You know what's great to learn at 38, right before bedtime one night, after a whole life time of struggle...
That your mother traumatized you with ADHD to the point where actually pushing myself against ADHD is a trigger... making it so no amount of coping skills can help me push myself for any real length of time...
I'd try and do something that requires a push, even a little one... and be crying... and I thought it was just the feeling of hitting my dopamine... but nooooo... now I'm unpacking that it was me getting triggered at the feeling of pushing my reserves at all...
That explains so damn much and makes me feel so damn hurt and angry...
I was forced to push myself so far so often as a kid and she didn't ever relent when I was critically over-extended on dopamine... usually around cleaning. I'm remembering so many times crying and sobbing on the floor because she demanded I clean to an extreme standard and I wasn't allowed to do anything else until I met her approval...
And I've been running my whole life fucking kneecapped by this... I thought I just had it worse than most (with ADHD) on my ability to push myself on tasks... but no... it's because I realize now I can't fucking push myself at all because my fucking brain just jumps straight to that extreme pain and trauma right away...
Now I'm fucking crying when I should be trying to sleep...
i spent a sizeable portion of my childhood shut in my room with "you're not coming out until it's clean!" And without guidance on how to clean it.
I push through hard things like this as an adult with the mantra "something is better than nothing" and just chip away at things.
And I sit with my kids when cleaning their room, talk through my process and coach them. That's been really healing, coaching my kids and also my ADHD friends; it's like re-parenting myself!
Fiction idea: Vampires only get weird and spooky if they drink human blood.
In reality, it's commonly accepted that if you eat something similar to yourself, you'll develop diseases (this is a vast oversimplification of kuru and mad cow disease). I propose it's the same for vampires, but since they're relatively immortal, they don't die from it, they just get aggressive, creepy, and obsessive. If they didn't drink human blood, and instead went for animal blood or coconut water, they'd be totally normal.
Bonus points if this work of fiction draws parallels to colonialist mindsets of cleaner societies being "primitive".
there's a group of vampires that were raised to drink only human blood but know that it's wrong and want to stop, there's a cure being worked on but it involves high level experiments and there's lots of sabotage attempts from traditionalists.
@lonerfanatic it does make sense that traditionalism would thwart change, though. Even if the human predators were a minority, they would likely be the most visible, and therefore considered the real ones, or more "pure" vampires. Especially with the stereotypical idea of vampires being what they are. A demand for change would come across as an eradication of vampires.
exactly and some humans might even also be against the progress as it threatens their worldview, thereby literally working against their own interest by working in parallel with their predators. Lots of possibilities
@Princeoflonelymt @emilie_stims ie one of the most promising obvious areas of research is stem cells just creating blood, or other cloning adjacent research with all of todays arguments...
Also the "vampires are always evil" crowd, who will send hunters after the ones researching (killing the ones specifically wanting to find a way to not harm you)
@cstross I really, *really* can't get on board with the original poster's conclusion though. This is entirely Apple's fault for having removed the standard analog audio port and left only a proprietary one requiring paying them to make a product for it; they set the incentives here entirely. And of course this also won't be a long-term problem because they've been thankfully forced by the EU to change that lone port to an actual standard one, so third-parties won't have to so resort.
@sn0n seriously. to experience that and then think "gosh I hope apple uses their infinite billions to crush these people" feels like ... you were close, and then suddenly you were very not
The people here is tech savvy in a very different way that this engineer is: they mostly don’t care about what the underlying technology should do, they just care about solving a problem.
In UX we call that “Jobs to be done”. You are in the wrong here, my guy.
The engineer is offended by "cost cutting work-around" because wired headphones "shouldn't" need BT.
Shades of racism and techno superiority over folks who don't understand tech details.
Some folks are mad at Apple for removing functional old-tech audio jacks that "just worked" in favor of capturing money via licensing leads to clever, but deceptive hacks.
Entitled dude bro, Apple is greedy, people are clever, scammers gonna scam.
Am I the only one wondering why he didn't ALSO complain about Apple deleting the headphone port and requiring manufacturers to use an expensive, due to Apple's licensing requirements, and incompatible solution?
In my mind the problem lies with Apple. Not with the people figuring out workarounds for Apple breaking their existing wired headphone business.
It's not the port, it's the licensing fee. """While Apple doesn't issue a price sheet publicly it's been widely reported as $4 per lightning connector - and that in the past it's been as much as $10 per device. Feb 1, 2020""" @jackwilliambell
They aren't paying for the audio port license and chip. (Yeah, it requires a special chip to decode the audio.) Turns out a Bluetooth chip is cheaper.
ETA: I misspoke. The chip is to authenticate the adapter. But the power lines are always up even if you don't authenticate.
Related: See European Commission proposed laws to require all electronic devices to support USB-C – this anti-competitive move by Apple is one of the reasons.
@jackwilliambell @trouble I remember thr EU mandating USB-C charging so we didn't have to buy a whole new set of chargers and cables when a new device had a different charging port. Is this something else?
Note that the alt text has one passage repeated twice, and hence is missing some content. Quote:
" I return it all, run to catch my plane, and spend half the flight wondering what planet I'm on. Until finally back home, I do some research and figure out what's going on:
A scourge of cheap "lightning" headphones and lightning accessories is flooding certain markets, unleashed by unscrupulous Chinese manufacturers who have discovered an unholy recipe:
True Apple lightning devices are more expensive to make. So instead of conforming to the Apple standard, these companies have made headphones that receive audio via bluetooth — avoiding the Apple specification — while powering the bluetooth chip via a wired cable, thereby avoiding any need for a battery.
They have even made lightning adapters using the same recipe: plug-in power a fake lightning dongle that uses bluetooth to transmit the audio signal literally 1.5 inches from the phone to the other end of the adapter.
In these remote markets, these manufacturers have no qualms with slapping a Lightning / iPhone logo on the box while never mentioning bluetooth, knowing that Apple will never do anything. " @cachondo
After one of the owners died, work has been struggling with not having admin access to some of our systems, namely Google Workspace.
We finally got that access... so now I've sent the email to my boss about my name change. I verified with my boss a month or two ago that he's not going to fire me for being trans (it's actually a cute story...), that way I could safely start the legal name change process... but I've been holding off on otherwise being "out" at work because of this account thing...
So finally sent an email to my boss about the new name... it's the last place where I wasn't out!
You know what I want? A Hades and Persephone design, where Hades is just some emo dude, but Persephone is this primordial, hulking mass of vines and tree bark.
I made something to scratch an itch that's been bugging me for years... will save me a lot of time and trouble on some of my work (and possibly personal) projects...
(For anyone wondering my current use case, I have a tool I wrote for work that's sitting on top of peewee and sqlite and it's been a massive pain to expand it out... this isn't something super special, but for the 20k-40k or so entries this should do just fine searching/querying/etc, even before adding indexing... and it'll make rebuilding my toolkit faster as well as easier to maintain since there's no firm structure to the resulting database)
Want to learn real quick that "leftist" does not automatically mean "good person" or "free from bigotry"?
Call them out on body shaming or misgendering monsters.
It's also a painful reminder that so much "acceptance" is just performative.
If you think I'm valid for being fat, but then insult a monster for being fat, it tells me that you never actually saw me as valid.
If you think my gender transition is valid, but then purposefully misgender an awful trans person, it tells me that you never saw my transition as valid.
Because if these things are true and valid, then being an awful person wouldn't matter!
This is the first mostly negative design critique, so I'm gonna lay out a ground rule: I won't dock points for what could be considered an artistic choice. For example… No: "These aren't SF Symbols so this is wrong" Fair game: "This form field transition is dog shit"
Just for fun, I listed out every single view transition that happens during onboarding, including every fake-out the app does. This is the UI version of telling a story to your friend but going on constant tangents and finishing the story 20 onboarding steps later.
Since this is someone's first impression of your app, it's SO important to show a clear navigational hierarchy. Where views come from, what happens when they get dismissed, etc. When sheets slide in and out and content flashes for half a second, that mental model quickly rots.
Let's talk about the first onboarding, since this is the most widely applicable. It has you accept EULA, analytics, & grant location. It lists what location gets used for, but none are immediately useful. This should not be here — ask for permission when the user wants a feature.
Frankly, this entire step can be cut. Merge the EULA acceptance into some other action ("by continuing, you agree to blah blah blah") and just choose a default for analyics. Stick the toggle in settings.
I'm fine with the core login flow, it just needs WAY fewer transitions. It seems like the cross fade is the common denominator when the experience chokes up. Cut fade transitions altogether and less intrusive ways to show progress. Maybe show spinners in buttons, instead.
Security has been a huge painpoint for the NUX (new user experience) here. It often is, but there are so many possibilities to make this suck a little less. Here are all of the security settings:
A lot of banks and similar entities have security setups like this. And that sucks big time. Because we know that SMS and email one-time passwords are not super secure, the onus is on the user to: 1. Have a random unique password, and 2. Not get SIM swapped or email breached
The lowest of low-hanging fruit is to allow time-based one-time passwords (TOTP) to let something like 1Password handle that for you. But ideally, they would forgoe this entirely and support passkeys. So with the changes so far, this is what onboarding could look like:
Speaking of nonsense banking apps do, this drives me up the wall: After a cold start, it throws up the login screen and starts a biometric auth session. Entirely unnecessary. Determine sensitive parts of the app and require auth to unlock them for the rest of the session.
And whenever `applicationWillResignActive` is called, the app will flicker out whatever screen you're looking at and replace it with a blank logo. Again, this kinda makes sense for sensitive screens. But beyond that, **it's just security theater**. This looks fucking awful:
Moving onto the more skin-deep stuff. The app uses tab navigation: -Overview -Insurance -Claims -Finances -More
The selection state for a tab is just shifting from gray to red. If you grayscale the screen, it's the same shade. I'd give the selected tab a filled icon variant
In the Overview tab, the header said "Good evening" at 4:30 PM. Whatever. I digress. I get three sections in this tab: - Upcoming bills (useful) - Hints & tips (useless) - Offers & discounts (ads)
Get rid of this tab, move upcoming bills into Insurance, and make it the default.
Also, one of the "Hints & tips" was advertising new features in the app. When you tap the card, it yanks up a sheet with a card advertising a new feature. Why...why isn't this just the top level card. Why was this sheet necessary.
I'm still waiting for my policy to kick in, so this card says pending. I'm baffled by this card. The status dot should be significantly larger. Also, there is no reason for the policy category to be in a chip. Put it loose in the card, no container. Just raw dog it.
Right under that policy card, there's a prompt to visit the document center. This could probably use some better copy (why would I want to visit that? it sounds boring. what's in it for me) but the real thing I want to point out is error handling.
If you're going to advertise something at the second-to-top level of your app, you better make sure it fails gracefully. I've done nothing weird to screw with the app AND YET it throws this ugly technical error at me. I'm guessing because I have no documents. Make an empty state.
In fairness, there is an empty state when you dismiss that error and proceed anyway. I've slowed down the video to ¼ speed so you can see this animation: to make room for the segmented control, everything BUT the description slides down. But the description is the same copy 🤷♂️
Here's just a standard empty state. The description text is leading aligned, but the image and button are both centered. Easy fix: center the stack, center align the description text, reduce the prominence of the CTA.
If you've used SwiftUI, you'll be familiar semantic toolbar item placements. destructiveAction, navigation, etc. These exist because we've been conditioned to expect certain button types in certain positions. So imagine my surprise when I saw Log out in the confirmation position
Make log out a destructive bottom, position it to the bottom of the list, rename "Close" to "Done" and put it in the confirmation position. Boom, fixed your nav bar.
There are a few screens where navigation titles compete with some arbitrary heading in the view. Avoid having two headers of the same visual prominence right next to each other.
Okay. I've done enough free work for State Farm Insurance Inc. The point of this being: these are all papercuts. Nothing fundemental. Just little things that worsen the experience. Take some time to audit your project for these things. I promise you'll be better off because of it
btw, Lickability (where I normally write these threads) did not endorse this or anything, this is literally just me kvetching about an app that has been forced into my life.
more design threads are planned for @lickability as well as here!
I just signed up for the umpteenth EV charging plan. App asked me three times for phone number and address, sabotaging autofill of course. Anything car related seems to be bottom of the barrel.
I appreciate seeing a nice critique. This all, to me, felt like a classic "we have 5 teams working on this app but no single person driving the overall UX or CX but we delivered software" situation. What happens when no one looks at the whole thing? Mostly this.
@grishka this whole blog post I found while writing this thread is absolute poison. This doesn't secure anything, this just makes tinkering (and, in all likelihood, developing workarounds for a shitty app) more of a pain in the ass. medium.com/adessoturkey/ios-ap…
Nowadays, security stands as a top-priority subject within the IT industry. Both individual users and corporations are displaying an increasing awareness of the concepts of data security and privacy…
Along the same lines are those banking/brokerage apps that cue up a “You’ve been logged out” push/local notification if you don’t explicitly log out yourself.
If I’m automatically logged out… that’s good! I don’t need to be told about it.
@jeff In Fidelity’s app years ago, if you return back from the app switcher after any amount of time, it would sign you out and you would get a non-dismissable alert “You have been signed out. Please log back in."
and you just couldn't dismiss it. you had to force quit the app.
@2happy1sad it depends on the implementation! I’m not sure about enforceability of browse wrap (vs click wrap) agreements in the EU/under GDPR. In US case law, this example from Uber was enough for the court to enforce the agreement.
Got some questions about a critique I gave on this app last night about the EULA acceptance screen, so I figured I'd break this out. Do you have any opinions on these methods for mandatory legal agreements before using a product/service? I made a quick mockup representing their current design and the type of design I argued for.
Please tell me this is satire. 😫 If it's not satire, I can't believe we need a new term to express that a lunch *break* is a supposed to be an actual break.
@FeralRobots @capsulejay satire but at the same time, lots of American jobs don’t let workers eat or go to the bathroom for hours or shifts. Amazon drivers infamously have to pee in bottles while driving
@FeralRobots @capsulejay 🎶I am the very model of a model employee I never leave my shuttle, can’t afford to pay those fees My overtime does overtime, I work nine days a week And I never hit that bottle til it’s time to take a pee🎶
"Gadzooka what's next! Quiet peeing, Quiet pooping, during work hours no less! This practice must stop! You should have done this before you left for your slave shift... I mean before your work shift!" 😬 🙄 😜
People should go to Paris around lunch time. Wine, stemware, tablecloths, cutlery, loaves of bread, and stunning food comes out. NOTHING of work interferes with Parisian and generally European meals. The US #NeedsToLearn and #NeedsToGrowTheFuckUp
it's a reference to "quiet quitting" where people just stop coming to work without notice. For these bosses, coming to work isn't even enough, because they're telling each other that lunch break is "quiet nourishing."
I’m surprised they don’t call it communist eating or something like this, because it’s basically what people in Europe do. Ok maybe 20 minutes is a bit short.
dont tell them about Europe where you can sometimes get 2 hour lunch breaks 5 weeks paid vacation, plus other holidays, and still be among the most productive countries on the planet.
@bbbhltz When people join my team, I tell them to go and look at productivity studies. Across different industries (I originally thought this was solely for knowledge workers, but I recently chatted to a researcher who has reproduced the same result in the construction industry), they all show roughly the same shape:
Productivity increases up to 20 hours a week.
It then plateaus up to 40.
It then starts to decrease and is typically negative by about 60.
This is the total net productivity, not the delta. If you are working 60 hour weeks, you would probably be more productive if you just stayed in bed all day.
For programmers, just think about how long it takes to fix a bug that you introduced when you were tired. Fixing mistakes (in any field) is often slow and expensive. Reducing the likelihood of making mistakes is usually much cheaper,
This is for sustained periods. People can often be productive for a 60-hour week if they are well rested, so if you have a one-off urgent deadline, it *may*be okay to work longer hours to meet it, as long as you take enough time off to recover. Averaged out (factoring in the recovery time), this tends to be less productive overall (ignoring the secondary impacts on people who have other commitments, like to see their families, and so on), so it’s generally a bad idea.
I want the most productive 20 hours of each employee each week. I don’t care when they happen (I’ve worked with some people who find they are most productive 2-4am, and that’s fine). Employees are responsible for getting enough rest to make sure that they can be productive for 20 hours each week.
I wrote our vacation policy to be explicit about the point of leave. It is not a gift from the company. It is not a reward for good behaviour. It is an obligation from the employees to the company to ensure that their brains are taken care of so that they can be productive. My contract (which is the model for new employees) has a minimum amount of leave I must take each year and a maximum time I can go without taking at least two days of leave.
The book I most recommend to new managers is PeopleWare and the most important point in that book is that, as a manager, it is not your job to make people work. Most people take pride in their work and want to do it well. Your job is to remove obstacles that stop them from being able to do good work. I don’t think it goes quite far enough because sometimes the biggest obstacle is the employee. If you’re hiring smart and motivated people, the most likely failure mode is that they work too hard and don’t notice their productivity dropping off. Sometimes you have to force them to take a week off (and you need a leave policy that supports you in doing so).
Sorry for the long rant, I haven’t had coffee yet and bad management annoys me, even when it’s depressingly accurate satire.
It really sounds like everyone else is butt-hurt that they didn't think of having a life outside of work first. These bullshit articles and their enablers on LInkedIn are the problem.
!Friendica Admins I've got a persistent issue lingering from messier storage transfers that had to be done when I moved. I just wasn't able to fit the media storage on the current semi-temporary box but not everything would transfer into S3 so I was forced to just delete the media folder without being fully transferred.
Since then a lot of images (typically profile pictures or older posts) are blurry and it seems clear the server isn't trying to re-download anything lost.
I'm needing a way to sort of kick it to get it to redownload those lost images?
@Michael Vogel it does not. As far as I can tell it's pulling an extreme low rez fuzzy copy (not even a valid thumbnail size) from the database and then trying to grab the file locally, failing, and then just presenting that mess without doing anything further.
@Michael Vogel honestly, now that you mention it since it was so common I was kinda just glossing over it and I think it is happening on some newer media too which could mean there's a problem with the S3 backend add-on, likely the same problem that caused much of the old media to not transfer.
@pmcneil No scientific consensus? There are very few published articles about it because the whole idea is very stupid. We're no herbivores from the Cretaceous! Scientists agree, but nobody thought of putting it in paper because they didn't think people would be that stupid.
@mawhrin well we can still do some comparisons, but one neuron does not equate to one parameter. if you want a meaningful analogy, then you have to compare the number of parameters to the number of connections between neurons.
of course we can't really quantify cognition, so comparing things based on that is always just how one feels about that. I mean, technically, I might be the only conscious person in the universe, I have no way checking if anyone else has. 😂
So the temporary system had some sort of failure, I'm not even 100% sure what caused it to be honest. It went down sometime yesterday and some of the virtual drives got corrupted, which caught the database and the virtual gateway device.
I was able to restore the system... most of the way. Thankfully there are backups of the database, but some of them were also flawed as well, the most recent intact one was from 5/16, so 5 days were lost.
To be clear, this problem was exacerbated by the fact that there's not as much redundancy in the temporary setup (sadly it looks like it'll be a few more months before I have a place of my own and can spin up my own hardware again). But I'm going to still look at how I might get those in better shape.
As far as how long it took: I had a busy day yesterday and didn't see that the server was down until I was too exhausted to do anything about it, so it had to wait until I got off work today... each attempt at restoring the database takes around an hour, so that took *a while* to get restored.
So the temporary system had some sort of failure, I'm not even 100% sure what caused it to be honest. It went down sometime yesterday and some of the virtual drives got corrupted, which caught the database and the virtual gateway device.
I was able to restore the system... most of the way. Thankfully there are backups of the database, but some of them were also flawed as well, the most recent intact one was from 5/16, so 5 days were lost.
To be clear, this problem was exacerbated by the fact that there's not as much redundancy in the temporary setup (sadly it looks like it'll be a few more months before I have a place of my own and can spin up my own hardware again). But I'm going to still look at how I might get those in better shape.
As far as how long it took: I had a busy day yesterday and didn't see that the server was down until I was too exhausted to do anything about it, so it had to wait until I got off work today... each attempt at restoring the database takes around an hour, so that took *a while* to get restored.
Cette nouvelle série est désormais très prometteuse. Quelle est ton idée derrière le format carré des planches? Tu ne te coupes pas l'herbe sous les pieds pour une éventuelle diffusion papier relié?
@oliviersaraja Merci! Le format carré, c'est juste pratique pour une consomation directe sur les reseaux sociaux; ça passe et en écran de PC/laptop, et en mode mobile à la verticale. Pour une publi papier, on verra; mais je pense à un petit format comme un manga carré. Ca serait sympa à bouquiner. Mais oui, ça marchera pas dans un album classique A4 BD couleur avec couv en dure, mais pas trop grave... Web first et community first 😉
FYI on the alt-text (not intended as criticism): that particular type of monster is generally known in English as a "Mimic" given that they 'mimic' treasure chests. And in panel two she throws a bone 'at' the mimic, not 'to' it ('to' implies she's intending for the mimic to catch it, while 'at' implies she wants to hit it with the bone).
For some reason this reminds me of "The Luggage" from Discworld... (basically a mimic that acts like a very overprotective dog, and also happens to function like a self-propelled larger-on-the-inside luggage trunk)
@becomethewaifu Thank you. yes, the Luggage reference is wanted (Discworld fan here 😉 ). The Mimic is a DnD name at origin (so copyright?) but the creature exist in many fantasy games, anime, and books. That's why I prefered to avoid this name. On a personal note: I like the versions in Dragon Quest or in Secret of Mana.
The Luggage is a fictional object that appears in several of the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. It is a large chest made of Sapient Pearwood (a magical, intelligent plant which is nearly extinct, impervious to magic, and only grows in a few pla…
@andre Yes, I tried to avoid naming it with this name in case it was still copyrighted. better to be safe than sorry later and get all this work removed because of a complaint for copyright 😅
But so many video games, so many books used 'Mimic' that it is probably a standard bestiary/monster name by now (eg. recently in Frieren, but also this type of Treasure can be found in old Snes game like Secret of Mana). Thank you for the Wikipedia link, very cool to read more description.
Merci ! J'ai cru quand même que ça allait être un peu heavy en termes de gag à référence, mais ça a l'air de bien passer. (Alicja ne connaissait pas ce genre de monstre, donc elle trouvait ça gentillet, mais sans plus, limite un peu gratuit).
@Kallekatt13 I'm so happy many got the reference 🐢🐘🐘🐘🐘 . That's the closest thing I can do without doing a copyright infringement an inventing my own luggage-like creature. ☺️
ADHD is a very complicated thing, and it is very hard to explain, especially to those without it. This film takes you through common experiences that come wi...
What do you do when your capacity for pain is getting used up faster than your capacity for love?
(* for those unfamiliar with the saying: loving someone inevitably means pain at their loss, pain at their suffering, and general vulnerability. In my case, mostly loved ones struggling and being traumatized by various systemic injustices...)
The raw surrealness that hits you from time to time when transitioning...
I thought I was a guy... now I'm thinking of myself as a woman.
I used to look in the mirror and always feel blah, and unmemorable unattractive face... now I see a face I genuinely recognize and remember, a face that I can feel attractive wearing (even if I'm not my own type and will never really see it myself)
My hair which was always just an uninteresting mess... turns out it likes to naturally grow into a cute bob (though I'd still like to try styling it more).
I have seen a lot of people use anime gao kigurumi as a mental help and encouragement with transitioning, just because the hadatai covers imperfections up, and with shapewear, people see what they would like to have.
its concering considering how little of the population they make. 1-2 white men shoot up a place fine. but when theres a even small gap of people in a list of shootings that make up such a large miniority it begins to make people ask questions.
Sadly there's no reasonable way to differentiate AI content from "real" content. And regardless of your opinions on AI there's no "stopping" it (it's a "cat's out of the bag" situation, you can run these things on your home computer with open source software... there's no way short of an apocalypse to stop development from here).
What we do have is a lot of fighting and little effort to work on solutions of living with this. And I think worse yet many taking the anti-AI stance, especially the loudest of them, are basically making things worse because real solutions are anathema to them (ie. anything short of an outright ban on the technology is unacceptable, which means they tend to push back against even efforts to rein in AI or talk over those who want to push those efforts).
On top of that you have the borderline predatory push of "AI Detection Tools" and "AI Poisoning". The detection tools are a question of "How many real lives are you okay with ruining to catch a handful of bad uses cases in AI because there is zero way to have any certainty on the accuracy of these tools?" while poisoning tools are a security blanket that leads to people dropping their defenses because they don't stop AI, just slightly delay it's access to your content (even the creators of those tools acknowledge that AI will quickly bypass them, at which point there's no difference in whether or not you used that tool), worse yet as AI gets further incorporated in search tools it can make it harder to get visibility and exposure over AI generated content.
What we really need to be focusing on to address the problems with AI:
Learning how copyright works (in my experience artists tend to have a woefully bad understanding of what is or isn't covered) and making sure corporations don't lobby the government into allowing copyright on AI works (under current law they are public domain, aka. no copyright, but there's already been one case of pushing that they can copyright "arrangements" of AI works). This means if they want to actually have a copyright on art, they've got to pay a human artist
We need to push for reporting requirements/standards. One of the most toxic elements is how much AI floods spaces and bumps out human artists, especially when they attack the prompt containing the artist's name (meaning searching for that artist can turn up more AI work than their actual work)... there needs to be a requirement that AI art be labeled. This also works with the previous point as it is similar to being able to search for something released Creative Commons.
Push for copyright responsibility in outputs rather than training data inputs. This sounds like something that is already one of the loudest arguments, but really isn't. Most arguments I hear try to go after AI tools for copyright content in their training data... but if you actually learn copyright you realize that a victory here largely means that major companies get more of an advantage because copyright only applies when content is copied (ie. when the training data is made available for smaller companies to run their own) vs when content is transformed (despite popular opinion, the vast majority of AI output does not violate copyright and qualifies as a transformative work... see again learning copyright law, plus a dash of learning how these tools actually work). Responsibility in outputs means that an AI can violate copyright (if I ask an AI tool to give me the first chapter of a copyrighted book and it does so... that is a violation and they need to genuinely be responsible for taking measures to prevent this from happening, but there should also be leeway for "forced violations", ie. when you bend over backwards to make it break copyright vs just saying "give me the first chapter of...")
Work on learning and developing responsible usage. Again despite popular artist opinion, there genuinely is a lot of responsible use cases for all these AI technologies, from using LLMs to help debug code, summarize text, prioritize lists to voice duplicators used, with the license of the original VA, being used for dynamic speech (ie. voice assistants or actually speaking a player's name in a video game in the middle of otherwise pre-recorded output). And that's not to ignore image generators which can be used for enhancing/repairing old photos, or just used for general visual effects on your own art (ie. the filters everyone uses on instagram or the like... much of them are the exact same tech as AI Image Generators)
And as always... fighting capitalism because the real threat of AI is the same as any other technology advancement: if CEOs can replace you with a machine, they will, and we live in a society where no employment means risk of death.
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According to the available information, there is no scientific consensus on how many rocks a person should eat per day. The claims about geologists recommending eating at least one small rock per day appear to be satirical in nature and not based on actual medical or nutritional advice. [1]
Consuming rocks or other non-food items on a regular basis is generally not recommended, as it can be harmful to one's health. Rocks and other inedible objects can pose a choking hazard and can potentially cause internal damage if ingested. [2][3]
Instead of eating rocks, it is advisable to maintain a balanced and nutritious diet that includes a variety of whole, unprocessed foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats. Consulting a registered dietitian or healthcare professional would be the best way to determine an appropriate and healthy daily dietary intake. [4]
Geologists Recommend Eating At Least One Small Rock Per Day
What happens if you eat rocks every day? - Quora
Is eating rocks bad for you? : r/NoStupidQuestions - Reddit
Australian Dietary Guidelines: Recommended daily intakes](https://foggyminds.com/photo/preview/640/3570011 "Quick Answer
According to the available information, there is no scientific consensus on how many rocks a person should eat per day. The claims about geologists recommending eating at least one small rock per day appear to be satirical in nature and not based on actual medical or nutritional advice. [1]
Consuming rocks or other non-food items on a regular basis is generally not recommended, as it can be harmful to one's health. Rocks and other inedible objects can pose a choking hazard and can potentially cause internal damage if ingested. [2][3]
Instead of eating rocks, it is advisable to maintain a balanced and nutritious diet that includes a variety of whole, unprocessed foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats. Consulting a registered dietitian or healthcare professional would be the best way to determine an appropriate and healthy daily dietary intake. [4]
Geologists Recommend Eating At Least One Small Rock Per Day
What happens if you eat rocks every day? - Quora
Is eating rocks bad for you? : r/NoStupidQuestions - Reddit
Australian Dietary Guidelines: Recommended daily intakes")
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