MoogleMaestro

There's a few different layers to this. Others have jumped at you a bit, but I hope to talk about this a little more understandingly...

When it comes to music distribution, as in, giving your music to others, the solutions already are in place to provide a federated distribution of music (see groove shark) which would in theory be a good way to provide a place to stream music while also allowing distribution to others. Even if you want to go through paid services, it has never been easier to publish music (though there are caveats, you do generally have to give up royalties to middlemanagers. This is generally ignored by people in this thread, but it is a problem for most artists.) The alternate distributions like groove shark simply don't have enough users yet, and I can't attest for whether it has the right features to be a substitute for bandcamp (there's no ability to set up payment, last time I checked.) It's really the case that independent labels aren't making good use of technology that isn't just putting up a random Bandcamp page.

You'll notice I didn't make any mention of crypto above: That's because I'm not sure of the practical uses of crypto in this particular regard beyond a "buy it as a collectors item" style distribution via NFT and I think that bubble has more or less completely popped.

There's been attempts from the likes of iTunes to provide encrypted song binaries, and in theory you could encrypt a song using a crypto transaction to store the metadata, but it would both be unpopular and entirely centralized (you would need to have an authentication server for tying transactions to keys.)

So short of not having to deal with payment processors (which is good for anti-censorship, fwiw), there's not a lot of benefit to using crypto specifically. And transaction costs would somewhat inflate the price of transactions and would basically force users to buy "albums" again (so that you don't get hammered with transaction fees.)

Lastly, the 5 to 10 years of earning before the rights go "public domain" is a very flawed concept. I know there's a lot of anti-copyright advocates here on lemmy, but there's some truth to the idea that artists actually value copyright to protect their own work and it would be very difficult to convince an artist to sign a deal that would effectively limit their own ownership; This is especially true in the era of AI data farming. You'd be better off making the decision (as a label) to claim ownership up to x dollars in debt to produce the album (there's always a cost, with a slim profit margin to be expected) and then hand the ownership entirely back to the artist once they've recouped the cost to produce the album to effectively put it back in control of the artist to let them do as they please. A record label isn't just about making the music listeners happy, but to empower the artist to create art that they otherwise couldn't afford. Most record labels are disliked by labels not because they withhold ownership from the listener, but because they aren't always paid equally in royalties due to ownership clauses in their contracts that allow record labels to extract profit from work that they've already well earned the loss with profit on.

It gives the phrase "you've made your bed, now sleep on it" a whole new level of meaning. :)

This is really awesome.

What OS did you flash on that Pixel6 to get it working? Or are you using a linux vm on an android phone?

Let me know how it goes.

Another feature that might be useful in the arsenal is that you can purposely downclock the refresh rate of the gamescope session when the window is out-of-focus, which means you can put less burden on the computer when multi tasking. Obviously the game will run at a lower frame rate when focus is away, but this might be OK if you want to free up more system resources for watching videos.

But like the other use said, a good place to start is making sure hardware accel is on within Firefox (or whatever browser you're using.)

Right now it is ESO and nothing else, when she tries the whole system lags until she can move the mouse painfully slowly to the browsers X.

Maybe you should consider using gamescope? This is what the steam deck uses internally to isolate games so that they fight with the window manager less often.

On KDE Kubuntu, you should have no problem installing it if you've installed steam as a .deb from the website. Basically, install it either from source or repo (whichever is recommended for ubuntu) and then modify your steam game settings to something akin to the following:

    
gamescope -f -- %command%

This will launch the game in an isolated WM so that it interferes less with your existing window manager. There's a tonne of settings, so gamescope --help might give you more details.

Steam is apparently working on making this easier to access by supplying it with all steam installations in the future, IIRC, but work there isn't finished yet.

My honest question for you is what you think it means to be doing something meaningful?

Frankly, the world these days are filled with suits working jobs they either hate or you're a dude working a job you like that pays you nothing. We're not really in a place to help people with platitudes about "making a meaningful life" when there's no meaning to be had.

But perhaps it's the absurdist in me who feels this way. For the record, I have an OK programming job, and could probably make more money had I decided to not go into games fwiw.

Yes,

but game companies also want to spy on you and potentially sell your data. Even if they aren't selling it, the ability to do so increases the value to investors. This is the way tech companies talk about invasive software in general, FWIW.

If you have the lid closed, you’re looking at 3 to 15 watts to have a laptop running in the background doing some basic server shit.

Not all laptops make effective use of power with the lid closed, sadly. Not saying this as a correction, but for others to know that they need to make sure these settings are available in the bios of the system they are buying.

I think this is a good suggestion. As a single user, you could still theme it while also providing cross-posting of other artists you like. Additionally, your network would act as a "web ring" of sorts.

    
cd .. && ls
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But every time someone gets on their soapbox in the comments it’s like they don’t even know the first thing about the math behind it. Like just figure out what you’re mad about before you start an argument.

The math around it is unimportant, frankly. The issue with AI isn't about GANN networks alone, it's about the licensing of the materials used to train a GANN and whether or not companies that used materials to train a GANN had proper ownership rights. Again, like the post I made, there's an easy argument to make that OpenAI and others never licensed the material they used to train the AI, making the whole model poisoned by copyright theft.

There's plenty of uses of GANNs that are not problematic. Bespoke solution for predicting the outcomes of certain equations or data science uses that involve rough predictions on publically sourced statistics (or privately owned.) The problem is that these are not the same uses that we call "AI" today -- and we're actually sleeping on much better uses of neural networks by focusing on a pie in the sky AGI nonsense being pushed by companies that are simply pushing highly malicious, copyright infringing products to make a quick buck on the stock market.

See, I’m troubled by that one because it sounds good on paper, but in practice that means that Google and Meta, who can certainly build licenses into their EULAs trivially, would become the only government-sanctioned entities who can train AI. Established corpos were actively lobbying for similar measures early on.

As long as people are paying other people, these things will equalize eventually. Ultimately, it would be much more likely that the cost of AI production would become so severe that it would no longer be viable as a business (which, frankly, is fine. There will eventually be enough public domain content that AI will be at the quality it is today with public materials alone.)

What I want from AI companies is really simple.

We have a thing called intellectual property in the United States of America. If I decided to make a Jellyfin instance that I charged access to, containing material I didn't own, somehow advertising this service on the stock market as a publicly traded company, you would bet your ass that I'd have a 1 way ticket to a defense seat in court.

AI companies, otherwise, operate entirely on data they don't own and don't pay licensing for ANY of the materials that are used to train their neural networks. So, in their eyes, any image, video (tv show/movie) or book that happens to be posted on the Internet is fair game in their eyes. This isn't how intellectual property works for individuals, so why exactly would a publicly traded company have an exception to this rule?

I work a lot in the world of FOSS and have a firm understanding that just because code is there doesn't make it yours. This is why we have the GPL for licensing. In fact, I'll take it a step further and say that the entirety of AI is one giant licensing nightmare, especially coding AI that isn't actually attributing license details with the code they're sampling from. (Sampling code being notably different than, say, learning from. Learning implies self-agency, and not corporate ownership.)

It feels to me that the AI bubble has largely been about pushing AI so hard and fast that people were investing in something with a dubious legal state in the US. Nobody stopped to ask whether or not the data that Facebook had on their website (for example, they aren't alone in this) was actually theirs to own, and what the repercussions for these types of decisions are.

You'll also note that Tech and Social Media companies are quick to take ownership of data when it benefits them (artists works, intellectual property that isn't theirs, random user posts about topics) and quick to deny ownership when it becomes legally burdensome (CSAM, illicit drug deals, etc.) to a degree that no individual would be granted. Hell, I'm not even sure a "small" tech startup would be granted this level of double-speak and hypocrisy.

With this in mind, I am simply asking that AI companies pay for the data that they're using to train AI. Additionally, laws must be in place that allows for the auditing of all materials used to train an AI with the legal intent of verifying that all parties are paid accordingly. This is how every other business works. If this were somehow granted an exception, wouldn't it be braindead easy to run every "service" through an AI layer in order to bypass any and all copyright laws?

Otherwise, if facebook and others want to claim that data hosted on their website is theirs to own and train off of -- well, great, but there should be no exceptions to this and they should not be allowed to host materials they then have no ownership over. So pictures of IP they don't own or materials they want to claim they have no ownership over must be removed from the platform. I would much prefer the first of these two options, however.

edit: I should note, that AI for educational purposes could be granted an exception for this under fair use (for university) but would still also be required to site all sources used to produce the works in question (which is normal for academics, in the first place.) and would also come with some strict stipulations on using this AI as a "product" (it would basically be moot, much like some research papers). This basically the furthest I'm willing to give these companies.

The mini rack is pretty decent, but I wish that the size decided was a 12" or so rack, so that more computer hardware could fit without the struggle.

I'm sure more stuff will be made the accommodate this scene though.

The term "unalive" is so cringey yet dystopian that I don't know whether to feel embarrassed or concerned when I hear it.

As long as there's centralization and data brokering, there will always be a capitalization. It's basically the only logical path forward for a service that isn't decentralized or running as a charity.

The windows kernel isn't all that great, particularly in the realm of memory security or scheduling.

You know, to each their own. Question is really whether windows maintaining a closed source kernel even makes sense from a maintenance burden perspective when it really doesn't give them much money in return. (Most of their money in 2025 comes from cloud services, not operating systems)

It is sad that they don't at least have the courage to be honest about their stance: they legitimately thought that trump was better than harris for Gaza and now they have egg on their face. To which I say, enjoy the leopards -- they have a thing for egged faces.

The best path forward is that developers make their linux drivers before they release their hardware to the market. You know, like what they do for windows.

There's no silver bullet here. You have to wait for someone to reverse engineer the drivers if the developers of the hardware don't care enough to supply even basic linux driver support. Either that or linux becomes so popular that it becomes senseless to ignore it (let's be real though, MacOS is popular enough for this to be true and yet there's still new hardware made that ignores that platform too.)

I don't actually see the fediverse as being any more extreme than any other corner of the internet.

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That is the way

Those of you that have negative sentiments towards AI: What would you want to happen right now?

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Finished my 10" rack (for now)

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i love the modern web

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Something somerule "StOp dIvIDinG ThE leFt"

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