RickRussell_CA

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RickRussell_CA,

It wasn’t like we could hold him in breach of contract or something

That sort of points to the nature of the problem, doesn’t it? The world relied on Musk’s sense of charity for MONTHS and did nothing to either pay for or substitute Starlink.

I mean, just saying it out loud, “Musk’s sense of charity”, should cause the kind of vomit into one’s own mouth that immediately merits attention and forces one ask, “What the hell did I swallow?”

Who is working to give Ukraine an alternative to Starlink? Anyone? If not, then yeah, they handed the reins over to Musk and didn’t do jack squat to fix it. That’s not Musk’s failure.

RickRussell_CA,

I’m not sure there is much intersection between PC & console gamers and social/casual gamers.

I can’t speak for anybody else, I guess, but neither I nor any gamers I routinely interact with play these freemium/social/mobile type games. Like, at all.

I think that looking to ourselves and our habits for answers will not tell us much, as those gamers are not in our sphere of influence.

RickRussell_CA,

Although I generally agree with the premise of the article, I don’t think the author does himself any favors when he points out many perfectly legitimate reasons that the cuts are happening (documented declining enrollment in humanities, a history of financial planning issues that affect all WVU budgets, humanities making up a minority of cuts, etc).

Are the humanities being cut due to political or ideological pressure? What is the actual evidence that the cuts are ideological in origin? After presenting lots of specifics around finances, the author is curiously nonspecific on that point.

RickRussell_CA,

Err…

Users will keep their exisiting (sic) email addresses on this service, and would get it free for the first year. After that, there will be options of paying for a service, or an ad-based free service after that.

So, what’s the problem, exactly? Just take the ad-based free service. Gmail, Yahoo, etc. are ad-based free services too. Nobody is forcing them to change anything.

RickRussell_CA,

Yeah, my mom has been using AOL.com since the 90s. When the dedicated client went away, I pointed her at mail.aol.com and she was fine. She’s still using it today.

RickRussell_CA,

Sure, but the core complaint of the article – that folks are forced to changed ALL their e-mail based authentication to a new address – is without merit.

RickRussell_CA,

Bogus!

File sync solutions with a specific trait

I’m basically looking for something like Seafile, that behaves similarly to Dropbox and Google Drive but doesn’t sync EVERYTHING to each client. This is incredibly useful as my laptop (macbook pro) only has 256GBs of storage, but often I’ll use Seafile to grab files from my Windows 10 PC or phone. I’ve messed with...

RickRussell_CA,

Google Drive eliminated its full sync default a long time ago. Ironically, I have the opposite complaint – I’d like some folders to be synchronized ALL the time, and some NEVER, and Google Drive no longer gives you any direct control over what gets synchronized. It’s all controlled by some implacable internal algorithm with no exposed preferences.

International chess federation FIDE: a trans woman "has no right to participate in official FIDE events for women" (doc.fide.com)

The international chess federation known as FIDE has published new rules that state that a person whose "gender was changed from a male to a female the player has no right to participate in official FIDE events for women until further FIDE’s decision is made"....

RickRussell_CA,

I need clarification. What does “social advantage” have to do with chess performance, or the restricted competition class of women’s chess?

RickRussell_CA,

Other reasonable suggestions have been offered for the existence of the women’s competition.

But honestly, I have no clue to what degree women players were involved in this decision.

RickRussell_CA,

Short version:

  • Police chief was accused of sexual impropriety, and the newspaper was investigating.
  • A prominent local restaurant owner got caught in a DUI and the newspaper got a tip and investigated. On investigation, they decided the story was not newsworthy.
  • Police raided the newspaper claiming that the DUI tip was the result of illegal computer hacking, and that they had to confiscate the computers to analyze for evidence of hacking.
  • The judge who signed the search warrant also had a history of DUI.
  • Critics believe that the police used this hacking claim as a thinly veiled excuse to cripple the newspaper and check to see what they really had on the chief.
  • Critics have also suggested that the police themselves may have leaked the information to set up the flimsy excuse for the search.
RickRussell_CA,

Even if everything is encrypted when powered off, and decrypted while running, if you get raided while everything is running, it’s irrelevant.

Well, you can hit the power switch. The local constabulary isn’t gonna be smart enough to plunge the computer into liquid nitrogen and work on extracting the symmetric key from the frozen memory (although, federal authorities might be).

RickRussell_CA,

Well, you can work on a Veracrypt partition.

RickRussell_CA,

It’s layers on an onion. Every extralegal step they take provides a possible mitigation if you go to trial.

Obviously, if they straight up murder somebody, that’s a whole different problem. But in general, you should invoke your rights at every step of the process, so that if they trample over those rights you’ll have an argument in court to get evidence or charges thrown out.

RickRussell_CA,

Why not buy another plug? You can get USB cables at the dollar store. Make sure to check continuity on the damaged connector, and the new cable & connector, so you can match up the pins.

RickRussell_CA,

we didn’t ‘sell’ the monoblock, but rather auctioned it for charity

Jesus. It doesn’t matter whether you sold it or auctioned it. It doesn’t matter if it was for charity. What matters is that IT WAS A ONE-OF-A-KIND PROTOTYPE THAT DIDN’T BELONG TO YOU AND YOU AGREED TO RETURN IT (and the RTX3090 they sent with it), and you didn’t do what you promised.

Everything wrong with LTT is summed up in this response. Instead of going to the company’s CEO and composing a response on behalf of the company, we get a bunch of over-personalized complaints about hurt feelings and imperfection, fired off only 3 hours after the GN video, that make it 100% clear this is all about Linus’ personality rather than a dispassionate review of the facts.

RickRussell_CA,

But they couldn’t find a 3090 to test it with! Not even the 3090 that the company sent with the cooling block. Cough.

RickRussell_CA,

With respect, whether it can properly be called “intellectual property” or not, is not the point.

It was a one-of-a-kind engineering sample that LTT agreed to send back when they were done with it. LTT did not fulfill their obligation, and when Billet Labs asked about it, they got stonewalled.

RickRussell_CA,

Look at the timeline. LTT went silent for weeks until GN called them out.

Also next time maybe put a label on the thing “Prototype Not for Sale. Property of Billet”, like every other prototype.

Gimme a break; LTT knew it wasn’t for sale, that’s 100% clear from the emails before they auctioned it off.

RickRussell_CA, (edited )

Chip Wilson admitted that he chose the name Lululemon because he thought it would sound exotic and Western to Asian customers, and because he thought it was funny to hear Japanese people pronounce it.

When Wilson was CEO, he made comments in 2005 saying that it was funny that Japanese people couldn’t pronounce the “L” in Lululemon.

“It’s funny to watch them try and say it,” he told Canada’s National Post Business Magazine when asked about the Japanese pronunciation of his company’s name.

Wilson denies saying it, according to the New York Times.

source

Pokémon Company Uses Fan Music In Trailer Without Crediting The Fan - Techdirt (www.techdirt.com)

Fans are expressing their concerns after The Pokémon Company seemingly used fan-created music in a recent trailer for the Pokémon Scarlet & Violet DLC, The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero. The uproar began shortly after today’s Pokémon Presents wrapped up. While many tuned in for updates on things like Detective Pikachu...

RickRussell_CA,

Don’t worry, in a few years, they’ll just use an AI trained on copyrighted music to write an “original” score, declaring the training inputs to be “fair use” and the output to be “transformative”, and all those pesky concerns about licensing will go away.

As well as a fair whack of cash.

RickRussell_CA,

I won’t minimize or dismiss that in any way

Err, yeah, but you kind of are doing exactly that.

The threat to art (writing, visual arts, and music) is that AI tools will be “good enough” that the average person can’t tell the difference on cursory examination. And they only get “good enough” because they’re training on YOUR STUFF. And my stuff, and all the other stuff that was written, drawn, painted, composed, played, by real human people. And you’re not getting compensated for that training at all. None of us are.

So you absolutely should care if your work is scraped and appropriated by LLMs, because we’re not far from a time when businesses fire all their copywriters and graphic artists because the $30/month AI subscription gives them results that are “good enough”.

RickRussell_CA,

In the real world, artists pay their way by doing commercial work, or holding down a day job as a graphic designer, etc. Actors do commercials and Hallmark specials while looking for their break into serious theater. Writers put in hours writing ad copy or translating or speechwriting while trying to sell the Great American Novel. You call it poison, but ultimately it puts food on the table for artists and their families.

These roles can ONLY be displaced if AI is allowed to steal everyone’s work, and flood all available channels with mediocre AI paraphrases and transcriptions of that work. That’s the decision point we’re facing right now – do we stand idly by and allow big tech to replace workers by copying the fruits of human labor without compensation?

We can debate whether AI output is “good enough” for various use cases. And in some cases, you’ll be absolutely right that AI will never produce a convincing product for particular use cases. But that’s not the issue. The issue is whether it’s right for companies to steal the work of humans to use as training inputs, and flood the market with that mediocre output. AI producing sh*tty output doesn’t make it morally acceptable to steal, and to profit from the stealing.

RickRussell_CA,

And by choosing to let AI take your stuff and use it however, you’re facilitating the economics that will allow AI to take the jobs of artists, and by extension, replace art all around us with mediocre pap spewed from the orifice of AI for the price of a premium subscription to ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion, or similar.

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