ArkyonVeil

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Off the top, Krita and Inkscape. Haven't transitioned yet, but I have ceased receiving updates. Next OS workflow will no longer involve affinity.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

To anyone promoting Affinity, they've sold out to Canva, a Venture Capital fueled mega corp looking for a public offering. Enchittification is inevitable.

Please look for FOSS alternatives instead.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Relevant XKCD, as per usual: https://what-if.xkcd.com/96/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not thoroughly aware of their dealings, but these amounts of private investment aren't going to pay for themselves. If you raise 100 million, investors typically want a billion back, or more.

From the looks of it, Bitwarden might've tried to go with the Open Source model to get free development resources, trust (because it's an open source PASSWORD manager), and general goodwill. But now that they've deemed that got enough of a market share (or investors are starting to breathe down their necks), it's time to start raising the walled garden.

Even if they claim after the fact that it was a "Bug" that the client couldn't be built without their proprietary sdk. The very fact one exists is a bad enough sign, specially when its influence is spreading.

VC is a devil's bargain. Raising VC money is NEVER a good sign.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I wonder~ I wonder~ I wonder whyyyy...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

I stand in solidarity with Godot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The one owned by the state.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

I've been tired of "modern" security doing nothing but annoy people. Recently, a Portuguese bank "innovated" by exclusively allowing login only on a mobile device. Yes, a clean web browser with 3FA is not "secure" enough, has to be done on a mobile device. Clearly, desktop PCs are too insecure to conduct transactions.

Therefore, because one does not trust their mobile device. One simply spun up a clean Pixel VM, shared my data with Google and just did their work there. Peak security.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I love it when marketing manages to spin Armageddon levels worth of copyright infringement into "spirit of the law" just because a program is magically called "AI". Machine Learning is just pattern recognition software.

Software that runs on data assembled from petabytes of copyrighted information... And then promptly resold to us.

We may decide later on if it's okay to do this. But I'm pretty sure that if it wasn't for the labels we'd have legal WW3 happening right about now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Oh ho... No, you're not the only one I'm afraid. It was fine until a couple hours ago, the newest comments confirm it so. Not sure what's going on.

Hopefully Ross figures it out and it goes back up soon. Thanks for the interest!

EDIT: It's back up.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey folks, just sharing the message. I believe it's related to piracy as it frequently comes into contact with the preservation of media. As whatever is DRM Free and capable of working offline, is effectively able to last indefinitely.

If you're European and eligible, please consider.

Cheers

 

Don't you hate it when that game you used to play, vanishes from your library? Or what if you download it, but it doesn't work anymore because it's a single-player with an online only DRM. Or you're waiting for the DENUVO crack, but it never comes and the games goes EOL and forgotten? Well, turns out someone had enough and decided to start a campaign for it. If you pay for media, you may want this. If you like it free, someone needs to crack first it, and that doesn't always happen. So you may want this too.

Spread the message. If you're European, seriously consider voting. We don't own digital movies, and if we don't put a stop to this, more games will follow. Make the pirate party proud.

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know you mean this is as joke, but oddly enough, Pitfall, by Activision is still available!

 

Greetings citizens, pirates, denizens and all of you fellow incredible people of this society of brave internauts who wish the world was a little more free. It is with great curiosity that I pose my inquiry, seeking guidance from those who sail the high seas of knowledge, for I yearn to embark on a journey towards the treasure trove of information that is most precious.

Usenet, still a thing? How do I get into thing?

k thks.

 

Greetings Citizens of Hopefully Useful AI.

It has come to my attention that there are plenty of videos, as well as workflows that would get so much better if there was the possibility of textifying their audio content.

That being said, I hear Whisper, at least in the past 9 months or so was the cream of the crop when it came to audio recognition. And was also open source to boot (shocker).

Therefore, I'd be quite pleased to know if anyone created a method to more easily make use of the model. Because dedicating mental space to remembering specific adhoc commands does not make for a good long term tool.

For reference, I can throw a 24GB of VRAM at the problem if need be, and am running a Windows machine. Anything like Oobabooga or A1111? (Or a standard program would work just as nicely.) That would be very much appreciated.

Type in your answer, and ENRICH the future of Lemmy with your knowledge. (As well as answer one's question, pretty please.)


Thank you very much for reading and have a most fine of days!

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