Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@adamhotep @raven667 @Nazani @futurebird Yeah that's a mix of really exhaustive search for optimal compression dictionaries with perceptual models for where to allocate bits that really aren't anything fundamentally fancier than mp3 psychoacoustic model.

@raven667 @Nazani @futurebird That isn't "AI", just use of the "AI" marketing label for large compression (or "enhancement") dictionary. It's like calling 2xSaI "AI".

@Nazani @futurebird The only way "AI compression" could be profitable in storage & bandwidth to the video provider platform is if they could offload all the compute onto the user's client device. This isn't happening because it'd reduce battery life to a few minutes, and web won't allow it anyway (having that much site specific data for model, acces to "AI" scale compute, etc.)

@Nazani @futurebird It can't save bandwidth. It might save storage. But the cost in compute would be way larger than the cost of the storage.

@futurebird @DavyJones The "too difficult to use" aspect can be handled the same way it is in a library - you have a curated children's section, but you don't police young people browsing or checking out books from elsewhere in the library.

I don't see any way "age-appropriate white lists" can be viable. Certainly the people making them are not going to let anything obviously LGBTQ onto them, and kids who are not okay with the gender or gender expectations being imposed on them need access to comprehensive information on that stuff way before age 13-15.

@DavyJones @futurebird While it's not a very pleasant way for it to happen, seeing goatse teaches you that there are mean people out there who get a kick out of grossing you out. It doesn't help them take advantage of you or do any harm to you *unless* they can blackmail you that you'll get in trouble for looking at things you "weren't supposed to". Which is what you're advocating for - a regime that *does* put children at risk of harm.

@DavyJones @futurebird I'm sorry but you are entirely full of shit if you think that "seeing goatse" is in any way comparable to the harm of young people being denied access to information about gender and sexual orientation, anything outside of neurotypical norms that authorities are imposing on them, etc.

@guitargabe @futurebird If phones are distracting from your class, then mandate them be *put away and silent-except-emergency* during class. Don't take away kids' safety networks/lifelines/whatever because you're a mean adult who values your order over their safety.

@guitargabe @futurebird That word you're using. "Moral panic". I don't think it means what you think it means.

@guitargabe @futurebird If you want children not to have means to document abuse, not to have means to call for help, etc. that is a pro-abuse position.

@DavyJones @futurebird Fuck no, fuck off with this pro-child-abuse bs,

@guitargabe @futurebird Um, no, that is absolutely wrong, abusive, and anti-child-safety.

@becomethewaifu @futurebird Yeah, I think the idea of social media that's obviously monitored by a school authority and connected to your school identity is pretty much a non-starter.

Bad in the same way I kept yelling at people during the grat Mastodon Migration that NO you you should not be telling employees (esp journalists!) to get their employers to setup instances and use those.

@futurebird @david_chisnall @kelson All ads should be regulated and mostly banned, and the framework under which it should be done is codifying that paid speech (someone pays you to say something or replay their message) is commercial activity not expression and subject to regulation as such.