effingjoe

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[–] effingjoe@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand that you may not reply because you feel the discussion has run its course, but I wanted to clarify that I was, indeed, not following that you were speaking from a personal morality standpoint. Sorry about that.

[–] effingjoe@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

I was very young, 4 or 5, and I was taking a nap in the afternoon. In my dream my mom told me she would only ever make spaghetti and meatballs for dinner for the rest of my life. I liked spaghetti and meatballs, but I didn't want to eat only that forever. My grandmother woke me up because I was crying in my sleep.

This is my earliest memory.

[–] effingjoe@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's your opinion and you might feel differently if you had spent years working hard to achieve something in this specific field.

It's not really an opinion; it's just not a right granted by IP laws. I know that people that are financially dependent on this type of work really wish they had this right-- and I fully accept that if I were in the same boat, I would probably also wish I had this right, but that doesn't magically add it to the law.

All the lawsuits you see popping up are hail marys (maries?); they'll very likely all lose.

some kind of UBI or whatever was making that possible for me and others.

Something like this, set at a level that allowed a comfortable life (versus an austere one) would totally flip the whole employment dynamic. The pay for the worst jobs would skyrocket, because no one wants to do those jobs-- they only do them now to stave off starvation and homelessness.

siphoned up to to the upper class and corporations and wages will continue to stagnate for the working class and income inequality will continue to skyrocket

I can't help but agree, with sorrow. I imagine it won't get better (in the US, at least) until it impacts the wealthy-- as in, there aren't enough people getting paid to buy the stuff that is getting created by automation. Capitalism needs money flowing to the bottom (traditionally, a wage) to sustain itself. If that flow of money dries up, the whole system collapses. We can either fix it by abandoning capitalism, or by patching capitalism by finding a way for money to flow down other than by wages. (A UBI, for example)

[–] effingjoe@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Manager is the highest. (I think there are only two tiers anyway.)

There is something uniquely wrong with your setup; this is not a general google router issue. Which is good news, you don't need a new router. The next obvious step (for me) would be to wipe the data for the Home app on the phone and re-set it up. If that doesn't resolve it, you might consider resetting the router itself to factory, though that could be more annoying.

[–] effingjoe@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I have even noticed that google (my search engine of choice) has been showing reddit links further down the page; they used to be at the top for most of my searches (linux, gaming, coding type stuff). Which is appropriate, because just the other day I found a reddit post via google that had my exact issue and clicking though to it, the person who answered the question (and got a "thanks that did it" from the OP) had deleted their comments.

[–] effingjoe@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think it's overall good. A vote is no longer an anonymous action-- it's personal, just like leaving a comment supporting or disagreeing would be. While I don't think it would ever be appropriate to harass a person because they up/down voted something, I do think people should have to make the mental calculation about whether they're willing to have any specific up or down vote available for anyone to see.

[–] effingjoe@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (26 children)

the clients (no offense) tend to be less professional

I don't know what you mean by this precisely, but the "pretty good" end result I mentioned had a hand that melted into the sword-- so if you meant "low standard" then yeah, guilty as charged, haha. However, more interesting to me is that I would have never in 1000 years have paid someone to do that for me-- I just would have been low-level annoyed that my character and the avatar looked different the entire game.

I find the "they didn't have permission to train from" argument is complete bunk. That's not a right granted by intellectual property laws; there is no "right to control who learns from a work".

What needs to happen is society (especially US society) needs to stop linking "working" and "enjoying a comfortable life". Technology is coming for all our jobs, and the sooner we accept that and prepare for it, the better we'll be when it happens.

[–] effingjoe@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Port management works on mine for creating forwarded ports. Could it be that you don't have the proper access to edit these settings?

If it matters, my home app is version 3.2.1.7 (Found under Settings -> Support)

[–] effingjoe@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (28 children)

That's fair; the person I first responded to seemed to be discussing the "fine art" part.

How worried are you personally about these more advanced machine learning tools? Just a month or so ago I was playing a Pathfinder (rpg) video game and didn't care or any of the built-in avatar images, so I hopped onto one of the websites that make an image based on a text prompt to make me an image that matched my character and it took a few times to get the right wording but in the end I got a pretty good image out of it. I vaguely know how it works. (vaguely is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence) and it still seemed kind of like magic.

[–] effingjoe@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (34 children)

but isn't the artistic field already a lottery when it comes to making a living doing it? Maybe I have the wrong impression, but I feel like if "I very likely won't be able to make a living doing this" actually discouraged new art from getting created, it already would be doing that.

[–] effingjoe@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Upvotes mean "people should see this". Downvotes mean "there is no reason for anyone to see this".

[–] effingjoe@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Those of us on kbin can see who up/downvotes. I've noticed, anecdotally, that once this became more wildly known, there have been fewer downvotes that mean "I disagree", with them mostly being used on troll posts or obviously bigoted posts.

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