In our modern world, every last vestige of trust is being abused. Government bureaucracy is an increasingly-visible problem, and a lot of it is insulation to protect lobbied interests, but some of it is a good-faith reaction to the way various actors abuse trust in a market. Eventually, there will be no trust left in society, whether due to law or personal technology. Apple would do well to take the lead on better ways to handle this on the personal side.
> Then you can look how much of the signal has truly been affected by your 1000 bucks silver speaker cable.
I have a friend who has spent ridiculous sums of money on audio gear. Like, he's in his 50's, and still lives with his parents (in part) because of it. Over the years, I've learned I will never convince him that he's being fleeced, but I've wanted to make a site to host such A/B comparisons for a very long time, to perhaps get through to others what a waste most of the "audiophile" gear is.
On your A/B comparison website: I think it is important to make a "blind" test default. So they can listen to e.g. ten repetations and vote for for one each time and in the end they get a score which one they liked better. and by how much.
Because of course they want to hear the difference if there is an expensive price tag.
TFA says that the motive is unclear, but that's not particularly true, is it? I mean, there are several, very predictable results from this, among which surely must be the objective(s). This leaves a pretty narrow trail to follow for whatever intelligence services must be looking at it now. Not knowing the lay of the land over there, I can't even guess, but someone here must be able to intuit what's going on.
Treating corporations as "people" for policy's sake is a legal decision which has essentially killed the premise of the US democratic republic. We are now, for all intents and purposes, a corporatocracy. Perhaps an even better description would simply be oligarchy, but since our oligarchs' wealth is almost all tied up in corporate stocks, it's a very incestuous relationship.
The idea of knowledge as a source of understanding and personal growth is completely oppositional to it's conception as a scarce resource, which to OpenAI and whomever else wants to train LLMs is what it is. OpenAI did not read everything in the library because it wanted to know everything; it read everything at the library so it could teach a machine to create a statistical average written word generator, which it can then sell access to. These are fundamentally different concepts and if you don't see that, then I would say that is because you don't want to see it.
I don't care if employees at OpenAI read books from their local library on python. More power to them. I don't even care if they copy the book for reference at work, still fine. But utilizing language at scale as a scarce resource to train models is not that and is not in any way analogous to it.
I am sorry you are too blinded by your own ideology and disagreement with OpenAI to see others points of views. In my view, I do not want to constrain any person or entity on their access to knowledge, regardless of output product. I do have issues with entities or people consuming knowledge and then prevent others from doing so. I am not describing a scenario of a scarce resource but of an open one.
Public information should should be free for anyone to consume and use how they want.
> I am sorry you are too blinded by your own ideology and disagreement with OpenAI to see others points of views.
A truly hilarious sentiment coming from someone making zero effort to actually engage with what I'm saying in favor of parroting back empty platitudes.
A friend of mine has trouble running a very important vendor application for his department. It stopped working some time ago, so he opened a ticket with IT. It was so confusing to them that it got to a point that they allowed him to run Microsoft's packet capture on his machine. He followed their instructions, and captured what was going on. Despite the capture, they were unable to get it working, so out of frustration, he sent the capture to me. Even though our laptops are really locked down, as a dev, I get admin on my machine, and I have MSDN, so I downloaded Microsoft's tool, looked over the capture, and discovered that it the application was a client/server implementation ON THE LOCAL MACHINE. The front end was working over networking ports to talk to the back end, which then talked to the vendor's servers. I only knew that I had just undergone a lot of pain with my own development workflow, because the company had started doing "default deny," and it was f*king with my in several ways. Ways that, as you say, I found workarounds for, that they probably aren't aware of. I told him what to tell IT, and how they could whitelist this application, but he's still having problems. Why am I being vague about the details here? It's not because of confidentiality, though that would apply. No, it's because my friend had been "working with IT" for over a year to get to this point, and THIS WAS TWO YEARS AGO, and I've forgotten a lot of the details. So, to say that it will take "3 extra rounds" is a bit of an understatement when IT starts doing "default deny," at least in legacy manufacturing companies.
Does anyone think that Netgear isn't doing the exact same thing with Orbi? (It's a given that Google is doing it with Eero.) Anyone taking odds on Ubiquiti?
My access point is still Ubiquiti, since I haven't found a solution to get WiFi access across my house that works directly with my homebuilt router that I'm sufficiently happy with. I'm sure Ubiquiti is doing the same stuff, behind the scenes.
I'm open to suggestions if anyone has them on the best way to avoid this.
I have Ubiquiti APs that run off a local UniFi VM. The APs don't have internet access and the UniFi box has only limited access to grab firmware updates. No need to trust when you can enforce limits on a separate router running a FOSS OS like opnsense.
In case you know -- is there a way to get into Ubiquiti without having a drop where I need the secondary AP? Today I use an Eero at the cable modem and a second Eero just mounted on the ceiling upstairs with . I'd like to move to something that isn't locked down the way Eero is (and which has a web UI), but I like the whole 'mesh with a dedicated backhaul on a separate channel' thing. My house is constructed in a way that would make running ethernet upstairs not convenient.
It's slow as shit though. I had 5x U6-Mesh after ditching the Google/Nest Wi-Fi garbage. Now, I have U6-Enterprise running on PoE on dedicated copper. There's no substitute for the bandwidth afforded by physical media.
Can you define slow as shit? Was it worse than the Google/Nest Wi-Fi things? I am aware ethernet drops would be faster, but I just don't need 1Gbps in my bedroom -- just for the connection to be reliable and of a reasonable speed. My benchmark to beat would be what my Eero mesh thing gets.
We were vastly outnumbered and overwhelmed by sociopaths who exploited the tools to make our lives better by capturing everything of value in the market, and subsequently enshittifying it. Our cynicism has been well earned and deserved.
