Who would have ever said that I would have sided with #OpenAI on some issues?
What the NYT is demanding is quite outrageous.
In order to prove or falsify the hypothesis that the ChatGPT bot purposefully circumvented the NYT paywall in order to scrape articles, the NYT is demanding OpenAI to hand them the logs of 120M conversations.
That’s 120M complete conversations, with all kind of of sensitive information and PII inside, handed out to a major news outlet just to verify a case of copyright violation.
To be clear, most of these LLM bots are quite aggressive. I’ve had to block whole subnets on my servers because their scrapers were frying my CPU by scraping whole git blames from my Forgejo instance. With no throttling nor proper handling of 429 errors, without respecting the robots.txt, and without even setting proper user agents.
And the gravity of the issue is compounded when these bots scrape copyrighted content.
But the solution is to prompt regulation for AI bots and push for deals between AI companies and content creators.
Not getting a waver to compromise the privacy of millions to verify your copyright claims.
OpenAI slams court order that lets NYT read 20 million complete user chats
OpenAI: NYT wants evidence of ChatGPT users trying to get around news paywall.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
Democrats Caved in the Shutdown Because of the Filibuster
For Democrats, the main issue in the shutdown wasn’t electoral backlash — it was the filibuster. Leadership feared its removal, viewing it as a safeguard to keep the party’s rising left wing in check.jacobin.com
Clergy in Ukraine work to heal psychological trauma of war
Christians in Ukraine are being helped to deal with the trauma of war has been life changing.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv fighting ‘grueling battles’ with Putin’s troops in Pokrovsk
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has said he hoped Washington would take no actions liable to escalate the Ukraine conflict.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
看了 #Steam Hardware Announcement 影片後打下一點小小心得
+ 一次發表三組硬體
代表 Valve 是會數到三的，那 Half-Life 是不是有機會出三代 😅
+ Steam Controller
加上觸控板覺得有點醜，但整體來說我還蠻想買的，而且影片中是用 Steam Controller 遊玩夜邊主任超愛的 #Silksong 😆 (圖一)
+ Steam Machine
覺得外觀... 有點醜，但可以換殼 (圖二)，一大賣點是 Steam Machine 其實是一台 PC (圖三、圖四)，也是超想買的
+ Steam Frame
既 Valve Index 後，Valve 終於又推出了 VR headset，而且是無線的，應該會吃掉一些 Meta Quest 的市佔。不過 VR 遊戲量依舊偏少，再加上我已經有 Quest 2，短期內不會入手，先觀察看看，但對 Steam 生態系有信心，也許會出現讓我躍躍欲試的點
Israeli violations keep terrorising Lebanon despite the ‘ceasefire’
Riyasa, a young southern Lebanese girl living in Beit Leif — a small town near the border with Israel — says her life has completely changed since the lastBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Toyota pledges up to $10 billion in U.S. operations investment
The announcement comes less than a month after U.S. President Donald Trump flagged that the Japanese carmaker planned such an investment.Chester Dawson (The Japan Times)
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Amazon Fire TV will now block apps used for piracy, even if you sideloaded them
Amazon Fire TV will now block apps used for piracy, even if you sideloaded them
Amazon is further cracking down on piracy apps on Fire TV, with plans to block apps even if you sideloaded them.Ben Schoon (9to5Google)
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If you want a new console + a PC at your TV, I think the new Steam Machine could be nice for that.
Running SteamOS (Linux) this should be good, or am I missing something?
Or buy a second hand pc for not much more than 50 euros/dollars. Install linux and it'll be more than fast enough for torrenting, playing media and a bit of surfing. Companies are off loading anything that can't run windows 11 right now.
Also means you're not torrenting stuff on your main system while gaming.
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And yes, ONN is a Walmart Brand.
Tivotization? Doesn't that shit runs Linux?
AH FUCK I FORGOT. Yeah Linus Torvalds decided he didnt want GPLv3 on Linux...
Fun indeed.
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Get a Mini-PC and put some Linux distro and Kodi on it.
Or even better, get one of the many LibreELEC supported devices (including, as somebody mentioned, a Raspberry Pi 5) and put LibreELEC on it (which is a pared-down Linux with Kodi).
Personally after maybe a decade running successive generations of TV Media Players to play my growing video file collection on my TV, on my latest upgrade I ended up going down the Mini-PC with Linux and Kodi on autostart route (as I used it also as a home server) and am very satisfied with it, though if I wanted to just use it as a Media Player I would've gone with LibreELEC and on of the various ARM SBCs they support (maybe the Pi, maybe something cheaper).
There really is no reason to use closed commercial solutions for this.
Edit: If all you do is consume media on it via Kodi, you can use a remote like this one so it's the same usage experience as with a commercial device, just without the enshittification.
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I just set up LibreELEC on my Proxmox machine, on a VM with monitor passthrough and Bluetooth passthrough so I can use my Chromecast remote and stream audio, then installed the Emby Next Gen addon to access my library on it. Super happy rn.
Especially as I've been until now using the 2022 Chromecast with Google TV and, now they've brought out another device, it's been breaking slowly. The wireless chip has been spazzing out to the point that every day it loses connection and the only solution left that works is to forget the WiFi and use my phone to quick-add it back via QR code. Even then it's started constantly saying 'connection lost' and 'connection restored' during playback. Well, a few days ago it started breaking connection to its (Bluetooth) remote as well, meaning I kept having to use my backup remote on Home Assistant that uses wireless ADB. When both wireless breaks, my only option is to use the Chromecast's button to trigger re-adding the remote. And when that fails, well..
The number one feature in my streaming device is that it has HDMI cec and a one handed simple remote interface. No keyboard. No mouse. Low power usage as a bonus.
How can I make both happen?
I've tried so so many couch keyboards and they are all miserable even with a track pad or track ball. I also have a unified remote on my phone and I still hate having to go find my phone and unlock it. Then it occasionally doesn't connect for reasons beyond my understanding so I have to take half an hour to debug.
Duck even if I could use my xbox controller for everything, id be happy but no it only works in games reliably.
Don't really know about the HDMI cec, but I use one of these remotes which works perfectly with Kodi (it seems to just work like a wireless keyboard that just sends keypresses for shortcut characters corresponding to the function of each button, and those shortcuts are some kind of standard that Kodi supports, so this kind of remote - that also works for Android stuff - works fine with Kodi).
The only quirk it has versus the remotes that come in commercial solutions is that whilst the Power button in the remote will switch the Mini-PC OFF, it won't switch it back ON (for the obvious reason that it uses a USB dongle and the PC when switched OFF won't recognize input from the dongle).
I first got one which had even more buttons (also working fine with Kodi), but the remote's build quality was shit and it didn't took long for some of the button on that one to stop working reliably.
This one has been working fine for about a year now.
I do have a keyboard and mouse attached to that Mini-PC because it doubles up as home server and once in a while I have to do something on it which is more easilly done directly there with a UI rather than remotelly on the command line via SSH (or I simply don't want to boot my main PC to access the Mini-PC remotelly), but to just consume media via Kodi nothing else beyond that remote is needed.
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If you're using Kodi on a PC and want your TV remote to control Kodi or your Kodi remote to control your TV, there's this little doodad that might help
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It's built in to RPi. I've got LibreELEC on it. My Kodi goes to sleep after 1 minute idle and sends the signal to turn off the TV. I also added a button to my home page to turn off the TV. When I push a button to wake up Kodi, it turns the TV on. There is a bug where when it sleeps during playback it shows a black screen instead of turning off, so i have to stop playback to make it turn the TV off. I opened a bug about it and they mentioned it might be fixed in the nightly release 22 builds but I never got around to trying it.
Control your TV from Kodi, or vice versa! USB - CEC Adapter
Control your TV, Amplifier and/or Blu-ray Player from Kodi!www.pulse-eight.com
Well, the Mini-PC actually looks like it belongs in my living room TV table.
But, yeah, functionally it would work just as well on a spare laptop as long as the microprocessor in it has the video decoders in hardware (something which is only a concern for really old laptops).
Beyond that, I wouldn't recommend an old desktop because of its higher power consumption and noise, but a laptop should be fine on both regards.
#energy : capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not
- French: énergie
- Italian: energia
- Portuguese: energia
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Satellite thermal imaging confirms North Korea running South Korean factories without authorization
On Nov. 5, the South Korean Defense Intelligence Agency reported in a closed-door audit by the National Assembly’s Intelligence Committee that North Korea isBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Trump signs spending bill to end longest shutdown in US history
He signed it into law just hours after the House of Representatives voted 222-209 to approve it.Ana Faguy (BBC News)
Democrats left bruised after historic shutdown yields little
Trump emerges from the shutdown having made little in the way of substantive concessions to Democrats in Congress.Anthony Zurcher (BBC News)
Libische kustwacht neemt reddingsboten onder vuur, de EU zwijgt en blijft betalen
De Libische kustwacht valt reddingsschepen van hulporganisaties aan op de Middellandse Zee – met schepen die zijn gedoneerd door Europa. ‘Ze schoten gericht op de plek op de brug waar de stuurman altijd staat.’Maartje Bakker (DPG Media)
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