PonyOfWar

Looks like it's this.

Used Spotify until recently, but cancelled my premium subscription after the recent price hike as well as the increasingly prevalent AI content. I'm now trying to build a local library of mp3 files. Not sure if I won't resubscribe to Spotify at some point though, as I find music dicovery quite difficult without it.

Yes, I did. Did my Bachelor's and Master's in computer science in media. Studying is almost free in my country and having a relevant degree gives you much better job opportunities. So there's no real reason not to do it, unless you specifically want some non-academic job. And even then, spending a few years at college is a pretty good time and a valuable experience.

I don't know about him specifically, but I'd say it's a shift in opinion that many of us went through. 2008 was a very different world. Amazon wasn't quite the evil empire it is today. It was one of the only usable online shops, leagues ahead of almost everything else available.

I support it and think it could work. It would make people more happy and free, while removing a lot of unnecessary and expensive bureaucracy from our current welfare system.

My company has 2 CEOs. One of them doesn't ever really talk about AI. The other one is personally obsessed with the topic. His picture on Teams is AI generated and every other day, he posts some random AI tutorial or news into work channels. His client presentations are mostly written by ChatGPT. But luckily, nothing is being forced on us developers. The company is very hands-off in general (some may say disorganized) and we can pretty much use any tools and methods we choose, as long as we deliver good results. I personally use AI only occassionally, mostly for quick prototyping in languages and frameworks I'm unfamiliar with. None of the other devs are very enthusiastic about AI either.

Browsing various art platforms, when I see a user where I'm not entirely sure if their art is AI (usually I think I can tell immediately though), I check how old their profile is. If it's older than 2024, I check how their art from before that year looks. If there hasn't been a sudden and radical shift in style and skill, I consider the art human-made. Otherwise, likely AI.

That method might be a tad unfair to artists who are only starting out now, but I don't know of any better way.

A phone that's off is off. No power supplied to the components, so it can't record anything. It would be trivially easy to find out if it were otherwise, not to mention your battery would get drained.

The phone somehow "seeing through objects" is just straight up fiction. How is that supposed to work?

I'm pretty sure most people with a bit of education could name philosophers like Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Marx, Nietzsche and Kant. And especially in case of political philosophers like Marx, people sure seem to have paid attention to him.

I'm 32, still got a box of marzipan chocolate from my mom for St Nicholas day today.

Elementary school I think. Don't remember the specific instance, but I used to get into fights with another kid in my class.

It would be more like 3 years though, as he's 15 right now. Maybe reducing the money for now and paying the rest into a fund to give OP's brother once he turns 18 might be a solution. The parents should still be able to provide for their son, but no reason to let them save up any money.