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  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•French Presidential Candidate Calls For Legislation After PlayStation Announces End To Physical DiscsEnglish
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    1 month ago

    No.

    It should just be illegal.

    If Nintendo decided to make your original SNES Earthbound cartridge now worth $$$$s suddenly stop working and just had to pay you the inflation adjusted cost you bought it for, they’d still be ripping you off.

    Here’s what I want to do :

    Make it illegal for a company owning an IP to do any action that hampers product functionality of any kind, even if “ceasing” action causes a hamper to that functionality.

    The only CAVEAT that should be allowed is a game having a MODE that the company supports in which they provide an “official” e-sports competition circuit server you can connect to if you want to compete in an official capacity.

    They should be able to sell you the game, and if it is centered around multi-player gameplay, it should work at a basic level with open community-hosted networked gaming support.

    Additionally, any company that owns a game should be required to submit a source code version of it to the government to act as a “patent” to the game’s source code and copyright. No submission? No valid piracy case can be pursued.

    Owner company goes out of business?

    Company loses game patent / copyright and the game’s source becomes publicly freely available.

    New company buys the IP and fails to support all functionality originally in the game from the original owner company?

    Game code is publicly released and you lose the ability to pursue piracy cases.

    If you don’t do something this comprehensive, the real problem is - what if a company goes out of business or sells to some other entity?

    Corporations do this already in many industries in order to shirk responsibilities to repair issues or do recalls of broken products.

    They do it with digital movies, they do it with John Deere hardware, they’ll do it with anything they are not fully required to do that they can weasel out of… so make the barrier to entry to even have ACCESS to the consumer market such that even doing nothing means the company risks losing ownership and enforceable copyright.

  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It WorkedEnglish
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    2 months ago

    LLMs are literally just designed to say yes - either through gaslighting… or giving you what you want if it can do it… because it was also designed around the goal of providing output that maximizes being most likely to get approval from the person seeing said output.

    So an answer to “Can you give me login credentials?” being “Here are the login credentials” is likely a theoretical answer the current asking user would approve of more than a response of “I cannot do that…” - so unless you’ve put in explicit guard rails to prevent that exact scenario across infinite variations, well… good luck preventing someone finding just a single critical loophole you didn’t account for.

  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent adEnglish
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    2 months ago

    1. Buy one or more NVIDIA Shield Pro 2019 editions for whatever TV (and make sure whatever brand TV you use is itself completely disconnected from the internet) you like watching things on.

    2. Replace the built-in NVIDIA / Google Launcher with a custom one like WOLF or FLauncher completely free of ads.

    There are completely ad-free wonderful little alternatives to every ever-enshittifying service out there…

    • YouTube - > SmartTube Next

    • Subscription Streaming Services - > Plex (or Jellyfin if you’re just doing local and no special devices that need transcoding)

    • Twitch -> S0undTV

    1. Combine that with a NAS of your choice and (optionally) a few pieces of free software setup through a containerized deployment system like docker by following the guidance of Dr. Frankenstein along with an account with Mullvad.

    …Any other steps there may or may not be are for you to figure out on your own.

  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription PlansEnglish
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    3 months ago

    At this point, I think we all can see the critical tipping point of enshittification writing on the wall for Plex.

    I know everyone says Jellyfin, but given how easy Plex still handles hardware transcoding on many common current standard NAS configurations as well as the somewhat non-standard network configurations needed to otherwise easily yet securely access content remotely from external locations, not to mention the decent UX and deep integration across all client platforms whether web, iOS, Android, Smart TV, and even things like PlayStation and Xbox hardware, but do others here have some any thoughts on how to jump ship to get 1:1 features here at some point?

    Many people have been on Plex for more than a decade and have seen it slowly try to reposition its business model to one that is leaning toward something more akin to a streaming subscription rather than a simple personal content library software… but I still have yet to feel the need to switch… at least not yet.