GreatDong3000

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

A solution would be for an extension to download the entire video 2x and delete the difference. But if you want to watch on 4k you'd need a connection that is pretty fast (although still in the range of what many people already have). However if they find a way to throttle the max speed on the server side for each client based on the quality they are watching, that would kill this possibility. You could block their cookies and throttling by IP on IPv4 would not be a possibility for them, but when everyone is on IPv6 idk.

But also processing the video on the fly to delete the difference in real time would be heavy, though at least I think it is possible to access the GPU with browser extensions via webGL but I am not sure if for HD and 4k that would be realistic for most people.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Some people said that skipping is blocked during the ad. But if that is the case I am sure either the timestamp is predictable or somewhere on the client side you could find the information about the timestamp.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Last time I checked it only made the extension temporary if the extension wasn't signed by the developer. If you made your own extension you need to use the developer signing tool on it before installing.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago

It is a good stand from google but...

In the end it was all censored, since google wasn't even there anymore, and China was left with a huge market opportunity for their own internal companies to serve their internal market instead of a foreign company. The Chinese people ended up worse off, Google ended up worse off, Chinese censorship won, Chinese tech companies won.

So still sucks either way. With firefox not being banned Russians can still load up the extensions, just have to get them from other sources.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

If you bought photoshop back when it was not subscription and Adobe did not inform you that your license had an expiration date you can in fact do whatever the duck you want to it because you purchased it, you did not rent it, you did not subscribe. You purchased it and it is yours for life.

Matter of fact you have no idea if what you are suggesting would fly in court because I am pretty sure you don't know about any previous case like this that has been even tried in court.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Man do you know how many instances exist? I hate this idea of trying to coordinate defederation across all bigger instances all at once. You have the option of migrating to an instance which is already defederated from them, or hosting your own instance and defederating from whoever you want. You can also mute them. Don't come to a decentralized network with the expectation of imposing centralized decision making behaviour?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

This is the fediverse and that is their instance. You just move to another instance and mute them if you are desatisfied with them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

People online sometimes get mad at me when I say I don't want windows users to move to Linux, I don't want Linux to be popular at all. I enjoy being a Linux home user who knows the community is small enough to not draw the wrong kind of attention from bad actors and corporations.

Anyway, I enjoy seeing windows users get shit shoved down their throats like this, it is amusing and I can't wait to see what Microsoft is gonna do next while most of their user base just accepts it or cries online only to continue on windows.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

See you all in the Solaris community

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It is a partial analogy, it takes into consideration the outputs which are related to some specific training data and disconsiders the outputs which cannot be directly related to any specific training data.

For example, make up a new meme template and a new joke on the spot, it couldn't have seen it before if you make sure your joke and template are new. If the AI can explain it then compression is a horrendous analogy.

Lossy compression explains outputs being similar but not identical when trying to recover the original data, it doesn't explain brand new content that makes sense standalone. Imagine a lossy audio compression resulting in a brand new song midway through playback, or a lossy image compression resulting in a brand new coherent image being overlayed onto some pixels of the original image. That is not what happens, lossy audio compression results in noise, lossy image compression results in noise, not in coherent unheard songs and unseen images.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Then why did I just make this meme up right now and chat gpt can explain it?

https://i.ibb.co/NYHRnTY/Screenshot-20240531-072008-Chat-GPT.jpg

Arguing over this is just dumb, you can yourself take any picture you want at this very moment or come up with a brand new meme template on the spot and upload it to ChatGPT to see you are wrong, it is free btw.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Oh ok, you want to claim this is compressing the entirety of the internet in a model that isn't even 1 terabyte of data and be unimpressed that is something.

But it isn't compression. It is a mathematical fact that neural networks are universal function approximators, this is undisputed, and analytic functions are continuous so to be an analytical function approximator it must be able to fill in the gaps between discrete data points by itself, which necessarily means spiting out data outside of the input distribution, data it has not seen.

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