as the privacy-preserving alternative in current years but just can't get out of its own way in any sense (e.g. corporate greed or being hostile towards users). There's still dim hope for FF and some of its forks, like Librewolf, but hopefully forward thinking projects like Servo and Ladybird can fill the void.
