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seems like the only way to do that is for the spaces and services we use to charge fees instead of relying on ads. but also they'd need to be non-profit and well governed or else they will enshittify.

not saying its not possible but people are pretty hooked on the internet being "free" (not realizing they are just the product)

it does seem like the time is right for something like the fediverse except that its like 20% too complicated for regular people to understand...

So like maybe something that is a verified humans only, publishing / sharing, social connection managing, community building platform that doesn't rely on huge cloud infra (you own your own data and host your own content) monstrosity, that you pay a nominal fee for so there is 0 ads allowed and a legal contract that forbids the company from selling your data ever.

no problem right? just sell it as real and "healthy" social web. (not social media dark patterns and infinite scrolling, actual human connection and community building.)

Ya. cant say id thought about it before today outside of a general idea that mobile games are full of dark patterns and thus annoying and bad.

if you'd asked me would they do it i would have said totally, but there is something different here about the level of effort they actually do go to not just to manipulate the game into a state where it can force you into the highest value ad state, but how much effort it goes into to manipulate the player so that they keep coming back for "one more hit"

a game with dark patterns but still a game is what i think i expected before. now its pretty clear you cant or shouldn't even really call this thing a game anymore. There is no "game design" in forcing a player to lose because you have an opportunity to sell a better ad. this is just ad tech wrapped in a game like package.

suspicion isn't enough to actually detain tho (pull some one over in this case)

the aclu post points out that the pretextual stop is the actual problem here. all that suspiciousness wouldnt matter to this woman if she hadnt been detained. the fbi dude could have been suspicious as hell. could have decided to follow her around or like done some other actual investigation to get actual evidence that would amount to probable cause and enable a detainment.

cops dont have a right to stop you so they can go fishing.

the article doesn't seem to mention what actual authority an fbi agent would have to enforce a local traffic law about "staying in the left lane".

it does seem like this was a pretty clear rights violation and i hope the aclu fights on her behalf.

comfy and nuke are not even in the same ballpark. they arent really even solving the same problems. some overlap but like wildly different approaches. other than both being "node based"

comfy is getting more features all the time but i dont think id put it in the same category of "professional imaging software" that nuke holds the top spot in.

ya agree, a targeted ad is a very different beast, its not so much the targeting thats the issue either. id much rather only see ads for stuff in interested in than stuff i really dont need. its HOW they come up with that targeting. scraping stealing tracking all the other bs that makes that targeted ad feel creepy and gross.

and if you think its not gonna get so much worse with ai able to generate 10x the ad variants... or maybe even personalized ad versions.(one day, probably too expensive now)

good thing its never been easier to hack everything, maybe we can also figure out how to hack the legal system enough to make shady stuff like recording you in your house a felony. i feel like we should start with making it so that terms in a eula cant bind you to take specific actions. inal but in the case of 2p consent states if you go to your friends house and he doesnt tell you that his tv's eula said that it'll be recording all the time then he's in trouble, but the company actually doing the recording.. scott free because they said in the eula it was the responsibility of the owner to tell everyone who comes near the tv it might be recording. ...why would you ever click that agreement that you were forced to click to use the thing that you already bought and setup, what is the actual recourse for not saying yes? go return the tv and pay the restock fee? idk that doesnt sound like a reasonable contract/agreement that should ever be enforcable. which would mean its actually the tv companies doing all the wiretapping in 2p states...

hmm.. i know im wrong in many ways but i can dream that the law could be actually reasonable.

it definitely started that way, like with radio before it. early programs were directly paid for by advertisers and the adds were right in the middle of the show presented by the hosts! (kinda like how yt does it now sometimes but even more so)

its literally why we call the whole genre of soap operas that. they would all be sponsored by soap and cleaning product companies trying to reach stay at home moms as their target market for the ads.

ads were along for so much of the history of tv... its easy to forget because recently netflix made it seem like we could just directly pay for content as just entertainment (like movies always were).

but those days are gone and we are returning to the roots. i dont think a single streamer doesnt have an ad tier and we are starting to lose the ad free pay more options too (disney, amazon)

there is a huge amount of jazz now that is using videogame music as the source material.

like early jazz used popular but older songs and reinterpreted them, knowing the source tune really makes it much easier to get into the overall genre I think. no links handy to help you find it but pick a game you like and search for a jazz cover.

scrolled down like 100 posts to find one that actually referenced the op's game directly.

I'm pretty sure the point of the game was to make a statement and make people think/talk and boy-howdy op you did a great job.

i have a theory that not only is it great that its possible to create your own tool, but its actually the best possible way.

there is no one right system that works for everyone. or as op pointed out even one system that works for a single person as their needs change over time.

the thing that everyone should do is create their own system that works just for them. unfortunately its still a tradeoff even if llm does all the building, upfront effort and ongoing effort to establish the system and maintain/iterate.

the analogy that comes to mind is tailored clothes. most of the asanas etc. of the world are built to fit a broad number of people pretty well, but its people fitting into the clothes. diy is like a tailor cutting the clothes to fit you exactly. and just like tailored clothes vs off the rack, if you change shape the tailored ones are going to be easier to adjust.

why do i need 1000s of people to use my software? its far easier (and more fun) to just make it exactly how I want and keep it for myself?

but also there is a problem of choice when you get to these plugin sized software. just look at the mvave fm1 custom firmware scene... a week or two ago there were like 10 choices... a month ago there were like 2... today its like 60+ just listed on this one site.

as a hopeful* user of these firmwares I can only pick one to be on the device at a time. at the pace people are making them there is no way ill be able to try enough to actually find the really great ones. even with the in browser simulators. what if that next new one is the really greatest... the humans with the judgement to know what they like are the bottleneck and we don't have days and days to try all the new software at the pace we can make it.

but also if i know for myself what i like... i can just add one more to the list that is exactly how i want it. which is exactly my plan. try a few see what feature i like or not then make one that is just for my needs.

*dear bezos i can not wait any longer for my package with mine to arrive.

https://fm1-editor.com/firmware/ one of probably many firmware lists out there.

funny, i always thought of lawyers very much like engineers.

just their "source code" is legaleese.

lots of overlapping concepts even... most contracts have a section where they define all the terms, like defining variables/types. there are clauses and such that guard against specific outcomes, like uhh guard clauses i guess....

even numbered sections like functions to reuse langage.

imean... they even call laws "codes" in places

the one thing that makes it very different is just that they are all stuck with a codebase that has been worked on for 500+ years and its very very hard to actually refactor anything.

also sometimes you dont know if the code will work or what it actually does until its run through the compiler to be executed (courts)

so yea engineers but for a different kind of system.

ianal, but presumably you could share a research document that explains the theoretical kinds of broad strokes of an all in one type system, and how youd verify it works.

if anyone decided on their own to put that it into a local model and generate their own version of something that met the theoretical spec thats their own deal...

step 1 invent science step 2 iteratively use it until you can prove a 150 year old theory about plant that eats bugs for nitrogen.

hard not to think its so cool that we have the capability to do stuff like this.

yeah they did exactly the opposite of the advice...

And id bet they put up with it because "getting flamed" in bar is like 1000% less toxic than most online games and so i stand by 'friendly' on the relative scale of competitive online games today.

Sorry you got me wrong, i want new players to have a great experience and games with mixed levels of players can be more fun. Im not saying you have to have done xyz before you should be allowed to play online.

however, installing the game and jumping into multiplayer and selecting the first open lobby is just not a good experience for anyone.

It is still a game with a learning curve and tons ways to climb it. For as steep as that curve is I might suggest that bar is one of the more newb friendly player bases.

Its like if you showed up in cod and literally didn't know how to move your character and somehow naded your team to cause them to lose. Do you think those players would be like "good on ya try harder next time, maybe use the joystick if you wanna move around"... no way.. But i see something like the bar version of that in noob lobbies all the time.

Still, it's a competitive online game, people can get frustrated with you if you literally don't know how to play. You will get frustrated with them trying to help you but not being especially nice about it. and it will be a bad experience.

It's a legit criticism that bar doesn't have a lot of guardrails to help you in the first days. in that sense its absolutely not noob friendly, nobody says it is. If a game has to be candy crush level simple to be "noob friendly" then bar is far to complex for that either, its just not that style of game.

follow my (probably still a bar noob) advice or not, im just trying to help you have a good experience in your first weeks in the game.

... and if suggesting that before you go into competitive play you literally just play the tutorial or vs ai is "complex" then bar is probably not the game for you, but if you ever end up in a lobby with me id still try to help you anyway.

ya, this drips with the common noob complaint that people flame you for being a noob.

unfortunately that is a totally fair assessment. its a deep and detailed game with lots of units, commands, mechanics and a few maps that have extremely developed meta.

this is only a problem if you think you can drop into multiplayer on literal day 1 without even doing any of the local/non ai learning options the game provides and expect your team to just deal with you not even knowing the basics.

And even then if you start in "noob" lobbies people are pretty helpful, to the extent that they are trying to play the game and give you tips and can only do/type so much.

so its simple... 1. play the scenerios/vs to learn the basics. also watch some yt basics guides 2. join noob lobbies. 3. when people try to help you and they sound mad/terse/short it helps to assume they are just busy with their own match and are doing their best to play and help you learn. if they give you advice try to take it. 4. do your best and ping out when things are going bad in your lane.

the community on there really is very much "nicer" to noobs that many games, especially ones that are co-op team based. but you do need to have realistic expectations. people will get upset if you mess up their games bc you havent at least tried to learn how to play at all.

i never played ta, but "beyond all reason" is worth mentioning as it seems to be also a more modern (relatively) take on ta. mostly similar units but a 3d engine etc. Also open source and free to play wo any of the dark patterns that pervert most modern multiplayer online games. "battle passes" , "pay to win", gambling "crates"

i havent played with the unofficial firmwares yet but i thought i saw that some of them have added sampling capabilities... wouldnt that make this exactly the kind of thing youd want? (assuming reasonable sample rates durations are possible on this hardware)

ya plus1 id read the crap outta that. your post earlier pushed me over the ehhh edge to ordering the fm-1. way moreso than the deluge of "music creation youtubers" who all made a video about it like this week.

instead of depleted uranium tipped ammunition we'll use deprecated ram chips.

said that as a joke then remembered how all the drone weapons being used in ukrane/elsewhere are in a way just computer chips with explosives and motors... so ya you may have a real point.

ya chargers are sneaky, i bet they are there, you just dont notice them. itll be a couple of stalls off in the corner of a lot. its def not perfect yet either, there needs to be more.

totally agree it would be a little annoying and things like workplace chargers or more chargers at apartments would make all the difference here, but its also zen, and like maybe a reason to get out of your house and find something to do is actually good for us. or ya know just chill in your car while it charges and watch tv.

but id still take an ev for total lower level total level of annoyance when you factor in everything from driving experience, maintenance, longevity, comfort, noise, smell, no gas stations, environment guilt. the overall user experience for evs is just better for most things and the for now annoyance of charging logistics is the trade off.

yeah the tt is a funny thing. we basically built and trained llms to the test... here is a prompt here is what a human would respond, copy that. I'm sure in the classic actual test parameters you could get llms to pass it. But we've had pre llm systems designed to the classic test that could fool a human too, which nobody would argue is agi.

maybe it is moving the goalposts by saying the classic test parameters are too narrow and humans are not actually that good at administering that test. But in the spirit of the turing test i think its pretty clear we haven't crossed it just yet in a general way. It's still pretty obvious when we are interacting with the machines. even when we arent chatting with them. genai images video, documents they create, webpages, etc. Not that its impossible to be tricked here or there or be unsure but id say the core idea of the turning test is still valid and that current llms and their outputs aren't generally passing it.

like for example you probably have a good idea right now if im an llm or wrote this comment purely out of my squishy human brain. that you can still somewhat regularly do that means the turing concept could still be sufficient even if we need to adjust the parameters of the actual test.

it is very nice not to need to carry metal keys around. but keypad "dumb" locks can do that. i def dont want a lock that requires an internet connection.

or you could just accept that a door lock itself is mostly a placebo that at best would slow down or deter only the laziest of intruder and leave your doors unlocked.

Sounds like your users are not your customers.

your ai subscription can also help you setup a vpn so even on-the-go wouldnt be a blocker.

the article also explicitly called out that boomers aging out of the market is a driving factor.

its easy to forget just how freakishly large that cohort is and how they are all steeped in alcohol as the primary way to an altered state.

As they get too old to drink for various health reasons it makes sense that california wine especially would take the hit because boomers also have all the money so they are the ones buying fancy wine.

the younger gens not backfilling the demand contributes but it was never going to be at boomer levels anyway.

Get ready for a lot more stories like this as boomers stop doing all kinds of things... traveling, buying cars etc.

I think it's true in the general case that people who want to create stuff (eg games) will create stuff and people who don't won't.

its hard bc everyone here is some form of builder. but there are people out there who just have almost no desire to create.

and even if we lower the bar for creating to "hey llm make me a new video game to play tonight" that will still come with all the baggage of creation and turn folks off.

ive heard but not confirmed that some store chains have apis to tell you what asile to find something on, but i assume that would probably require upc info which would be an annoying extra level of specificity to need to track and manage. you just wanna write "corn chips" not... "mission brand corn chips in the 64oz bag"

i built a similar app, but included more meal planning recipe management features and a "shopping mode" that goes section by section like this but just shows the next two things to grab as large clickable button as i found it annoying to fiddle with a list and checkboxes.

since its just got a simple api for adding new recipes its also easy for terminal based agents to add new stuff. its really solved the problem of the 20page prose about "why my way of cooking beans is so special" with the actual recipes hidden at the bottom thing.

we can also just snap a picture of a recipe in a regular cookbook to inject it.

then we mostly just need to pick what we want to eat that week and it does all the actual list building. we have a few special "recipies" for things we just buy every week as standards, milk etc. and the system knows which things are "staples" we probably already have in the house, flour etc.

I love the fridge magnet epaper idea from this though. especially for its potential during cooking to not need your phone or a tablet on the cooking surface

sure but also you need to be an apt dweller wo home charging options AND have enough of a daily drive that you need to charge that much.

it would be interesting to correlate apartment dwellers with their weekly commute miles.

we could come up with the number that range needs to get to so that the majority of people could only need to charge once a week. I bet current mid-range evs cover a surprising amount of people. Just guessing but i bet the number is like 280miles a week in metro areas.

Then it's probably not really a big deal to find a public charger somewhere you'd be spending the hour or so anyway. you dont see any newish shopping center these days wo a bank or two of chargers but also lots of parks, libraries and other places youd go that dont cost money have chargers now too.

It feels like its worse, maybe not as "convenient" as going to a gas station but also gas stations are pretty terrible places. smelly with who-knows-what fumes, usually pretty grimy, requires handling of toxic chemicals. Its faster but all things considered i dont think its remotely a "better" way to do it.