utopiah
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- Comment on A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes 10 hours ago:
In the Middle Ages people believed in creatures nobody had ever seen
FWIW even centuries later, during Linneaus time, people were actually looking for unicorns.
- Comment on A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes 1 day ago:
Videos are now basically have the same weights as words…
We live in a post-truth world now.
It’s interesting that you start with a bold statement that is IMHO correct, namely that namely what was once taken as unquestionable truth now isn’t, but also it’s not new, just yet another media, but still conclude that it’s different.
Arguably we were already in a post-truth World, always have been, it only extends to a medium we considered too costly to fake until now. The principle is still the same.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 1 week ago:
Another update on that front, I added on my RPi5 :
yt-dlpwhich I use with its-xaudio only option on RSS feeds
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 1 week ago:
Thanks I addressed that seconds ago lemmy.world/post/36926543/19781367 and my bet is that it’s an omission, so I asked on CS Discord just in case but yes people should be mindful of that before the crowd funding campaign start. Hopefully it’ll be fixed.
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 1 week ago:
Thanks, I just checked www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer and its says “Open Printer will use the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license for all of its files, including electronics and mechanical design files, firmware code, and the bill of materials.” so I don’t think that’s related to the source code but rather the resulting binary of the built firmware.
The latest CrowdSupply project I bought was the PGB-1 and they did realize their firmware source code github.com/wee-noise-makers/WNM-PGB1-firmware/ and as GPL3 so I assume they will clarify that before starting the crowd funding campaign. I don’t think they can, even if they wanted to, have a CS project without releasing the source code.
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 1 week ago:
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Isn’t it about documentation or design rather than code or hardware? Typically CC isn’t used for software or hardware.
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 1 week ago:
Open source is specifically about the code, not the hardware, even less manufacturing. OSHW is about the hardware and has specific requirements in order to get the label and ID, e.g certification.oshwa.org/de000008.html and process certification.oshwa.org/process.html
So which part is proprietary exactly? In theory as they sell via CrowdSupply www.crowdsupply.com/apply it should be both OSHW and open source but I didn’t dig.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 1 week ago:
Spent another 5min to
scpthe container and~/Musicon my RPi5, which I keep on 24/7, has a 512Go microSD and tailscale… and I guess that’s it, I have my own music server. I don’t have discovery on though but still, already useful! - Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 1 week ago:
And ironically enough even though most book by Doctorow might be DRM-free, maybe this one is, I can’t remember.
If you want I give you a free TL;DR: it’s not just monopolies, it’s also monopsies. When we feel trapped by buying with Amazon we often forget that authors often have the same feeling. So the “chokepoint” is not 1-sided but 2-sided.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 1 week ago:
Edit: since I wrote this message (15min ago) I setup LMS thanks to podman and shared it via
ngrokand my wife can listen to my music on her phone instantly.So… yeah it’s that quick and convenient.
Is it perfect, definitely not, but it’s also very quick to get started and to reconsider.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 1 week ago:
Honest question, did you try self-hosted music?
Few weeks ago I thought this was a joke but… there is a TON of stuff out there already.
From the "rough"
- minidlna (with optionally tailscale to listen outside the LAN)
- 1min setup github.com/9001/copyparty
- NextCloud
to having mobile apps
- navidrome (with updates via lidarr)
to minimalist
to federated
to handling discovery
… there is just so much out there!
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 1 week ago:
Yeah… sweet summer child you might not want to read Chokepoint Capitalism. It’s closer to 99% for BigContent lawyers and right holders and less than 1% for actual creators.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 week ago:
Disappointed by not surprised by the downvotes. English is the lingua franca but it doesn’t mean it’s the only language. Grow up.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 week ago:
If you don’t want to bother read a centuries year old classic of literature on human condition I don’t think I want to bother clarifying.
Forgot my silly opinion, read the 2 pages story.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 week ago:
Surprise you can’t search without speaking the language but OK, easier www.gutenberg.org/files/32571/…/32571-h.htm
- Comment on Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors 1 week ago:
Isn’t it already failing anyway? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC_Arizona
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 week ago:
You might want to read Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne (spoiler alert : it doesn’t work).
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 1 week ago:
meme stocks.
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 1 week ago:
Fascinating, digging into en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law then, thanks for bringing that up!
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 1 week ago:
“read the runes” … people need to stopping money is money. Money is money AND string. It’s totally different to get 1 EUR from a friend vs 1 EUR from a brank vs 1 EUR from VC vs 1 EUR of public subsidies. Money NEVER comes without string so one must be cautious they are not getting a noose around their neck while signing a contract.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 3 weeks ago:
Check
Teaching with Disney edited by Julie C. Garlen and Jennifer A. Sandlin, 2016 (including but not limited to “Teaching Disney Critically in the Age of Perpetual Consumption”)
and
The Mouse that Roared, Disney and the End of Innocence by Henry A. Giroux and Grace Pollock, 2010
but the Tl;DR is that their only definition of “heroes” is whatever might sell anything and aligned with the ideology of a “founder” that arguably didn’t draw the mouse itself.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 4 weeks ago:
Nice metaphor, I wish few would pop without hurting too badly the idiots that believe the lies and more importantly without hurting anyone who pointed out how ridiculous it all was. Unfortunately I’m rather convinced people at the helm of Microsoft, OpenAI, VC pumping the bumbles, are financially smart enough to be entirely disconnected from any consequence of their own actions.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 4 weeks ago:
Meanwhile MSFT (the stock) goes up up up
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 1 month ago:
read … on my RISC-V PineTab
Because it’s not powerful enough to play a video. /s (sorry, just teasing)
- Comment on Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years 1 month ago:
It is indeed a risk AND you must pin your current OS version, so no new update including no new feature (not sure which one one would need for now though) but more importantly no security updates.
That being said… if you do not actively try to mess it up, i.e. doing precisely what has been warned against NOT doing, it should be safe.
In doubt, if you can’t afford another headset, have no actual need for rooting and have never done that before, definitely safer to wait.
- Comment on Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years 1 month ago:
Good point, based on how much Meta spends on their XR department I wouldn’t be shocked if the hardware itself is also losing money and used as a kind of innovation-washing marketing strategy. That said I’d still recommend buying 2nd hand so that it’s cheaper and doesn’t register on their book as a sale. Also no purchase information shared with Meta.
- Comment on Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years 1 month ago:
Recommendations
- Valve Index but it’s not standalone. It’s “just” a headset so what you do with it is up to you, no need to register anything with Valve, nor have Steam (even though SteamVR is convenient) and works on Linux. With Proton even the latest indie VR games work. IMHO also Half-life: Alyx is in itself worth it.
- Lynx-XR1 that can already be rooted lynx.miraheze.org/wiki/Rooting_Process (which I did few months ago) but arguably their customization of Android isn’t as convenient as what Meta did. For tinkerers though and if you can actually get one, it’s great. Also no account required.
There are others, e.g. simulavr.com which is standalone and Linux proper (not Android), but I haven’t tried so I can’t vouch for them.
- Comment on Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years 1 month ago:
- Quest 3: v79 5115411.12900.520 (August 7, 2025) and below, to about version v71.
- Quest 3S: v79 117688.9900.610 (August 6, 2025) and below, to about version v71.
according to github.com/zhuowei/cheese/tree/main?tab=readme-ov…
- Comment on Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years 1 month ago:
Well I would ask you to reconsider reconsidering. It’s a very neat technical fear, arguably even an important one… but you would be giving money to Meta. So unless you really have to, because you work in the domain, maybe try to recycle a 2nd hand headset for a cheaper price and tinker with it as much as you want? Maybe even contribute to the rooting process by finding ways to remove the Meta account requirement altogether?
TL:DR: nobody needs a XR headset but if you do and you want to get a Meta one, get it 2nd hand.
- Comment on OpenAI eyes world’s largest valuation for private company in stock sale talks 1 month ago:
Rational economical actor hypothesis? Nope we’re just back 4 centuries at least en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania