Google pays Firefox a lot of cash to be the default search engine on their browser.

Inbetween all the garbage spam about AI I almost missed this was actually a post announcing laptops with the new Snapdragon chips. It’ll be interesting to see performance on windows ARM when they release next month

They really fucked up and it’s so heartwrenching watching it all happen. I was following the story since it started and I just can’t believe they allowed anyone to download copyrighted books without a limit in 2020, without asking anyone for permission or whether it’s legally viable. Everyone knew they were losing this, and they gave publishers a convincing reason to sue them. by crossing the “legally grey” area to literal piracy.

FWIW, OpenLibrary is a good source of book metadata at least, even if it fails its goal of letting people read books on it.

E-mailed the dev asking for one

https://tildes.net/ , it’s not super active but it’s my second option.

We’re going to need strong digital signatures on everything

That won’t help anything considering how easy it is to strip metadata.

That lip sync is scary good. It’s still a little off, the teeth are weirdly stretchy, but nobody would notice it’s a deepfake on first glance.

Seems very similar to Nvidia’s idea of only having a moving photo for video calls to reduce bandwidth needed. Very nice.

“We have really good intentions, that’s why we’re working for a company that’s been involved in at least two dozen scandals and breaches of user privacy. I’m sure they won’t do it again.”

Claims don’t make any sense if there isn’t any benchmark.

That was fast. Wasn’t this one of the main selling points of Windows 11?

> Decide to create a very basic GUI app in Rust, as everyone is saying it’s a great language for it

> First compilation takes over 15 minutes to download and compile 100 libraries

> Debug files take up 2GB of storage

> Output binary file comes out massive for no reason

> “Yeah you’re supposed to write a few lines to optimize for size in your release profile”

> Compiling now takes 30 minutes instead

no general purposd language can guarantee a lack of memory leaks

You’re going to summon every Rust enthusiast on the platform

In my experience ONE person using the same seed will not be able to create the same image.

I mean actual seed, not prompt. If you’re using something like Stable Diffusion it gives a seed number with each image. Using the same prompt and seed number gives exactly the same image.

Every AI image creator has blacklisted words/tags for preventing copyright abuse or prevent creation of offensive images.

Only the ones you can’t run locally. Most people still use Stable Diffusion because it’s the most powerful and open, and that lets you create anything you’d want and allows you to train it on whatever you’d want. You can make a model based on 500 images of Kirby and it can make similar-looking images with the same art style.

There’s also nothing stopping you from sitting down at your desk and drawing a picture of Kirby with a pen.

This argument never made sense to me. If I’m drawing it, I put in the effort and made it with my own hands. AI image generators can mass-produce images. Not to mention that they’re based off other people’s work, not yours. It’s not the same.

Absolutely not. AI images can be mass-produced and two people using the same seed will be able to create the same image. If they’re copyrightable nothing would be stopping a company from making millions of images a day and copyright trolling anyone who tries to use them.

There’s also a lot of other issues like image AIs being trained on real copyrighted data, so nothing stops me from saying “Hey, generate an image of Kirby”. It’s hard to argue that you own that image when it clearly depicts something that isn’t yours.

Looks lovely! The art of fonts is something I will never understand but always appreciate. This website is also brilliant in showing everything dynamically and explaining why it all matters. Safe to say Github will start using it everywhere? It’s also open source, which is nice (and makes sense considering what Github is striving for).

Edit: Not 100% sure on texture healing though. Toggling it on and off in the example makes me feel like texture healing makes everything look weirder. It makes the font look less monospace which should be good, but it just messes with my mind when some letters look slightly different in different contexts. Like the spacing is not immediately obvious to me and having the same letters look different is throwing my mind in a loop. I guess I’ll need to try it to see if it’s comfortable.

A million buzzwords and nothing new. It’s a $700 privacy nightmare you strap to your chest that sends whatever you say to ChatGPT’s API, something you can do on your phone for free. I’m surprised it got any funding at all.

Did they seriously review their own product on their own website?

Ouch. At this point you can probably get a chromebook that runs better.

I don’t know if I’d get it for general use, RISC-V is still really early and performance on this thing looks really weak.

All of this, of course, will have to be substantiated by independent benchmarks. But as further sweeteners, CEO Cristiano Amon also put forth, in the course of the keynote, a couple of other selected claims that piqued our interest:

• That the Elite X will outrun the Apple Silicon-based M2 Max in single-threaded performance, as well as match the top performance of a “competitor” CPU at 30% less power consumption.

• That the Elite X will top the Core i9-13980HX in single-threaded performance and match competitor peak performance at 70% less power consumption

Big if true.