drmoose

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy.one will be shutting down⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah the points are laughably easy to game even in centralized reddit since this moderation aspect never made any sense. As if bad actors can’t upvote themselves, buy upvotes or just repost any random garbage to /r/funny.

  Its a terrible system that turned Reddit into a content desert. Once you decline some new person because “they dint have enough karma” they’re never trying to contribute again and you end up with power users who have a moat around content production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course getting real data here is very difficult but I really do feel its becoming very easy to be a pirate.

  I can only share my anecdotes that I see right now - if I type in “iptv” to the main e-commerce websites here in Thailand (Lazada, Shopee, tiktok) all have hundreds of listings and thousands of monthly sales. Iptv piracy tech UX is very similar to Plex or Jellyfin tho the latter is more expensive to run and more legally challenging but the UX from the customers pov is identical. Buy a subscription, get account details and app install instructions, connect and watch. So UX is not the barrier here imo.

  As a ancient pirate this does worry me a bit as it’s becoming too easy and corporate services are really pushing the consumers which brings way too much attention to this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  But with Jellyfin you don’t necessarily need to do that yourself. You can have a friend with a server or pay some shady dude 5$/mo to use his server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, to effectively use AI you actually have to understand the medium you’re in to describe the problem you’re trying to solve. You can get there with prompting but it’ll take you much longer if you just don’t understand code yourself.

  Thats why most senior software devs are not afraid of LLMs cause they need strong oversight and thats exactly what years of software dev experience trained you to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently setup my own Jellyfin server with qbittorent search plug-ins and its so easy. Netflix is really playing with fire here cause people will leave when pushed enough as it’s becoming so easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a skill issue my dude. Whole you struggle to get a js script people are putting out entire programs with AI assistants so sure - you’re right and they’re wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure but that’s not how free markets work. If there’s only 3 million consumers you can’t afford 3 million voice actors but you can afford 3 million AI renders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats not how AI training works and even then there’s absolutely enough data. Also training data can be created and even synthesized. There are many techniques to extract make training value from datasets that we discover every year - It’s really not a problem you think it is.

  I’m genuinely confused how AI illiterate users here are. It’s just blind leading the blind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It becomes easier and cheaper every day. Today’s open source LLMs are better than last year’s best model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is clearly the future despite the outrage here.

  There are at least 389 living languages with over 1M speakers. That alone means it’s impossible to reach some people and they get left out. Most of these languages dont even have enough professional voice actors to cover the bandwidth.

  There are thousands of books released every year. That’s impossible to cover even in English alone.

  Its an objective net good to have more accessible audio books and the privileged people who do care about this stuff can very much afford to vote with their wallets for non-ai voices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloudflare already ruined the web way before AI was even a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean product that literally makes web unusable for many and tracks your every single step with extremely invasive fingerprinting techniques? That product?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Opinion] Unending ransomware attacks are a symptom, not the sickness⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I wonder what’s true economic damage here from lack of proper security practices. This shit cascades to millions of other problems from financing terrorists to leaking private data. Don’t even know how this could ever be measured but my guess would be that it’s very substantial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Without copyright there would be no need for copyleft. Its right there in the name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can already just pirate anything. In fact, downloading copyrighted content is not illegal in most countries just distributing is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly I’m a data engineer and people have no clue what they’re talking about in this thread.

  If we require copyright for transformative work that would mean trillions lost in growth - its just something that cant even happen no matter how hard we’d want it. Most people are not even aware of the implications such copyright overreach would have.

  So do you target AI training explicitly? How can that he even enforced? Is my review sentiment evaluation machine illegal now? What if I RAG copyrighted content in am I in jail now? How could this possible be ever enforced? It’s so stupid.

  This issue is dominated by tech illiterate who jusy want to be angry at corporations but instead of doing something about it they fall for copyright propaganda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good, fuck copyright these counts have enough money already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently Torzo exists already!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure but I don’t see any evidence of Nintendo’s decline. The truth is that gamers are incredibly spineless and will continue to bootlick corporate boot unless they put “something woke in the game” at which point they’ll leave a review somewhere and still clock in 300 hours if entertained enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Where is that? Cause Switch 2 pre orders are sold out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I’ll never feel sorry for Nintendo - karma is long overdue for this company. In fact, I’ll download a switch emualtor right now just to spite this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao who would believe that gta 6 is not going to make absolute bank? They could give it away for free and still make more money that they could ever spend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It definitely seems an equivalent of putting fingers into your ears and ignoring the issue.

  Vaporware and Tesla - name a more iconic duo.

  It’s kinda troubling that we’re returning to reality where vaporware is such a legitimate strategy with no down sides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you like to see a mainline Pokemon game created in the old style?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Old graphics sure but mechanically Pokémon games kinda suck, especially the older ones. I’ll be honest I love the collection and monster part of the game but everything else is simply bad and I usually give up after 10 hours. It’s such a pointless slog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The existence of religion in our society basically means that we can’t go anywhere but up with AI.

  Just the fact that we still have outfits forced on people or putting hands on religious texts as some sort of indicator of truthfulness is so ridiculous that any alternative sounds less silly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I don't use AI in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I never thought I’d see the web fight for copyright.

  For me it seems like all AI issues boil down to “I don’t like stions” which is fine but its kinda delusional to pretend it’s something else be it silly energy use complaints or hypocritical copyright nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s definitely direct economic damage here too beyond just repairs. It’s sniffles business growth because the infrastructure is unreliable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kawasaki is developing a robot to be ridden like a horse - Asia Times⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If airplane wings could flap they absolutely would. Our biological equivalent is objectively better than any mechanical tech we have right now. It’s really hard to beat millions of years of evolution.

  You can very easily smooth out passenger’s position same way a horse’s head feels comfortable on top of a horse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kawasaki is developing a robot to be ridden like a horse - Asia Times⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not? Our legs are already better than any wheel could ever get. Why not apply this to robots given they can be good enough