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So this is just a thing now? Removing media from the world?

They found out it works so now it's gonna become a trend.

It's kind of ironic taking a project that's already written in Rust and writing a replacement for it in Java.

Usually things get ported to Rust, not the other way around.

Ending prices with 99 is manipulative. We accept it from businesses because we're conditioned to, they're businesses after all! Being manipulated by businesses is just how our current society operates, part of the environment we live in. But if an individual offers us something for a price ending in 99, we're much more likely to be suspicious of it.

The article actually explicitly mentions this, and suggests you list things for 25 under instead of 1 under, for example, as it won't immediately trigger recognition that you're doing this.

All the better to psychologically manipulate our fellow people in pursuit of profit, my dear.

As far as I'm aware, there's nothing preventing a PluralKit equivalent from being made for other platforms. In fact, a quick search turned up a WIP Matrix port on github.

So no, I don't think this is true. Lack of PluralKit isn't what's preventing people from switching en masse. It's the opposite—lack of people switching means there's a lack of demand for a PluralKit port in the first place, so even though there is a port people don't know it exists and thus it doesn't get as much dev attention.

It comes down to network effects, ultimately, and just plain inertia. If you're already on Discord, and all your friends are on Discord, it's hard to convince you to switch. And being more familiar with the Discord bot ecosystem (like PluralKit) is just one more thing that adds to the inertia.

I worry that the cat is out of the bag on this. The tech for this stuff is out there, and you can run it on your home computer, so barring some sort of massive governmental overreach I don't see a way to stop it.

They can't even stop piracy and there's the full weight of the US copyright industry behind it. How are they going to stop this tech?

Unless they're running LFS, I don't see the point. By the time the antivirus database is updated, surely an update will be available in the package repo?

The Linux ecosystem is built around package repos rather than manually installed software, so antivirus makes even less sense on Linux than it does on Windows. If there's malware it'll get removed from the repo as soon as it's detected.

Yet they did remove other pedo instances from join-lemmy, so there's a good chance it'll get removed.

Systemd does a lot of things that could probably be separate projects, but run0 is an example of something that benefits from being a part of systemd. It ties directly into the existing service manager to spawn new processes.

What incentive would a bank have to release their apps as FOSS?

You probably could create an open source banking app and use it to run a bank on a primarily open source software stack. But banks are not software companies, and they have no reason to engage with the FOSS world. We could think up lots of potential reasons for why a bank might not want to release their apps as FOSS, but the simplest answer is "why would they?"

I'd love to live in a world where free software is the norm, but we're not in that world. So if the bank has no incentive to do it other than the comparatively niche interests of the FOSS community, they just won't do it.

Google destroys their own search engine by encouraging terrible SEO nonsense and then offers the solution in the form of these AI overviews, cutting results out of the picture entirely.

You search something on the Web nowadays half the results are written by AI anyway.

I don't really care about the "human element" or whatever, but AI is such a hype train right now. It's still early days for the tech, it still hallucinates a lot, and I fundamentally can't trust it—even if I trusted the people making it, which I don't.

Incest doesn't inherently cause genetic disorders, it just increases your chance of being born with recessive genetic disorders. Most of those disorders are mutations, and if the Garden of Eden is so perfect there probably aren't genetic disorders to start out with, meaning incest is fine from a genetic perspective. All the genetic disorders would be mutations later down the line. Maybe they're punishment for the original sin or something, to fit it into the themes of the story.

It looks like the instance has only existed for about a month, so it's not too surprising it hasn't been noticed before now.

They already removed pedo instances before, so they'll probably remove this one. They seem to draw a much harder line on pedophilia than politics.

Sonarr/Radarr can be set up to use hardlinks instead of copying files. That way the file will appear in both places but it will only take up the storage space a single time. I believe it's one of the advanced options under media management.

The developers will freely admit that they are Marxist-Leninists who support China. I don't get why people frame it as a rumor.

That said, that has nothing to do with this. It's just implementation details, and are on the docket to be worked on once the mission-critical stuff is out of the way.

Unfortunately LLaMA 2 is not FOSS. Meta claims it's open source, but it's while the source is available it's definitely not free as in freedom. There are strings attached.

To be clear, the report doesn't claim it's proven that trans women have no advantage in elite sports, but rather that the biomedical evidence is inconclusive and that the methodology of existing studies has been highly flawed.

It does go into some sociological factors which is good, and it draws attention to the fact that these studies are seemingly often conducted from a place of transphobia to begin with.

I suppose it's hard to do science on it as it's such a loaded topic, and the number of trans athletes is relatively small.

It's subject to absurd feature creep and overambition, in addition to regular ol incompetence.

The design goals for Star Citizen are kinda absurd. It's like how the No Man's Sky devs claimed at one point they'd individually simulate air molecules and a unique periodic table, except the difference is that NMS axed that (or more accurately, were never actually doing it) instead of spending the next decade trying to make it work.

At the same time, it helps that their supporters have essentially given them a financial incentive to keep adding feature creep instead of releasing, because if they release a game they can't keep asking for more donations for increasingly lofty goals.

There are already AI-written books flooding the market, not to mention other forms of written misinformation.

You're definitely thinking of Starfield, which is the new Bethesda game. Star Citizen won't be No Man's Sky 2.0, because Star Citizen is never going to come out.

Just found out that that mod changed their mind and decided to go dark anyway, and was promptly removed by Reddit. Well, I guess they *did* see it coming!

The microblog side of the fediverse is really hostile to scraping or indexing of any kind. On the one hand, I get the idea of safe spaces and not wanting your data to be public, but then why are you on an instance that federates openly?

It seems to me that anything that's being federated out by ActivityPub is public by nature. If you don't want it to be public, you should use an allowlist, or just don't post publicly.

I guess I just assume that everything I'm posting is being scraped and archived forever, because there's no way to ensure it's not. It's ironic that the fediverse is so hostile to this fundamental fact of the internet when ActivityPub is basically designed to just hand out information to whoever asks. It seems like there's a conflict between the protocol and the culture.

I've done this before, it's definitely a bit of a hack but it went without a hitch for me. Depending on your bootloader you'll probably have to edit/regenerate your bootloader config as well.

Good call on rsync, just make sure to use the right flags. I'm on Arch so I used the command from the Arch page on full system backup using rsync, but it should work for any distro.

This bot really likes canning

That's not what's going on here. It's just doing what it's been told, which is repeating the system prompt. It has nothing to do with Gab, this trick or variations of it work on pretty much any GPT deployment.

We need to be careful about anthropomorphizing AI.

Apple products are an ecosystem. It's not just the physical devices they're selling. It makes sense from a business perspective to keep iMessage on iOS only, because it keeps people in the ecosystem.

Well yeah, that's what pro contact means. Pro sexual contact. They don't think there's any inherent problem with sexual relationships between adults and kids.

"Pro contact" is just a polite way to say it, obfuscating what they're really talking about.

That's the thing that I find particularly bad. Elite sports, sure there's transphobia aplenty but I get why people take it seriously at least. But kids' sports? Come on, people. Let the kids have fun without demanding you fucking inspect their genitals or whatever they are doing now. People take kids' sports way too seriously, I think it's really harmful.

I do agree with Ada in broad strokes. The Fedipact is just a petition. Meta doesn't care if you sign it. And it's not binding either—you can sign it and end up changing your mind and federating anyway, or you can defederate without signing it (like Blahaj).

It's still interesting data though. It may not represent every instance's stance on Meta, but it does reflect the stances of those that sign, and suggest that they're more active in the discourse.

You're right on the money with it being about admins and not users, too. Users aren't even allowed to sign it, only mods and admins can.

It's hard to extrapolate too much just from this data, I think.

That said, my read on it: Mastodon is way bigger than any other fedi platform, and with popularity comes outsiders to fedi culture and politics and people who just don't care. Also, a lot of the big instances want to federate because they have more of a growth mindset, so they when they see Meta they just see more potential users.

It's interesting though that Mastodon is the platform that would be most affected by federation. We here on Lemmy don't have great interoperability with the microblog side of the fediverse, so we're less likely to see Threads activity.

Unlike Tor, which is built around accessing the clearnet anonymously, I2P is primarily designed around keeping traffic in the darknet. When you join I2P, you route traffic for other nodes but only within the I2P network, it will never leave through your clearnet address.

The equivalent of Tor's exit nodes are called "outproxies", but they aren't often used, there aren't very many of them, and you have to specifically set them up manually as it isn't the default behavior like it is for Tor.

This project uses mDNS, which is specific to the .local TLD. The whole reason that people are against the use of .local is because it would break mDNS. So you can set a custom TLD, but it doesn't matter because this is actually the correct context for .local to be used, and changing the TLD will actually break things for a lot of clients.

I'm so used to seeing damned bots spamming that everywhere, my half asleep ass immediately reached for the report button lol. It's just instinct now. Pavlov's Discord Nitro.

i3 will have lower requirements, since it's just a bare window manager. XFCE is about as lightweight as a fully featured desktop environment can get, whereas with i3 you have to bring your own tools.

Incidentally, you can use i3 as the window manager portion of XFCE if you want.

Was Quora ever good?

"Whoops!"

It kind of doesn't matter, but the moderation policies, local timeline, server uptime/admin skill, blocked instances, and the theoretical longevity of instances can vary widely between instances.

The plethora of "Baby's First Selfhost" servers don't make for good Lemmy instances for example, because they are likely to be mismanaged and there's a good chance they will disappear unexpectedly once the hype dies down in a couple months.

Or another example, you have servers that are essentially unmoderated and full of hate speech and illegal content, or heavily moderated servers that ban dissent and defed liberally, and everything in-between.

If only

I disagree. It would be better to set a precedent that using people's voices without permission is not okay. Even in your example, you're suggesting that you would have a Patreon while publishing mods that contain voice clips made using AI. In this scenario, you've made money from these unauthorized voice recreations. It doesn't matter if you're hoping to one day hire the VAs themselves, in the interim you're profiting off their work.

Ultimately though, I don't think it matters if you're making money or not. I got caught up in the tech excitement of voice AI when we first started seeing it, but as we've had the strike and more VAs and other actors sharing their opinions on it I've come to be reminded of just how important consent is.

In the OP article, Amelia Tyler isn't saying anything about making money off her voice, she said "to actually take my voice and use it to train something without my permission, I think that should be illegal". I think that's a good line to draw.

Poor people should try wanting things more

The $193 million figure is misleading because the majority of it is stock, so that number isn't cash and is just an estimate of value since there isn't even an open market for the stock. The IPO will show how much it's really worth I guess.

He was paid a little over a mil in actual salary + bonus, which is still too much but not nearly as ridiculous.

So in this you've explicitly acknowledged that the accepted terminology is that trans men and cis men are both men, but have ignored that and created a dichotomy between "men" and trans men anyway by ignoring the word cisgender. Why is that?