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Minnesota and some other states have similar laws that basically mirror GDPR. States have forms you can get that you would submit to the company. I’ve done it for my Matterport data after they started making you pay to unarchive content (originally free)

I noticed that, but I also noticed that it is ridiculously slow too which prompts the person to keep talking while the response was being generated.

After getting it in my hands, it's the same. At least 4 times slower for similar basic Siri responses. My guess is they are doing less local and more server-side generation to start as the on-device models might not be good enough yet.

Jesus this website is overstimulating and it's extremely difficult to understand. What the hell they are selling other than a UI on top of Git? Git works perfectly fine especially if you take an hour or two to learn how to do a few more complicated but useful workflows (rebasing, cherry-picking).

I disagree. Living wage is not minimum wage.

Yes? I'm not sure I understand here.

If you are doing it because you're a creator on YouTube and you are getting paid through views on YouTube, aren't you then required to get release info? If it's for personal use, sure thing, but when you are making money on it then you should absolutely get releases and default to bluring non-released individuals.

I think the bigger issue is that our laws (in the US at least) haven't really caught up with this gig/creator economy. It would be no different than a blockbuster film group filming a war/battle sequence and having to get permission ahead of time from the location and individuals.

My work will have signs up or ask explicitly if they are filming and intend to publish. If you go to a private org with the intention of filming, you should follow the same rules for a full-budget production group.

All US companies should boycott the UK in solidarity. See how fast the regulators walk back the bill.

I actually thought it was pretty hilarious. It's supposed to be ridiculous. (Am a parent and also own Macs).

[EDIT]: Archived Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHFUmPbODbI

What!? Yikes that’s an overstatement. I prefer to use web apps over downloading an app to do a single action and then deleting.

There are lots of good web apps. The problem is that companies more often than not prioritize native (let’s be real, react native) apps over web. And not mobile web, desktop web. So you have a second thought of a second thought when designing and building a mobile friendly web app.

I build most of my clients’ apps as web apps. I target their main platform of choice first and branch out from there. But if I start with desktop, I pre-plan for mobile as well.

You can have high performing web apps if you continually optimize for state and rendering performance.

Yes

This is probably the best analogy, however I think what might be different is there is somewhat high of a bar for the merchant/vendor to be operating a legal and legitimate business. On the internet and in the App Store, it’s kind of a Wild West.

Edit: Maybe not globalizing App Store apps would resolve this? Or at least if you want to operate an app in a country, you need to incorporate in that country too? I think that might make it harder for overseas companies to get away with fraud.

Seriously, what's with all of these perceived "high-end" tech companies not doing static content worth a damn.

Stop hosting your videos as MP4s on your web-server. Either publish to a CDN or use a platform like YouTube. Your bandwidth cannot handle serving high resolution MP4s.

/rant

I agree that some high quality tools are required to not escalate your problem, but I like the incremental purchase methodology for most tools.

Buying cheap (good enough) allows you to figure out what tools you actually need to upgrade on. I had a lot of pain in my high school days fixing a beater car which required me to purchase some higher end socket sets. You learn from some of those stripped bolts which tools to upgrade, but you don't want a whole garage full of high quality tools you don't really use.

If you have a stable hobby, buy quality first, and maybe build up inventory when you can so you don't have to make frequent trips.

If you don't and you just want to do some odd things spanning multiple trades, buy cheap and upgrade if you rely on them frequently.

Is Pirsch a fork of Plausible? It looks nearly identical.

They also release a YouTube video and it looks heavily AI generated. The conversation sounds like Google’s podcast AI.

The statistics, graphs, and conclusions don’t make any sense.

This is the thing. Most people don't know that in order to keep your brand, you have to continually use it and defend it.

In a similar vein, the lawyers of the popular "hook and loop fasteners" Velcro constantly try and defend their IP so it doesn't become generic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRi8LptvFZY

No. If using a plain text word suffices, then that's all you get.

My wife is an IP attorney at a large UK based law firm. We have discussed this exact thing before (in this thread).

She worked on a client matter for a banking app that wanted to show the logo of each company next to the transaction. This was not cleared by legal given that the law only allows for the bare minimum reference.

I think it's dumb because a logo is faster to see in a list vs. text, but it doesn't matter. I think IP laws are so backwards in the modern era, but thems the rules.

I don’t see the issue. You were using the TfL schematic map which is very much a form of art. I don’t think it’s unreasonable that they asked you to take that specific map down or continue with a license.

To remove the whole site because of that seems petty.

It was clearly stated in their api documentation. It’s no different than getting a license or usage rights for hosting an image or video on your site. Just because you are a hobbyist doesn’t mean you don’t have to follow the rules.

This is coming from someone who is extremely pro fair-use and right to ownership.

It's weird, "is the following statement about floating point numbers true: 9.8 > 9.11" it works, but otherwise it has no ability to do it with "decimals"

Hey Minneapolis for the win! Blaine area here :D

Does anyone else want to talk to Siri like a normal human? Like an actual assistant?

It drives me nuts that Siri can't interact correctly when spoken to like this: 'Siri, could you text my wife that I will be home in 20 minutes'

Converts to:

Text Wife: That I will be home in 20 minutes

Should be: I will be home in 20 minutes

Drives me nuts. This is what I actually want. It's just so much more natural. This is my biggest grievance with virtual assistants. I want to talk to it like a real assistant. Hopefully after the LLM refactor of Siri this will happen, but on 18.2, still doesn't work with redesigned Siri. I don't know if they have added the LLM integration with her, but I thought they had in 18.2

What services are you self hosting for local YouTube? Right now I just hand pick videos and they get lifted by my plex server, but having a nice route to my internal YouTube will be great for when my kids get to that age!

I watched the video and... well it's crazy how this is finally here! Obviously all the pieces are available to do this, but at near real-time!? Crazy. This is quite literally why I try to reduce any data that could fingerprint me. Random usernames, no profile pictures, limit posting portraits publicly online (myself and others), etc.

This is fantastic engineering work putting it all together. We have made it to the privacy peak.

That's an incredible over-generalization. My wife and I use professional photographers to capture lots of moments with my family. I've never seen so many professional photographers available to hire than now. I probably know of at least 15-20 off the top of my head that I have used in the past or know of personally.

They are definitely willing to purchase dedicated high-end equipment. iPhone cameras are absolutely not on par or better than a professional dedicated camera. They are actually known to be the worst camera in terms of clarity and accuracy than any other smart phone camera. Just check out any camera review comparing it to other smartphone cameras. There are a lot of AI enhancement models that alter the image in ways that are unrealistic and strange.

I personally purchased a nice Canon mirrorless because I want more control over my picture. I want to be able to set the mood of an image and capture the features I want to be visible on my own. It's also nice to have a separate camera that doesn't bother me with unimportant notifications and baggage that a connected device offers.

As for no business, I don't think that having a business that caters to a smaller demographic means that there is no money in it. There are few reasons why companies like Nikon, Canon, and Sony don't diversify into other markets with other products... which they absolutely do.

If you option click on the speaker icon in the menu bar, you can select which input to use. Takes a second and works instead of needing an aggregate device set up.

I love that last line. That’s the best analogy I’ve heard.

I live in Minnesota and while it will be annoying to not be able to use Lyft to get to the airport to save parking cost, fuck em. Their business model wasn't economically viable from the beginning.

Freedom of speech isn't a blanket everything-goes. The government can impose time and place restrictions on where and when you can express yourself. So to me, getting rid of TikTok is restricting place. You can very well express yourself on other platforms if TikTok is removed from the U.S. marketplace.

I'm under the impression they already do. There are lots of data collection rules that US companies have to follow. This I see as an alternative to outright banning. I'm sure Facebook, et. al. are audited by EU agencies to make sure they are in compliance.

I think the reason for the outright ban is more due to it being a Chinese product. China isn't known to be very transparent.

I'm a big proponent of free speech and the first amendment, but I agree with the reasonings for banning it or forcing US owners.

China most definitely has their hands in the data that TikTok amasses and given its popularity it's not an insignificant risk to U.S. citizens. We all know how easy it is to manipulate users... aka Cambridge Analytica.

It'll be interesting to see what legal challenges come up if the bill passes the senate because that is where the real discussion will occur. I ultimately see it being reversed, but I can also see a solid framework for future bills being illuminated via the courts.

But it can do that…