Readit NewsAfter seeing something like blockchain run completely afoul/used for the wrong things and embraced by the public for it, I at least agree that AI has a value perception problem.
I just don't participate in discussions about Facebook marketplace links friends share, or Instagram reels my D&D groups post.
So in a sense I agree with you, forcing AI into products is similar to forcing advertising into products.
Are there any germane examples of your “These formerly ‘public utilities’ are now often owned by PE or Berkshire Hathaway” claim or is it just a complete non-sequitur?
I have been working on software for the G1 headset to display glucose data without any audible alarms, just a visual notification.
The issues I run into are:
* Dexcom sensors have limited Bluetooth connections (with pump support), so I need to pull data from a phone.
* Battery life (I can get 9 hours maybe with a not always on display, a far cry from 6 days).
* xDrip gets readings slower than directly from dexcom.
* General UI edge cases for missed readings.
Thank you for sharing your work, it's validation that others are experiencing this problem and maybe my visual solution will be useful to others (and a watch/audible/haptic device also might be a good complement to what I have now, my solution is not supposed to be the only way to get CGM data.) https://github.com/ltomes/rel-a/tree/feature/xDrip
As a counter though, I would say with 2gb of ram this device just won't be fast enough for most of its users in 3 years anyway; so although I find this a valid argument to make, a new issue pops up immediately (for me at least).
From what I can tell, some person made a fan page for an existing Funko Pop video game (Funko Fusion), with links to the official site and screenshots of the game. The BrandShield software is probably instructed to eradicate all "unauthorized" use of their trademark, so they sent reports independently to our host and registrar claiming there was "fraud and phishing" going on, likely to cause escalation instead of doing the expected DMCA/cease-and-desist. Because of this, I honestly think they're the malicious actor in all of this. Their website, if you care: https://www.brandshield.com/
About 5 or 6 days ago, I received these reports on our host (Linode) and from our registrar (iwantmyname). I expressed my disappointment in my responses to both of them but told them I had removed the page and disabled the account. Linode confirmed and closed the case. iwantmyname never responded. This evening, I got a downtime alert, and while debugging, I noticed that the domain status had been set to "serverHold" on iwantmyname's domain panel. We have no other abuse reports from iwantmyname other than this one. I'm assuming no one on their end "closed" the ticket, so it went into an automatic system to disable the domain after some number of days.
I've been trying to get in touch with them via their abuse and support emails, but no response likely due to the time of day, so I decided to "escalate" the issue myself on social media.
It's amazing that speech is finally really free, that there's no network gatekeepers blocking hobbyists and researchers from understanding & working with speech.
Watching the web 2.0 world collapse as APIs shutters or got absurdly expensive, watching the remaining players withdraw availability ongoingly: man that was sad. That was such an anti- inter-networking tragedy that I was not prepared for.
We can start to see the threads intertwine again. Thanks to protocols not platforms.
ActivityPub is truly federated with multiple platforms. Maybe I'm not giving BS a fair shake, but that's been my view.
Most media organizations have a small number of in-house journalists on verticals that make sense.
The rest of the content is curated and brought in from content partners and written outside of the news organization.
In practice they function more like a social media feed than traditional newspapers. I’m no fan of CNN, but this isn’t exactly a scandal, media had to adapt to keep up with so much being on social media these days, they all do this.
If you went back farther, you would find exploits that compromise your iOS device simply by receiving a compromised jpg image, not even by you opening the message. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/apple-patches-clickl...
I think the expectation in 2024 should simply be 0 day exploits are available for purchase that target both platforms, neither is secure.
I recently re-watched the Watchmen movie, and it really feels analogous to this tiny bit of dialogue:
Nightowl: Whatever happened to the America Dream?
The Comedian: What happened to the American Dream? It came true! You're looking at it
In regards to cyberpunk we just didn't quite get to ubiquitous body modifications but ticked most of the other boxes.
(Which is not an attempt to discount that it resonates with you now; just pointing out that the subject matter seems timeless at this point.)