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- Comment on WordPress bans WP Engine from sponsoring user groups • The Register 5 weeks ago:
PatchLess
- Comment on Sony is taking Concord offline on September 6th after disastrous launch 2 months ago:
While it sucks that people who enjoy the game will lose access, it’s good that they are issuing refunds rather than forcing people to take them to court to get their money back.
- Comment on Alternative YouTube clients having issues loading videos 4 months ago:
Invidious still seems to work for VODs provided the instance doesn’t get restricted. Livestreams have been broken for ages though.
- Comment on Australia to build Top Secret cloud in AWS for defence users 4 months ago:
I don’t really see the advantage here besides orchestration tools unless the top secret cloud machines can still share it’s resources with public cloud to recoup costs?
- Comment on Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App 4 months ago:
Could it be a fear of a software patent relating to the design? Back in the day Apple had one for swipe to unlock that prompted Android to use different patterns.
- Comment on Listen to the AI-Generated Ripoff Songs That Got Udio and Suno Sued 4 months ago:
I have really mixed feelings about this. My stance is that I don’t you should need permission to train on somebody else’s work since that is far too restrictive on what people can do with the music (or anything else) they paid for. This assumes it was obtained fairly: buying the tracks of iTunes or similar and not torrenting them or dumping the library from a streaming service. Of course, this can change if a song it taken down from stores (you can’t buy it) or the price is so high that a normal person buying a small amount of songs could not afford them (say 50 USD a track). Same goes for non-commercial remixing and distribution. This is why I thinking judging these models and services on output is fairer: as long as you don’t reproduce the work you trained on I think that should be fine. Now this needs some exceptions: producing a summary, parody, heavily-changed version/sample (of these, I think this is the only one that is not protected already despite widespread use in music already).
So putting this all together: the AIs mentioned seem to have re-produced partial copies of some of their training data, but it required fairly tortured prompts (I think some even provided lyrics in the prompt to get there) to do so since there are protections in place to prevent 1:1 reproductions; in my experience Suno rejects requests that involve artist names and one of the examples puts spaces between the letters of “Mariah”. But the AIs did do it. I’m not sure what to do with this. There have been lawsuits over samples and melodies so this is at least even handed Human vs AI wise. I’ve seen some pretty egregious copies of melodies too outside remixed and bootlegs to so these protections aren’t useless. I don’t know if maybe more work can be done to essentially Content ID AI output first to try and reduce this in the future? That said, if you wanted to just avoid paying for a song there are much easier ways to do it than getting a commercial AI service to make a poor quality replica. The lawsuit has some merit in that the AI produced replicas it shouldn’t have, but much of this wreaks of the kind of overreach that drives people to torrents in the first place.
- Comment on Dell Data Breach 6 months ago:
If sellers can prove that they never touch a customers home address they’re less exposed to data breaches which might look good on for insurance companies.
Honestly, this sounds it something a shipping company could provide. When you go to use Paypal for example, you get redirected to their site, put in your details and they complete the transaction without the seller knowing your financial data. The same could be done with shipping.
- Comment on Dell Data Breach 6 months ago:
My preference would be for WHOIS data to be private unless the owner wants to reveal who they are. I do think it makes sense to require the owner to provide that information to the registrar so it can be obtained by the courts if needed.
- Comment on Dell Data Breach 6 months ago:
I wish we had something like temporary/alias e-mail addresses for physical addresses. So you go to ship something, you provide a shipping alias which the shipping company then derives the true address from and ships the item. The moment the true address is revealed, the alias expires and can no longer be used. This way only the shipping company gets to know your real address and that is ideally discarded once the order has been completed. So forward shipping without the extra step.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
OOTL what’s the risk of Lethal Company? The cray amounts of mods that people pull down or something else?
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 7 months ago:
That’s not really fair on Discord. The article mentions they received an injunction to remove the content so they were forced to do this. Anybody in the same jurisdiction would have to do the same:
“Discord responds to and complies with all legal and valid Digital Millennium Copyright Act requests. In this instance, there was also a court ordered injunction for the takedown of these materials, and we took action in a manner consistent with the court order,” reads part of a statement from Discord director of product communications Kellyn Slone to The Verge.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 7 months ago:
It does have to do with being a walled platform though. You as the Discord server owner have zero control over whether or not you are taken down. If this was Lemmy or a Discourse server (to go with something a little closer to walled garden) that they ran, the hosting provider or a court would have to take them down. Even then the hosting provider wouldn’t be a huge deal since you could just restore backup to a new one Pirate Bay style. Hell, depending on whether or not the devs are anonymous (probably not if they used Discord), they could just move the server to a new jurisdiction that doesn’t care. The IW4 mod for MW2 2009 was forked and the moved to Tor when Activision came running for them so this isn’t even unprecedented.
- Comment on Lego Fortnite gets driveable, customisable vehicles in Mechanical Mayhem update 7 months ago:
I haven’t played that much, but it’s essentially survival sandbox in a Lego world. The game has a village mechanic where you do tasks to level up your village and build housing/beds for people who show up similar to Terraria. The game feels like it’s focused around building Lego-style towns with a survival element. The game has prefabs you can buy and put together in the game, but you can also build them yourself without buying them (I think).
The thing I’ve been impressed by is most emotes and characters from Battle Royal carry over into Lego counterparts.
All this said, Minecraft remains king. Fortnite Lego feels very much locked down and I have fears over what happens if Epic lose interest in it. I would be very cautious to invest time in it like you would a Minecraft or Terraria world.
- Comment on Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up 8 months ago:
Good! You wanna automate away a human task, sure! But if your automation screws up you don’t get to hide behind it. You still chose to use the automation in the first place.
Hell, I’ve heard ISPs here work around the rep on the phone overpromising by literally having the rep transfer to an automated system that reads the agreement and then has the customer agree to that with an explicit note saying that everything said before is irrelevant, then once done, transfer back to the rep.
- Comment on Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance 9 months ago:
Damn! Using .af for a LGBT+ site is insane! The country could have redirected the domain to their own servers and started learning the personal details of those on the site who I imagine wouldn’t be terribly thrilled having an anti-LGBT+ government learn their personal information (namely information not displayed publicly). Specifically, they could put their own servers in front of the domain so they can decrypt it, then forward the traffic on to the legitimate servers, allowing them to get login information and any other data which the user sends or receives.
- Comment on Work inside the machine of the music industry: How pre-saves and algorithmic marketing turn musicians into influencers 9 months ago:
We’re going to hold this song back from you and ask for a bunch of your details so you can listen to it once we’ve generated some extra hype. Pretty cool huh?!
- Comment on Valve seeing increasing bug reports due to Steam Snap - other methods recommended 10 months ago:
I could’ve sworn there was backlash to the idea of using Snap as a workaround for Canonical removing 32-bit libraries (the Snap being proposed by Canonical) for exactly these types of concerns…
- Comment on Steam will now accept "the vast majority" of games using "AI" generation, but only with disclosures 10 months ago:
Not all content on Steam has DRM either so at worst you need an account and the client initially.
- Comment on Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI 10 months ago:
The article seems to indicate they are using to reduce the amount of work that have to do in writing prompts, but still have translators review what the AI spits out. I think that’s different to SuperDuo which I believe is mean’t to use AI to be more conversational.
- Comment on Windows 7 and Windows 8 Support 10 months ago:
What do you think causes people to hold on?
If it isn’t on fire yet don’t fix it, probably. I’ve heard of people still using Vista, which is certainly a choice.
Windows 10 is free
It’s not free legally in Australia, the US and I’m guessing the EU (I think Portugal is a. exception here). The rest I have no idea. The legal free upgrade from Windows 7 and 8/8.1 ended some time ago even though Microsoft will still accept those keys. That said, if you’re willing to deal with the activation watermark you don’t even need to crack Windows to make it work without a licence. 😉
Linux is a great idea for tech savvy users.
I was never able to get past the “I need a Windows partition stage” because there would always be obe game that I couldn’t play. It’s making great strides though and is one hell of a rabbit hole to jump down!
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