I’m happy with outgroup x being able to develop their own AIs, because that means I’m able to develop AIs too.
I’m happy with outgroup x being able to develop their own AIs, because that means I’m able to develop AIs too.
Staggeringly naive, tbh. Your profession will be made obsolete as a self-sustaining for-profit enterprise either way. The difference is that the tooling can either be owned exclusively by megacorp, or it can be owned by people.
It’s better to be a bard relying on the charity and small custom of others than a literal sharecropper fueling Universal’s proprietary model for next to nothing. At least in the former case you’re free.
When the remux is 30gb and the 1080 encode is 23gb ✈️🏢🏢
Then said tools were made a lot simpler with a lot less control over them
Which needs to be reversed if we’re to remain free in Western democracies. Access to and control of computing - general purpose computing in particular - is practically a civil liberty now. I look at legislators in my own country, and I’d wager 50% of them don’t understand this, 40% kind of grasp the problems but are apathetic, and 10% are on the enemies’ payrolls.
Advertisers working in your native language cannot hijack your attention when foreign language videos are running. Subtitling facilitates that, and encourages site activity that differs from consumption, such as broadening one’s horizons and being inquisitive about the real world.
2023 turned web2 platforms into the Thing, and turned us into MacReady.
(Instagram: I was always the Thing! blargghhhgalzklgrkffz)
The cost of paper and plastic recycling is passed on with the co-operation of government. Their interests are aligned with those of industry. The cost is handballed (‘externalized’ if you want the slime term) first to individuals and ultimately to the environment. With moral hazards like this I wouldn’t expect substantial change to be driven by authorities. It’s going to take technological breakthroughs.
In today’s screencap: failure to recognize the weapon being deployed against your enemy can easily be deployed against you.
A Boring Dystopia, or the Firefox or Technology communities (any)
My question is: what’s the point of sharing folders in a p2p program and denying access to these folders?
I’ve asked many of them, including one who wanted not only a vinyl for a vinyl but one with an equivalent number of tracks. They never answer me, because they never arrived at their absurd position using reason to begin with. They fundamentally misunderstand p2p filesharing, in that they believe it’s a zero-sum game.
Your best attack: polite annoyance. Ping them when you see them. Hi x. I want to download from you. My files are available - Soulseek is for sharing. Please give me access, even if it’s temporary/capped transfer. It would be great to see more people use private chat to wear them down and call out poor behavior. Even if they block you, that’s still a bit of overhead they’re having to contend with.
Your best defense: modeling the behavior you want to see. Traders are still very much a minority. Keep online over the long term, keep your shares available, and they’ll stay that way.
Yo OP, this isn’t piracy related
The Nazi bar idea is bullshit.
Would it not have been smarter to subtly alter them, in order to not trigger database rollbacks? Plenty of ways to ruin intelligibility with minor changes.
I haven’t been able to make an encode (SVT-AV1) from source that doesn’t obliterate the grain and texture. The output is watchable but everything looks plastic. There is a parameter for grain but I found it fairly crude.
I’m convinced Adobe’s acquisition activity is driven primarily by elimination of alternatives to the SaaS subscription model, as opposed to revenue growth. Adobe is okay with viable competition, but they are not okay with viable competition that offers an alternate payment and delivery model that doesn’t view the customer as an open wallet. That’s when the polonium tea comes out, because letting that run spells industry exodus.
It makes me wonder what the US DOJ/FTC/relevant regulator thinks. Perhaps they don’t care at all because (unlike Adobe’s userbase) we realize this sector is as un-vital as it gets. The Stockholm syndrome on display is sad nevertheless.
My card issuer shouldn’t get to help itself to the profiling data, and the service shouldn’t get to lose my info in the data breach.
Id argue it’s worth maintaining a long term record of the site’s censorship activity, accessible on the open web.
Do all your posts on that account get shadow-banned OP, or does it happen per-sub?
This is how you effectively combat the interests trying to kill libraries, filesharing and the public commons in general. Continue normalizing the activity, as it makes law designed to attack it all the more odious and unworkable. The bad guys lose when cultural attitudes rally around free information exchange. The key to that is being public and vocal like the dev.
You need to enable JavaScript to use Direct File.
On the plus side, UBO only had to block one script (on the login page at least).
The purpose of the piece is to smear the notion of individual control and development of AI tools. It’s known as ‘running propaganda’.