Jason2357

joined 2 years ago
[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I can't recall the name, but there was at least one project that had a kind of static web proxy of shared immich albums, so you can expose that to the internet for sharing and keep Immich its self internal network only.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I may by too cynical now, but I doubt the authors give a shit that kids will work around it. They are scratching the back of someone and they are getting what they want.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There are very good explanations out there but the short of it is: every major internet service is now going to be connected to either your official piece of government ID, or a high resolution, well lit image of your face. Kids work around it but its a mass surveillance wet dream.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I am not convinced there is actually any real plan to use them for anything other than training more AI. Its either market manipulation to boost their stock values even higher or they are shooting for the mythical AGI.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

You don't think most comments on YT are bots? I honestly hope they are or people are just dumber/shittier than I thought.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

About a third of people know that. Another third were convinced that "their" billiinaire can fix things, as long as he gets just a little more power. The lasy third doesn't want to hear about politics.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

The fact that Usenet still gets a steady stream if spam tells me the bots will continue even when all the people leave.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

Hardware isn't the limitation, its willingness to fight locked down hardware and the power management of android. You might be able use ADB to control it, install termux and then with that, SSH server and then a server of some sort.

In my experience, most phones don't seem to boot sans battery, so its just a matter of time until the battery goes poof and your system goes down. Some manage it though - you do get a decent amount of hardware for the power consumption.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Indeed. I remember someone I respected raving that they had their new WinXP computer on for 2 weeks straight without it crashing and being blown away by the new advanced technology.

Teenage me didn't have any idea that would have been a low bar even in the 1980s.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Their strategy since the 80s has been to half-ass shit and sell it to large scale businesses, establish their software as the default software across industries, so then everyone else has to learn and buy it.

Literally started with MS DOS. Then Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, and lots of small stuff. They kill entire industries that were making better software. None of the above 4 things were Microsoft even close to better than preexisting software. People were swearing off DOS and Windows 3x when they crashed constantly in the early 90s and late-stage capitalism said "hold my beer" and made them the most valuable company in history within a decade.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Funny. Their strategy seems to make them plenty of money.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

In this case they will also employ the age old enshitification strategy. Instead of (or along with) filling it with advertisements, they can simply drop the model parameters to make it cheaper while pushing it to more and more sloppy content.

Smaller models are incredibly cheap to run, and if people are convinced they want slop, they win. That is why AI is paired with the larger scale project of dumbing down everything.

 

The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies.

Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borders Act, is a sprawling surveillance bill with multiple privacy-invasive provisions. But the thrust is clear: it’s a roadmap to aligning Canadian surveillance with U.S. demands…

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