Sony is Sony is about to delete Mythbusters, Naked and Afraid, and tons of other Discovery shows from PlayStation users’ libraries even if they already “purchased” them....
Legally, you own a disc, and a limited license to view the contents of the disc.
It’s effectively full ownership, but this same “limited license” model is how they fuck you over digitally, because without the disc, they can, at any time, revoke that limited license legally, because it was limited and they never granted full ownership. This is why the legality of pirating a movie you already own on Blu-ray is morally correct but legally wrong, because your license only grants you that one disc, in that one format.
I fucking hate it. The fact we dont have better property laws for media and IP is insane.
If there is ever a next successor to Blurays, for VR film or something, their DRM could be linked to a validation server. Once it’s always online what you describe becomes possible.
Currently Blurays and dvds are designed for offline playback, and are read only, so their licenses are always valid and perform no verification.
Setting the shittiness aside, once again a horseshit patent award. This is not a novel or innovative idea. It’s a stupid fucking limitation on others if entertained.
A movie like Independence Day? Easy to do 7gb with good quality. Blurays is H264, We have x265 now. 4gb size? Those explosions gonna be chunky, but film is watchable.
Ayah Sha’ban was among 14 of her martyred family members in Gaza City. She was presumed dead and wrapped in a white shroud, but a security guard at Al-Shifa’ noticed her breathing and saved her. She still doesn’t know about her family’s fate....
Martyred also means died righteously in most faiths. As in, innocents who were murdered in the crusades were Martyred. This is less the case is Christianity (which names few martyrs) and more with other faiths.
So yes, many see the civilians who just wanted to live on their homeland and were bombed into kingdom come for existing just because of their faith, as martyrs.
It is a matter of faith, quite literally. But it’s just good to be aware that many other cultures don’t require a papal seal to acknowledge martyrdom. It’s been somewhat co-opted by the Taliban in headlines, but there are tons of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and other martyrs over time.
Tl;dr: these victims were innocent, and died because of their homeland and their faith. That’s why they are being called martyrs. It’s an apt descriptor.
I mean, I’m not religious or Muslim. I don’t believe in Martyrs really. But there aren’t really Atheist martyrs. I mean, I guess you could die for the cause of Abolition or something and rhetorically be a “martyr” in the anti-slavery cause, but it’s borrowing religious terminology.
Buddhist monks in Tibet have been martyred as China murders them systemically and tries to insist Tibet doesn’t exist, only west China.
Sihks in Punjab have many recorded martyrs and the Sihks killed in the Hindu-led ethnic cleansings in the 1984 Sihk massacre are considered martyrs of the faith.
It’s common, just not as common in Judeo-Christian based faiths.
More accurately: Should we ban someone from launching a new TV show called Smashing Bad that stars Wally Witten, a high school chemistry teacher who turns to crime to make fentanyl and…
Yes I think we should. That is derivative work. The AI projects are not a tool, they are automated derivation made on models based on stolen art.
These tools need to be trained on data sets that were not stolen, first off. And the results need to be a tool, like generative fill in photoshop, that is based on the rest of the image. Not a replacement for the image itself.
They had to ban the phrase “Afghan Girl” from GPT models because they were reproducing a 1990s National Geographic cover, every time.
These could be good tools, but right now they are being trained to steal 9ther artists styles based on keywords, not to enhance the user’s work in their own style.
Tell me you don’t know how AI works, while sounding arrogant.
“literally has no memory” is a fun semantic argument against the actual reality that these models have been caught attempting to reproduce the signatures of artists they trained on, and in some cases reproducing the likeness of copyrighted photos from key phrases. Like the “Afghan Girl” fiasco that say them ban the phrase immediately.
Your argument is basically that if I type in “Mona Lisa” into a generative engine and get a copy of the Mona Lisa with slightly wavier hair, and some trees in the background are different, that it is not derivative. Which is a laugh.
And yet, if you are being instructed to reproduce the Mona Lisa in explicit detail, billions of times as a computer is, 1 layer of abstraction in a digital training is not at all the same as your example with human artists.
Oh, and Bot 1 isn’t instructing Bot 2, it is instructing Bots 2-1,000,000, all at the same time. And each round it kills 999,998 of them, and births another 999,998 of them based on the best of them and goes again.
This is not like you example. It is more like brute forcing a password.
So you’re saying the example above does only one attempt at a time? And does not reinforce the correct performance via scoring? Is that not exactly what was said?
Japanese companies, this isn’t a wish, it’s a fundamental truth of the universe. Like gravity. No matter the scale or importance of them. I promise you your car exists because of an Excel 2003 file on some underpaid engineer’s laptop that they periodically sync with an inventory system.
Actually, subverting the foreign policy of the United States is actually a form of treason.
Like, you can say “I think we should trade with Cuba”
You cannot provide funding to a company that ships aid to Cuba. That is illegal, and actually a form of treason.
What Musk did is the latter. He saw a geopolitical situation the state department was handling, and inserted himself and his company into it. Up to thst point is fine. But then he inserted himself into the decision-making process of US strategic command because we was a vendor to the government.
If you supply rockets to send up satellites, the time to object is before you agree and load payloads to send up satellites. Not during or after.
Honestly I want to see Google on trial for their adsense business.
Google search is basically a lock-in service now, which is integrated into a massive browser project, an entire OS used by governments for education, and as the #1 option in competing systems due to sponsorships. Search itself though is awful, and if people were more aware of options maybe we’d see more improvement.
Google trying to profile users and alter their search results for “engagement” is one of the worst things to have ever happen on the internet. Facebook and others doing the same was following suit.
Review written by someone not familiar with the originals clearly. Which would be fine if they didn’t compare back to it constantly.
The problem with the Bebop adaptation was it needlessly changed pretty core things about the characters, and rewrote the ending entirely. It totally changed a bunch of the themes as a result. So you had something wearing Bebop’s skin, but it moved all wrong.
The One Piece adaptation seems to at least get that part right… But it is ultimately a cartoon plot, a lot of the motivations and story aren’t that complex. That doesn’t work for everyone, and clearly not for the reviewer. But we’ll have to see how the wider audience reacts.
After 5 years in development and heavily pushing Unreal Engine 5 technologies, Immortals of Aveum was met with a whopping 751 player peak. For reference, Forspoken was considered a flop but still had over 12,000 players peak total. This may be the biggest flop of the year.
The visual design of their game world looks like it tried to replicate “stock asset” in blender. Everything feels devoid of any real artistic intent. So it feels overwhelmingly shiny and chrome and just bland. That’s just based on visuals, but I legitimately confused this with the other God’s of whatever title from 6-8 months ago.
Is there a simple app that can transfer everything easily? Like my favorites, browsing history and everything, including autofill setting and whatnot? I really just don’t want to redo everything and essentially start fresh....
I mean, out the gate Firefox will import a huge chunk of that. Like, literally everything you listed.
You should install it and try.
That said, I will echo others that getting setup with something like KeePass is worthwhile. You set it up, add a browser extension to connect to it l, and now the passwords are REALLY secure and not limited to your browser and much more complex functions are available to you if you want to nerd out.
The article is clickbait. The margins of range for “near miss” is enormous to ensure such things don’t happen. A “near miss” is usually still miles and miles apart, and only registers because two flights may be at the same altitude to avoid weather.
I mean, what can you do, short of demolishing and rebuilding communities for free to spread them out and lessen risk. Even that only manages it, and it would still all burn when wildfires hit.
Stopping the source and quelling the yearly rise of temperatures that is making it a concern to begin with is the only actual solution.
I was at SDCC this year and I was amazed at how many booths had Funko pops, which was about 20-30% of the booths and there was a line for the Funko area, jam packed with people. I over heard people saying they found some rare ones or newly released that were hard to find....
Funko Pops are mostly ugly as hell imo. They try to capture a cute big headed aesthetic but went too far on the blocky noggins. I dislike how it makes the vast, overwhelming majority of characters look when rendered this way.
Nendroids are doing this same concept but infinitely better, with stands and articulation. And less ghastly proportions. That said, Nendroids are mostly limited to weeb shit, while anything under the fucking sun gets a funko pop because there is 0 design effort made.
I’ve gotten one as a gift, and it’s fine. But they absolutely are Beanie Babies. It’s not even a question.
Edit: collecting this shit is dumb anyways. Take shit out of the box and pose it!
What a horseshit excuse: add 6 screws on your backplate, give it a frame with center glass, add a grommet. Give a torque setting for the screws to have a good seal in your instructions. L
Done.
Samsung did this shit years ago in a phone with a replaceable plastic back.
Jesus christ, lemmy is still in a fledgling state compared to reddit i don’t care if you designed the most perfect app known to man, this is some insane overvaluation.
Thank you. This update went live after my comment.
The app does not have this under settings. I jumped straight into settings expecting of course that is where it must live, and the Ultra subscription does (and also mentions ads)
However as you said, there is a no ads unlock on the initial drop down for $20.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those changes, pushing retailers to shift online and intensifying the streaming competition among entertainment companies. Now, from the picket lines, workers are trying to give consumers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a show that can be binged any time or get dog food...
Abolish Amazon prime tomorrow. Break the company into tiny pieces, raise the cost of streaming platforms and cut the CEO pay by 1000% (they will still make millions).
That’s what consumers want. You can see viewers just giving money to talents on twitch and YouTube. People want to reward good content. Hollywood and these large corporations have just become extremely good at separating the workers from the value of labor, and taking the overwhelming lion’s share for investors.
Android is struggling to keep its market share in the United States, as Apple continues to take over in the market. But, despite Android as a whole losing ground, Google Pixel phones are becoming a bigger slice of the US market....
Google keeps locking tons of Android features away behind their own privatized software stack.
Better for Google, but they are cutting their nose to spite their face here, as Android as a whole suffers for it.
Stuff like call screening in the android dialer would be possible on any brand of device. But no, pixel only.
The pixels have the very best android experience. It comes close to iPhone. But pixels aren’t the whole market. Overall Google is trying to claw back control of the entire platform and I hate it.
Google owns the platform. You’re not really comparing like to like.
It’s like saying since Google can modify some files in Windows that Microsoft doesn’t control the platform.
Sony upstreams many of its changes, but you’re right that Samsung does not. This is both because of differentiation, but also because often the changes are in defiance of the “official” Google spec in android and merging is refused.
One plus for example offers further customization on gesture input that is missing in Android 13, allowing corner bottom swipes, hiding the little nav line, etc. But this cannot merge.
Google has decided a “solution”, to hell with if your features are better. I would love to see these features in android mainline. But Google won’t allow it. Sony made a theme system years ago, but Android wouldn’t fully merge it, and took another 5 or so years to make something.
The AOSP dialer is based on an older version. Google removed it going forward.
Agreed, but then why not make an api for your “open operating system” so users of Samsung/One Plus /Sony/etc could see the dialer with their call screening /assistants if they so choose?
TL;DR: My father in law (FIL) passed away recently. I visited him a few days before he died and he confessed to knowing where some bodies are buried and wanted me to help make it right....
Honestly the only surefire answer is to lie and forge some paperwork, hire a contractor to rent a backhoe and ruin the asphalt, and then when the city stops you notify them of a sinkhole beneath.
They’ll dig and find whatever is there to find.
Yse as many cutouts as you can, but you’re already fairly exposed if this is true by your FIL’s actions. So have an alibi while all this is happening.
Somewhat. Webstandards are voted upon, and I believe Mozilla is part of those organizations.
However Google could always choose to ignore web standards and do what they want. And due to their massive market dominance this would effectively enforce this overnight for over half of the internet.
The reason they may not, is the EU would take them to court over that. The US no longer believes in stopping companies from ruining shit though.
What is the legal difference between owning digital and physical media?
Sony is Sony is about to delete Mythbusters, Naked and Afraid, and tons of other Discovery shows from PlayStation users’ libraries even if they already “purchased” them....
Uncovered EA patent would use AI to replace professional voice actors with (fake) you (www.tomshardware.com)
If you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send?
She lost her entire family in an airstrike, but no one has told her yet (mondoweiss.net)
Ayah Sha’ban was among 14 of her martyred family members in Gaza City. She was presumed dead and wrapped in a white shroud, but a security guard at Al-Shifa’ noticed her breathing and saved her. She still doesn’t know about her family’s fate....
Removed due to bickering rule (lemmy.world)
Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Diablo 4’s Season 2 patch rebalances each class and nearly every Unique item (www.polygon.com)
Diablo 4’s second season is shaping up to be a major upgrade to Blizzard’s flagship action game
[Game] Diablo 4 is coming to Steam (www.pcgamer.com)
While it was playable before through 3rd party tools, this will make it much more accessible to many Steam Deck players....
Google Podcasts shutting down in 2024 for YouTube Music (9to5google.com)
You have 1 wish... (sh.itjust.works)
Big Brain Billionaire War Policy (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC' (www.pcgamer.com)
You heard him 4090 users, upgrade to a more powerful GPU.
Eddy Cue, other Apple execs set to testify in Google Search antitrust case (9to5mac.com)
‘One Piece’ Review: Netflix Tries to Translate the Anime Magic (Again) (www.nytimes.com)
NYT gift article expires in 30 days....
In its first week, Immortals of Aveum had a peak count of just 751 players on Steam. (steamdb.info)
After 5 years in development and heavily pushing Unreal Engine 5 technologies, Immortals of Aveum was met with a whopping 751 player peak. For reference, Forspoken was considered a flop but still had over 12,000 players peak total. This may be the biggest flop of the year.
[Solved] I'd like to switch from chrome, but all of my auto fill, and payment info.
Is there a simple app that can transfer everything easily? Like my favorites, browsing history and everything, including autofill setting and whatnot? I really just don’t want to redo everything and essentially start fresh....
'Near Collisions' of Commercial Jets Happen All the Time: FAA Records (gizmodo.com)
Hawaii Officials Were Warned Years Ago That Maui’s Lahaina Faced High Wildfire Risk (archive.today)
Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla (lunduke.locals.com)
The author may be a right-wing fellow. Nonetheless, the data he exposes are taken from official Mozilla docs.
Funko Pops are this generations Beanie Babies
I was at SDCC this year and I was amazed at how many booths had Funko pops, which was about 20-30% of the booths and there was a line for the Funko area, jam packed with people. I over heard people saying they found some rare ones or newly released that were hard to find....
Apple Explains Why It Won’t Make iPhones With Replaceable Batteries (www.inverse.com)
What happened to Lemmy ML? It had disappeared from my list and I had to log in again.
Did I get punished for saying something wrong? Did it get an update?
It's so nice to see them all growing, but this is just the truth, sorry. (lemmy.ml)
Sync is back on the Play Store, but it's not a third-party Reddit app anymore (www.androidpolice.com)
Consumer demand for speed and convenience drives labor unrest among workers in Hollywood and at UPS (apnews.com)
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those changes, pushing retailers to shift online and intensifying the streaming competition among entertainment companies. Now, from the picket lines, workers are trying to give consumers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a show that can be binged any time or get dog food...
While Android as a whole continues to shrink in the US, Google Pixel keeps growing (9to5google.com)
Android is struggling to keep its market share in the United States, as Apple continues to take over in the market. But, despite Android as a whole losing ground, Google Pixel phones are becoming a bigger slice of the US market....
My Father In Law’s Deathbed confession – what can I do to help?
TL;DR: My father in law (FIL) passed away recently. I visited him a few days before he died and he confessed to knowing where some bodies are buried and wanted me to help make it right....
Mozilla opposes Web Integrity API proposal (github.com)
cross posting from reddit - any coders happy to put in some leg work?
Hi all,...