Which would just force the efforts underground, where there’s NO curation or moderation. People passing out databases of LoRAs on torrent sites, IRC, or underground bulletin boards. Or they’ll just host in a different county that isn’t the US.
OP is editorializing the headline (“based on real people”) to try to push some agenda here. The fact that 404 Media already has vendetta against sites like CivitAI is bad enough. No, a majority of the models are not porn, not based off of celebrities, and no animals were harmed in the making of this film. Sure, you can point to certain examples of celebrities type models, but most of them are just for concepts not a specific person, and celebrities like to put their pictures out there for anybody to train against. And I do mean anybody can train against these. The hardware requirements are not hard, and besides the Patreon-fueled efforts of certain contributers, it’s just Joe Average people submitting their own LoRAs for concept training.
Let me ask you a simple question: Do you like the current situation with the exploitation of women coming from the real porn industry? Or would you prefer an outlet where there are no men or women (or children) exploited at all?
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized the domain names of several gaming-related pirate sites, including NSW2U.com, which has been Nintendo’s nemesis for years.
Ahhh, there’s the real reason. Nintendo put pressure on the FBI, because Nintendo.
How to get your Nintendo account un-banned
Why? At this point, I would throw all Nintendo hardware in the garbage. Let it stay unbanned than support such a shitty company.
The unworkability is a feature, not a bug.
Same company acquired two very similar apps.
One required a $14/year subscription, the other $90/year
So, why are you using a subscription at all, and not a free and open source app?
You know what Blender is? It’s the industry standard. Why is it the industry standard? Because it’s free, open-source GPL, it can never be taken away from you, it can never be “acquired”, everybody’s using it, and everybody is contributing towards improving it. Nobody is bitching about how Blender is extracting millions of dollars from its users and reducing its feature set at the same time. (*cough cough* Photoshop *cough*)
Free and open source software. Every. Single. Fucking. Time. Fuck subscriptions.
Everybody who is hated and popular gets death threats. Hell, even the nicest actors get death threats.
They are easy to write and send, and there’s 0.01% of the population that is mentally unstable enough to actually do so. You and I don’t get death threats because we aren’t popular enough.
Pulseaudio was introduced in 2004. How come it took almost 20y for it to be replaced if it was that bad?
Did you learn nothing from X11 usage? May I remind you that X11 was invented by Xerox in the fucking 80s?!
Bad software attaches itself to OSs like a cancer.
People want to charge $15-20 for a CD, and if I did that for every album I listened to on Spotify, I would have spent at least a luxury car’s worth of music. I’m not going to ever pay that much again. Concert prices are already bad enough.
Piracy or streaming, pick one. Because the choices we had before that sucked.
The real problem is oversaturation, and the general worth of music. Good music is everywhere. People are making it every day and putting it out there, on Spotify, Bandcamp, wherever, and it’s all free or very cheap to listen to. Why should I specifically pay attention to Yee or Lil Shitstain or whatever is the college rock band of the week that got insanely popular?
You can do some wild shit with pipes:
head -10 /var/log/syslog - Look at the first ten lines of one of your log files, with timestamps on the frontcat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 - Splits the lines by a space delimiter (the -d' ' part), and grabs the first “field” (the one with the timestamp, using -f1)cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 - Splits the timestamp at the “T”, and leaves only the datecat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 | sort | uniq -c - Gives you a count of each dategrep systemd /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 | sort | uniq -c - For only the lines with ‘systemd’ on it, gives you a count of each dateThe standard GNU toolkit has a ton of utilities like that for doing stuff with text files.
I’ve been using DDG for a bit, and honestly, it’s kinda garbage. They are just borrowing data from Bing, and it shows.
Nothing is “an apocalypse” for anything.
JFC, people, stop pushing these extreme opinions on AI. It is not simultaneously the solution to everything and the end of the world. It’s just a goddamn tool.
It’s almost as bad as the opposition’s comparison of it to Skynet. People are never going to understand technology without applying some fucking nuance.
Stop hyping new technology… in either direction.
Only the Sith believe in absolutes.
Imagine playing Borderlands with a controller…
We’re talking about software engineers, not plumbers.
Then don’t live there.
I’m sorry, but I can’t sympathize with normal people with normal salaries that choose to live in the most expensive cities in the world, and then discover that they can’t afford shit, especially when they find themselves out of a job.
Move out, find towns that are affordable, go work for employers that embrace remote work, get a normal salary, and enjoy a low cost-of-living.
It is 2025. The job market is global and remote work is now. If you’re relying on salary to be magically tied to where you live, then you obviously don’t know how capitalism works.
Shitty media’s greatest trick is cherry-picking and anecdotal “evidence”.
Here’s your damn nuance: “In Germany, we’ve removed all Nazi symbols and references. Unlike films and other works of art, video games in Germany are forbidden to use such symbols and references as they are classified in Germany as toys and not media art.”
Toys? Sorry, I’m not going to call The New Order a toy, nor most of the other story-centric video games I play.
They give zero shits about moral issues. Corporations have no morals. Banks have even less than no morals.