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NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipto
Games@lemmy.world•Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue.English
9·1 day agoSlop has a long history as word used about art. Joeseph Cambell mentions it, people criticsed hollywood of it, publishers complained about it.
I remember those days using the term slop for lazy, uninspired, thowing anything that stuck on the wall, etc. AI is just a logical progression of the same term.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipto
Games@lemmy.world•Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue.English
36·1 day agoI mean yes… kind of. You can go to your library in gog and download (slowly speed-limited and broken into 4 gb chunks for some damn reason) which means no client needed.
But steam does have games that are DRM free after that first install. Ones that you can copy directly out of the folder and put them anywhere and run. Steam no longer needed.
There is a list here https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam although it suggests its about 600 games more that arent on the list yet.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps | CSO OnlineEnglish
7·1 day agoDistinguished credentials, but at the same time I am not buying it. You can control AI. You can turn it off. You can have it not interact with systems you don’t want.
Remember this guy is saying “you cant control AI, we are all doomed” while also saying that we live in a simulation and he is very close to being able to hack us out of it.
Grain of salt and all.
By the way his belief is thus “AI can’t be contained, therefore the simulation can be escaped; by contraposition, if the simulation can’t be escaped, AI can be contained” Since AI cant be contained, he reasons, we can escape the simulation, quite possibly by using a super AI!
There might be a reason he has a podcasts and visits Joe Rogan
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipto
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•How much streaming services pay musicians per stream
43·1 day agoCool. That is a step up. They used to play on the radio and the artist got nothing. They moved to digital and managed to get a pay per click. Pretty good.
The pay went to the publisher and songwriter back then, does it now? Do these numbers reflect that cut?
Music on the radio was an ad. People would go buy it if they liked it or see the band when it came to town. I wonder how much streaming converts to merch, performance, and possibly direct payment if at all for support?
There is a LOT more artists than ever before, the barrier to entry is low. Cut throat industry as always.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipto
Crazy Fucking Videos@lemmy.world•This is the crazy 'Christian' lady, highjacking a plane to do an unsolicited cermon, being kicked offEnglish
3·1 day agoYou are very correct. This is her job. This is the face of her non-profit organization.
Florida Not For Profit Corporation
EVANGELIST WHITNEY LYNN INC
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipto
Science Memes@mander.xyz•New clean energy comes out. *look inside* It’s just boiling water again…English
7·2 days agoBoth explore how characters must mask their true identities to survive a corrupt patriarchal system managed by a villainous uncle?
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Dual booting was just wasting precious disk space anyway
7·2 days agoDual boot is fine, you just need to choose some good options.
Method 1: Most recommended. use Refined as your boot loader and two drives, not partitions. This is the easiest, safest, and frankly nicest way to deal with this. At boot, before either system starts you get a nice graphical interface to choose which OS to go into.
Method 2: Partition style. Disable window fast startup. Disable windows hibernation (never hibernate windows before going into linux). Use UEFI and GPT no legacy methods. Don’t encrpyt windows with bitlocker.
That said, my desktop and traveling laptop have been windows free for years, I have no need for it, and your advice is the safest way overall. A vm in linux with virtualmanager works very well.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipto
World News@lemmy.world•Italy calls for closing Schengen to Spain over Ceuta migrant crisisEnglish
7·2 days agoThe comments after that article, people are completely missing the point.
This is how I see it:
The EU pays Morocco to externalize its borders. Morocco has used these migrant dumps in the past as leverage to get more money or protest things it didn’t like. The EU is paying Morocco to be its border guard, so there is a structural dependency where Morocco holds the stronger hand.
Yes the court ruling in Spain happened that makes it look like this is why its happening now, but there are so many people, it seems allowed. Morocco denies they are officially involved, but they also denied this in the past when they clearly did. There are a lot of news reports of their border guards standing down, and even reports that they helped spread the social media news on purpose.
Why then? Because Spain recently strengthened diplomatic ties with Algeria, Morocco’s arch-regional rival. Seriously for a looooong time they have been rivals.
I also would see the ruling as a negative for Moroco’s government, as this removes a bit of their leverage. So they would like that reversed.
Edit: oh I forgot to mention, these people are just pawns in this game. Everyone wants to complain about the people they see in the photos, but it is the ruling classes on both sides that benefit from this, focus should be on them.
I was trying to see a clearer view of this:

Did it come that way?
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Improve very slow library scans on Jellyfin 10.11 / 12 on spinning mediaEnglish
12·2 days agoWell except during the Plex outage today.
And last week.
Care to share a pic of the front again, I would like to take a closer look. I also am thinking about how to close that hole. Or not.
Either way, I too have been thinking about these things, plentiful but annoying. Fixing them makes a lot of sense right now.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How are you going to distinguish truth from AI, deepfakes, or just lies?
3·3 days agoAnd I am saying it always has been this way. The guardian had a nice write up on the more famous ones through history.
I get that you could argue that it is easier and cheaper than ever, which is a fair point.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How are you going to distinguish truth from AI, deepfakes, or just lies?
4·3 days agoPics were always faked or framed in such a way as to leave out details.
Even this was fantasy.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How are you going to distinguish truth from AI, deepfakes, or just lies?
5·3 days agoSo refreshing to see another person say this.
Everyone on the internet is a liar. I have been using that assumption since the bbs days.
I was dumbfounded when people were putting thier lives online as reall people then horrified that people don’t seem to understand just how much online is just utter bullshit with the worst part: they repeat it as facts.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How are you going to distinguish truth from AI, deepfakes, or just lies?
41·3 days agoIts always been this way, that’s a good starting point. People have been pushing bullshit since forever.
Photos or even video have been unreliable since we learned how to use a light table and an editor. Or actors and a scene.
So:
We really need to get back to facts matter in journalism, contacts and government have a reputation as individuals.
But good luck with that.
when
I loved it… but I stopped?
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?
219·3 days agoSony not making physical discs.
You people think Sony anything was worth buying in the first place?
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What’s the most expensive thing you’ve eaten/drank?
1·3 days agoAll vodka has flavor added back in. Well, fients or water at least. Vodka is distilled to a much higher percentage than its sold at, so there is a process to water it down, and that part can change and alter the final product.




Fedora is solid these days, well the last few years. It’s been so easy and everything is up to date, not lagging behind lke Ubuntu.
Ubuntu been awful since the beginning, always buggy always needing to be rinstalled at some point.
It lives on hype alone. I would choose anything over Ubuntu.