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Big fan of SBC gaming, open source engine recreations/source ports, gaming in general, alternative operating systems, and all things modding.

Trying to post and comment often in an effort to add to Lemmy’s growth.

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This gives me red wine Facebook mom vibes

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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How does this compare to other music streaming services these days?

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“We want to ensure that people have maximum control to the extent that it doesn’t violate the law or other peoples’ rights,” Joanne Jang, a member of the product team at OpenAI, told NPR. “There are creative cases in which content involving sexuality or nudity is important to our users.”

The other problem in my mind is the fallibility of current safeguards. OpenAI and rivals have been refining their filtering and moderation tools for years. But users constantly discover workarounds that enable them to abuse the companies’ AI models, apps and platforms.

Some highlights from the article.

It seems like AI porn is inevitable and OpenAI has safeguards in mind for exploitative content so it doesn't seem like a horrendous idea.

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To find very specific content?

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Am I the only one who finds this so weird when we talk about LLMs? If someone makes a bot that resembles some specific person, that person’s rights aren’t really violated, and since they’re all fictional content, it is very hard to break actual laws through its content. At that point we would have to also ban people’s weird fan fiction, no?

Not arguing about whatever they want or don’t want on their platform, but the legal & alleged moral questions / arguments always weird me out a bit, because there’s no one actually getting hurt in any sort of way by weirdos having weird chats with computers.

I could see some people making the argument that it could be considered defamatory especially in cases where it is being peddled as real. Politicians might even try to link it in with revenge porn or other non-consensual pornography laws.

It would sure get messy in a hurry though. Imagine someone trying to make lewd photos of Tomb Raider's Laura Croft for example and accidentally generates images resembling Alicia Vikander or Angelina Jolie from the Tomb Raider movie.

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I recall some people using Akinator to find pornstars they might be interested so you might be onto something.

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I feel like it's going to be a challenge to find a definition of malicious most people agree on.

Someone might think it's fine to make nudes of Captain Marvel for example because she's a character. They don't really care about the Brie Larson aspect.

I suppose there is the option to eliminate any kind of name based suggestions.

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When I was in high school we didn't know how to mix drinks so we did it half and half. I can only imagine if this contained the same ratio

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Are you telling me all the podcasters I listen to didn't naturally have the same experience with HelloFresh?

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I feel like I've heard more jokes about Arch Linux and Gentoo than OpenSUSE

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Another catalyst is one company buying another. I cannot think of one example where the acquired company’s product/services got better after a M and A.

I feel like there have been some positive outcomes of mergers and acquisitions but I am having trouble thinking of them. What comes to my mind is Meta acquiring Oculus, Activision merging with Blizzard, and Microsoft acquiring Minecraft. All of those have led to a shitty Russian nesting doll of launchers and DRM.

The positives might be harder to note though. There must have been a couple times where some kind of acquisition has brought a series into the mainstream.

I know a lot of people prefer the classic Fallout games but I do wonder how people would be aware of the series if it weren't for Bethesda buying the right to Fallout for example.

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I don't think it's required by law for a publicly traded company to increase profits. I think that's a side effect of shareholders voting.

If Microsoft held a vote on whether or not disclose a report covering diversity I feel like the board would recommend against it and a majority of voters would agree because it could mean decreasing their stock's value.

There is a thing called ethical investing but that can mean investing in stocks that will see lower gains.

All-in-all I feel like it depends a lot on the core of the company and what percentage of the company belongs to different people.

To be clear: I am not a professional and am drunk. This is just my two cents on the topic.

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I'm not sure. Portal and Team Fortress both have really interesting back stories that I think have a bit to do with Valve acquisitions

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You might be interested in Portal on the N64 while you're at it.

I'd check out Narbacular Drop. Pretty sure that's the game that I'm talking about that became Portal, in a way, later.

There was a good YouTube video about it a while ago but I think it had a clickbait title that makes it hard to find.

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Part of this process will involve porting apps to HarmonyOS and encouraging other app developers to code for the platform.

"In the China market, Huawei smartphone users spend 99 percent of their time on about 5,000 apps. So we decided to spend 2024 porting these apps over to HarmonyOS first in our drive to truly unify the OS and the app ecosystem. We are also encouraging other apps to be ported over to HarmonyOS," Xu said.

According to Huawei's rotating chairman, more than 4,000 of those apps are already in the process of being transferred, and the company is "communicating with developers" on the 1,000 or so apps that remain.

I haven't looked into HarmonyOS before but is the plan to work off of a compatibility layer like Wine or Anbox?

I have no idea how detached it is from Android or how willing companies are to embrace it.

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Interesting. Thanks for filling me in

Reddit Is Taking Over Google (tech.slashdot.org)

Reddit, Quora, and other internet forums that have climbed up through the traditional set of Google links. Data analysis from Semrush, which predicts traffic based on search ranking, shows that traffic to Reddit has climbed at an impressive clip since August 2023. Semrush estimated that Reddit had over 132 million visitors in...

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It makes sense. Adding Reddit to my online searches has been my "life hack" for years now. If only Reddit wasn't becoming annoying as fuck with things like their new UI, blocking third party apps, and finally blocking off VPN users.

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That's a good question. I wonder if there are available user numbers for them.

I imagine it's regional and depends on what communities you are in. SimpleX chat seems pretty popular these days in privacy circles but I could see something like Briar being useful if traditional networks weren't reliably available for example.

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I feel like a lot of the military probably uses Facebook messenger because of the convenience.

I imagine everyone is creating groupchats and assuming other people use Facebook just like pretty much every other job.

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Totally but people do get careless. We've seen it a few times with the war in the Ukraine. /r/VolunteersForUkraine is a good example of that.

I imagine it could be difficult stressing the importance of it to loved ones.

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I was wondering if Void was still popular. It was kind of feeling like NixOS took all its hype

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Says the boomer who would get confrontational about their pet being misgendered

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    This is similar to the Can Android phones be considered Linux phones? debate. At some point you've walled off and pigeonholed the device or OS enough it becomes something else entirely.

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    Is GrapheneOS that much more like Linux?

    I feel like what you are saying is on the same level as installing Termux on a rooted Android phone. There might be some quirks of GrapheneOS I am unaware of though.

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    Would you feel the same way about a Linux computer that was limited to Snap packages?

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    Are you really running Gentoo if you haven't put your computer in a fridge?

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    I don't think it's really relevant then. The argument is more about wanting a traditional Linux experience on mobile phones and Android operating systems (including GrapheneOS) being too far removed from that. Breaking away from Google is more of a possible positive byproduct

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    Crouton is available as well if you're feeling wild

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    You could also use Windows Subsystem for Linux.

    I don't think the Chromebook aspect of it matters; it's just another piece of hardware.

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    Doesn't MacOS have more in common with BSD than Linux?

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    Oof I hadn't thought of that. I was more thinking of general use applications like Firefox, Transmission, and Steam.

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    Other people have mentioned the limitations of the hardware so I won't bother rehashing it but I do think there is a lot of potential in a Linux distro for phones.

    Right now Linux phones are incredibly niche but we have seen some improvements in software around the release of the PinePhone and the Pro model so I have hope that it will, eventually, work. SailfishOS is a paid OS and is a fairly limited but it does feel quite smooth to daily drive on supported devices. Simple frequent tasks (ex. Finding public transit routes to a coffee shop) do seem to take longer to complete on Linux phones but I am hoping that will be sorted in the next couple years.

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    As others have pointed out it's going to vary from service to service. It's like how some VPNs aren't blocked by Netflix.

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    Not the original person replying but I tried it as well and opening the app gives me the same error message.

    There's a message at the bottom that says

    Stealth might stop working soon

    that when clicked says

    https://leminal.space/pictrs/image/6ed1ff66-f563-42e1-aeb1-6ad8262e07e6.jpeg

    Considering it talks about old.reddit.com I imagine the VPN issue is effecting it as well.

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    I wonder if the Tor version of Reddit still works

    https://forum.torproject.org/t/reddit-onion-service-launch/5305

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    It seems to not be effecting all VPN connections, I'm wondering if yours just hasn't been blocked yet?

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    I wonder if there's a lost media page for it if that's the case

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    Is Cinnamon still the default?

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    Just a heads up if you liked Xavier Renegade Angel you might like The Shivering Truth. It's more horror oriented but I'd say almost equally surreal.

    how can something be so courageous and yet so true (slrpnk.net)

    Edit: Jesus Christ, people. If you buy a $150 Thinkpad made by slave labor instead of a $1,200 MacBook made by slave labor, you're still supporting a capitalist economy based on slave labor. We all do. We have no choice. The number of smug liberals in the comments saying "well I buy a cheap used laptop" or "well I buy coffee...

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    It's because they aren't using a used ThinkPad

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    Are there Asus laptops out there that support the same level of reparability/upgradability as ThinkPads?

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    That's kind of neat. At that price point it seems kind of in between a ThinkPad and Framework laptop.

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    Here's an Action Retro video on HaikuOS that briefly talks about the Fallon browser. It compares it to other web browsers.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-NMDYT-hCOk

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    Reminds me of the photo where someone wrote in different colors and used different lenses to decipher them

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    https://leminal.space/pictrs/image/2b06405d-ca7d-4719-80f2-2ab27f325e39.jpeg

    Perhaps?

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    In case the JPEG crusty watermark didn't give it away this meme was stolen

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    *wide

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