

Most backups are not kept around long enough to still be available 4 years from now and even if they were you would lose any data entered in those 4 years if you restored from backups. Backups will not protect you from deliberate malicious changes.
Most backups are not kept around long enough to still be available 4 years from now and even if they were you would lose any data entered in those 4 years if you restored from backups. Backups will not protect you from deliberate malicious changes.
Hetzner support is usually quite good, something I can’t say of the (albeit much more limited) experiences with OVH.
Oh, don’t get me wrong. Aldi’s owners still very much got rich off it (they are among the richest people in Germany) so they are not great in that respect either.
They got killed by making it inconvenient to use legally purchased media by adding unskippable trailers, copy protection, things like the Sony rootkit,… and also empty boxes on the shelves with the actual media hidden behind the counter.
Making life harder for people trying to buy your product is never a good idea.
Ask the physical movie and music industries how well that worked out for them.
we have an Aldi (along with 5 other cheaper groceries) and it’s never as busy as the expensive stores.
That might also be related to the fact that Aldi tries to be very efficient with its operation so they might handle more customers but those customers aren’t stuck in the store as long.
Yeah, sounds almost like the US where one of those thin-skinned rich guys was just elected president, only he owns the social media platform too so I guess the process would be a bit more streamlined there.
Maybe this is the big filter, the one from the Drake equation and the Fermi Paradox that destroys civilizations before they can spread past their own planet. Not nuclear bombs or viruses or AI or grey goo nanomachines but overcoming the fact that the worst garbage of the species rises to positions of power because they don’t have any morals that would slow them down or give them pause for thought before exploiting the rest of the species in any way possible.
Keep in mind that the people advocating for AI in all kinds of fields without good reason now are the very same people who never liked the privacy rules in the first place.
You are technically correct and yet you are missing the original point that people expect the super-intelligent AGI of science fiction when they hear the term, no matter how much all those lesser forms are AI too by the definition of the scientific field.
Neither the position to keep all the old solutions because they are old nor to adopt all the new solutions because they are new is sensible.
Some old solutions worked in the past and don’t work anymore because the actual world around us changed (the bits outside our control, e.g. some resources might be more sparse but were more plentiful in the past, human populations are larger, the world is more interconnected,…).
Some old solutions appeared to work in the past because we didn’t have the knowledge about their flaws yet but now that we do we need new ones.
Some new solutions are genuine improvements, others are merely sold by marketing and hype.
Some new solutions have studies, data or even logic and math backing them up while others are adopted on a whim or even contrary to evidence or logic.
We can not escape the fact that the world is complex and requires evaluation on a case by case basis and simplistic positions like “keep everything old” or “replace everything old” do not work.
To be fair ActivityPub is a pretty shitty protocol in terms of scaling up with all the quadratic communication and caching growth it requires. Not that ATprotocol is better, just that there is room for improvement on ActivityPub before it could be used on a world-wide scale for the entire human population the way major social media sites are right now.
The idea itself of tracking everything everyone does has been awful since long before the internet even existed.
Copyright has always been a stupid law in the digital age. Copying is an essential part of many processes. The focus on individual copies has been nonsense for decades when the real focus even for those short term licenses (and I agree with you there) should be who is allowed to use the content and for what purpose (e.g. public showing to large crowds might be more expensive than common friend or family groups at home). Also, pretty much anything about copy protection is complete nonsense in the current laws.
We also desperately need to prevent companies from using that monopoly to prevent older works from being available by having the copyright and not publishing the work anymore since this is killing our cultural history.
Honestly, if they all stopped trying to get more money or power at the point where they have all the women and luxuries they could ever want it would be a vast improvement over the status quo at this point.
They all operate under the same laws in any given area. And neither respect your privacy if not forced by laws that are actually enforced.
I think music might actually be truly different here compared to most other forms of art because music truly is relatively simple in a lot of genres, at least the bit from having lyrics and emotional annotations to the actual song. It will never do anything truly revolutionary of course, that is what human musicians are for but if you just need a new song in one of the more repetitive genres and don’t want to learn an instrument or how to sing to put your hand-written lyrics to music I can see AI actually working well here much in the same way music in the past had to deal with the introduction of synthesizers, MIDI,… which automated large parts of the process already.
Who says that they would argue that they are not harmful anywhere else? Remember, the bible used to be only read by priests in Latin and interpreted to the masses and many governments would love to have less transparency as you can see in their opposition to freedom of information type initiatives.
And most of those are probably warehouse and delivery workers.
Only in very limited ways if the other two branches of government are complicit since judges (at least the regular kind not on the supreme court which has been captured too) really can’t do anything directly opposing the body of written law.