Notices by Raven667 (raven667@hachyderm.io), page 2

@inthehands Maybe one of the positive side effects of recent EU regulations on software liability will be to have these communications and make the context clear to everyone, between "this software is provided AS-IS with no warrany whatsoever" and "this software is part of a critical supply chain" so that the ecosystem of the latter is likely to set up the Foundation and related income stream for the primary maintainers, because the downstream who incorporates the software into their product is liable in the first case, but if they pay the Foundation they can shift liability to that, and in doing so provide the Foundation the resources it needs to be a steward of the software. Neat trick, if it works.

@thomasfuchs yes and computer generated voice should also have some mandatory modulation so it always sounds like a computer and not a person, with any exceptions noted, and generative image creation should have a watermark as well

@skinnylatte Congrats!

@dalias @Nazani @futurebird I'm not sure thats right, isnt DLSS "AI" upscaling for games run on the users GPU and actually save processing vs rendering at a higher resolution because it saves on the precise calculation of rendering replacing it with quicker estimates for upscaling. I could see a way to process video which uses similar techniques to upscale and reduce decompression artifacts which could give a video a to-sharp umcanny quality. I don't know that YT engineers have built such a thing, or if this person is misattributing normal compression artifact differences from traditional rencoding techniques

@dalias @pheonix @HarlemSquirrel @briankrebs I can see accepting the URL on the form in a case-insensitive format from user input because people aren't machines and don't care about the machine's rigid inflexibility, but then one should look up the canonical representation of the URL in the search database and not use the user-supplied input for any further processing. I suppose this could leak info on whether a particular URL is in the database in a roundabout way, but I'm not sure what the risk is around that minor disclosure.

@dalias I wasn't 100% clear that's what you meant but I think we are in agreement on this point.

@dalias @Kierkegaanks @stux @Ttown @jmcs @mbrailer (going on a tangent) I don't know that asking those questions is silly, it's a matter of judgment, but what is the functional, organizational, motivational similarities/differences between monopoly/duopoly corporations and some Soviet Communist Bureau of Toothbrushes or whatever? Once you have concentrated power and an authoritarian structure you are going to end up with a lot of the same incentives and effects, except with non-state actors having even less transparency and accountability as democratic governments.

In this case VISA/MC have the power to regulate other companies that might only properly belong to a government, but is in private hands nonetheless. Moderation policies on large platforms which are open to the public but managed privately effectively become governance of peoples behavior, and can be compared with say a public Postal Service in how communication moderation polices are developed and applied.

Maybe you see that as an apples to volcanoes comparison but it's apples to oranges at worst and honeydew to grannysmith at best.

In an ideal world (not this one, lol, the one with spherical cows) at some level of effect governance/moderation decisions would inherit their legitimacy through a series of democratic process that have the population affected by the policy at its base. This level of process is too bureaucratic and heavyweight for small private groups, like your personal web forum or an independent store, but when more than, say, 1% of the population of a jurisdiction is subject to those policies then the case for governance oversight becomes stronger.

@thomasfuchs Oh don't worry, as infrastructure damage piles up and economies, supply chains, collapse there won't be as much work for highly skilled labor as priorities shift to more corporeal needs, so it all balances out in the end 😄😁💀🤡

@skinnylatte when I'm have sushi I get tamago and fried bean curd pieces for desert, they are both sweet enough for me 😋

@dalias @mhoye ok, but you can do that with Xwayland too. As a technical matter at the point you define a process to run each container with its own Xnest or whatever, don't you need to solve some of the same technical problems with input handling and global key bindings at the window manager level that you do in the Wayland case? What technical purpose would this serve except to keep the pixels X flavored, how do you provide zero copy direct GPU rendering to apps in this case?

I'm not a desktop app or graphics developer, I just make forms in CGIs for useful little crud apps, but why are we so quick to dismiss the experience and judgement of the seasoned professionals and volunteers who are actually ass-deep in the graphics stack to have good ideas for what is technically a good design. A lot more people who are working no toolkits, window managers, desktop environments, distros etc. seem to think Wayland is a good enough idea to implement it, there is no central authority who can force all these volunteer projects to adopt a change like this, so what do they see that the critics don't?

IIUC Wayland just defines a very simple mechanism (not policy) for window managers to use the Linux kernel APIs to hand out GPU buffers to apps, and feed them input events, everything else are dbus APIs and conventions from the desktop projects. It has all the same problems with coordination between multiple desktop projects, toolkits and app ecosystems that X11 had which was worked out 30 years ago by the Unix workstation vendors who were trying to build a business on top of it, there aren't as many resources for desktop infrastructure today (my opinion, maybe I'm wrong) because no one is losing a billion dollars if they don't ship next week. There is still _some_ interest, which is why RHEL10 uses Wayland and Redhat pays for FTEs to work on the details like accessibility, but I think this has been primarily volunteer driven over the last 10y.

@dalias @dada78641 Have whatever feelings you like but at least in the beginning GOG was clearing up rights issues with games that were not legally available in any online storefront and doing the work to test and configure DOSBox to launch each game was worth it to me even when I already owned the game on CD/floppy. Making offline installers without DRM was also novel. GOG isn't as cool as they used to be since they've transitioned to being just another modern game distributor, but refactoring installers and emulators as the common OS platforms evolve isn't zero work either, maybe donating to a private for-profit company doesn't really make sense, but I don't perceive what they do as zero effort or worthless.

@inthehands @Viss @lisamelton I mean Oracle already tried that with Android and lost

@skinnylatte goddamnit, you work in the Shire, this is all too twee and wholesome 😜

@skinnylatte I've heard someone call an owl bird hardware running cat software, so this seems an even more insightful name on several levels. 🦉

@skinnylatte that's sad (that you can't visit the grave) and sweet (that family show love and understand with their choice of gifts). It's heartwarming that people were able to accept your grandfather before the label "autism" existed, I don't have clear feelings about the medicalization of fairly common human differences as abnormal/disorders, so I'm glad that your family loved and cared for him.

@skinnylatte thats why telling the young to get out there and see the world is always prescient, one way or another you end up with stronger constraints as you get older which puts this kind of travel out of reach. foresight

@skinnylatte you're not the degenerate. I'm still salty that I learned metric in grade school in America in the 80s because we were supposed to transition "soon" and have never been comfortable with Imperial measures (how many hogsheads in a furlong, who the fuck knows) but have to use them to fit in, if someone says "it's 10ft away" I have to either ignore it or mentally convert (about 3m) and then I can visualize it.

@skinnylatte I had heard about the others but not Chex, I'm disappointed but not surprised... people are weird and the repressive culture makes people even weirder

@skinnylatte it's funny to me, they always say "location, location, location!" because I have some relatives who are moderately wealthy businesses owners and their house is more than 20 times cheaper but has all the same features, it has an indoor pool, separate kitchen and space for entertaining, a boat house and dock, a pretty nice patio and is filled with their favorite artwork. It is probably bigger and nicer than what is in these photos, but it is not in Singapore so it's nowhere near as expensive a lifestyle. It's funny too because at the end of the day, it's just a house, people live there, its built with the same drywall and electrical sockets as anyone else, they shop at Costco like anyone else, esp if throwing a party, and are really at the upper end of middle class afaict with very little in common with billionaires and maybe only a little in common with people who have $50M houses, as that seems like a big step beyond into the land of private drivers and private planes and live-in servants.

@skinnylatte I don't read Ross Duhat but every time I hear his name ista because he's written the dumbest possible shit that's not in crayon, so he probably does live in a very different world 🤡💩🤡🙈🙉🤡🤑