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  • This seems a bit like a misrepresentation to me.

    What is meant with "auto-generated video" is that when you release a song, it appears on different platforms such as Spotify and Amazon music as well as iTunes, but also ofc YouTube. And YouTube makes a little video, because everything on YouTube is a video. But the contribution to the content from YouTube is zero. And of course there is no AI or creative input from YouTube involved in any way.

    The actual problem here is that YouTube either doesn't have guidelines on hatespeech or similar in songs (YouTube Music - it's a separate part of the platform basically), or they don't enforce it.

    Of course this doesn't change the fact that YouTube probably shouldn't release any songs that would be against their regular content policies on their platform. But I really wanted to make it clear that YouTube's contribution to the content itself is zero. It's only taking song from the distributor and putting it on the platform.

  • I disagree.

    Both sides are bad, no matter who is currently the aggressor.

    Now because there is aggression, the aggressor has an obligation to stop it, and we have an obligation to force a stop in the conflict as well. But that doesn't make the other party less Bad in this. Both sides killed a lot of innocent people, both have inhumane ulterior motives and both are supporting further escalation. But ofc if there's only one party doing the fighting, then that's the party that acutely needs to be stopped.

    This distinction is very important to me, because you are not suddenly the good guy because you stopped killing civilians. You are just not actively doing war crimes which means we don't have to intervene because of you anymore, which is at least one less reason. But you are not holy because "this year it was only 300 war crimes".

  • That tracks. Every artist who spoke to me about this (I'm kind of a hobby musician) told me a) fuck labels, not worth it, b) Promotion is 95% of the game and you have to master it yourself, c) no money in Spotify except for the top .1% or so percent, the money always comes from gigs or shows so starting live early is a good idea.

  • Looks like there's not a lot of scandals around him and the fraud he alleged in is comparatively minor.

    And yes, appearently that's a plus now.

    Well whatever, he is probably the best equipped person for job yet from what I've heard.

  • I was gonna say, for reporting outside of their biased regions, many ppl ranked them almost on par with Reuters, and that's a lot.

    Idk how many ppl will realize that, but closing them will be a big loss of fair reporting world wide.

  • One could think you're proposing this as an alternate solution. It's not. And Brexit is the biggest proof.

    That said implementing backdoors is so backwards it's creative in the worst way. You basically prepare the tools for a rogue government, rogue government employee, or a knowledgeable malicious actor to grab secure information from the silver plater. It's the dumbest shit.

  • I'm going to break things down a few levels. Disclaimer: I'm a nerd not a mathematician, so if anyone else can fix my errors that would be great.

    Cryptography is a cat and mouse game. There is currently no "perfect solution" so that A and B can communicate and C has no way of cracking the communication at some point.

    Cryptography is very complex for obvious reasons, but a lot of modern algorithms hinge on the time it takes to calculate prime numbers and test them against encrypted communication. Traditional PCs take an incredibly long time to calculate prime numbers.

    Quantom PCs don't. The way they operate makes them incredibly helpful for calculating primes, that's why a lot of cryptographic algorithms will be in jeopardy once it is more widely implemented.

    But back to your question. There are already rumors that NSA is using super fast traditional computers to calculate prime numbers and collect them in a database to make cracking traditional encryption easier.

    The only thing I can think about with is is that for the NSA they are not moving quickly enough to catch up or they suspect any future quantum key encryption will thwart any attempts they made.

    This would be in tandem with moves by the UK parliament to get a law going that implements backdoors in devices or apps (I assume that must be pushed by GCHQ?).

    Personal opinion: encryption with a backdoor is ridiculous. The government likes to represent that they're the only one to access those, but it only takes one savant 10yo interested in penetration testing or one rogue government employee for this backdoor to be used for malicious purposes. And it's not like these ppl already exist.