Thanks for pointing that out. But it was only a joke.

A water gun will also do it. You can even order one from Amazon…

You will have to repeat that again and again, because people don’t know what LLMs are. They have been told that we have AIs and don’t understand that what they actually use are digital parrots (minus the intelligence of an actual parrot).

What are principles worth if you won’t stand for them?

I was confused for a minute, not understanding what (Apache) Maven has to do with social networks.

Is he just using words for not saying anything?

Changing Biden’s mind won’t automatically feed those people. Providing food and basic necessities to the civilians trapped there should be the first priority.

I would at least expect outstanding genocide and human rights abuse topics to be at the top of the list of things needed to be clarified before anything else can be discussed.

What’s scary about it?

This is really good news. I just hope that state institutions using OSS don’t take it for granted and also start investing (contributing, auditing) into the software they are using. With increasing adoption, OSS also becomes an attractive attack vector for all kinds of malicious parties. Recent events (xz utils) have shown how this can happen.

Original article: https://aeon.co/essays/bernard-stieglers-philosophy-on-how-technology-shapes-our-world

One important thing the centralized sites like Bandcamp enable, is discovery of new music and artists. I’m afraid that this is such a big deal that Faircamp won’t be able to take off until that problem is addressed and solved somehow.

Install some software on your server […]

I’m afraid that this is a big no-go for most artists, which just want to make music and don’t want to be server administrators.

I use syncthing for synchronizing photos and music between phone and my computers.

The feature I probably use most ist sharing links from my phone to my laptop to continue reading web pages or researching something on a bigger screen.

Do people still use emacs to code, for example?

Sure. Why wouldn’t they?

Let’s have AI regulators!

You and the person you replied to are both correct. Yet people herded around and followed well known persons through history. Unfortunately people don’t always look up to and choose to follow wise people. Yet the kind of hardwiring the person you replied to mentions is obsolete in my opinion. Never before was information as accesibile as today and ideas (no matter what kind) were exchanged as fast as these days. Critical thinking and the ability to filter through all the informational mess is probably the next evolutionary requirement if we wish to avoid becoming drones in a dystopia.

I assume that they already decided that such accounts aren’t profitable anyways and that management and migration isn’t worth the hassle.

That’s a good strategy and it makes sense. Don’t forget that you don’t have to decide for one alternative or the other. You could always have multiple options available and use them as suitable.

Just out of curiosity: when was the last time you looked into Linux?

I understand your point (regarding protection of intellectual property and having a homogeneous and controlled IT infrastructure), but I’d like to add that as a business (disregarding what my employees might like or consider more effective) I am still not in control of anything if my data and applications are somewhere “in the cloud” and I have no control over it. As a company I would be bound to that provider (in this case Microsoft) and would have to pay whatever they require for whatever they offer(good or bad services). A small alleviation would be to have that “cloud” on premise, but I think that that’s highly unrealistic. In this regard, a business is very similar to the plain user in my previous reply.

Also, don’t forget that GDPR doesn’t apply everywhere. That’s just a EU requirement which might or might not be fully implemented, even when required. As I mentioned, there’s no guarantee that your company data is not misused when it’s completely out of your hands. Not even to think about what a security breach or outage would mean and what kind of impact it would have.

Please don’t get me wrong. I’m not trying to spread FUD, but I am general skeptical and trying to think critically. Moving “everything” in “the cloud”, in the hands of one single actor requires a level of trust which I’m not able to provide and introduces single points of failure which I wouldn’t like to have, neither as individual nor as company.

Thanks for reading my longest post ever. ;-)