“I’m tired of listening to people complain about their or their friends lives being uprooted and my indifference to those problems”

I see far more people screeching about AI than actual AI generated content at this point.

Good, it’s working. People are shying away from creating/posting AI content, knowing it’s very vocally unwanted.

I’m actually going to make a separate point from my other comment:

Art is a matter of perspective.

Maybe you don’t care about how your toothbrush was designed; but someone somewhere sat down and made decisions about how to best shape it, what materials to use, what kind/how many/what thickness of bristles, how to color it, etc. Those were decisions made from experiences that person had which they chose to factor into their designs.

Someone else out there is interested in what led to those design choices, perhaps to design their own with improvements or changes, perhaps just out of curiosity. They can’t ask an algorithm why it made the choices it did and have a discussion about the details; but they could with a person.

What some find disinteresting, others immerse themselves in. AI destroys those opportunities for human connection. Human connection we already struggle to find as a species.

You might not care how this site was created, but some do. The use of an LLM has made it impossible to discuss the choices made, because there weren’t any decisions, just an algorithm spitting out letters one after another…

True; however many of the current use cases for AI aren’t utilitarian, but are instead forcibly replacing artists while stealing their work to do so. Ontop of this, the infrastructure behind/supporting these tools is destructive and measurably making a significant amount of peoples lives worse.

These factors have jaded people against AI as a whole; as support for AI is seen as support for the destruction and instability it’s brought with it.

It’s an additional tool but it doesn’t replace the developer in the slightest

That’s the thing though; it should be an additional tool, but instead is being used as a replacement.

https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai/p/2042849/i-ve-finally-understood-what-my-beef-with-ai-is

I came across this post the other day, and this person has put into words what I have simply failed to.

In short; AI makes the world feel empty and hollow. Many people enjoy the process behind the things we create or encounter, even if it wasn’t us to go through that process. Replacing it with AI removes the human touch/connection that made that thing interesting. I don’t want to know about the faceless algorithm that spat out what I’m seeing; I want to know about the person that created this and their experiences that brought them here.

The only thing in there I find surprising is the battery info. I’m not sure what legitimate use a website would have for that one. And perhaps that the gyro isn’t behind a permission. There’s pages that use it for 360 video for example, but you should have to allow that one.

Your IP address is a fundamental part of communication over the Internet, obviously the servers you speak to are going to need to know where to send their replies. There are ways to mask that ofc; proxies, vpns, etc.

Timezone+Language are needed for localization.

Display information and preferences, to render things correctly/as desired. Desktop web pages look like crap on a mobile display (and what type of mobile? Tablet, or phone?), plus they can’t (well, shouldn’t) show things in darkMode unless you tell them that’s what you want…

Cookies: it does say 0mb stored by others for me, but that’s not entirely true. Sites are typically given independent storage so they can’t read eachothers cookies, but they can work together to have one site read its own cookies and pass that on to the site you’re currently visiting, on request, all embedded in the original page you were viewing. Just because they can’t read eachothers storage directly doesn’t necessarily mean thay can’t get the data. 10gb per site seems like an absurdly high limit for this though. You could store whole movies in that space.

Visibility is one I’ve known but never really liked. The only ‘legitimate’ use for that I’ve seen is pausing media when it leaves your screen (or waiting to start media until its entered view), but half the time that’s undesirable anyway. Why should a site know if, when, and how long I’ve looked at a particular portion of the page?

Cowards.

They were a terrorist organization, now they’re a ‘major’ terrorist organization.

C’mon pay attention now, it’s not like he changes his mind 17 times a day or something… _(/s)

For anyone else not sure what they’re looking at…

Tree Spiking

Tree spiking can be an extremely effective method of deterring timber sales, and seems to be growing more and more popular. Mill operators are quite wary of accepting timber that may be contaminated with hidden metal objects, — saws are expensive, and a “spiked” log can literally bring operations to a screeching halt, at least until a new blade can be put into service. The Forest Service and timber industry are very nervous about spiking — when they or the media raise the subject of monkeywrenching, this is the form most commonly discussed. Agency and industry officials are loath, however, to raise the subject. Indeed, the Forest Service (FS) often fails to publicize incidents of spiking, on the theory that the less the practice is publicized, the less likely it is to spread. When the Freddies (FS officials) do publicly acknowledge that a spiking has occurred, they often make a considerable effort to find the perpetrators, even to the point of offering substantial cash rewards. (No modern-day tree spiker has been caught, however.)

Police said they do not suspect foul play.

Sure. High profile judges frequently drop dead without warning… Nothing to see here

😂 Yeah, it was pretty good for that too. I always thought it was really cool being able to play multiplayer games like SOCOM via AD-HOC networking. No server, no internet/wifi, not even a link cable you had to remember to bring; just two devices talking to eachother and creating great memories.

Ah, the PSP… First personal device I owned that had a web browser.

So much porn, lol.

Those electric arc lighters make a half decent Taser in a pinch.

Put your elbow ontop and really lean into it.

" whoops, sorry, I didn’t seen you invading my personal space"

Not a lot of anti-air defences at a data center. Maybe this type of protest should become more common…

Looking forward to the US collapsing under the weight of its own incompetence.

I really like the ‘free trial’ that requires your CC information and will begin billing you ‘soon’ unless you remember to cancel (and probably burn the card too).

You don’t.

Seprate your work life and your personal life.

There’s nothing wrong with advocating for FOSS alternatives; but you don’t get to decide what you can or cannot use on work devices, that’s up to your employer. You should not be entering personal info/performing personal tasks on work devices.

If you’re unwilling to perform work with the tools (software) your employer provides/requires, find a new job. Refusing to do the work or tampering with the equipment provided is a great way to get fired.

For school; personal laptop. Or again strictly school tasks on their devices.

Oh god, a LEGO condom… You thought stepping on a LEGO was bad… Try sticking a whole sculpture in ya

To avoid this, you will need an IPv4 address on your client, or an IPv6 address on your server.

This confuses me because I have an IPv4 address on the client, and that IPv4 is what the server is seeing make the connection…

/edit

I think I get it.

The client actually only has IPv6. The IPv4 address I’m seeing in the log and whatismyipaddress.com is the address of my mobile providers NAT.

Thanks. I still haven’t totally wrapped my head around IPv6. Stubbornly happy with IPv4 tbh, but it seems the rest of the world is moving on, understandably.