I had to have a hard conversation with my wife and in-laws about posting pictures of my son online. They agreed but didn’t get it. Once AI deepfakes became common, they got it.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]
Mid 30’s IT/Medical Device support and quality guy. I like cycling, video games, and singing.
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Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Graphene OS options and a special use caseEnglish
1·3 months agoYeah, Medtronic is a bunch of assholes for things like that. If you really wanna rage, look at how the company does everything they can to not allow communication between blood sugar live sensors and pump controllers. Biomedical enthusiasts (I loathe the term biohacker) have been working this idea with older, more easily hackable pumps.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech SmartphoneEnglish
10·3 months agoPeak design. We have strayed from the Holy T9.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. statesEnglish
1·4 months agoIt’s one more tool in the bag that the State can wield against us. My more conspiratorial thinking as this as an accidental part of the frame work of how they create the slave knowledge worker class since anyone who actually works in tech will disable this. That way they can sweatshop devs into fixing bad AI code without paying them.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
World News@lemmy.world•How can you tell if music is AI-generated?English
263·7 months agoYou must consider that the AI “helping” the artist is built from the stolen work of countless artists. Regardless of use case, the tool only exists due to theft. Plus, this tool exists as a way to not pay talent for content.
Since the bread and circuses machine must keep dispensing to keep the masses anaesthetized, the elites need a way to cut the costs or they will lose points are their net worth scorecard and get made fun of by the other billionaires.
Not to mention, AI is a shortcut that does not generate skills besides prompt engineering. We have research proving this with students and the labor force losing reasoning and straight memory by handing off to “AI”. Part of being a musician is the effort and practice and knowing an instrument. Asking the clanker for a tune because learning takes too long or is too difficult goes along with what the article says for detecting it. The work will be emotionless and have no soul. Musicians are allowed to make choices for their music, of course. AI rounding out an artist’s tools is what it is. I view the tool as a corrupting force but, it’s their perogative. But people without no knowledge or skill for making music cranking out these generic sounding similacra to make money is always going to set my teeth on edge.
Edit: spelling and tense correction. Revision and expansion of idea to express less derision.
Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning.English
0·2 years agoAs someone who frequently interacts with the tech illiterate, no they don’t. This sudden rush to put weighed text hallucination tables into everything isn’t that helpful. The hype feels like self driving cars or 3D TVs for those of us old enough to remember that. The potential for damage is much higher than either of those two preceding fads and cars actually killed poeple. I think many of us are expressing a healthy level of skepticism toward the people who need to sell us the next big thing and it is absolutely warranted.

They are source available instead of FOSS which puts a bad taste in many of the FOSS advocates on here. I believe they also have backing from Curtis Yarvin. I hate that Grayjay is one of the only consistently working youtube front ends.
Here’s what I read that laid out this issues.
https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html