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ℹ️ "Paying through the nose":

█ paying much more than it is really worth to a person (as example. people forced to give a % of all earnings to government)

I think it's a lot like physically (my variation in picture with slightly different meaning);
█ like an animal attached by the nose and lead / heavily taxed for others to live off... by those who are not interested in leading properly and more interested in owning people / treating them like #animals!)

#Phrases #Money #Usury #Capitalism #Slavery

#Jobs #jobsearch #fedijobs
I thought these jobs looked nice and simple as info pages showing roles:

ℹ️ Creative Writer (YouTube etc)
https://boards.greenhouse.io/mrbeastyoutube/jobs/4247184004

ℹ️ And other jobs here for those looking as it looks more fun

https://www.mrbeastjobs.com/

Seems more more fun than the usual 'professional' government type of extension and paying through the nose just live quite unhappy...

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About the Role

Writers are key to bringing big ideas to life. They are internet savants, storytellers, scientists, and conduits for all things trending. While they are creatively inspired by their surroundings, they must also have a unique ability to understand that video virality is purposeful.

Our ideal candidate for this role will have a duality to their personality. They will be limitless in idea generation and also need to be able to work within our proven video formats. This position will have a huge learning curve, it is one of the hardest roles to fulfil at our company.

If the candidate wants to exceed our expectations, they will study our data analytics for retention. Ultimately learning what makes a good video will help our creative team develop even more successful formats to debut on the main channel.

What you’ll be doing:

Research trends and tactics for retention against YouTube algorithm
Write prop lists, challenges, punishments, and prizes for videos that will be submitted to Head of Writing for approval
Work with on site teams day to day to facilitate that the creative vision is met during production decisions, this will include but will not be limited to: purchase decisions, sourcing materials, and scouting film locations
Take meeting notes, organize and track all creative documents in production team drive

What makes you a fit:

Previous experience in YouTube preferred
Knowledge of influencers/creators and current video trends- or willingness to learn this quickly
Humility- you will need to have a willingness to learn and grow. We need to be able to mold and teach you
Willingness to be a part of team- this role requires strong communication skills and the ability to change directions quickly

A Place to Call Home

We are based in Greenville, North Carolina, widely recognized as the cultural, educational, economic, and medical hub of Eastern North Carolina. Greenville is a university-medical community, home to East Carolina University and Vidant Medical Center, as well as a vibrant Uptown Greenville District with a diverse art, music, and food scene featuring an increasing number of unique, locally-owned businesses and restaurants.

Our excellent affordability, geographic location, and natural resources, combined with cultural, economic, educational, and medical amenities make Greenville-Pitt County a preferred community to call home.
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401k Plan with Safe Harbor company-matching
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Company-provided technology package
Relocation for those coming in from outside the area including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days

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Saved my eyesight with low contrast on monitor for years...

👀 Low contrast on monitor for years now... (same on mobiles)

I have my screen on 0 brightness and 10 contrast (that;s 10 from 100!) which I believe is also the screen being too high for 10 still visible but without squint or problem used for years and I even feel the different at 15 or 20 'if I really need to see something' lol...

My media page is still good as a result of saving my eyes

https://qoto.org/@freeschool

(and what would I know - I wouldn't see the difference anyway 😃

/media

"Some #JetBrains customers feel strongly about AI Assistant and really don't want the plugin to be present in their JetBrains applications at all"

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Full text here from site
No pics on page, so no need go elsewhere:

JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry

Some devs just don't want anything to do with neural-network code serfs

Thomas Claburn, Thu 1 Feb 2024 // 20:24 UTC

JetBrains introduced an AI assistant in December to help programmers write code. Now the biz is trying to figure out how to allow its customers to get rid of it.

"JetBrains AI Assistant is similar to GitHub Copilot, but it’s deeply integrated into JetBrains development environments (IDEs), code editors, and other products," the software development tool maker, based in the Czech Republic, said at the time.

While neural-network-powered services have been widely hyped, they come with baggage – concerns about the security, legal risk, privacy, and ethics of large language models remain largely unresolved.

Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI have opted to offer indemnify customers under certain conditions to reassure those worried about potential legal claims arising from generative AI.

But not every outfit offering AI services can make this bet and in some cases there's a cost. For example, Zoom last August had to clarify that it would not use people's chats and calls for AI training despite a change to its terms of service that allowed that.

Some JetBrains customers feel strongly about AI Assistant and really don't want the plugin to be present in their JetBrains applications at all, whether that's due to corporate policies that are incompatible with AI Assistant or other concerns. But because the plugin code has been "deeply integrated," removal has proven complicated.

More than dozen threads on JetBrains' YouTrack issue board have been posted seeking a way to delete, uninstall, or otherwise excise the AI Assistant plugin since it debuted.

A thread titled "Provide the possibility to remove a plugin completely from the system" makes the case for why one might not wish to have this plugin baked into the company's developer tools, such as the PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA, and other applications.

oftware developers posting to the support forum raise a number of concerns, calling the plugin "bloatware," a risk to corporate intellectual property, a security issue, an annoyance, and a breach of trust.

"I just want to make it clear that I cannot use this product at the company I work for because security will not allow for a by-default AI implementation to be a part of the product," wrote an individual posting under the name Rusty Deaton.

Another developer posting under the name Marcus Grenängen wrote, "This is unacceptable. It should not bundle something by default that can send off the entire code base to God knows where. It's a real bad move JetBrains and I will not renew any subscriptions after this. It's a breach of trust that can't be undone."
'Dubious'

Yet another developer posting under the name Alan Burlison opined, "The fact that this service is AI based and that you don't know the provenance of the code it provides to you is a huge issue on its own, due to the dubious licensing/IP/legal situation it creates. But the biggest issue is not because it's AI, it's because it is leaking the user's company's IP to who knows where, potentially to direct competitors."

In a statement to The Register, Matt Ellis, developer advocate at JetBrains, tried to address misapprehensions and to reassure to those alarmed by AI Assistant's persistence.

"Although the AI Assistant plugin is bundled, and the plugin itself is enabled, there is no AI functionality enabled by default, and no data is sent off-machine without your consent," said Ellis, echoing similar replies posted to some of the discussion threads. "You have to log in, accept the data policies and either purchase a subscription or start a trial."

Quotes:
- "There is no AI functionality enabled by default, and no data is sent off-machine without your consent"

- "Any data sent to the AI service is not used for training. We also have ML support for ranking and completion, and this is provided by on-device models and no data is sent off device."

Ellis said JetBrains has a lot of customers who are happy with the bundled plugin and so the biz is looking into how its AI helper can be both bundled and fully removable.

- "The problem with removing a bundled plugin is that it can break application signatures and cause problems with updates," explained Ellis.

Asked what portion of JetBrains' customers have objected to AI Assistant, a spokesperson said, "We can't say for sure how well these opinions represent the position of all of our customers. We understand the strength of feeling, and we're listening to feedback from all parts of our community, including the many happy individuals and enterprises that are using the AI Assistant." ®

Source (without spaces):
the register .com/2024/02/01/jetbrains_unremovable_ai_assistant/

@AlexanderKingsbury @anubis2814 Not to dig this up, just looking through posts... so a small point that governments do give away public money (your taxes) in incredible amounts, often (they don't ask you for that or make it even that public).

For Tech, for pretty much any industry self-serving extension, to "progress" or pump things up as "incentive to progress"... Amazon-type "industry-leading" companies do get your money in fairly direct ways to do that or be lead / fed into doing what Government wants (even by making things cheaper). Kinda sponsored to do this and that bidding, giving 'grants', 'tax breaks' etc... so while I'll not have one bit of evidence to hand over apart from the dictionary term 'subsidiary', 'subsidy', 'grants' and bank-like 'bale-outs'... etc I think it's regularly more of the same than not it is important to see government is a head company (if you grant me that) and actually everyone under is what it tries to help kick-start with our money(!) *as long as* they help government get more back in terms of taxable income for itself in long run (profiting from us)... and Gov keep almost whatever they wants as profit, barely keeping the rest of people alive.

So without inflaming here, I do see practically and 'from what scandals I've heard that 10 must have been right from 500' or like 1 from 5 like Post Office / #postoffice scandal (being latest and apologised for) that indeed Amazon etc is getting your money (our money) and so zero can't be true (and forgiven for being close to that... or feel-good factor like using something else from a main pipe, Firefox instead of Chrome etc... because it doesn't serve me to put another bullet in a dead body lol but yeah under 1 and the same, so circulation of it all directly and indirectly, through cunning ways or re-labelling, shadowing things, otherwise, is basically us paying for it all- half we don't know about probably other than they are definitely scheming a lot!

Agree it does work somewhat to vote with money even in increasingly monopolised sources... All cinema from 4-6 companies, all supermarkets from x number of sources etc
and perhaps "they get less" from you rather than "zero"... forgive me but I know it's not the fault of people they us / abuse things increasingly well and without asking once paid pretty much blindly! (I was thinking of asking for a receipt for where all my money has gone as it's way to generalised and able to be covered up... like how much % exactly today it went to military or which companies)... food for thought in itself to try track or get ownership of what we are or are not paying for. Thanks for reading.

@AlexanderKingsbury Agree - but also because they don't have much choice now sometimes... which is the main loss in culture or quality.

The end cost is 'affordable' only artificially in the end user sense... not the whole resource-aggression chain needed to get it there that seems normalised.

Right from capturing the energy, metals, water or whatever - encouraging getting more of that to people just to sit there and consume is already for me proven by existing stuff. (Towns complaining they don't have enough water next to Google plants for example as their Town owners sold them out for data centre money).

And then not really being healthy practice to "leave it to someone else" or 'buy it cheap' or even 'do it quick'. We have seen how wars created by these things sold basically to us as participation.. drones I'm sure are nice but fun what will be around us a lot more and then not so fun. (and not even trying to drag #war in here but seems uncaring world is more about those things as a pattern and reflection of how people think or don't think about at all).

Money more than sense in the end doesn't make sense in the end... and I wouldn't mind if it wasn't getting towards blind usage or doing things faster at diminishing levels of happiness.
People repeating "because I have no time" (or will to study) but will use things blind...

Other things (proven for me) is using cameras without adjusting recognition settings / not caring about aggressive app requirements / BigTech stuff (again without extremism that it's all horrible) and generally average person opening self up with their data up to mainly proven US aggression in well, EVERYTHING :)

But fair point for the average person who doesn't care CHEEEAP! CHEEEAP!
and basically as everything even physical products - they kinda aren't even real any more or diluted down eventually meaning the digital form like the data won't be too real / clear or clean either (it will be like the news and like nothing is happening over in X country or some algorithm setting chosen like YouTube - kinda one CEO person can change a lot which is what power AI gives them more than us).

Not a rant, just too many things, yes 'made' affordable BUT decision makers could make anything affordable when using all our data or money or taxes but their don't have will to solve things, they *choose* for the fakery / manipulation / centralising power).

That's ultimately what is magnified here.

Artificial Intelligence... is it me or doesn't 'Artificial' in it's name give away what it is?

Like:
artificial flavouring
artificial additives
artificial people
artificial flowers
artificial insemination
artificial info (from computer
and who knows who behind it)
artificial screen
artificial as in aesthetics of maybe info we could get some other way more direct

At least partly in each sense of these words
where "artificial" is not usually wanted and often faked
on top as another layer, manipulated by other people / BigBiz + Governments mostly

#AI #Artificial #Intelligence #GaryAckerman #FreeSchool
#Audio #Podcast #Fediverse #Freedom #Tech #Technology #Capitalism

@wfryer Hi, did you consider uploading audio here on Fediverse?

Let's say you had your own server even with no limits - would you do it? Or just for personal reasons prefer Google YouTube?)

A bit loaded but it's ok to say "I prefer Google and promote Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, PocketCasts, etc.)

So quite a simple one - if in theory you had server etc even someone set it up for you- would you care enough to try Fediverse first or also?