See also this comment in the other thread: https://lemmy.world/comment/14448522

For me it was less about not seeing the problem with it (I don’t trust them at all), and more about making sure that people pick Mastodon instead of Threads.

Which is why I was pushing for instances to not fully defederate, but use settings that hide the content by default and let users opt in to see it. That way if someone has 1 friend/local entity that they want to follow on threads, they can still pick Mastodon and opt in to see that content.

After the recent changes, I’m not sure if that’s the right move anymore

We believe that the washing machine is the hearth of the modern laundry room

I was going to try and edit in some more "AI"s but it’s already near saturated

They even changed their name to SoundHound AI?

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/9/24339817/vlc-player-automatic-ai-subtitling-translation

The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages.

Ok now that’s cool. Since it’s often all doom and gloom here, celebrating good tech is a nice change :)

I looked up “Parent AI”, and was disappointed

Reminds me of this one

https://youtube.com/watch?v=synJZAtH58E

when you rob a big tech company, but the employees are…

(that’s the title of the video, the clickbait isn’t me)

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhenThePlanetsAlign

This is especially true with the RSS feed communities

Also I don’t think you’re the only one. Often when I come across a clump like that, most of them are sitting at only a few upvotes while other posts in the community do much better.

That seems like an optional feature that competing products have.

I’d rather the fediverse friendly open source version have features I won’t use, if it means it can continue to grow and compete with the proprietary ones

But we may have friends and family members asking about it

Great to hear, thank you!

On mine, I can press the info icon (i) -> Remove EXIF

I once won a promotion and I was sent some items for free. When I went to pick them up, I had to pay more than I would have been willing to pay if I bought the items, because of ‘duties and taxes’.

I probably should have just refused the delivery, but I was young and didn’t know any better so I paid for my package. There was a receipt inside the box that listed the items as being somewhat expensive, so I assumed there was some weird accounting where I still had to pay the taxes despite getting them for free.

I’ve bought and shipped a lot of items since then without ever having to pay upon pickup.

I didn’t mind Proton’s as much, but holiday season as a whole got annoying with all the emails. Mozilla in particular, I almost unsubscribed from their emails

The balance I’ve found is

• if it’s important and I have time: read it myself
• if it’s important and I don’t have time: save it for later
• if it’s not important (and I’m fine with reading someone else’s summary of it, knowing that their summary might be wrong), and curious enough, I’ll get a quick AI summary of it. Afterwards I might go back to read it properly if it sounds interesting, or skipping it happy I didn’t waste time on it

That’s actually why I liked having those summary bots in the comments.

• only generated once, so it saves some resources compared to many users generating it for themselves
• people who read the piece or know about the topic can call out issues

clearly intentional explosion by somebody

I was trying to figure this out myself, since the article I saw mentioned fireworks. Are there better details somewhere?

can Tesla just unlock any of their vehicles remotely and access all the camera footage on it

Yes, the first one is arguably a service, but the second one is a problem

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tesla-camera-scandal-is-the-latest-lesson-in-dangers-of-letting-companies-record-you

Tesla employees passed around videos taken in car owners’ private garages and other interesting recordings captured by the cameras built in to the company’s vehicles, Reuters reported today. “We could see them doing laundry and really intimate things. We could see their kids,” according to one of nine former employees who told the news agency about the practice.

Stories involving 2 are often the most fun, as well as 4 if they aren’t lazy with the timeline corrections

1 feels the simplest and I would prefer it. With 3, unless the technology is limited to a few people, it’s going to get messy

It’s also a fun way to see how good their data is

For a few of the apps, the data was very limited and/or very wrong. That made me happy

I found the screenshot order confusing at first, and it’s not OPs fault since the original article got the screenshots backwards too

From the article:

Synopsis Wes Winder, a Canadian software developer, is facing backlash after his controversial decision to replace his development team with Al backfired. Once a trending topic on Reddit and a source of widespread ridicule, Winder is now in an awkward position as he turns to Linkedln in search of web developers to hire.