The Level1 Show November 19 2024: The Sky Is Always Bluer On The Other App

[@CTCTraining1]

Get well soon Krista 💐

[@BBWahoo]

I can't believe the face eating leopards got to her

[@xanderlander8989]

Pro tip: Select English International when you download Windows 11 ISO from Microsoft. It's got most of the spying disabled because GDPR and whatnot.

[@dylans2669]

why we let corporations reach in to our private lives/homes and collect, take, and control things that we would not let the government do is very strange.

[@jrm523]

Please do a video on Right to Repair. I'm repeatedly blown away at how many people are brainwashed. 😢

[@zapman2100]

i mean google preventing ad blockers on their web browser so there ad's can be served is what a monopoly does.

[@binary_squirrel]

Just addressing one example regarding key prices in europe - Estonia pays full price for everything (windows, games on Steam etc)

[@dragonproductions236]

Oh it's absolutely fucked, in Latvia you get to pay german pricing while making russian wages.

[@Mervinion]

In Poland we pay on steam more because exchange rate used for pricing is old as f...

[@matthewmadden1195]

Get well soon Krista, we miss you!

[@halfwit2]

Fucking hell Ryan, that comment about losing our collective agency was so apt

[@the.scarlet_witch.official]

Bluesky: "Outside the echo chamber, no one can hear you scream 😮" (For the 'rithm 😊)

[@murraywebster1228]

Anechoic chamber methinks you mean

[@praxisodinson8378]

Certainly nobody is hearing the screams of the children on there, despite a massive outbreak of see pee content from the latest flood of leftists.

[@S3NTRY]

That works on so many levels. Funny watching the ideologically possessed eat themselves in their fresh bubble.

[@cefk9944]

Motörhead: "What's the use of a cry for help, if no one hears you scream? .. There's no voices in the sky!"

[@Ogre-zr5zk]

What happened to banking regulations between the 1850s and today??? Banks were small with a few branches at most with limited money and only local influence, Today banks are nation/world-wide with hundreds or thousands of branches and nearly unlimited money and influence...

[@Ni-qc6yq]

judaic mafia behavior.

[@mysteriousfox88]

everyone wants a big car and big house without actually paying for it

[@mytech6779]

1913 happened

[@garethfuller2700]

If we're talking about privacy, the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 did a bunch of the current damage (leading to a 70's supreme court decision that can be summed up approximately as "Yeah, unconstitutional, but the reporting limit is 10,000 dollars, an amount that could by a house/significant chunk of a house right now, so who could possibly be harmed?"). At that point, banks were required to notify you about when the government was looking into your accounts and other protective measures, but don't worry, that was fixed in the 90's... The PATRIOT act, much like other areas that it flooded its way into, made things worse. If we're talking about bank power, there was a severe run on the banks/bank panic in 1907 (which J.P Morgan and associates poured oceans of their money into to help stop the panic from getting worse), and Congress (under the influence of J.P. Morgan and other various groups), in an effort to help limit/stop future events of the type, created the Federal Reserve in 1913...

[@blitzwing1]

Usually a fan of Wendells takes but his comment on being a fan of deregulation broadly demonstrates a serious lack of historical knowledge on market regulation and deregulation. He should just speak of computer things it is his wheelhouse.

[@TheMartiansLoveKuato]

Did not know that about Canada. Thanks for the update. These protections are anticompetitive and anti-tech.

[@SolaAesir]

Remember that the "Tiktok ban" isn't actually a Tiktok ban, it's the ability for the executive branch to declare any business they don't like illegal if those businesses, or anyone in an ownership position, have any economic interests outside of the country. That is functionally control of all businesses on the internet. They used Tiktok as the BBEG example to get it passed easily, but most people think it was primarily focused directly at X to force them to play ball with the censorship/disinformation regime (as highlighted by the Twitter files and many subsequent releases from them and others). Notice that ever since it became clear to them that Trump would be elected (a few months before the election because they have enough of our private data to know how the vote would go even better than the pollsters did), people like Zuckerberg and Bezos started to come out about how much the government was dictating moderation decisions? Now that the tide is turning on the disinformation campaign they feel safe to come out and be open about what happened to them.

[@GainingDespair]

Here is what Amazon will do When employees need to take a bathroom break, they will be instructed to log it via the employment app on their phones. These breaks are typically very short, but workers can earn extra time by correctly answering questions that portray unions in a negative light and advise against joining them.

[@NPzed]

Yes, please do the video on right to repair, first sale, property rights!

[@jackrabbitping]

My ISP's app requires access to my location data to.....file complaint tickets! They have my address.... I live in a certain populous south asian country.

[@TheWebstaff]

Location access might be for something other than location data because Google!

[@mcash2189]

I think it's always funny when Wendell brings up format shifting as if there's anything stopping any of us from format shifting right now

[@jkfdkjjd]

That reminds me I need to finish my playthrough of THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME on the SUPER NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM that I started earlier this year.

[@Terran.Marine.2]

N64?

[@G4r2i0f]

lol was scrolling through the comments to see if anyone else picked up on that.

[@gnerkus]

You haven't head of the Ocarina of Time demake?! It's been out for decades!

[@praxisodinson8378]

35:20 that's what the lightning bolt and eye dropper icons are for in ublock origin.. you shouldn't tolerate this sort of abuse, it just encourages them to go further ..

[@StoneyKenobi212]

That UPA congressional hearing live stream was insane! The one rule about Fight Club is don't talk about Fight Club. I highly recommend watching the whole thing.

[@aheretic]

The U.S. government justifies the high cost of their stuff with the wonderful excuse of "Yes we know we pay more for parts and supplies, but we're keeping Americans employed at these businesses we purchase from" I still have the order sheet from a serial mouse (just plain serial mouse) I purchased for a system and the gvt cost was almost 375.00 Local business had one for 19.99 at the time. Had to purchase the 375.00 one.

[@yumri4]

The problem with AGI is when you look at how the current AIs work on the processing side it isn't there nor are the frameworks used set up for it either. For at home AI compute you mostly have pytorch used as it is small and efficient with only 1 GPU yes you have others but they are made for having 8+ GPUs and not good when you only have 1. Well the flaw in pytorch as is in Tensorflow and most likely the others is that all the data needed on the inference side will be in the output of the training model. Use a LLM for longer than expected and you will get garbage output. Use a text to image AI with incorrect settings for example not enough steps or a different sampler than expected and you will get just a noise pattern use computer vision enough and the errors in the system will start to show. Etc. like that so the reason why we cannot have 1 model for all 3 and the other 20ish other AI types is the output the AI uses is very different. For text to image the output from training is a noise texture that is put through a algorithm while for LLM it is a list of strings and values for computer vision well i haven't taken that one apart yet it most likely is alike to a set of images that do a does the image on screen match the image in the database thing. 3 very different outputs for the trained models. You need 3 entirely different models too. Then you have image to video models that image to video processing cannot be done with text to image and image to image AI models. So another type of trained AI that is not overlapping. The result is AGI will most likely be a system with many different AI models instead of 1 model to do it all.

[@ericthedesigner]

The only thing I did back in the day was rent vhs tapes and splice in "fun videos" and then return them to the rental store.

[@kazkz5331]

In call centers for training they bring in the Union and have them talk to you. They also tell you right before that Union meeting, that none of the call center management is union. They basically warn you that joining the union means you're working a dead end job.

[@Z0M8I3D]

lobbyists & trust is what changed banking restrictions

[@Sama_09]

I see a christa impersonation for the bye !! 😂

[@MrCode4money]

16:44 if they're paying people to attend then they obviously know who attended.

[@kwrzesien17]

Feral gangs of children 😂 I feel like there was a book about this!

[@ianhuu]

Eu has a law that allows redistributing used software. Many of thoose windows keys are just bulk oem keys reselled. Microsft's euela doesn't allows this, but eu law says you can do this legally.

[@TheWebstaff]

Ok, so how do you know if it's legal or not?

[@Kiyuja]

@@TheWebstaff very easy, law overrides TOS.

[@georgejones5019]

​@@TheWebstaff Legal vs Ethical. Microsoft blocking it is nothing short of a greed thing to churn more dollars.

[@RowdyDandy]

@@TheWebstaff Logic is you can sell a used physical good, so youre allowed to sell a permanent license for a software

[@marktackman2886]

Threads and Blue sky are DOA lol

[@_unknown_guy]

The name BlueSky must be a meme. Did no one think first letters form BS? So posting on there is BSing? I can't unsee it...

[@Terran.Marine.2]

Ha!😅

[@marktackman2886]

The term blue in intelligence circles actually means something

[@Pushing_Pixels]

So the key sites are just engaging in arbitrage? Nothing illegal about that.

[@Ronald-gu3ft]

Patent law stopped all improvements to James Watt's steam engine for 20 years. So it isn't new.

[@mytech6779]

also the Wright bros patent trolling finally ended after 15 years with congress getting involved because nobody in the USA could design military planes without some BS lawsuit and the Wrights still trying to push their old wright-flyer III in mid ww1. There was a crooked patent judge (Who was previously known for suspiciously favoring Henry Ford's patents.) who let the Wight's patent the concept of roll control, rather than just their actual mechanism to accomplish it.

[@praxisodinson8378]

Thanksgiving is great, it's like the opening round to the holiday brawl of telling your family how wrong they are on politics and religion..

[@rax313]

Or defending your life choices?

[@praxisodinson8378]

@@rax313 eh? If you made poor choices, you need the smart uncle to fix self destructive silliness.

[@MickeyMishra]

I used to joke around that one day these people will come after our car hobby and guess what they did.

[@spacemanwithraygun3933]

In PA people voted for a guy that had died. He was dead and they didn't bother to take his name off the ballot.

[@Joedad000]

Ocarina of time was N64 bro 😅. I assume this was what Ryan didn't want to correct

[@georgejones5019]

A Link to the Past for SNES.

[@murraywebster1228]

Guten morgen!

[@scruffy3121]

I've had so many problems since upgrading my w10 to w11 and I hate the new look. There is no way I will buy a local OEM copy of that crap.

[@ColJonSquall1]

in terms of Canada and the Right to Repair story, if you do a video like that, get Louis Rossmann in on it. May as well go to the source for a lot of information on the insanity for how the US pushes back. Canada, we had the chance years ago, but it got shot down because Bell and Rogers said no, on behalf of Apple.

[@azzzyly]

The reason EU is avoiding microsoft is a mixture that comes down to "Microsoft has an incredibly well strapped legal team"

[@Z0M8I3D]

Wait, I can patent my compression algos and data determination algos? Can I patent mathematical equations too?

[@JarradAB1]

That coke can...

[@mannyc19]

Wendell, please look up Alan Levine. Richard Dolan has had Alan on his podcast several times. He was part of the APRO program through Jimmy Carter. Alan is The real deal on all this stuff.

[@reyarthur2792]

They do not want you to buy something from somewhere else and bring it here for cheaper. They had that in the automotive industry because people were buying cars cheaper and had them inportend for way less.

[@georgejones5019]

It's difficult to compete with slave labor in China or South East Asia.

[@gnerkus]

29:02 That headshake... Context: 28:59

[@Terran.Marine.2]

So like Meijer? I think stocks exist, but not publicly traded.

[@TheWebstaff]

39:50 oh my yes!! I'm exhausted.

[@asdkant]

Here's an idea: use AI saftey techniques to protect us against politicians

[@RedSntDK]

With regard to the iCloud stuff you mentioned: Doesn't microsoft already do something like this? Isn't there literally P2P tech you need to disable which helps distribute windows updates?

[@TheWebstaff]

There have been loads of commercial projects like this. There was one in the 2015 era that even released a Nas unit and sync apps etc and you could even share it with others so you had an off-site Nas in return for having some space on your Nas. Think they lasted a few years before they started selling the off site backup service. Then the P2P aspect went downhill, so the recommendation was to use the paid for storage. Then they dropped support for everything.

[@yourposer]

imagine if the car companies stopped "resto-mod" cars

[@tulikube]

Windows 11 pro is 130€ here in Estonia

[@TheWebstaff]

Wow it's only £11 in the UK from eBay or third party sites! Unless you buy it direct from M$ then it's £199.

[@andrewb6]

I bet nvidia knows exactly what your GPU's are doing since time immemorial. Decompile the drivers, and find all the trackers and data collectors sending data back to Jensen's deathstar.

[@tolpacourt]

I'm OK with private sector unions although they often work against the interests of the ran-and-file members. Public sector (government employees) unions should be abolished. Even the godfather of American socialism Franklin D. Roosevelt was opposed to government employee unions.

[@nemesis851_]

Red vs Blue, at the table

[@ZippydsmLee-freetube]

There is no property in IP rights, only thoughts, IP rights is thought control. And thought control never works well with humans...

[@Ironic-Social-Phobia]

May be the Secret Service should consider all the other alphabet soup agencies and abbreviate. Seems appropriate.

[@kai990]

Palworld? What about Ntscworld?

[@cracklingice]

All these people thinking the SEC is overstepping are nuts. Most of the crypto market IS SECURITIES. How are you not a security? You are proof of work you are not a token, you are fair launch (no pre-mine, the entire block reward goes to the block producer) and you have no pre-sale. That Trump honestly thinks US companies cryptocurrencies (of which there are none because companies make cryptosecurities) should be the only non taxed thing is insane. It should any trade that is not into US dollars. If you trade BTC for LTC, that shouldn't be a taxable event because you have only lost value to network fees, trading fees and/or withdraw fees.

[@EbefrenRevo]

Pay for pirated games/app is so dumb and make absolutely no sense.

[@pezz2345]

Did you guys see the $32.5 billion dollar tobacco industry fine that just happened in Canada? (and no that number isn't a typo. If I remember correctly our entire military budger is roughly $49 billion lol)

[@parisloop6855]

Are three bicycles and a pallet of moose feed that expensive? But then I remembered it was CAD.

[@mytech6779]

Canada doesn't grow any tobacco, good luck collecting.

[@Terran.Marine.2]

I'm going to guess it will play out in a per package tax.

[@soapbar88]

in all seriousness what do we tell our kids

[@mcash2189]

3:46 so when you go to a naughty no no location to do the bad no no thing leave your existential crisis tracking brick at home

[@EdDale44135]

On your last point - Taxes. The massive wealth inequality started with Regan and his tax reduction. Unions. Strong protections for labor. On the elected officials being disconnected to the people they are supposed to represent - more of them, representing fewer people. Insider trading laws with teeth. A strong independent news industry. A educated populace with strong civic engagement.

[@georgejones5019]

Some good ideas but questions are raised for practice and/or enforcement. We have strong independent news here on KZbin. But there's a fine line between educating and indoctrinating. Also. I'm always for lower taxes. The government taxes us 7 different ways to Sunday. Then all of our money goes to foreign countries for war to improve them, but never fixing our issues first.

[@EdDale44135]

@@georgejones5019 The point I tried to make is that we must remove inequality in wealth. Tax policy is the typical method of doing that by a government. So you make the taxes on wealth generation higher, which gives the holders of that wealth incentives to spend the wealth before being taxed. That is why we have all these Carnegie Libraries in the US - tax avoidance through charity giving. Today, we have lowered taxes on capital gains (generally stock sales), income, and inheritance. We have capped social security taxes on income. All of this has led to a concentration of the wealth of the country in the top few people in the country. The known working solution is to raise taxes. Open to other mechanisms.

[@p5eudo883]

It's amazing how many people have been hurt by Reagan's policies and yet think he was a great president and believe in the "proven false for decades" assertion that wealth will trickle down when you give tax breaks to the rich.

[@Kane0123]

Let's go

[@GainingDespair]

My recourse is magic hard drive

[@swayne1441]

property rights ftw

[@ghostingalong]

Blue sky, where uncontested bias can reign again

[@parisloop6855]

I thought it was the new Tumblr for people who like kids, in a white van sort of way.

[@TheWebstaff]

OP as opposed to twitter where a different uncontested bias can reign supreme!!

[@TheWebstaff]

​@@parisloop6855no you're getting confused with Facebook groups.

[@georgejones5019]

​@parisloop6855 There seems to be a pattern of behavior with a certain demographic of people. It's why they get upset when they're told, "Leave kids alone."

[@TheSlyMouse]

@@parisloop6855 you shut up, she's technically a 1000 year old dragon. the physical from just happens to be a little girl. /s for people who are crazy and cant tell

[@merlin1649]

Yay!

[@bluephreakr]

It would be nice for that cyber treaty thing to pass, so that America can slide even further into dysfunction when everybody who is using FMHY for their more shady media fulfillment desires here in the states can be arraigned and fined for copyright infringement. Can't have a functioning country when the poor trying to entertain themselves for cheap suddenly encounter insurmountable financial trouble!

[@nathanddrews]

I usually don't believe the hyperbole in the news (good or bad), but if the new administration delivers on even 25% of its goals related to reforming intelligence, spending waste, and the revolving door between private/public jobs, it would be a very good thing for consumers. I guess we'll know how it's going in about two years...

[@owlmostdead9492]

22:15 an actually uncharacteristically bad proposal from Wendell. A) Mac storage is ridiculously expensive and soldered B) In a case of hardware failure you’ll lose literally everything data-wise Theres numerous more reasons why offloading iCloud functionality to a local Mac is a bad idea.

[@1blackice1]

I don't have a mac but I would assume you would be able to use an external for your personal cloud stuff for not too much money. You could also set it up as a back up and have your files on both the internal storage and external so if you have a hardware failure you can recover it. Would just need an external hard drive.

[@Shotblur]

You know you can use your own hard disks and SSDs with Macs, right? Depending on the model, maybe not internally, but you absolutely can.

[@owlmostdead9492]

@@Shotblur Yes because I want an external SSD dangling from my laptop 24/7 + most people forget about how it kills your battery life

[@owlmostdead9492]

​@@1blackice1 I think most people who rely on iCloud as their main storage are not familiar with the concept of external storage and for most other people it would be cheaper and more elegant to just use a NAS and completely bypass their Mac instead of using it as a infra debt funnel. Edit: And frankly I wouldn't want someone who thinks of iCloud as their main storage be responsible for their data, they'll lose it somehow 100% of the time.

[@georgejones5019]

An external drive is neither of those things, and it's stored locally on your own hardware.

[@dunastrig1889]

Woot!

[@memediatek]

What did you do to Krista!

[@Fatspurios]

Engagement on......be well.

[@pankothompson5903]

the Existential dread show

[@Technopath47]

I'm going to agree with the Secret Service, which is why I don't need a warrant to track their locations (and therefore heads of states) because THEY agreed to Strava's terms. Got to disagree with Rossmann, sometimes you MUST accept the premise of assholes just so you can throw their own turds back into their face. xD

[@Ghennesph]

"Super Nintendo" "Ocarina of Time" I think that's a romhack though

[@StephenMcGregor1986]

Web Archives FF add-on ftw

[@ShamanKish]

Every monk is a sociopath.

[@AllanAquinoVieira]

Wendell back up byeeee 👏

[@ericthedesigner]

I will modify the fuck out of anything I own and no one can do shit about it!

[@personaldronerepair6141]

38:38 "Just use your brains." "I know it's hard." 😆🤣😂😃 I do know what Wendel meant but I just..cannot...stop chuckling. Made My Year!

[@mapwheel00]

40:09 today's surprise is Ryan citing Karl Marx.

[@OstrichWrestler]

40:13 There's a guy that wrote on this at length. His name was something like Snarl Barx or something.

[@louisharkna9464]

Palworld would have been fine if the devs hadn't started talking to Sony...

[@gnerkus]

Greed is a common pattern in most of Nintendo's targets.

[@sidenote1459]

now I can go to bed. ty😊

[@JayzBeerz]

Doing any M4 Mac Mini content?

[@parisloop6855]

Bluesky is where Chris Hansen would go if he still had that TV show.

[@Tea_1745]

16:50 to bad gci in alaska didn't get this memo! When I was there awhile ago they would put together antiunion meetings at less twice a year. LoL I put in over 3 years there. I'm so happy to not be in that toxic company!

[@EdDale44135]

I wonder if the fact that I was able to bet on the election without using a VPN might be related to why they seized his phone.

[@randomize04]

Nyeom

[@newmzy0]

38:35 "the only fix for this is more education"... Wendell - that is a lovely sentiment but no amount of education can fix stupid. Can you remember when it was actually difficult to be on the internet? I'm thinking early to mid '90s. Maybe I'm just old. Anyway, the way I remember it is there were predominantly only smart people. Now there is everyone.

[@OstrichWrestler]

@@newmzy0 US literacy levels *shudder*

[@TheWebstaff]

So OP we need a barrier to entry then is what the government hears you saying! 😲😲😲

[@newmzy0]

@@TheWebstaff My government (Australian) only want us on the "safe" parts of the internet and they actively try to put up barriers. My original point was just that it was better when the barrier to entry was being smart enough.

[@Technopath47]

Hey! As the resident psychopath in the room (ASPD), I resent being compared to the US government! We're NO WHERE NEAR as bad as they are! xD

[@pm5k00]

Wendell's vocal fry goodbye is going to be my new ringtone.

[@jonnycoutinho]

#20. For the algorithm 😊

[@jefferylebowski7355]

What level test do I need to take to access 4chan? asking for a friend...

[@dragonproductions236]

For the polymarket thing, a whale going for Red would actually mean you should bet Blue and vote Blue and vice verse. In active payouts like these you just pick the losing side and hope it wins.

[@Marc_Wolfe]

39:27 You don't say...

[@Bare_Essence]

You said Elon. I heard Elmo. Odd.

[@Bare_Essence]

@Wendell - If they used your local computer for storage, they will still charge you to send it there per file. $3 per month (200GB) to store your stuff or $.01 per photo and .10 per iPhone backup to send you stuff. Which us cheaper? It's a no win situation. Apple wanted money from other app stores forced onto their system by the courts. They are going to keep their revenue stream regardless of the pathing of data.