Brokkr

Regarding the idea of IP theft, I think it’s more complicated.

Let’s say you buy a book, learn from it, and use that knowledge to your benefit. We don’t think of this as stealing, even though you didn’t buy the knowledge, you only bought the text.

If you borrow a book, likewise the knowledge is yours, not just while you’ve borrowed the book. Even if you pirate or steal the book (please don’t), the knowledge is still yours regardless.

So I don’t think there should be an issue of an AI learning freely from content.

However, I would agree that when it reproduces a work without attribution that it becomes a problem. The problem that we as a society have even when AI is not involved is defining where that line is. Because there are cases where some kinds of reproduction are ok (parody, homage, etc.). We as a society do not have clear rules for these things because it is hard to define those rules. That’s our problem, not a problem with AI. Using AI just makes it too easy for someone to cross that line and therefore I find it risky to use it for the production of that kind of material.

But I do not think it’s an issue for me to ask the AI how to do some unusual thing in the terminal or to refactor a part of my code to work a little differently. There is no harm in asking it to create a GUI version of the cli program that I made.

As for putting people out of jobs, we may be at an inflection point in our productivity curve. Historically, these have caused short term job loss but ultimately lead to improvements generally once we’ve had time to adjust once people learn how to leverage these tools effectively. Likely, it will create more jobs in new areas.

Humans will always use more resources, especially energy. Until the last few decades the source of thst energy wasn’t concerning. Now it is and we need to find more ways to produce more energy cleanly. Arguing for less energy use is never going to work. We will always use more energy.

AI is a tool, just like a hammer. You could use a rock, but that doesn’t give you the leverage that a hammer does.

AI is also a machine, it can get you to your destination faster, like a car or train.

Evil people have used hammers, cars, and trains to do evil and horrible things. These things can also be used for useless stupid things, like advertising.

But they can also be used for good, like an ambulance or to transport food. They also make us more efficient and can be used to save resources and effort. It depends on who uses it and how they use it.

You can’t control how other people may misuse these things, but you can control how much you know, how you use it, and what you use it for.

They are a private company, so they don’t have to disclose that.

This is revenue not profit. They need to pay their operating costs with these funds. Their operating costs are probably pretty high considering their global network and distribution. Hiring more people would likely have a minimal impact on their operating costs and each new person may not contribute much to their revenue considering their business model.

I think Steam already presents a large enough market to be enticing for indie devs.

A quick check shows that Steam likely has more monthly active users than Xbox, PS5, or Nintendo. I’m sure a large portion of those groups overlap too. So indie devs are likely to develop for PC first.

While I’m excited for what they just announced, I don’t think it will significantly change these numbers.

Yes, you have to trust the company storing the passwords.

A good company can store passwords in ways that are secure to most hacking attempts. It isn’t impossible to break the encryption typically used, but it is difficult enough that most thieves will not have the resources or time to make use of the data. They want the low effort password databases, not the difficult and expensive ones.

That sounds great, but also isn’t a solution for most people.

It is not portable in the sense that you need bitwarden installed on the device you are trying to connect from.

Passwords can be plain text, which means I can copy, paste, and dictate them to a device that does not have additional software installed.

Not at all the same. I can type or dictate my passwords on any device with a keyboard. I am not reliant on an individual device continuing to work. In fact I could get all new devices tomorrow, with no access to any previous device, and log into all my accounts within minutes.

Passkeys do not allow, and specifically prevent, that.

They were surpassed by password managers and 2fa.

Oops, meant passkey manager, fixed it.

Sounds like a password manager would make that way easier. Changing your password would involve a few extra clicks. Also, you might want to check with your IT folks. Asking people to constantly change their password is a good way to weaken password strength. I don’t use docusign, but there is probably a setting that they can change.

Sure, they probably work great when you have your *passkey manager on the device, but that’s not when I need to have backup routes into my accounts. When using a new device, or someone else’s, having even a complicated password that can be typed or copied-pasted has way more functionality.

As far a I can tell, using passkeys would only risk locking me out of my accounts. Everyone else is already effectively locked out.

While the lock-in issue is annoying and a good reason not to adopt these, the device failure issue is a tech killer. Especially when I can use a password manager. This means I can remember two passwords (email and password manager), make them secure, and then always recover all my accounts.

Passkeys are a technology that were surpassed 10 years before their introduction and I believe the only reason they are being pushed is because security people think they are cool and tech companies would be delighted to lock you into their system.

What about Jefferson and Washington? Franklin and Paine?

Are we yay or nay on them being Americans?

Thanks, looks interesting, added to the list.

Return of the Obra Dinn and the golden idol games would probably work. I think you could do everything with mouse clicks or hitting a few keys with your good hand, nothing is time based. Other puzzle based games might work too (lorelai and the laser eye, Blue Prince?)

Mostly 2D factory games, like Factorio could also be doable. Would be a little annoying, but it would work.

I recently got a think pad from the prior generation, so like 2-3 years old. It’s been good for most things, but I’m not trying to play the latest graphics heavy game on it either.

This is multiple articles mushed together. I suggest separating into articles that each have a specific purpose and message. The windows/Microsoft discussion can be on, the intro to Linux another (the burger shop stuff), the distros another, and lastly the installation stuff.

That said, having switched to Linux about a year ago for exactly the reasons you mentioned, I would not have found this article useful. There are many other resources that cover each of these topics in more helpful and friendly ways. This article is both too broad and lacking depth where needed. It sounds a little bit like your personal journal and a narrative of your path. It may be helpful for you personally to write that down, but I’m struggling to see how this helps a potential reader.

Some questions to consider:

What do think a reader would do next after reading your article?

What value or message would they take away from it?

Who is your audience and what new knowledge should they have after reading this?

Can’t think of any like you’re saying, probably because if that were to happen then there are no more antagonists in the story, so it would be kind of boring.

There are of course stories where you think someone is the antagonist, but it turns out they aren’t. They usually end up joining the protagonist, so that doesn’t really fit your requirements.