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drahardja

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Software since 1998. Ex-Apple. I smushed AppKit and UIKit together and never looked back.

Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. LGBT+ rights are human rights. Healthcare, security, a decent income, and housing with dignity are human rights. Abortion is healthcare. Science is our best hope as a species. Kindness and empathy are the noblest of human traits.

I block assholes and bigots.

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drahardja, to ai
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On the other hand, successful lawsuits against companies for the output of lousy chatbots will put a dollar amount on the liability of using chatbots to talk to customers, and may actually reduce their usage. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112452961167345476

drahardja,
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Remember that a chatbot agreed to sell a Chevy Tahoe for $1, which made the dealership take it down. https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/ai-blunder-chat-bot-sells-2024-chevy-tahoe-for-1/ar-AA1lMHF7

drahardja, to random
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There we go. Glad I left and deleted all my posts while I still could. https://mastodon.social/@verge/112453327276706532

drahardja,
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@JustChapman Maybe. I did what I could.

drahardja, (edited ) to random
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I love it when Apple does things like these: whimsical and natural-feeling details that make the device easier to use. Kudos to the team. Beautiful work. https://www.threads.net/@snazzyq/post/C7CpmYevMwf

drahardja,
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@Aaron That was exactly what came to mind. That shining chrome animation was so expensive to run those days, because the accelerometer was way more power hungry.

drahardja, to random
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lol what could go wrong. https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/112453249727382695 https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/112453249727382695

drahardja, to iOS
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If you ever think that you’re disrespected, or nobody cared about you, remember that Safe Area Insets is out there and feel better.

#ios #humor #ux

drahardja,
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@dave tamic is on speed dial

drahardja,
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What did I say about Safe Area Insets!?

https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112453663832192301

drahardja,
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@Leehro I have not

drahardja, to random
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Nice try, Samsung, but

  1. The audio was terrible and very obviously out of sync with the video.
  2. You didn’t show me how Samsung tablets were better (I saw they can display sheet music, wow very nice).
  3. You ended the ad with “With Galaxy AI”. Do you understand why people were mad at the Apple ad in the first place? It was because AI was crushing human creativity. https://mastodon.social/@verge/112449473882043669
drahardja, to random
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I’ve always been aware of my mortality, but man, growing old SUCKS ASS.

drahardja, to generativeAI
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Much as I dislike the theft of human labor that feeds many of the #generativeAI products we see today, I have to agree with @pluralistic that #copyright law is the wrong way to address the problem.

To frame the issue concretely: think of whom copyright law has benefited in the past, and then explain how it would benefit the individual creator when it is applied to #AI. (Hint: it won’t.)

Copyright law is already abused and extended to an absurd degree today. It already overreaches. It impoverishes society by putting up barriers to creation and allowing toll-collectors to exist between citizen artists and their audience.

Labor law is likely what we need to lean on. #unions and #guilds protect creators in a way that copyright cannot. Inequality and unequal bargaining power that lead to exploitation of artists and workers is what we need to address head-on.

Copyright will not save us.

“AI "art" and uncanniness”

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/#invisible-hand

drahardja,
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@990000 I would go further to say that applying copyright law to AI will take us further from the equitable future we want. If copyright is successfully applied to AI, what we will see after the dust settles is a handful of media behemoths that profit mightily from AI, without slowing down the damage that AI does to the value of creative human labor.

I always return to this pithy guide by @emilymbender when thinking about this topic: we need to think of AI as automation, albeit one that is more effective at displacing a wide variety of human labor than ever. We can’t use copyright to stop automation; it will just enrich a different set of kingpins without stopping its effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK0md9tQ1KY

drahardja,
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@kyozou Please read the article I linked. It has the answers to your question.

drahardja,
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@ron_miller Please read the article. It explains why.

drahardja,
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@breadbin @pluralistic I’m all for UBI. It solves a TON of problems. And it can be paid for by enacting a wealth tax, restoring the very high tax brackets of Eisenhower’s time, increasing corporate tax rates, and funding the IRS.

You’re right that the barn door is open for copyright pursuit of AI. Behemoths like NYT may win, and artists’ lawsuits agains Stability and Midjourney seem to be making progress. We may have to live with the consequences of extending copyright yet again to cover AI, probably to the benefit of a handful of incumbent media owners.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/stability-ai-midjourney-should-face-artists-copyright-case-judge-says-2024-05-08

cabel, to random
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I feel like we can all just say “price” instead of “price point”. And “design” instead of “form factor”. Thank you 🙏

drahardja,
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@peteralee @cabel Not if I get paid by the word.

drahardja,
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@cabel High rate of speed

drahardja, to random
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These are all genuinely great features. https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/112446255249267183

drahardja, to TeslaMotors
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Oh look, another Elon company stiffing its contractors.

“Texas property records show that Hydroz is one of more than two dozen companies that have filed at least 72 liens since 2019 against sites developed by SpaceX and its contractors. Combined, Reuters found, the liens have sought payments totaling more than $2.5 million.”

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/musks-spacex-is-quick-build-texas-slow-pay-its-bills-2024-05-13/

drahardja,
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@pixel At this point I think they’re both raised by the same absent father.

drahardja, (edited ) to tesla
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Oh wow, no way, I thought firing everyone in the Supercharger division was a deliberate, well-thought-out decision!

“Here's the inside story of why Elon Musk fired the entire Tesla Supercharger staff—Employees say it was a snap decision after he got an answer he didn't like”

https://www.autoblog.com/2024/05/15/heres-the-inside-story-of-why-elon-musk-fired-the-entire-tesla-supercharger-staff/

stroughtonsmith, to random
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I know people like to think iPadOS 'forked' from iOS when it was renamed a few years back, but it really didn’t. If you install Xcode, both iPhone and iPad simulators run out of the exact same OS root. It's the same set of apps, the same SpringBoard — it just decides which features you get at runtime based on screen size and a feature map. That's not a fork; the name essentially means nothing. A brand new $4,000 iPad runs the same OS as your six year old phone

drahardja,
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@markv @stroughtonsmith Be careful what you wish for; you might get it.

An iPhone/iPad fork done poorly will introduce a burden to developers. Given that the iPad addressable market is tiny compared to iPhone, some developers may decide to not support iPad at all, rather than spend effort making their app work on both platforms.

But a fork done well will spur iPad sales (at the expense of Mac sales, not iPhone), and make the device much more useful.

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