making programming about writing code is like making photography about film development and darkroom printing. you spent years perfecting those skills and learning about things like effects of different chemicals and dodging and burning amd then the digital camera comes along. and you'd be like "anyone can make a picture now, they edit them on a computer, photographer as a profession is dead". it's pathetic.

i object to your use of the word "either". that gives him too much credibility.

i mean, those plebs pedestrians and kids just walking around are basically asking for it /s

stop that. letting people spew hateful shit publicly without consequences is exactly how we got to where we are as a society...

i went the film way... i had pentax mx first (about 400g with pancake lens), that was too big so i went with olympus ees2. much faster for quick snaps but still big. even rollei 35s i carry now (as small as it gets) is still a bit too cumbersome to handle if it is inside my backpack...all of these are good solution for a photo walk but not fast enough for quick snaps. so now I'm thinking really small digicam... something fitting inside my pocket or something with rugged design i can use anywhere. any newer compact is going to run circles around even high-end smartphone... but price is a consideration.

with film the price is not an issue if you enjoy developing it yourself (which i do) and will buy film in bulk. with k400 and d76 i can get to 6-8 cents per picture when shooting half-frame (try dividing a price of a good dslr by the average amount of pics you make with it over its life and you will get pretty close to that).

i recommend installing block site extension in your browser and adding reddit to the list of blocked sites. i did it almost 2 years ago and still sometimes instinctively type reddit.com when opening a new tab... but it's getting better.

my account got first permabanned without warning or explanation from worldnews sub after i (politely) suggested that maybe blowing up a school full of kids (30 dead) is not the right thing to do even if a terrorist is hiding inside (under an article about case in gaza). then i still sticked around for my hobby subs for a while but the sute kept showing all kinds of other content to my feed. one day there was a picture showing a WW2 nazi flag on someone's front yard in ohio and people were suggesting they should bring some veterans to talk to them and explain why it is wrong. i said that wouldn't help and that people like this should be "tarred and feathered" - which was, according to reddit, not acceptable behaviour because "reddit is trying to be a place where everyone can feel safe and me threatening other people is undermining it". banned and out.

my point was that the news will happily push a story like the "rogue AI" bullshit, since it is in the best interest of the people who own the media companies, but will completely ignore or actively suppress stories that are afainst their interests...

"regulation bad" appears to be just an american thing. everyone else is doing it... but it takes time and is not necessarily done well.

these extreme voices get more head space online because that's the only thing that can get any meaningful attention nowadays. you won't see the vast majority of people stuck at "well, some of the things it does are kind of impressive but the practical results are not there for us, i'm not sure why and i don't understand the impact and background entirely so i just don't know". you'll only ever hear from people that are either "AI evangelists" and are backed up by a huge amount of marketing money and propped by the algorithm or from the people who sound like they are about to fire bomb a data center.

there are many people who are much more sober about these things. look at this video for an example: https://youtu.be/xwXM2pHj0g4

IMO the real problem is that both regulation and the so called "free market" are susceptible to being taken over by players that just don't play fair. we all know that LLMs and many other tech "improvements" would not be viable if they had to play by the same rules as everyone else (e.g. source training data, resources and energy in a moral way and charge a fair price for the actual measured contribution they provide). but that's kind of their game, right? they find a way to be more efficient... not necessarily by improving a product but sometimes simply by finding a hole in the rules. and then they haul in the money and use it to put out any competition and poke more holes in the rules.

i see you don't know how the news works recently...

curious question: did you consider carrying around a small camera if taking pictures is so important for you? i am weighting pros and cons of this solution myself and slowly but surely coming to that breaking point...

we also faced this problem before. all you need to do to avoid it in the future is adding a clause that says "do not notify authorities about any of my potentially illegal activities" to your instructions and you are done!

• excerpt from a chat in one of my future work meetings probably

the problem is that the same people who buy vpn services are the people who care that parties like he supports don't get to power... so when they learn that their money (that they paid for the vpn) directly helped to pay for that donation (via the company that made him rich) they are understendably pissed.

edit: this guy below said it much better than me https://lemmy.world/post/51539700/25684523