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NVIDIA got lucky that modern computer architecture happens to favor GPUs for AI workloads. They won't be able to milk it for long, but they for sure have the money to pivot. Question is whether they will put that money to good use or not.

Yeah, totally legit. Don't worry about it, it's not enforceable anyways. What, remove it from the contract? God no! Oh, I mean sorry, no one off contracts.

As I'm sure you're keenly aware, Wayland is inspired by X12 protocol drafts, made by X11 and Xorg developers, and a direct successor but not drop-in replacement for X11.

It seems we're approaching this from different angles. My concern is that the general public often doesn't realize how impressive CGI can be when done well. This lack of awareness fuels a negative attitude, allowing studios to underpay VFX artists and enabling the Oscars to consistently disrespect the entire VFX industry. A prime example of this disrespect was when they interrupted VFX artists' acceptance speeches with a cocaine joke, instead of letting them thank their families.

When AI helps you code, who owns the finished product?

When a hammer helps you build, who owns the finished product?

... in other news, we've just learned that paintbrushes now have a say in art ownership disputes.

I can't imagine what the arguments looked like. No, you don't understand, it's impossible to wake up 10m early to fry an egg or make a sandwich? I don't get it.

It's deceptive marketing because the target audience is people who don't even know what a camera lens is or why a lens is necessary, not professional photographers and videographers. Their target audience is people who think they can do your job with an iPhone, even though they can't for reasons obvious to everyone working in the industry. Nobody expects to be able to replicate a “Shot on RED” on their RED camera body without any lens or other accessories, whereas everyone expects to be able to replicate a “Shot on iPhone” on their iPhone alone.

No need to go back in time. People say that about CGI in movies today. Studios lie about CGI, and even alter BTS footage. Directors are under NDA. Actors are clueless. Everyone says everything is real to appeal to the CGI bad crowd. Media outlets hype the new practically shot movie. After a few weeks or months after the release, the VFX studios behind the movie show off their work. Turns out it was CGI all along, but nobody cares at that point.

Self-censorship is a natural part of social interactions; it's what allows us to navigate complex relationships and maintain harmony in a workplace. Consider all those intrusive thoughts you’ve had—the ones you chose not to voice because they were inappropriate or would create conflict. Our ability to filter what we say is key to functioning in social settings.

It's like a skill we take for granted. When you see people with certain mental disabilities who can't regulate their words, it quickly makes you realize why self-censorship matters. It's a critical tool for keeping things from descending into chaos.

The question isn't whether self-censorship is necessary, but rather, how much is appropriate. I shared the example of someone who revealed a boss's affair during a team meeting. It was a moment of impulsiveness that led to serious career consequences, to put it mildly.

If you can't trust your coworkers, it might be a sign that it's time to move on. A healthy workplace relies on a certain level of trust.

We already naturally adjust our behavior depending on whether we're with friends, family, coworkers, or supervisors. If your boss is having an affair with the receptionist, you're not going to bring that up in a team meeting. That's self-censorship at play, without any need for surveillance or written records.

Regarding the mental health impact of workplace surveillance, I've never encountered someone explicitly linking their stress or burnout to call transcripts or AI-generated meeting summaries. Many complaints I've heard about mental health tend to focus on these issues:

* Excessive workloads from bosses or coworkers with no recognition.

* Transfer to toxic work environments engineered to make you quit a year before retirement.

* Invasive management that gets too involved in your personal life, knowing details you never told them.

* Boss sharing personal (sometimes even health) information with coworkers.

* Being called into work even when on vacation.

* Soul-crushing jobs with high stress, like call centers.

* An imbalanced work-life dynamic, leaving no time for family or personal care.

* Persistent crunch time with no relief.

* Office politics with gossip and backstabbing.

* Workplace mobbing.

* A number of personal issues that I'm not going to list here.

These are some reasons employees face burnout and dissatisfaction at work. While I'm open to hearing more about the potential mental health impact of call transcripts or AI-generated meeting summaries, it's not something that appears in the complaints I've come across.

2024 solution? I don't know about that. Companies typically use software to manage these complaints across multiple social media platforms. Ever since Twitter began charging an obscene amount of money for their API, companies just shrugged and said goodbye.

I did not expect that. So Backstage asks you to manually insert plugin components into the app source code? Yeah... that really doesn't feel like a plugin architecture to me. More like patch the source code so it does what you need it to do. Nothing wrong with that, but not a plugin architecture.

Yes, exactly. Here is a list of approved hardware tokens: https://www.a-trust.at/de/fido/

No, globalization wasn't supposed to align social values, and the article itself clarifies this point. While some thought globalization might lead to a convergence of social values based on liberal ideals of personal rights and freedoms, this assumption was overly simplistic.

The idea that globalization would lead to a universal adoption of Western values seems almost laughable. It's as if they had never engaged with cultures like China, where Western ideals can feel as alien as their own do to us. Concepts like democracy, with its emphasis on individual choice, don't necessarily resonate in societies where centralized leadership is seen as more effective. Likewise, the Western emphasis on individualism contrasts with cultures that prioritize community and collective responsibility.

It's not that these values are inherently wrong; they're just different. There's no inherent reason for cultures to adopt Western values. If anything, the spread of Western ideals across the globe has often been the result of colonialism, where Western nations imposed their ideologies on other societies, claiming them to be superior.

You don't have to fear it. It's already here. I can't store my electronic government id on my Yubikey since it's not an approved device. So unless I buy a certain hardware token, my only option is to entrust my private key to a privately-owned certificate authority named A-Trust that forgot to renew their own root certificate once, taking out all government websites and services, and blamed an influx of users on a DDoS attack, in a regulatory environment where companies and even the government itself sue security researchers for disclosing security vulnerabilities responsibly, combined with tech illiterate journalists that buy whatever press statement they publish without verifying anything. Yeah uh, how about no? I trust my Yubikey more than you. I in fact lack so much trust in A-Trust that I assume my electronic government id is compromised, and that I among a few others call them A minus Trust, not A Trust.

I would if I could use them. But no, Windows refuses to connect to Android, it times out. Same thing on Linux. Android itself? Your encrypted data is locked on this device, and following the help article doesn't do anything. Three different platforms, none with functional passkey support. Awesome UX. My grandparents would've thrown their phone out of the window by now if a website they need to visit requires passkeys. And no, before you ask, Bluetooth is working just fine. I regularly send files between my computers and my phone via Bluetooth, that's not the problem.

Yeah, sure. I guess you can say that a driver who hadn't slept the night before and was super stressed out about work could've fallen asleep while driving on a monotonous and boring highway, but he also might not have. Yet, at the end of the day, it's far more likely that he would've fallen asleep either way.

I feel like this distracts from the fact that the self-driving feature was probably safer than falling asleep at a manual car for everyone involved.

Marketing like this should be banned. This implies that the car handles everything you throw at it and only requires supervision due to outdated regulations. Of course, people will ignore the current regulations to rely on, you know, their fully self-driving car to drive for them—the reason they bought the car in the first place? A fully self-driving car has the potential to be an order of magnitude better and safer driver than the average person, so yeah, obviously.

Cars are a poor example. There are some pretty wild safety issues in the car industry.

In the U.S., energy efficiency regulations are weak, so car companies push huge SUVs and light pickups as the "perfect" family vehicles. These things are massive and not crash-compatible with normal-sized cars. If a big SUV hits you, you're in more danger than if it was a regular station wagon. Plus, those off-road capabilities mean they can hop a curb and take out a pedestrian. And the insane height? It's a nightmare for visibility. You can't see kids or pets in front of you. That's led to some awful driveway accidents.

"Fully self-driving" cars aren't really self-driving, you still need to keep an eye on them, but the marketing suggests otherwise. A few self-driving cars occasionally emergency brake on a highway. Big modern touch screens in cars look sleek, tactile controls offer a safer and more intuitive way to adjust settings without taking your eyes off the road. Some cars such as the Fisker Ocean are unnecessarily unreliable, where the gear, brake, etc. system casually stop working while driving, asking you, the driver, to take a mental note of that and to please not shift gears for a while, for example.

And don't get me started on car lights. Why is it that brake lights and turn signals can both be red? Why is it that they can share the same light? It's a mess. Then there's the remote control features with garbage access controls. There's been cases where someone remotely turned off a car's engine while it was driving. Talk about a scary security vulnerability.

This made me laugh. Thank you, kind stranger.

When I check out YouTube's home page, I usually find recommendations for cool stuff like https://youtu.be/Loq-YHYGZy8, https://youtu.be/xb_g7qNCpuo, or https://youtu.be/8iPoXZuzlUg. This isn't the stereotypical, braindead content everyone complains about. It's actually relevant to what I watch. A lot of these come from smaller creators who post a mix of topics, which means the traditional subscriber model flat out doesn't work. Sometimes they also only post a few videos and then vanish. So when people say the recommendation system is broken, I have to wonder if it's really about not wanting to face the fact that their feed reflects what they watch. If they're getting recommended stuff they don't like, maybe it's because that's what they've been into.

I sure hope drugs include alcohol in this context? It's quite strange how, where I live, a drunk driver can keep their driver's license, whereas a tiny trace of drugs costs people their driver's license and lands them in jail. Obviously unrelated to public spaces, but it goes to show the favoritism in drug legislation.

Yes, that monopoly on other people's public messages seems quite important to them. Who knows, maybe Discord wants to step in Reddit's footsteps in the future. Can't have others sell other people's data that happens to sit on your hard drive when you could sell that data yourself.

So... the recommendation system works like it's supposed to? Giving you content you want to see.

I'm not sure what the complaint is here, besides that platforms strong arm their creators into creating more engaging content to retain their viewers. Everyone's taste shifts from time to time, so I think it's reasonable to expect platforms to show you what content you're likely in the mood for watching at the moment.

It's the opposite that bugs me: Platforms forcing me to go out of my way to discover interesting content once my taste shifts. At that point, I'd wonder why I even use that platform if not for content curated based on my personal preferences. Might as well go back to RSS newsreaders for the self-curated experience.

Yes, courts are known to invite forensic experts of fields that boil down to unscientific fraud.[1] But I must say your experience with experts is limited to an entire field of con artists.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/courts-jun...

It's quite easy. You don't. By definition, you can't discern anything above your own level of expertise. If you knew what an expert was talking about, there was no point in consulting them in the first place. You can merely ask people you trust. Stereotypes also play an important role, even though they really shouldn't. A rather introverted, slightly socially awkward, blond guy with a ponytail wearing glasses and business casual clothing like a polo shirt while carrying a laptop with swag stickers from their last conference and a 3D printed keychain probably radiates more tech nerd energy than, say, your stereotypical school janitor.

Because Netflix was more convenient than piracy in the golden era of streaming, especially for non-English speaking folks. I think people tend to forget that piracy isn't that much about media preservation at all. It's in fact extremely common for sites to nuke anything non-English as soon as possible.

* Contains non-English dubs? Oi mate, quite the “redundant audio tracks” you've got there, please remove those.

* Only non-English dub? Bloody hell mate, can't have that. Someone please upload a proper release.

* English dub? Go right ahead mate, can't live without that.

So, unless other native language speakers band together to archive and share media in their own little community, they're shit out of luck. Now, of course, also forget about nice pre-made media automation setups since they'll break down as soon as you leave the language of English.

They'd go back to piracy, as simple as that.

They got what they deserved for fragmenting the entire market, and then increasing prices to oblivion. I don't have any paid streaming service anymore, no thank you. Actually insane to think that free streaming services provide a better service than paid streaming services nowadays. I say free since the legality depends on the jurisdiction, but anti-piracy groups sure would like you to believe otherwise.

> [...], these are standard image processing algorithms which are already plugged into the digital processor of a 15 years old camera.

I don't know what to tell you other than this is not the case at all. Computational photography failed miserably in the standalone camera market. Photographers love manual control. Cameras with built-in computational photography features flopped hard, nobody bought them. Standalone camera innovation is therefore limited to make it as easy and reliable as possible to get a good shot. Everything else is done in post processing software, such as Lightroom or Photoshop, never in camera. For the record: My 15 years old Canon EOS 5D Mark II can't do a single thing I listed in my comment aside from basic noise reduction for jpeg images. And that camera was considered revolutionary at the time. But the camera sure as hell makes it easy to capture the shots I need, and post process them on my computer to get exactly what I want.