This will likely get lost in the sea of comments here... But my opinion to "getting left behind if you don't know how to use ai" is simply, "no, you'll be left behind if you don't know how to engineer ai." everyone who uses "ai"'s end product will be in the same playing field, if you don't know how to build and engineer it, then you're in the same boat as everyone else who knows how to put together a sentence and a question.
If you know how to build a custom ai engine that can do a specific task for a specific field, then you'll be ahead. If you know how to write out a question to prompt ai, then you can speak a language, congrats, you're just like everyone else around you. Along with that, if you don't know anything about the things you're asking the ai about, then you don't know how to determine whether it's giving you accurate information, which makes it useless, maybe not 100% useless, but like 85% useless it something. Can you build a house with a hammer alone? No. You need materials, you need ways to cut wood, you need structural knowledge about building a house before you can build a safe livable house and more than one tool in the tool box.
Idk, it's one of those things that just kind of feels like something someone would say about something they were told they should say about that thing. This isn't like the invention of personal computers. I think it's much more simple then that when it comes to how we interact with it, the impressive knowledge is more about how to engineer it, and how to deploy it for specific use cases. Like the difference between building an efficient refrigerator and using one.
The other problem with not knowing how to build and engineer and deploy your own locally run ai, is that you will become dependant on this 3rd party service and end up paying loads of money for something you wouldn't have had to if you weren't "left behind". That's what the big corps are hoping happens with all this free access or cheap access, it's all a scheme to get everyone hooked, so they can pull the rug out from under em and force them to pay astronomical amounts of money to cover the losses they've been gambling with this whole time. Also just my opinion but, seems like a pretty decent theory to me lol.
Just speaking into the void here, don't really expect any replies from me, I don't have that much more to offer, just figured why not share my thoughts on the subject, it's one everyone seems to be taking about at the moment. I'll definitely read anyone's replies though ❤️
I haven't used it in some years now but I suspect it's still the same. Snapchat is a messaging platform with the main form of communication being images showing what the user is doing at the moment, either through direct message which disappears after the receiver views the picture, or through a "story" which is removed after 24 hours. You can send people direct/private messages with just text (and stickers, etc.) as well and those conversations disappear after both parties view the messages and leave the chat page. You have the option to set your stories as "private" so only friends can see it, and you assume a "private" message between you and another user is "private", or the image you sent to your friend will only be seen by your friend. But people forget (because nobody reads them) that it doesn't mean they didn't agree to T&C that tell them that nothing they do on the platform is private and they give snap inc the legal right to use or sell their data. They don't advertise E2EE, but I'd say a majority of Snapchat users either don't care to understand the value in E2EE or they have never heard of it and don't even know what it is.
If I overheard some kids making obvious jokes about shooting a kid at their school while sitting in a public area, I would do nothing, "kids are dumb, they shouldn't say that shit because it's a sensitive subject, but obviously they're not being serious" I would think.
If I overheard them planning a murder of a fellow student, or of anyone, whether with a gun or any method, I would be inclined to call authorities and report it.
Imo, this situation is wrong, it shouldn't have happened, no planning occurred, it was just a joke, as tasteless as it may have been, it was still just a joke to let off some steam. A crime would have been if they made an elaborate plan on how they'd do it, like waiting for the kid to be alone, and talking about ways to do it without getting caught or saying they would bring a gun to school tomorrow and shoot the kid, these sentences all have planning involved. Saying I want to kill myself after an embarrassing moment or kill someone else after they hurt my feelings doesn't justify someone calling the cops on me because they fear for my or someone else's safety and now they've ruined my career over a thought that slipped out of my mouth during a moment of emotional distress.
People should be seeing this story and boycotting Snapchat, users stories should be riddled with links to this story and educating friends about why online privacy is important and how to protect themselves, but it won't be, I'm sure most will not ever even hear about this story. Plus, the comment this person made is obviously controversial so there's a lot of differing opinions about whether it was okay to say that to someone in a school setting, but this isn't about that at all, it's about privacy, doesn't matter what was said, doesn't matter where it was said. What matters is that a person said something to another person in confidence and without either of them realizing someone else was spying on them, like a bug being planted in someone's home. The conversation didn't happen at a school, it happened on the Internet, in a "private" room.
Preventing crime is and should be a tricky business, because if it was easy then that would mean nobody would have any privacy, physical and digital locks would have to be purchased from the government so they could access anything you have. Houses and cars would be required to have microphones and cameras that our governments would have full access to. Nothing we said, did, or owned would be private. Nothing you invented would be yours, nothing you build would be yours, and nothing that makes you happy/sad/angry/embarrassed/etc. would be yours.
This is blatant proof you are the product and everything you do on the platform is surveiled. Individuals are not as valuable as communities, so ridding their platform of one person means absolutely nothing to them even if it ruins the individuals life in the process. If they started the platform with these controversies, they would have never gotten traction. They got traction because the mechanics of the system give you the impression that you are talking privately and everything you do on this platform "disappears" into nothingness and you don't have to worry about an embarrassing picture or message coming out years down the road.
Sorry for the long winded response lol
TL;DR
Snapchat gives the false impression of private conversations that disappear forever, sort of like how signal can be configured, but it has a higher priority for image sharing, and of course, nothing is encrypted so nothing is really ever deleted. It doesn't matter the individual was at a school when they said the thing, the context of what they said is important, and more importantly the fact they said it in confidence is important.
Instead of having to click an extra button after clicking the send button, just put a space in the subject and the client won't ask you if you're sure you want to send without a subject. That's my guess as to why it looks this way.
I worked in car sales in 2021, so many people didn't want to consider a hybrid or all electric because it was "worse for the environment than gas", or the "construction of the batteries was worse for the environment than an oil rig", or the idea of having to replace two different batteries every "few years" was wasteful and more expensive then just buying a gas car you only had to replace one battery on. And that was just 5 years ago...
Like the people against EV were/are sucking the exhaust pipes these manufacturers were/are pumping propaganda out of completely dry, people are really ignorant and tend to not do any research on their own and depend on the news outlets and industry leaders to do all their research for them, especially when it comes to vehicle purchases.
Most of the people that were against EVs in my experience were people that purchased $70k-$90k trucks with all the bells and whistles... They had no reason to save money by switching off gas.
It's not just this guy's dad, there's a lot of them out there, all across the world.
What I did was clone my windows drive as a virtual machine on an external drive, like a flash drive, then, I wiped the drive, installed kubuntu, moved the VM back to the drive, and when I run into something that I'm like "I can't find an alternative to this app on Linux" or "I need a copy of that one thing from my old windows install" I just boot it up, use the app and do what I need, or transfer the file over, and I'm good.
In my case I will admit, I did not wipe the windows drive and ended up dual booting, but not very often, just because I haven't been able to get a vm to run smooth using virtual manager since I switched, running windows or Linux, pretty sure it's because of Nvidia and their proprietary driver. If I don't need GPU, I can use the VM just fine. But for specific games or software, switching to Windows on bare metal is handy.
I'd say the VM thing isn't the best solution to the problem you're facing, but it is a solution that can make the transition a little easier, it helped for me anyways, so I figured I'd share.
You can sideload apps, whether they are on the blocklist or not. That's what the sentence* you quoted says. Well, that's what I interpret anyways. Maybe I'm wrong.
You misunderstand, the list of apps they block are "inside" the said list, while sideloading apps "outside" of the said list is possible. So you can only find and install whatever apps they've approved within whatever app store they use to serve apps to their customers, but you can install any apk on the phone by sideloading it, given the app supports the phones CPU architecture of course.
I was watching a show the other day where the wealthy protagonist got his phone thrown to the grown and smashed by someone and he freaked out because it was a $200 phone. I think the episode is like 10 years old or so. Phones used to be cheap to own as well as cool.
Letterkenny, I think it gets good around the end of season 1 or beginning of 2. You still have to watch the first episodes to get an idea of who everyone is and their relationships though.
Might have to do with just how strange the characters are in this random small town in Canada.
It's pretty tough at first, but once you get to the end of the first season, something clicks and the show becomes pretty hilarious.
Dude has made half a billion dollars in less than 15 years... The show is just bullshitting about dumb videos that someone on the team found funny over the last few days, like... Bullshitting about stupid videos for 15 years and getting paid a half billion dollars for it sounds pretty chill ngl.
Honestly, I think not having MFA required for any account anywhere ever is bad practice. As others have mentioned MFA is something you know, something you own, something that's you, and somewhere you are. Password or pin, phone or digital key, biometric like a fingerprint or face, geolocation or IP address. Having more than one of these things makes getting into your account harder. If you only need a password, then that's all someone needs to figure out to get into your account, same with all the other examples. I feel like it's pretty straight forward, but I tried my best to explain why we do need both...
If you run a server with thousands of users interacting with each other and someone gains access to all their accounts, what's the harm? I don't care if someone gets access to what I have access to through the account on x website, so it doesn't matter right? Well what if real user accounts were used as bots to push propaganda or silence a competitor, damaging the community you're hosting on your server, or posting bad reviews on products, etc. you lose trust in that community or website.
Idk, to me, there is a bigger picture that requiring secure accounts produces, and I think it helps me have more trust in the website I'm joining and want to be part of. It's just about helping ensure genuine interactions, it'd be nice if it was guaranteed, but it at least helps me feel assured.
tldr;
MFA is important for securing the things inside of an account, but it's also important for creating confidence and trust in who or what you're interacting with on a website.
My ¢2, devil's advocate, maybe they were trying to protect the women from emotional trauma, they'd still have some but, maybe an attempt to reduce it. Obviously they could have done different things to do that better, but, maybe it was what they thought was their only option. New Mom's baby dies, instead of telling her that her child is dead, they hide it and tell her that it was adopted or transferred somewhere it would be taken care of or whatever.
It's far fetched, probably unlikely, but hey, devil's advocate, it's a possibility.
Not sure why the down votes... You can be dishonest and truthful but you cannot be dishonest and honest. You can mix truths in with lies and that would still absolutely be considered dishonest, but you cannot mix lies into truths and still be honest.
Seriously, I'm in Utah so this isn't a thing out there, but thank you, I'm going to share this, and maybe, hopefully, we will become Sonic's competition some day <3 this ISP looks like the whole entire package and what I dream the ISP I am currently with becomes one day.
We offer everything Sonic does, Internet up to 10Gbps symmetrical ($200/mo which is competitive in it market), VoIP, TV, WiFi router rentals, but it's different than how Sonic is doing it. I wrote out a bunch of stuff, but afterwards I decided I may have started to reveal too much and it may become too easy to understand who I work for and my position... Long story short, you're a lucky bunch out there, Sonic seems fantastic and thank you for sharing this with me/the community.
I work for an ISP, we have 10 second to 3 minutes hold times before you're speaking to a real rep, we have had downtime 5 times since I started working for them 4 years ago for maintenance (upgrading hardware to support larger bandwidth in different areas), we sell 1Gbps symmetrical speeds with unlimited data for $50/mo, we have 50k customers (in a specific area) and 5 customer service reps. Customer service quality is definitely important, but providing a service with minimal issues and great prices, that's why the ISP I work for can get away with such a minimum amount of representatives and continue to get a 4.7 star rating on Google as an ISP.
It's fun working for a company like this because you get to see how 50k customers paying for 1Gbps only use 70-85Gbps at any given time on average lol, people think they need a lot of bandwidth when in reality they just need a better router for their local network's bandwidth. WiFi hasn't been a great tech so far honestly, Wi-Fi 6 made a lot of improvements, maybe with WiFi7/8 that changes though. Big name consumer routers like Netgear have been dropping the ball with quality for years, but they still rake in the cash because at one point they made really great hardware.
I've learned a lot about networking because of this job, and it's given me a really great perspective of how awful Comcast/Xfinity/spectrum and CenturyLink/QuantumFiber really are, how much they try to get in the pockets of the people who make the decisions for infrastructure in our cities, there were so many hate ads against the ISP I work for during an election season all paid for by Comcast and CenturyLink.
Anyways, customer service is great, but quality of service is much more important. Having both is a win all around.
This will likely get lost in the sea of comments here... But my opinion to "getting left behind if you don't know how to use ai" is simply, "no, you'll be left behind if you don't know how to engineer ai." everyone who uses "ai"'s end product will be in the same playing field, if you don't know how to build and engineer it, then you're in the same boat as everyone else who knows how to put together a sentence and a question.
If you know how to build a custom ai engine that can do a specific task for a specific field, then you'll be ahead. If you know how to write out a question to prompt ai, then you can speak a language, congrats, you're just like everyone else around you. Along with that, if you don't know anything about the things you're asking the ai about, then you don't know how to determine whether it's giving you accurate information, which makes it useless, maybe not 100% useless, but like 85% useless it something. Can you build a house with a hammer alone? No. You need materials, you need ways to cut wood, you need structural knowledge about building a house before you can build a safe livable house and more than one tool in the tool box.
Idk, it's one of those things that just kind of feels like something someone would say about something they were told they should say about that thing. This isn't like the invention of personal computers. I think it's much more simple then that when it comes to how we interact with it, the impressive knowledge is more about how to engineer it, and how to deploy it for specific use cases. Like the difference between building an efficient refrigerator and using one.
The other problem with not knowing how to build and engineer and deploy your own locally run ai, is that you will become dependant on this 3rd party service and end up paying loads of money for something you wouldn't have had to if you weren't "left behind". That's what the big corps are hoping happens with all this free access or cheap access, it's all a scheme to get everyone hooked, so they can pull the rug out from under em and force them to pay astronomical amounts of money to cover the losses they've been gambling with this whole time. Also just my opinion but, seems like a pretty decent theory to me lol.
Just speaking into the void here, don't really expect any replies from me, I don't have that much more to offer, just figured why not share my thoughts on the subject, it's one everyone seems to be taking about at the moment. I'll definitely read anyone's replies though ❤️
Couldn't you just make it so the text box doesn't accept spaces to prevent that? Why allow a character to be input that makes the field invalid?
I haven't used it in some years now but I suspect it's still the same. Snapchat is a messaging platform with the main form of communication being images showing what the user is doing at the moment, either through direct message which disappears after the receiver views the picture, or through a "story" which is removed after 24 hours. You can send people direct/private messages with just text (and stickers, etc.) as well and those conversations disappear after both parties view the messages and leave the chat page. You have the option to set your stories as "private" so only friends can see it, and you assume a "private" message between you and another user is "private", or the image you sent to your friend will only be seen by your friend. But people forget (because nobody reads them) that it doesn't mean they didn't agree to T&C that tell them that nothing they do on the platform is private and they give snap inc the legal right to use or sell their data. They don't advertise E2EE, but I'd say a majority of Snapchat users either don't care to understand the value in E2EE or they have never heard of it and don't even know what it is.
If I overheard some kids making obvious jokes about shooting a kid at their school while sitting in a public area, I would do nothing, "kids are dumb, they shouldn't say that shit because it's a sensitive subject, but obviously they're not being serious" I would think.
If I overheard them planning a murder of a fellow student, or of anyone, whether with a gun or any method, I would be inclined to call authorities and report it.
Imo, this situation is wrong, it shouldn't have happened, no planning occurred, it was just a joke, as tasteless as it may have been, it was still just a joke to let off some steam. A crime would have been if they made an elaborate plan on how they'd do it, like waiting for the kid to be alone, and talking about ways to do it without getting caught or saying they would bring a gun to school tomorrow and shoot the kid, these sentences all have planning involved. Saying I want to kill myself after an embarrassing moment or kill someone else after they hurt my feelings doesn't justify someone calling the cops on me because they fear for my or someone else's safety and now they've ruined my career over a thought that slipped out of my mouth during a moment of emotional distress.
People should be seeing this story and boycotting Snapchat, users stories should be riddled with links to this story and educating friends about why online privacy is important and how to protect themselves, but it won't be, I'm sure most will not ever even hear about this story. Plus, the comment this person made is obviously controversial so there's a lot of differing opinions about whether it was okay to say that to someone in a school setting, but this isn't about that at all, it's about privacy, doesn't matter what was said, doesn't matter where it was said. What matters is that a person said something to another person in confidence and without either of them realizing someone else was spying on them, like a bug being planted in someone's home. The conversation didn't happen at a school, it happened on the Internet, in a "private" room.
Preventing crime is and should be a tricky business, because if it was easy then that would mean nobody would have any privacy, physical and digital locks would have to be purchased from the government so they could access anything you have. Houses and cars would be required to have microphones and cameras that our governments would have full access to. Nothing we said, did, or owned would be private. Nothing you invented would be yours, nothing you build would be yours, and nothing that makes you happy/sad/angry/embarrassed/etc. would be yours.
This is blatant proof you are the product and everything you do on the platform is surveiled. Individuals are not as valuable as communities, so ridding their platform of one person means absolutely nothing to them even if it ruins the individuals life in the process. If they started the platform with these controversies, they would have never gotten traction. They got traction because the mechanics of the system give you the impression that you are talking privately and everything you do on this platform "disappears" into nothingness and you don't have to worry about an embarrassing picture or message coming out years down the road.
Sorry for the long winded response lol
TL;DR Snapchat gives the false impression of private conversations that disappear forever, sort of like how signal can be configured, but it has a higher priority for image sharing, and of course, nothing is encrypted so nothing is really ever deleted. It doesn't matter the individual was at a school when they said the thing, the context of what they said is important, and more importantly the fact they said it in confidence is important.
Instead of having to click an extra button after clicking the send button, just put a space in the subject and the client won't ask you if you're sure you want to send without a subject. That's my guess as to why it looks this way.
I worked in car sales in 2021, so many people didn't want to consider a hybrid or all electric because it was "worse for the environment than gas", or the "construction of the batteries was worse for the environment than an oil rig", or the idea of having to replace two different batteries every "few years" was wasteful and more expensive then just buying a gas car you only had to replace one battery on. And that was just 5 years ago...
Like the people against EV were/are sucking the exhaust pipes these manufacturers were/are pumping propaganda out of completely dry, people are really ignorant and tend to not do any research on their own and depend on the news outlets and industry leaders to do all their research for them, especially when it comes to vehicle purchases.
Most of the people that were against EVs in my experience were people that purchased $70k-$90k trucks with all the bells and whistles... They had no reason to save money by switching off gas.
It's not just this guy's dad, there's a lot of them out there, all across the world.
What I did was clone my windows drive as a virtual machine on an external drive, like a flash drive, then, I wiped the drive, installed kubuntu, moved the VM back to the drive, and when I run into something that I'm like "I can't find an alternative to this app on Linux" or "I need a copy of that one thing from my old windows install" I just boot it up, use the app and do what I need, or transfer the file over, and I'm good.
In my case I will admit, I did not wipe the windows drive and ended up dual booting, but not very often, just because I haven't been able to get a vm to run smooth using virtual manager since I switched, running windows or Linux, pretty sure it's because of Nvidia and their proprietary driver. If I don't need GPU, I can use the VM just fine. But for specific games or software, switching to Windows on bare metal is handy.
I'd say the VM thing isn't the best solution to the problem you're facing, but it is a solution that can make the transition a little easier, it helped for me anyways, so I figured I'd share.
You can sideload apps, whether they are on the blocklist or not. That's what the sentence* you quoted says. Well, that's what I interpret anyways. Maybe I'm wrong.
You misunderstand, the list of apps they block are "inside" the said list, while sideloading apps "outside" of the said list is possible. So you can only find and install whatever apps they've approved within whatever app store they use to serve apps to their customers, but you can install any apk on the phone by sideloading it, given the app supports the phones CPU architecture of course.
I was watching a show the other day where the wealthy protagonist got his phone thrown to the grown and smashed by someone and he freaked out because it was a $200 phone. I think the episode is like 10 years old or so. Phones used to be cheap to own as well as cool.
Letterkenny, I think it gets good around the end of season 1 or beginning of 2. You still have to watch the first episodes to get an idea of who everyone is and their relationships though. Might have to do with just how strange the characters are in this random small town in Canada. It's pretty tough at first, but once you get to the end of the first season, something clicks and the show becomes pretty hilarious.
Dude has made half a billion dollars in less than 15 years... The show is just bullshitting about dumb videos that someone on the team found funny over the last few days, like... Bullshitting about stupid videos for 15 years and getting paid a half billion dollars for it sounds pretty chill ngl.
Honestly, I think not having MFA required for any account anywhere ever is bad practice. As others have mentioned MFA is something you know, something you own, something that's you, and somewhere you are. Password or pin, phone or digital key, biometric like a fingerprint or face, geolocation or IP address. Having more than one of these things makes getting into your account harder. If you only need a password, then that's all someone needs to figure out to get into your account, same with all the other examples. I feel like it's pretty straight forward, but I tried my best to explain why we do need both...
If you run a server with thousands of users interacting with each other and someone gains access to all their accounts, what's the harm? I don't care if someone gets access to what I have access to through the account on x website, so it doesn't matter right? Well what if real user accounts were used as bots to push propaganda or silence a competitor, damaging the community you're hosting on your server, or posting bad reviews on products, etc. you lose trust in that community or website.
Idk, to me, there is a bigger picture that requiring secure accounts produces, and I think it helps me have more trust in the website I'm joining and want to be part of. It's just about helping ensure genuine interactions, it'd be nice if it was guaranteed, but it at least helps me feel assured.
tldr; MFA is important for securing the things inside of an account, but it's also important for creating confidence and trust in who or what you're interacting with on a website.
My ¢2, devil's advocate, maybe they were trying to protect the women from emotional trauma, they'd still have some but, maybe an attempt to reduce it. Obviously they could have done different things to do that better, but, maybe it was what they thought was their only option. New Mom's baby dies, instead of telling her that her child is dead, they hide it and tell her that it was adopted or transferred somewhere it would be taken care of or whatever.
It's far fetched, probably unlikely, but hey, devil's advocate, it's a possibility.
Not sure why the down votes... You can be dishonest and truthful but you cannot be dishonest and honest. You can mix truths in with lies and that would still absolutely be considered dishonest, but you cannot mix lies into truths and still be honest.
Seriously, I'm in Utah so this isn't a thing out there, but thank you, I'm going to share this, and maybe, hopefully, we will become Sonic's competition some day <3 this ISP looks like the whole entire package and what I dream the ISP I am currently with becomes one day.
We offer everything Sonic does, Internet up to 10Gbps symmetrical ($200/mo which is competitive in it market), VoIP, TV, WiFi router rentals, but it's different than how Sonic is doing it. I wrote out a bunch of stuff, but afterwards I decided I may have started to reveal too much and it may become too easy to understand who I work for and my position... Long story short, you're a lucky bunch out there, Sonic seems fantastic and thank you for sharing this with me/the community.
I work for an ISP, we have 10 second to 3 minutes hold times before you're speaking to a real rep, we have had downtime 5 times since I started working for them 4 years ago for maintenance (upgrading hardware to support larger bandwidth in different areas), we sell 1Gbps symmetrical speeds with unlimited data for $50/mo, we have 50k customers (in a specific area) and 5 customer service reps. Customer service quality is definitely important, but providing a service with minimal issues and great prices, that's why the ISP I work for can get away with such a minimum amount of representatives and continue to get a 4.7 star rating on Google as an ISP.
It's fun working for a company like this because you get to see how 50k customers paying for 1Gbps only use 70-85Gbps at any given time on average lol, people think they need a lot of bandwidth when in reality they just need a better router for their local network's bandwidth. WiFi hasn't been a great tech so far honestly, Wi-Fi 6 made a lot of improvements, maybe with WiFi7/8 that changes though. Big name consumer routers like Netgear have been dropping the ball with quality for years, but they still rake in the cash because at one point they made really great hardware.
I've learned a lot about networking because of this job, and it's given me a really great perspective of how awful Comcast/Xfinity/spectrum and CenturyLink/QuantumFiber really are, how much they try to get in the pockets of the people who make the decisions for infrastructure in our cities, there were so many hate ads against the ISP I work for during an election season all paid for by Comcast and CenturyLink.
Anyways, customer service is great, but quality of service is much more important. Having both is a win all around.