You shouldn't just automatically trust it, but it allows you to examine what its doing and make your own informed decision about whether or not you can trust it. If you discover your data is being collected in an open source project you can, at the least, make an informed decision and give consent to it.
And while everyone won't be able to understand what they're looking at, the community as a whole would benefit from people looking at it an announcing/discussing problematic things they see in the code base.
If an open source project is syphoning data, someone's going to see it and talk about it.
If a closed project is doing it, it's harder / more complicated for that act to be discovered.
But how can I trust “the community”? I don’t know them. I don’t know their capabilities, nor do I have any say in what they check: whether it’s complete, or accurate; whether the software has been compromised since the last time the community checked; or whether they did the checking they said at all.
and on Github too, or some other public build mechanism. The thing of it is, is that if it's open source, but the binaries are built privately, there's no guarantee that the binary actually came from the source that's been presented.
The same thing happened to me recently! I had the walk indicator lit, crossing in a cross walk, someone comes speeding up to me and stopped and yelled at me to "get my ass out of the road." Someone else drove up on the sidewalk and almost hit me -- they were on their phone when it happened. People are nuts.
The open source community can be wild sometimes. Back when I was still maintainer and lead dev for Gaim (not Pidgin), I would occasionally get downright hateful people e-mailing me for not implementing whatever feature they thought needed to be implemented, or not getting it implemented quickly enough.
One guy managed to get ahold of my cell phone number somehow and called me at 4am to discuss "his ideas" with me for the project. I ended up having to change my number.
Thankfully 95% of the people I interacted with in the community were great and were great, but that other 5% was rough.
Old coworker of mine was/is(?) secretly the primary contributor to a a major console emulator. He revealed it to me only after working together for about 4 years.
He keeps it incognito because the vitriol his alias receives from impassioned members of the community makes him afraid of getting doxxed. He showed me some of them. I don't blame him.
Oh, cool, I used to run something very similar called steamwatch.com, back before they allowed you to have watch lists. It would monitor prices, let you know about sales, and I would occasionally run game give away raffles for free with whatever ad revenue I collected. It only ever made maybe $100 over its entire run. This would've been over 10 years ago though so I doubt mine and yours ever coexisted.
Not to mention, with a car you get to decide your own schedule. If I want to take the train where I am, I have to be there at 4:30am or... well, that's it. That's the only time.
I live in Europe and commute by train. I need to order tickets 10 days ahead to get the cheapest price, and they're non-refundable as well as non-changeable.
That means I have fixed times, there is no flexibility if I wish to leave earlier or need to stay longer. If I do, I lose the initial charge plus a new 3 times more expensive ticket.
Ticket prices also varies depending on time, which means I have to leave really early and come back 13.5 hours later. And I'm exhausted.
1 out of 8 trains are cancelled or have severe delays, passengers are often rude or are being annoying in someway that makes it difficult to relax.
Trains are not the blessing you think they are.
Edit: Forgot to mention that I am lucky to live 10min away from the station. If I would live where I would like, it would mean 30-40min.
Trains in Europe are not magical and the best they could ever be.
They could be a lot better in a lot of ways. In Europe there is still a huge investment in car infrastructure. And while land use wasnt as bad as in the US its still far from optimal.
I do dislike the selling of these specific tickets. I much prefer a system where you can just take the train.
When I used the ICE in Germany I would never get a reservation, just a general ticket. So if I missed one it didnt matter.
Where I live the national railway carrier lets you refund or exchange your tickets and seat reservations freely up until 15 minutes before the departure time, most ticket types are valid for a day (so you don’t have to buy one for a specific connection) and the prices are, I believe, more or less fixed. The delays are inevitable I guess in most larger networks.
I don’t take the train that often, but my experience is generally pretty good, especially as I’m starting to hate driving.
You have options that would give you more flexibility on travel times you simply value the lower cost over the convenience. That’s not a train problem that’s a choice you have made.
> Poor argument for underfunded and purposefully stymied train development in the early to mid 20th century.
If I had a working time machine, plus a magic want to make people do what I want, that might be a good argument. I don't have either, though. The world (or at least country) we live in didn't do that, and the mid-20th century was quite a while ago. Now what? Even if funding for rail magically cranked up today, we won't have ride-able lines for a decade, at best. Meanwhile, I've got places to go tomorrow, and rail isn't a realistic option.
> Just look to Europe for what a large swath of the US could have if it invested in train infrastructure.
Out in my part of the country, we don't have anything like Europe's population density. Your "could have had" would be very uneconomical out here.
> Train good, car bad.
Spare us the thought-terminating cliches, especially when they're wrong. Your post isn't convincing, but this parting shot doesn't make it any better. It just makes you sound like you're a propagandist.
Sure, we do, but taking the train into copenhagen for work is a far better option for most here. Thing is, when you invest in rails instead of parking, you change the math more than "europe has cars and highways" could describe.
I remember being maybe 13 years old or so and asking my parents for Turbo Pascal for Christmas haha. I think it was Turbo Pascal 3? I eventually upgraded to the nicer one with the windowed system. Good times!
This is one of those things where op needs to do something similar to what I think midjourney is doing and do prompt optimization.
They need to do some research into what additional prompt cues they can add for the user automatically to bring the user's prompt quality up.
They can append these to the prompt behind the scenes or provide a second text input of the additional prompt data to allow the user to modify that separately from their initial prompt input.
It might even help the user better understand how styling works with prompts.
You're going to get sued in the US if you try to market this thing and require voice input. This is potentially a huge accessibility issue.
You've essentially eliminated (most) people who are deaf and people with speech issues from being able to use your product.
It's a neat idea and the design looks like it could be nice but I can't really get past the first page because I cannot use it (no mic attached to this device and I wouldn't want to grant you permission to it anyway.)
Did you click the create button? It takes you to a page where it specifically mentions stable diffusion and allows you to create your own "vr image" with a prompt.
And while everyone won't be able to understand what they're looking at, the community as a whole would benefit from people looking at it an announcing/discussing problematic things they see in the code base.
If an open source project is syphoning data, someone's going to see it and talk about it.
If a closed project is doing it, it's harder / more complicated for that act to be discovered.