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  • The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’

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  • Isn't this EXACTLY how it worked before publishers started using the internet? You had to pay either a subscription, or per issue for every magazine or newspaper you wanted to read. Instead of having subscriptions to "dozens of different news outlets", people only paid for a few. The ones that interested you most, you paid a subscription for, and if you were interested in anything else, you just bought single issues.

  • The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’

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  • I don't know about you, but I don't live in a utopia that works like this. Journalists have wages, web servers cost a lot of money to run. Printing presses and physical distribution channels also cost a lot of money. If information should be free, how should publishers pay for all of these labor and infrastructure costs?

  • The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’

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  • I think the “garbage is free” narrative needs to change. AI generated garbage sure isn’t free, you pay for it with your attention and your data. Publishers need to make money somehow, and they can either do that with tracking cookies that harvest your data and sell it to the highest bidder, or in reality, both. If average consumers had any idea of how much data they give up for “free” content or services on the internet, I think more people would be okay with paywalls, and I think there would be a lot more pressure on paid subscription/service providers to use paywall revenue as an alternative to, instead of in addition to, the surveillance capitalism method that’s so pervasive right now

  • Why is this pattern so ubiquitous and does it have a name?

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  • Los Angeles Says It Will Not Join Newsom’s Push to Clear Encampments

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  • No, LA isn’t getting anything done. Not clearing encampments of likely less a humanitarian decision and more of a “let’s keep doing nothing” decision

  • The ICJ Ruling Confirms What Palestinians Have Been Saying for 57 Years

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  • That’s the fun part! When the US government is also in charge on enforcing the law, they can do whatever they want!

  • 75 tons of illegal fireworks seized in Los Angeles area, largest fireworks bust in California history

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  • I could hear this explosion from 7 miles away

  • Apple AI vs. Microsoft AI

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  • I thought Apple's WWDC keynote showed some good uses for it, but you're right, it kind of is just incremental, and may or may not be worth the privacy/compute cost. I personally am mostly excited that Siri will be able to contextualize my calendars, notes, messages, etc. There are lots of bits of information I've lost over the years, that isn't actually lost, but just buried, and current search just isn't up to the task of finding it. Or searching through notes: instead of having to remember when I took a note and where I asked it, I can just ask Siri a question and it'll basically search through my notes and find the answer.

    I also think it's going to completely change academic research. Instead of going to Jstor and using a traditional search bar, you could just tell the AI assistant what you're thinking about, what your theories are, etc, and it will search the catalog and find relevant sources for you. It removes a layer of friction, which I think will make a lot of people more efficient/effective.

    The main argument I see against it is "well that is all well and good, but none of that will matter when the internet is full of AI-generated crap." I mean yeah, that's true, but the internet is already full of non-AI-generated crap. Sifting through the shitty ads and "sponsored posts" has already made the internet nearly unusable IMO. That's a bigger problem that we need to deal with, that's separate from AI.

  • Apple AI vs. Microsoft AI

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  • I think healthy skepticism is always a good thing. A lot of people seem to be looking at this tech as a panacea, which it absolutely isn’t. It’s still really important that we have the ability to identify when it may be hallucinating, just like we really need the ability to think critically about literally anything on the internet.

  • Apple AI vs. Microsoft AI

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  • I’m excited for it. I don’t think hallucinations will be a huge concern. Knowing about all (or most) of the content on my devices is a MUCH easier prospect than knowing everything about everything, which is an idea that OpenAI or Google certainly aren’t trying too hard to refute about their models

  • What world record do you come the closest to having broken?

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  • Not me but my friend technically made the world’s biggest chicken nugget. Turns out getting Guinness to certify it is kind of a pain though so it’s not on the books

  • Has Generative AI Already Peaked? - Computerphile

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  • I think most people underestimate how big of a deal it’s going to be when this tech is pervasive in things like search engines or digital assistants. There are many times when I can’t figure out the right combination of words to put into a search engine to find the results. ChatGPT is already my go to when I want to figure out a movie or song from some random combination of foggy memories. Imagine after 10 more years of cpu/gpu innovations, and chat applications that have actually been designed for information retrieval, how much that is going to transform how we interact with data and information.

    Full disclosure, I didn’t watch the video. I just can’t imagine that that headline isn’t going to look silly in 30 years.

  • Has Generative AI Already Peaked? - Computerphile

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  • In 30 years, we’re going to look back at this headline like we look back at articles about the internet or smart phones being fads.

  • Self-hosted IP-phone network

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  • Sounds like OP is interested in learning to set up/administer a VoIP system rather than just looking for a communications platform

  • What is something that is completely legal that should be illegal?

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  • Could you elaborate on Singapore? I have a friend who lives there and her rent is obscene…

  • Empowering Choice: Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web

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  • Been using it since I read DDG was discovered having trackers from Microsoft, which they’ve since removed - or so they claim.

    Considering the only news results I get on DDG are from MSN, I believe it, but also I'm guessing the net result is the same...

  • Opinion: It's Time To Ditch 2.4GHz WI-FI

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  • Two words: Backward Compatibility

  • The Center of Gravity is Tilting to the South

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  • Before I read the article, I thought northern hemisphere people were starting to weigh less and southern hemisphere people were starting to weigh more…

  • World’s first AI-powered restaurant opens in Southern California

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  • I bet a burger is still $15 and fries are still $8 despite minimal labor costs. I wonder if the kiosks will prompt you to leave a tip