subverted or working as intended?

I had a suspicion! Good luck to you both!

It’s going to depend very much on the features that your daughter used in capcut and what she will need. If it’s their “AI” tools and tiktok filters, probably not. If someone knows of foss projects that have those I’d love to hear about them!

If she just needs a video editor that’s free and powerful kdenlive is much simpler than getting into something like davinci resolve (which I would never recommend as a first step unless someone was very passionate about the editing process itself) and will give her the power to do pretty much anything you’d want, outside of proprietary filters or simple one-click tools.

Openshot seems fairly similar to kdenlive, maybe a little simpler. Check it out if that might work for you. I’ve never used it and can’t compare.

Another one I have not used but is again MUCH simpler with fewer features but this may be a plus actually is Vidcutter. It looks like what I might imagine a FOSS version of Windows Movie Maker might be. Just drag clips in, cut them, mash them together, export. Simple, but not anything fancy.

So in order of least experience and desire to learn the software needed to most, I would recommend Vidcutter, then Openshot, then Kdenlive.

In order of the potential quality and variety of projects possible it’s directly inverse.

Unless your daughter knows what ACES and REC 709 means then maybe point her toward Davinci.

It’s not even fundamentally possible with the current LLMs. It’s like saying “Yes, it’s totally possible to do that! We just need to invent something that can do that first!”

There are DOZENS of people that know at least one character from Concord’s name

Yeah I don’t see this being an issue at all. They have to physically have my key? Oh no. Then they already have my key. And I will have disabled the key on my accounts. Unless they what, steal the key from me, take it to the lab, clone it with 11k worth of equipment, then sneak it back into my purse before I notice it’s gone? That’s some nation state espionage stuff and that is not in my threat model.

WR Tax-Writeoff% no OOB

Of course countries do. But usually you call it a “Department of Communications” or something instead of “advertising”.

Won’t somebody think of the shareholders?!

“Israeli Government Advertising Agency” Is this a lost in translation situation? Does it mean something more like “Government Communications”? Because a government having an agency blatantly dedicated to propaganda is… well it’s bold. But it could be me misreading what is meant by advertising.

lol.

Must be nice!

This feels like receiving a failing grade, but still somehow achieving the top score. Yay! We are the least worst.

“dedicating the equivalent of 34,000 full-time engineers to what has become the single largest cybersecurity engineering project in the history of digital technology,”

What does this mean? Are they having it done by 50,000 part timers? Or are they just asking bing chat to churn out security solutions for them?

Fully autonomous self driving cars just aren’t ready. They probably never will be unless you give them a dedicated lane and grade separate it. But we already have that, it’s called Skytrain.

The way forward is a properly funded transit system not a techbro feverdream.

“fax machines are at odds with a world embracing artificial intelligence.” So bring on the fax machines! MORE fax machines!

So it seems like there will be 3 hydrogen producing plants built which should use electrolysis to make the hydrogen, which makes sense in BC since we have so much hydro-electric power. They also mention one plant in North Vancouver which would be a byproduct hydrogen plant which means they are processing petro-chemicals and are siphoning off the hydrogen byproduct. That’s not great.

And if we wanted to electrify our transport fleet in british columbia why not string up catenaries and order some trucks like the ones Scania made for the German test of electric highways? This makes way more sense to me to power a grid that the trucks can use directly rather than using a lot of electricity to produce a mediocre amount of hydrogen to convert back into electricity?

In Europe they have these catenary systems figured out. They’ve been powering high speed rail with them for years. They could certainly handle a few rigs in Canada.

Yes Louis Brennan designed a gyroscopic monorail in the early 1900’s but there’s a reason it didn’t work out. Every car needs its own gyroscope which is a lot of dynamic components that need maintenance. A regular two rail train is much simpler and cheaper to operate. The idea these techbros have that everything is made better with individual pods is pretty wasteful when we already have better and cheaper solutions to virtually every problem they have tried to invent for us. Are we even super concerned about rural folks taking transit? By definition they are a small portion of the population and have the greatest need for personal transport. Where we need transit adoption is in urban areas with large populations who all want to drive their personal 2 tonnes of plastic and steel right into town and park it (for free obviously) in their own little parking space.

A gadgetbahn like this will only serve a limited population and won’t be able to tie into the existing transit network. There might be niche situations where it’s not a terrible idea but it is not a good generalized solution.

I hope there’s enough of a market for non-ai content that it doesn’t come to that. I think we already reached the pushback stage with image generation.

I’ve just started using Searxng… you expect it to die soon? Is it because you expect other search engines to follow suit until there are no search engines anymore, only hallucination machines?