Just upload some child porn to your blog & git repo and everybody who scrapes it, is in possession of illegal materials!

(kidding, don’t do that)

Yeah, that is so crazy. You’ll see some random picture with some idiotic story pasted to it. No sources. Two sentences. And people believe what they are seeing and will totally be enranged about the picture.

Thanks, but I’ll just stick to Firefox

That’s the neat thing about this: If you license out your name, your name is on the device. Those licensees profit from your name, from your brand. If you license out your name to some shit company, you totally deserve that everybody does think that you are some shit company

Yeah, I’ve also been 8 years old and have dreamed while looking at maps. We also should build a bridge across the Atlantic and wall of the strait of Gibraltar.

Yeah - they’ve abandoned so many products that I really do not want another new Google product in my life that will be abandoned in the future. And their track record with banning accounts for no reason while providing no support at all doesn’t help

Check out the apps from your local public transit authority. In my region what Google offers in regard to public transit is utter trash and the “official” apps are having the correct shedule

You really should read the article before posting comments.

Here in my country football matches, but also many concerts and so on come with a free public transit ticket.

Yeah - you really do not want to be a customer or an investor with a company doing these stunts.

People really underestimate how much money other people have. $950 is expensive, but there are so many people out there who can afford that.

Which is an interesting dilemma: Those AIs are already trained. That power and water was used. If you use them, you will not pollute anything. But you may encourage those companies to train another AI

Yeah - Development and IT might feel slow, but there is a good reason why we’ve developed all those processes, access rights, approvals over the last decades. People are trying to burn down those “cumbersome” processes because they feel slow and AI promises them exactly that, but they will learn that everything is there for a reason, even that annoying SCRUM meeting

Yeah - stuff like this really shows that computing went in the wrong direction. You shouldn’t install every crap software on your computer. You shouldn’t install every crappy app. Browsers have too much access and are therefore a security risk by themselves. So we are left without any sensible way to run small programs like the one you are using to flash some firmware or to configure your mouse or whatever. Install it on your computer and it will spy on you. Flash the firmware from your browser and you are totally fucked, because your internet-facing thingy can flash a firmware

I think that technology can really help us here. OCR on images is mostly solved. If you know what PaddleOCR can do, those people on Mastodon who are whining about others not including an image description for a screenshot seem really annoying. It is possible to do this directly on your computer without any costs, without the need for beefy hardware. So no need to try to force everyone else to include transcriptions for screenshot, no need to attack other people, just do it yourself and enjoy the text on the screenshot. Technology can really help us here.

This also does kind of apply to AI image descriptions. Try it and put an image into Gemini and ask it to describe it. You will be surprised. AI can totally give you a workable description of an image. The problem here is that those AI tools can get quite expensive when you are using them a lot and that many disabled people do not have much money. So in my opinion it totally is ok to include AI image descriptions.

I think that there are too many people in the fediverse who do not know the current state of the technology and hate AI for maybe the right reasons, but who are missing out how it could help them.

• US military is using starlink to target weapons
• There is no way that they will stop doing that
• In every conflict from now on everybody who has to fight against the USA and wants a chance to survive needs to disable Starlink
• We saw with Russia that every major power needs its own network under its own control. You can’t wage a war when the USA is able to shut down your access
• In such a war, the USA needs to destroy the enemy constellation
• Kessler syndrome will happen in our lifetime

Since AI is a buzzword with no actual meaning behind it covering several technologies: What do you actually want to ban here?

• AI-generated images and memes?
• Bots posting AI-generated posts?
• Mods using machine-learning to search for posts containing slurs or racist attacks?
• Posts about AI at all?
• What about communities discussing using LocalLLMs on their devices?
• What about users using LLMs as a fancy autocorrect to correct their spelling?
• Or would non-english users using some translation engine for their posts be banned?

If you pay attention to your pet and maybe read a little bit about them, you can already guess what they want to tell you. No need for AI here.

A huge amount of why normal office workers like using AI, in my opinion, is that they never learned how make even simple scripts which would have helped them in a lot of their tasks.

Most office workers do not have the access rights and programs to run scripts. I know how to write them, but there is no way that local IT would allow me to run python on my work machine.

My need for control/understanding stuff I create

And that is really important from a mental health perspective: People are being held responsible for their work. If something does break that they’ve built, their boss & coworkers expect that they are able to fix it and that the error will not happen again. If you understand your system, you are able to do that. If you are responsible for some kind of AI-driven house of cards that you do not understand and can’t fix, that is really bad. It’s triggering some kind of imposter syndrome

Isn’t it obvious? There is no vaccine. We’ve seen human-to-human transmission even with short contacts like a flight. It’s able to kill people. And we know that at least in the USA the government will not do anything to protect the people.