If being (more broadly) useful for self-defense would be a desirable factor in making this selection, I add my vote for Judo or Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Both of those give the practitioner a lot more options for controlling an attacker without hurting them too much, compared to Karate/TKD. Also vastly less chance of getting a head injury while training or competing.
I personally enjoy a lot of videogames that feature AI, especially roguelikes. I don’t think there’s any shame in using an automatic spell-checker. Autotune has helped make music better (and worse, any tool can be misused). Automatic subtitles, while not the most reliable, have allowed a lot of video media that otherwise would never have been captioned to become accessible to the hearing-impaired.
It sounds like you and OP are talking about different things. Neither Autotune nor automatic captions have anything to do with Generative AI.
Edit: * as far as I am aware. Autotune at least was around way before Gen AI. Automated captions too, but perhaps AI has improved those. A quick search wouldn’t tell me if any of the AI subtitling tools actually use Generative AI or some other kind of AI.
I’m inclined to think that your IP provides powerful cross-reference potential. Imagine someone either buys the data off of all data brokers out there or a law enforcement agency obtains similar kind of data through warrants, etc. They can cross-reference IPs and time-stamps and determine, that you, Joe Blow, age 35, who works at X, volunteers at Y, and lives at 123 main street, browse for some kind of very embarrassing porn every night. It’s a drastic example to illustrate the idea, but I don’t think it’s far-fetched.
This could be taken further by imagining a wider net: say, a large portion of people who have donated to this political candidate or who work for this company browse for that same embarrassing porn every night.
I’m thinking birds-eye view of potential privacy violations here.
You definitely have a good point!
In general, it seems like there’s a major trend in design of form beating the heck out of function. It looks pretty! Who cares if you can actually use it or not?
If you’re using a browser and follow a direct link to a Lemmy post or comment in another instance, the link takes you to that other instance where you don’t have an account.
If you wish to interact with that thread by commenting, voting, etc., one easy way I’ve found to get to my local instance’s copy of that thread is to copy the URL of the other instance’s thread and search it using your own instance’s search menu. This will usually bring up the local copy of that thread as one of the top results. You can then interact with that thread through your instance with your existing account.
Links to communities have a mechanism that automatically translates the link to the local copy, which is to add an exclamation mark in front of the community address and then select the correct community in the inline search that comes up, which produces a link like this: !asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Unfortunately, I don’t believe that kind of mechanism exists for posts (threads) or comments yet, but perhaps it’s something that the developers will consider in the future.