Pretty sure security agencies have enough nodes to compromise tor. Try i2p.

Duplicated question, I’m closing the topic.

If they count VBa as Visual Basic is not surprise.

You’ll be amazed on the amount of development that’s being made over MOffice in not technology companies.

I don’t think America’s people are specially worse than other countries.

There are everything like every other place. Here in europe we have our share of stupid people. Have you ever seen people breaking each other heads every week because they have different football (I mean soccer) teams?

We have still Kings and Queens. They may not have political power (though they actually do have it) but still live like… Well… like kings on public money just for being born with royal blood. And most people support the monarchy.

Not with his thumbs that’s for sure.

You made my knees hurt.

Do you know which modded games are affected? I was thinking of nuking windows now that gaming on linux seemed like it was viable.

Regular displays of TV size are usually harder to find and more expensive than the smartcrap.

Then you go home and you get hit with a dream-advertisement on tinder++ to improve your chances to get an actual date next time.

Youtube is just awful nowadays anyway. I haven’t see a new video worth watching for years now. Backup any old videos you used to like and move on.

It’s not like a internet domain is a natural resource of any territory.

They are just made up by icann.

Thanks for the nightmares.

IP law firms tried to get their cases into my country and they only got a 50% success rate on court so they stopped trying (cost benefit thing I suppose).

Also private trackers in my country do not allow the use of VPN (why do they care IDK, they say it is to have more control on who join), so there’s little point on getting a VPN for piracy here.

I agree with all those points.

I don’t know if adding exceptional cases to de equation adds to the argument or not. But there are many instances where the ones selling the product are not the ones that made it, and the ones that made it will never see a penny of what you paid for. This is true in old games/media, where rights were bought long ago by corporations and creators see nothing. Also true in any big production made by a big corporation with many workers. The workers who actually create the IP were paid by hour, while corporations and investors get to keep milking the product after creators had been paid.

This will invalidate any argument about creators getting compensated for their work. For those cases at least.

I’ve got the feeling that drift is an issue that is becoming more prevalent more and more.

I have controllers from ps1 and ps2 that work flawlessly nowadays. But the more current the controller the more probable it has stick drift.

I’m not all for conspiracies. But I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a lightning bulbs type of pact to introduce programmed obsolescence on a product that otherwise would just last forever without need to buy replacements.

I think the wrong point of view here is using evolution as the biological term. As we are genetically make to do that. We probably are not. As most human behavior is not a product of genetics but a product of culture.

I did know about the uk proposal. Didn’t knew about the EU one. I will sign it today 🫡

AI does not aim to replace the artist. That is beyond the reach of the technology.

Generative AI aims to make one artist produce more art in less time. Same as digital art or photography with respect to portraits.

What capitalist companies do with a technology is always bad. That’s why I do not like capitalism. But primitivism and halting progress is not the solution. If capitalism is causing issues maybe the solution is ending capitalism.

You’ll know how much the means of creating art have changed over the centuries. Different or more time efficient does not mean worse.

Also if you have been an artist for a few decades now you’d been alive while digital art was introduced and the complains it raised to traditional artists.

Complains here are very similar to those. It’s just a new tool. It can be used to do good of bad art same as a Photoshop brush. And Adobe is as bad and big corporations (probably bigger and worse) than openAI.

And no, making AI art is not instant. Neither just writing “make me a nice bunnie” and enjoy. It also have a process, with many steps, iterations and that if what you aim to do is something good a lot of times it needs to be complete with traditional digital art. Once again, it’s just a tool, how it’s used is up to the artist.

I perfectly know that this is not about the “integrity of art”. This is mostly about “commission art” or “industrial filling art”(like videogame not important assets, backgrounds, etc) that it was paying the bills for many people and it has been incredibly threatened by generative AI as for the people paying for that type of art the results of an AI model are good enough for a fraction of the price.

But again, it’s the same that happened before with digital art. Before there were a need for way more traditional artists jobs for the same result as fewer digital artists.

Progress has always killed jobs, and people have need to learn new skills. That’s why we need social protection systems so people can keep employed despite that.

It’s not the company money. It’s the deceased money that most likely it’s part of their family inheritance.