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Craigp, to random
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I keep catching the last ten seconds of great songs and the first thirty seconds of awful songs.

datarama,
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@Craigp I've (briefly) played in a cover band, and the answer is: It's fun.

Also, it's a reasonably easy way to get your foot in at festivals and concert venues when you're unknown. Musicians I know who currently play in cover bands don't only play in cover bands, typically the cover band is a side project just for kicks.

datarama,
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@Craigp One of the more hilarious examples I've seen was at a metal festival a few years ago. One of the bands was a Cirith Ungol cover band from Greece, and half an hour after their set was done, a thrash metal band went on the other stage.

It was the exact same people. Two of them had swapped instruments, though.

eniko, to random
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cant wait for AAA games to all look like pieces of shit without a cohesive visual style because of utilization of machine learning models while indies become the ones that actually have a unified aesthetic

datarama,
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@eniko Isn't that already kinda where we are?

In the last few years I've played a game that looked like a Ghibli film come to life (Spiritfarer), one that looked like a haunted watercolor painting (Fran Bow), one that looked like the result of beaming a modern workstation and a large budget 30 years back in time (VirtuaVerse), and much more. All indie.

AAA games certainly got that slightly-uncanny hyperrealism down, but ... I haven't seen one that's beautiful in a long time.

thomasfuchs, to random
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There's people arguing that the Apple Crush! ad is "neat" and "fun".

It's literally showing the wanton destruction of things we love and make us human. Including shots that makes you identify with the things as a viewer.

I don't understand what's wrong with people. Do they not have emotions?

datarama,
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@thomasfuchs They're not trying to sell it to laid-off artists and musicians and designers.

They're trying to sell it to the executives laying them off.

Richard_Littler, to bluesky
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Jack Dorsey is furious that #Bluesky has attracted "very very common" people. He also doesn't like the idea of moderation tools facilitating the banning of racists.

All these tech billionaires are like a version of the movie Big, in which a pre-adolescent boy wakes up in the body of an aging Howard Hughes. Or Colonel Kurtz. Or a sardine.
#JackDorsey

datarama,
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@Richard_Littler One morning, when little Jack woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a fascistoid billy goat.

emilymbender, to random
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I would like to remind the world that you actually don't have to get into bed with OpenAI. StackOverflow was a beacon of resistance, but I guess their principles were for sale after all.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

datarama,
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@emilymbender StackOverflow's community moderators were. Their owners made it quite clear that they were hopping on the AI bandwagon last year.

It is all so depressing.

drahardja, to stackoverflow
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The Stack Overflow rugpull is another data point in my head which discourages me from contributing any content to a hoard owned by a corporation.

I’m hoping that ActivityPub will one day enable SO-style knowledge bases in which the individual nuggets of content are owned by independent servers and cannot be purchased by anyone.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

datarama,
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@drahardja But if we have an open knowledge base, AI companies will just take that for free.

datarama,
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@drahardja That depends on whether it's illegal at all, and at this point, a lot of jurisdictions haven't actually made that decision.

(I think "copyright doesn't apply if you're a corporation with enough computational resources, but it does if you're just a person" is the most ridiculous possible interpretation ... but I also have to realize that judges and politicians can be bought.)

datarama,
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@drahardja In the EU, the situation is currently that AI training systems have to "respect a machine-readable opt-out" if training commercial systems (copyright explicitly doesn't cover training research systems, which is probably why eg. Stability funded a "non-profit research lab" to do all the actual data gathering for them).

But the only current way to make such an opt-out is a flaky W3C proposal which is easy to circumvent (https://www.w3.org/community/reports/tdmrep/CG-FINAL-tdmrep-20240202/).

datarama,
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@drahardja Let's say, for example, that I self-publish some free code on my website and set up TDMReP to send its machine-readable response to all requests for it.

Some guy takes a copy of my code and puts it on Github. Now TDMReP no longer sends a machine-readable response for the version there. So now it gets shoved into Copilot and Starcoder and all the rest - and none of them broke the law, since I wasn't sending them a "machine-readable opt-out".

datarama,
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@drahardja I'm not sure if there is even any way to mount an actual legal challenge to this, or if we just kinda have to accept that any human creative work in the future is just free training data now (unless we guard it and keep it secret - and then what's the point?)

drahardja, to apple
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I reflexively cringed when I saw this ad. Not only is it wasteful, the message sent across appears to be that Apple literally crushes all the things you like to make the new iPad.

Tone-deaf.

#apple #iPad #advertising

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc

datarama,
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@drahardja They appear to have made the perfect anti-advertisement - not just against themselves, but against the entire tech industry.

"We will crush everything you love and value, and we will sell you a piece of glass in its stead."

mcc, to random
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

datarama,
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@mcc @chris I've said it before and I'm sorry if I sound like a broken record:

Then they'll just scrape from the Stack Overflow replacement. Any creative works any human ever puts on the internet again is just training data now. There is no way we can share code with each other anymore without also giving it as a free gift to Sam fucking Altman and his ilk.

Richard_Littler, to apple
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One of the most depressing ads I've seen, and yet it perfectly captures the presumptuousness and obliviousness of 21st C 'tech bro' culture, which seems hellbent on running roughshod over, well, any kind of creativity that it can't exploit financially. https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/1787864325258162239
#apple

datarama,
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@Richard_Littler They have unwittingly created a perfect anti-advertisement for the entire tech industry.

datarama, to random
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Where do people who self-host their websites, mastodon instances etc. actually host things these days?

(Hetzner are villains now, and so are DigitalOcean I gather?)

datarama,
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@allpurposemat A 100 Mbps ethernet adapter is a good deal faster than the junk going out of my house!

datarama,
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@allpurposemat I live in a city centre in a Nordic country; it's just that fibre rollout has been very, very patchy. (It's very expensive and time-consuming to dig here, compared to suburbs and the countryside.)

datarama, to random
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Endgame doesn't exist, but I think this is as close as I am ever going to get.

skinnylatte, to animals
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17yo cat and 15yo dog. I love posting my pet photos because I think it’s important that people see how you can have a great time with super senior pets!

A very old Cavalier King Charles sitting next to a person

datarama,
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@skinnylatte 16yo blue-tongue skink sends a friendly blep.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Mood

Wider shot, lizard is chilling outside our front door

datarama,
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@thomasfuchs I see a lizard, I favourite.

gabrielesvelto, to lotr
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Today my 9yo daughter asked me a surprisingly pointed question about the dwarves of #Moria: if they dug an entire underground realm, where did they put all the material excavated during the process? #LotR

datarama,
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@gabrielesvelto I'm guessing LoTR mountains are dwarf molehills.

datarama,
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@gabrielesvelto My favourite Generic Fantasyland Dwarf paradox is this:

Everybody knows they're famous for dwarven ale!

But ... they live underground. Where do they grow the barley? Is the famous stuff all made of imports?

lauren, to random
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Pretty sure Kristi Noem shot away her chances of being Trump's VP pick. Good riddance.

datarama,
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@lauren I'd guess someone openly advertising being a cruel sociopath would improve their chances?

thomasfuchs, to random
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Please someone tell me this isn’t real https://503junk.house/@rose/112349387538932488

datarama,
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@thomasfuchs 404 Media wrote about it about a week ago. It is, unfortunately, quite real.

hrefna, to random
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Transphobes: "It's basic biology!"

Also transphobes: "Men don't have pelvises."

Also transphobes: "Adult human chicken."

datarama,
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@hrefna men... don't have pelvises? what?

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