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@zero_gravitas My man, Humans ≠ Computers.
But as someone who plays in a small band, I wouldn’t like it if someone took one of our songs and uploaded it to YouTube as their own. At the same time, I wouldn’t mind if a performer learned the song and played it for money on the street — because scale and context matters. (From this blog post)
Saying "Yeah, but humans can do it" is a bad argument here, and a bad argument for wanting to drive your car through a mall. AI is different enough that it needs its own evaluation - and not just piggyback off of what we've deemed OK for humans, or even search engines.
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@andycarolan Hehe, I should also remember not to put too much into footnotes. :P
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@baldur Feel free to tag me if you have questions! (I might be able to help - especially with Ulysses.)
Yeah, there's absolutely still issues (although I think cross-posting mostly works fine for me - but I don't follow it very closely). =/
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@andycarolan Thanks!
AI is potentially diverting the cash used to achieve it away from artists to the companies who developed the generator.
Yes, that is precisely why I wrote that I don't use them in the footnote right after. ☺️ The point I was trying to make, was that I both want to use them (because it would be useful for me) but still don't use it because I deem it too problematic.
(I've been going a couple of rounds thinking that I have literally zero revenue, ads etc. on my blog, so it's not like I could afford hiring someone. But I still think it's a principled stand I want to keep.)
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@baldur Have you looked into using alternative apps for posting? I really don't like writing anything in the posting UI if I can help it (so only use it for replies like this), but there are some great third-party apps that can be used to post.
Paper's free version is very generous, and can post files as drafts to Micro.blog. Personally I use Ulysses, which is awesome. (Through Setapp, so I don't pay more for it.) It supports keywords, scheduling and everything. I use the Inbox in the app for micro.posts - so that makes it super fast to post those. I think iA Writer and MarsEdit is supposed to be good as well.
Is it optimal that you need something else (maybe not even free) to get a good posting experience? Absolutely not. But you at least can get a very good one.
(I to disagree with a bunch of the priorities at Micro.blog, sadly. =/ But I do really like it as a place to host my blog, with some minor social media-ing on the side.) @Denny
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@andycarolan No big fan of Adobe in general here, but I at least think their tools are trained on material they have the rights to. (Now, have these been procured in a non-shitty way? And what about future material? I don't know, to be honest...)
If they're useful is a different discussion, but this might at least not make them as unethical and harmful? (I wrote a bit more about this distinction here.)
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@amerpie Cool! Never heard of it. (Big Bike fan myself, which I saw you mentioned. 👍🏻)
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I'm not perfectly fluent in English...
Yeah - same, @numericcitizen. 🫶🏻
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@numericcitizen Yeah - and by themselves, they're not very large issues. But it's, as Viticci put it: "Inefficiency by a Thousand Cuts". And my point is that many of the cuts could be avoided without going into the stuff you write about here. Maybe it was me just reading what you wrote wrong, but I felt a bit like you dismissed the issues, by pointing to the underlying architecture of iPadOS. It's absolutely a factor - but doesn't sufficiently explain Apple's negligence.
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@numericcitizen I've no doubt in my mind that people like Viticci knows very well why iPadOS is the way it is. That doesn't really change the fact that Apple should've fixed it yesterday. (Many readers probably don't, though - so I like your post!)
And one thing is background processes - but they could've added stuff like Font Book, smart folders, customising of hotkeys, setting default apps, and proper audio support, a long time ago.
There's plenty of ways the iPad could get more powerful and flexible, that's not just becoming a Mac. (Because that's not what Viticci is asking for.)
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@amerpie Amazing app! I've also set as my default for opening image files, like .jpg. The annotation tools are that nice! And now they got even better.
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@teisam Yeah, and not only that: I think the inclusion of a function row is directly linked to the reduced weight. If that's not "function", what is? 😅
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@teisam In this case, I'd even argue that "form is function".
It being lighter (which is more important than "thin" in this context) makes it function better, both as a tablet (held in your hands over time) and as a laptop replacement (as the new Magic Keyboard seems significantly better).
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@numericcitizen @pratik It's 100% true that the iPads are underutilized - now more than ever. But the software story were never going to be told today, so I don't know why people were expecting otherwise.
If the outlook is just as poor after WWDC, it's a different discussion!
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@jhamre Tusen takk! Ja, og i tillegg tror jeg det er aktivt skadelig for en viktig sak...
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@amerpie Yeah, that's fair! I guess I don't care about menu bar apps as much, as Bartender just hides them. But it would probably be good for my RAM to reduce the amount!
I use Raycast a bunch - and then it's practical to have the clipboard separatly, as it struggles a bit with running different things at once. But yeah, I would never say Paste is worth it, compared to Raycast, if you're not on Setapp. :) (But I guess I'm not offended, heh.)
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@amerpie Why did you choose Raycast over Paste? I've used the former (and PasteBot) - but I like Paste the most out of all of them.
In Paste, I really like: - The preview window in general - That I can edit and save snippets in categories - The paste stack
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@atlefren Ja - men for å spesifisere: Det handler like mye om å ikke miste syne av de jentene som også hadde hatt glede av disse "gutte-tiltakene". :)
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@atlefren Ja - dét er enda et godt eksempel på hvordan det bare roter det til å snakke om "kjønn" når det ikke er dét som er den relevante faktoren.
Ja, individuell tilpasning er alltid bra - men dyrt, som du sier. Men en generelt mer praktisk skolehverdag (kanskje noe av det valgbart på et vis) vil nok gagne mange uansett.
Men poenget mitt med dette innlegget er ikke primært å snakke om løsningene (selv om kona sa jeg burde skrive litt mer om disse 😁) - men at jeg vil at når vi diskuterer dem, så snakker vi om "løsninger for de som trenger en mer praktisk skolehverdag" (ellerno), og ikke "løsninger for gutter i skolen".
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@numericcitizen Oh, I read Toulouse! :(
(I'm Norwegian, but lived there for six months last year. :) My wife is a French teacher, and took a bachelor there - and I was along for the ride. :D We made a friend from Canada, btw! But funnily enough, the guy was fluent in French, but not from French Canada.)
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@forteller Hah - lurt! Jeg rakk ikke gjøre det før det kom en hyggelig ung mann og hjalp meg, "dessverre".
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@EpsilonTime Nice to hear the import wheelhouse well!
Even though it's not the app I use, I recommend starting with a trial for iA Writer! It works well with local files, can publish to Micro.blog (including micro posts), and had some really neat features specifically for writers. 🙂
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@maique Excited to hear your thoughts!
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@drose I absolutely get that point! But I personally prefer Mastodon here, because some people I follow boosts great stuff - but you can still choose to turn off all boost and on/off per account. So you can taylor it to how you want it.
