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conorab , 2 days ago to Memes in I laughed so hard the entire time I was making this 😂😂😂

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conorab , 2 days ago to Memes in big spiders

So much better than my FunnelWAP. Best it can do is 100 KillerBytes. :(

conorab , 3 days ago to Memes in big spiders

Wait you’re getting MEGAbits?!

conorab , 3 days ago to Technology in Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App

Could it be a fear of a software patent relating to the design? Back in the day Apple had one for swipe to unlock that prompted Android to use different patterns.

conorab , 10 days ago to Technology in Listen to the AI-Generated Ripoff Songs That Got Udio and Suno Sued

I have really mixed feelings about this. My stance is that I don’t you should need permission to train on somebody else’s work since that is far too restrictive on what people can do with the music (or anything else) they paid for. This assumes it was obtained fairly: buying the tracks of iTunes or similar and not torrenting them or dumping the library from a streaming service. Of course, this can change if a song it taken down from stores (you can’t buy it) or the price is so high that a normal person buying a small amount of songs could not afford them (say 50 USD a track). Same goes for non-commercial remixing and distribution. This is why I thinking judging these models and services on output is fairer: as long as you don’t reproduce the work you trained on I think that should be fine. Now this needs some exceptions: producing a summary, parody, heavily-changed version/sample (of these, I think this is the only one that is not protected already despite widespread use in music already).

So putting this all together: the AIs mentioned seem to have re-produced partial copies of some of their training data, but it required fairly tortured prompts (I think some even provided lyrics in the prompt to get there) to do so since there are protections in place to prevent 1:1 reproductions; in my experience Suno rejects requests that involve artist names and one of the examples puts spaces between the letters of “Mariah”. But the AIs did do it. I’m not sure what to do with this. There have been lawsuits over samples and melodies so this is at least even handed Human vs AI wise. I’ve seen some pretty egregious copies of melodies too outside remixed and bootlegs to so these protections aren’t useless. I don’t know if maybe more work can be done to essentially Content ID AI output first to try and reduce this in the future? That said, if you wanted to just avoid paying for a song there are much easier ways to do it than getting a commercial AI service to make a poor quality replica. The lawsuit has some merit in that the AI produced replicas it shouldn’t have, but much of this wreaks of the kind of overreach that drives people to torrents in the first place.

conorab , 1 month ago to Memes in Bro

The mayor’s office. It’s always in the mayor’s office.

conorab , 1 month ago to Technology in Dell Data Breach

If sellers can prove that they never touch a customers home address they’re less exposed to data breaches which might look good on for insurance companies.

Honestly, this sounds it something a shipping company could provide. When you go to use Paypal for example, you get redirected to their site, put in your details and they complete the transaction without the seller knowing your financial data. The same could be done with shipping.

conorab , 1 month ago to Memes in Just one more lane

This is the most infuriating part. The best solution to these issues is to remove the need to move in the first place, and WFH for the people that want it and who can do it removes a huge amount of traffic with comparably little cost (company laptop, a screen and maybe a desk and chair, many of which could just be taken from the office).

conorab , 1 month ago to Technology in Dell Data Breach

My preference would be for WHOIS data to be private unless the owner wants to reveal who they are. I do think it makes sense to require the owner to provide that information to the registrar so it can be obtained by the courts if needed.

conorab , 1 month ago to Technology in Dell Data Breach

I wish we had something like temporary/alias e-mail addresses for physical addresses. So you go to ship something, you provide a shipping alias which the shipping company then derives the true address from and ships the item. The moment the true address is revealed, the alias expires and can no longer be used. This way only the shipping company gets to know your real address and that is ideally discarded once the order has been completed. So forward shipping without the extra step.

conorab , 1 month ago to Memes in I am reminded of Shia's flag.

They will not… combine us? Just forget about the whole “almost every community is on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world” thing. :P

conorab , 2 months ago to Memes in NOT EVEN MORTAL, MACHINE! A MERE OBJECT!

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Nah. He’s a moron. I bet he couldn’t even punch me into a pit.

conorab , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Best practice for mounting usb storage in Proxmox

This is why people say not to use USB for permanent storage. But, to answer the question:

• From memory, “nofail” means the machine continues to boot if the drive does not show up which explains why it’s showing up as 100GB: you’re seeing the size of the disk mounted to / .
• If the only purpose of these drives is to be passed through to Open Media Vault, why not pass through the drives as USB devices? At least that way only OMV will fail and not the whole host.
• Why USB? Can the drives ve shucked and connected directly to the host or do they use a propriety connector to the drive itself that prevents that?

conorab , 2 months ago to Memes in Yeah I tried to access the app and checked downdetector it's down

What happens if the instance which hosts the community is down but other instances are online? I just made a post to a community on an instance that doesn’t exist anymore, but will other instances get that post, or is it reliant on the instance which hosts the community coming back online?

conorab , 2 months ago to Memes in Public Service Announcement

The general idea that somebody who works a lot of hours is a good/hard worker in contrast to the amount of work actually completed.