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mint_tamas ,

Firefox also implements manifest v3, just without the user-hostile restrictions.

Watch: Adobe angers artists with new Photoshop terms (techcrunch.com)

Artists got an unpleasant surprise when they opened Photoshop this week, as they were shown a pop-up window asking them to agree to new terms of service. Among the changes: Adobe now says it has the right to access customers’ content through “automated or manual methods.”...

mint_tamas ,

The entire macromedia suite was so good. I had so much fun and learned so much as a teen.

mint_tamas ,

Theoretically, what would the utility of AI summaries in Google Search if not getting exact information?

mint_tamas ,

So what, you keep an ungoogled-chromium around and use it occasionally for compatibility, if you really need to. Doesn’t mean you are obligated to use it as your daily driver.

mint_tamas ,

FWIW they are cannibalizing ads right now with AI summaries, since people will navigate less to websites (in the world where they are useful, which they don’t seem to be at the moment).

mint_tamas ,

It works if you take it for its function: to signal the body that night is starting in 1-2 hours, and take it in a small dose (1-2mg). It’s not a sedative, like many seem to assume. It’s best to take it when you start your night routine.

mint_tamas ,

That paper is yet to be peer reviewed or released. I think you are jumping into conclusion with that statement. How much can you dilute the data until it breaks again?

mint_tamas ,

Peer review, for all its flaws is a good minimum before a paper is worth taking seriously.

In your original comment you said tha model collapse can be easily avoided with this technique, which is notably different from it being mitigated. I’m not saying that these findings are not useful, just that you are overselling them a bit with this wording.

mint_tamas ,

Handful of cases only in the US. Globally there were around 900 cases to date (starting 2003).

mint_tamas ,

The problem is that idiots drinking H5N1 milk might bring about human-to-human transmission of it which will be a dire situation. To date, around 50% of the 200-something human cases resulted in death. For comparison, the worst mortality rates of covid were around 20-25% in the very beginning.

mint_tamas ,

Is your argument for bombing being the right decision the same (that it resulted in less bloodshed overall)? If so, how can you estimate the body count of the alternative (a prolonged conventional war, I assume)?

mint_tamas ,

OpenAI clearly already scraped the pre-LLM (aka actually useful) content from SO, this entire deal is happening after the fact to avoid litigation.

mint_tamas ,

I used to keep my steam games on a separate windows 10 partition and it worked exactly as you describe after a reinstall, it was all there. It’s still incredibly cool that this works on Linux and we get to use it as daily driver without being forced to dual boot for games. A windows installation still lingers on my desktop but it’s been years since I booted into it.

mint_tamas ,

People need to learn what ragebait means

mint_tamas ,

Is it possible for someone to not be actively anti-something, or the lack if being so will qualify them as pro-something?

mint_tamas ,

She’s not a “children’s author”, she hired a ghost writer. To write a book about children dealing with grief.

mint_tamas ,

FWIW, the manifest v3 implementation in firefox is not user-hostile. They made it compatible, but the limitations on filtering are not there.

mint_tamas ,

I really miss that fleeting moment when all messaging apps were using either open protocols or at least they weren’t hostile against alternative clients. It was really nice to be able to use one client to log in to gtalk, msn etc. at the same time.

mint_tamas ,

Youtube never asked for my ID (I’m in the EU). Which country is this?

Spotify just changed their TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks (storyfair.net)

They frame it as though it’s for user content, more likely it’s to train AI, but in fact it gives them the right to do almost anything they want - up to (but not including) stealing the content outright.

mint_tamas ,

Your third point is an active research topic, we can’t explain exactly what generative (and other) models do beyond their generic operation.

mint_tamas ,

Why?

mint_tamas ,

What’s the background of the lxd-incus fork? On the project page they just state that it was forked after Canonical took over lxd - but what does that mean, exactly? How did they take over an open project? Was there a technical reason for a fork?

mint_tamas ,

This link opens to a thread about email providers. Is this what you meant to post?

mint_tamas ,

Ah ok, I’ll take another look then. Thanks!

mint_tamas ,

It’s the worst way to document something (doesn’t even make sense to call it documentation). It’s closed source and the content is only accessible if you register with an email address.

The president seized 1% of El Salvador's population. Their children pay the consequences (apnews.com)

Tears welled in Alex’s eyes and he pressed his head into his hands as he thought about more than a year of birthdays and holidays without his mother, who was swept up by El Salvador’s police as she walked to work in a clothing factory....

mint_tamas ,

You assume that bad things only happen to bad people. This is called the just-world belief and it’s a major source of cognitive dissonance today. If they get locked up as innocent people, that would be injustice, therefore you assume they are gangbangers.

mint_tamas ,

Recently I started to use reader mode a lot, it tends to work in many cases for this purpose.

mint_tamas ,

I just ran into that the other day. I solved it by installing noscript, setting a permissive default (I don’t want to make my life harder) and blocking scripts on CNN. It works well.

mint_tamas ,

Great!

Music Piracy Is Back, Baby (gizmodo.com)

“Muso, a research firm that studies piracy, concluded that the high prices of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are pushing people back towards illegal downloads. Spotify raised its prices by one dollar last year to $10.99 a month, the same price as Apple Music. Instead of coughing up $132 a year, more consumers...

mint_tamas ,

For me, it’s neither the price nor the quality of apps (idgaf, it plays music in the background). The thing that pushes me towards piracy is the same as for movies and TV shows: disappearing content. Because of content licensing deals, every piece of media is temporary on a service. I do rewatch movies from time to time and it’s infuriating if it’s gone (or rather would be, if I was still paying for any streaming service). This is especially true for music. My Spotify favorites list has a huge percentage of greyed out entries (and I’m pretty sure there are things that were outright deleted).

mint_tamas ,

Pretty sure this serves two purposes: to not leave money on the table (as terrible as that sounds, the non-EU market is still milkable for them), and to prepare investor sentiment for the inevitable loss of revenue in a year or so.

mint_tamas ,

I don’t like self checkouts, but not because of that. Probably depends on what chains you go to / where in the world you live, but it was almost always very slow and full of errors for me (most of the time, incorrectly detecting the weight of either side, thus stopping the whole process and making me wait for a human to unlock it). And even if everthing goes well, I have no chance to even reach half the speed that a cashier can.

The one exception is a clothing store that used RFID tags. You put the items in the box and everything is instantly scanned, no mistakes. If it were like that everywhere, I would much prefer it.

mint_tamas ,

Nintendo sues everyone they encounter in the faintest context of their IP with the power of a thousand suns. See also, the failed launch if Dolphin on Steam. Valve is justifiably cautious here.

mint_tamas ,

Doesn’t matter

mint_tamas ,

If a free tier is offered, why would you be a leech? It’s calculated in their business and free users indirectly bring revenue (the more free users they have, the more they can convert). This concept of being a leech is so alien to me.

mint_tamas ,

My company has been using Discord for work and at first I was excited to try it (coming from Slack companies), but I had to realize that it’s very unfit for work. The only thing that’s better is the visibility of threads. We are moving to Slack now, thankfully.

mint_tamas ,

This has nothing to do with torrenting apart from a similar sounding word.

mint_tamas ,

What fatigue? People only kinda reasonably masked up in 2020 and 2021. Stupid public messaging like the “you do you” campaign in New York (of all places) have done huge damage to masking. Also WHO saying that masks don’t work…

mint_tamas ,

Pocket casts. Also, you might be able to export your podcast subscriptions from Google Podcasts in opml format.

mint_tamas ,

They implement Manifest v3 already for compatibility, but without the user-hostile restrictions.

mint_tamas ,

Depends entirely on where in the world you live, which is the primary influencing factor for the price of gas.

mint_tamas ,

Not sure why you being downvoted, one of the three laptops they cracked was a Surface. Of course Microsoft doesn’t “make it” but very few tech brands actually manufacture the hardware. By the way the Surface was sufficiently different in its design from the others that hints it’s a custom build anyway, not just an off label hardware with Microsoft stamped on it.

mint_tamas ,

Oh :( I’ll just quitely make an export of my subs though

mint_tamas ,

mpv with sponsorblock

How?

YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads. (www.androidauthority.com)

YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.::Google is increasing the prices of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions in some regions, right after blocking ad-blockers.

mint_tamas ,

The American brain can’t comprehend this

mint_tamas ,

Why are people writing comments with chatgpt?

mint_tamas ,

What do you mean by the second part of your comment?

mint_tamas ,

“So midjourney came up with this BS image and we didn’t even care to look at it closely”

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