Blackmist @ Blackmist @feddit.uk

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It’s another move to protect against AI scraping that isn't paying them for access.

This isn't new. They used to sell vinyl records full of sounds that people could use in their productions, and now it's audio files.

Chances are those laser blasts from Empire Strikes Back were just Laser Sound #12 from BBC Sci-fi Sound Effects Vol 3.

Make the ad for a dodgy Asian gambling site, to save pirates having to add it later.

Anybody who has seen Tropic Thunder.

Host? Sounds like a problem I'm too "several large HDDs" to understand.

Probably the same software tbh. Handbrake. Whatever you choose, it's nearly all ffmpeg under the hood.

Downloading might still be better, depending if you're in the subtitles gang or not. Disc subtitles are ugly af, and might not play without transcoding on some devices.

Sounds great.

Hope you've got your guns, because you'll need them for any of that.

Voting is just for deciding what colour tie your right-wing authoritarianism wears.

Yeah, but the governments obviously want to know exactly what you're doing as well.

I think their only objection to Google et al having so much data is that they need to jump through hoops to get hold of it.

I suspect this will be in browser before too long. Mostly so they can automatically provide your full unique ID code to anyone who asks, so your government can keep track of you if you say "I support Palestine Action" anywhere, or so Google can look it up when you dare suggest AI is not our glorious future.

But also because there's only so many "let us check your ID" services you can use before you end up giving your details to somebody who is going to sell them directly. How long before a dodgy porn site does a "show us your face" check, before generating deepfakes starring yourself and demanding payment not to send them to a social media profile it's already detected based on your face?

I don't really want to be on an internet where instead of blackmist@feddit.uk, somebody can just click that and go "Oh, that's Jeff Timmons of 48 Badminton Way, Stoke-on-Trent. Ring Staffordshire police so they can go and grab him"

Yep, turns out they only voted against it because they wouldn't be the ones spying.

Thanks, Kier Star.

What's wrong with thalidomide? We can just put the shelves lower!

Yes, but they're poor and brown and far away, so who cares, right?

Iceland does the municipal hot water, at least in large parts of Reykjavik. Although many hotels heat their own, because the sulphur smell from it is somewhat an acquired taste.

Not the milk though, instead they pump fresh cold Skyr.

I think they fuck with the white balance to try and make Trump look more normal.

This was especially noticeable the other month when he met the Saudis in their white robes, and it made him look like a fucking Oompa Loompa.

Even the bits not against the chair seem blocky.

It's like they're so far detached from reality that they've disabled anti-aliasing.

Maybe we can dig up VIA and get a new Cyrix CPU.

AI bros: nooo, it's not meant for counting letters!

Road Rash was great, but I feel the real spiritual successor was Burnout 3: Takedown.

Wank and a nap.

You know it's a real leftist party when they can't even agree on a name. And there's only two of them.

Or infected, given it looks like The Last of Us.