Sure. This might still take a while, though. There have been quite some activity with the audio stuff lately. And fundamental changes. And they released some development board to tinker with voice assistants. I’ll probably need to scrap my configs and start over. But last time I tried, it was almost usable. And it’s a lot of fun to play around with microcontrollers.

Hmm, Home Assistant and ESPhome are evolving constantly and I’d like to try building my own smart speaker (Alexa) with the recent advancements… PieFed is making lots of progress lately. I’m ocassionally messing with local AI and these projects sometimes make big advancements over night. But yeah, other projects sometimes don’t, while I’d like them to implement a few more useful (to me) features.

Thanks for explaining. I get that. Seems we’re moving away from democracy and freedom these days. That’s hard to tackle. And there’s a multitude of reasons and dynamics at play. I’ve also learned at school we usually have reforms or revolution available. Plus a few successful forms of nonviolent resistance. Or civil war, war and a restart, continued oppression… We’ll see. I hope for the best. But in my opinion freedom is a constant fight, even in “free” countries, it’s not granted automatically or indefinitely.

You’re right, I’m not really sure if I understand what the article is about. And how it translates to the title and us, the people.

I’m aware of oppressive regimes, weapon systems, surveillance, misinformation and manipulation taking place all around the world. And all of that becoming very efficient by technology, automation, algorithms, etc.

I don’t think we can rely on the government or the companies, though. The goverment itself is the entitiy oppressing the people. And since the article is talking about the Trump situation… I mean all the billionaires and tech-bros were present at his inauguration ceremony, kissing his ass… I don’t think we can rely on them or their employees, either…

So my thinking is, if it’s technology that’s going to solve this, or the citizens have any influence in the first place… as the title implies(?!), it has to be something like Free Software. Or at least something independent. Or is there anything else left?

But I’d agree, me using LibreOffice and encrypting my phone is not going to change if some trans people get arrested somewhere… I really don’t understand what the article wants to tell me… We could overturn the government? Or stop sending weapons or similar tech to certain countries… But that’s all political. None of that is really related to technology in the sense that the answer lies within technology…

Even if it allows the user to modify the software and for example remove the unhealty aspects and then redistribute that to other people, as Free Software does?

Or do you mean more, some things will never be available as Free Software?

I generally dislike how cross posts work on Lemmy. But that could be just me. I’m subscribed to communities I like to see. And I see it once regardless. Or several times if someone decides to cross-post. But that feels more like spam to me than anything useful.

It’s usually a thing on regular SFW Lemmy for me. Where people post the same tech news to all 5 technology communities. Or their simple question that’s now answered 3 different times separately by different people who don’t see each other in the comments… And I also don’t want to unsubscribe and miss out. So I have to live with it.

I don’t think it’s a big issue in NSFW though, or if it’s just 2 times the same picture every now and then.

Nice article 😆 And I wonder if it’s going to stay that way. Or if it’s like a new invention which is still missing a (good) application. I have some other good use-case which are missing in the list and that’s image classification and description, speech to text and text to speech. And machine translation. I think that’s massively useful. But as pointed out in the article, generative AI does lots of things which harm people and society. I mean the promise is that it’s going to get better and stop lying so much, so we can have some proper applications as well. But that’s not a thing yet. And personally - I’m still waiting for AI to merge with robotics and do real hands-on work. Which could be very helpful in some professions. Or lead to a more dystopian future.

And I believe all the accelleration of everything, spreading misinformation and making it super cheap and easy to manipulate and spam, is here to stay. That’s something we need to deal with, and it’s not easy or straightforward. If I were a tech bro, I’d advertise my AI solution to deal with the issues that arise with AI 😅

I’m pretty sure that’s called ambivalence and core to every human. Or you’re just miserable, that’s hard to tell.

We just should take care not to spread misinformation. We need to stick with the truth. And It’s not like the article says. And what they’re infering is wrong, too. And seems that Meta didn’t respond, isn’t up to date anymore, either. (Given Meta tells the truth, but I don’t see any reason to doubt this. This is exactly what happens with spamfilters all the time. And why would they reverse it immediately, if there’s more to the story?)

Other than that, I agree. If somebody chooses to use a platform like that, they get entangled in some soulless machinery. And that machinery isn’t there to help the user, but mainly to uphold whatever a big tech company likes or needs. Mainly profit and control. Terms and conditions apply.

Has already been refuted in the other post: https://lemm.ee/post/52524220

I believe it was an honest mistake by the spamfilter.

Well your experience will depend on a lot of factors. First of all, I think the XBox community isn’t a particularly nice place. If that’s what you tried, I can see how you didn’t like it.

And it will depend on the game. Pick something that caters to your age group. If you’re playing Minecraft or Roblox on a random server, you’ll talk to a bunch of 8 year olds. They’ll talk differently to a grown-up. And if you’re 40, that might not be what you’re looking for.

Plus the game will need some complexity and multiplayer elements. A simple racing game or a smash-em-up will have people talking about random shit. Because there isn’t really anything of substance (game-wise) to discuss.

I’d say your best bet would be something like a MMORPG where you have to complete quests in a group, so you’ll meet the same people again and there is some group identity. Because again, if it’s just random anonymous people who will probably never see each other again… They won’t be particularly nice to each other. That’s kind of the fundamental law of the internet. And even then, it really depends on the server. You need to put in some effort to find a good one.

I usually do this on my laptops. It’s supposed to make the batteries last longer. But not infinitely. I’ll end up replacing them after a several years anyways. It’s hard to judge for me, since I have nothing to compare it to. And battery technology is making slow progress, plus my habits change and I used to do one charge cycle per workday and now I’m not.

Sadly true. And happens we’ve just started discussing total internet surveillence again, here in Germany. This time it’s an exception from the rule and not about the usual “would someone please think of the children”. But it’s not any better. For some reason they’re always pushing for data retention / surveillance / snooping on private messages here.

I own some eID and it’s supposed to do age verification for like a decade now. And they must have hired some proper computer science experts, because the idea was to impement this as a zero knowledge proof. You can proove your age to a porn site completely anonymously, without revealing anything (not even your age), just that you’re above a certain age.

Of course no one uses that system 😑

The technology for sure is out there. So if the true motivation is to block access for minors… We could just do it. Only take an id with a chip on it and/or a smartphone app.

Ah, I was under the impression that these porn sites got blocked… But it’s the other way around, the porn sites block the users because they don’t/can’t implement the regulations… Thx for explaining.

Since that article is paywalled: Can someone from there enlighten me? Is it just some of the major platforms? Do you still have access to xhamster, xvideos and whatever? And how likely is it that those get blocked, too, in the near future?

Sure. Copyright is is - is broken. And it certainly doesn’t help I’m paying Spotify etc just so they can pocket the money. But don’t we need something so Hollywood can produce my favorite TV show? I mean that stuff costs millions and millions to make, until it somehow arrives on my screen. Or an author making a decent living with coming up with a nice fantasy novel series? What’s the alternative until we arrive at Star Trek and money is a thing of the past?

I’m pretty sure the AI companies are stealing copyrighted work. Afaik Mata admitted doing it. For several older ones we know which books were in the training datasets. There are several ongoing lawsuits dealing with books being used to train AI, Scarlett Johansson’s voice etc.

I agree. As is, AI is a plaything for rich companies. They have complete control, since they hired the experts and they have the money for all the graphics cards and electricity. If it’s as disruptive as people claim, it’s our bad. Because we’re out of the loop.

Strongly agree. Legislators have to come up with a way to handle how copyright works in conjunction with AI. I think it’s a sound approach to say companies can’t copyright it and keep it to themselves, if most of what went in was other people’s copyrighted work.

And it’d help make AI more democratic. I.e. not just entirely dominated by the motives of those super rich companies who have the millions of dollars to do it.

Nice. Hope it does the port forward as well, because in my experience that’s the part where you could face some issues. DynDNS is relatively easy, in case your router hadn’t supported this, it’d be possible to let the Pi handle that.

Sure, you’d need a domain name, a certificate, an IP address that’s reachable from the outside, and the RasPi or some other computer.

If it’s some residential internet connection, you might be able to open up a port and forward that to your RasPi. You’d need to do that in the internet router. Port 80 and 443 are for HTTP(S). (protocol: TCP). Some internet providers don’t allow any of that.

Your IP address will change with most regular internet providers, so you’d want to buy your domain name somewhere you can change it automatically with a script. Or use DynDNS. duckdns.org would be one of those DynDNS providers.

If your internet service provider doesn’t allow incoming connections and port forwards, you need to work around that. Use Cloudflare, or better, some better tunnel provider.

Free certificates for HTTPS are available from letsencrypt.

And if it turns out Lemmy is too heavy on the Raspberry Pi, try PieFed instead.