Put it (with a few additions) on the blog as well https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/112082307835686156
Magic market words
In tech-related discourse "decentralization", "Open Source", "democratization", "federation" have become weird terms. Not because of the specific architectural or technological concept they are describing but as a way to hide the fact that the speaker thinks that "markets" are the cure-all to anything. Anything is seen as an issue of needing "more competition", "more choice" which - given how many of us have been trained all our lives - might sound like a great idea.
#Bitcoin supporters love bringing up that the traditional financial system also needs a lot of power. That argument is dishonest though
nostr:npub1qv3p656sf98fvlfq085cteakszkdw4p8fzf4udrkcjtul9gc56xqwd4ek0 ist ja nicht so als hätte die CSU ne Ersatz-Bank voller Leute der Qualität
A fully switched to Firefox a few months ago when Google kept on pushing their "Manifest V3" Chrome policy, now that they continue to push it and remove V2 (and with it meaningful adblockers) from Chrome in 2024 maybe you want to start migrating as well?
https://developer.chrome.com/en/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/
Don't go to Brave btw. It's a shit company that keeps doing shady stuff and is run by a homophobe. There are so many browsers, just pick one. (Whether other Chromium-based browsers will keep an interface for effective customization for users around is for you to research. Just use Firefox TBH).
"One thing is clear, and should've been clear from the beginning: these AIs, at least for now, simply can't do a writer's job."
The A.V. Club had started publishing articles "generated by AI based on IMDB data". Turns out, the "AI" part is just a resource intensive copy.
As the article linked argues and as I have argued (for example in my #rp23 talk and in a keynote at a communication congress on Friday): The fact that the articles, the prose, the output is average and lifeless at best isn't a bug, it's a test.
It's a test to find out if people are willing to accept that kind of "content" in order to press labor, fire writers and treat those left worse.
"AI" is an attack on labor, it's not tech.
nostr:npub1hjhge7u7t7nn5c4aef3t5k9qsg64c54pqaksfsluhu888a5wp5hqlu7vxf bin gar nicht mehr gewohnt, dass jemand auf so einer Bühne einfach rational über Ziele und Wege, sie zu erreichen spricht. I'm flashed.