Hmm, I think it was more the rise of streaming services which were more convenient and offered a better experience with less risk than illegally downloading music or movies.
I guess I'm just kind of sad. LLMS appropriately sourcing material could have been such a boom for artists in a way. I guess I feel like it was a missed opportunity for some mutual benefit.
I wish archive websites would take a harder stance on LLMS.
Liberating/archiving human for humans is fine albeit a bit morally grey.
Liberating/archiving human works for wealthy companies so they can make money on it feels less ritcheous.
All those billions of dollars of investments that could be sustaining the arts by appropriately compensating artists willing to have their content used, instead used to ... Quadruple the cost of consumer grade ram and steal water from rural communities.
The more we resist turning this into a state-sided solution which provides a service to private companies with a YES/NO age verification, the more likely your data is going to be given to botton-of-the-barrel third party private companies.
I'm genuinely curious what the argument is against state-run privacy focused age verification is here. We already protect real life adult spaces with IDs. You hand your ID to a random store clerk who scans it with a random device when you want to buy alcohol or cigarettes.
What makes these social media platforms special that they have entirely different rules?
I will say, if they came for small privately-hosted communities, I can understand the cause for alarm. But so far it appears to be limited to massive misinformation machines.
It's not hypothetical. And in fact the girl who was being targeted was expelled not the boys who did it [1].
Those boys absolutely should be held accountable. But I also don't think that Grok should be able to quickly and easily generate fake revenge porn for minors.
A lot of these UPFs are targeted at young people who don't have the same ability to think of long term consequences. If you start young, it's a much harder habit to break later in life.
And in many places UPFs are cheaper and more widely available than unprocessed food. If you're worried about paying rent, you're not questioning cheap calories for your family.
Even if we can agree that people should exercise more willpower, isn't there something wrong with companies weaponizing science to make food as addictive as possible?
I feel like if the conclusion is "ban it for everyone too" I'm okay with it?
But the argument seems to get a little lost along the way.
Yes, adults are susceptible to the same vices as children. However (as the author writes) children have poorer impulse control. They are also less inclined to or unable to consider the repercussions of their actions.
You wouldn't try to get a toddler to stop smoking by telling them it'll put them at a high risk for cancer at old age.
Speaking of smoking, anti-smoking campaigns in the US in the 90s led to a vast reduction in teen use and adult use alike.
So there is notable lasting benefit in protecting children while they lack the foresight.
After spending most of my career hacking on these systems, I feel like queues very quickly become a hammer and every entity quickly becomes a nail.
Just because you can keep two systems in complete sync doesn't mean you should. If you ever find yourself with more-or-less identical tables in two services you may have gone too far.
Eventually you find yourself backfilling downstream services due to minor domain or business logic changes and scaling is a problem again.
I once was told "we cannot promote you because the work you've done checks the boxes for 2 rolls above you and does not check the boxes for your next roll"
I've heard it's actually beneficial for your ankles long term to get some tilt/pan on them. It reduces your chances of injury by strengthening the twitch muscles in your ankle and legs.
Important to note the point is "trail running" not "alpine running", gravel and dirt vs, steep inclines and big rocks.
Anecdotally, just adjust your pace/length until you're comfortable. I've always done mixed asphalt/dirt-trail and there is a notable difference in my knee fatigue when there is a bigger ratio of one or the other, would always prefer a nice gravel or dirt over the road.
I enjoy when:
Things are simple.
Things are a complicated, but I can learn something useful.
I do not enjoy when:
Things are arbitrarily complicated.
Things are a complicated, but I'm just using AI to blindly get something done instead of learning.
Things are arbitrarily complicated and not incentivized to improve because now "everyone can just use AI"
It feels like instead of all stepping back and saying "we need to simplify things" we've doubled down on abstraction _again_
I really do not like working with uncle bob hardliners
There have been so many times where I have commented _why_ I think some uncle bob-ism made the code unclear and the response is always:
> *Sends link to Clean Code, maybe you don't know about this?
No, I do, and I am allowed to disagree with it. To which they always clutch their pearls "How do you think you know better than uncle bob!?", this is a Well Established Pattern TM.
I don't think I know better than Uncle Bob, but I don't think Uncle Bob works on this codebase nearly as much as you or I.
Can anyone explain to me (someone not so network security savvy) if there are any privacy or security concerns using a wire guard provider like this?
As I understand it, with traditional VPNs, you basically have to trust third-party audits to verify the VPN isn't logging all traffic and selling it. Does the WireGuard protocol address theses issues? Or is there still the same risk as a more traditional VPN provider?
So people are kind of primed for "makes sense to keep kids from these attention driven platforms"
But I think the average person isn't understanding the implications of the facial/id scanning.