Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

As an archivist, let me say clearly:

Modern copyright law is actively harmful to the preservation and study of our culture.

It harms artists by giving undue power to publishers. It harms artists by limiting remixes. It harms preservation and research efforts.

It's broken. It's bad. It should be massively reformed.

I would like to use websites and apps without "AI". Both for not appropriating my data, nor for "helpful" suggestions when I'm writing for example. I'm happy to pay the premium fee for this. Recommendations welcome!

“Despite 96% of C-suite leaders expressing high expectations that AI will enhance productivity, 77% of employees using AI say these tools have added to their workload, and nearly half (47%) of employees using AI report they do not know how to achieve the expected productivity gains.”

The only real winners of this whole AI productivity snake oil scam are the companies selling subscriptions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Losers: everyone else – and the climate.

https://investors.upwork.com/news-releases/news-release-details/upwork-study-finds-employee-workloads-rising-despite-increased-c

Oh gods it's true it's so fucking true

eventually computer touchers reach a point in which all computers around them will display weird characteristics that are specific to them and they just end up with super specific issues only they encounter

#ai #generativeAI
Edit: went back and found my friend that originated the quote from Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/sQGLoN9wumXfgqHU/

Already had to try to explain Crowdstrike to a curious family member.

Situations like this remind me that us tech folks have a working understanding that demystifies things like this outage. The reasons may not be exciting or good, but we do at least *understand* fundamentals like auto updates, reboot loops and manual fixes. We also understand root causes like compliance pressure.

To innocent bystanders the checkout screen went blue and now they can't buy groceries, and it doesn't make sense.

It's only a denial of service attack if it comes from an adversarial region. Otherwise it's a sparkling traumatic misconfiguration.

Also TurnOffUS is also there

https://turnoff.us/geek/bsod/

Oh, XKCD is on the ball today...

https://xkcd.com/2961/

#xkcd #crowdStrike

"This wouldn't have happened on Linux" I say smugly, as I copy and paste a command from a 2008 forum post, three hours into trying to get my fucking WiFi working on Arch.

[/sarcasm]