It's open source and grants me the opportunity to participate.
It's distributed (federated) and not just one company making the choices for me and all of us.
No ADs, gamification and nagging me to buy in-game currency.
Yeah, and it has an usable app.
I think the most important aspect to me is 1) the freedom it provides me with. I don't like all my communication being in the hand of big tech companies.
I hate people doing that here. It's always unreadable since people took the screenshot on a PC and the text is tiny and I need to scroll sideways every 8 words... Or I'm at the PC and the screenshot is just 3 sentences without a link to read the rest.
I'd say let them train their AI on my comments. I just want a share of the finished product in exchange.
I think 1) and 2) have already been that way for at least 15 years. Software copy protection used to be very simplistic and is getting improved constantly. Also when I grew up games didn't yet talk to servers and they do it for quite some time already. Every new physical video format gets a new copy protection mechanism... DVD, BluRay,... now streaming services with DRM... Illegal sites get shut down all the time.
The piracy scene also adapts, changes their methology. I'm pretty sure it'll continue that way. I asked the same question 10 years ago and yet here we are.
The adult content is getting worse though. But i think mainly for the big and well known commercial streaming sites. Maybe there are still torrents of that around and pirating adult content will get similar to pirating a tv series.
Agree. Not sure if I'd use the word "tool" to describe him... But he's certainly "special". Glad I found one of the few discussions where it's not just his fans praising him for his " visions" despite him not delivering on the last 50 promises he made. Or the latest edgy memelord thing he read somewhere or came up with... Usually I just shut my mouth and don't comment on that because it's just so many people following the hype.
No? I left out the detailed info here as I thought it's of no concern. I provided it with pretty much the same info I'd write to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. With computer bugs that's usually steps to reproduce the issue, exact versions of everything, exact error messages and my findings from googling and looking at the code...
That was one of the issues I had that only gave me one or two search results and it's unlikely that someone comes up with a solution since the hardware is outdated and not many people have that specific board lying around and also the expertise to understand the low level hardware coding involved.
I mean it kind of fits the rest of the picture I have from using ChatGPT and similar stuff. It can do easy stuff. And write boilerplate code pretty alright. With the Arduino code I'm tinkering around as a hobby... not so much. I once asked it to do the inverse kinematics for a small robotics project. And the AI can tell me about what I just read on the Wikipedia article about that topic. But that's it. Not an idea how to apply that info. And that the complicated part is to come up with the specific Jacobian matrix. And not just tell me that using one is one of the few approaches to that problem. That's obvious from reading the Wikipedia article or reading any textbook. And it did silly things like write code like equation.solve(parameter1, parameter2, parameter3) ... Sure. I mean if I already had a framework that did that and was available on an embedded platform, I wouldn't have had that problem in the first place...
So my attempts at using AI for the issues I have with computers regularly fail. I can see how that's not the experience everyone has, but still... It doesn't really help me with specific problems or rare issues.
And I still have a few I can try to question some AI about... An slow Wireguard VPN tunnel inside if another tunnel that I already fixed the MTU and it's still unbearably slow... A few obscure webframeworks that don't tie into things... But I'm pretty sure I'll get the same results.
Have you ever been lucky with AI and issues that didn't get you any search results because no one ever did it before? I mean I'd be happy to learn how to use AI properly as a tool. It's just I've tried and I don't think I'm too stupid to prompt it. It's just that I've given up since it doesn't seem nowhere near intelligent enough to tackle the real issues I have. I'm not opposed to AI. I use it and it helps me get small stuff done easier/faster.
I've tried. And usually the questions I ask are too specific. I mean I can answer the basic questions myself and often I get several result when it's just that. The AI just mumbles general advice and is always wrong if it's too specific. Like for example: Why does the graphics driver crap out on any OpenGL ES instruction on the old single board computer I have lying around, despite the SoC being supported?
Nice article. That's exactly what I've been complaining about for the last year.
In the end it's not super obvious how to apply the term "open source" to AI models. And not everyone uses the OSI definition anyways.
And after all the lawsuits started last year, it's clear why they do it. To protect themselves. Maybe it's going to get better once we update our legislation.
Ultimately, the community needs to decide what it’s trying to achieve
And I'd underline that this "community" consists of multi billion dollar big tech companies that have the millions to spare to train these models. It's not "we" the people.
Alright. Thanks. Seems I know the concepts, just not the names. I don't think I'm into these booths 😅
Maybe I'd consider these theatres where some swinger people meet. If I someday feel the urge to do so.
I think we have an appropriate amount of adult shops in the city where I live. They're quite different in selection and atmosphere. Some look a bit more filthy(?) and are still filled with DVDs. Some are modern, clean and well lit. Last one I visited has a fetish shop on the upper floor with more equipment and expensive clothing, not just the stockings and 25€ sexy maid outfits with cutouts for the ass cheeks...
You're welcome. And if I might add something: Sounds like you're a nice person and on the right path. All of that isn't easy and lots of us (humans) struggle with certain things in relationships or with being ourselves. Lots of people just live with mismatched libidos and/or fantasies that they can't share. Or lots of other woes. I think you deserve some respect for putting in the effort and wanting to address that. And who knows where this will lead? Maybe your aversion to intimate conversations can be overcome. Sometimes our weaknesses also provide us with something else. I mean this way the solution certainly won't be gifted to you. You'd have to work (hard) for it. And usually earning things this way pays off in more than one way... I'd be optimistic about the future and the more complicated topics.
Regarding "feel[ing] valued as a partner" and "the nuance": Also here it's a good thing that you try to understand the perspective of your partner and wanting to respect them and doing it the correct way for them. That's a solid foundation. I'd say: Try to not assume what they want. I myself had a good amount of misunderstandings in the past of my relationship. Things we did that we assumed the other one wanted (or didn't), but later on it turned out neither of us liked it that way. In the end -I think- you have to arrive at some point where you're comfortable discussing these things openly, minimize misunderstandings and accepting each other... But all of this is really easier said than done.
And looking at other couples usually gives a skewed perspective. Most people make their relationship look fine and dandy. But if you were to look past that, lots of people also struggle or have to put in effort into their relationships. I learned about that by listening to some podcasts about relationships and sex. And I found lots of similarities and issues I had and still have. (I'd recommend those podcasts, but they're in German.) And I also have some skeletons in the closet. So despite me maybe technically knowing what's right... Sometime it's just not easy or I missed the opportunity to bring something up. Or life gets in the way and there are other things to worry about. But I (too) strive to become better.
So... I'd say keep up the good work. General advice applies: Good/healthy communication is key to everything. Don't let things being hard stop you. Brace for setbacks, they'll happen. For major setbacks you'd need a solid foundation rooted in mutual respect and acceptance plus healthy communication and maybe some prepared strategies. I'd say this is a requirement for something I'd consider as healthy non-monogamy. But it's hard to achieve and it also takes a good amount of time to get there.
For the things you already did, there's no way to turn back time. It happened and the only question is how to handle it. I don't know your partner so I can't give advice. Hide it or be honest, tell only parts of the whole story... All of that are strategies people choose. Maybe you really screwed up, that happens. Your partner gets to decide how bad it feels to them. I think the job of the people who make the mistakes is to learn and not repeat the same mistake too often. And it's difficult to find the correct time to approach a conversation about it. Could be too early but the real threat is probably trying to reconcile when it's too late. So maybe have a plan/schedule so you don't postpone it indefinitely if you want to address it.
All of this is just my opinion. And what people like and are comfortable with varies a lot. So everyone has to get to know their partner(s) and make up rules between each other individually. Love, respect, acceptance and healthy communication are the underlying things. On top of that you probably can't apply other people's strategies and opinions to your own relationship, you have to find your own way (between the both of you) as you have to find your own path in life.
(And a last sidenote: Before proceeding to implement the non-monogamy... Make sure you can absolutely rely on the communication between the both of you. And read up a bit on what mistakes other people made so you don't have to repeat all of them. If we're talking about more than acting out a cuckold fantasy, it requires a good amount of trust and constant communication and detailed knowledge about the emotional world of each other.)
Can somebody explain to me the terms "adult book store" and "adult arcade"?
What we have here are sex shops that sell mostly toys, sex shops that focus on dvds and magazines, is it that?
And what's the arcade? Is it what we call "Pornokino" im Germany? A dark room with 6 booths with a TV set a chair and a tissue box? Or do you have sexy arcade cabinets and orgies there?
(Edit: Btw: For NSFW questions there is [email protected] which also is a nice community to ask such things.)
I don't get it. Where does he say "algorithm"? Does Google Gemini do PAC learning?
AFAIK "AI" means "machine learning" and machines with "intelligent" behaviour, whatever that means. It includes everything from expert systems, statistics, markov chains to LLMs. And people nowadays slap it on every product out there.
"Algorithm" means a (finite) sequence of (rigorous) instructions. At least that's what Wikipedia says. It's well defined and doesn't talk about where the instructions come from or if it includes statistics.
Sure. But I'd drop the premises for that discussion. A post-privacy world is probably where convenience trumps everything. Everything is commercialized even more. Access to the internet isn't free any more, options like selfhosting or uploading things are heavily restricted and each and every service requires you to show your ID card into the webcam and give them your phone number. All private is being sold and AI shows you ADs and propaganda like in the old scifi movies.
I mean we're already half-way there. And I think it's especially bad that all the people use closed services that require me to dox myself and give them my phone number if I want to participate. It's just that we still have alternatives. It now needs politics to cut down access to the internet so only the big companies can host platforms and then force them to stop piracy. And cut the free flow of information and connections to other countries with other legislation. Reasons could be to protect intellectual property, stop crime (also like in the old dystopian movies) or "would somebody please think of the children"... These attempts to take away freedom happen regularly in politics. I think a post-privacy world would simultaneously be one without freedom. Either a scifi dystopia, a Cory Doctorow novel or like in the countries where they currently filter the internet successfully, which aren't democratic countries.
I think I'm far more concerned with the loss of any privacy or freedom in such scenarios. Not being able to pirate things would be a minor inconvenience in such hypothetical worlds.
I strongly doubt that it'll happen out of the reasons OP gave. They're all technical in nature. And in the past we were always able to circumvent the technical ones. Countermeasures have also improved. I don't see a reason why it's different now. But I think society could change and affect this. And there are anti-democratic things happening currently...