SpaceCowboy

Add a bell button and a whistle button.

I think instead of promoting a page where people have to choose a server, just send people to lemmy.world directly. We should probably just get people to sign up there at first and have the ability to migrate their accounts to other servers if they want to do that later.

Having to choose from multiple servers is asking people to choose between a bunch of options they know nothing about. Get people straight to looking at content and posting stuff as soon as possible, once they're more invested, and understand more about the different instances they can change servers if that's what they want to do.

But yeah writhing the code needed to make account migration seamless might be a lot of work so not sure if that will happen.

Yeah and if Ozzy were using them in a professional context (like for an album cover) then the professional photographer should be compensated.

But if he's he's just posting some photos of himself with his friends online, then it's a big nothing burger and the photographer should be a professional about it and consider it as fair use. Whether it fits the legal definition of fair use will need to be decided in court, but a real professional wouldn't consider it worth the time and loss of trust with other customers to pursue it.

I think the subject does have some rights though. I'm not a fancy law talking guy, but I'm pretty sure you can sue someone for using your likeness without permission. But it's a bit dependent on the circumstances, a famous person can't sue a paparazzi for taking their photo in a public place, but I think they can when there's an expectation of privacy. You see people's face blurred on TV shows unless they sign a waiver. If been walking around where they're shooting a movie they put up signs letting you know that's happening and warning that you might potentially be in the background of a shot.

It's just there's more laws protecting the the people using the camera since big companies will use any loopholes to screw them out of money.

Though in this case I think the photographer is being an asshole. If Ozzy was using the photos for an album cover which he'd make a lot of money from, then the photographer deserves to get paid. But if he's just posting some old photos of himself with his friends, then the photographer needs to chill.

As someone living in the west I prefer propaganda that isn't trying to bring down the place where I live.

It's just your personal belief against someone else's personal belief. That's not history.

In historical terms, we have a primary source mentioning these people. Historians do not automatically trust primary sources. But they also don't ignore them because of personal biases against religion.

It's fine for you to have personal biases, but please don't claim how you're applying your personal beliefs onto history is anything resembling how real historians analyze historical documents.

The reason why the humans controlling things suck at it is because they've cowed down people to not demand better. Accepting shitty AI instead of humans is just being cowed down even lower.

It'll certainly make for some contentious AI.

Most of history doesn't have a lot of evidence. Most things were written by people that had religious beliefs in one form or another. If you reject anything from historical texts that was written by someone that also wrote fantastical things as well, you'd be rejecting most of human history.

Cool. We should also crucify Trump, because that worked out alright for Jesus too.

Yeah but the others are US companies. They can be regulated. Which they don't want and they will at least make an effort to get rid of at least the obvious disinformation.

With TikTok, there is no middle ground. Can't keep them in line with the threat of regulation as they're a foreign company. Operating in the country that has superseded Russia as the biggest source of disinformation. The only leverage they have is the threat to ban it outright.

Besides, Zuckerberg and Musk live in the US. They don't want things to get too bad. Though they're so disconnected from reality they may inadvertently make things bad. But they at least have an incentive to not have the US go to shit.

With TikTok, US cities could burn to the ground and they'll still be fine. And we see TikTok making people particularly unhinged already.

This week on the Effectiveness of Foreign Influence Campaigns on Impressionable Youths: Young people refuse to even consider that TikTok might be bad.

Now you're talking about CEOs as a nebulous they.

I'm talking about a CEO that said things similar to what an amazon exec said under an article about what that amazon exec said.

Also I work in software development. There has been a clear uptick in negativity towards developers where I work, which happens to be in a similar field to the one in the article.

I've also worked with AWS, and I can tell you for sure, they can't afford to lose their best talent. Their system is pretty janky in many places and their boss should be putting more effort in making better software instead of playing games about forcing people to sit in a specific chair 5 days per week.