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  • Different purposes, I2P is a separate network layered on top of IP. A VPN is often used to change one's internet facing IP.

    Download speed is irrelevant when you can just start something and let it run over night as well. Least that's my use case.

  • They play single and multiplayer games together, but the Runawayguys. They mostly do local multiplayer games, but recently they've done some specifically single player games like the Metroid prime remaster.

  • I appreciate this, as I have saying this same thing. Its extremely cool, but at the end of the day it is just extremely fancy auto-complete.

  • The WAV format never had a licence.

    By default that means that, depending on your jurisdiction, it is very likely proprietary. No license mean it does not impart any rights to you. Some places do have a "by default this is owned by the public domain", but I don't think that's a standard.

    To be a “proprietary”, a file format needs to either be secret (in part or in whole) or require a licence. WAV satisfies neither of those criteria. It is not proprietary.

    The WAV format itself is owned and was developed by IBM/MS. I don't know where you live, but that is wildly incorrect on how copyright law works in most places. By default, the creator owns the product and all rights to its use. Then they may choose to allow others to use it within a license or other agreement. In this case, IBM/MS allows anyone to use the file format, but it is within their rights to also disallow this at any time. Here you can see for yourself, it is a proprietary format. Something not being proprietary is an exception, you have to explicitly make something that way. For example Ogg Vorbis is open source, open licensed and patent free.

    It would be fair to say that it was proprietary up until it was reverse engineered...

    Being reverse engineered absolutely does not invalidate the proprietary ownership of a product. Compare this to the Ocarina of Time decompilation project; just because the game has been fully reverse engineered, does that mean that Nintendo does not still own the game and all rights to it?

  • Ah, if that's the case then I'll work on making my own container image based on your ansible implementation. Don't worry about it, you're already doing more than I can. Looking forward to the release!

  • This is extremely cool, thank you for your work! Would you consider supporting a container deployment alongside existing container hosted Lemmy instances? No worries if that breaks to far from your workflow.

  • Proprietary is independent of patents. Different systems. There already exists open licensed, but patent encumbered formats or their inverse. WAV is proprietary, but again, is fully documented and there exists open licensed encoders and decoders.

    I have no idea why it still remains proprietary, but its an old format, and IBM/MS probably just don't really care about it since it's last update was over a decade ago.

  • While the format is proprietary, the actual decoding and encoding processes can be open source. Like how a box can be locked, but everyone has the keys to open it and see what's inside.

  • I think it muddies the definition to apply a "goal" relative to their income to either of them. If someone makes content, they are a content creator, without question. Some want to make a living doing it, some just do it because they want to. Both are content creators, regardless of the income. Influencer/CC is a rectangle/square categorization. Influencers are akin to advertisers.

    I completely disagree that a content creator who takes sponsors from other companies, are NOT influencers. If they are acting as an advertiser, then they are influncers, they are still content creators however. If a content creator is just making content and selling their own wares, they are effectively advertising themselves; which is totally fine. If I am engaging with their content, I am already interested in their work.

  • This looks incredible. It doesn't look like it has a VS CPU option though? I'll definitely look at this for sure. How insane that I've imagined this concept for a game, and bam it actually exists.

  • I'd love to play a fighting game, with 0 executional difficulty. I'm not talking a simplified fighting game, no. I love the fighting game culture, and discussion and analysis of fighting game tech is super interesting. But before I get to have any fun I have to grind and memeorize for hours the structures and matchups. I can't just pick up guilty gear, do a quick match and have fun.

    I want a full fat, meaty fighting game where its turn based. Every frame, or at least every frame where I could have an input, I can look at the scene and make a choice. 0 hidden information, 0 mystery on why I got bodied. The depth of a real fighting game, but now its all understanding of the mechanics and not practicing dragon punches.

    If this game existed I'd be so jazzed. I would like for it to have CPU matches as well, maybe not as fleshed out as a full story mode but something I can casually play with even when the community inevitabily dies.

  • There's probably more nuance to it, but I consider someone an influencer if they try to sell me something other than their own product. Such as if they try to sell me their merch, that's still a content creator. Once they take sponsors and try to sell me something else not made by them, then they are an influencer. That's where I usually draw the line.

  • I use a Pi4 to run one of my HAproxy nodes. It does die once in a while from not enough power because my power brick is pretty old at this point. Other than that its great. I used to have a cluster of Pi3's bit I'm transitioning cluster managment systems so they aren't doing anything right now. I recently got a Lichee pi and that will most likely replace them once I get it all working.

  • Perfect examples of why OSX is an Unix-like just like GNU/Linux. It's got a shared history with the original Unix, but isn't literally Unix. This community is around Unix-likes, and under the Unix-like banner, I'd gladly welcome ReactOS. WSL isn't in the spirit of it though.

    OSX has been on a number of occasions actively hostile towards FLOSS as well (particularly anything GPL), which in the last decades, have become synonymous with Unix-likes, though that's a matter of personal taste. What isn't a matter of taste however, is that OSX uses the XNU kernel, which is an acronym for X is Not Unix. It is not a monolithic Unix style kernel either. I would argue that OSX is only loosely Unix-like, and only mimics Unix functions for compatibility. Should Apple have the inclination, they would happily abandon it for something invented by them given the opportunity.

    Not picking a fight with you over semantics, I just loathe Apple as a business and Microsoft gets a lot of flack for their old "Embrace Extend Extinguish" policies when Apple has been exceptionally hostile towards OSS. Apple so often gets a pass when being considered a part of Unix communities yet they absolutely do not embrace the spirit of Unix-likes and FLOSS at all.

  • I unironically love this, and I have now added it to my talking points about operating systems.

  • Its merely off topic, Windows isn't Unix. OSX is, though only loosely.

  • It works for self hosted vaultwarden mostly also. Since you would need a way to acess the login page itself, which could be behind a VPN or other authentication service like Authentik.

  • While I'm not totally caught up in LLM magic, as far as I am aware, all LLMs are doing is (heavily simplified) very fancy auto correct/text prediction. LLMs don't "know" anything. They aren't equating anything, the aren't "learning" the way people learn by association or relating a word to an object or idea. So from my understanding your assumption that.

    LLM knows that A is B

    already doesn't make sense in the context of current LLMs. Lots of people have made posts about A is B. So text prediction is saying when A, high probability that then B. Its not pulling from a base of knowledge, then constructing an answer to a question based on that pool of knowledge. It's finding relationships between character groups. Similar to Libre Office, it can check your grammar based on known patterns, but a LLM can use the greater context of its training data to find larger and larger patterns of character groups.

    I'm not a computer scientist, but from my understanding LLMs are widely misunderstood. People talk so often about how they "hallucinate", or that they are "inaccurate", but I think those discussions are totally irrelevant in the long term. Have you ever considered that your phone's text completion is lying? What does that even mean, for auto-correct to lie? It doesn't know anything its just guessing the next letters/words given the words written so far. That's all LLMs are doing too, just significantly more sophisticated. So I have never once ever considered anything produced by a LLM as true or false, because it cannot possibly do that.

  • Amazing mirror is not your typical Kirby game, its pretty hard from an exploration standpoint. One massive interconnected world. Definitely checked my map here way more than most games. Its a blast to play with friends if you have the option, but squeak squad was peak pixel Kirby game play, as the powers in AM all have 1 move, fighter has a few, and the very rare smash one does as well, but you'll find all the powers are very simplified compared to something like superstar.

  • It is primarily a http server, its ability to act as a http reverse proxy is a product of that. Apache can do the same thing, its just less common to see it used that way.