yrnameer

There are plenty of laws that aren't compatible with our constitution. Judges will laugh a lawyer out of the courtroom who uses constitutional arguments, and your case will go nowhere.

> Ethical oversight is baked into the institutions through governance structures.

Kind of a shocking assumption to make. Over the past several decades it has become increasingly apparent how our governing structures have no inherent relationship with ethics.

You have to load a custom ROM if you don't want to be tracked without your consent. You have a crumb more freedom on Android, that's all.

april fools?

You joke but there was a keynote where they (or maybe another tech brand.. can't remember) debuted their new special camera AI that was less discriminatory against black faces (by underexposing them of course).

Here's a link to something in the same vein https://www.wired.com/story/can-apples-iphone-x-beat-facial-...

This is the thing. These AI models aren't that impressive in what they do if you understand it. What's impressive is the massive amount of data. One day the law will catch up too because what they are all producing is literally just a combination of a lot of little pieces of compressed versions of human-produced things. In effect it's some type of distributed plagiarism.

Sadly in some areas Uber eats and such have caused mom n pop delivery to disappear. There's a chain in Los Angeles, Lucifer's Pizza, which no longer offers delivery. If you call them up they tell you to use an app to order.

I've been using Plex with a server for my music on it for a while. I'd like to eventually switch to subsonic. Music has always been very personal for me -- I still have some sub-1000 youtube view songs I found as a 12 year old. So I've always known Spotify wouldn't be an answer for me. There's definitely a lot of unique and sometimes Spotify-exclusive content on the platform.

That being said.... nothing ever changes. Any cloud music platform has always been just another radio-- whether they brand themselves that way or not. For the year or so that I used spotify I did find some gems, but I would forget about them as quickly as I found them.

I think of my media library as something I have to put work into to have it be meaningful. Organizing it, deciding what you keep and what you toss out, what to pay for what to skip, all make it more important to you and more memorable. Having a library in itself is also of course a useful UX thing to remind yourself what you like and continue to go back to it.