The "livestock feed" section of the graph looks more than twice as big as "Food we eat", and at least some of the pasture land (much larger than both) has got to be viable, even if it mostly isn't.
Look at 2020 during covid where the medical workers did not have PPE and how the supply chain was/is still stressed
I think these are more logistical and planning problems than fundamental lack of supply. The mask shortage was resolved by increasing production afaik. There is a large discrepancy between countries in the ratio between quality of health outcomes and expense of healthcare per person; even if it turns out to be a supply problem to get the most advanced available medicine to everyone, it is certainly possible to get the most impactful medical services to everyone.
We also lack the natural resources where we can just throw money aka paper at problems and their gone forever.
This is probably true though, spending by itself might not be enough, just I think that's more because of dysfunction than natural resources.
I use a script I wrote that plays music from Bandcamp with probabilities based on liking/disliking songs and the albums Bandcamp recommends in association with the rated song. Wary about sharing it anywhere though as it's definitely against the tos.
But if they aren’t protected under copyright, then any asset flipper can use your main character - taking the model right from your AAA game - and throw it into their 99-cent asset flip scam, and you can’t do anything about it.
They could send a DMCA claim and Steam would probably just take it down right? Again, really hard to prove it was 100% AI, and in the case of a full usable 3d character model, with current technology it definitely was not. I guess what I mean by "why it matters" is, it doesn't seem like it would practically make any difference to how things will go or what will happen.
When it gets to be possible to just about fully autogenerate games, yeah then they might have a reason to wish they could have more copyright.
I believe Steam has the policy on AI that they do both because of public opinion about the use of AI (and the way it’s being used to steal from creators) and because AI generated games tend to fall into the same category of outright scams that NFT games do, and games containing NFTs are straight up banned from Steam.
Games using AI used to be banned from Steam, but they changed it to allow them. Requiring tags seems like a nice compromise.
I don't see why this stuff even matters. Like say they fully AI generate a loading screen for their game, and therefore they don't have copyright on it. That doesn't stop them from selling the game, it would only stop them from suing someone copying that specific part of the game for their own purposes. But such a person would have no way of knowing whether the image was fully AI generated or not, so even though in actuality they couldn't be sued successfully, they will still be taking the risk. And there isn't much reason to anyway that I can think of.
So why would a company like Activision even give a shit?
People can easily self host email, file backup, etc but pay for service anyway
Who pays for email? Who pays subscriptions for file backup? Why would you when you can just use another companies service that is free? Self hosting AI is increasingly viable, but that isn't even the problem for companies hoping to make billions on it, the problem is that as soon as they try to put the squeeze on their customers they will just go somewhere else that offers the same thing. Look at what happened with Deepseek; OpenAI can't maintain dominance.
AI will be prohibitively expensive to self host for a very very long time.
It already isn't, there are tiny models that are practical for some things that will run on basically anything, and there is a lot you can do with a mid to high end graphics card. Nvidia is artificially limiting vram but that's not going to remain the limitation for long. But even if AI running on datacenter hardware maintains a big advantage, that's not enough for these companies to make huge profits selling access.
My wife uses AI to write complex Excel spreadsheet formulas saving hours. She still has to double check them but it saves enormous time. My friend uses it to write proposals. Again it needs to be checked and again it saves hours of time.
AI doesn’t replace people. It provides a productivity boost and it has been doing it for 2 years now.
To me it's obvious that AI is and will be really useful, but one of the great things about it is that it looks like a lot of that won't be possible to gatekeep. Which seems like it would also mean that efforts to monetize it will fail.
Basically accurate except I wouldn't classify a theft of Eth from a centralized crypto exchange as an attack on Ethereum, both because it doesn't threaten Ethereum itself and because it wasn't done using an exploit in Ethereum, this was a phishing attack afaik.
It's Ethereum, so close relevance to anything web3.
it seems reasonable to me.
It won't seem reasonable to the people developing the software or running the staking nodes whose consensus would be needed, see https://nakamoto.com/credible-neutrality/ for an idea of why. Basically the idea is that the more a network acts to impartially execute algorithms than as a subjective governance body, the more it can be relied on without worrying about the potential bias of that governance, and that impartiality is at the core of its actual value. The whole "code is law" thing might not be literal reality, there is a line, but that line is located at an existential threat to the network itself (ie. the DAO hack hardfork which was the only time this was really done, or the plans for a hard fork to recover after a hypothetical quantum computing attack breaks encryption on all wallets).
If there was an office somewhere practically able to wield a ctrl-z button for Ethereum accepting support tickets for its use, that would be a very different sort of cryptocurrency and imo not one that would be likely to work out.
Anyway this kind of hack does suck, but I think ultimately the lesson just has to be for people to either self custody or avoid crypto entirely. Centralized crypto exchanges rarely deserve the trust placed in them.
I worked for an NFT company for awhile, and we talked about how people stealing like this would just have the funds reversed because the blockchain can fork to solve it
This is a pretty naive perspective when it goes directly against the whole ethos of the network. You can't have credible neutrality and also have hardfork bailouts every time a centralized exchange with poor security practices gets hacked or "hacked", these are mutually incompatible things. For a financial infrastructure that does reversals and central authority judgment calls, there is always fiat and banks.
FreeTube is currently broken, maybe for the same reason OP is having problems, YouTube changed something on their end. Although supposedly the fix is coming through shortly. Shoutouts to the maintainers doing all this work.
If it's really what is described (an app that other apps can use to classify content without querying a server), seems like a good thing to me. There is a clear need for people to be able to filter spam and things they don't want to see. Imagine a Lemmy app where you can set it to not show you US politics related posts, where it will work regardless of whether specific keywords are in the title. Couldn't that kind of thing contribute to a more decentralized web?
"Classifying things like this is not the same as trying to detect illegal content and reporting it to a service," GrapheneOS said. "That would greatly violate people's privacy in multiple ways and false positives would still exist. It's not what this is and it's not usable for it."
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The "livestock feed" section of the graph looks more than twice as big as "Food we eat", and at least some of the pasture land (much larger than both) has got to be viable, even if it mostly isn't.