deweydecibel
@deweydecibel@lemmy.world
- Comment on Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' 15 hours ago:
The technology was created to replace voice actors. That’s the actual purpose. Its very existence hurts their profession and benefits studios. You can not be a studio, use this technology, and claim to care about ethics, anymore than Amazon can claim to care about the workers as it invests in the machines to replace them.
It doesn’t matter if you compensate or get their approval, because the fact is the existence of the technology in the industry effectively compels all voice actors to agree to let it use their voice, or they can’t get work. It becomes a false choice.
If there was no financial benefit, if it truly made no difference in how much a studio pays in labor or the amount the artists make, there would be no reason for studios to want to use it.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 1 day ago:
All that crap about the first arrival or person to the right doesn’t get applied in real life.
What the hell are you talking about? People obey the first to stop first pull out rule all the damn time.
- Comment on flashing ROM, is it that easy? 4 days ago:
If it allows you to unlock the bootloader, flashing isn’t really that difficult anymore. What really matters is how well the device in question is supported by the custom ROM and the community. If you can find one that’s officially supported by lineageOS, for example, they have good documentation and guides to walk you through it. If the ROM is less popular, you might end up in Telegram channels asking for assistance.
The most important thing you can do is research what you’re planning to flash. Check XDA, find Telegram, Matrix, or Discord channels (which I know is extremely annoying).
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
That’s what happens when new posts aren’t allowed to exist if it asks a similar question to an old one.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
That’s an important point, and and it ties into the way ChatGPT and other LLMs take advantage of a flaw in the human brain:
Because it impersonates a human, people are more inherently willing to trust it. To think it’s “smart”. It’s dangerous how people who don’t know any better (and many people that do know better) will defer to it, consciously or unconsciously, as an authority and never second guess it.
And the fact it’s a one on one conversation, no comment sections, no one else looking at the responses to call them out as bullshit, the user just won’t second guess it.
- Comment on I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun 1 week ago:
IDK why you interpreted their comment as hating.
- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 1 week ago:
My Jellyfin is also running on recycled HDDs from work! No where near this impressive haul, but it was nice to be able to get a solid 10 TBs for free.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 1 week ago:
Or go piss off Magneto
- Comment on Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats 1 week ago:
It is shocking because they did it after the investigation had started, which is monumentally stupid.
You can destroy any records you want at any time, unless there’s an investigation underway or you have good reason to believe one will be starting. At that point, you’re destroying evidence.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Always people that come along and say this.
To them I say: imagine if you had a calculator app that you only ever used for basic addition. Then the calculator app removed the subtraction, multiplication, and division functions. It may would not seem like a big deal to you, but that doesn’t mean the app hasn’t gotten less useful.
- Comment on [Serious] What is project 2025? What kind of risk is involved? 1 week ago:
It’s not even just about the fact that it’s going to wreck those agencies, it also means that there will be substantially less whistle-blowing, and there will be virtually no one working for the government who will raise an alarm or put a stop to anything. When everybody is on board, that creates a substantial amount of power for the executive branch.
What makes it so frightening is that the discussion starts to slide away from the actual functioning of our democratic system and the workings of the executive branch, and starts getting into matters of where power is derived from in a government.
What we have seen is that our Congress is infected by too many friends of fascism, if not fascist themselves. Unless the Democrats have a supermajority in both chambers, Republicans can successfully derail every single thing Congress ever tries to do to reign in an executive branch that’s out of control. Trump was impeached twice, and painfully, obviously guilty both times, and nothing happened because the system has been so fundamentally broken.
Knowing now that Congress can do nothing to stop him, and of course knowing that the court system is captured at this point, Trump will be completely and utterly unafraid of doing anything. The systems in place that would protect us from a renegade executive office will fail to stop him.
Having the entire executive, and every seat in every department filled with loyalists, with nothing in his way that can effectively stop it, is basically a precursor to dictatorship.
- Comment on Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing. 1 week ago:
The antenna doesn’t need power to receive the signal, unless it’s boosted, but something tells me that’s not the case here.
What might consume more power would be any kind of decoding that’s going on.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeha, but they can make their free tier as shitty as they want
Who suggested they couldn’t? Having the right to do something doesn’t mean no one else can voice their displeasure.
If you don’t want to pay but still think you deserve a product with all the features you like, then you’re delusional.
It has nothing to do with “deserve”. Shitty businesses practices are worth being called out. Especially because this has nothing to do with supporting Spotify and everything to do with enriching stockholders. It’s a sign of desperation: they can’t make their product better to entice new customers, so they’re making their free product worse. It’s trashy and greedy.
But please go on expending your energy defending a corporation from valid criticism.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Why are they even charging you for lyrics to begin with? It’s not like they write them. It costs nothing to give you that feature for free.
Kind of like the YouTube app requiring a subscription for background playing. It’s a basic function that does not cost them anything, yet they break it to sell it back to you.
Stripping extremely basic features away and locking them behind paywalls is shitty and should be called out as such, full stop.
- Comment on Microsoft won't fix Windows 0x80070643 errors, manual fix required 1 week ago:
Their when it works and it’s profitable.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I wonder if you can get around that by altering the metadata on the local files to make it a slightly different version of the same song. The deluxe album version vs the regular, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Oh interesting. I was actually about to verify that myself, opened the app to find apparently Apple has starked blocking Apple Music on rooted Androids.
Just in case that’s a consideration for anyone else.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I tried Apple Music recently, and while I wasn’t impressed by the platform, one thing I was legitimately taken back by was how much effort they put into the lyrics. The little animations as the lyrics follow the song, where the words move in different ways based on the song in question, it’s really aesthetically pleasing.
It wasn’t enough to keep me paying for it but I genuinely enjoyed it quite a bit.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
No, Tidal never had that. Deezer might still allow it, they’re the last I know that did.
Technically you can still do it with iTunes, but I don’t think those files will play on the Apple Music app.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Spotify had the best UX of any music streaming service for the longest time
Not if you actually like have controls and managing music. They’ve been actively fucking their UX’s usability for years. Options just disappearing or being moved to hidden places, garbage shoved in front you constantly, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I used to recommend Deezer, mostly for the fact it was the closest to what Google Play used to be in terms of layout and function. But recently they decided to do a downright gross redesign and then actively insulted paying customers that didn’t like it.
So I tried Apple Music (from an iPad I barely ever use), then Tidal, and I’ve tried Tidal and Apple Music, too, and honestly? They’re all doing the same things. Some are in different states of enshitification, but it’s all going the same direction. What Spotify gets away with, all the others eventually attempt. The problem is simply the industry.
I would suggest Tidal, it seems the least far along the path, but it’ll get there too.
I’m genuinely getting ready to start curating my own collection again with Lidarr
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 2 weeks ago:
Last month, Statcounter reported a notable decrease in Windows 11’s market share, and the trend continued in April 2024. After reaching its all-time high of 28.16% in February 2024, Windows 11 plummeted below the 26% mark.
According to Statcounter, in April 2024, Windows 11 lost 0.97 points, going down from 26.68% to 25.65%. All those users seemingly went for Windows 10 since the OS, which will soon turn nine, crossed the 70% mark for the first time since September 2023, gaining 0.96 points.
It’s not just that Windows 11 is shrinking, Windows 10 actually increased. The implication being that users have the choice between the two, and they picked 10.
That being said, when we’re talking about percentages this low, I’m not sure there’s anything of statistical relevance here.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 2 weeks ago:
Honestly? Good. Maybe that’ll stop them trying to chase that mythical “average user” who doesn’t know how to uninstall Candy Crush, and instead have their come to Jesus moment with the audience of professionals and enthusiasts they have been spitting on.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 2 weeks ago:
While Windows is in an enshittification phase right now
Right now? It’s been there for a decade at least. We all made due with Windows 10 because we learned to clean it up and make it our own, but let’s not pretend it didn’t have a foot in the enshitification direction already. The forced updates alone were more than enough evidence of that.
- Comment on Microsoft and IBM make MS-DOS 4.00 Open-Source 2 weeks ago:
The only reason they would ever open source something like this is because there’s no practical use for it in modern-day computing.
- Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail 2 weeks ago:
Unless those companies get bought out down the road and trashed, and you need to move to a new one.
- Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail 2 weeks ago:
You should be aware Tuta won’t let you use a third party client, automatically forward messages, or do a mass export of your email. It’s not impossible to move but they deliberately make it difficult. So does Proton in their own away.
They’ll say it’s about maintaining the security of your emails and such, but it’s just a vender lock in tactic.
- Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail 2 weeks ago:
Problem is with the way email security is going now, it’s entirely possible in a few years, if your domain/provider isn’t an established one, it will get blocked by others.
I’ve had a few domain just straight up block some Tutamail emails.
But here’s the other issue: Proton and Tutanota are both not going to make it easy on you to move your mail.
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 3 weeks ago:
The app or frontend you’re using you’re using is probably smart enough to ignore the period at the end of the link
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 3 weeks ago:
Well, the weird thing is they haven’t actually done anything to the app yet. Looks like they’re just focusing on the next major release. The version that has been available in the store for the last 2 years hasn’t been fucked with.