KairuByte

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Google paying Firefox explicitly to make Google the default search engine. That doesn’t mean they own Firefox in any way shape or form. Firefox routinely makes anti Google decisions, and acts against googles interest. It’s pretty clear they aren’t googles bitch.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

You appear to be lost, corporate deepthroaters anonymous is down the hall on the left.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Eh…. I don’t know that I can agree with this.

I understand the intent behind it, but this specific instance is legitimately in parallel with impersonators, or satire. Hear me out.

They are impersonating his voice, using new content in his style, and make no claim to be legitimate.

So this comes down to “this is in bad taste” which, while I can understand and might even agree with… isn’t illegal.

The only novel concept in this, is that “scary tech” was used. There was no fraud, there was no IP violation, and no defamation. Where is the legal standing?

KairuByte , 5 months ago

The problem with that is that you can’t protect “pace of tone” and “body language” under law.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Is the video monetized?

KairuByte , 5 months ago

I didn’t say this was satire, I said it was in line with satire on a legal front. And why did you ignore the “impersonator” line immediately before it and jump straight into parody?

They sampled his work, yes. To get voice, pacing, image, etc. they didn’t then have it spit out copies, or even remixes of his previous work, they had it create new content and made it clear it was not him.

I don’t see this as any different than an impersonator watching hundreds of hours of his routines, getting into character visually and verbally, and walking out on stage to do their own routine.

In fact, let me just ask directly: would you be taking issue with this if it was a real human, no AI involved, who had dressed and trained to move and sound approximately like the man, and then filmed it and put it online? Would you say that is illegal?

KairuByte , 5 months ago

It is not in any way in line with Satire.

Oh good, you understood what I said.

If a real human did this, no AI involved, then that human's interpretation of Carlin's mannerisms, speech patterns, and humor would all be much more varied than if that human remixed Carlin's own words and copied his own imagery.

Tell me you’ve never seen a high quality impersonator without telling me you’ve never seen a high quality impersonator. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Plus, if somebody came out on stage and started calling themselves Stephen Colbert or Larry the Cable Guy, then guess what? That's fucking illegal.

No, it really isn’t. Why would it be? Is Carlin a law enforcement officer? Is there an attempt to commit fraud I missed in the middle? What law do you think impersonating a random person breaks?

Not to mention, the title description and opening line make it pretty obvious this isn’t Carlin.

I also noticed a lot of skirting around my question with a distinct lack of a direct answer. So I’ll ask it again: If that was a human who put out the exact same video, and AI was not involved, would you have a problem with it? Because it really seems like you wouldn’t.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

So you’re telling me you’ve never heard of celebrity impersonators? Elvis would be one of the more famously impersonated, but even living individuals have impersonators. Hilariously, there have been stories of impersonators winning in an impersonation contest when the actual individual being impersonated was also in the contest.

You k ow what doesn’t happen with celebrity impersonators? They don’t get arrested or successfully sued. Because there’s nothing illegal about it.

Now, the CnD Colbert got is a different story. He likely signed paperwork saying he wouldn’t “be the character” after leaving. Not to mention, he was the literal actor who portrays that character.

On the other hand, you notice how SNL doesn’t get sued for their impersonations?…

Are you noticing a theme yet?

Because I am. You just won’t answer my simple question. So let me jump to the assumption that you’d be fine with it if it was fully human made. That begs the question, why is AI different? If the poster came out tomorrow with proof AI was not involved, why would it suddenly be okay?

KairuByte , 5 months ago

How does that make sense from a legal standpoint? Because a human made the AI.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Eh… yes and no. On the one hand, kids are undoubtedly addicted to social media, and their screen time should be limited for the sake of their mental health.

On the other hand, this is absolutely not going to limit most kids time on social media. They aren’t idiots, and some of them are (properly) tech savvy. Meaning a bunch of kids are going to find an easy workaround, and spread that info around.

And this is almost certainly going to result in an ID requirement similar to the laws requiring ID for porn sites in certain companies. And unlike PornHub, I don’t trust that Facebook, Twitter, Reddit or the others are going to actually have integrity when it comes to ID laws.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Some paid VPNs can handle it as well, but yeah you likely want something self hosted.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

You’re assuming no judge has ever rubber stamped a warrant without reading it?…

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Most people saying anything around those lines doesn’t actually care about justice or doing the right thing, they just want someone to come to harm, and it not be their fault or responsibility.

It’s like anonymity online. As long as they aren’t directly involved they are fine with it.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Battery is weight. Putting that weight off the head and into a back pocket is imho a very acceptable solution to the weight problem.

And for the record, VR is already “a thing”. Has been for years now. It’s mainstream, it’s on multiple platforms, and even has standalone offerings.

“Chunky pair of glasses” already exists as a VR device, but they are highly personalized and prohibitively expensive.

As for “it’s basically a smartphone strapped to your face” I’m not sure how you’d break away from that? A smartphone is just an ultra compact PC with a screen. A VR device like you’re talking about is… just an ultra compact PC with 2 screens and some lenses. The reason they are so similar in your mind is because they are essentially the same thing, just in a different form factor.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

The screen is only a real factor as weight when the devices are trying to cut costs. The Quest for example, isn’t marketed as a high end product, and even the Quest Pro is cutting corners. One of those corners is the screen.

Take a look at Bigscreen Beyond. They are about the size of swim goggles with the middle filled in. But as I said, they are highly personalized. You likely can’t share them, even with someone who has a similar face shape and eye position. Though they are PCVR and tethered, but as a first iteration by the company it’s pretty decent. They do have a price tag of $1k though.

And I find it odd that you can’t stand VR for more than minutes at a time. I was an early adopter, and while the Oculus DKs were harsh, the CV1 was comfortable enough for me to play for hours on end. The Rift S is still my go to. Though I’m likely going to be snagging a Beyond when I have the cash to spare.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

They’d be pulling that money out of our wages. They certainly aren’t going to give the C level execs a pay cut, never mind less of a pay raise or bonus.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Yes, though the optics on the front facing camera are quite lacking in comparison. You’ll always get a better picture with the back cameras, but it’s just easier to use the front.

That said, I do just use the front facing camera.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

To expand on this, we have functionally ran out of IPv4 addresses. Meaning IPv6 addresses are required.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

How is this an mis-scan? Everything was scanned into the system, all recognized, all properly entered. The problem came with the display of that information. There was nothing wrong with the scan.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Lies? What lies? They went home and said “I found this situation annoying.” How is that a lie?…

KairuByte , 5 months ago

My god the amount of delusion in this comment is insane.

• Yes it is. It is undeniably true that fluoride improves tooth health, and improves your health overall as a result.

• I don’t believe it was ever a conspiracy theory that there weren’t WMDs. At least nothing beyond some random ass people in some corner of the internet. If we are including them though, literally everything is a conspiracy theory.

• This isn’t true. The fact that they need to pay companies for information they can’t legally get elsewhere is proof of this. If they were spying on everything, they’d already know everything and there would be no crime. Unless you’re denying that assasination attempts happen on top government officials?

• This isn’t even something that’s been proven beyond “well they haven’t said nothing happened so that means something happened!”

• New world order is just bullshit. There’s never any actual proof of this theory beyond “omg government officials talk to each other! Conspiracy confirmed!”

• Take your anti vaccine bullshit elsewhere. There is a mountain of evidence to support the “safe and effective” claims, and the people who try to debunk it literally don’t even understand what they are talking about. If you cross reference their data or what they claim something means, the holes are obvious. It’s the dunning center effect mixed with “I did my own research.”

• UFOs existing was never “admitted to” by Congress. No more than “Jewish space lasers” starting forest fires. Three people said something in front of Congress, presented no evidence, and some of it wasn’t even first hand knowledge. How is that a confirmation exactly?

• MKUltra was not what people claimed was happening when it comes to brain washing. The claim is almost always about sleeper agents who don’t know they are brainwashed carrying out activities only when they are “activated.” While I don’t doubt this has been attempted, it’s literally impossible with our understanding of the human brain at present.

• Are you admitting you’re a bot? Or a shill?

• This is just a given. Many powerful people are also: Sadistic, masochistic, like being pissed on, like pissing on people, are gay, are trans, are intersex, are murderers, sleep more than 10 hours a day. This is just how things work. If you get a large enough group of people, you’ll be able to find a subset that match any criteria you set.

KairuByte , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

High concentrations of fluoride, sure. It’ll upset your stomach. Can even be toxic if you drink too much, but we’re talking over 10mg a day, when most of the time 1L of water has 0.7mg of fluoride. So unless you’re drinking over 14 liters of water a day, you’ll be just fine. And if you’re drinking that much water, you’re already at risk of water intoxication which is more concerning.

But in order to actually cause real harm you’re going to need to be eating large amounts of toothpaste and such.

Edit: To put this into perspective. Vitamin A, an essential vitamin humans require, which we literally go blind without (among other things) can be toxic when you take more than 3mg of it a day. That’s less than a third of fluoride. Just because something can become toxic in higher doses doesn’t mean it’s toxic when used properly.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Eh? Matter is an open source standard, not proprietary in the slightest.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

As long as that factor is auth app based, and not email/text/call/proprietary app I’m all in. If I need to go digging for the second factor for 5 minutes, I’m almost always going to turn it off. Texts emails and calls all get delayed regularly, and it’s super fun to have to sit with my thumb up my ass waiting 10 minutes for an OTP that was good for 5.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

That’s also a less secure version of 2fa. Granted, it is still better than nothing, but sim spoofing is still a thing that happens regularly. Making it much less useful in a targeted attack.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Precisely, my brain just completely forgot the term for it and after minutes of not being able to remember for the list of my I just loosely described it. TOTP is exactly what I meant.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

A smartphone is infinitely more secure than relying on a SIM card not being compromised. A little social engineering can get you access to receive a text as the link isn’t even controlled by you but a third party. An app on your phone is likely secured by a pin/biometric, and a password/pin/biometric, both controlled by you.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Oh cmon, you can get a smartphone literally for free these days. And yes, having a cell phone of some type is pretty much a requirement to live in the 23rd century. Even if you are just communicating over free McDonalds wifi (no shame, been there done that) you pretty much need a smart phone in the modern world.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Whoops, lmao. Obviously I meant the 21st century. Definitely not a time traveler.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

I don’t believe you can put an arbitrary financial penalty on something like that. Closest you could get is “no recording of meetings” in an NDA. However, if the allegation is breaking of the law, which this seems like since they are attempting to fire for cause instead of it being a layoff, you can’t cover illegal activity with an NDA. Meaning this would still be releasable.

Though I’m not a lawyer, so don’t take my random rambling as legal advice.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

And hilariously, more and more tools that don’t even require browsing the sites exist, just has jackett. Though I suppose that may just be considered a visit in this case.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Two things:

• A free solution was already being talked about.
• You can easily run pihole/adguard home on $20 hardware by following basic tutorials. It’s far from complex.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Everyone’s giving actual answers, but I have a question: Are you inebriated?

KairuByte , 5 months ago

By country, yeah.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

I mean, pure? No. But also not at all linked to this topic. They can get fediverse data whether or not they are federated.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Could be that your client, like mine, doesn’t support this particular flavor of markdown, or the markdown could just be wrong. I’m honestly not sure which.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

I think you mean enterprise? I don’t believe Pro allows you to completely disable auto updates. Furthest I think you can do is turn them off for at most 2 weeks?

Unless you mean with group policies or disabling services, which I believe is still possible even in Home.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Agreed, and I say that in every one of these discussions. :)

The only time auto updates should be disabled is on machines with an uptime requirement, which should have regularly scheduled maintenance which includes updating their software. And of course any critical security updates should be installed asap even if it’s outside the normal maintenance window.

KairuByte , 5 months ago

Why would they not? There’s no way for such a system to know it’s AI generated unless there’s some metadata that makes it obvious. And even if it was, who’s to say the user wouldn’t want to see them in the results?

This is a nothing issue. It’s not like this is being generated in response to a search, it’s something that already existed being returned as a result because there is assembly something that links it to the search.

KairuByte , 6 months ago

The irony is, you pirating today has been shown to influence you buying it later on in a sale. And there’s a good argument to be made about your word of mouth praise helping their sales.

KairuByte , 8 months ago

Love how it doesn’t mention the fact that services are getting objectively worse content as they stretch thin, are increasing their prices across the board, and cracking down on password sharing which was previously touted as a benefit.

KairuByte , 8 months ago

Don’t forget to price out your time and labor.

KairuByte , 8 months ago

Running your own DNS server doesn’t do much, unless your users are polling that DNS server, or a DNS server that pulls from it. No large DNS provider is going to honor your random ass DNS servers mappings, and that’s a good thing.

And honestly, trusting some random DNS server isn’t a good idea. All it takes is one malicious entry and https://google.com suddenly loads in a cryptominer.

KairuByte , 9 months ago

O.o Do you understand what Cloudflare actually does?

KairuByte , 9 months ago

While that can indeed be considered an issue, the idea that this somehow makes the internet objectively worse is debatable.

KairuByte , 9 months ago

That is an objectively untrue statement.

KairuByte , 9 months ago

I always chuckle when I see someone censoring an internal IP. It’s like intentionally not naming the room you’re in (kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, etc) when you’re on the phone so the person on the other end can’t find you on a globe.