Random Dent @ CrabAndBroom @lemmy.ml

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It's funny how as soon as two competing projects (Life By You and Paralives) start to get closer to release they suddenly care about improving stuff they've ignored for 10 years lol

Hmm, not sure exactly. I've been using Llama3 because it seems to give decent results for most things quickly, but I haven't really done much coding with it outside of some simple bash scripts TBH.

I've been using GPT4All and quite liking it so far.

TBH I just set an alias to alias yt='yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4"' and then yt [URL of video] is all I need to type.

Yeah I think just general data harvesting for Microsoft. Also I'd suspect if you were doing something like pirating TV shows maybe you could get busted that way even with a VPN? If the AI is set up to recognize it and report it I mean.

Maybe Gamepass if it got big enough?

I think Gamepass installs games to an encrypted location so you can't go in and access them for mods etc. (someone will correct me if I'm wrong I'm sure, I don't have Gamepass but I think I read that somewhere), and Microsoft owns a lot of big titles now (everything from Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda etc.) so presumably going forward they could make those incompatible with Proton.

That's a lot of ifs though, and they presumably wouldn't be able to do anything about older games that are already out there, and that's assuming that pirates don't just figure out how to crack them, they are a clever bunch.

And even if they did, it could only really stop Steam from officially distributing it. There are already people like GloriousEggroll making their own versions of Proton, so realistically it'd probably just become some sort of unofficial underground thing that you can still get from anywhere I'd assume.

The thing I worry about is him somehow pulling a Kissenger and living to be 100 years old, as evil people seem to have this weird habit of doing. I mean, you hear of some proper villains dying young(ish) because they get murdered, or take themselves out to avoid justice, but you don't hear of a lot of them dying in their 50s from natural causes for some reason.

Yeah I had the same experience. Tried it out, found it way too fiddly to set up, had to pay for stuff at every turn (and managing a bunch of subscriptions is a big part of why I hate using streaming platforms in the first place) and I really didn't find it to be worth it just to cover the tiny fraction of things I can't find on torrents (and which TBH I didn't even find there anyway.) Went back to torrents as it's like 2 clicks to download something and it covers 95% of what I need anyway.

To be fair, it's entirely possible that I was just doing it wrong and not getting optimal results, but also I don't want to start over and pay for a bunch of other stuff to find out.

I disagree. It's fine to generalize about all people all the time. Every single one of them loves it.

For me, it was:

• You couldn't get one for ages when it came out, so I missed the initial hype period.
• When it did finally become available, it was prohibitively expensive.
• There are no real killer exclusives or features so no particular reason to upgrade, aside from games looking nicer.
• Sony is releasing all the good stuff on PC now, so if I want to play a nicer-looking version of a PS4 game I can just do that.
• Steam Deck

I like it, I think it's a better Ubuntu than Ubuntu is these days, if you know what I mean. And I'm really interested to see how the COSMIC desktop environment works out.

Also I really like their laptops. I want to get a Pangolin one day lol.

Yeah I just leave Mullvad on 24/7, and set QBittorrent to only download through the VPN connection and just leave it at that.

Also, I wouldn't trust Kaspersky with anything important personally. It's from an older interview but...

If you had the power to change up to three things in the world today that are related to IT security, what would they be?

Internet design--that's enough.

That's it? What's wrong with the design of the Internet?

There's anonymity. Everyone should and must have an identification, or Internet passport. The Internet was designed not for public use, but for American scientists and the U.S. military. That was just a limited group of people--hundreds, or maybe thousands. Then it was introduced to the public and it was wrong…to introduce it in the same way.

I'd like to change the design of the Internet by introducing regulation--Internet passports, Internet police and international agreement--about following Internet standards. And if some countries don't agree with or don't pay attention to the agreement, just cut them off.

I've been tempted for a while to switch from good old reliable Arch (btw) to NixOS, but now I'm glad I procrastinated and just ran it in a little VM specimen jar instead.

The bench doesn't have poisonous spikes coming out of it! What utopia is this?

For me personally, I don't hate Ubuntu but eventually I found it a bit frustrating. IMO they have a habit of picking a thing they think is shiny (eg: Unity Desktop, trying to converge desktop and phones, Mir, currently Snaps) and just going ALL-IN trying to force it to be a thing, regardless of whether people want it or if it makes any sense. Then they keep pushing until it's almost actually decent, then drop it like a hot potato and chase after some other thing. So for me it always felt like important things were being neglected for the sake of whatever they think is cool at any given moment.

I really feel like we need to have a huge overhaul of copyright law in general, it seems like it's all a mish-mash of old laws from before the internet existed, patched over with half-assed rules that we've just been making up as we go along since then.

Some of it is absurd to me, like the way something can be online but geographically restricted. I've had the situation in the past where I want to watch a movie trailer, but I can't because I'm in Canada and not the US, even though the movie is also out in Canada. It's so pointless and easily circumvented, and all it does is annoy people. Or that something can still be copyrighted almost a century after the author is dead.

And to get back to the point, we also really need to make some kind of exemption for archival purposes. So much information, art and cultural heritage is lost because copyright holders don't look after the stuff they own and don't want to pay to preserve it properly. The internet could be one of the best archival tools we've ever had, if we'd just let it do its thing IMO.

K-9 mail is eventually going to become Thunderbird for Android, just for anyone who didn't know.

Yeah I was having the same issue but the latest kernel update (6.8.4) fixed it for me.