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Same here. I’m just surprised at how well Signal is holding up.

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What a stupid title. As if anybody’s buying smart devices in the hope they’ll be worth more someday.

My on topic advice: if you rely on your smart TV to get to your content, you’re going to have a bad time. Get a small computer instead, and treat your “smart” TV as a monitor, nothing more.

I did get myself an nvidia shield last year, and after switching out the stock launcher for something that doesn’t show ads (and better yet, launches straight into plex at boot), I couldn’t be happier.

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As long as the cropped picture contains the required colour variety, fine by me.

Now, the real remarkable thing is the fact that you think those two settings are comparable, or that it somehow makes a valid argument.

edit or that you posted this argument so many times. You might have some repressed issues. Honestly, as long as all parties involved are consenting adults, it’s okay to like what you like.

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Saying the crop is a porn photo is like saying homeopathy has an active ingredient because “the water remembers”.

How do I turn off Windows 10 & 11 automatic updates? (www.hystou.com)

Overview: Windows 11 and 10 offers less UI control over the updating behavior of the operating system than previous versions of Windows. There is no option to turn off Windows Updates using the Control Panel or Settings app in Windows 11 & 10, it checks for updates automatically and install any updates they find, whether you...

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In my experience, these kinds of programs tend to do that. But if the first step of a guide is “go download the dodgy software from a third party file hoster”, that’s about as big as red flags get.

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the futures of both Meta and the Fediverse are heavily intertwined: both are dependent on one another for their success.

That very much depends on your definition of success. If that means monetization, then probably, yes. But if you mean quality content (for the fediverse), I very much doubt it.

Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal (techcrunch.com)

Meta tried to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors, including Snapchat and later Amazon and YouTube, by analyzing the network traffic of how its users were interacting with Meta’s competitors. Given these apps’ use of encryption, Facebook needed to develop special technology to get around it....

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I wouldn’t call lemmy.world poorly managed.

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What the title and bot don’t mention: They did so by installing spyware on phones of users of a vpn they acquired:

After Zuckerberg’s email, the Onavo team took on the project and a month later proposed a solution: so-called kits that can be installed on iOS and Android that intercept traffic for specific subdomains, “allowing us to read what would otherwise be encrypted traffic so we can measure in-app usage,” read an email from July 2016. “This is a ‘man-in-the-middle’ approach.”

What’s more:

Later, according to the court documents, Facebook expanded the program to Amazon and YouTube.

Obligatory this is why you shouldn’t use a free/cheap vpn.

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My guess is they put it in the terms and conditions of the vpn.

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Yups. You’re usually better off running one yourself.

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That’s debatable. In my estimation, by using a “service vpn” you’re giving advertisers some other kind of demographic information, namely that you’re the kind of person that pays for a vpn.

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Yeah, that’s why I think it’s debatable. It’s a lot easier to make those decisions on traffic coming from a known vpn ip, versus all vps providers in the world - many of which have corporate uses.

On the other hand - if you’re smart enough to set up a vpn, you’ll also be smart enough to set up ad blocking, so the point is kinda moot anyway. Plus you’ll be a lot less likely to have your traffic logged opposed to a service vpn.

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What do you mean by that, exactly? How do we allow or deny this, and what do you think are reasonable alternatives?

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I don’t have time to check a video, but isn’t it true for any service that it you don’t agree to the new ToS, your contract is terminated?

What makes this case so special?

Edit: or is it that people only found out now that the games they bought were online-only and that they’re at the mercy of the publisher?

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Yeah, I suppose that sucks if you never stopped to think about it.

In my case, it’s the reason I never bought Diablo 3 - when they turn an offline game into a mandatory online game, I figured that sooner or later they’d pull something like this.

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If Steam puts up a bunch of new Agreements, and you refuse to accept, you’ll continue using the non-updated version - correct?

In theory you could keep using the service that adheres to the old agreement - but they will only provide the service under the new agreement. So effectively, no.

Unfortunately, Diablo 3 is an online game - even singleplayer. In case of starcraft, it’s even worse - the only reason for it to be online is multiplayer (fair enough) and drm (boo!).

Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" (futurism.com)

Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on...

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Wow, it’s like I’m back on reddit.

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The Mixtral models are pretty good, although they require a LOT of memory to run at a decent pace.

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Sillytavern by any chance?

And I’d say the difference between mistral and mixtral is pretty big for general usage, feels like it’s a next generation.

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Me neither. Recommendation engines already were a closed box that were being gamed to influence people’s opinions. This just removes one attack vector from it, and, as I understand it, it’s optional as well. It would be even better if there’d be more genres to block imho.

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My last few laptops have been Tuxedo. Can heartily recommend. The tux key instead of the windows logo is a very nice touch. The first ones were 13", and their tiny fans could be rather loud during normal operation, but now I have a 15" and it’s a dream.

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Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that since LW will federate with them, any content they host, will end up on meta.

For example, this discussion we’re having right now is on !technology. So it doesn’t matter whether our own instances have defederated meta - our posts and comments here will bring them value. Directly, in the form of content. And indirectly, in the form of processable data for machine learning, shadow profiles, etc.

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You posted this to a LW community, so your content and data will end up in Meta’s hands as well.

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Thanks!

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According to that link, his salary was “only” half a million. Or does he get 193 million in stock each year?

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While this is true for Facebook and YouTube - last time I checked, reddit doesn’t personalise feeds in that way. It was my impression that if two people subscribe to the same subreddits, they will see the exact same posts, based on time and upvotes.

Then again, I only ever used third party apps and old.reddit.com, so that might have changed since then.

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Quite simple, aniki. The feeds were ordered by hot, new, or top.

New was ORDER BY date DESC. Top was ORDER BY upvotes DESC. And hot was a slightly more complicated order that used a mixture of upvotes and time.

You can easily verify this by opening 2 different browsers in incognito mode and go to the old reddit frontpage - I get the same results in either. Again - I can’t account for the new reddit site because I never used it for more than a few minutes, but that’s definitely how they old one worked and still seems to.

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Yups. Lemmy.world is the biggest instance that hasn’t pre-emptively defederated from Threads. That’s problematic, because it’s also the biggest content provider for Lemmy. Ruud & Co are really dropping the ball here.

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Oooh, if we’re oversimplifying things, I got another one:

If you truly think ip law can be explained in a single sentence, you’re an idiot.

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Me: ip law is complicated.

You: you’re wrong, it’s used for (even more things).

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Glad to have amused you then. Hope you won’t take it too seriously, I certainly won’t.

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Thanks, couldn’t have done it without you ;)

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Personally I find it far more important that it’s not run by a company that will try its hardest to track your every movement on the web, but to each their own, I suppose.

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keep a copy of the software with the data files.

That only works to a certain extent. Sooner or later you’ll need to run a vm to run that software, so then you’ll also need to keep isos for that operating system. The stack required to open that document will only keep growing.

Meanwhile, I’ll guarantee you that you’ll be able to open that markdown file that Obsidian generates with any text editor from 2124.

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Piracy is piracy.

But the only one that owns Minecraft is Microsoft, since they bought it for over 2 billion dollars. Everyone else just bought a license to use it. Just like in all the other cases of buying music, video, or software. Unless lots of lawyers were involved, you only bought permission to use it, in a certain way at that. Pretending otherwise or not knowing in the first place has never been a legal excuse.

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Joke’s on them, my instance doesn’t allow downvotes, so my comment is happily at +9 from where I’m standing ;)

Ain’t got no time to worry about popular opinions.

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I’m sure there are exceptions if you’ll look hard enough. However, even in the case of most open source software, you’ll never become the owner of the intellectual property, you’re just free to use, modify and share it.

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but we still say we own an item becauee we are in control of it.

Yeah, that’s where misconceptions like the one in this thread stem from. Repeat a lie enough, and you’ll start believing it.

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They aren’t “amazing” in the sense that a human can’t do them, but they are in the sense that a computer is doing it.

… without specifically being trained for it, to be precise.

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If I’m not mistaken, this is one of the core tenets of the EU AI act.

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Huh? GDPR is about your rights to your personal data, not the algorithms that act upon them. And the EU AI act has not been put into law yet, AFAIK.

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They’re not wrong. On multiple occasions the devs have acted like assholes, this one as well. Especially the part where they initially didn’t think GDPR would apply because they aren’t a commercial entity (paraphrasing) is comically depressing.

Having said that, I won’t be cancelling my donations anytime soon. Assholes though they might be, I still want to pay back to the Lemmy community, and I can’t think of a better way than this.

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If that’s what gets you going :s

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That’s GPT talking to DALL-E though - GPT is just the messenger, and has no idea what’s in the image, other than the prompt it generated for you.

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While there are several ways to approach direct brain communication, they all have their benefits and drawbacks. Indirect methods, like this one, are much safer. But direct implantations, while riskier to get going, have the potential for near unlimited speed (both in bandwidth as well as reaction time).

The latter definitely will have more benefits in the long run.

Does that mean I’d want one in my head right now? Absolutely not. But if I were a unable to control most of my appendages, I’d definitely consider it.

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I take back my previous comment. Where do I sign?

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“Dank u. Voor het winkelen. Bij jumbo.” 🔇

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I don’t know what that means.

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