Reading it now… It truly is horrible. I’dn’t’ve is still #1 though

I think with all the frivolous lawsuits based on music sounding similar in cases like Kate Perry and Ed Sheeran lately, you’d be crazy to release AI generated music right now. Marvin Gaye’s estate probably have lawsuits already drafted up.

Oh yeah, we’re not at the sweet spot for mass yet. 10 times bigger would still be fine IMO!

I completely agree.

Reddit is worse because of its size, resulting in problems with spam/low effort posts and comments.

This smaller size is a bit of a double-edged sword though. If I want to discuss cooking/chef knives with people, for example, there isn’t a niche community specifically for that topic. Maybe in this way it’s best for people to head outside of Lemmy to other forums for more specific interests, and Lemmy can be more tech/general discussion oriented.

I haven’t quite figured that out yet.

I think it’s because people trend a lot older on Lemmy than Reddit. I imagine a lot of the more vile opinions you see on Reddit are teenagers. I’ve not seen much unhealthy discussion/ad hominen on Lemmy yet.

Really speaks to a troubled development that they would pivot so hard away from the original game. What the hell happened to Bioware? EA is the easy answer I suppose, but it just seems they can’t even get single player RPG done right anymore.

I think I was initially interested in the game provided I could get it for < $20, now I think my time is just more valuable than this game is worth.

Its a sad realisation, as a huge fan of the Oblivion/Fallout 3 era of Bethesda.

It’s not opt-in as far as I’m aware. Just using Google photos makes it so. I suppose I’m deep enough in the google ecosystem (well, let’s say my wife is not going to move away from it) to be desensitised to how messed up it kind of is.

I was more talking about how other people (i.e. your friends) will take photos of you and post it on social media or even just keep them in their google photos, and meta/google will build a shadow profile for you without your consent via facial recognition.

Even if you’re not on social media, you’ll probably still have a shadow profile on Google/Metas servers. My 13 month old baby has a library of images searchable in Google photos and a profile photo in the app. It’s convenient, but incredibly creepy.

I’m hoping it’s got some more immersive sim elements, but it looks like it will probably be more linear. Didn’t play the original, so I’m not sure how close this is looking to that.

Looking fan-fucking-tastic

That’s insane that this really happened.

Pff, look at all these silly, price sensitive, players.

I don’t think it’s downloading apps that is hard necessarily, but there are a few big barriers getting in the way for casual users to run a self-hosted FOSS solution:

• seeing a problem with their current way of doing things
• knowing other options exist
• having the confidence to feel like setup won’t be a headache, or that maintenance won’t be a problem with their non-tech background

I think its pretty understandable that a normal person would preference “one simple app” than a DIY 2 app system when you consider the above.

100% this is about generating more AI training data.

I’ve heard dmca is an issue there. I’m not sure how stuff stays up there.

I used the wiki on r/usenet, which was pretty helpful.

From my understanding, you need 3 things:

1. Usenet Provider (these are servers that host all of the content - you pay them to have access to download the content)
2. Indexer (this is kind of like Google but for the usenet providers - they will find and give you the .nzb file which will be used to access the content from the usenet provider above - you pay the indexer for their service)
3. Usenet client (This would be akin to a torrent client like Qbittorrent - it is the program which you use to download the content from the provider, using the .nzb file provided by the indexer)

Benefits of Usenet I believe are the high speed of downloads, generally accessibility to older and more niche content, and ease of use. You don’t need to fish through torrents hoping that the seed/peer numbers are enough to actually get all of the content in good time. I’ve found a lot of stuff there lately that I have not been able to find via torrenting sites, but are important childhood media to me/my wife.

Fair enough, I was under the impression that if you are using SSL, all an ISP or VPN provider could see is that you are connected to whichever backbone provider you were connected to. I.e. The content of what you are downloading is encrypted.

You could be downloading stuff that is not illegal, and I don’t think that is necessarily knowable by anyone except yourself.

I may be way off here, I’m not an IT person, but that was my understanding of SSL.

I have wondered this as well. Seems like it is pretty linked.

Tbf, Usenet and indexers are strictly speaking, legal.

And your 2FA seed phrases