The game shipped with Steam DRM (most Steam games do) and Arxan protection, which was promptly cracked by piracy group DenuvOwO.

500k fines? lmao. So just a rounding error?

Microsoft: “We want to fix Windows and make it great again!”

The fix:

Models can be retrained, there’s a certain website out there that prides itself in having more than 300k movies available for download, if the AI companies get their hands on it then there’s enough training material for them and the outcome will likely be good enough for the average Marvel movie.

Also, they won’t generate a 2 hour movie, they’ll likely do 1 scene at a time and piece it together. So in theory they can carry even a 10 hour movie if the plot for it exists.

He is unfortunately correct, if the AI generated actors are convincing enough then majority of people will not care. Just like it is with CGI, people complain about CGI in movies but as examples they can only list movies with very poor CGI because our brain ignores good CGI.

I dunno, claiming that fascism was always in our tech is an incorrect statement. The Amiga 1200 wanted to hurt nobody.

I love the Amiga 1200

It is expensive to “get in” but once you’re in you don’t have to buy a new laptop, you can just replace chassis/mainboards as you go.

I’m pretty sure most of the H.264 patents expired or are set to expire next year. Maybe it’s one last cash grab before the best codec ever made is liberated

SEC? In this day and age? Yeah… right…

Commercial VPNs are businesses too :)

I don’t know any self respecting sysadmin that doesn’t block P2P in their network. Most enterprise firewalls nowadays don’t even require any fancy set up, it’s a toggle switch away. I don’t buy the “oopsie we didn’t know” excuse. They were permitted to torrent by design.

jfc this can’t be real

I only found one usecase where it shines and even then I had to verify the output twice to make sure it doesn’t fuck up before I push it into production. String manipulation is pretty good with it instead of having to write a bash one liner with a lot of sed and awk

I thought Rufus was the correct way. I didn’t even know Msft maintains its own tool anymore.

Intel didn’t abort their new facility because of genocide, they could care less. They’re not making money right now so it’s not a good time to expand, and that’s about it.

I find it amusing people say they’ll boycott NVIDIA because they set up shop in Israel.

1. they set up shop in Israel a long time ago (2016 to the best of my memory)
2. all of their competitors also operate in Israel to some degree

If you need discrete graphics you don’t have any choice. They all operate in Israel to some degree.

Haven’t read the article yet but hopefully it’s cheap used drives

There are usually some tells. For AI generated music (AIGM for short) the cover “art” is also AI generated. The vocals/style are different between tracks. Another method that I think was recently made obsolete was that if you opened the track in audacity it looked weird compared to regular music when you looked at the spectrograms because AIGM added some weird unnecessary noise to the music. AIGM “artists” usually don’t have any social media presence, they don’t really exist outside of the internet. No shows/interviews etc. Is it a lot of effort to find out whether something is AIGM? Maybe. Is it worth it? Yes, I don’t want to give money to people who desecrate the art or music.

Long overdue but a welcomed return nonetheless.

for the average Joe (people outside of lemmy) it’s hard to be positive towards ai when it increases the price of their general purpose compute. it’s also difficult to be supportive of it when all it does is inaccurately plagiarize and threaten to take away peoples jobs (although we know it can’t really replace anyone as the tech isn’t reliable and needs constant attention)