Fair enough, I genuinely misread and thought that was within the quotation marks. But her message is still wrong because she is still talking about AI in general, but her argument applies only to a) AI whose data is derived from data scrapers like Facebook or b) AI put to surveillance tasks. That does not apply to Stable Diffusion, which is why I mentioned it, but it is caught by her assertion, “AI is a surveillance technology.”
AI absolutely has the potential to be used for surveillance; its use in facial recognition most obviously. But the person quoted in the article didn’t say “AI has the potential to be used for surveillance” - she said “AI is fundamentally a surveillance technology”. So if she’s not talking about LLMs and image generators, why is she saying that it’s a fundamental part of the technology? It’s not very fundamental if these two year-defining AI technologies aren’t included in it.
ChatGPT is not reliable enough to be worth citing. “Per ChatGPT” may as well be “per some bloke down the pub”.
Remarkably stupid take. It’s produced by big-data companies because you need a lot of data to feed it but that doesn’t make it “surveillance technology”. Stable Diffusion wasn’t trained on the kind of data she’s talking about, and it can’t be used to surveil you either. ChatGPT no more permits surveillance of its users than does chatting with a real person.
It’s spelled “copyright”, not “copywrite” btw :P
I know how HTTP works. These banners are supposed to (and are legally allowed to) store a cookie saying you have refused. Websites are allowed to store session cookies with displaying a banner at all.
No, they set a cookie to store it, but with a low retention period, so you get bugged again.
A start would be to require sites to remember non-consents for at least as long as they remember consents. Why do I have to be asked about cookies by every site every month?
Your browser can not save third party cookies, but it might break some sites. Some advertising situations allow the use of first-party cookies, and blocking first-party cookies will break most sites.
In either case you will still have to fill out the consent form, and if the consent is stored in the kind of storage you block, then you will have to fill it out every single time you visit.
Yes, but it often doesn’t work and even when it does the site is unusable while it works, which for some particularly awful banners is several minutes. The situation is worse on mobile where most people have a browser that you can’t install add-ons to (and I’m not sure if that one works in firefox mobile anyway)
It’s already the case that necessary cookies don’t need permission, but websites do not abuse this to not show the prompt. This is because the legislation has teeth.
Either too many people spamming so you can’t follow a single conversation, or for most channels you had 40 people idling and never responding, so it felt like a ghost town.
How is this different to Discord? You have huge, medium and small channels in both.
That’s the key I use as a compose key
If you federate with something too massive though it has undue weight on the entire system. It is likely to be Embrace, Extend, Extinguish again, and it’s reasonable to want to avoid that.
For people who don’t remember, the pattern would be something like:
It depends whether 2 actually succeeds at pulling users in. Arguably most people already on the Fediverse are unlikely to jump ship to Facebook, but you have to consider what happens in a few years if it’s grown, but Facebook is a huge name which makes people less likely to join other instances.
Never knew the details of this!
Besides cost, we should probably at least entertain the idea that we are a vocal minority. I’d be completely unsurprised to find out that the majority of people hardly ever touch the controls that got moved to touchscreens and, if they do, they don’t really care - they can set them before they set off, or do it while driving and wobble all over the road, but hey everyone does it so what does it matter?
I use mine fairly often. I don’t actually listen to music all that much but sometimes I do when my phone is my only data source, and I don’t have wireless headphones.
I joined last.fm when it was still called audioscrobbler. I believe their logo with the stylised “as” is still a nod to that origin!
Think Spotify’s year in review, but running constantly.
To expand: it shows your top artists, albums and tracks, all the time. But it also performed spotify’s function of a recommender system; it would link music together that people often listened to together, then if you listen to something it would recommend you similar stuff. I found A LOT of bands that way a long time ago.
My first act will be to grant a boon to anyone who sucked up to me before I was president. You’re doing well!
It’s like any number of blog hosts that have gone before it.