desentizised

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[–] desentizised@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

I'm not exactly a visual artist who stands to lose something in this armsrace, but that's how I tend to look at it. As a software engineer I'm fascinated by the possibilities. There were people who despised the camera when it came to be. I firmly believe that once the AI hype dies down "real" human-made art will not have suffered any setback. At the end of the day this is still people building tools to imitate something worth imitating. Nothing is ever fully original.

If someone can't see the value in art that took actual human effort to make then that is on them. If a tool is built upon millions of existing pieces of human artistic effort to make it available to the general public I'd see this as less deplorable than copying a CD to a cassette tape in the 80s. If someone tried to make money by selling what is essentially other people's work then that is obviously a different story, no matter what is being misappropriated.

[–] desentizised@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

rsync from ZFS to an off-site unraid every 24 hours 5 times a week. on the sixth day it does a checksum based rsync which obviously means more stress so only do it once a week. the seventh day is reserved for ZFS scrubbing every two weeks.

[–] desentizised@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

I agree. If it's unfixable it has to be something out of their control. I mean nothing is unfixable but really the only explanation for a bug being too costly to fix is that something auxiliary changed which forces you to either go back to the drawing board or cut your losses.

[–] desentizised@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What if they meant DC.

[–] desentizised@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I used Nextcloud for both files and my PortableApps for years but it always had a hard time managing all those tens of thousands of small files. Lots of sync overhead. So I found Seafile and couldn't be happier. I don't just have my PortableApps in there now, I sync my Windows Documents, Pictures, Videos and Downloads folders. Seafile is very good at tracking partial changes in files so it doesn't always need to sync an entire file when just part of it changed.

Also: It's just a file sync service without any auxiliary features.

[–] desentizised@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Basically the only answer that takes the question seriously and brings facts to the table instead of an opinion.

[–] desentizised@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You say there's a hierarchy. By that you probably also mean a ranking order among the women in terms of interactions that don't involve your father?

I assume that your mother being the "chosen one" seems fulfilled in this arrangement? What about the main and secondary girlfriends?

[–] desentizised@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

My solution is basically what @mojolobo mentions with Nextcloud behind it and I love the concept. Because Obsidian (via a WebDAV plugin on the phone) just syncs with the "Notes" folder in my Nextcloud root it really is just a bunch of .md (markdown) files. It gives me an added sense of security (on top of the self-hosting aspect) because I can see those files everywhere I have Nextcloud installed, I can edit them manually if I wanted to. On the PC you just point the Obsidian app to the folder, on phones you do it via a WebDAV plugin.

[–] desentizised@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yet there's no backlash because they're not so stupid as to say "we're gonna take screenshots as you go so we can improve your digital life kthxbye".

[–] desentizised@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Society just needs to get over this AI fad atm. By which I'm not trying to say that AI won't revolutionize pretty much everything in our lives eventually, but first we need to figure out what it can actually be useful for. Or rather non-tech people need to be fully introduced to both its benefits and its pitfalls before tech companies will have a clear picture of where the red lines are for people ideologically speaking. We the nerds have our moral compass figured out but we're a minority when it comes to who these products are made for.

Leave it to Microsoft to come up with the most dystopian AI concept yet. But to be honest I'd be way more wary of a company like Alphabet for whom data collection is much more central to their business model and who know how to package their spyware neatly. Microsoft announcing this as a feature from a podium shows how tonedeaf they are but I'd argue it also shows that they're not following some self-serving plan behind the scenes to take advantage of that thing they're so proud of publically (a mass espionage at which I firmly believe they wouldn't be anywhere near efficient enough if they tried). They really must've thought that this is what can get Windows back into the limelight. It is Microsoft's problem of our time that with everyone being on smartphones and tablets now they are losing traction in the consumer market by the day.

Point being (as far as the valid privacy concerns go) that Microsoft were never in the data business. They're just really really bad at understanding what consumers want out of an operating system. I got my first own PC in 2001 right when XP came out. They've always been bad at making things work for the user. And since Vista all they've really been doing is copying Apple's eyecandy. First off of macOS (then OS X), now with Windows 11 they basically want to look like a tablet OS with app icons once again after that idea failed spectacularly under Windows 8. I'm basically just rambling at this point but it should go to illustrate their lacklustre corporate decisionmaking. I wouldn't be worried about their potential desire much less their ability to compromise that Recall data. Yes it's a hugely concerning concept from a privacy standpoint and every step to circumvent its analysis should and arguably must be taken, but I also wouldn't lose sleep over the data it is collecting on other people's machines.

[–] desentizised@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago

Can't argue with that flawless logic.

[–] desentizised@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Does that mean you weren't able to implement those changes or didn't want to regress back from Wayland?

 

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