i wonder why other devs don't seem to localize to (brazilian) portuguese. the 2nd highest country for wishlists for kitsune tails is brazil (7% vs USA 40%), and historically we've had lots of sales from brazil. i get that the price per unit for that region is low but come on that's still a lot of fans you're leaving out in the cold by not localizing your game for them
@eniko Genuine question, got any idea of if the increased sales would cover the cost of a translation? I feel that even if it’s a wash it means a potentially bigger audience and a translator gets paid.
(Since I prefer English even if my native tongue is supported I genuinely have no clue. And a fair number of people do speak English as well.)
Much as I dislike the theft of human labor that feeds many of the #generativeAI products we see today, I have to agree with @pluralistic that #copyright law is the wrong way to address the problem.
To frame the issue concretely: think of whom copyright law has benefited in the past, and then explain how it would benefit the individual creator when it is applied to #AI. (Hint: it won’t.)
Copyright law is already abused and extended to an absurd degree today. It already overreaches. It impoverishes society by putting up barriers to creation and allowing toll-collectors to exist between citizen artists and their audience.
Labor law is likely what we need to lean on. #unions and #guilds protect creators in a way that copyright cannot. Inequality and unequal bargaining power that lead to exploitation of artists and workers is what we need to address head-on.
@drahardja@pluralistic You are right that copyright can’t save us, but I think Pandora’s box is open and we can’t close it again. Whether we want to or not. As pro union/guild that I am (hint: a lot) I see this as loosing battle.
We are seeing the move to post scarcity right now. Art can be copied for virtually no cost at this point. With data breaches almost daily on top of that.
I think taxes and UBI might be the only way. At least it’s the only thing I can come up with myself.
“I understand that this period of change may be challenging and that patience is not easy when expecting to be paid, however, I want to express my sincere appreciation for your understanding and support as we navigate through this transition.”
@drahardja You have to hand it to DeLorean, his downfall was at least interesting in a crime movie type of way.
This whole thing is just baffling. As an outsider it feels like everything is done in the worst possible way. So many crazy reports about so many different things.
i went through several failed iterations of a feature on kitsune tails yesterday so felt like i had gotten nothing done. but i have redeemed myself by completing two major tasks today, so thats good
@orci I was kind of amazed to find out that there are black squirrels (got one or two in the yard here), white ones (both albino and just white fur), and red ones (and not the superior and more awesome looking Sciurus Vulgaris).
This on top of the normal gray ones. And I’ve seen all four (no albino afaik) in the cities myself.
Did they keep interacting through the window or was it a lucky quick shot? It’s a great photo!
Man, not again. #Apple sells seriously under-specced devices to maintain their “starting from…” price and then upselling people to actually-usable models. Remember those 16 GB flash iPhones they kept selling (2010–2016! I checked!), even though that meant people didn’t even have enough space to update their OS? 8 GB RAM is that, once more, but for runtime memory.
I think the 256 GB flash, 8 GB RAM minimum-spec Mac is a low-resource trap for anyone who wants to use a computer for more than light web browsing (and I mean light—web pages are resource hogs these days) or a messaging client. They are certainly not suitable for anyone wanting to locally store or edit media.
For 2024, I think 512 GB flash and 16 GB RAM should be minimum for MacBook Air, while 1 TB and 32 GB RAM should be minimum for MacBook Pro.
“Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM”
@drahardja Apple’s memory prices (RAM and disk) have been my biggest gripe with the hardware since I got my first Mac. They are terrible and it irks me. I think it will end up biting them in the end.
The rampant pillaging and straight-up “appropriation” of human-generated training data from the Internet—without compensation—is a hallmark of many of today’s #AI giants. Now that they are starting to step on some wealthy toes, I think litigation is about to smack them down hard this year. NYTimes got a head start; who’s next?
“YouTube CEO warns OpenAI that training models on its videos is against the rules”
i sure hope nobody figures out that kitsune tails save files are just a proprietary binary version of json thats fairly human readable and so easy to reverse engineer and hacks them for their own purposes 🥺
@sayomgwtf This made me chuckle. I’m watching an Ironmouse Twitch stream right now, and one of the things she’s famous for is her love for cinnamoroll and how many she has.
@TechConnectify@vl_tone@teotwaki YouTube has started to do this thing where the third suggestion on the “the video is done” screen (AppleTV) is some very low view video that still seems to be in a category similar to what I usually watch.
The idea of giving the little guy a shot now and then feels good.
@drahardja It felt incredibly hand wavy and I never heard a single explanation of what it’s actually meant to do. So it felt like a no brainer to avoid.
But I wonder if the ratio has changed over time. Is it getter harder to actually come up with and execute a new good product in 2024? Or is it just in my head?