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Microsoft is finally dropping support for Windows after the Recall/Copilot exodus, guess they're focusing on Xbox or something instead.
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>>25762
You take for granted that your home was built to an acceptable standard, that the food you eat is not poisonous, that your electrical hardware will not catch fire due to poor assembly. You are not expected, nor should you be, to be a fully qualified mechanic in order to drive a car, nor a fully qualified builder to use a hammer. In most civilized countries, you do not have to file a US-style complex tax return, it is all handled automatically and painlessly. Expecting people to be domain-matter experts regarding every tool they use is an inane and deeply unserious idea pushed only by two types of people: those who are so naive they don't understand a world exists outside their blinders, and those who are disingenuous and simply want to feel superior to others.

Linux didn't won. It is actually dying and it is being killed by corpos. What will computing look like in the next 5-10 years? Linux is a psyop and it becomes more obvious with every passing year. The future of computing is fucked and there is no hope.

>>25763
>Expecting people to be domain-matter experts

This wasn't my point. My point is, that technology has become so complex, that even the so called experts don't even know, how it works. And this is very apparent in computertechnology and medicine. Nobody knows how AI or psychmeds actually work.Yet, we are supposed to listen to the "experts".

>>25765
In part that's fair. The web, for example, is a horrible standards clusterfuck. Building a functional browser engine from scratch would be a challenge even for a Microsoft tier company.

>>25761
then it's unfortunate if they dont have the ability to understand how the tool works even in the most basic ways


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https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/mozilla-is-an-advertising-company-now/
How do we feel about this? I'm not surprised but still pretty bummed out.
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>>25680
the US isn't going to do shit to regulate it

I will switch to a chromium based browser if there's a manifest V3 adblocker that works as well as uBlock Origin.

>>25689
I use it at work and there's no shame in that. It's no worse than using vanilla Chrome.

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>>25689
>using a proprietary browser

>>25682
>>25722
historical necessity doesn't imply that it's probable that it'll happen, but the current state of things was never going to last.

>>25723
>I use it at work and there's no shame in that. It's no worse than using vanilla Chrome.
both are worse


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https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik/112668309100333232
> work for Apple
< get poisoned

I can’t tell if this is real or schizophrenia. Usually Ap/pol/ poisons poor people in third world countries that nobody gives a fuck about.

>>25709
>Joe Biden passes Chips Act
>now all the companies are moving all their toxic manufacturing sites into America
thanks obama

>>25710
Contrary to the popular conception, electronic fabs are a dirty industry. When they were build in the US in the 70's and 80s they were in massive industrial parks surrounded by tree lines as they pollute the air and water. Ex MOS tech employees from Pennsylvania have commented at how disgusting the ground water around the fab was.
,

>>25710
She is a real person making real claims. She is not credible. She seems fucking nuts.

>>25710
>Apple
>Fab
fake.


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New video AI just dropped for meme production.

Site: https://lumalabs.ai/dream-machine

Resources for Dream Machine:
Ideas for prompting: https://ideogram.ai/login
API: https://github.com/yihong0618/LumaDreamCreator
FAQ: https://lumaai.notion.site/FAQ-and-Prompt-Guide-Luma-Dream-Machine-f7bd5f77478c4994aa692aa58b063ef3
Converting to webm: https://handbrake.fr/ or https://cloudconvert.com/mp4-to-webm

Information on Dream Machine:
>Dream Machine was released to paid users on June 12, 2024 and to the free users on June 16.
>Dream Machine runs on OpenAI image generating multimodal transforming software. Each generated seed is unique.
>Free users get 10 generations per day and have to wait for longer periods at the queue. The technique is to use multiple sockpuppet google accounts.

Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
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Posting my collection, didn't make these myself

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>>25702
>>25705
The impossible geometry and regression of every face to a statistical average is hypnotizing. Love the ghost car and floating Nosferatu in the Maupin one

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It completely shat itself with text, but after cropping it, it interpreted them as plushies. I mean I guess that's a valid answer.

>>25707
I think it's a really good visual demo of the problem with these neural network systems. Text doesn't give the same uncanny appearance that these images do, and there's a lot more data in a pic so the "corruption" and artifacting stands out way more.


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Why is Windows the only major operating system to come with a warranty that it will work as advertised in its licence?

Windows license:
>Limited Warranty. Depending on how you obtained the Windows software, Microsoft, or the device manufacturer or installer, warrants that properly licensed software will perform substantially as described in any Microsoft materials that accompany the software. This limited warranty does not cover problems that you cause, that arise when you fail to follow instructions, or that are caused by events beyond the reasonable control of Microsoft, or the device manufacturer or installer. The limited warranty starts when the first user acquires the software, and lasts for one year if acquired from Microsoft, or for 90 days if acquired from a device manufacturer or installer. If you obtain updates or supplements directly from Microsoft during the 90-day term of the device manufacturer’s or installer’s limited warranty, Microsoft provides the limited warranty for those updates or supplements…
OSX license:
>TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE APPLE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, AND APPLE AND APPLE'S LICENSORS (COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO AS “APPLE” FOR THE PURPOSES OF SECTIONS 7 AND 8) HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE APPLE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES, EITHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND/OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS.
I also checked if Mac OS 9 had a warranty (in case Windows' was just left in from the 1990s) and found that although apple did offer a warranty for the install disks themselves, they had a very aggressive disclaimer for the software, even including "NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY APPLE OR AN APPLE AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY…" lol.

MIT license (Standing in for most GNU/Linux distros, which usually use MIT or GPL.):
>THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE APost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>25695
Microsoft is the sole developer and vendor of their proprietary software. Open-source and shareware developers usually disclaim warranty from anything they release, so they can prevent, with the minimum possible effort, some hypothetical company from doing something stupid with it, like using it in a safety critical system without proper expertise, and busting a lawyer on their asses for it.

I'm unsure why Apple doesn't have it. Maybe it's because OSX incorporates some open-source software in their releases or they can just get away with it. Windows definitely needs some kind of warranty though, because the base-system for home desktop-use and commercial installations has been mostly the same since XP. I'm pretty any license for one of the commercial Unixen, like Solaris, QNX, AIX and HP-UX, would come with an appropriate warranty.

1. Guaranteeing that the software will do substantially what it says it will is actually standard EULA language going back to the early 90s at least. This is mostly just feel-good language. I think what it was originally for is things like damaged diskettes. In 1993 MS-DOS 6.0 had a defective disk compression feature that could result in data loss. It was fixed months later in 6.2 which was a $10 upgrade. Microsoft tried to stop the formation of a class action lawsuit over this and was still litigating the $10 fee in 1996.
2. Microsoft is the only company remaining in the OS sales business. Apple sells hardware and used to sell OS upgrades but it's always had a monopoly on that market. Red Hat and other Linux vendors sell support services. DR-DOS, OS/2, BeOS, GEOS, Netware, all that stuff is ancient history.


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The Indonesian government is launching a new Twitter spinoff tomorrow and blocking x.com @ https://elaelo.id/

Indonesians historically are poorly educated about communism; what do you guys say we teach them theory and praxis?

>>25646
Yes. Leftypol account there when?

Like Indonesians need leftypol lmao

Retvrn to bird themed websites

NVM, government isn't behind it after all:

https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2024/06/20/ministry-to-block-access-to-elaelo-id-citing-phishing-concern.html


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Bravo Poettering, he did it again!!
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>>25212
>>25212
the people's free software foundation would be a richard_stallmanist-leninist party foundation

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most sane systemd command

>>25212
this. release the GPL4 as a hard copyleft license

>>25629
there's also a systemd command that wipes the firmware on certain laptops and bricks them

>>25013
linux was always meant to be a hackable hobby os i think
but for professional sysadmin'ing and low-effort desktop usage, systemd is best


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Mastodon and Lemmy/Kbin are lively platforms. But they still don't have enough users and content to be able to replace their proprietary counterparts.

I just wish something big would happen, that these capitalist corporations would just make one big mistake that would lead to everyone flooding to the foss alternatives. We need to take back the power and stop relying on private companies to regulate our online interactions. Companies are only driven by profit and the dollar bill, these alternatives are created purely out of goodwill and good intentions. Stop the enshittification now! Freedom from private platforms now! Let the fediverse spread freedom to all!
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>>24951
I'd be more interested in Mastodon and friends if they were less Twitter-like. It's a format I have basically zero interest in, and I find it strange that that's the one everyone glomed on to.

What I'd like to see is something along the lines of a federated Tumblr; more blog-like, both in appearance and functionality. If such a thing exists, please, for the love of god, point me to it.

I hate follow requests they are the dumbest shit ever.

>>25632
I hate character limits. But the appeal of Twitter is that it's social primarily aka you follow people and they follow you, and you post at each other ig.

>>24953
Why do businesses need to be there? If we're taking twitter as an example, it started off getting the users, then the businesses came in to advertise to said users while paying the twitter company for the privilege. But that's centralized. A centralized platform can monetize more easily. What's the gain for a network of different server hosts?

>>24953
The whole point of the fediverse is that its existence is not contingent on profit. An individual instance can be run by a hobbyist in their spare time, a-la the forums of the 2000s and early-2010s, and in practice, the vast majority of them are.


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so this is the power of yt-dlp
>download video after waiting one gorillion hours
>erm sorry we couldn't convert the video please use this shitty dependency next time
>file nowhere to be found
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This never happened to me.

If you add 
--compat-options multistreams
, it will convert everything with ffmpeg just like youtube-dl did.

Works on nixos

>>25621
>>25622
>>25623
>>25624
winget fucked up with ffmpeg path for some reason now it works.

>>25625
Should have used scoop. Or Linux.


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The loginwall is coming. It is only a matter of time, until Invidious, Newpipe etc. will die. Now is the last chance to download all your favourite videos/music.
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>>25592
You can't log yt-dlp in.

>>25594
oh so the playlists are on the site? no option to export?

>>25581
The Peertube viewing experience is a lot better than it used to be because of fast centralized hosts and limited (almost non-existant) usage. None of those hosts are built to scale. But there's supposed to be P2P load balancing if and when there's load, right? How well does that scale? I think it would be a mixed bag. Popular videos could be fine. Stale videos would be like stale torrents and central hosts under load probably can't pick up the slack. There's also the problem of phone users, asymmetric upload speeds, and data caps which are all bigger problems for general video viewership than they are for traditional P2P traffic. The userbase is vastly different.

>>25582
All clients still work. This isn't a client issue. This is a blacklisted network issue.

>>25594
You can dump your session cookies and use those with yt-dlp. I think there's also an OAUTH fork.

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>>25600
Damn that's pretty smart, I wonder how adblock can get around this if YT just refuses to serve the video before the ad ends


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