Arthur Besse @ cypherpunks @lemmy.ml

cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

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Holla at me when there’s an AI clothes robot.

It's a hard problem, but some of the scientists of all time are working on it:

It took a decade for FoldiMate to admit defeat and declare bankruptcy, but Laundroid accomplished the same task in only four years - so, soon, we could have robotics companies able to give up in under a year!

Cut off from several instances

which instances?

in the minute immediately following the clip in the tweet in this article, she jokes (while on stage with Erika Kirk) that JD Vance was the assassin

15 minutes of it are available here: https://archive.org/details/insidececot

https://www.wired.com/story/larry-ellison-is-a-shadow-president-in-donald-trumps-america/ (archive.is paywall bypass)

You think the Trump admin tells Larry Ellison what to do?

Debianfest is in Argentina this year … 🍿

DebConf. Not to be confused with debconf.

someone tell Avery Brooks

They just need to say they are using the archive for AI training data. Then it’s legal.

"Capitalism will not automate itself out of existence. It will not eliminate the workforce, and it will not even try. What it will do is create a deskilled workforce, ever more dependent on capital for the ability to produce, and create a divided workforce, that does not share a common proletarian consciousness, thus diffusing its class power. And, for when and where discontent does bubble up, it will automate the deadly force required to repress uprisings."

yt-dlp can download from thousands of sites, including streamable. you can install it on android using termux.

don't drive a car afterwards

I can tell you that the GitHub code isn’t the code that’s used

really? given that the license is AGPL and they do have some external contributors, they shouldn't be running an unpublished branch of the code!

look at their responses in the .ml cross-post,

that post is now deleted, but you can see their modlog here

as a lemmy.ml admin the only way i can remove this post on !indiegaming@lemmy.world is to ban the user with "remove content" checked, which i am for now refraining from doing because i think they might actually be sincere.

however i strongly advise against running this, and therefore i removed links to it from lemmy.ml communities... while preserving one in their modlog (along with advice to OP) in case someone wants to audit it.

A road analogy only works if it’s their private road which youtube maintains

Their desire to restrict how you interact with their "free" service necessitates eliminating your fundamental ability to tell your computer what to do - not just for "their private road", but in general. This is what the "war on general computation" is about. (I assume you haven't watched the talk linked in my earlier comment? there is also a transcript here...)

To be clear, they have not won this war yet - which is why all of the software linked in the body of this post is still able to exist! But, they are continuing to move in that direction and offerings like YouTube Premium are predicated on their (correct) assumption that, for many people, having agency over their own computers' behavior is already unimaginable.

So, re: your earlier comment:

That feels dystopian in the same way that a car mechanics offering services like brake pad replacements is dystopian, which is to say, a pretty big stretch. My uncle and his buddies would giggle, a la, Hank Hill if anyone suggested taking that stuff to a mechanic. But for 90% of people, that’s the norm.

I'd say this not at all like car mechanics existing and offering brake pad replacement service. Rather, it is akin to it being made intentionally more difficult and/or outright illegal to replace one's own brake pads - and also to have them replaced by any local mechanic who does not pay a recurring fee to the company that manufactured the car.

the war on general-purpose computing isn't akin to car mechanics offering services. if you want a car analogy (😬) it is more like car manufacturers attempting to restrict which roads which cars are allowed to drive on (and selling license keys to enable access to other roads).