AmbitiousProcess (they/them)

It’s written by humans, for humans!

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Just like the THIRTEEN other issues in their “Tech Guides” series… that are ONLY about LLMs, and mostly include AI-generated imagery.

And get this: they’re even “the world’s first publisher to produce a magazine dedicated to ChatGPT”! Great.

I’m sure the… one person on their team that writes for the Tech topics of their magazines (while also writing about ADHD) definitely made every single one of these issues on their own.

That’s really no different than saying, “You can’t expect billionaires to stop being evil when it would significantly impact their income.”

Not really, I don’t consider bands to be as parasitic as billionaires, because they at least do something to earn their money. If you’re a billionaire, you can just hire someone to take your place, leave, and profit forever, but if all the members of a band step aside to let a whole different crew of people take over, that band probably isn’t gonna have anywhere near the same following or quality as it did before.

Still, I do kind of understand the point.

The network effect works both ways. See Myspace and Friendster.

MySpace is actually a great example of this, because Facebook found a way to remove switching costs for users moving to Facebook, which is why Facebook succeeded.

Facebook made a bot that would automatically scrape all your MySpace activity from friends, and forward it to Facebook.

Moving to Facebook meant not having to leave anyone behind, because you could still see everything from them and respond to them, but you got a better experience, so that’s what many people did. Eventually, the people they were getting forwarded messages from on MySpace just switched to Facebook too.

Leaving Facebook now does not carry these same benefits. There is no other app that allows you to do this without Facebook cracking down on it and severing your access. Hence, switching costs are very high.

Facebook opened the door to themselves, and then locked the door shut, leaving you only the fire escape as an exit.

That’s fair. Still, I do think it’s a tad unreasonable to expect of people, when it can significantly impact their popularity and thus their income, when the actual effect of them leaving is usually that… essentially nothing happens to the company they’re leaving from.

Unfortunately, Facebook and its users likely won’t care much if someone leaves the platform, as long as they can keep scrolling. It’s gotta be on a very large scale, with a lot of people giving up portions of their audience before more people start genuinely moving to alternatives.

If you can’t spend a minute and a half reading, you don’t have any ground to stand on in calling my point “fascist apologia”.

Either be willing to actually assess what I’m saying on its merits, or keep just going with your gut instinct and instantly responding to anything that’s even remotely contradictory to your opinion by calling it fascist, but that doesn’t change the point being made.

If you don’t care to even read my point in the first place, I don’t care to respond further, since you’re clearly not interested in anything other than feeling self-righteous without thinking about it.

I’d hardly call explaining the network effect and collective action problem fascist apologia, but you do you.

All I’m saying is you can’t expect someone to leave behind most of their audience’s primary way of communicating with them scot-free. There are always consequences.

Let’s say they stop posting on Instagram. Out of those 2.7 million followers, only a fraction will find them on another platform, and thus they simply lose their ability to message to all the people they left behind. That hurts them.

You can still think it’s a net good for society for them to leave, or that it would meaningfully hurt Facebook (it wouldn’t unless most people also left, but again, collective action problem), but you can’t act like they don’t face consequences by doing it. It’s not “fascist bootlicker apologia” to say that leaving some of your audience behind on a platform reduces your audience.

They chose to advertise themselves on the “Grandma’s Racist Rants And Old White Guys With Sunglasses Who Hate Poor People” platform.

While true, they also advertised themselves on a platform most Americans use.

Say what you want about someone’s ability to not use a social media platform in the first place, but if you’re a band that depends on… people, it’s hard to just decide not to put yourself out there on a platform where so many people are.

The network effect is real. It’s where people’s friends, family, celebrities, bands, etc all are. Leaving means leaving people who are important to you.

A lot of people find it easier to leave platforms like Twitter now, because the platform is such a shell of its former self that it doesn’t even provide what many people originally came there for, but if you’re on Instagram, Facebook, etc, it still often provides people with easy communication to/from family and friends, and organizations like bands with access to an audience, promotion, visibility, etc.

Leaving the platform means leaving fans, and giving up visibility. I wish everyone could just quit Meta’s platforms and crush the company, but there’s a very simple collective action problem at play here that makes it very difficult, don’t discount that.

Entirely lacking disk encryption for typical users due to not having a secure element is a pretty major flaw.

It’s also missing hardware accelerated virtualization which is necessary for much of GrapheneOS’s sandboxing, has weak security for other keys in the OS keystore, is missing hardware memory tagging which makes it much easier for apps to use overflow attacks, doesn’t have proper verified boot support once a custom alternative OS is flashed, and leaves exposed debugging APIs even when the phone is locked.

This breaks:

• Secure app spawning
• Memory corruption protection
• Integer overflow protection
• Most of Graphene’s kernel hardening
• Much of Graphene’s attack surface reduction abilities
• Hardware-based attestation and security monitoring
• Quick tile protection pre-unlock
• Debugging access prevention
• Verified Boot
• The security of your PIN against any automated attack

At that point, GrapheneOS can’t physically provide you essentially any security anymore.

It wasn’t just the update cycle either, it’s that they don’t have the physical hardware chips to support Graphene’s minimum requirements for security, which would severely weaken any benefits you actually get from GrapheneOS.

(all links are an alternative frontend to Twitter for both privacy, and because they often block users who aren’t signed in from viewing posts)

I can’t find the original person that quote tweeted it with “update”, but I did find the original 6ixBuzz post, and in the comments you can see this guy saying “Here’s what they will look like 10 minutes later in that neighbourhood” and saying “of course it’s AI” in the comments to someone. Seems like he probably was the one to generate the image.

Other people are now AI generating videos of specifically black teenagers stealing from them, and claiming the image is an example of a “government plan gone awry”. 🤦

Holy shit, I didn’t even notice 💀

Looks like the service itself is real: https://equip.sport/

But maybe someone just wanted to farm outrage using it?

Super cool comment zloubida

Phenominal satire.

link that doesn’t appear to be dead: https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/we-follow-through/flock-cameras-are-still-on-in-cleveland-even-though-the-contract-expired

Who wouldn’t want to be a “pro” at having a machine think for them? Sign me up!!! /s

the main perk is not that it removes ads but that there will be slightly less of them.

It does remove ads in most videos, just not in Shorts, or on music videos. The whole deal is they’re essentially un-bundling a music subscription from YT Premium, which makes it cheaper, and is then better if you, say, watch YouTube, but already use Spotify for your music.

Essentially, you don’t see any ads when you watch videos, AKA no midrolls, but you might see a small banner ad above the list of next suggested videos to the right of the video player, and if you constantly scroll shorts they might toss some ads in there as well.

Personally, as someone who doesn’t use YouTube for music, and doesn’t like scrolling shorts, I see this as perfectly reasonable as a way to reduce the cost, especially when you can click the Theater mode button on any video to block out the majority of the suggested videos area by default before any sidebar ad would even make it on your screen.

Good video!

I really can see the appeal of time-traveler based content, especially given you’ll find countless books and comics written and drawn about fictional characters time traveling as a means of education, I read many myself when I was younger!

But of course, AI doesn’t just produce low quality visuals, it encourages the people making the content to not truly care about its validity, or at least not spend enough time to realize when what they’re presenting is inaccurate in the first place.

Imagine yourself after you’ve done the thing you want to start doing. (e.g. any goal you have, your laundry being folded, the acceptance email for a job you’d want, something you own that’s broken working again, etc)

Then, ask yourself if your current mindset is getting you to that point. If it’s not, then tell that voice to fuck off because you want what you envisioned and if it won’t help you get there, it’s not worth listening to.

To be clear, I struggle with this a lot, and this strategy doesn’t help a lot of the time, but nobody’s perfect, and a coping strategy is a coping strategy even if it doesn’t work every time. Nobody here giving advice has a silver bullet, and most probably don’t always even live by their own words all the time, so also make sure not to fall into the trap of assuming everyone else here is succeeding at it and you’re the only one failing if a given strategy doesn’t work for you :)

“Isreali” doesn’t mean Jew BTW

It doesn’t, but it also doesn’t always mean “people who support genocide” or “people who chose to settle on occupied land”

Obviously it’s still the majority that think it’s okay to just bomb and shoot any Palestinian, rip them from their homes, etc, but about 1 in 5 Israelis don’t support the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, and about 1 in 3 disagree that there are no innocents in Gaza. It should terrify us that 4 in 5 and 2 in 3 Israelis agree with these statements, but of course it doesn’t justify killing all of them as the original person stated.

Kinda. Mostly used as an interface for piracy torrent trackers like realdebrid or torbox rather than people hooking it up to regular streaming platforms though.

Yeah, one of the few electrified versions of traditional products that genuinely has a good reason to be electrified. There’s a lot of evidence showing they’re way better at cleaning your teeth than a regular toothbrush.