Couldbealeotard
@Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 6 hours ago:
Yes, but it’s, like, really fancy.
- Comment on Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows 22 hours ago:
I use musicbee and MP3/FLAC.
My music collection is to large and keyed to my tastes to throw away, and I don’t want to pay for Spotify.
- Comment on Hello GPT-4o 3 days ago:
It’s not about wanting it to stop, it’s about getting it to maturity so we can get out of this phase of buzz words, misleading marketing, and then we can find out what the tech can actually be useful for.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 4 days ago:
A big part of Airbnb used to be spending time with a host. It has since turned into just landlord via app.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say 1 week ago:
And I prefer it the other way.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say 1 week ago:
I find that I have to do that now, because it seems the internet has been geared towards people that think you have to ask the computer a question instead of searching for key words like how it used to work.
I find it more difficult now because often the search results are what the search engine thinks I want, instead of what I actually asked for.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 1 week ago:
Maybe you can explain what you actually mean then, because I don’t understand your point.
I would say those dollar-store VPN products people use for geo-spoofing is the worst security risk when it comes to VPNs. You are sending your data through some other company that you have no control or insight into. You have no idea what network security they employ, or whether they are willing or obligated to release your data to other parties.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 1 week ago:
Encrypted VPN tunnels are ubiquitous in many industries for remote connection to private clouds. They are used by virtually every high functioning company in the world, and getting more common for mid and lower tier companies as well.
- Comment on trapped! 2 weeks ago:
Watergate, and Home?
- Comment on After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream 2 weeks ago:
I see.
- Comment on After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream 2 weeks ago:
Exponential growth means that you would level up faster and faster at an ever increasing rate.
Perhaps you mean logarithmic growth, where the rate of increase keeps slowing down?
- Comment on what's your fav recipe manager? 3 weeks ago:
Paprika. I haven’t used anything else aside from having a folder of word documents.
Paprika allows you to copy/paste the URL of a recipe and it will download only the recipe. No more scrolling through a blog and a dozen ads looking for what you want. You can then create categories and tag recipes for any combination of categories.
It also has extra functions like meal planners, pantry inventory, and shopping list generators based on the meal plan and pantry, but I don’t use those.
It syncs between devices. The only real downside is you must purchase per platform type. If you bought the windows licence and you want it on your phone you must separately purchase the Android licence.
- Comment on Former Blizzard president wants to be able to leave a "tip" after completing $70 games: "I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20" 4 weeks ago:
I’m from a non tipping culture country, and it always baffles me when I see the opinion of gratitude in the form of money. Why not write to them to say thanks? Or give a good review? If I tried to give money to someone as a thank you here it would be seen as quite rude.
- Comment on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites 5 weeks ago:
Those people were paid for their efforts. Sure it might be disappointing for that effort to not see the light it day, but at the same time I’ll bet many are relieved their name won’t be attached to a poor product.
- Comment on once in a lifetime 5 weeks ago:
The writer’s strike definitely killed it
- Comment on once in a lifetime 5 weeks ago:
Want it supposed to be an anthology series, where each season was a new cast? But then they were like “her everyone loves these characters! Quick make up some stuff so they all have to stick around.” Then we got weird shit like that character who has a bunch of twins or something, and psycho serial killer Syler joins the team.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 1 month ago:
Comments like this sound like the “they write it off on tax” comments, where there’s this assumption about how complex things must work, but it can’t work exactly that way otherwise we would see it happening all the time.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 1 month ago:
I don’t know enough about law to know how that does or does not work, but it that’s possible then any entity with enough money can actively bankrupt anyone they want, and it won’t have anything to do with why. If that’s true could you not just sue someone by making stuff up and force them to prove you made it up?
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 1 month ago:
Did the admins state anything? I thought the issue here is that LW previously did something without an announcement, undid it and promised to communicate before doing something like that again, and now people are saying they haven’t communicated this time.
That’s the real issue, not the fact that it was defederated.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 1 month ago:
You could list your accounts in priority, and the highest account that has access to the post you’re reading will be responsible for the vote.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 1 month ago:
Copyright laws are actually very difficult to enforce when it comes to digital piracy. You have to prove loss of profit among other things.
Then, who do you sue? The person downloading the product? The person hosting the product? The person providing a link to the hosted data? The person providing a platform for people to link things? The person who allows their platform to federate with another platform that does?
If we’re talking about P2P sharing, then in a way no one is hosting the data.
In Australia when the Dallas Buyers Club case was being looked at, the studio was asking for a lot of money. Basically a big fat fine to be paid. The judge threw it out saying that the only reasonable damages for one person to pay would be the cost of the DVD because that was the value of the “theft”.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 1 month ago:
I guess the question is: if you host a public forum, are you liable for things posted on it, or on separate but linked forums?
- Comment on Final Fantasy XVI PC Version In 'Final Stages Of Optimization,' Expect A Demo Before Release 2 months ago:
I appreciate the frank opinions here. This game got overhyped by ffxiv fans. You couldn’t get an honest impression on this game, it was just “ffxiv is the best game ever, and ffxvi is being made by the same team therefore this will be the best game ever”
- Comment on Study finds anti-piracy messages backfire, especially for men 2 months ago:
Like I said, you’re welcome to talk about it being an invalid comparison, but the advert did not state you wouldn’t download a car.
- Comment on Study finds anti-piracy messages backfire, especially for men 2 months ago:
The “you wouldn’t download a car” joke is one thing. What I don’t understand is how people genuinely use a satirical joke as a supporting argument for piracy, or a critique of anti-piracy.
The advertising never said downloading a car. It was stealing a car, which is very clearly a crime.
You are free to claim auto theft is not comparable to digital piracy. You are free to suggest that somehow in the future you’d be able to home manufacturer a vehicle (although a bit far fetched IMO). But criticizing an ad campaign for something they’ve never said is just silly.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Is everyone here talking about corded handsets when they say landline?
I’m my country landline doesn’t exist anymore. Now you need to plug a headset into your modem for VoIP. Landline was the direct copper circuit in the ground. You can’t bring back a technology that has been decommissioned. That’s like saying Gen Z is bringing back the 2G mobile network.
- Comment on What is a "tax write off"? 2 months ago:
No. You’re doing the math wrong.
You make 2 movies that cost $80m each, you have spent $160m. One of them gets shelved and makes no money, one of them makes $120m. You are still at a $40m loss. You haven’t made any money to pay tax on at all. You have only lost money.
You are approaching this with the preconceived notion that is some kind of scam, which it’s not.
The only benefit to shelving the first movie is if you think it’ll cost more money to finish, market, and release it than money it will bring in. They are cutting their losses, not magically generating money out of thin air.
- Comment on George Carlin’s Daughter Blasts Dudesy AI-Generated Comedy Special Impersonating Her Dad: “No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius” 4 months ago:
What’s Time Gate?
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability 4 months ago:
I think you’ve missed the point.
Anything automated that could be a threat needs to have safeguards. Needing constant wifi to prevent death or injury is not an acceptable safeguard.
Consider consumer/professional drones. If they lose connection they have on board protocols to mitigate hazards. Even then they are still governed by laws to isolate then from people because even those safeguards aren’t good enough. Suggesting that a robot could completely rely on wifi is preposterous.
- Comment on Save 50% on CHRONO TRIGGER® on Steam 4 months ago:
I played it on SNES so I’ve never seen the FMVs. I’d actually love to see them without also having to miss out on the classic sequence. I think the FMVs actually might justify buying the discounted port of the player wants them.