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Amir

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EN/NL PhD @ TU Delft CGV Loves EDM, LoL, TFT and MTG

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Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)

The key problem is that copyright infringement by a private individual is regarded by the court as something so serious that it negates the right to privacy. It’s a sign of the twisted values that copyright has succeeded on imposing on many legal systems. It equates the mere copying of a digital file with serious crimes that...

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Companies could take and steal as much as they want from smaller artists in that case

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December 6th is still coming

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That’s specifically LLMs. Image recognition like OP has nothing to do with language processing. Then there’s generative AI which needs some kind of mapping between prompts and weights, but is also a completely different type of “AI”

That doesn’t mean any of these “AI” products can think, but don’t conflate LLMs and AI as being the same

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Neural networks aren’t going anywhere because they can be genuinely useful, just not to solve every problem

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if a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it

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Do it

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Link? I just find graphite dev which is not related to drawing

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Only one of them gets to make the decision to fire the other

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Somehow this is just as incoherent as Trump transcriptions

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Opus at max bitrate is only like 1/4th the size of FLAC. At that point, why not just store it in 10GB while keeping the full quality?

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Tidal, Deezer and Quboz all have ways to download the content. The most stupid one being to record the output of the music player, but there’s tools that automatically get the full metadata too and ensure the audio is cropped to silence.

To do it in an intended way, Bandcamp and other services let you pay once to have access to the source file on your account “forever”.

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Spotify’s encoding (vorbis 320kbps) should be transparent at the maximum bitrate. However, it’s possible that the files uploaded on there are mastered differently, for average consumer consumption instead of the full dynamics of most source material. I know SoundCloud enforces “loudness” mastering with presets when uploading for example.

The real reason Spotify’s quality is inferior to others is that, if you have the music files, you can apply in-app parametric equalization on every platform and compensate for imperfections of your output device.

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Isn’t YTM like 128-192kbps AAC? I’d rather not even bother ripping that lol

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If you must use Spotify, use ZSpotify with DOWNLOAD_REAL_TIME and hope you don’t get banned. Alternatively, use it with a burner account.

I prefer Deezer and pay for Deezer HiFi. Deemix still works to rip FLACs from there.

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Does this have any selling points over the cheaper Pixel 8A?

Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again (www.engadget.com)

Spotify is officially raising its Premium subscription rates in the US come July, following reports of the move in April. The platform is increasing its Individual plan from $11 to $12 monthly and its Duo plan from $15 to $17 monthly — the same jump as last year’s $1 and $2 price hikes, respectively. However, its Family plan...

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Check if they’re on Tidal, Deezer or Qobuz, then your problem is solved

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The reason is that you can find lossless rippers for all of them, so you could archive the files and use them anywhere

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It’s unfortunately broken on Sync

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Windows takes a percentage of your available RAM, you can boot it on 4GB RAM and it will use 1GB of so

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Fonts can be handled by Windows itself.

I don’t care about internationalization, just EN-US is good enough.

Having more pixels doesn’t change asset sizes when the pixels used per asset are the same. Just show me the smaller button or use vector graphics.

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Without DirectX or OpenGL you’d have to create a GPU driver or do CPU rendering…

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Thank Google for that “feature”

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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube

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🦀

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Predecessor is the best MOBA I’ve ever played, and it’s not even out of early access yet. Right now just grinding Brawl because it’s braindead action but the normal gamemode is also good.

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Time to create my own planet without humanity

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tech like 5G (which is not available in Europe}

wtf are you talking about

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You can use a win10 key for win11 and vice versa, so you could just see it as an update if it wasn’t for the tpm requirement

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Bluetooth ANC IEMs/earbuds were rare a decade ago, and now I see half the people around me wearing them all day

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Yes

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And when trying to find a backup, no search engines can find it due to the AI garbage fucking up the SEO

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You can’t train an AI on data that’s no longer in existence

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AI becoming sentient is the least of my concerns

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Get this garbage out of here. This isn’t a shitpost, this is a decomposing corpsepost

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If this is really the case, this should still be considered murder by Boeing

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It’s mostly all a meme. Most modern motherboards have good DAC+AMP built in, and 44.1kHz 16-bit is indistinguishable from 192kHz 32-bit or higher for most people. 75% of audio quality is your listening equipment, 20% is the quality of the source file (YouTube rips are shit), the last 5% is the rest of the pipeline unless you did something really stupid.

Sidenote: You can get a bit of a quality bump by knowing how to use Parametric EQ to compensate for imperfections of your listening equipment.

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I seem to see a story I believed for years get debunked almost weekly now, thanks

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BG3

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1440p at regular monitor size is probably all you’d need, but the annoying issue is that 1080p content looks worse on that than it does on a 1080p monitor

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NFC is on like every phone ever for google pay

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Every Chinese brand has done this, including OnePlus (Nord), so I guess Carl Pei knows why they do it and why it works

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someone better

Someone who can milk their playerbase better. Lootboxes and other “surprise mechanics” (addictive gambling), battle passes, games as a service

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So many sites get it wrong

If they get away with it, they very much got it right

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GDP and GDP Growth are both useless metrics

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I know exactly what genres to listen for and make an effort to explore new artists and smaller labels

Recently found this: youtu.be/y5rYNIE10bw

Now my favourite song of the year at least

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They’re not truly competing because they make every show they can exclusive to their platform

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Using the birth name of someone who took a new name after transitioning

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That’s a fork and it looks nice, thanks for sharing

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