It’s even simpler than that: In the first instance a human learned a thing. In the second instance a bunch of humans wrote software to ingest art and spit out some Frankenstein of it. Software which is specifically designed to replace artists, many of whom likely had art used as inputs to said software without their consent.

In both cases humans did things. The first is normal, the second is shitty.

Sorry, just to be clear, are you equating a human learning to an organization scraping creative works as inputs for their software?

The OSI doesn’t require open access to training data for AI models to be considered “open source”, unfortunately. https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition

I agree that “open weights” is a more apt description, though

uh sure. My point is that sharing weights is analogous to sharing a compiled binary, not source code.

The definition of “open source” AI sucks. It could just mean that the generated model weights are shared under an open source license. If you don’t have the code used to train the model under an open source license, or you can’t fully reproduce the model using the code they share and open source datasets, then calling a model “open source” feels weird as hell to me.

At the same time, I don’t know of a single modern model that only used training data that was taken with informed consent from the creators of that data.

Invidious is switching to a new paradigm where the part that talks to YouTube will be split out into it’s own service called invidious-companion. While not part of the current release, they have instructions for setting it up, and it’s what I’m currently using. The only things that don’t work right now are live videos and the Clipious Android TV app (the phone app works fine). If you don’t need either of those things, I recommend starting with invidious-companion

https://docs.invidious.io/companion-installation/

My self-hosted Invidious instance is still going strong

Yeah I really don’t know how they thought that was a good explanation for them to remove the “we won’t sell your data” stuff. Absolutely bonkers.

Very cool! City living is definitely the best way to conserve energy, and all these hacks on top of that are pretty innovative.

On your other points: Carbon bike frames can be repaired, so even though they aren’t recyclable, they can still last a long time, so they’re not the worst. Electronic shifting feels a bit gimmicky to me, but all the mount points for the shifter and derailleur are standard and they can probably be swapped out for a standard cable shifter in the future without changing other parts on the bike.

Oh, I’m definitely upset about ebikes with motors and batteries integrated in the frames, with no replacement parts available. Often you can’t even install used parts because the firmware needs to be flashed by a dealer for your specific bike.

I own an ebike now and I’ve built one in the past. The one I built had a powerful mid-drive motor and could easily have been reverted to a normal bike (I got hit by a car before I ever got to think about that) and the ebike I have now has a basic bafang hub motor with a bolt-on battery, all of which I could easily replace if they failed.

The motor controllers on both bikes are/were also able to be reflashed or replaced without going to a specific dealer.

There is no reason that companies could not design ebikes and their components to be repairable, replaceable, and reprogrammed by users except for profit, and it’s gross as hell.

You don’t need a crazy product like this, you just need a bolt-on bike computer mount, then.

This is e-waste. This could just be a decent bike computer and a light that you could slap on to any bike, but they had to go and make a thing that forces me to replace the handlebars that I picked to match my body and riding style? An expensive electronic thing that i can’t remove from my bike? No thanks.

That is correct. The public ones get blacklisted by youtube.

to put the “youtube often breaks it” into perspective. In the last 6 months, I’ve lost access to youtube for a total of 8 days, with the longest continuous downtime being 3 days. selfhosting it works fine, for the most part.

I self-host an invidious instance and combine that with sponsorblock. I only ever see the videos from channels I am subscribed to unless I explicitly search for something.

yt-dlp is a good tool for downloading youtube, and there are several GUI frontends built around that

They do that, too. They’re on Mastodon as well. They’re just doing POSSE. These social media platforms are basically just where they advertise their articles and sometimes get tips for new stories from readers. That’s outside of how they use them for investigating stories about those platforms.

He talks on his podcast all the time about being on Bluesky

This is the first I’m hearing about it. I don’t know why anyone would be excited about this.

yeah, I’m in the last 1/3 of the game and it’s been really good. Getting used to the medieval script in dialogue bubbles took some time, but it’s definitely worth it.