• 3 Posts
  • 21 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 1st, 2023

help-circle


  • The two big risks with jailbreaking are:

    1. You’re running an old operating system that’s missing modern security updates.
    2. Any app you install or website you visit has easier access to your root files, as opposed to the “sandbox” approach for a non jailbroken device.

    I wouldn’t recommend doing anything that requires your banking or personal info. This device should get its own apple account and if you need to pay for something, use a gift card. Only use jailbroken apps from trusted sources - after all this time, most sources that are malicious for older app versions should be easily identifiable with a little research. There is also iSecureOS which can check if you downloaded something bad or have a third party connected to your device.

    The internet itself isn’t a risk, it’s what you do with it. Don’t use your device for general web browsing, don’t use the device outside of your home, don’t use the internet after the device is set up, and use iSecureOS regularly to check the health of your device. As long as it is set up correctly and you’re only using the iPad for one specific project, it should be fine.

    If you have questions about how to jailbreak or where you can safely find apps, I’d recommend checking out https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/
















  • This is actually a big thing I learned when going to school for accounting. Any business that isn’t growing is considered stagnant and will fail without new customers. So the two options are:

    a) change your business somehow to bring in new customers. This can be difficult unless you’re a first mover. If the market is saturated with competitors, you’ll have to steal clients.

    b) move into a new vertical and offer a completely different service. That’s what reddit is doing. Since they’re a fist mover in the API market with existing brand recognition, they’re trying to control the baseline cost for the product.

    The concept of eternal growth is actually a contributor to why we have recessions. Businesses grow to the point that they either have to charge crazy prices or commit fraud to keep up with market expectations - too much pressure to preform in the stock market. Then the bubble pops and companies cut their biggest cost (labor) to try and stay afloat.



  • Slightly unrelated, but I was just talking with a friend about how we’re going to have similar issues with young artists trying to copy ai. As is, many young artists will turn to cartoons instead of real life when starting out. Their work is a bastardization of a bastardization, with serious flaws in anatomy, gravity, light, and depth. They go on to call those mistakes their “style” and point to other artists making those same mistakes to normalize them. Since “style” isn’t something they think they need to improve on, they may become good artists overall while having severe, glaring holes in their skillet that any professional can see. You can sometimes even tell when someone started out because “90s anime” or “10s cartoon network” made specific stylistic choices that changed over time.

    So I think ai is going to cause similar problems. Newbies will copy what looks pretty to the untrained eye and learn an ai based style. Then when they become more popular they’ll be fed into ai as reference material and perpetuate the problem. Even worse is actual professionals may turn to ai instead of real life references or a desk mannequin. Then their skills may degrade because they rely too much on improper tools. (I’ve already seen this becoming an issue with photoshopped reference photos.)

    Anyways, that’s my $0.02