I don’t use windows, stop assuming things about me
Seems a bit silly to comment confidently on changes happening within Windows that you don’t experience then, no?
I don’t use windows, stop assuming things about me
Seems a bit silly to comment confidently on changes happening within Windows that you don’t experience then, no?
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Reality really is beyond satire.
Well this is Interesting.
Video storage and bandwidth is probably my most pressing concern, but that’s the same as with peertube, no?
Speaking of which, are they going to consult with PeerTube for cross compatibility?
Ah, another supersampler/super-resolution tech. I’ll just add it to the other …supersamplers over here.
He really got that dawg in him
Expecting FaceDeer to not glaze AI is like expecting the sun to not rise.
Apparently GameGuard is the type of anticheat that’s fine with the way other anti cheats have been made available on Linux; i.e. giving kernel-level calls the ol run around to userspace and pretending it’s Windows behavior. which is incredibly funny
Hopefully NProtect doesn’t go after Riot Games’ approach and make their product like Vanguard, which isn’t defeated so easily.
I made that comment prior to clicking on the article.
The staff reductions so far are in the 1300s, with possibility of being a “final” cut this year.
29 games, hundreds of devs, obliterated. Thanks so much Lars Wingefors.
No clue, but VM gaming (Windows on Linux) last I heard was a royal pain.
Wine/Proton, however, funnily enough…might work. Or at least, Valve is interested in it working.
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Is this how the Eidos legacy ends? IPs rescued from on negligent publisher just to languish under an imploding one?
It’s bad enough that I’m never getting another Biomutant, but legacy of Kain, Deus Ex, and countless other things suffer too?
Fuck embracer. I hate it here.
Why do y’all in Europe have your bank manage your legal ID? Seems a bit backwards
It has an option for Android Backup Transport spoon…maybe?
On the low end, yearly OS upgrade compliance.
On the high end, dealing with the Kafkaesque whims of the App and Play stores randomly deciding to nuke your app (and thus business) from orbit as an “oopsie”
That uses a similar approach to the wake word technology, but slightly differently applied.
I am not a computer or ML scientist but this is the gist of how it was explained to me:
Your smartphone will have a low-powered chip connect to your microphone when it is not in use/phone is idle to run a local AI model (this is how it works offline) that asks one thing: is this music or is it not music. Anyway, after that model decides it’s music, it wakes up the main CPU which looks up a snippet of that audio against a database of other audio snippets that correspond to popular/likely songs, and then it displays a song match.
To answer your questions about how it’s different:
the song id happens on a system level access, so it doesn’t go through the normal audio permission system, and thus wouldn’t trigger the microphone access notification.
because it is using a low-powered detection system rather than always having the microphone on, it can run with much less battery usage.
As I understand it, it’s a lot easier to tell if audio seems like it’s music than whether it’s a specific intelligible word that you may or may not be looking for, which you then have to process into language that’s linked to metadata, etc etc.
The initial size of the database is somewhat minor, as what is downloaded is a selection of audio patterns that the audio snippet is compared against. This database gets rotated over time, and the song id apps often also allow you to send your audio snippet to the online megadatabases (Apple’s music library/Google’s music library) for better protection, but overall the data transfer isn’t very noticeable. Searching for arbitrary hot words cannot be nearly as optimized as assistant activations or music detection, especially if it’s not built into the system.
And that’s about it…for now.
All of this is built on current knowledge of researchers analysing data traffic, OS functions, ML audio detection, mobile computation capabilities, and traditional mobile assistants. It’s possible that this may change radically in the near future, where arbitrary audio detection/collection somehow becomes much cheaper computationally, or generative AI makes it easy to extrapolate conversations from low quality audio snippets, or something else I don’t know yet.
Clearly you haven’t dealt with a Mastodon instance having a major defederation event.
For most users, regardless of the validity of the defed, the user experience is terrible. Their social graph just suddenly, stops working, the people they follow can no longer see their posts, all because of the actions of a few bad actors or administration failures.
This paired with the fact that maybe only Firefish or Misskey lets you (mostly) seamlessly migrate to a new instance with your data intact, and the lack of a standard way to see what followers you will actually keep when you migrate, means that the defederation experience is sucks, and migrating to a different instance to escape that is a pain in the ass.
Meta has already shown it has piss poor moderation in the best of times, and actively boosts incendiary content in the worst of times, all while collecting, profiling, and exploiting your data. It’s literally inevitable that they’re going to break the rules of all but the free-est of free speech Instances, so for the privacy, safety, and headaches of everyone in the fediverse, we might as well save ourselves the trouble.**
This has gotta be the stupidest (and honestly ugliest) alternative to Reddit awards.
Thanks for the crudely gold-colored-brass up vote, kind stranger.
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