They’d still do this even if they had the opportunity to not do it.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again-- the only thing AI is good at is defrauding others. It’s literally what it is trained to do.

It probably depends on what state or country you live in. Mine was also boring and mostly factual.

Speaking anecdotally based on my conversations with SO who is a native Japanese speaker and very glued into internet culture. She’s more liberal than most though.

It’s not entirely true that AI is more popular in Japan. In fact, many creatives feel that the practice is in violation of Japan’s much more strict copyright policies (compared to the US) and are seeking government action (which, so far, they are waffling back and forward on based on the week to week dynamics with the US. Weeks where the US footguns itself, they humor it again.) So in some respects, AI is a direct threat to the only power that modern Japan has in the global economy: soft power and intellectual property. They aren’t the same Japan as the 80s, even cars aren’t doing as well as they used to.

That being said, Japanese cultural dynamics are such that people are much more willing to “put up” with things instead of resistance. This creates the appearance of what people think is complete acceptance, but it’s generally more complicated than that socially speaking. It’s more a complacency to fall in line with how their employers or how their government feels about AI.

Government action toward AI is basically inexistent in most parts of the world right now, but I understand that a big part of this is US capitulation since the entire US economy is propped up by AI hype. Japan, much like Europe in the Ukraine situation, is unfortunately very dependent on the United States now for Oil due to the Strait of Hormuz closure and are not yet willing to do provocative action against US companies who are in definite blatant infringement of Japanese copyright laws. This has ruffled feathers of some activist politicians, but unfortunately Japan is very much losing it’s own battle to the far right atm due to xenophobic spread of misinformation from AI generated anti foreigner rhetoric.

That’s my understanding of the situation. And again, this is second hand and purely anecdotal discussion, but I think it’s a bit more complicated than acceptance of generative AI and more a commentary on how acceptance works in Japan in the first place.

No volumes mounted and yes, it’s using the podman backend. Just double checked it wasn’t using the docker one.

OK now this would make some sense but would definitely be a bit of a show stopper for me. I’ll give it a try though.

Edit: Unfortunately this didn’t solve the issue. I thought it did for a minute, but it was the browser cache I think auto-filling the correct result.

I think I have uids set up, but I’m not positive they’re set up correctly.

Here’s an example of /etc/subuid for example, with it a bit anonymised for my specific user setup:

core:524288:65536
syncthing:589824:65536
userA:655360:65536
userB:720896:65536
userC:786432:65536

Syncthing in this case isn’t running any podman containers, all sharing is done bare-metal. userA is working, but userB and userC do look like they’re configured “correctly” at first glance. podman system info seems to be outputting the results above

  idMappings:
    gidmap:
    - container_id: 0
      host_id: 1101
      size: 1
    - container_id: 1
      host_id: 786432
      size: 65536
    uidmap:
    - container_id: 0
      host_id: 1101
      size: 1
    - container_id: 1
      host_id: 786432
      size: 65536

Note: The user in question here is uid 1101, another new user I created for testing purposes.

I mean, I might be wrong, but this only changes the mapping right? In the case that user broke containment, I would assume that they would have the user id of the user that’s running the process?

Granted this is all in theory so I’m not sure exactly – that might be a perfectly reasonable way to do it.

As far as I understand, it should as it’s embedded inside the actual image file and not mounted.

I’m having other strange behaviour on non-1000 uid accounts. For example, running docker.io/library/httpd using the podman examples page on an account that isn’t userid 1000 will create an issue where it complains that libgcc_0 isn’t installed. This works flawlessly on the uid 1000 user.

It does make me think that something needs to be configured for non-uid 1000 users on podman. This is not replicable on arch linux on my raspberry pi, fwiw.

Uh oh, looks like someone’s AI company is running out of money and needs people back on Twitter. 😭

Rich kids. The worst type as they’re also the least likely to get meaningfully punished.