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dgavin

@dgavin@mastodon.online

Educator, Photographer, Translator of tech and all things Apple

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

(Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1)

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golgaloth, to books
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Tech bros should not be in charge of anything.

dgavin,
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@golgaloth As a service I let Claude write Moby Dick for Musk. Everything is in there I hope that‘s not too long for the genius Musks thinks he is:

Call me Ishmael. I sail on whaling ship Pequod under Captain Ahab, who seeks vengeance on a giant white whale, Moby Dick, that bit off his leg. Ahab's quest for revenge consumes him. In the end, Moby Dick sinks the ship. I alone survive.

tobybaier, to random German
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dafuq?

dgavin,
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@tobybaier @andreas_tengicki @vampirdaddy @root42 Es gibt viele Speicherlösungen, die mehr Sinn machen. Pumpspeicherkraftwerke (die in Zukunft wegen des Klimawandels öfter leer stehen werden), Gewichtsspeicher, selbst Batterien sind heute ökologisch sinnvoller

dgavin,
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@andreas_tengicki @vampirdaddy @root42 @tobybaier Strom produzieren und dann ca. 80% der erzeugten Energie im Wasserstoffkreislauf zu verlieren tönt nicht gerade smart…

stroughtonsmith, to random
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dgavin,
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@gruber @cabel @stroughtonsmith Do Americans realise how entirely different they see the role of government and their institutions than Europeans do? What you are criticising is the protections that also guarantee health care and reproductive rights for everyone over here.

aral, to ai
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You steal from one person and you’re a thief. You steal from everyone and you’re an AI company.

dgavin,
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@aral Good artists copy, great artists steal (Pablo Picasso)

dgavin,
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@aral since the 17th century "artists" is used for "one skilled in any art or craft" (including professors, surgeons, craftsmen, cooks).
I‘d argue that software engineers are artists too. AI models are not created by some abstract "trillion dollar companies" but by humans. Your class struggle rethoric is undercomplex and not helpful here (and I‘m saying this as a left social democrat).

potus, to random

I just met with my national security team for an update on Iran’s attacks against Israel. Our commitment to Israel’s security against threats from Iran and its proxies is ironclad.

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@Bam @jcriecke @potus Excuse me for having higher expectations from a state that calls itself a democracy than from an extremist theocracy. Methinks they are not so far away from each other… Netanyahu or Raisi, what's the difference? Corrupt politicians who would sacrifice their population in the name of their personal profit.

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@Bam @jcriecke @potus IRGC or IDF, who has more blood on it's hands in the last few years? Who killed more civilians, even children and women? Let's see what the UN says: IDF? Oh my, who would have thought? You defend you camp, but you should realize most of the world has gone from sympathy for Israel to contempt. Well done, Bibi!

dgavin,
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@Bam @jcriecke @potus The embassy of Iran was destroyed by an Israeli air strike. Embassies and ambassadors were deemed untouchable for centuries, if not millennia. What did Israel think would happen if it crossed this red line? I’m afraid that attack was only a start, Iran will seek revenge in a much more drastic way.

aral, to apple
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Oh no, no more tech-bro land-snorkles?

https://www.techspot.com/news/102727-apple-have-slashed-vision-pro-production-canceled-next.html

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@aral Oh jeez, why can‘t people learn from history? iPod? iPhone? iPad? AppleWatch? Every new product category had a sales slump after a few months. And smartasses immediately and smugly explained how these devices were too expensive, hadn‘t enough features or any other criticism you can hear now about the VisionPro.
Well, didn‘t turn out too bad for Apple. Every.Single.Time.
Learn from it!

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@aral Better? I remember that up until the early 10s I never made phone calls on the road because I didn’t want to be the only dork to do that.
Expectations change, the technology shrinks. Apple has the money and the patience to wait for it.

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The precede the .
https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/112399989793545485

dgavin,
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@aral @paninid @gerrymcgovern Of course, but our energy would be better used first fixing the real problems and then going after the crumbles 🙂

dgavin,
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@paninid @aral @gerrymcgovern About a million times more water is lost by leaky water pipes. A few data centres don’t really add up, if you look at the numbers…

sophie, (edited ) to random
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My friend used an AI song generator to generate a comedy country song about crabs, which was very entertaining, but the fact that this software exists makes me deeply sad because people have truly devalued the arts far beyond anything I could ever have imagined. In the same way as they are with images, people are going to use garbage AI generated music instead of paying actual musicians

dgavin,
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@sophie @frederic AI is to the 21st century what photography was to the 19th. Mediocre artists will become obsolete, great artists will use the new tools to redefine what art means. It may give hope to artists that even today there are still painters and classical music… the new always complements the old if the old is good enough.

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alexip718, to Georgia
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A University of Georgia student was sent this notice of interim suspension after he was arrested Monday at a protest.

The email at 5:09 pm asked him to explain why he shouldn't be suspended by 5:10 pm or it would go into effect at 5:11 pm.

(h/t Patrick Quinn/ATLNewsFirst)

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dgavin,
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@asbestos @alexip718 The same. Why should it be more?

dgavin,
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@alexip718 Seriously, if you want to study at an excellent university that respects you and won’t bankrupt you don‘t study in the US… we have some of the best universities in the world over here - a semester at the ETH Zurich costs about 700$, not 82’000$/a like the MIT. Then again, this is socialism…

kubikpixel, to fotografia German
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Das nicht bloss intelligente Compuer sind, sondern durch 'e Billigarbeiterinnen dafür ausgenutzt werden ist nicht neu aber immer noch selten erwähnt.

»Clickworker, Ausgebeutet für künstliche Intelligenz:
All die Anwendungen der künstlichen Intelligenz, über die wir im Alltag oft staunen, müssen trainiert werden. Das geschieht oft in armen Ländern. Billige 'e in Kenia etwa bearbeiten Millionen , und , aus denen die KI lernt«

🔊 https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/wissen/clickworker-ausgebeutet-fuer-kuenstliche-intelligenz-swr2-wissen-2023-08-24-102.html

dgavin,
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@kubikpixel @ivorytusk Die IT-Branche braucht einerseits Gewerkschaften, die sich für die Interessen der Mitarbeitenden einsetzen. Und andererseits bräuchte es internationalen Druck auf Niedriglohnländer, einen Mindestlohn einzuführen.

dgavin,
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@kubikpixel @ivorytusk Eine Freundin hat einige Jahre in Indien gelebt und in der Entwicklungshilfe gearbeitet. Sie sagt dazu, dass Clickworker tatsächlich viel zu schlecht bezahlt sind für diesen Job. In der Realität ist die Alternative aber kein besser bezahlter Job, sondern gar kein Job. Wir können im reichen Europa natürlich finden, diese Jobs gehörten abgeschafft, aber das ist eine ziemlich privilegierte Sicht…

parismarx, to tech
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Apple’s Vision Pro is a bad product with an even worse vision for the future of computation.

New sales numbers prove it’s a failure, but more than that it shows the idea of tech’s inevitability is a myth. We have the collective power to stop tech that doesn’t serve us.

https://disconnect.blog/the-vision-pro-is-a-big-flop/

dgavin,
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@parismarx @aral As were the iPod, iMac, iPhone and AppleWatch a few months after sales had begun. All gigantic, overhyped flops as we all know.

tante, to random
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"Statistics versus Understanding: The Essence of What Ails Generative AI"

A few good examples.

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/statistics-versus-understanding-the?publication_id=888615&post_id=141635411&isFreemail=true&r=1pb4bt

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@tante @ivorytusk Whoever writes a text in February 2024 about how AI sucks and still uses GPT 3 to prove his point has no clue. GPT 4 provided an excellent answer to the first question.
I‘m still not convinced most humans are more than gullible stochastic parrots, guided by a sense of probability in everything they do. I mean, a majority of US citizens voted for Trump. And is ready to do it again! Even GPT 3 would be way more intelligent…

lynx, to random German

Gesucht: Sudoku App für iOs, muss 16x16 Modus haben, aber ohne nervtötende Werbung.
Kostenpflichtig auch OK, solange gerechtfertigt (keine Werbung, gutes Design, Updates) und kein Abo-Modell.

Tipps?

dgavin,
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@lynx Good Sudoku ist die beste. Und bei Apple Arcade kostenlos dabei.

SheDrivesMobility, to random German
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    dgavin,
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    @SheDrivesMobility Und gleichzeitig mit 75% eine Rentenaltererhöhungsinitiative der Jungfreisinnigen abgelehnt. Schlechter Tag für unsere FDP 😂

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    Woran erkennt man heuchlerische Politiker? Zum Beispiel daran, dass sie die Vorzüge der Globalisierung (wie weltweite Absatzmärkte und günstige Produktionsstandorte) begrüssen, aber deren Herausforderungen (wie erleichterte Migration oder soziale Mitverantwortung in den günstigen Produktionsstandorten) ablehnen.
    Was auf die meisten Konservativen zutrifft.

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    Colorful Annecy is well worth a visit

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