People want the Democrats to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING. This shows that he’s at least willing to stand for something, and that goes a long way.

I dunno, all I see on Roku is an image banner on the home screen. I never even look at it.

I don’t think anyone is going to change their views over an Internet post or conversation. Maybe someone might come around on a particular topic if an argument really resonates with them, but someone changing their entire worldview can take years. But sure, I think it’s possible given enough conversation and slight nudging over time, given they aren’t being more radicalized by other content every day.

Yeah, normal YouTube is totally unwatchable. If you have a Roku device, the Playlet app can let you watch without ads. There are probably methods for other devices too.

AI often gets painted as people vs businesses, but that’s not necessarily what it is in many cases. The EFF is arguing for fair use, which is something that they have stood for as long as I can remember. As the article argues, the businesses creating AIs can easily abide by this law, it’s the little guys training things that would be impacted the most.

Would it be possible for a browser or extension to just provide false metadata in order to subvert this type of fingerprinting?

I think floorp looks interesting, but I haven’t moved to it yet.

All I want is something that does a sidebar as well as Vivaldi. Why is a sidebar so difficult?

Was it every bit as good as you had hoped?

Found a frog in the toilet once.

It’s certainly been odd to watch the general perceptions on copyright shift as AI has come around. From what I can tell, it stems from a general David vs Goliath mentality. Years ago when filesharing started to come around, it was seen as the common people against the large corporations. The MPAA would try to tell us that downloading a movie is “stealing” and we all told them to fuck off. Now, culture has changed, a lot more people consider themselves to be creators, or social media lets people feel closer to creators. Now, its the big tech companies up against individual artists. Rather than seeing it in terms of copyright itself, people just see big bad company against little guys.

Meme coins DON’T justify their valuation. That’s why they’re called meme coins.

Figure out what you want to do, and make a plan to do it. Obviously some stuff is more achievable than others, but there are surely some things that you can do.

Per the article, they just developed a faster algorithm for a specific type of material simulation.

This looks like it has some potential. I’ll probably give this a try.

It may vary depending on your jurisdiction. Under US copyright law, I believe that generated images are not copyrightable, so you wouldn’t have any protections from anyone copying your cover, but I doubt that’s a big concern. The model or service that you use may also have various terms in their license that restrict what you are allowed to do with the generated images. Finally, you also need to make sure that your image isn’t violating someone else’s copyright. If you generate an image that is too similar to an existing image, that could be problematic.

The way I see it, it’s not so much an issue of making something that’s better than the other standards. It’s really about getting your standard into actual use and hitting critical mass which makes all the other standards irrelevant.

I would flip the question. If there is a heaven or afterlife, then what is the point of living? Really, what’s the point if you just get another awesome life later on? Is this all meaningless aside from proving to God that you will praise him?

Without an afterlife, then the life right now takes on so much more weight and importance, because it’s all you get.

About a year ago I started trying to check out peertube to see if it was worthwhile for uploading my videos to. My first challenge was just finding instances to sign up on. Most of them didn’t allow registration. Then for the ones I did find, streaming videos was very slow and laggy. In some cases, I couldn’t even view videos. And then, it seemed that I could only search for videos that existed on that particular instance.

Like I said, this was a year ago so maybe it’s improved. But in general, it seemed totally unusable for someone just looking for a way to share videos.

When computers took minutes to boot, it was annoying. In the days before computers had a suspend feature, you might be turning a computer on and off multiple times a day, and you would just have to wait a while before you could do anything. In the days of windows 95 and some of the subsequent releases, you would just expect to get the blue screen of death constantly, and keep having to reboot. Install something and have to reboot. Waiting on rebooting added up to quite a chunk of time.

These days, I reboot my pc once a week or less, and then it’s back up within a minute. So yeah, it doesn’t even bother me now because it’s such a non-issue. But that’s just because of all the progress that has been made in that area over the decades.

Just watch the prices rise after he implements tariffs.