FaceDeer

Indeed. I’m in a single-party province, it’s perfectly legal for me to record the phone calls that I’m part of, but years ago Google decided “I am the law!” And took that away from me. Super annoying.

The article says Samsung’s version still isn’t as good as how it used to be back then, but perhaps it’s a step in the right direction.

The recordings, featuring historic performances by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, have been made freely accessible to the public to “ensure the survival of these cultural materials for future generations to study and enjoy,” according to the Archive.

Which ironically (and predictably) may end up causing those cultural materials to not survive if the music labels win the lawsuit and crush the Internet Archive.

They do great work, but they really need to learn how to choose their fights better. Their archives would be safer if they were less eager to tilt at windmills unnecessarily. Let the EFF do that.

Yeah, this isn’t really an AI-specific story. I’ve refused to buy all sorts of things that depend on “cloud services” that I know would simply cease to function if some remote server went away, without any option to tell it to talk to a server I run instead.

There are plenty of open models for AI these days, it should be possible to build a robot buddy like this that could have its brain rehosted somewhere else in the event that the parent company shuts down.

Maybe he doesn’t read Reddit.

Pretty sure I saw him in Nunavut. They should send the investigators there.

I think we can forgive such a minor transgression.

Then we’ve discovered the world’s most inefficient try-hard serial killer. If you have the slightest modicum of common sense then when you realize that the “random” target you’ve picked is a mega-rich CEO then you just pick a different random target.

And it has no significance whatsoever with regards to the general public’s reaction. At this point the true motives of the murderer are irrelevant, the general public has imagined him into a hero and that’s the important part.

“Making money on the misfortune of others” is a way too charitable way of describing what he was doing.

He was making money by making people die. Often in slow, excruciating ways that drained them and their families of all of their wealth and hope along the path.

Udio actually, I find I prefer its versatility and user interface.

They don’t forget it exists, they just haven’t quite managed to destroy it yet.

Custom music, crafted to my interests and tastes and sung specifically for me. Most of the music is never heard by another living being, it’s completely mine.

A luxury that I wouldn’t have predicted possible just two years ago, now anyone can have it.

Those discarded items might not even have his DNA on them. Everyone knows about DNA evidence nowadays, if he’s really on the ball it’d be easy enough to pick up some random decoys.

Nor mine. They’d better not waste their resources coming up here to have a look.

Is it really a civil war when 99% of the people are on one side?

The fact that they’re re-running the election rather than just handing it to the #2 candidate should alleviate a lot of these concerns. If after a second run through with full information available and the foreign influence networks suppressed the population still genuinely seems to want the Russian asset in charge then I guess at that point you have to sigh and give it to them.

And even if it doesn’t solve the problem it at least makes people feel a bit better about it.

And so, as I said, here we are. In a place where vigilantes gunning down health insurance CEOs is considered reasonable.

It’s not a good place for society to be, I quite agree. Yet here we are.

There are probably ways we could change things so that vigilantes gunning down health insurance CEOs isn’t considered a reasonable option.

Indeed, having some disconnected powerful authority figure handing out decisions on who should live and who should die is a pretty repulsive concept.

We don’t know what words were written on all the ammo he didn’t fire, so maybe it was sheer coincidence.