No interest in this exactly, but I am interested in the idea that third parties are now targeting the Framework form factor explicitly to sell upgrades/replacements outside of the Framework marketplace.
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emmp commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
>it frequently produces mediocre or worse content. Will the same happen for Warner?
HBO hasn't produced good content in years at this point. Since before the last season or two of Game of Thrones, I should think. The other brands in Warner didn't even really have that much prestige.
Succession, Hacks, The Last of Us, White Lotus and Euphoria have all been recent buzzy TV hits for HBO post Game of Thrones
emmp commented on Redis change license from BSD-3 to dual RSALv2+SSPLv1 (2024) github.com/redis/redis/co... · Posted by u/uticus
Valkey is the open-source fork blessed by antirez and where the community is moving.
Migrating a bunch of old and new dbs from Redis 6.x to Valkey 7 went smoothly here.
If you're migrating: 7.2 is the ideal version to switch over. If you upgrade Redis above it, compatibility guarantees drop.
Valkey is not blessed by antirez. Antirez is back working at Redis and even committed an entirely new feature himself for Redis 8 under the new license which is not in Valkey.
For his return to redis: https://antirez.com/news/144
On his new vector sets feature: https://antirez.com/news/149
Until it can actually be used as a graphical server like x, it is useless to me and I loathe every attempt to force it down my throat.
It feels like it was built as a replacement for only the majority happy path of what X was used for and all other uses were ignored when it was decided it would be adopted by distros and that really sucks.
Have you tried waypipe? Does it not fit your use case?
Last time I tested this, which was a few years ago, it worked just fine. But to be fair, this is not part of my workflow, just something I was testing out of curiosity.
If it doesn't do what you need for whatever reason, then I understand, but it just not true at all that the Wayland ecosystem has not been addressing these use cases.
emmp commented on Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU? mikegalsworthy.substack.c... · Posted by u/mariuz
It's a form of institutional hysteresis. If a major change can get implemented by a simple majority, it has zero noise margin. If it requires (say) two thirds, then it has a noise margin of 33 percentage points.
I am still stunned that Brexit was left to a 50% + epsilon referendum.
The Brexit referendum was not binding and the decision with what to do with the results, if anything, was still entirely left to parliament.
emmp commented on U.S. Added 818,000 Fewer Jobs Than Reported Earlier nytimes.com/2024/08/21/bu... · Posted by u/nickwritesit
By the current administration to get re-elected? I mean.. I'm not saying that's what's going on, but the motivation seems obvious to me.
Surely revising the numbers downward close to election when people are paying most attention to them is exactly the opposite thing you would want to do to get re-elected? I'd argue the motivation for malfeasance only makes sense the opposite -- BLS does not want the administration reelected and thus is releasing worse numbers close to the election.
emmp commented on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice twitter.com/BobbyAllyn/st... · Posted by u/mjcl
But it's clearly not her voice right? The version that's been on the app for a year just isn't. Like, it clearly intending to be slightly reminiscent of her, but it's also very clearly not. Are we seriously saying we can't make voices that are similar to celebrities, when not using their actual voice?
We can seriously say that, yes. The courts have been saying this in the US for over 30 years. See Midler v. Ford Motor Co.
emmp commented on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice twitter.com/BobbyAllyn/st... · Posted by u/mjcl
It’s definitely sketchy (classic OpenAI) But my question is: is what they did actually illegal? Can someone copyright their own voice?
There are two similar famous cases I know offhand. Probably there are more.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Bette Middler successfully sued Ford for impersonating her likeness in a commercial.
Then also:
https://casetext.com/case/waits-v-frito-lay-inc
Tom Waits successfully sued Frito Lay for using an imitator without approval in a radio commercial.
The key seems to be that if someone is famous and their voice is distinctly attributeable to them, there is a case. In both of these cases, the artists in question were also solicited first and refused.
He sold the trademark to some random company. Amazon / Google / Microsoft could have thrown him $30M for that and put Redis in an OSS Foundation.
Again, it's chump change, these companies drop that kinda money all the time in aquihires..
He worked there for 5 years. It probably didn't feel "random" for him.
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