Cory Doctorow @pluralistic : Companies like Tesla, Amazon and Cruise that claim to have replaced human workers with AI are often outright lying. Often, they’re instead replacing local employees with remote workers paid peanuts in India and other developing countries.
“So much AI turns out to be low-waged people in a call center in the Global South pretending to be robots that Indian techies have a joke about it: ‘AI stands for “absent Indian.”’”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/31/neural-interface-beta-tester/
The MATV/cable headend gear arrived last week and it wasn’t in a great state; it had been packed in situ so some stuff broke in transit. It’s not a huge deal to repair though, just some plastic pieces.
Gonna try looking into the software over the next couple of days. Tried to work on it last night but for some reason I couldn’t get the Pi I wanted to use connected to the WiFi.
Okay! Here's the secret project, all finished now!
There are a few rough spots here and there, but it's the first animation project I've actually finished!
... Can we keep him? Pleeeeeease? :3
With the good boy Leso during the Aschaffenburg suitwalk!
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First #RaspberryPi earned a shitstorm by hiring a cop formerly specialized in hidden surveillance.
Now they accept an investment by Sony for their proprietary AI engine to be included in the next Pi. Which "only sends metadata to the cloud".
Here's a fine list of alternatives to that now-garbage company:
- https://pine64.com/
- https://beagleboard.org/
- http://www.orangepi.org/
- https://www.banana-pi.org/
- https://www.hardkernel.com/
- https://www.friendlyelec.com/
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