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Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code by BetaDoggo_ in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

It's cool but it's more or less just a party trick.

The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation by BetaDoggo_ in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 87 points 6 months ago

USB-C display output uses the Display Port protocol

Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show by BetaDoggo_ in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 260 points 6 months ago

This is why you should always selfhost your AI girlfriend.

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OpenAI's GPT Trademark Request Has Been Denied (tsdr.uspto.gov)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First, applicant argues that the mark is not merely descriptive because consumers will not immediately understand what the underlying wording "generative pre-trained transformer" means. The trademark examining attorney is not convinced. The previously and presently attached Internet evidence demonstrates the extensive and pervasive use in applicant's software industry of the acronym "GPT" in connection with software that features similar AI technology with ask and answer functions based on pre-trained data sets; the fact that consumers may not know the underlying words of the acronym does not alter the fact that relevant purchasers are adapted to recognizing that the term "GPT" is commonly used in connection with software to identify a particular type of software that features this AI ask and answer technology. Accordingly, this argument is not persuasive.

White House calls for legislation to stop Taylor Swift AI fakes by BetaDoggo_ in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 146 points 7 months ago

Nobody cares until someone rich is impacted. Revenge porn has been circulating on platforms uninhibited for many years, but the second it happens to a major celebrity suddenly there's a rush to do something about it.

I don't... by BetaDoggo_ in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 102 points 7 months ago

Flatpak is good for diversity. Users don't need to worry about whether the obscure distro they want to use has the software they want in its repos. If a distro supports flatpak it will work with most popular software out of the box.

I absolutely love VideoLAN's stance regarding patents by BetaDoggo_ in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 115 points 8 months ago

French laws don't recognize software patents so videolan doesn't either. This is likely a reference to vlc supporting h265 playback without verifying a license. These days most opensource software pretends that the h265 patents and licensing fees don't exist for convenience. I believe libavcodec is distributed with support enabled by default.

Nearly every device with hardware accelerated h265 support has already had the license paid for, so there's not much point in enforcing it. Only large companies like Microsoft and Red Hat bother.

The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers - Phoronix by BetaDoggo_ in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 192 points 9 months ago

Dropping support after only 25 years? I can't believe Linux is contributing to planned obsolescence.

F#€k $pez by BetaDoggo_ in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 170 points 9 months ago

Smaller communities aren't necessarily a bad thing. Compared to reddit I rarely feel like I'm commenting into the void.

Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now? by BetaDoggo_ in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 108 points 9 months ago

There's no reason to replace USB A on most desktops since it would break 20+ years of backwards compatibility without any real benefit. Maybe 1 or 2 would be useful.

Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do by BetaDoggo_ in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 85 points 11 months ago

Breaking news: children are more gullible than adults.

Garry Newman: The new Unity pricing would have cost him $410,000 of lifetime revenue by BetaDoggo_ in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago

Smells like a lawsuit to me. Retroactively devaluing software that they were already paid for.

It's probably a scream test that they'll walk back with something more reasonable in the next few days.

Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger by BetaDoggo_ in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago

They first started using USB c on the macbooks in 2015. There's no way that it took 8 years to get it ready for the iPhone. In that time they've also released several other devices and accessories which have used lightning.

To me this doesn't point to a planned gradual shift over to USB c but one that was forced by neccesity on the macbook then by regulation on the iPhone.