dcow

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by dcow 6d ago
I think we just have different definitions of execution. Getting VC funding and spending two years honing and SaaSifying an idea then dropping it with a hype train (yes paid for by VC funding) is certainly very different execution than some
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by dcow 7d ago
> At least this post has some touch with the reality that this functionality was available a year ago and was well known among ML people. When you market a product you make exciting claims relative to the audience you’re engaging with. W
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by dcow 7d ago
I can understand why the author feels bitter but it still feels juvenile to me. Certainly both Jev and Laya are based on the research of countless prior papers and academics. Diogo decided to build a product out of the concept. The author
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by dcow 8d ago
Time is money. Emotion. You think someone's not going to buy a sports car because it will be cheaper in 10 years? That's 10 years without a sports car. They might, however, ask whether they need a car with 30% profit margins or on
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by dcow 8d ago
I've done my fair share of reversing, modding, rooting, jailbreaking. Asserting my rights is very interesting to me, which is why I think you're missing a fair bit of nuance. I ran this discussion through Astra to check my own rec
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by dcow 9d ago
If there were examples made of legal consequences I think that would at least change the behavior if not solve the problem. Maybe liability should rest with the company that owns the infrastructure running the AI. For most consumer situatio
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by dcow 9d ago
Am I the only one who dislikes the term "misalignment"? On one front it implies the model has a "mind of its own" (whether it does or not is besides the point). Why do we perceive human judgement as somehow more trustwor
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by dcow 9d ago
My family needs food though. Perhaps a supermarket is a poor example. I think people might purchase fewer luxury goods in a deflationary world which TBH I'm not sure is a bad thing. To put it another way, the model you're presenti
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by dcow 9d ago
Yes. It really was a toxic mess wasn't it?
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by dcow 19d ago
So we agree that Valve, Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft all operate platforms that support DRM. Wonderful! I'm not interesting in bickering over who's DRM is the easiest to remove XD In the US it's not piracy to make archival b
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by dcow 22d ago
And what people also don't realize is that you can run a non-compliant AP. I am 99% certain the legal framework places the responsibility on the clients and the APs (or at least the absence of a consistent one biases towards a conserva
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by dcow 22d ago
> Obviously the general populous won't care about this, but it is something we should be striving for Hence idealistic
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by dcow 22d ago
Let's put the actual numbers in front of people: 1,924 out of 43,179 games, or 4.4%, as of today (according to PCGamingWiki) are DRM free. The vast majority check whether you've purchased the game at runtime. If you stick to only
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by dcow 22d ago
While you are mostly accurate in your definition, I’d argue we have discovered that intelligence is emergent/empirical not analytical. There is not a substrate we have yet to discern. Intelligence does not have to approach humanity to
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by dcow 22d ago
You can’t back up your games on one PC and use them on another without constant permission from Value either. It’s the same and that is all I’m trying to point out. DRM is a red herring, the real problem is the phone home always online bull
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by dcow 22d ago
If as a society we want to create an information age bill of rights and (1) protect hardware ownership and right to root (without exploits), (2) require platform marketplace neutrality, and (3) require digital intellectual property be dis
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by dcow 22d ago
Same and even more so with a car.
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by dcow 22d ago
> Disabling DRM is required for basic archiving if the issue is someone else having the ability to decide the thing you bought will self-destruct. Don't move the goalposts. The only thing I am conceding is that conceptually it still
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by dcow 22d ago
Oh I agree. It was a rhetorical example. Sony can add a signature to a list and your game stops launching even if it's a physical disk is the point. We should fight back legally and prevent publishers from trampling on the rights of in
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by dcow 22d ago
> A Sony exclusive and any other game are not two kinds of anything. Are they not two kinds of games? I'm arguing that your comparison isn't the right one. A BMW and a Volkswagen are two types of apples. They both let you drive
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by dcow 22d ago
Sony doesn't DRM the power that you use to run the Playstation either. But to try and meet the comparison: there are different manufacturers of fuel just like there are different publishers of games and while Volkswagen can't forc
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by dcow 22d ago
Apples and oranges. If you goal is to simply play games, well then there's plenty of hardware out there for you to use. If you want to play Sony exclusives then you have to use their hardware. If I want to get from point A to point B t
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by dcow 23d ago
Probably the same place you can buy an aftermarket CAN board and controller for your Volkswagen. Oh, looks like cars and consoles aren't that different after all.
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by dcow 23d ago
You can't get the Volkswagen engine sound or drive experience in a BMW, though.
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by dcow 23d ago
Not really. I can plug a generic usb cable into my Playstation and it charges my aftermarket controller just fine. I can even use aftermarket screws or put the console in an aftermarket enclosure.
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by dcow 23d ago
By inserting storage media into the removable/external media port and copying or moving the files.
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by dcow 23d ago
Woah, we're not talking about cracking your games. I think every console from at least the last two generations has supported copying game files to external/removable media.
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by dcow 23d ago
I think you're under-appreciating the importance. It's not just pedantry. This has been true since EULAs have existed. And it's kinda insane that people think owning a disk gives them ownership of the intellectual property co
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by dcow 23d ago
Nobody is arguing the risk values are exactly the same. The argument is that the risk posture is the same. You're taking a pretty rigid stance that the only thing that matters is risk value, which is an individual value judgement and
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by dcow 23d ago
We are in the most emotionally driven period of human history to date where reasoning takes a back seat. It's super frustrating but once you realize this instance isn't a one off you can start to focus on the bigger picture. I&#x2

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