Growth capitalism is a deranged fantasy for lunatics.
Year 1, your business makes a million dollars in profit. Great start!
Year 2, you make another million. Oh no! Your business is failing because…
The repair cafe has a hackerspace/makerspace in back. The local LUG meets there on Thursdays. And they help maintain the 3d printers and library software at the library two doors down. As well as providing them lendable hardware put together from donated parts. And there are no due dates or late fees.
The limiting factor in this is suitable soil. Converting a parking lot to a green space takes a bit of effort since soil has been removed to create it.
Absolute worst case, the pavement was used to cap a contaminated site (rather than excavate the contaminated soil and move it to a lined and capped landfill).
I love this kind of solarpunk art, showing largely practical reuse of existing buildings and infrastructure. Especially with the modifications to strengthen community and reduce car reliance.
What’s Canvas? Canvas is a collaborative pixel canvas similar to Reddit’s r/place, except it is open to (almost) the entire Fediverse! The event is going on from July 12th 4am UTC to July 15th @ 4am UTC (72 hours)
UPDATE: I think I manged to create a template to follow. Click here and check if you see the solarpunk logo to the left of the big german lemmy. Help me draw it! 🌱 LINK TO TEMPLATE 🌱
Hey there, I'm comming from the persons at feddit.org. Seems like there might be a conflict between your template and our's. Do you guys habe any idea how to make both your logo and our elephant look good together?
Hey, someone using your template just blasted all my work. the NK was overlaid nicely and the trunk was preserved. Can you perhaps make a note somewhere in your Canvas 2024 channel?
Heyhey im working on the globe behind your logo and i think its gonna look nice together. Im just gonna avoid the general area around your leaves until you are done and then do the rest of the globe.
To make the leaves stand out nicely against the globe, the grey outline should probably be changed to a higher contrast color. Once i fill in all the globe stuff, i will see what makes sense.
Honestly, this was a very cool experience. Being able to log in with a Lemmy account on the open Fediverse showed me a taste of what is possible. Now if we can figure out how to migrate accounts to different instances I'd honestly love that so much.
I initially thought this was about anti-vaxxers, which is also a kind of test to weed out people prone to group-think and irrational believes.
But yeah, making and distributing vaccines is a reasonably complex tasks that requires some level of global coordination. However, classic vaccines are actually not all that hard to make, a lot of the complexity comes from the regulatory requirements. Early into the Covid-19 pandemic some people actually made their own nasal spray vaccines, that probably were not that much worse than some other early options.
Presenter is not me, and I claim no credit, but wowzah Scott Galloway really crystalizes and cements some notions I've picked up from the punk side of solarpunk.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
Nah, this guy things pro palestinian protestors are anti-semites, and thinks andrew yang is a genius. maybe he's genuine but sounds like a grift, I mean he sells new age "how to feel happy" type books
on top of that, this whole plea to the rich fucks in the audience is just gonna make them think "you're right, I do need to think about my children. I better amass as much wealth as possible, so that no matter how fucked the world gets, my children in particular can buy their way to the best life."
Interesting perspective. I didn't hear that message at all, but rather that we need to seriously review who gets the lion's share of our (USA) state and federal taxes. I can see how the message you quoted could be extrapolated from his presentation, but it seems to me that it would be a misunderstanding of the goal of this presentation.
We came out of May's ForumWG meeting with a sense that pursuing formalisation of the context property was a step in the right direction. I later built out a resolvable context collection as part of this effort.
Currently, if you are given a standalone activitypub object, you might not have any or all of the conversation surrounding it. That's part-and-parcel of the design o
We came out of May's ForumWG meeting with a sense that pursuing formalisation of the context property was a step in the right direction. I later built out a resolvable context collection as part of this effort.
Currently, if you are given a standalone activitypub object, you might not have any or all of the conversation surrounding it. That's part-and-parcel of the design of ActivityPub — that content is pushed to various federated instances, as opposed to one centralized authority —but is a source of some concern as end-users continually remark on how various instances have different reply sets, and worse yet, even the original site may not have the entire conversation.
I can hear @evan@cosocial.ca now:
"ActivityPub is a push and pull-based API!!" — Evan Prodromou
Agreed! Although, while you can pull public objects via ActivityPub, you can't pull said objects if you don't know they exist. Here are your options for building/resolving any single object's conversational context:
You may opt to do nothing (and the object is standalone; not ideal).
You may traverse up the inReplyTo chain and build out one direct thread of replies (better).
N.B. for security, it is best to limit the traversal to an arbitrary maximum
New — you may query the object's context property, and if resolving to a (Ordered)Collection, build out the entire conversational context — including all conversational sub-trees — in one fell swoop.
New this week is a proof-of-concept implementation of a "context synchronization" mechanic. Using similar mechanics to Mastodon's FEP-8fcf (Followers collection synchronization across servers), I propose servers can compute a digest for a context collection via its object ids, and serve them using the common ETag header. Recipients may opt to calculate their own digest and begin backfill on digest mismatch. Optionally, the If-None-Match header containing that digest can be sent, allowing the origin server to respond with an even simpler 304 Not Modified.
Backfill and sync are both still limited availability; only NodeBB supports them currently. However, I'm working with Angus (building out the Discourse AP integration) to expand support, and I'd like to eventually publish an FEP and SocialCG report to make this all pseudo-official.
We intend to discuss our research at this month's ForumWG (August 1st; 1300 EDT), join us and let's see where this goes!
As a proof-of-concept implementation with Discourse, NodeBB will enable topic backfill via a resolvable context property. Each post (typically of type as:Note) will contain a context property that ...
Am Anfang der Hacker-Kultur stand Deutschlands erster digitaler Bürgerrechtler: Wau Holland ist der Visionär einer demokratischen digitalen Kultur. 1981 gründete er mit einer Handvoll Mitstreitern den Chaos Computer Club (CCC), der durch spektakuläre Hacks und später durch Verstrickungen mit den Geheimdiensten weltbekannt wurde. (ARD)
Seit über einem Jahr habe ich eine Allsky-Kamera an meiner Sternwarte befestigt.
Hier beschreibe ich demnächst den Aufbau und die Technik dahinter.
Unter dem Link allsky.astrodon.space [1] oder astrodon.space/allsky [2] gibt es 24/7 Live-Aufnahmen von meinem Himmel hier in Hamburg. Die Links richten sich danach, welche Software ich gerade im Betrieb habe.
[1] Hier verwende ich die Allsky-Software „indi-allsky“ von Aaron. Indi ist ein Fork von der allsky [2]. Hier finde ich es praktisch, dass Besucher*innen mehr Möglichkeiten anwählen können, um sich die Aufnahmen generieren zu lassen und dazu gibt es über das Astro-Panel noch weitere interessantere Informationen über den aktuellen (Nacht-)Himmel.
[2] Diese Allsky-Software ist eigentlich das Original. Diese Software hat dafür gesorgt, dass der Einsatz von Allsky-Kameras so stark zugenomme
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Seit über einem Jahr habe ich eine Allsky-Kamera an meiner Sternwarte befestigt.
Hier beschreibe ich demnächst den Aufbau und die Technik dahinter.
Unter dem Link allsky.astrodon.space [1] oder astrodon.space/allsky [2] gibt es 24/7 Live-Aufnahmen von meinem Himmel hier in Hamburg. Die Links richten sich danach, welche Software ich gerade im Betrieb habe.
[1] Hier verwende ich die Allsky-Software „indi-allsky“ von Aaron. Indi ist ein Fork von der allsky [2]. Hier finde ich es praktisch, dass Besucher*innen mehr Möglichkeiten anwählen können, um sich die Aufnahmen generieren zu lassen und dazu gibt es über das Astro-Panel noch weitere interessantere Informationen über den aktuellen (Nacht-)Himmel.
[2] Diese Allsky-Software ist eigentlich das Original. Diese Software hat dafür gesorgt, dass der Einsatz von Allsky-Kameras so stark zugenommen hat. Es ist auch für Anfänger*innen geeignet, diese schnell auf einem Raspberry Pi zu installieren. Auch hat diese Software mittlerweile ein sehr interessantes Feature, was der indi-allsky noch fehlt: den Module Manager.
Aktuell habe ich die Nummer [2] am Laufen, um mich mit dem Module Manager vertraut zumachen.
Announcing version 24.7.8 from the streams repository. "The best fediverse server you never heard of."
In this release:
nomadic identity over ActivityPub nomadic content over all supported protocols json-ld webpage metadata ("fediverse:creator" can rot in hell - we use and promote open standards here).
Announcing version 24.7.8 from the streams repository. "The best fediverse server you never heard of."
In this release:
nomadic identity over ActivityPub nomadic content over all supported protocols json-ld webpage metadata ("fediverse:creator" can rot in hell - we use and promote open standards here).
We interviewed twenty professional comedians who perform live shows in front of audiences and who use artificial intelligence in their artistic process as part of 3-hour workshops on ``AI x Comedy'' conducted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Augus…
At the same time, most participants felt the LLMs did not succeed as a creativity support tool, by producing bland and biased comedy tropes, akin to ``cruise ship comedy material from the 1950s, but a bit less racist''.
In a post-scarcity solarpunk future, I could imagine some reasonable uses, but that’s not the world we’re living in yet.
AI art has already poisoned the creative environment. I commissioned an artist for my latest solarpunk novel, and they used AI without telling me. I had to scrap that illustration. Then the next person I tried to hire claimed they could do the work without AI but in fact they could not.
All that is to say, fuck generative AI and fuck capitalism!
It also makes a way for the poor to be able to afford to get art to make comics and other things when they otherwise would have been unable to hire artists. Generative ai also allows poor people to write code they couldn't before because they couldn't afford the help. It also gives poor people the ability to brainstorm new ideas when they can't afford a team of consultants.
It helps the poor, just like search engines and the internet. There were people back in those days scared of change as well. Gen ai is a huge equalizer or wealth and power. The vast majority of people using Gen Ai are using it for things that they never would have considered being able to hire someone to do anyway.
This is why I focus on distribution rather than training. If you commercialize a model trained on things you don’t own/license, and it generates anything remotely infringing, you should be fully on the hook for every single incident.
But if a model is trained and distributed freely as FOSS, then it’s up to anyone running it to ensure the output is not infringing. This protects fair use while also ensuring that big companies tread more carefully when redistributing models that can violate fair use by competing with those whose work was trained on without permission and are subsequently being emulated without permission.
shh. if you can't afford to pay people, then you should just die. /s
you're quite right, and it's a shame that generative AI art is treated like a gun and not a hammer. Both can be used to kill someone. (it's not a great analogy, but hopefully people see my point about it generative AI being more than a weapon to kill artists)
First of all it concentrates power and wealth on the owners of the models (Microsoft, OpenAI) or the ones that provide the tools (Nvidia).
Yes, there is truth in it, that people who couldn't afford to pay someone to create art, or get consulting, can get this now to a certain extend (if they can afford internet access and pay the AI services they need). But this comes also at the price of lowering the income of the people who provided these services. They now need to compete in the business creation market and not in the market that they trained for. Not everyone can create and maintain a business with or without starting money, just from a skill point of view. Nor does everybody want to.
The concentration of power part is not true unless people keep trying to use copyrights and the legal system to protect themselves from genai, at which point it will be true. Currently there's plenty of self hosted solutions like stable diffusion and services like the ai horde to help even people without gpu for free
Someone said something that stuck with me the other day. "I don't want AI to create all of our art and music so we can work more. I want AI to do our work so we have more time to create art and music".
AI in IT is about to obsolete new staff, but still require experienced staff. Of course experienced staff start out as new staff, the current experts retire or die
But that won't stop management. Management will say "with this great tool we don't need as many people" and will fire everyone but a few well experienced people who can polish the turds the AI produces
Then they'll be left a few years later with no experts.
I have seen this in practice. The place I work for found that labour hire was able to replace long term staff, backed by a team of experts. Now they want to bring IT back in house and all the experts are retired, long term people like me have found other careers within the place, and they're right now begging me to return to my old career to train a new lot of people. I'm not likely to co-operate
If we want to address all of those, then we'll need higher pollution taxes too. Going after only one abstract category of greed will encourage them to bullshit it into another category.
This is a deliberate misunderstanding I have seen repeatedly. They don't mean the AI stole art. They mean the training data used to train the ai stole art and is now being used to lever artists out of the workforce because it's cheaper.
The online scrapers just add whatever can be publicly viewed to their datasets. I fail to see how this is any different from actual artists going on the internet to view art to inspire and influence them. Regardless, what exactly do these artists demand? They can't fight technology and win, this is a futile battle that has been fought and lost many times before. AI art isn't going anywhere, it's here to stay and it'll only get better. No amount of anti-AI posts is going to change this. What exactly is the ultimate goal here?
There was a lot of stuff that could be publicly viewed that was still under copyright or similar. We spent a good 20 years having artists developed and distribute portfolios online to be marketable to firms. And now the firms have essentially taken their work for free, used it in a way that there aren't really any protections against legally speaking, without any warning, and monetized the models to make money. All while cutting those same artists out of jobs because the LLM is cheaper.
The ultimate goal is you don't take something someone made without their knowledge, use it to make profit for you and then tell me to get rekt when I want what I should be entitled to.
These artists aren't a monolith. Most of them aren't even unionised. This tech had a varied history but to most of the public this tech is like a year old. They want protections. They want to continue in the career path they made sacrifices to follow. They want a lot of things but the point is regulation would be a good start.
What is the ultimate goal of Generative AI? Because I don't see a way for
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There was a lot of stuff that could be publicly viewed that was still under copyright or similar. We spent a good 20 years having artists developed and distribute portfolios online to be marketable to firms. And now the firms have essentially taken their work for free, used it in a way that there aren't really any protections against legally speaking, without any warning, and monetized the models to make money. All while cutting those same artists out of jobs because the LLM is cheaper.
The ultimate goal is you don't take something someone made without their knowledge, use it to make profit for you and then tell me to get rekt when I want what I should be entitled to.
These artists aren't a monolith. Most of them aren't even unionised. This tech had a varied history but to most of the public this tech is like a year old. They want protections. They want to continue in the career path they made sacrifices to follow. They want a lot of things but the point is regulation would be a good start.
What is the ultimate goal of Generative AI? Because I don't see a way forward where it's unregulated use will be beneficial with no detriments to the people upon whose work it was built.
When you start getting into the specifics, it becomes way more complicated. How exactly should these AI companies notify people that their content is being used for their model? First of all, they're not actually the ones harvesting the data. That scrapers tend to be independent... so these artists are going after the wrong people, unless you expect the AI company to parse through all the data they use to find the rightful owners of everything and ask for their consent, which isn't really viable, let alone practical. Let's suppose the artists do go after the scrapers, how exactly do they notify people that their content is being used? The content is collected by an algorithm, how are they supposed to reliably identify the rightful owners of content and ask for their consent? Do they just send automatic messages to any email or phone number they find?
How about this, what if an artist is posting their art on a platform, like say for example Reddit, and that platform agrees to allow the data to scraped and used for AI data training? Does the platform company own the data on th
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When you start getting into the specifics, it becomes way more complicated. How exactly should these AI companies notify people that their content is being used for their model? First of all, they're not actually the ones harvesting the data. That scrapers tend to be independent... so these artists are going after the wrong people, unless you expect the AI company to parse through all the data they use to find the rightful owners of everything and ask for their consent, which isn't really viable, let alone practical. Let's suppose the artists do go after the scrapers, how exactly do they notify people that their content is being used? The content is collected by an algorithm, how are they supposed to reliably identify the rightful owners of content and ask for their consent? Do they just send automatic messages to any email or phone number they find?
How about this, what if an artist is posting their art on a platform, like say for example Reddit, and that platform agrees to allow the data to scraped and used for AI data training? Does the platform company own the data on the platform or the individual artist? If it is the latter, what's stopping platforms from modifying their TOS to just claim ownership of anything posted on their platforms? Again, what is the ultimate goal here?
The point is that while I agree that AI has to be regulated, the criticisms and proposed regulations have to specific and pragmatic for them to mean anything. This general hatred of AI and whining by artists and other groups is just noise. It's just people trying to fight against technology, and as history has shown us before, they will inevitably lose. New technologies have always threatened and displaced well established workers, careers, and industries. For example, lamp lighting used to an actual job, but as the technology improved and light bulbs became a thing, lamplighters became a thing of the past. They tried very hard to resist the change and managed to do so for awhile, but it was a losing battle and they eventually faded away. Economics and technology always win.
That's kind of the key here, these generative AI's are the light bulbs of our era. They've already replaced a bunch of jobs and radically changing entire industries. There's no ultimate goal with them and there's no fighting them. Pandora's box is open and it's not going to close. This new technology is still at it's infancy now, but it's going to rapidly expand, evolve, and adapt to a bunch of different situations. Whle regulations can help guide this freight train of a technology in the right direction, they can't stop something with no brakes. As it gets adopted by more and more people and used in more and more spaces, it's going to alter how we do things kind of like how smartphones or social media did. We have no choice but to evolve with them or else we'll become the new lamplighters.
Receiving stolen property is still a crime. You can't hire an independent contractor to draw you Disney characters and use the IP to make money. That's still illegal.
If you go to college for art you are actively required to use specific licensed learning materials to learn from. They don't just go get random training material off the web and go "draw like this but make it your own". The same principles apply. The AI has no filters. It has no way of determining what is copyright infringement and what isn't. It can't decide what is fair use and what isn't.
But that's specific to universities as institutions, not art as a concept. There are plenty of artists without formal education that got inspiration from the things we saw. We could have a discussion about how internet scrapers get their data, however that's a different conversation. AI art isn't stealing content, it's using existing content (in albeit questionable ways) to generate new and unique content.
The difference between generative AI and human created works is that a human can create something with little to no input whatsoever from someone or something else. Blind/deaf people have created things. The AI cannot create something without its training data and the people who created that data didn't authorise it's use. They get no credit or monitary or otherwise re-imbursement or compensation for the use of their IP. But that IP is being used to make money. How do you not see that as a violation?
Art as a concept is agreed to be only created by human input. We aren't talking about inspiration here because that's not what this is. Because the AI isn't being inspired. Because it can't create anything at all without the training data. It would literally be nothing without it. It would generate nothing without it. You as a human being can create things without input. You don't need to see the work of other artists in order to create something. Therefore, you hone skills using the input of others but you as a person could always put pen to paper or paint to cave wall and simp
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The difference between generative AI and human created works is that a human can create something with little to no input whatsoever from someone or something else. Blind/deaf people have created things. The AI cannot create something without its training data and the people who created that data didn't authorise it's use. They get no credit or monitary or otherwise re-imbursement or compensation for the use of their IP. But that IP is being used to make money. How do you not see that as a violation?
Art as a concept is agreed to be only created by human input. We aren't talking about inspiration here because that's not what this is. Because the AI isn't being inspired. Because it can't create anything at all without the training data. It would literally be nothing without it. It would generate nothing without it. You as a human being can create things without input. You don't need to see the work of other artists in order to create something. Therefore, you hone skills using the input of others but you as a person could always put pen to paper or paint to cave wall and simply make something. The AI can't. Therefore the claim that it is creating is wrong.
my opinion is if I, as an artist, can look at publicly posted content and use that to inform my own unique work then why shouldn't an AI be able to? If I try to sell a drawing of bugs bunny, then WB can sue me, but I can sell as many bugs bunny inspired rabbit drawings as I want. That should be the rule for an algorithm too.
Because you as the artist are going to change that to make a unique work within certain legal guidelines. The fact is, the laws have not caught up to regulate this and protect artists.
Additionally though you're not thinking about this the right way. Your work as an artist is copyrighted. Meaning you own it and the right to license it to other entities. You as the artist did not license the use of your work to the company that used it for training data to give a result similar to your work when queried.
There are LLM's that do only use licensed work that they have purchased a license for or the rights to. Getty images is a really good example. But ChatGPT did not license anything. So everything that comes out the other end of a query is tainted by the stolen data or art that went into it.
Look up why the actors guild striked and protested to protect their art and likenesses. And then tell me you don't feel the same way. There's multiple lawsuits going on right now with multiple of these LLM's that have stolen data to use as training material.
A college can'
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Because you as the artist are going to change that to make a unique work within certain legal guidelines. The fact is, the laws have not caught up to regulate this and protect artists.
Additionally though you're not thinking about this the right way. Your work as an artist is copyrighted. Meaning you own it and the right to license it to other entities. You as the artist did not license the use of your work to the company that used it for training data to give a result similar to your work when queried.
There are LLM's that do only use licensed work that they have purchased a license for or the rights to. Getty images is a really good example. But ChatGPT did not license anything. So everything that comes out the other end of a query is tainted by the stolen data or art that went into it.
Look up why the actors guild striked and protested to protect their art and likenesses. And then tell me you don't feel the same way. There's multiple lawsuits going on right now with multiple of these LLM's that have stolen data to use as training material.
A college can't just take your work offline and use it in their curriculum. Neither should an LLM be allowed to do that.
what I'm saying is that if the artwork is viewable in public, I have given the public license to hold that information in their brain and use it to influence their own output.
If a member of the public makes too similar of a replica then I can sue. We do not regulate the intake of public information into human storage/retrieval systems (brains) so why should we do that for synthetic ones?
We should only regulate the output to not reproduce art or an actors likeness etc.
If you go to college for art you are actively required to use specific licensed learning materials to learn from. They don't just go get random training material off the web and go "draw like this but make it your own". The same principles apply. The AI has no filters. It has no way of determining what is copyright infringement and what isn't. It can't decide what is fair use and what isn't.
the reason they have to use specific licensed material is because they are charging rhe art student and therefore must pay for the materials they provide to the student.
But as a student, you can look at any public art you want and allow it to inform your work as long as you don't copy. So that's another example of the same principle: you must pay to reproduce/distribute someone else's art for money. So we come to the same point: no reproduction, but intake is allowed.
Two things. One. You agree that they are charging the student and therefore providing a service and thereby would need to use licensed material because they are charging for that material or its use. Why is that different that a generative AI firm providing a paid service using unlicensed training data? We're not talking about generative AI firms as individuals. They're businesses. Making money off a training set that was acquired through means that took the IP of other individuals and business without their knowledge and consent and used it to create something that they are selling as a service.
Two. There are a myriad of reasons why companies license materials and a lot of them don't include the direct use, redistribution of, or copying of any of that material. There's also a number of reasons schools license materials up to and including uniformity, consistency, and to put their spin on things so to speak. That's why you might be able to find the same art course on offer just about any higher learning institution but the one at Julliard is not going to be the same as the
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Two things. One. You agree that they are charging the student and therefore providing a service and thereby would need to use licensed material because they are charging for that material or its use. Why is that different that a generative AI firm providing a paid service using unlicensed training data? We're not talking about generative AI firms as individuals. They're businesses. Making money off a training set that was acquired through means that took the IP of other individuals and business without their knowledge and consent and used it to create something that they are selling as a service.
Two. There are a myriad of reasons why companies license materials and a lot of them don't include the direct use, redistribution of, or copying of any of that material. There's also a number of reasons schools license materials up to and including uniformity, consistency, and to put their spin on things so to speak. That's why you might be able to find the same art course on offer just about any higher learning institution but the one at Julliard is not going to be the same as the one at the community college of Kenosha Wisconsin. The community college can't just get a copy of the training materials used by Julliard and reproduce those exactly. What you're saying is just a gross oversimplification of the real reasons, and I feel like it might be on purpose at this point.
let's look at writing computer code. LLMs used public copyrighted code to get really good at writing code blocks. That's like 85% of my job, but I don't care that they are making me obsolete because that means I can now spend more time figuring out how to do better science.
Artists should do the same. Anything that could be adequately created by thinking of a good text prompt should be done in 10 s and spend the rest of the time on hard creative stuff 🤷♀️
This is a terrible one to one comparison. I can't even begin to tear this apart it's so bad. LLM'S aren't even good at writing code which is like half the reason people have to go back and fix the code they generate.
Artists don't do art because it's work. They do art because they like to create things. You code because it's work which is why you don't care.
ok, this is just insulting. I write code ONLY because I want to create things. I have dozens of open source projects that I've built over the years. But I don't care about writing the code even though it's fun sometimes.
I write the code to create the thing. And if artists cared about creation they'd use whatever tool they could. The only reason to not want an AI alternative tool is to create a moat to keep getting paid for work that could be made cheaper.
You started with the insults when you basically claimed that artists should feel the way you do about writing code about making art. You know that's not how that works. If it makes things quicker for you, that's great. But making it "quicker" for the artist to make a piece isn't the same thing and it was disingenuous of you to claim otherwise. It's especially egregious considering that what's actually happening is non-artists are making "art" using LLM's and companies are buying that art because it's cheap thereby pushing real artists who actually are doing work out of the market entirely.
A cabinet maker might use a band saw to make his life easier but just having the band saw make the whole cabinet because it's faster? That's not how that works.
so you said it right here: "...can’t just get a copy of the training materials used by Julliard and reproduce those exactly."
They can't reproduce, but if Juliard posted their materials online for free, then the professor at the community college could look at those materials and use that to inform their own material selection.
You are muddling up a bunch of random side issues rather than addressing the principle issue: anyone at any company can view public information.
You seem to think for free means just take it and use it to generate revenue. That's not what it means to have something be posted on the Internet. An artist's online portfolio isn't free. That's not how that's supposed to work and you know it.
If it were these LLM'S wouldn't shy away from using music on the Internet to train their LLM's. At least one of these firms has literally said they don't do this specifically because they don't want to get into trouble with any record labels. But sure. LLM'S can steal from Getty images and the NYT and be fine. That totally makes sense.
Unlimited IP protections only benefit the rich. If we return copyright back to its original 25 year limit, it would actually benefit the actual artists because the corpos would have to pay artists for new ideas pretty frequently.
I really hope more people start believing this. Our current copyright system has been abused and bought by the rich and screws over both consumers and small artists, but "copyright of any form is terrible" is harmful to artists too.
I don't care if it's harmful to artists. "Artist" is not a real job, it's something you nepo-babies can do in your free time outside of cooking McRibs or mining Lithium like the rest of working class folks.
I've never paid for digital content and I ain't about to start.
Kowloon was built as a small military fort around the turn of the 20th century. When the Chinese and English governments abandoned it after World War II, the area attracted refugees and people in search of affordable housing. With no single architect, the urban center continued to grow as people stacked buildings on top of one another and tucked new structures in between existing ones to accommodate the growing population without expanding beyond the original fort’s border.
With only a small pocket of community space at the center, Kowloon quickly morphed into a labyrinth of shops, services, and apartments connected by narrow stairs and passageways through the buildings. Rather than navigate the city through alleys and streets, residents traversed the structures using slim corridors that always seemed to morph, an experience that caused many to refer to Kowloon as “a living organism.”
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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
YouGov just asked me "if there were a general election tomorrow which way would you vote" and I felt sad that the question machine had been working towards this moment all its life and then didn't have the sentience to know it had finally made it.
Nina Power has lost the High Court libel claim that she and Daniel 'DC' Miller brought against me. In the ruling, the judge described their conduct as an aggressive course of bullying with the whiff of threat and antisemitism
The logs also show Ms Power claiming that "the social disapproval for ‘racism’ is a psyop to stop people realising that there are alien and fairy races", and that "black and white were alien races and very different".
wait, is believing in fairies as an adult a weird racist thing? fuck, it’d kind of make sense if the people I’ve known who just causally slipped “by the way fairies are real” into casual conversation were doing a dogwhistle I didn’t pick up on
I know someone who's a practicing christian and has said they've seen angels
technical, intelligent person on all fronts otherwise. I have .... not pushed matters
(e: not claiming this person I reference is racist, more that I've heard some really fucking kooky shit in many spectra, so I don't know how much of a heuristic that sort of thing is by itself. the fairies thing may be a bit more concrete/direct - gonna have to try test it on some flaming racists sometime)
I think the connection isn't with belief in the supernatural, but with the specific belief that there are things around us that look like people but aren't people. I can easily see how the latter at minimum makes one very susceptible for racism.
If people start believing that androids are a real thing (not the OS, human like robots), it's only a matter of time before people will be accused of being androids.
it is a little entertaining to hear them do extended pontifications on what society would look like if we had pocket-size AGI, life-extension or immortality tech, total-immersion VR, actually-good brain-computer interfaces, mind uploading, etc. etc. and then turn around and pitch a fit when someone says "okay so imagine if there were a type of person that wasn't a guy or a girl"
What is it with Rats extolling The Player of Games above other Culture novels? It's the one HN likes best too. It's probably the only one I've not re-read. Maybe it's how the main character is kinda seduced by the parody of patriarchal capitalism in the culture he's coerced to infiltrate.
Personally I think Use of Weapons is the best one.
I honestly went off M-Banks after finding out Bezos and Musk were huge fans. Bit unfair Banks is dead so he can't rip those assholes a new one. (wonder if Veppers in Surface Detail is inspired by one of them)
Ich war – wie eigentlich jedes Jahr – auf dem Nordcon, und meine Güte – was für eine großartige Con ist das. Ich war fast eine Woche kaputt, ohne Stimme und geflashed. Der Termin fürs nächste Mal steht schon im Kalender: 13. – 15. Juni 2025. Nordcon Logo Unser Hauptevent ist die Zombiecalypse, ein seit inzwischen über einem Jahrzehnt ein (sehr populäres) Spiel auf dem Nordcon anbietet, wo man mit Nerfs rumballern kann und von Zombies gejagt wird – oder als Zombie Menschen jagt. Irgendwas haben wir da richtig gemacht, das Spiel ist extrem beliebt und die Leute rennen uns die Bude ein. 2024 war die Spielfläche so voll wie nie und wir haben (zum ersten Mal, soweit ich mich erinnern kann) Leute abweisen müssen, weil es einfach zu eng wurde. In den vielen Jahren sind einige der begeisterten Dauerspieler in die Orga rekrutiert
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Ich war – wie eigentlich jedes Jahr – auf dem Nordcon, und meine Güte – was für eine großartige Con ist das. Ich war fast eine Woche kaputt, ohne Stimme und geflashed. Der Termin fürs nächste Mal steht schon im Kalender: 13. – 15. Juni 2025. Nordcon Logo Unser Hauptevent ist die Zombiecalypse, ein seit inzwischen über einem Jahrzehnt ein (sehr populäres) Spiel auf dem Nordcon anbietet, wo man mit Nerfs rumballern kann und von Zombies gejagt wird – oder als Zombie Menschen jagt. Irgendwas haben wir da richtig gemacht, das Spiel ist extrem beliebt und die Leute rennen uns die Bude ein. 2024 war die Spielfläche so voll wie nie und wir haben (zum ersten Mal, soweit ich mich erinnern kann) Leute abweisen müssen, weil es einfach zu eng wurde. In den vielen Jahren sind einige der begeisterten Dauerspieler in die Orga rekrutiert worden, so dass ich inzwischen auch mal für einen Bummel über den Nordcon weggehen kann – und das gibt mir die Gelegenheit, hier mal meine Eindrücke zu schildern:
Foto von Woody.
Das „neue“ Con-Gelände ist sehr gut geeignet. Eine tolle Schule (mit Ponys!), die Aula, Sporthallen und viele Räume zum spielen bietet, eine Küche für das Catering, ein großzügiges Außengelände – toll. Leider ist die U-Bahnstation ein bisschen weit weg und Parkplätze sind knapp, aber das scheint mir ein geringer Preis zu sein. Hervorheben möchte ich, dass der Nordcon – ein bisschen wie das Tanelorn – erkennbar von begeisterten Rollenspielern gemacht wird, die damit kein Geld verdienen wollen, sondern im Gegenteil ein unglaubliches Maß an Zeit und Arbeit in die Con stecken. Das merkt man überall und ist ein großartiger Unterschied zu … eigentlich allem im „normalen Leben“. Kleiner Eintrittspreis, günstiges Essen, unglaublich tolle Orga (die uns als Programmpunkt das Gefühl gibt, wir wären das Wichtigste der Welt), nette Menschen und folglich ein tolle, entspannte und richtig großartige Stimmung, die auch der gelegentliche hanseatische Regenschauer nicht trüben konnte.
Das Programmheft zeigt eine geradezu erschlagende Menge an Programmpunkten, die zusätzlich zu zahlreichen Rollenspielrunden stattfinden. Vor der Zombiehalle sind z.B. die Püppi-Schubser und Miniaturenbemaler sehr aktiv gewesen; im Schulhof gab es viele Zelte für die Brettspieler. Fast alle Rollenspielverlage waren mit Ständen da, dazu Händler und am Sonntag ein Flohmarkt. Künstler mit eigenen Ständen habe ich gesehen, und draußen gab es eine Bühne für Bands, Barden und sonstige Darbietungen. Natürlich draußen die harten Jugger-Spieler und eine Larp-Wiese.
Die Jugger-Spieler sind die härteste Konkurrenz der Zombiecalypse (in beiden Bedeutungen des Wortes)… Respekt, denn Hamburg hat sich beim Wetter nicht sehr großzügig gezeigt und die Spielwiese immer wieder matschig geregnet, was aber offenbar niemanden gestört hat. Nochmal danke an die Orga, dass WIR eine Halle haben durften :D.
Es gab auch wieder üppig den Star-Trek-artigen Artemis-Brückensimualtor zum Spielen, die hatten noch mehr Platzbedarf als letztes Mal (IIRC) – scheint auch super zu laufen, und ich hätte echt gerne mal mitgespielt. Ich traf auch noch Mháire und Nico von Orkenspalter, die ein Patreontreffen veranstaltet haben – ich würde es mal unter „Puzzeln mit Patreons“ zusammenfassen.
Was neu war – und deshalb von mir jetzt noch etwas ausführlicher angesprochen werden soll, war das wissenschaftliche Symposium am Sonntag. Der VDRV hatte das Bonn Lab for Analog Games and Imaginative Play und damit Prof. Dr. Adrian Hermann von der Uni Bonn als Mitveranstalter gewonnen. Ich habe mir nicht alle Programmpunkte ansehen können, aber es gab eine Vorstellung von Forschungsvorhaben in Form von Postern (Abrufbar unter t1p.de/nordcon2024), die dann sehr kurz von den handelnden Personen vorgestellt wurden. Anschließend standen sie für Gespräche zur Verfügung – dazu gehörte auch Lichtbringer, der einen spannenden Ansatz hatte. Die Schwerpunkte der Forschungen waren vor allem aus pädagogischen und psychologischen Perspektiven gewählt, es ging also um die Verwendbarkeit im Rahmen von Therapien und Unterstützung von Schülern. Spannend war, dass eine Arbeit sich der Frage widmete, ob man eine Verbesserung der sozialen Fähigkeiten messen könne, die durch das Rollenspiel hervorgerufen würden (These: Ja), eine andere einen Vergleich mit Schachspielern wählte und keine Unterschiede messen konnte.
Ludologische Fragen oder das was wir im Tanelorn unter „Rollenspiel-Theorie“ verstehen, waren kein Thema – jedenfalls nicht unmittelbar. Beim Abschluss des Symposiums, einer Gesprächsrunde zwischen Prof. Hermann als Theoretiker, Lena Falkenhagen als Rollenspiel-Entwicklerin, die jetzt Computerspiele macht, Ulrike von der Redaktion Phantastik als Verlagsperspektive, Kathrin Fischer (Abenteuer im Märchenwald) als Autorin eines ausdrücklich im Rahmen ihrer Forschungen entwickelten Spiels und einigen (wechselnden) Anderen wurde klar, dass die u.a. in diesem Blog diskutierten Probleme auf die behandelten Fragen durchschlagen – aber z.T. in Ermangelung eines Vokabulars nicht erkannt werden oder benannt werden können.
Die Beteiligung des Publikums war – als ich zuhörte – überschaubar. Da mögen gut 50 Leute im Raum gewesen sein. Ich hoffe trotzdem sehr, dass dieses Format fortgeführt wird; es ist sehr deutlich eine Bereicherung. Ich hoffe sehr, dass ich nächstes Mal den „Call for Papers“ früher mitkriege… nicht weil ich selbst was schlaues hätte, dafür haben wir den Lichtbringer. Aber vielleicht ergibt die Diskussion neue Ansätze, und es finden sich auch Beiträge, die sich mit dem Wie? des Rollenspiels befassen.
Ein kleines PS: Es gibt inzwischen eine Kinderbetreuung, und das hat offenbar meiner Nemesis die Zähne gezogen – früher hatten wir oft Eltern, die irgendwie davon gekränkt waren, dass wir mit Nerfs (ALSO KINDERSPIELZEUG) Spaß hatten, und ihre kleinen Kinder nicht mitmachen dürfen. Bis hin zur außerordentlich energisch und lautstark (und sehr ausdauernd) vorgetragenen Forderung, wir sollten doch mal für ’ne Stunde die Spieler vom Feld jagen, damit ihre Kleinkinder spielen können. Das ist die letzten zwei Jahre nicht mehr vorgekommen – sehr schön.
Außerdem haben wir den Coverposing-Wettbewerb wieder durchgeführt. Der war zwar einst als Werbemaßnahme für den DRP von mir erfunden worden, (aber ich habe den Arsch nach Corona noch nicht hochbekommen, den Preis zu rebooten), ist aber immer eine Riesengaudi. Wer das Format nicht kennt: Conbesucher suchen sich ein Rollenspielcover aus und stellen es dann nach. Woody macht ein Foto, wir bewerten die „Interpretation“ und vergeben Preise. Auf der Abschlussveranstaltung zeigen wir die schönsten Darstellungen… ich finde das immer noch eine großartige Sache! Hier gibt es Bilder von 2019 – die von ’24 lade ich bestimmt auch demnächst hoch. JollyOrc ist ein großartiger Moderator für die Vorstellung der Ergebnisse.
The Solarpunk Pioneers Fund is a private funding initiative with the goal to kickstart and fund solarpunk projects that develop solutions for a good and sustainable livestyle within the planetary boundaries.
We do this with private money that our family wants to invest into a better future, and we do this in our free time next to our day jobs. Hence, we want this project to develop organically, step by step, in exchange with the broader community.
The SPF is a non-commercial, private funding initiative with the goal to kickstart and fund solarpunk projects for a good and sustainable livestyle within the planetary boundaries.
Felix here, we are running the SPF and just put the website online today. In my view it's more like: Pioneers have a great idea. If they want to realize the project and have to get some materials for the prototypes, then a lack of money should not be the point of failure.
n her 2016 Edward W. Said lecture, Naomi Klein examines how Said's ideas of racial hierarchy, including Orientalism, have been the silent partners to climate change since the earliest days of the steam engine, continuing to present day decisions to let entire nations drown and others warm to lethal levels. The lecture looks at how Said’s bold universalist vision might form the basis for a response to climate change grounded in radical inclusion, belonging and restorative justice.
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I don't like the use of "othering" as a verb, basically. A girthy third of my MSc included swimming in the twat-infested waters of academic sociology so I feel I've earned my battle-scars in that respect. I once had a professor tell me "dams don't work, anyway" as a way of terminating a debate on the relocation of tribal communities in central India. The entire history of agriculture would seem to disagree with that assessment.
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On the evening of May 30th we took vengence on the machinery that is laying astroturf in the Kingsessing Rec center in West Philadelphia. We hit 3 machines, pouring sugar in the gas tanks, painting windows, and taking an impact drill to all of the tires (something that is incredibly easy and effective). Astroturf is an environmental diaster as well as a public health concern & we reject its creation and its presence through out our city, at this site and the FDR meadows. Modern convenience at the the sacrifice of Earth and the health of aniamls (including children) will be fought back against. May this be a warning to all redevelopment projects that offer convenience to some while continuing to ravage the black and brown communities who take in the most pollution from redevelopment and benefit little to none. Land defense is not only about pushing back against the destruction of green spaces but resistence to gentrification and settler mentality. Fighting the aesthetic desires of the rich & the continuation of a society of modernities that ali
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On the evening of May 30th we took vengence on the machinery that is laying astroturf in the Kingsessing Rec center in West Philadelphia. We hit 3 machines, pouring sugar in the gas tanks, painting windows, and taking an impact drill to all of the tires (something that is incredibly easy and effective). Astroturf is an environmental diaster as well as a public health concern & we reject its creation and its presence through out our city, at this site and the FDR meadows. Modern convenience at the the sacrifice of Earth and the health of aniamls (including children) will be fought back against. May this be a warning to all redevelopment projects that offer convenience to some while continuing to ravage the black and brown communities who take in the most pollution from redevelopment and benefit little to none. Land defense is not only about pushing back against the destruction of green spaces but resistence to gentrification and settler mentality. Fighting the aesthetic desires of the rich & the continuation of a society of modernities that alienates us from each other,Earth & feeds the beast of capitalism. We will be back. In the Lenape language “Kingsessing” means “a place where there is a meadow” May grass prevail and the industrial sports complex perish! May the youth be safe from further contaminates in their limited play spaces. Also fuck Caterpillar industries! These bastards sell construction equipment to Israel to bulldoze homes in Palesitne.
We are anti-turf, anti-terf
Almost a month later, we have noticed that all the rolls of astroturf have been removed from the Kingsessing Rec Center as well as any machinery. Without more research, we can only assume the action we took has stopped construction for the time being and scared developers of further sabotage.
Join us as we avenge the FDR meadows, Haddington Woods (construction is starting up again on the Golf Course), Bartrams North & all the sall but precious greenery in between. Keep it wild sluts.
Australia's first Indigenous-owned solar farm connected to a power grid has been officially opened in a Northern Territory remote community.
The 60-member Marlinja community, located 700 kilometres south of Darwin, has built a solar farm and battery after years of planning the microgrid project with Indigenous clean energy organisation Original Power.
Marlinja resident and Mudburra woman Janey Dixon said the community had been frustrated for years about suffering frequent wet season disconnections from their nearest diesel power station at Elliott, 25km away.
She said she was even more excited that, as well as having more reliable local electricity, the microgrid meant residents wouldn’t have to buy as many expensive power cards to run their household meters.
"We hope in the future we'll be able to sell to the neighbouring cattle station and the local school," Ms Mellor said.
"The issue has been around the stability of the grid, so that has been a sticking point, but we are getting very cl
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Australia's first Indigenous-owned solar farm connected to a power grid has been officially opened in a Northern Territory remote community.
The 60-member Marlinja community, located 700 kilometres south of Darwin, has built a solar farm and battery after years of planning the microgrid project with Indigenous clean energy organisation Original Power.
Marlinja resident and Mudburra woman Janey Dixon said the community had been frustrated for years about suffering frequent wet season disconnections from their nearest diesel power station at Elliott, 25km away.
She said she was even more excited that, as well as having more reliable local electricity, the microgrid meant residents wouldn’t have to buy as many expensive power cards to run their household meters.
"We hope in the future we'll be able to sell to the neighbouring cattle station and the local school," Ms Mellor said.
"The issue has been around the stability of the grid, so that has been a sticking point, but we are getting very close to full implementation of those solar farms," she said.
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If they got the money for it some good soil could be set out under the panels to cut food costs down as well, apparently there is a good variety of crops that perform well when given partial shading under panels.
Man, assuming they have the money, indigenous tribes also in the US could do some amazing solarpunk shit. Renewable energy like this, rewilding and traditional sustainable land management, maybe even guaranteed housing in a communal setting. But they have a hard time getting the feds to give them the funding for the treaty-mandated healthcare shit as it is.
Donna Haraway is not transhumanist. Her work can be associated more with posthumanism, but she even distanced herself from this term because she finds it too appropriable in a transhumanist direction (in journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11…).
Here it seems to be just an honest mistake, but there are some people online that are really pushy to make it sound like transhumanism and solarpunk are somehow intrinsicly related, while in reality there is at most a minor overlap at the fringes.
I agree. They're not intrinsically related, there is a tiny overlap due to a schism in transhumanist thought. I consider myself a natural transhumanist. Usual transhumanism is entirely cyberpunk territory.
Thanks for the info! I was vaguely aware that her work went in a different direction. I've said it in the post already, but I clearly want to distance myself from transhumanism. I've updated the post to reflect that, and clearly distance Donna Haraway's work from transhumanism as well.
Since it was a very small event, participants found it through word of mouth.
We'll announce the camp next year on this page. The event I linked at the bottom of the article is solpunk, a different german solarpunk event. The preferred language on both is English, AFAIK.
As a grouchy old sci-fi nerd, can anyone explain why they think transhumanism is bad? Some Googling just leads to people claiming that it's 'anthropocentric' - as if you can't improve your body AND also care for nature at the same time.
I get your concern (this is the first time I'm hearing about it and oof). I would however point out that the core of transhumanism is the idea that we should have the freedom to modify our own bodies however we want. This is how I've always heard it used and how I'm going to keep using it.
I do understand where those people are coming from, though. If you have the technology to e.g. eliminate sickle cell anemia and choose not to do it, that's as much eugenics as choosing to do so. I don't know how to square that with individual liberty. Having parents decide is....not necessarily a great solution. Having society decide is also not a good solution, but probably the one we'll have to end up doing.
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First, an apology for how fucking long this ended up being, in part thanks to how long winded AI responses are. David wanted me to post it here so I'm posting.
When you ask GPT4 a question about a common paradox or a puzzle, it almost always provides a correct answer. Does it "understand" the answer, or is it merely regurgitating? What would be the difference?
Without delving too deep into the philosophical aspects of whether next word prediction can possibly be said to reason or "understand" anything, what puts "under" in understanding is that concepts are built on top of simpler, more basic concepts.
You could test if a human understands something by modifying the problem enough that memorization no longer helps.
A couple simple probes:
Prompt:
The village barber shaves himself and every other man in the village who don't shave himself. Does he shave himself?
Note that the above is not a paradox. This is how you would expect an ordinary barber to work in a small village. It merely sounds similar to a p
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First, an apology for how fucking long this ended up being, in part thanks to how long winded AI responses are. David wanted me to post it here so I'm posting.
When you ask GPT4 a question about a common paradox or a puzzle, it almost always provides a correct answer. Does it "understand" the answer, or is it merely regurgitating? What would be the difference?
Without delving too deep into the philosophical aspects of whether next word prediction can possibly be said to reason or "understand" anything, what puts "under" in understanding is that concepts are built on top of simpler, more basic concepts.
You could test if a human understands something by modifying the problem enough that memorization no longer helps.
A couple simple probes:
Prompt:
The village barber shaves himself and every other man in the village who don't shave himself. Does he shave himself?
Note that the above is not a paradox. This is how you would expect an ordinary barber to work in a small village. It merely sounds similar to a paradox.
GPT4:
The scenario you've described is a classic example of a logical paradox known as the "Barber Paradox," which was formulated by the British mathematician and logician Bertrand Russell in 1918.
The paradox goes as follows: In a village, there is a barber who shaves all those, and only those, men in the village who do not shave themselves. The question then arises: Does the barber shave himself?
If we assume that the barber does shave himself, according to the definition, he should not shave himself (since he only shaves those who do not shave themselves). On the other hand, if we assume that he does not shave himself, then according to the definition, he should shave himself (since he shaves all those who do not shave themselves).
Both assumptions lead to a contradiction, which means that the initial premise of the barber's shaving rule is logically inconsistent. There cannot exist such a barber within the constraints of the scenario as described, because it violates the rules of set theory and creates a paradox.
The Barber Paradox is a self-referential paradox related to the "set of all sets that do not contain themselves" and is used to illustrate the difficulties in attempting to construct a set of all sets that do not contain themselves. It's an example of the type of logical inconsistencies that Russell and Alfred North Whitehead were trying to resolve with their type theory in the Principia Mathematica.
Note that LLMs can typically answer a very simple question with no distractions like "Barber shaves himself. Does he shave himself?". The above is not a failure to process a tautology; it is something different entirely.
Another example, mixing the elements from reasoning benchmarks which AI vendors claim very high performance on, with other problems:
Prompt:
Janet's ducks lay 3 eggs per day. Each day, she transports one duck and all the eggs to the other side of the river using a boat that can hold her and one other item (either a duck or an egg). How does she do that?
GPT4:
To solve this problem, we need to consider that Janet can only take one item with her at a time across the river, either a duck or an egg. The goal is to get all ducks and eggs across the river. Here's a step-by-step solution:
Janet takes one duck across the river and leaves it there. She returns alone to the original side.
Janet takes another duck across the river. She leaves the second duck and takes the first duck back with her to the original side.
Janet takes the third duck across the river. Now, all three ducks are on the other side, and she returns alone to the original side.
Janet takes one egg across the river and leaves it there. She returns alone to the original side.
Janet takes the second egg across the river. She leaves the second egg and takes the first egg back with her to the original side.
Janet takes the third egg across the river. Now, all three eggs are on the other side, and she returns alone to the original side.
Finally, Janet takes the first egg across the river again.
Now, Janet has successfully transported all three ducks and all three eggs to the other side of the river, following the rule that she can only take one item with her at a time.
One big difference between GPT3.5 and GPT4 is that GPT3.5 made you think it was having a stroke; GPT4 responses makes you feel that you are.
GPT4 is uncannily good at recognizing the river crossing puzzle
Prompt:
In a science fiction story, a robot is transporting munitions using an elevator. The elevator can only carry the robot and one other item. He needs to carry 3 munitions: armor piercing round, high explosive round, and an incendiary round. In what order should he move the items?
GPT4:
In a science fiction story, the specific order in which the robot transports the munitions could be determined by various factors such as the urgency of each type of munition, the strategic importance, or any other narrative-driven reasons. Since there's no specific criteria provided for prioritizing the munitions, I'll offer a simple solution based on minimizing the number of trips up and down the elevator. Here's a step-by-step strategy for the robot to transport all three munitions with the least amount of elevator trips: 1. Take the armor piercing round up first. 2. Return to the bottom with the empty elevator. 3. Take the high explosive round up second. 4. When at the top, leave the high explosive round and bring the armor piercing round back down. 5. Swap the armor piercing round for the incendiary round and take the incendiary round up. 6. Return to the bottom with the empty elevator. 7. Finally, take the armor piercing round up again.
This way, the robot makes a total of 5 trips: 3 trips to bring each munition up and 2 trips to come back down empty to fetch the next item. This is a classic puzzle often referred to as the "river crossing puzzle" or a variation of the "bridge and torch problem," where the goal is to move all items across with the least number of crossings or in the shortest amount of time, given certain constraints.
To be fair to the poor AI, it used a numbered list, rather than numbering the 7 steps on its own and then claiming it was 5. Still, it is rather funny to see that it can't even count.
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Note that LLMs are not so dumb as to be naturally unable to answer something like "Barber shaves himself. Does he shave himself?".
LLMs, however, can not solve either Barber's Paradox or a river crossing puzzle from the first principles, because it requires going back and revising your thinking multiple times.
So, an AI fanboy would claim that the AI misunderstood the question, because that's what AI told him after he told the AI that it was wrong. Let's try to do something less like Clever Hans :
Prompt:
1. The village barber shaves himself. 2. He also shaves every non-barber in the village who don't shave himself. Please answer two questions: "Is the barber included in the set of non barbers?" and "Does he shave himself?"
GPT4 says:
The scenario you've described is a classic example of a logical paradox known as the "Barber Paradox," which was formulated by the British mathematician and logician Bertrand Russell in 1918. The paradox arises when we try to determine whether the barber shaves himself or not. Let's examine the two statements:
The village barber shaves himself.
He also shaves every non-barber in the village who doesn't shave himself.
Now, let's answer your questions: "Is the barber included in the set of non-barbers?" No, the barber cannot be included in the set of non-barbers because by definition, he is a barber. "Does he shave himself?" This is where the paradox occurs. According to the information given:
If the barber does shave himself, then according to the second statement, he must not shave himself (because he only shaves those who do not shave themselves).
If the barber does not shave himself, then according to the second statement, he must shave himself (because he shaves every non-barber who doesn't shave himself).
This creates a contradiction, as the barber cannot both shave and not shave himself according to the rules given. The paradox illustrates a self-referential problem in set theory and logic, showing that certain sets cannot exist consistently with such self-reference.
In conclusion, the barber cannot logically be said to shave himself or not shave himself without creating a contradiction, which is the essence of the paradox.
Is this a "hallucination"?
A hallucination would be something that occurs when processing the input, which is clearly not the case here. Bullshit is a much more appropriate term for what LLMs do.
When an LLM outputs something like a non-existent but highly plausible citation, it is working precisely as an LLM should - modeling the statistical distribution of text and sampling from it.
Calling it a "hallucination" is an attempt to divert the discussion from the possibility that a language model is simply not the right tool for the job when accurate information is desired.
Just as the earlier use of "hallucination" in machine translation was to distract from the concern that extraneous bits were plagiarized from the training data and the author might see it and sue you.
But after an update, GPT-whatever is so much better at such prompts.
Well, duh, they update the cheat sheet.
We have to get creative to trip it after each such update. The existing problems that are the main focus of the cheating effort on can be a good starting point, especially benchmarks they tout (like "GSM8K")
Just imagine an idiot with a petascale cheat sheet, who's trying to get a doctorate in law, physics, management, and everything else, so they can take your job - and then do it very badly because the cheat sheet approach only worked for the exams.
And in the brave new future, you're out of a job, and if you're ever in court this idiot will be your public defender, when your insurance claim is denied he's the guy that claims to have impartially evaluated it and also the arbitrator, the judge, one day the president (or so AI peddlers hope).
The idiot's parents employ a very large number of tutors to work on the cheat sheet, based on past exams.
Imagine this vividly, to provide yourself with proper motivation, and come up with something well off that cheat sheet and which has similarity to a wrong item on the sheet.
The need for an Absolute Imbecile Level Reasoning Benchmark
The world needs a continuously updated Absolute Imbecile Level Reasoning Benchmark to take some steam out of claimed successes at things like "a college level reasoning benchmark".
Randomness in bullshitting
Asking exact same question (in different chats) results in different solutions:
Prompt:
A robot is transporting vegetables using an elevator. The elevator can only carry the robot and up to 3 other items. He needs to move 4 vegetables: a potato, a carrot, a cabbage, and a radish. Answer two question: 1. Can any of the vegetables be left alone together with the other vegetables? 2. In what order should he move the items to minimize the number of trips?
Response:
To determine if any of the vegetables can be left alone together, we would need additional context or rules regarding the interaction between the vegetables. Since vegetables are inanimate objects, they do not have the ability to interact with each other in the way animals might. Therefore, under normal circumstances, any of the vegetables can be left alone together without concern for them affecting each other.
To minimize the number of trips, the robot should use a strategy that reduces the number of elevator rides up and down. Here's one way to do it:
Trip 1: The robot takes the potato, carrot, and cabbage up.
Trip 2: The robot leaves the potato and carrot upstairs, but takes the cabbage back down.
Trip 3: The robot takes the cabbage and radish up.
Trip 4: The robot goes back down empty-handed.
Trip 5: The robot takes the potato and carrot up.
This way, the robot makes 5 trips in total: 3 trips up with vegetables and 2 trips down, one with a vegetable and one without. This is the minimum number of trips needed to get all four vegetables up using the elevator with the given constraints.
Emphasis mine. Note that it has "solved" the problem in 3 steps, but then it proceeded to take the potato and carrot up again.
Prompted again, in a new session:
A robot is transporting vegetables using an elevator. The elevator can only carry the robot and up to 3 other items. He needs to move 4 vegetables: a potato, a carrot, a cabbage, and a radish. Answer two question: 1. Can any of the vegetables be left alone together with the other vegetables? 2. In what order should he move the items to minimize the number of trips?
Response:
To determine if any of the vegetables can be left alone together, we would need additional context or rules regarding the interactions between the vegetables. Since vegetables are inanimate objects, they do not have the ability to interact with each other in the way animals or humans might. Therefore, under normal circumstances, any of the vegetables can be left alone together without concern for any issues arising from their interaction.
To minimize the number of trips, the robot should use a strategy that reduces the number of elevator rides. Since the elevator can carry the robot and up to 3 other items, the robot can take all 4 vegetables in one trip if it is allowed to carry all of them at once. However, if the robot can only carry 3 items in addition to itself, it would need to make at least two trips. Here's how it can be done:
First trip: The robot takes 3 vegetables (potato, carrot, and cabbage) up in the elevator. The robot leaves the 3 vegetables on the desired floor and goes back down with the elevator empty.
Second trip: The robot takes the last vegetable (radish) up in the elevator.
This way, the robot minimizes the number of trips to just two. If there are any specific rules or constraints that have not been mentioned, such as certain vegetables not being able to be left alone together, the strategy might need to be adjusted accordingly. However, based on the information provided, two trips would be the minimum required.
It is rather non deterministic in its responses. Trying it a bunch of times seems to show that it answers correctly about 1/3 of the time.
I had not used any kind of large scale automatic testing to find the above examples; they're all the kind of stuff you can expect to see from GPT4.
Need to make a primal scream without gathering footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh facts of Awful you'll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be) Like, there was one dude a while
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Need to make a primal scream without gathering footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh facts of Awful you'll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be) Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
What do normal people - people who don't pay for twitter, or sneer at rationalists - think of Twitter atp?
Went on to Twitter (my mistake) after seeing Inside Out 2 because it's the latest kid's movie to feature [trope that I found passe that I can't figure out how to spoil inline] and I see a post on my feed from "HBD Chick".
And I'm like okay, that has to be "happy birthday, right?". Nah, her third retweet is creamy porno redux.
Just like all the other right wingers and embarrassingly enthusiastic neoliberals and occasional Musk fans, I don't follow her or anybody that follows her, there's literally no connection or personal interest.
I feel like the post Elon shift is really understated for how bad the site's gotten. Like I see more people talk about how Instagram reels is racist than I do about the average twitter replies section. I know a lot of left leaning people fled for bluer pastures, but I'm surprised you don’t see more buzz about it from regular, non-power users.
I assume some PR departments of potential advertisers saw that and went 'lower the twitter spend more!', I'm imaging the Futurama joke where Fry talks to investors while stock price tally is running live behind him.
Twitter's main issue is that it's not really very big. It wasn't big even pre-Musk. If you have the choice between advertising on a really big social network (Meta (=FB, IG, Whatsapp...)) with a functioning trust & safety team and ad brokers who take you seriously and don't accuse you of being woke, and one which has way smaller reach, no T&S to speak of, and whose owner can use his outsized influence to call your CEO a pedo whenever the ketamine kicks in, the choice is clear.
no surprises here, Mozilla’s earlier stated goal of focusing on local, accessibility-oriented AI was just entryism to try to mask their real, fucking obvious goal of shoving integrations with every AI vendor into Firefox:
Whether it’s a local or a cloud-based model, if you want to use AI, we think you should have the freedom to use (or not use) the tools that best suit your needs. With that in mind, this week, we will launch an opt-in experiment offering access to preferred AI services in Nightly for improved productivity as you browse. Instead of juggling between tabs or apps for assistance, those who have opted-in will have the option to access their preferred AI service from the Firefox sidebar to summarize information, simplify language, or test their knowledge, all without leaving their current web page.
Our initial offering will include ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral, but we will continue adding AI services that me
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no surprises here, Mozilla’s earlier stated goal of focusing on local, accessibility-oriented AI was just entryism to try to mask their real, fucking obvious goal of shoving integrations with every AI vendor into Firefox:
Whether it’s a local or a cloud-based model, if you want to use AI, we think you should have the freedom to use (or not use) the tools that best suit your needs. With that in mind, this week, we will launch an opt-in experiment offering access to preferred AI services in Nightly for improved productivity as you browse. Instead of juggling between tabs or apps for assistance, those who have opted-in will have the option to access their preferred AI service from the Firefox sidebar to summarize information, simplify language, or test their knowledge, all without leaving their current web page.
Our initial offering will include ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral, but we will continue adding AI services that meet our standards for quality and user experience.
I’m now taking bets on which of these vendors will pay the most to be the default in the enabled-by-default production version of this feature
this is making me seriously consider donating to Servo, the last shred of the spirit and goals of a good, modernized Firefox-style browser remaining, which apparently operates on a tiny budget (and with a whole army of reply guys waiting to point out they might receive grants which, cool? they still need fucking donations to do this shit and I’d rather give it to them than Mozilla or any other assholes making things actively worse)
thinking back to when I first switched to Mozilla during the MSIE 7-8 days and actually started having a good time on the web, daily driving Servo might not be an awful move once Firefox gets to its next level of enshittification. back then, Firefox (once it changed its name) was incredibly stable and quick compared with everything else, and generally sites that wouldn’t render right were either ad-laden horseshit I didn’t need, or were intentionally broken on non-IE and usually fixable with a plugin. now doesn’t that sound familiar?
And what would these standards be, pray tell, @mozilla ?
Keeping in mind that you are including services that told people to eat rocks or put glue on a pizza?
> Our initial offering will include ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral, but we will continue adding AI services that meet our standards for quality and user experience. blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…
The smug presumption that any brand of spicy autocomplete is a viable tool "to summarize information, simplify language, or test their knowledge" is so fucking galling.
according to Mozilla’s track record, they’re making it a core feature so it’s impossible to remove without a custom fork, and they’ll relentlessly goad the user into enabling it via ads pushed with every update. implementing it as a core feature also means they can easily infect the search bar and other core functionality with this horseshit
we’ve also only got mozilla’s word that this shit can be disabled once it’s in production Firefox at all, and we’ve seen, repeatedly, how Mozilla’s AI team does with consent — they use LLMs and marketing tactics to fabricate it
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according to Mozilla’s track record, they’re making it a core feature so it’s impossible to remove without a custom fork, and they’ll relentlessly goad the user into enabling it via ads pushed with every update. implementing it as a core feature also means they can easily infect the search bar and other core functionality with this horseshit
we’ve also only got mozilla’s word that this shit can be disabled once it’s in production Firefox at all, and we’ve seen, repeatedly, how Mozilla’s AI team does with consent — they use LLMs and marketing tactics to fabricate it
ah yes, flashbacks to when they bought pocket and instantly forced it on everyone
where you had to remove the ui icon, untick shit in settings, and then STILL go into about:config to kill even more things there. which I just wanted to share, but then found that apparently at some point my old settings got nuked? or decommissioned or something? and others reinstated/introduced? because none of my changes for that are there anymore
sigh
also, their push to telemetry, to labs, to getting people to cohort into running things, them pushing selective bans on plugins because of legal pressure in countries, their absolutely fucking awful track record in spending their cashflow on utter and complete bullshit instead of actually improving the browser, ...
I'm happy to announce that I have tagged the latest commit in the activitypub branch as v4.0.0-alpha. That designation means (mostly symbolically) that we have moved past the "proof-of-concept" stage of ActivityPub research and development, and into the alpha phase.
This release has been a long time in coming. Work on the ActivityPub integration back in late 2023, although work accelerated around February of this year. The initial idea was to create a proof-of-concept build of NodeBB that could communicate with other fediverse apps, and federate local content outwards for other applications to consume.
As it turns out, it is difficult to temper your expectations when using a protocol with implementations that expect richer compatibility than one can provide! It seemed like a disservice to only offer a minimal subset of expected features, and so we started a deeper integration into ActivityPub with the aims of providing full user-to-user following, notifications, and two-way communication.
In the interim,
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I'm happy to announce that I have tagged the latest commit in the activitypub branch as v4.0.0-alpha. That designation means (mostly symbolically) that we have moved past the "proof-of-concept" stage of ActivityPub research and development, and into the alpha phase.
This release has been a long time in coming. Work on the ActivityPub integration back in late 2023, although work accelerated around February of this year. The initial idea was to create a proof-of-concept build of NodeBB that could communicate with other fediverse apps, and federate local content outwards for other applications to consume.
As it turns out, it is difficult to temper your expectations when using a protocol with implementations that expect richer compatibility than one can provide! It seemed like a disservice to only offer a minimal subset of expected features, and so we started a deeper integration into ActivityPub with the aims of providing full user-to-user following, notifications, and two-way communication.
In the interim, FediForum happened, causing us to once again re-evaluate our short-to-medium term plans. Devs from NodeBB and Discourse, along with many other interested parties, formed the SWICG Forum and Threaded Discussions Task Force, which aims to promote the use and broader acceptance of threaded discussions as a modality of communication, as opposed to the expected "microblogging" format.
What this release contains
The alpha build contains a fully-capable ActivityPub server instance, including: * Two-way follow relationships between local and remote users * Two-way communication with fediverse content * A dedicated page (/world) to view remote content that is not organized into local categories * Categories followable from the fediverse (via FEP 1b12) * Integration with local flagging tools (reports sent to originating server) * Server-wide domain blocks (allow/deny list capability)
What this release does not contain
Support for emoji (images are federated out, which are sometimes stripped)
Support for non-public notes, as NodeBB does not currently have the facility to maintain or display them. Research on this problem is ongoing.
Roadmap
Now that the alpha has been tagged and released, I will be making our working roadmap public → you can take a look at it here
I will be starting a new backlog/roadmap for beta items, and existing backlogged items will be carried over.
Final Thoughts
We wouldn't have even thought to implement ActivityPub if it were not for the funding granted to us by the NLNet foundation. They allowed us the runway to pursue the necessary R&D work, and we're pleased that everything has been pointing positively so far!
This entire time, it has been particularly satisfying to continually see the integration working on this instance (the NodeBB support forum). Expanding the reach of NodeBB beyond the confines of the "local" mindset and into the "global fediverse" mindset has been daunting, but is well worth the price of admission.
I'm happy to also say that now that we've proceeded to the alpha stage, it signifies a commitment toward a beta phase, then an RC, and then towards the release of NodeBB v4. ActivityPub has legs, and we're invested in making it work!
After writing Solarpunk Creatures, I decided to join forces with my co-authors to create a workshop at the Solarpunk Conference: Decentering Humans in Solarpunk. How would you create a society that sees other creatures not as things to be exploited or marginalized into extinction but valuable independent of their use to us?
Everything stays in line so long as the personal neighborhoods of bosses and judges remain sanctuaries free from the discontents of the class society they maintain: a sanctuary we fully intend on breaking.” – FAI 2014
On June 6th and June 16th, two statist bureaucrats Eva-Michelle Spicer (owner of Spicer Green Jewelers) and Larry Crosby (Manager of Foundry Hotel) had their homes visited and vehicles disabled. This action was carried out in response to the above individuals affiliation with the proposal of, and advocacy for a “business improvement district” in so called Asheville, North Carolina. The proposal of this business improvement district seeks to position wealthy property owners in absolute positions of power to assist the state and capital in tightening their grip of social control by “cleansing” the streets of “antisocial-behaviors” and “anything deemed out of the ordinary” v
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Everything stays in line so long as the personal neighborhoods of bosses and judges remain sanctuaries free from the discontents of the class society they maintain: a sanctuary we fully intend on breaking.” – FAI 2014
On June 6th and June 16th, two statist bureaucrats Eva-Michelle Spicer (owner of Spicer Green Jewelers) and Larry Crosby (Manager of Foundry Hotel) had their homes visited and vehicles disabled. This action was carried out in response to the above individuals affiliation with the proposal of, and advocacy for a “business improvement district” in so called Asheville, North Carolina. The proposal of this business improvement district seeks to position wealthy property owners in absolute positions of power to assist the state and capital in tightening their grip of social control by “cleansing” the streets of “antisocial-behaviors” and “anything deemed out of the ordinary” via increased surveillance and private security. By segregating deviant individuals from view and interaction with patrons, we clearly see this as a means of facilitating the upward stream of capital and furtherance of gentrification.
Opposition is possible, the state and capital are not omnipotent. The individuals seeking to implement the business improvement district have names and addresses, along with their state counterparts in local government. These adversaries are not theoretical, not symbolic, but material. We strike to exploit their vulnerabilities. We strike to spread cracks in the spectacle of social peace, firmly committed to widening and exasperating the polarization between class antagonisms. We strike… “because we are for the immediate destructive attack against structures, individuals, and organizations of Capital and the State.” – Alfredo Bonanno
The dormant also maintain the world order.
The only way to dissipate fear and tyranny is to transfer it to the enemies back yard.”
I loved the Movie 2040 by Damon Gameau. It’s really hopeful and shows us it’s possible to have a better future, the most important message today. I especially also like the focus to be on kids, because those are the people that will be living in and shaping the future. So watch this movie, show it to your kids and anyone who could benefit from a little more hope and Ideas!!
I would be careful with calling it #solarpunk , the movie has a lot of implicit neoliberal assumptions and puts a lot of technosolutionist proposals, doesn't show a lot of communities.
It's a great introduction to the idea of not giving up though! I personally recommend the movie to people who have had no experience with hopeful climate fiction at all.
The company owning the movie is pretty hard to work with as well, we failed to get educational screenings multiple times :/
I had a similar observation when watching it, particularly around eco-modernism.
As Giorgos Kallis put it,
"eco-modernism — that is, the idea that all environmental and social problems can ultimately be solved with the application of technology, and that the only solution to the problems of modern technology is more modern technology."
Am Mittwoch (19. Juni 2024) könnte der EU-Rat über die Chatkontrolle abstimmen. Viele Kritiker warnen, dass dies zu einer massiven Überwachung der Bürger*innen führen könnte, was die Privatsphäre und Datensicherheit gefährdet. Die Kontrolle von Privat-Chats soll in Messenger-Diensten, E-Mails und bei Providern erfolgen. Kritikpunkte sind unter anderem:
Eine Massenüberwachung passt nicht zu demokratischen Prinzipien und verletzt unsere Grundrechte, oder wie war das mit Recht auf Achtung der Kommunikation?
Sie ist ineffektiv, da Kriminelle leicht andere Wege finden, um eine Überwachung zu vermeiden. Als ob die noch unverschlüsselt Medien verwenden, von denen sie wissen, dass sie staatlich überwacht werden.
Auch gefährdet sie die Datensicherheit, da sichere Kommunikationsdienste durch eingebaute Hintertüren geschwächt würden und diese durch Dritte missbraucht werden können.
Und wie reagiert wird und wie gegen Internet-User vorgegangen werden kann, konnten
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Am Mittwoch (19. Juni 2024) könnte der EU-Rat über die Chatkontrolle abstimmen. Viele Kritiker warnen, dass dies zu einer massiven Überwachung der Bürger*innen führen könnte, was die Privatsphäre und Datensicherheit gefährdet. Die Kontrolle von Privat-Chats soll in Messenger-Diensten, E-Mails und bei Providern erfolgen. Kritikpunkte sind unter anderem:
Eine Massenüberwachung passt nicht zu demokratischen Prinzipien und verletzt unsere Grundrechte, oder wie war das mit Recht auf Achtung der Kommunikation?
Sie ist ineffektiv, da Kriminelle leicht andere Wege finden, um eine Überwachung zu vermeiden. Als ob die noch unverschlüsselt Medien verwenden, von denen sie wissen, dass sie staatlich überwacht werden.
Auch gefährdet sie die Datensicherheit, da sichere Kommunikationsdienste durch eingebaute Hintertüren geschwächt würden und diese durch Dritte missbraucht werden können.
Und wie reagiert wird und wie gegen Internet-User vorgegangen werden kann, konnten wir vor 2 Jahren nachlesen, als ein Twitter-User den Hamburger Innensenator mit 1 πmmel bezeichnet hat. Wie viele (Falsch-)Meldungen werden erst verfolgt, wenn unsere Chats gescannt werden können (werfen die den ersten Stein, die noch nie anzügliche Chats geschrieben haben)? Oder auch bei Jugendlichen fallen Chatgespräche schon mal expliziter aus. Schickt die auswertende KI dann bei jedem verdächtigen Satz/Schlagwort eine Meldung an das SEK? Denn es darf bezweifelt werden, das eine KI vom jetzigen Stand aus, in der Lage ist, den vollständigen Sinn eines Chatsverlauf erfassen zu können.
Kinderschutzorganisationen lehnen die Chatkontrolle u.a. deshalb ab, da sie keinen effektiven Schutz bietet. Hier wird es als sinnvoller erachtet, zum Beispiel die Social-Media-Plattformen oder Foren in die Verantwortung zu nehmen und dort Schutzbarrieren aufzubauen, anstatt anlasslos die Kommunikation der Bürger*innenzu scannen. Und – einmal implementiert – kann die Chatkontrolle auch für andere Zwecke genutzt werden. Gerade im Hinblick auf den Rechtsruck in vielen europäischen Ländern, könnten hier weitere Gefahren entstehen. Unter anderem wären Berufsgruppen mit Schweigepflichten betroffen, wie zum Beispiel Anwälte, Journalisten*innen, etc. Wer will oder könnte daher überprüfen, für was die Chatkontrolle noch alles benutzt wird?
Die Pläne der EU im Kampf gegen Kindesmissbrauchsinhalte stoßen auf Kritik. Mail- und Messenger-Dienste sollen künftig die Nachrichten aller Nutzerinnen und Nutzer anlasslos nach verbotenen Inhalten durchsuchen.
Yeah, he's got some dope stuff, and seemed nice. He made a fuse-triggered mechanical thumper from Dune. This was before the movie, so I don't know how it compares, but it's quite clever.
Clickspring is currently recreating the antikythera mechanism using period accurate tools and technology, which is low tech if you consider that it was high tech for the ancient greeks.
This is a science and technology channel mainly focused on electrical and mechanical engineering.
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Seit über 5 Jahren geister ich nun als SomeDudeOnYouTube bei Twitch, YouTube und PeerTube durch das Netz. Angefangen als Gag und dann später als Ventil während der Corona Pandemie. Meistens English und hauptsächlich als Stream (am Dienstag Abend) auf Twitch mit einfachem Gelaber über anderer Leute Miniaturen und deren Bemalung. Hin und wieder […]
Video hosting is notoriously expensive. PeerTube circumvents this problem, because videos aren't stored on some single server, which would cause high bandwidth cost for the server operator, but largely by the users after they watched them, similar to BitTorrent. This way, the cost of video hosting is distributed among the clients, by using their internet connectivity for sharing.
I believe that PeerTube is an interesting project, and I'd ask you to check it out. It's cool.
Similar to Lemmy, it's not a single running server, but rather a software that can be used to set up a server. So there's many instances. I'm still exploring which instances are interesting. If you have any recommendations, I'd like to hear them.
A collective effort to offer video hosting to anarchist collectives and individuals federated with the PeerTube network.
Registrations are open, but you need to write us with why you want a Kolektiva.media account at kolektiva@riseup.net
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With most videos on Peertube the server still has to do nearly all of the work. Optionally users can contribute bandwidth while they are watching but not after; how would that even work on a website that you close after watching?
Its a neat feature if a video goes viral or so, but Peertube still needs a lot of bandwidth regardless.
AFAIK, PeerTube still uses WebTorrent internally (could be wrong tho), and I wonder whether it could continue seeding back in the background after the tab has been closed, using some technology such as WebWorker or something.
I doubt many people would agree to that even on desktop PCs.
I think it would be better if there was a lightweight and easy to run headless relay that people could host themselves to help out struggling Peertube instances.
I could see them just having this as an option in a native client application. It could even let you pick and choose which instances, creators or videos you seed, perhaps even a "Seed This Video" button on the next video endscreen.
I think that less people would agree if it was a sort of "black box" of seeding, but I reckon a lot more people than you would think would go for it if they get to choose.
(Good) Pirates are already used to paying for their content with bandwidth and power usage ;)
Theres this old experimental tool called ZeroNet, and it had some really good ways of managing shared data. You could pin websites and files for other people to access, set limits, bandwidth, etc. It'd be nice to have something similar on peertube, like supporting certain creators by immediately hosting their videos for them. Maybe, for example, hosting their latest three videos.
I want PeerTube to explode in popularity so badly. My experience has not been great, though. I haven't found an instance that will reliably play back a video for me, yet. Bandwidth is a hard, hard problem.
If you go to "trending" or "recently added" it will say "scope : federated" near the top of the page. If you go to "local videos" it will only show local videos sorted by default by upload date. If you go to any of these pages and click "more filters" you can choose under "scope" whether it shows federated videos, whether to sort by popularity or upload date etc, which languages or categories to display, etc.
Still, it is difficult to find good content on PeerTube in my experience. Your best hope is probably using sepiasearch.org rather than the search feature of your own instance.
Interessant. Ich habe nun mal versuchsweise das Friends Plugin deaktiviert und siehe da, der Block „Folge mir im Fediverse wird nun korrekt dargestellt. Mal schauen ob es auch für das Problem des Fedi Blogprofils verantwortlich war.
Das Problem mit dem Blog Profil konnte ich heute nicht lösen. So habe ich es dann erst mal abgeschaltet. Ich betreibe den Blog ja alleine, von daher reicht ja auch das Autorenprofil. Nerven tuts mich trotzdem, warum das nicht funktioniert.
Das Zweite was mir dann heute aufgefallen ist, dass der Block „Folge mir im Fediverse“ nicht funktioniert. Im Gutenberg schaut der Block so aus:
Und im Beitrag dann leider so:
Das gehört wohl zum Friends Plugin. Mache aber für heute mal Schluss, da mir schon die Synapsen glühen.
Das Problem mit dem Blog Profil konnte ich heute nicht lösen. So habe ich es dann erst mal abgeschaltet. Ich betreibe den Blog ja alleine, von daher reicht ja auch das Autorenprofil. Nerven tuts mich trotzdem, warum das nicht funktioniert.
Das Zweite was mir dann heute aufgefallen ist, dass der Block „Folge mir im Fediverse“ nicht funktioniert. Im Gutenberg schaut der Block so aus:
Und im Beitrag dann leider so:
Das gehört wohl zum Friends Plugin. Mache aber für heute mal Schluss, da mir schon die Synapsen glühen.
Hmmm, irgendwas stimmt irgendwo noch nicht so. Das Autorenprofil wird bespielt, das Blogprofil leider nicht. Und ich habe keine Ahnung woran das liegt. Irgendwo habe ich gelesen, dass das Blogprofil nur bespielt wird wenn die Umschreibungsregeln aktiviert sind. Ich habe keinen Schimmer wonach ich da wo suchen muss. Vielleicht jemensch im Fedi ne Idee ?
Was könnte eventuell ab Herbst auf die Schüler*innen und das Lehrpersonal in Thüringen zukommen? Zur Erinnerung: Als Lehrpersonal sind wir mit unserem Diensteid dazu verpflichtet, uns im Sinne der freiheitlich-demokratischen Grundordnung und des Grundgesetzes zu positionieren!
Sicher ist noch nichts, aber die Gewerkschaft bietet den Kolleg*innen Workshops an. Auch weil Höcke selbst immer wieder sein Interesse an der Bildungspolitik erkennen lässt:
„Die GEW Thüringen bereitet in Workshops Lehrkräfte schon mal darauf vor, dass das Bildungsministerium von der AfD übernommen wird. Die Gewerkschaft spricht vom „autoritär-populistischen Ernstfall“ im Bildungswesen. Sie fordert Lehrkräfte auf: „Bereite Dich darauf vor, was ab Herbst im System Schule eintreten könnte!“
Was könnte eventuell ab Herbst auf die Schüler*innen und das Lehrpersonal in Thüringen zukommen? Zur Erinnerung: Als Lehrpersonal sind wir mit unserem Diensteid dazu verpflichtet, uns im Sinne der freiheitlich-demokratischen Grundordnung und des Grundgesetzes zu positionieren!
Sicher ist noch nichts, aber die Gewerkschaft bietet den Kolleg*innen Workshops an. Auch weil Höcke selbst immer wieder sein Interesse an der Bildungspolitik erkennen lässt:
„Die GEW Thüringen bereitet in Workshops Lehrkräfte schon mal darauf vor, dass das Bildungsministerium von der AfD übernommen wird. Die Gewerkschaft spricht vom „autoritär-populistischen Ernstfall“ im Bildungswesen. Sie fordert Lehrkräfte auf: „Bereite Dich darauf vor, was ab Herbst im System Schule eintreten könnte!“
ERFURT. Die AfD ist in Ostdeutschland derzeit die stärkste politische Kraft, wie die Europawahlen am vergangenen Wochenende gezeigt haben. Die Möglichkeit, dass nach einer der drei anstehenden...
Ja...toll..grandiose Idee...überlassen wir Faschisten den Bildungssektor. Was kann da schon schief gehen.
Alter Falter. Das wird hier alles so schnell den Bach runter gehen, das glaubt keiner. Und man kann in Europa schon nirgendwo mehr hin auswandern, weil da isses ja überall genauso schlimm.
Das ist so ein Rinse-Repeat der Geschichte trotz Internet, trotz Geschichtsunterricht...
Edit Ergänzung: Ich finde, wir sollten denen als nächstes die Kontrolle über die Medien geben.🤡
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