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tiramichu

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  • Netflix Puts AI Ads in Paid Tier: Pirate Everything at This Point

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  • Every major shift in how media is consumed has always come because of evolutions in the technology used to deliver it - going from just a few broadcast channels, to cable, to "on demand" cable and satellite, and finally to Internet delivery.

    And it's just really hard to imagine what delivery technology could provide any new capability beyond the always-on, bidirectional, high capacity data stream in your pocket that is the Internet we now have.

    With streaming we've already achieved what should in theory be the best way to watch - and with the studios all having their own streaming platform now, there's not even any middleman to undercut anymore, like there was when the cable companies were cut out by Netflix at the dawn of streaming. This is endgame.

    The only thing left now is enshittification.

    The one thing that could save us from this fate is if new programs and content are produced that are competitive in quality with what the current giants are putting out, giving people other places to go and forcing competition.

    This is what we've already seen with indie studios and single developers disrupting the games industry, and perhaps with ever more achievable 3D animation, AI and other accessible production techniques we'll start seeing this disrupt the film and TV industry too.

  • Netflix Puts AI Ads in Paid Tier: Pirate Everything at This Point

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  • Just because something always used to be some way doesn't mean it's automatically acceptable.

    TV might have been designed for the ad break but what if it wasn't? You give Star Trek as an example, and here in the UK growing up I watched TNG episodes on BBC2, which is a tax-funded station without adverts. Did the lack of adverts make my childhood TNG experience worse? Personally I'd say it made it better.

    Even in the cable TV age, to have adverts in something you are paying for is still horrible, and to me it's unacceptable.

    I will do everything in my power to not expose my brain to a barrage of advertising, and that includes not using any service where I have to subject myself to it.

  • We don't deserve cats

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  • "So I built her a birthing nest and kept showing it to her and then she didn't even use it! Can you fucking believe it!!"

    Honestly though, very sweet.

  • and they said Linux lacks software support

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  • I did buy a (secondhand) nvidia card specifically for AI worlkloads because yes, I realised that this is what the AI dev community has settled on, and if I try to avoid nvidia I will be making life very hard for myself.

    But that doesn't change the fact that it still absolutely sucks that nvidia have this dominance in the space, and that it is largely due to what tooling the community has decided to use, rather than any unique hardware capability which nvidia have.

  • I am in Germany and want to know what practices to use when pirating.

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  • It's almost like proprietary software is built to maximize shareholder profits above user friendliness

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  • What people really want is to not have to change anything - neither about their lives, nor about themselves.

    They want to live in a perpetual 2005 where Windows is forever usable and still just an operating system. Where they feel happy and comfortable in their environment and their skills and abilities.

    And I get that, because I feel it too.

    But sometimes you have to change yourself, in order to change your world.

  • Happy Mothers Day to everyone.

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  • Yep, which is exactly why I said that I don't blame her at all. She did what she thought was right.

  • Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game

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  • I can see both sides.

    The studio is upset that people are leaving negative reviews for what the studio thinks are minor issues and will be fixed by release.

    But on the other hand, you can't expect people to review a game on anything other than the state it is now.

    That said, the gamer community is definitely pretty brutal and known to pile on with negative reviews to 'punish' the smallest changes they don't like, and that is especially true for games that get 'updates', like live-service games, or in this case, games still in early access. Players hope the bad reviews will make the developers change course, but that's no good if they go under before they can.

    For Early Access, the type of game they picked (something with levelling and upgrades and 'game meta') is especially prone to rough feedback too, when compared to other genres like horror or platformers or sandbox games where people are a lot more forgiving.

    I imagine they needed to do early access to keep the studio going and maybe to generate funds for the next Ori (fingers crossed?) and I hope that doesn't end up being the choice that ends them.

  • this post is just 42kib

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  • Dithering is still to this day extremely useful for making custom wall art in Minecraft using maps, because maps have a very specific and limited pallette.

  • this post is just 42kib

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  • And websites would have a link to a page and say "Warning! This page contains a lot of pictures!" so you wouldn't click it unless you were prepared to put your other browsing on hold for a little while

  • Happy Mothers Day to everyone.

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  • Different experience for me. My mum was a lovely person who never pressured me into anything, and in retrospect I wish she had, just a tiny bit more.

    She asked for example if I wanted to learn an instrument - and I said no, and she respected that and didn't push. The truth is that I'd have actually loved to, but I was afraid of failing, and scared to start.

    Now in my late thirties I finally bought an electric piano and started learning.

    I don't blame my mum at all, but I guess my point is that kids will very often say "no" to things, because no is the easy answer. If she'd said instead "try a couple of lessons, and if you don't enjoy it you can stop" then the outcome would have been quite different.

  • 1 month without US tech giants

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  • To be fair, he mentions that particular irony himself right at the start of the video.

    And if the point of the video is to plant a seed in the mind of all those people who are still fully entrenched in big tech giants, then youtube is certainly the place to actually find and reach those people.

  • You're saying we could have had this conversation before?

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  • "Somebody punch him out!"

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  • If this comic was about a small business with the owner stood behind the counter like "I don't care" then I'd totally get your point, but I don't think that's what it is.

    This is a comic about a minimum wage slave working at a branch of some faceless retail supergiant, who gets constantly shit on by customers as if they themselves are personally responsible for whatever policymaking at this enormous company has upset the customer, and as if they could change anything about it even if they tried.

    It's about angry customers putting their vitriolic remarks in completely the wrong place because they just need a human victim and they don't care who it is. And it's about learning how to deal with that as an employee so you don't lose your sanity.

  • Could a vampire policemen enter my house if they had a warrant?

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  • I'd argue no, because they are not a resident. They are only a visitor.

    Resident (noun) 1. a person who lives somewhere permanently or on a long-term basis

    Occupant in a housing sense is pretty synonymous with Resident legally, but in a wider sense can also mean "anyone there at the time" - especially in non-housing contexts (e.g. the occupants of a vehicle). So for the sake of eliminating all ambiguity I'd strike out Occupant, and stick with Resident as the most appropriate term.

  • Could a vampire policemen enter my house if they had a warrant?

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  • I think "occupant" or "resident" are both better choices over "owner" for how this conceptually works.

    If a family live in the house, then a child of the family could certainly invite a vampire in, despite the child not being the "owner".

  • Do all banks just work this way?

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  • This.

    It's normal here (UK) to write "not at this address" and put it in a postbox. It will be returned for free, and this specific wording lets the sender know it was rejected because the person doesn't live there anymore (rather than because you're simply rejecting it)

  • The clueless people are out there among us

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  • Yes for electronic devices that expect low voltage DC and have a converter, like laptops, phone chargers, etc.

    But don't try and take a 120V hairdryer on holiday and plug it in because it will certainly blow up.

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  • Microsoft would absolutely love it if people had zero computer literacy and had to ask an AI for help to perform even the most rudimentary of tasks.

    Because then the AI becomes indispensable.