Is the internet scarier?

Or is it just millennials and “internet natives” having kids and more of them knowing better what the internet actually is.

I tell people to imagine a public place with everyone in it, the majority wearing masks or costumes. With constantly recording surveillance. Do you take off your mask.

Sure the mask is not perfect protection, and there are areas off to the side where people seem to not be wearing masks. But go ahead and choose a way to keep your kids safe.

I’m sorry, I started joking because you weren’t being serious either.

Wait, you were being serious?

Well I’ve got a solution for you!

Just insert this adapter into the 3.5mm jack and it will be blocked for you. It’ll no longer be wasted space because this adapter is a useful place to store several grains of rice for a snack.

Unfortunately you do lose a feature as a result of using this adapter, it will stop one of the speakers from working and degrade your audio quality.

But you shouldn’t complain about anything removing a feature, or degrading your audio quality. You’ve got a new feature of being able to store rice!

You can even buy special fairphone sustainable rice from us. With only a small 300% mark up but an incredible 80% of the sustainability of already available rice. It comes in green!

The “demographic” of human being who doesn’t want to wreck the planet if Fairphone’s target.

If Fairphone is not trying to be universal anymore you should see that as a problem. So should every fairphone customer.

I’ll buy a more sustainable phone than the fairphone when my phone loses support in 2027. I’ll encourage everyone to buy a more sustainable product today.

I’d much prefer a 3.5mm jack

It should just be a speed limit.

Just because someone is fit enough to properly themselves over 20 mph without a motor doesn’t make it any safer when they crash.

Pedestrian area. Mobility scooters and pedestrians. No bikes. 5 mph

Bridal/cycle path. Weight limit on vehicles to avoid damage to paths. 15 mph limit.

Faster than 15 mph, on the road. Get a licence.

Slower than 10 mph, not allowed on the road. No cyclists or mobility scooters crawling up hills at walking pace blocking traffic.

This obviously requires roads to not be the only infrastructure built to get anywhere conveniently. But we really do need to separate commuting traffic into 2 parts and then have pedestrian areas at destinations.

Just in case you’re not aware of him.

Pat Martino

A jazz guitarist who suffered hemorrhage and seizures in the 80s. Had to have part of his brain removed.

It took 7 years of practicing for him to return to playing properly after the amnesia.

It’s a struggle no doubt, but if you want it then it’s possible.

Having tried to pick up a new instrument in adulthood it definitely feels more difficult but to be honest the key thing I had when learning as a kid was time.

As a kid I could work at it in big chunks of time and progress that felt great. In adulthood I have to accept I’m chipping away at the rockface with how little time to put in.

It is possible to make progress though and I’ve learned to delight in the small wins.

I still play my first instrument and can’t imagine the loss I’d feel if all that work over many years went away so you really have my sympathy. But if you love it, please don’t give up.

Music is a life long hobby that’s really good for you, and that’s a valuable thing.

iPods had an 82% share of the US market at the time the term was first used.

https://www.theregister.com/2004/10/12/ipod_us_share/

At the time a “broadcast” to you iPod made the name podcast pretty understandable.

And there’s not much else I could think of to call it given technology at the time.

MP3 player was the generic term. But MP3 cast feels clunky.

I did hear audioblog used. But they weren’t all blogs.

It really comes down to the fact that at the time everyone knew “pod” meant “iPod” and that’s it.

The lack of ethics and increase in waste is a deal breaker for me.

They’re not the best performing. They’re generally slow. Other phones objectively perform better.

Not only did the fairphone 4 ditch a feature I needed and would prevent waste in general for many.

It also caused my housemate who owned one no end of issues with every update. Bluetooth dropouts, touchscreen glitches.

Issues with the camera.

Issues with the microphone

Slow charging.

He’s a beta tester and he’s paid a premium for it.

Support from fairphone has basically been pathetic.

It’s hilarious how many supporters of this company are. It must be like the phenomenon of car drivers supporting public transport. They’re hoping everyone else buys a fairphone.

As they’re not even the most environmentally friendly phone it’s all a bit silly.

I disagreed with the video.

Sounds like you’re too keen to spout fallacies as if you’re in a debating match rather than engaging in a discussion.

When they ditched the headphone jack fairphone ditched environmentalism.

The fairphone 3+ was their last fair phone.

It’s just another cheap phone now. Made in the same place from the same stuff as other makers, with maybe a year of extra security updates.

They started by doing stuff differently, now they do things the same as everyone else and want to pretend they’re different.

They really don’t care. It can take a lot of time to put a solid case together and you’re better off having a solid case than a quick trial.

The statute of limitations is much longer than a year. It’s usually around 5.

They can wait, see who’s made the money, then target them for a payout.

The rights holder first considers the size of the payout vs. the cost of legal fees.

Just because they haven’t been sued directly for this doesn’t make it infringement.

It’s clear from the output that it breaks copyright.

We don’t have to look inside the black box to demand to see the input which caused that output.

To be clear a machine is not responsible for itself. This machine was trained to break copyright.

If every time what already exists gets used there’s a risk of a massive fine or court case they’ll throw it away.

The game now is to delay the legal process long enough until they’ve built the replacement.

Then they can afford to throw the, essentially faulty, model away.

My point is that corporations often see a fine as a cost of business because the fines are issued by a regulatory system that has no teeth.

If you’re in a lawsuit against another corporation they are going after damages in civil court and it’s likely to be a high enough fine to stop the behaviour.

Typically they aren’t fighting other corporations.

Except AI models may end up having to start again with licences or public domain data.

They are currently breaking the law and delaying legal action as long as possible in the hopes they can repeat the trick with a new data set.

Monetisation?

Licensing the site to AI when there’s finally a ruling they can’t just scrape the internet for training data while ignoring copyright.