Roswell

Has absolutely nothing to do with NSFW vs SFW...
 
The image set that these AI models are trained on (LAION) is filled with billions of copyrighted images/artworks. The technology is built on the backs of people who never gave consent to steal their work for profit.
 
Your freedom of software doesn't include freedom to steal other people's work. These AI models steal from millions upon millions of people.

You're jumping into a bunch of logical fallacies to support your argument, not really interested in engaging with that nonsense. Not to mention some weird assumptions that have no grounding in reality.
 
Regardless, the results these services spit out would not exist without stolen artwork. If you were in the space (which you're not according to prior discussion), your opinion on how artists should feel, however flawed, would at least be valid. But it's not.

Has absolutely nothing to do with NSFW vs SFW...
 
The image set that these AI models are trained on (LAION) is filled with billions of copyrighted images/artworks. The technology is built on the backs of people who never gave consent to steal their work for profit.
 
Your freedom of software doesn't include freedom to steal other people's work. These AI models steal from millions upon millions of people.

You're jumping into a bunch of logical fallacies to support your argument, not really interested in engaging with that nonsense. Not to mention some weird assumptions that have no grounding in reality.
 
Regardless, the results these services spit out would not exist without stolen artwork. If you were in the space (which you're not according to prior discussion), your opinion on how artists should feel, however flawed, would at least be valid. But it's not.

Has absolutely nothing to do with NSFW vs SFW...
 
The image set that these AI models are trained on (LAION) is filled with billions of copyrighted images/artworks. The technology is built on the backs of people who never gave consent to steal their work for profit.
 
Your freedom of software doesn't include freedom to steal other people's work. These AI models steal from millions upon millions of people.

Has absolutely nothing to do with NSFW vs SFW...
 
The image set that these AI models are trained on (LAION) is filled with billions of copyrighted images/artworks. The technology is built on the backs of people who never gave consent to steal their work for profit.
 
Your freedom of software doesn't include freedom to steal other people's work. These AI models steal from millions upon millions of people.

You're jumping into a bunch of logical fallacies to support your argument, not really interested in engaging with that nonsense. Not to mention some weird assumptions that have no grounding in reality.
 
Regardless, the results these services spit out would not exist without stolen artwork. If you were in the space (which you're not according to prior discussion), your opinion on how artists should feel, however flawed, would at least be valid. But it's not.

Has absolutely nothing to do with NSFW vs SFW...
 
The image set that these AI models are trained on (LAION) is filled with billions of copyrighted images/artworks. The technology is built on the backs of people who never gave consent to steal their work for profit.
 
Your freedom of software doesn't include freedom to steal other people's work. These AI models steal from millions upon millions of people.

This isn’t an Amazon problem, it’s just how the book (and any other media) industry works.
 
Publishing rights for books change all the time. Whoever published that guy’s version of the ebook isn’t the current publisher anymore. Now there’s a slightly different version of the ebook on the storefront and the previous publisher’s version is no longer available to download because they no longer have the rights.
 
Amazon lets you download backups for this exact reason. If they kept offering downloads of previous revisions under different publishers, Amazon would be breaking copyright law.

They told him to repurchase because the book he bought is no longer in “print”.
 
The book is now published by someone else, yes. 

 
That’s not the idea. Amazon sends you an ebook when you buy it, what you choose to do or not do with it is up to you. 
 
Once publishers change, they can no longer distribute it. They (and the previous publisher) don’t have the license to do so.

 
Except that’s not what happened. The reason why he’s trying to redownload the book is because it’s no longer in his library (cloud backup). 
 
The only way to have books missing from your library is to do the whole “delete from all devices/library” thing which explicitly warns you multiple times that it’s permanent and irreversible.
 
Can you get lucky and have the publisher and revision remain the same 10 years later? Sure. You can’t count on that though.
 
You also can’t expect Amazon to literally redistribute a book that they no longer have a license to distribute.

You need to chill the hell out with the way you’re talking to CS reps, you’re attacking them as if they’re the ones developing the platform.
 
Have some patience and respect for your fellow humans.

While there are some deals to be had there, it’s a dice roll on many fronts. Hell, even if you do manage to luck out with a good seller and product, you still have virtually no semblance of a warranty due to the shipping costs involved.

While there are some deals to be had there, it’s a dice roll on many fronts. Hell, even if you do manage to luck out with a good seller and product, you still have virtually no semblance of a warranty due to the shipping costs involved.

While there are some deals to be had there, it’s a dice roll on many fronts. Hell, even if you do manage to luck out with a good seller and product, you still have virtually no semblance of a warranty due to the shipping costs involved.

This is a really suspect statement to anyone that actually has experience… you know, driving. 
 
 

That would be great. And places like Canada are well on their way to that reality, though Cobalt and Lithium still have a ways to go for improvements in their labour and environmental impacts.
You have to pick your battles. Child labour and unsafe cobalt mines, for example, are both terrible things. But globally, they're less terrible than the risk that climate change poses.
 
And fortunately they are also problems we can solve. Lithium and Cobalt deposits exist outside of those countries with unethical labour rights. We should expand those sources and also pressure those governments to fix their labour rights issues.
Producing less exhaust is helping to "save the planet". It might be a small contribution, on an individual level, and there are many avenues available for one to do "their part", but we shouldn't just give up on EV's because some countries have bad ethics practices.
 
And frankly, climate change is an existential crisis. No, the Earth won't be destroyed. The ecosystem will eventually adapt to whatever changes climate change brings. But humanity may not survive that change, or if it does, it will be with massive negative impacts.
 
We can do something about it though. While also doing something about ethics violations in third world countries.

I feel like the disdain for bettering our environment is a distinctly American thing. 
 
Times are weird, and frustrating.

It did happen before with the 8000 series. Nvidia didn’t venture back out into absurd pricing again until testing the waters with the 690. Then came the Titan and it’s been silly ever since.

Razor’s extremely poor reliability and support has been widely documented for over 2 decades now. 
 
Not blaming you for not knowing before buying, but their reputation is in meme territory. So, this isn’t exactly shocking to anybody and doesn’t really warrant a video to reiterate what everyone already knows.

If anyone was curious about what the end of die shrink feasibility looks like, this is it.
 
It’s only going to get dumber from here and it doesn’t look like 3D stacking is the solution, at least for now.

There's no reason to do this and it's going to break a ton of functionality for iCloud users.
 
Not to mention that disabling SIP is extremely reckless.

This is an extremely dumb take and even more stupid “story”. 
 
The mediaanalysisd process has been around for almost a decade, it locally analyzes your media files for Photos search/live text/indexing/visual search/whatever and then uploads metadata and hashes to iCloud to sync with your other devices and provide said visual search data. That’s all it does.
 
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/01/21/tests-confirm-macos-finder-isnt-scanning-for-csam-images
 
There’s no spying.
 
Lol
 
 

I feel like the disdain for bettering our environment is a distinctly American thing. 
 
Times are weird, and frustrating.

I feel like the disdain for bettering our environment is a distinctly American thing. 
 
Times are weird, and frustrating.

I feel like the disdain for bettering our environment is a distinctly American thing. 
 
Times are weird, and frustrating.