This is class warfare. The wealthy thought they could get away with targeted harassment just because they’re used to getting their way, and they know there’s two tiers of justice.

I’m glad the journalists won, as they should have, but there is an ever-growing list of regular people who didn’t.

does anyone know if it was something different this time?

The article says that Minnesota law classifies cyberattacks as nonpublic information, so what we learn about the details is likely to be limited.

If only it was as easy as it is simple

The other two issues are that he was allegedly repeatedly denied access to a lawyer when asked and not read his Miranda rights. Given how border patrol has acted lately, this is incredibly plausible and will hopefully lead to the motion to throw out the case being granted.

It’s where he lives. He’s a citizen and was returning home from DR.

Right? We’ve now come to that dystopian trope of everyday people cheering for the “criminals,” because vigilante justice is almost all we have left.

Brilliant

Nope, keep cutting them AND harass bad acting politicians,

That’s precisely what I said. We are actually in agreement!

Someone pays for every camera that goes down. It just is not Flock.

The bolt cutters do not send Flock an invoice. They send one to the city.

That’s the point. People know their city has to pay for these things, and the patriotic act of cutting down these cameras means that each camera down makes the Flock contract just that much more expensive to maintain. Cities aren’t going to cut budget items just to keep the ever-increasing costs of maintaining a Flock contract. They’ll drop the contract.

I do agree that people should be publicly commenting and contacting their city council members as well. Demoralizing the politicians who vote for this is important as well.

I personally know indie musicians who are popular enough to have had their music scraped and used as training data, in part because they are forced to use platforms like Spotify, YouTube, etc. to eke out a living. And then people have had the audacity to present AI slop versions of music using their vocals to them, expecting them to be happy about it.

Were they paid for their decades of work? No. Were they given the opportunity to opt out? No. This isn’t The Man trying to capitalize upon an open and equitable system. This is The Man stealing from the poors and each other, and pretending they didn’t (or worse, acting like their victimhood is somehow equal to everyone else’s).

And to add even further insult to injury, these companies have tricked many of those same poors that these plagiarism engines are tools to “level the playing field” against people who have spent years honing their craft. Why, the very nerve of those people using their time to become experts! /s

Death to training without paying the stockholders, death to open-source…

Even better: how about death to training until you pay the original artists fairly and equitably, or allow them to opt out? AI should not be treated as some inevitable thief that we must all work around.

Cool, so the creator of the meme is mad that liberals are choosing people who are actually doing something rather than those who are saying, “Just be patient, we need more bodies!”

The fascists will either be long gone or will have solidified their power by the time there’s “more people.” There’s no more time left to wait for some romantic revolution.

I think it’s more akin to indoctrination. “You, too, can be independently wealthy if you work hard enough. Just look at these very abnormal billionaires!”

Then start the revolution. What’s stopping you? I see lots of talk of a revolution, but nobody seems to want to be the brave one to die for it.

Been playing everyday for about two years with my 3060ti without much issue. There’s still the odd hiccup on occasion, but it’s usually solved by picking a different Proton version. Most games “just work,” generally without any changes.

The nVidia drivers haven’t been “a mess” for quite a long time, so if that’s what is holding you back, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. ProtonDB has a massive and growing list of games that run on Linux, and you can see what people did (if anything) to get those games working.

I will caution you, however, that if any amount of tinkering makes you inwardly cringe, you might want to think twice. Linux is generally easy to use, and it’s only getting easier, but there will be times you’ll have to add Launch Options to a Steam game, install a mod differently, or use the command line to do something.

Because that’s not how you make money from the household consumer market. We’re already there, and people aren’t able to buy RAM.

You don’t make money from product that doesn’t sell.

And this, Tim, is why I spend most of my money at Steam.

This may shock you, but proudly parading that you want to fuck over consumers at every opportunity is not good incentive.

I wouldn’t say “never,” but it’s very likely that RAM prices will not return to pre-AI (read: bullshit) levels. Many markets do this; hike up to crazy levels during a boom, come back down 80%, rinse and repeat.

The only thing that might put a stop to it is competition or the unicorn business that focuses upon everyday consumers and not purely profit (lol). I’m hopeful China is able to be a spoiler to this current tech hegemony, given general US hegemony is basically over, but the home computing market is probably fucked in the meantime.

That was actually a fun read, and if we lived in a just society, Adobe would be forced to care about making shitty software. But alas.

At least there’s some easy workarounds.

“I think it’s blasphemy against AI if ‌you say it’s a bubble,” Son said at the Japanese conglomerate’s annual general meeting. “It’s just the beginning. AI’s potential will be unlocked.”

Another stupid rich Boomer who’s bought into the science fiction, but who is too rich to have anyone who can tell him he’s an idiot.

The entrepreneur, 68, said he will lead the company into his 70s ​to bring ⁠about “artificial superintelligence,” which he defines as being 10,000 times smarter than a human.

“I have become greedier,” Son said. “I would like to do more over the next 10 to 15 years. I will stay healthy as long ⁠as I ​can.”

At least he’s honest, unlike the American ultrawealthy who have been trying really hard to convince people they’re regular humans and not skinwalkers.

For real. How can we get AI to break up with us and go away?