It is recording (v), but it’s not producing a recording (n). That will probably turn out to be an important legal distinction.

There will be a lot more legal complications with the summaries because people will have an expectation of reliability. It’s pretty unlikely that they will be consistently reliable enough, or consistently avoid privacy traps, like HIPAA.

Regardless, it’s creepy.

Open-source is a stretch. Open weights are more like blobs. They run and can be used openly, but it’s not as though you can build it yourself. No way to know how it was trained or if the training was manipulated by various interests.

This is actually a really interesting article.

It looks at how social media has evolved, who owns it, and whether it is fundamentally still “social.”

I’m increasingly convinced that “The Cloud” is just a scam. Just keep your own files.

Projectivity is another great option, especially if you want a few more options without anything you don’t want.

Meta’s “financial model is to reward content creators who get engagement, and as we know, the best way of getting engagement is to produce rage bait, extremist material, aggravating material: anything that will get people upset and arguing is the best way to get engagement.”

That tracks.

I was posting about these kind proton pricing shenanigans months ago and no one was listening.

Signal from the kitchen seems more likely than a Earth sized TNO

welp, I’m sure that will never be misused…

I see what you’re going for, but… No thanks.

Roku is another prime example of enshitification.

Now I have all my “smart” TVs disconnected, and I hooked up some inexpensive Android TV boxes (with a couple minor modifications). No more ads!

Meanwhile people out here hosting websites on disposable vapes.

Can’t they just pay me in NFTs?

Dead internet is only a theory. Like gravity.

If they built out a Mastodon network with government support, then it would.

Uh, Mastodon exists?

So the people killing women for partially uncovering their hair are the good guys?

The people murdering thousands of protestors are the good guys?

So the religious fundamentalists imposing doctrine at gunpoint are the good guys?

I think the people protesting for their lives and freedoms are the good guys, but that’s just me.