Interesting

The buttons are intended to be placebo except in some places.

OpenVMS: ‘I’m in trouble’

Great, I guess I’ll try out then.

Does it give high (≥ 1080p) quality in browser without widevine? Good way to check is firefox. It shows a handcuff sign near the address bar.

Do you use nebula? Do you know if it uses DRM? I’m considering a subscription for a while but couldn’t find proper answer for that.

I wish I could rely on Patreon and user funding only. That would be the dream, and if Patreon reached the same amount of money monthly as YouTube ads, I would disable ads on my channel (if that’s still even possible?). The reality though, is that we’re not even close to that yet, and so for now, I need ads, and sponsors to pay the bills.

from https://thelinuxexp.com/Ethics

so it is not the case always.

Though IMO if I don’t act based on an ad, the purpose of the ad is defeated and hence effectively the ad is blocked. There are ways to ‘clickjack’ or ‘show’ ads without actually seeing it, my proposal is a simplified version of that. I have never done those ‘ad viewing’ tricks because they are complicated, and probably not suitable for people outside the tech bubble anyway. Also disabling blockers like ubo on a regular browsing session for any website has privacy and potentially security implication, not to mention requirement of using a non blocking dns for the said session.

Patreon is great, I’m talking about the gratis option. I personally have no ‘guilt’ regarding ad blockers and I don’t remember last time I saw ad (except on other people’s devices) online¹. The question was about convincing people to use ad blocker or alt clients who do not want to or can’t afford to pay creators directly.

¹ excluding sponsorship in videos… I do not use sponsorblock and I found sponsored contents from some channels useful.

Me reading the headline: who tf resurrected the cvs and made an android app for it

It is useful for internet streams though, not really for local or lan video.

Don’t give them idea :)

Yes that’s indeed a possibility.

That’s done locally. You can try training wake word models for any open assistant and see how much computing power it needs for even simple phrase.

It’s well possible and previously tv mic had been used as bugging device. The problem is, way too many security researchers look in system level software of iOS and even other components of the device that such practice will be too risky for apple (same applies for mainstream android products). Also processing realtime audio, finding potentially unrealiable topic from it and doing realtime ad is actually too much work as of today’s tech (might change sooner than you think though).

What, I think, is more practical is to use the whole query after the wake word to show ad, and potentially use other app tracking data, which is way much reliable than voice for targeting purpose. Voice data is useful for bugging purpose, primarily (ab)used by nation states and LE.

I bet in the medical procedure case mentioned in the blog the user searched/talked about that in other apps and average people aren’t good to notice these privacy leaks.

I’m not talking about AI in general here. I know some form of AI has been out there for ages and ML definitely has some field specific usecases. Here the objective is to discuss the feeling about gen AI produced content in contrast to human made content, potentially pondering the hypothetical scenario that the gen AI infrastructure is used ethically. I hope the notion of generative AI is sort of clear, but it includes LLMs, photo (not computer vision) and audio generators and any multimodal combination of these.

Torrent a movie? You can potentially go to jail. …

Because artists are not billion doller hollywood studios with so many political lobbies and stubborn well paid lawyers, duh.

Is there such an example? Till now I didn’t come across any remotely good/interesting music generated by AI of any meaningful length. Short clips are kinda good but that needs creative composer to arrange them into music.

Wait yt premium has different rates in different countries? Anyway hosting a free to use service like youtube cost a ton in storage and bandwidth, contrary to nebula. I would rather support it as it doesn’t do DRM and other too much user hostile stuffs (I’m using free software clients for long time, no issue. I’ll continue after premium too as official client isn’t that good). But ofc first I would like to know actual budget and ad money cash flow to see if it needs help really or just a marketing tactic to pump up revenue in typical corporate fashion.

Anybody has such income-expense data source for youtube?

ad blocker detector blocker in filter list go brrr

On a bench in under construction zone of a subway station. I had to explain security guards hard enough that I was neither homeless nor a terrorist (the security there were pretty much anti-homeless).

• When I’m stuck in debugging and can’t think of what can go wrong, LLM chats are quite useful. I can ask for possibilities and often I find something meaningful that didn’t come to mind. These kind of things are hard to do with search engines. (If I’m debugging something unfamiliar this becomes very counterproductive though, as I can’t filter hallucinations by looking).
• A smart text formatter
• Simple bash one liner, boilerplate code generation. I tried it but non trivial/bit longer code generation again gets effectively slower as I find myself fixing/working around AI mistake quite often.