Theft is when you take something and deprive the owner of what you took
So google ai summary now taking content from the web and putting at the top of their search, thus generally stopping people clicking on websites and taking their revenue -> theft.
… No? The library purchased a book? You are also an individual. AI is a corporation that has been ripping resources without paying for them plus commercializing the content that’s completely different. I believe you’d find you wouldn’t be allowed to get a book from the library then turn it into an ebook to resell.
My grievance isn’t so much with current household models with PCs sitting there running off solar (that’s starting to get very bloody specific though). But how did you get to a point where you could get a local model on your PC. All the pillaging of content, hundreds of Billions to Trillion(s) of dollars spend on a product that didn’t renumerate anyone who created their learning data.
How AI was trained is unethical. There was no consent, limited renumeration to individuals for using their work. If I drive to work, I provide value to people . Having AI scrape and summarize searches (incorrectly at times) has no benefit. Forcing all work meetings to use AI, has no benefit.
AI effectively raped and pillaged all human information for the benefit of a handful of corporations. It’s use has been shown to reduce the skills of school children and even deskill those with established knowledge. Then there’s the environmental considerations in a time where the world is decades behind appropriate climate change management… Id say it’s pretty understandable that it evokes passionate responses.
You were taught about zero-click mercenary spyware attacks in middle school? Neat.
I mean my only comment would be that starting off with zero third party exposure is probably starting with a higher level of difficulty. Id recommend picking popular solutions (so there’s lots of guides / videos) and then over time as you build skill set around problem solving / maintenance etc you can move to more fully self hosted services ?
Yeah true regarding birthrates… but I think it probably catapulted median age
This website states that in 1960 median age was around 20 (comparable internationally), median age in 2025 was 42( international was 31)
Well yes, but also no. I think it was only really heavily policed in the 70s and early 80s then was lifted so regional and rural could have a second child (wiki says by '84 the single child policy only impacted 35% of the population). Still goes to show by forcibly dropping birthrates how much it destroys future planning
This sounds very wise, enthusiasm to correct is much stronger than to generate. I’ll start throwing some things together… but there’s a bit skill gap
Yeah the content generation is definitely not my forte , my idea of a strong password is P@ssword. I think definitely a link aggregate would be the lowest hanging fruit. But looking at the limited engagement on the post it might not be of interest to the community. I need to work on my security knowledge anyway so I’ll chip away at something. If it eventuates I might raise it again in 6-12 months
I initially switched to see if I could revive my old laptop, it used to take 15-20 minutes before it was even usable on startup, now it’s about 2. I use my computer for everything, some home labbing , simple CAD work
I personally wouldn’t go as far as to call it a blessing… But mint was a super easy transition from windows for me. I’ve only had one issue where it locked up on login. Granted that’s fairly major but I was able to roll it back after a cheeky search engine review.
Unfortunately science alert has had shitty click bait titles for years.
Free referrals to their site? What are you talking about? Google is a search engine, an indexer, its role is to point people to websites based on their search terms. It now scrapes all of the websites information and people no longer visit those websites???