I do, especially when someone’s profiting from it, while my license is strictly for non commercial.

Uber wasn’t making profit anyway, despite all the VCs money behind it.

I guess they have reasons not to pay drivers properly. Give Uber a free pass for it too

https://petapixel.com/2024/01/03/court-docs-reveal-midjourney-wanted-to-copy-the-style-of-these-photographers/

What’s stopping AI companies from paying royalties to artists they ripped off?

Also, lol at accounts created within few hours just to reply in this thread.

The moment their works are the one that got stolen by big companies and driven out of business, watch their tune change.

Edit: I remember when Reddit did that shitshow, and all the sudden a lot of sock / bot accounts appeared. I wasn’t expecting it to happen here, but I guess election cycle is near.

Try to train a human comedian to make jokes without ever allowing him to hear another comedian’s jokes, never watching a movie, never reading a book or magazine, never watching a TV show. I expect the jokes would be pretty weak.

nope, “The dog is cooking a dinner” is that kind of absurdist sentence that works. So that I just don’t guess a human on the subject position. Or ‘eating’ for the verb

I’ve seen quality drops of Duolingo, ever since their … IPO, sadly.

Anyway, here’s some ways you can milk the rest of the Duolingo before completely abandoning it.

• Use the web version, and type in all the answers if it’s possible. Selecting words are good for introducing new words (and reminder in case you forgot), but by typing it on your own, it’s faster to commit into memory.
• Use classroom mode to get unlimited hearts, create your own classroom and invite yourself in. I assume that Duolnigo will probably eventually stop this loophole
• Use search engine to search for the sentences you’re unsure of. No, don’t use machine translation, but search on the internet, and see if the sentence ever being used by the sites (news, academic, or personal homepage) using the target language.

I sadly still don’t know what other comparable free alternatives to Duolingo. Anki is great, but it’s largely flashcard for words, not sentences (unless you want to create your own deck). The others require subscription fee.

Other methods? Search for pdf of language grammar files, there are a lot out there. Some are godawful to read, especially those ‘Comprehensive Grammar Guide’ books. Some are amazing, e.g. Tae Kim’s Guide to Japanese.

Yeah, this is frustrating.

I can handle absurd sentences like “The dog is cooking the dinner”, and actually finds them beneficial because it prevents me from guessing the whole sentence.

But this is a sign that not enough human efforts are poured into create permutation of the answers.

I remember Mirai botnet that scanned for default password on IoT cameras.

They could definitely become a weak link.

I think Google support team might have started to see the pattern, getting feedback that they are starting to take action against them.

Marc Andreessen is too low there.

Musk is a clown that says vile and stupid thing. An useful idiot for others Silicon Valley VCs.

Andreessen and Thiel (and too some small extent Luckey) are in the background trying to push for far right libertarian dystopia.

Andreessen is the guy who kept pushing for web 3.0, trying to dominate it before it becomes big, so that he can monopolize / become a new digital libertarian govt, but of course it got hijacked by scammers, and states like Russia or North Korea, but he doesn’t give a flying fuck.

Thiel of course is far right financier. There’s a reason why they try to hide in the background.

Subscription only makes sense if there’s an ongoing service, e.g. processing in the cloud, cloud data storage, etc.

Apps that don’t need to be subscription:

• Camera apps like Halide or Filmic Pro, wtf
• Any todo / habit apps, the ‘cloud’ part is usually iCloud / Google Drive
• Notetaking apps, e.g. GoodNotes, wtf
• Duolingo, mainly because the contents of some lessons are outdated (missing audio, etc).

I could see people who became deaf-mute using it. Apple has Personal Voice for iOS that allows people who are losing their voice to use it to connect to their loved ones.

I just have hard time trusting EA.

I remember when Joe Rogan was getting giant paycheck from Spotify promoting antivax stuff, and people talked about moving to Apple Music, but it feels like many just stuck with Spotify.

I came across a post on instagram that says that Al Yankovic’s 80 million stream on playlist only netted him enough money to buy a sandwich.

Also, Spotify underpaying artists, making fake playlists with cover artists to undermine artists, are not new. It feels like the mainstream crowd just doesn’t care, which pushes me further into depression.

why did I misread that as AutoCreamPie?

I use BiasFX2, and it’s pretty okay for me. The tone cloud seems to be lacking of content nowadays (maybe it’s harder to search)

If you wanna use opensource + deep learning amp simulators, there is Neural Amp Modeler I’ve never used it (even though I downloaded and it’s sitting in my folder for a year now), but it seems like you just need to feed it with the wav of the guitar tone you want.

I mistook Larry Summers as Larry Elison (ex Oracle) previously and made a comment that it gone from bad to worse.

I’m retracting it, I don’t know much about Larry Summers.

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I remember reading about Cruise flooding cities with their robotaxis like 3-4 months ago, and their cars breakdown / creating traffic jams

I really hope there’s stricter regulation about it.

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ECM = Experiencia cercana a la muerte. Basically NDE (Near Death Experience)

• “Vi el futuro de la humanidad” = “I saw the future of humanity”
• “Estamos más vivos que nunca, al otro lado” = “we are more alive than ever, on the other side”
• “Estaremos con los nuestros en otra vida” = “we will be with ours in another life”
• “Hay esperanza nunca morimos” = “there is hope, we never die”

Just based on the captions / titles, this seems to be a channel about Near Death Experience.

From my experience with other channels about NDE (I don’t know about this one), It’s less about encouraging suicide, but more of providing some spiritual comfort, that when you die it’s not complete void, and about how some people becoming better person after experiencing NDE, e.g. ego death.

NDE is of course, from recent article that I read, mostly about neurons firing trying to recall moments (thus life flash before your eyes). But if it provides comfort for those who are anxious about death, it’s so far harmless. It’s not as bad as antivax / alternative healing (yet).

Eventually you and I will be curious of what would happen after our death, and people talking about seeing their lost loved ones during NDE, being engulf by warm light, are source of comfort.

I don’t believe in those. For me, there’s no second chance, no reincarnation, no afterlife, no spiritual stuff, just complete void, no consciousness, and no need to deal with another shitty human in life ever again, which makes me excited about it.