El Barto

OP is using a strawman, but it’s a reasonable one. In an ideal world, if a company offers unlimited data, then changes its mind, the least they could do is, I don’t know, ship the users’ data in SD cards for free.

Correct. The right course of action would be to backtrack this per download idea completely, fire the person who thought of this, and add a clause on their ToS that such bullshit will never happen again, and that of they broke that agreement, they will refund everyone affected by it.

Blockchain is not the ultimate unhackable decentralized solution.

P2P doesn’t need blockchain to work well.

Unfortunately, blockchain stuff are definitely hackable. I’m sure you’ve read the many cases in which people have been hacked while using some blockchain based app.

Sure a lot of people have a copy of the old repo. But I think the point is that it won’t be that easy to track ToS changes.

Oh, I’ve been schooled. Thanks.

Not coincidentally. Ironically.

Except that their implementation of USB-C will be way slower than the lightning port.

Edit: I’ve been schooled.

Usb-c is going to be a big deal for connecting devices to the phone.

Android users welcome you to 2017…

Now I don’t need to have some studios lightning adapter to plug in a usb drive or to get video out.

…or not. Apple will limit USB-C to USB 2.0 speeds so… good luck with that.

Oh for sure. I was just pinpointing the fatalistic reaction.

As if this has doomed humanity before.

Judging without knowing has been practically sport for most of humanity’s history.

Why would a feature that a company had to be forced to implement excite you?

I really doubt this. If I lose the private key of this one service I use, my information is lost and unrecoverable - unless they put a backdoor in it.

But if it is true, I’d be okay with this - provided that it is only use to detect abuse images and nothing else.

Google Photos is a non-starter for me as a backup solution because they scan the actual content of them. No thanks. I know it’s convenient to search for, say, “all photos with my nephew little Richie in them,” but it’s not worth giving them more information about me than they already do.

Its qualities*

Is Raku really used as much as perl? Splitting the community in half is quite the claim…

Its* thousands of different dialects.

Which I can also do. “Imagine a cave full of cats. The first cat is pink with yellow dots. The second cat glows in the dark. The third cat…”

I guess art involves expressing what you want to express it, sure. But also how you express it is part of it as well. If you make the strokes yourself, it’s more impressive. A machine? You gotta do better than making it look like someone painted it.

It’s like 3D printing. A 3D-printed statue? Neat. But not terribly impressive. A 3D figure that defies all optical illusion explanations? Now we’re talking.

Point taken. In that case, I guess one can recognize the effort. Still, the impressive part of the piece is the style, which, if one were to assume was made with actual oil paint, it would be impressive.

With AI, I would explore styles that are inherently difficult to produce digitally. And yes, “oil paint” would be difficult to produce with digital tools alone outside of AI (maybe there are good plug-ins for it?) But you know what I mean. I don’t even know which styles those would be.

Eh. I’ve seen abstract art that people are in awe with throughout my life. And like the uneducated swine I am, I’ve never thought they were impressive either.

Art appraisers are weird.

Edit: I saw the piece in question. This one is a tricky one, because if a human painted it, it would be impressive. Very nice details. But since it was generated by a machine in minutes… eh.

Yes. They’re all on TikTok and Instagram.

It’s not any better though. Instagram is owned by Facebook, and Tiktok is a privacy nightmare.