zirgs

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by zirgs 3y ago
It's fairly easy to load gltf at runtime in UE 4/5.
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by zirgs 3y ago
4) Release a consumer GPU with 32-80 GB of VRAM.
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by zirgs 3y ago
Not everyone wants to uproot their life and leave their friends and family behind.
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by zirgs 3y ago
In their country not mine. Meanwhile shit like CSAM distribution is illegal everywhere.
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by zirgs 3y ago
I was talking about running an exit node. In an ideal world everyone could run an exit node and help others to bypass censorship. Unfortunately sooner or later some sick fuck would abuse it to post CSAM or hack something. And then good luck
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by zirgs 3y ago
Shit like CSAM is illegal pretty much everywhere though.
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by zirgs 3y ago
I would love to help a dissident to bypass internet filters, but I don't want to get anywhere near illegal stuff.
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by zirgs 3y ago
Yup, but the Americans now act as if they always had gay marriage and call people from other countries bigots. Especially on sites like reddit.
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by zirgs 3y ago
Steam is DRM-optional. Its DRM is easy to remove and lots of Steam games are DRM free. It also gained lots of popularity with its sales and bundles.
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by zirgs 3y ago
As I said before - we have reached the end of history of music.
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by zirgs 3y ago
Yup - my country considers gay couples not married - even if they have been married in another country. Even worse - if another country requests that information - my country will also say that they are not married. Because - obviously - th
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by zirgs 3y ago
The problem with mechanisms like that is that they can also be (ab)used for bad stuff. For example - in my country gay marriage was made explicitly illegal with a constitutional amendment in 2005. Many other countries could legalise it with
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by zirgs 3y ago
iTunes was a DRM infested crap. Meanwhile pirates offered drm free files that you could play anywhere.
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by zirgs 3y ago
A lot of them - me included -started to use Spotify, because it is cheap and convenient. It really converted lots of pirates to paying customers. There simply was no legal option to buy music digitally before that. CDs were overpriced and i
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by zirgs 3y ago
I treat streaming services like radio without ads. And it's always possible to buy music from sites like bandcamp and own it permanently.
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by zirgs 3y ago
There are more than 100M tracks on Spotify. More that one person can listen to over several lifetimes. Even if 99% of them are crap - that still leaves 1M of good tracks. The amount of available music is simply staggering nowadays.
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by zirgs 3y ago
iTunes only launched in 2011/2012 in Eastern Europe and many other countries. Before that the only way to get music digitally was to download it from P2P networks.
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by zirgs 3y ago
By "increased supply" I meant - more artists were able to offer their music on the service. So each artist has a way bigger competition now. It was much harder to release a CD or get your songs on radio than get on spotify, bandca
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by zirgs 3y ago
Steam was available in the Eastern Europe way before iTunes and Spotify. Music and movie industries really dropped the ball there.
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by zirgs 3y ago
iTunes was not available everywhere. It was officially available in Eastern Europe only around 2011/2012. And in many other countries even later. Around the same time as Spotify which was a lot better service. Before that I could eithe
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by zirgs 3y ago
That was true in the late 1990s, but by mid-2000s everyone could get fast internet with no data caps. That's when Steam started taking off, but music industry was still stuck in the previous century.
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by zirgs 3y ago
Piracy is a service problem. Back in the early 2000s pirates simply offered a better service. The gaming industry understood that and quickly created online marketplaces for games. The music industry didn't - and instead of creating
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by zirgs 3y ago
Well, before spotify they made zero money from me and a lot of other people. Spotify also allowed a lot more people to publish their music. Increased supply and higher competition leads to lower prices. 1999 with its overpriced CDs is never
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by zirgs 3y ago
I suspect that they aren't getting many sales this way.
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by zirgs 3y ago
Everyone pirated in the Eastern Europe back then. You bought a CD only if you were a big fan of the band. The rest was downloaded off the net. I've never bought a single CD in my life. Transitioned straight from pirating to Spotify.
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by zirgs 3y ago
What is not on streaming services? From my experience - if it's not on spotify then it's on youtube.
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by zirgs 3y ago
This kinda explains the anti-piracy hysteria of the 2000s.
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by zirgs 3y ago
It's a lot easier to run Stable Diffusion locally. Meanwhile only the dumbest LLMs work on ordinary consumer GPUs. Datacenter GPUs with 80 GB vram are ridiculously expensive.
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by zirgs 3y ago
The same account for a bank and a shitposting platform. What could possibly go wrong?
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by zirgs 3y ago
In the EU surveillance systems must be compliant with the GDPR. So there must be a way to notify people that they are being recorded and whom to contact to get their data removed.

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