What is practical is that they don't need to "emigrate". They can stay on Facebook for all I care. But if they want to stay in touch, they just have to add me in 1 out of several apps.
Like I said, you can stay on Facebook and be part of the problem, or you can leave and be part of the solution. The more people who do it, the easier it will be be for the remainders.
give up all of your rights to stay in contact with your friends and family
You're making it sound line Zuckerberg has your family locked in a basement. If that's the case, maybe you should go to the police, rather than complain about it on Lemmy.
On a more serious note: if you're one of the family members that is "only" reachable on meta, you're part of the problem. If you want to be part of the solution, tell people where else they can reach you, then delete Facebook.
You weren't being pedantic, you honestly thought that someone had the assumption that by paying $100, they owned the windows ip, and you were just helping them out?
You're missing (or ignoring) the point of my argument. A human who learns from other work can only apply that skill in a limited amount. Even if a human learns to copy Van Gogh's style and continually churns out minor variations of his work, they cannot produce dozens per minute. Let alone learn to do that equally well from several hundreds (thousands?) of other artists. There's a scale difference in human learning versus machine learning that is astronomical.
I'm not sure what you're going on about with "fear". But I think that training a model on non-public domain content, without the permission of (or even crediting) the creator should be illegal.
Fair enough, I hadn't considered repair job when I wrote that.
But if I were you, I'd be really careful about that "never". If you're old enough, you might have retired by the time your job will be replaced, but it's going to happen.
Haven't welding robots been a thing for ages? In a few years that bot can do your job, and figure out how to do it more efficiently while it's doing it.
The only thing you're "protecting" yourself from by using a vpn to surf the Internet, is your own provider. It won't stop any spying software on your phone, or any nefarious scripts on the websites you visit.
Tom's argument was more nuanced than that, which is why I linked it. I suggest you watch it and explain where he's wrong if you want to give your argument to ignore him any weight. Ad hominems and "imagined" arguments alone won't get you very far, I'm afraid.
I'm interested to hear what you think a vpn will protect you against. Or what you think the flaws in Toms arguments are.
Edit: I don't know about you, but I trust my own, GDPR-backed isp far, far more than I trust whichever foreign based vpn company. Especially if they for it for free or cheap.
Because a vpn can monitor all the websites that you visit. Not directly what you're looking at, but definitely where you're looking. Just line your provider can, if you're not using a vpn. But at least with your provider, you have a contract with them - you pay them to transport your data and nothing more. Some very scummy providers aside, that's where it stops.
A free vpn, however, needs to pay for transporting your data somehow. And if you're not paying for it with money, then who/what is?
What is practical is that they don't need to "emigrate". They can stay on Facebook for all I care. But if they want to stay in touch, they just have to add me in 1 out of several apps.
Like I said, you can stay on Facebook and be part of the problem, or you can leave and be part of the solution. The more people who do it, the easier it will be be for the remainders.