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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s humanoid robot turns into Kung-fu master after dancing debut⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This does not look real. I can’t put my finger as to why. It looks like good CGI but the lighting off the robot does not feel perfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This How Reddit Ends?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand. But then how would others in the channel interact with my Soundboard and trigger it? Now I have to write a bot if I want others to interact with it. Have to write rules so people can submit their own sounds and manage the volume on each one of the sounds.

  Also, discord soundboard does seem to somehow stream or play the soundboard item locally at a higher quality than what the voice channel provides (default for most discord voice channels is 64 kbps bit rate).

  It seems you are pretty stuck on the soundboard as an individual feature instead of a sever feature that works regardless of me being around or participating on that server.

  My argument was more around feature users now expect in a noIM platform. In my experience within my own life out of every 30 people or so, 1 or 2 will truly care about privacy and security. This is with having a career in IT, with some family members also in IT and most of my friends are IT or IT adjacent. Most people are looking for tools that provide with the richest set of features they can easily use while giving the users the semblance of privacy. So for a new platform to welcome them it has to be very feature complete with its competitors or offer something beyond the lost features the users truly value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This How Reddit Ends?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Soon as I realized that at some point Discord either has to sell or IPO the platform was eventually going to deteriorate.

  It’s already got some odd limitations. Character limits. Very tight file upload limit. And streaming limitations. But hey, Nitro/Boost fixes it.

  Worse part? If most of the limitations were removed for the price of $1 or $2 a month it might be more acceptable (at least for me). $10 feels steep for nitro. When I see that price tag, it signals I might not be the target audience. Which is weird when I’m pretty sure I’m a subset of the target audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This How Reddit Ends?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I could simulate my own. But for the average pleb who already wary of trying unpopular applications, telling them they are “losing” features is usually a no go.

  Discord has become this place where I hang with multiple different groups of people from work, personal life and random online acquaintances. We game, talk politics, plan family/kid events and often it’s the fastest way to get a hold of someone. The soundboard as silly as it is one of the many meming features and my friends are usually into meming on each other.

  It’s to the point where when I propose to even my other Tech buddies that we spin up matrix or revolt server, one of them just offers to boost whatever server we’re on. People would rather pay than lose what they are used to using on Discord

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This How Reddit Ends?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve not logged in on my Reddit account since that big group boycott and switching to Lemmy.

  If Reddit didn’t hold some specific info for certain video games or just a much larger group participating in Tech/Selfhosted subreddits, I’d rarely have to visit the website.

  Honestly, to me the Reddit demise was happening organically anyway. For a lot of weirdly specific topics, Discord has become a good alternative.

  Now just don’t get me started on Discord and how it will eventually have to better monetize the platform and ruin that too. Wish Matrix had a soundboard for voice chat 😢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, amazing extension in combination with what you said. I actually find myself watching a lot less videos on YouTube. This is because even knowing something is click bait, I still impulse click on it. Also, it has renewed my love for info YouTube channels because i realized that I prefer watching those, but usually they are not click baity and I used to skip them before DeArrow.

  Also, highly recommend this extension combo if you have kids who consume YouTube

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Should art be regulated by the SEC?” NFT artists file lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But can’t that same argument be used for a Picasso or Van Gogh painting? Are those also regulated by the SEC for ownership? NFTs are trade-able when it comes to art. It’s just a contract in the form of a deed of ownership at a digital layer being transferred.

  If regular art which is often considered an investment and hogged by the ultra rich is also regulated by the SEC then you’re right. If it’s not then I don’t get why we treat the “art” which is owned by a NFT contract differently based on the type of contract we’d like to consider binding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Should art be regulated by the SEC?” NFT artists file lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe NFTs are actually a good idea on paper for this use case. Our implementation of the idea is weird though.

  I don’t know why the SEC though. NFTs are not “money”. It’s a contract that shows ownership. It’s a legal issue in my opinion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam: real time face swap and one-click video deepfake with only a single image⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. Read another article that didn’t mention what was being used. Now… it’s time to meme 🤡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teams finally fixed the most important problem!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t even get my InfoSec team to let us use all the features we already pay for in our M365 E5 license because they can’t figure out how to secure and govern it. Unfortunately nowadays bringing up great ideas that are open source to replace mediocre big tech products mostly gets laughed out of the room 😢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I Lost Faith in Kagi⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  lol I’m not sure who’s side to take here. I tried kagi and I can’t personally justify the cost. The free trial is hard to use because I perform a ton of searches in a day and I keep thinking “I should save free trial searches for a good use case”.

  Also, not hard to believe a company would stick the privacy sticker all over their product and turn around and make money off my personal data.

  But those “harassment” emails from the Kagi Owner/CEO to me read like a business person with a passion not understanding where these accusations come from. After reading part of that chain, I came out with the feeling that “Lori” just wanted to write some click baity stuff and didn’t really care to dig any deeper. Yes, AI products by a company right now implies they will use your data to train or sell a dataset to some other company. But I don’t see any damming evidence here, just assumptions.

  If Kagi is serious about their privacy mission then they should release a clear ToS and a legally binding statement that they will not use our data or meta data for anything.