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Yeah, most of the "fake" audio clips were blatantly obvious to literally everyone with a functioning brain (and hearing ability I guess) and if you thought that represented anywhere near the state of the art in faking voices you'd be far more confident than you deserve to be.
If I hadn't already heard very good audio deepfakes I would have left the survey with far less concern than I presently have around the issue. I came in expecting that the quality of the fakes would get far more convincing over time and it really didn't, but the capability definitely exists (especially around public figures with much audio available for training)
I suppose if you're paying six or seven figures for design work you expect more of an answer than "yeah I thought it looked cool". As well as trying to tie it into whatever fluffy corporate image to please the higher ups with a "detailed" workup on why it's worth it.
That said, I still really do like having high bitdepth/sample rate audio available for download.
Storage space is cheap and as physical CDs are getting phased out I don't want to be in a world where the best you can acquire is the minimal viable quality. If space is at a premium lossless audio with overkill quality can be transcoded to a smaller compressed format at 10s to 100s times realtime. Additionally it means should better compression schemes come out in the future you can reap the benefits of them. I had a lot of old CD rips from the early 2000s in 96kbps WMA and that was regrettable.
As a scifi speculation for fun if in the future there were augmentations that improved human's hearing ability or effective brain links which could transmit audio more effectively than our ever deteriorating ears we'd want the best possible audio signal to feed into that.
A lot of people think it's laughable that anyone would fall for "simple obvious scams" but I've met a good handful of older family and their more elderly friends who either fell to a scam or were only stopped once someone at a store questioned them as to why they were buying lots of gift cards all at once. In some cases scammers will work on people over a long period of time to gain their trust.
I've been toying around in the space a little bit (primarily around patching stuff to get past https pinning) but I've been meaning to get a better understanding on how stuff works rather than just throwing darts at the wall.
>>regardless of Discord or IRC you should still have alternative methods of communications and not put all your eggs in one basket.
As previously mentioned, relying on any single platform is a risk that should be mitigated by having alternatives available. Some of the Discords I use extensively have telegram as backups for when Discord is down.
If Discord were to disappear tomorrow, you'd would be well served to have a backup of some sort to avoid losing contact with everyone, IRC has the advantage of being relatively easy to setup independently with extremely low hardware requirements.
>You'll all still be displaced and will have to gather again elsewhere.
Ideally you have somewhere off platform that people would know to look for updates (website, twitter, etc), but irrespective of what you're using such an event would always be pretty disruptive.
>falls short on all the same points as Discord does with regards to saving messages, which it also doesn't do for
Can arguably be a good thing in keeping chats a bit more ephemeral and more casual, but that's not necessarily a good thing depending on the topic. Regardless you can log client-side or with a bot plenty fine if it's critical to be able to reference the past.
>too much client choice is a bad thing;
Don't entirely disagree, but no client choice (Discord) is oppressive. I'd much rather have an open protocol where I can use open source clients I can trust aren't scanning my processes and sending telemetry without my consent. If I miss out on features that my client doesn't implement I'm fine with that as long as the basic functionality works.
>it's complex to set up and is something you have to administrate;
Many ircds are hardly more complex than setting up a web server, and of course there's still multitudes of existing IRC networks to choose from if you don't wish to administer it yourself.
>you have to keep it secure; IRC servers get targeted by (D)DoS attacks all the time - it's a hobby for some arseholes;
Yeah, not really much debate here. (Although if I have to be pedantic figuring I've been rambling on anyways there's a good amount of vps/server providers that provide decent DDoS protection these days)
Spammers are still a minor issue on Discord though.
>people new to industry don't know what IRC is and are simply going to find it confusing;
And that's a darn shame, but it's not an impossible barrier. People can be taught what it is an how to use it if there's any demand for it.
> most of the teenage population on the planet is using Discord already (and as a primary communication channel).
Yep, it's convenient and popular and has a large user-base.
>IRC is dead. Get over it.
IRC will almost certainly outlive Discord and Slack, but it's past its prime for sure.
I still believe there's plenty of value in protocols rather than being tied to companies like Slack or Discord and perhaps Matrix (or something else) will be a proper "modern" successor to IRC and enjoy the freedom in communication that not being tied to a particular organization's terms of service/code of conduct.
Ultimately though a lot of that will depend on if the internet gets entirely centralized (as has been the direction many things have been going), or fracture back into more decentralized structures. Time will tell.
IRC is just a protocol, Discord is a service provider.
I'm in no control over what Discord deems appropriate and they can terminate my "server" (Guild) that they're letting me use at their own whim (or by accident) with little to no recourse.
I can run my own IRC server or use a variety of preexisting IRC networks which typically are fairly lax on over-enforcement unlike Discord.
>Just a few months ago freenode underwent a hostile takeover and unlike most Discord communities, it is probably not coming back from that BS.
Similar to Discord, Freenode is a service provider.
Should the folks who administrate a IRC network have goals that don't align with you (or there's a hostile takeover which changes the operation's goals) you can connect to a different IRC network, this is largely what happened in the case of Freenode -> libera.
If Discord decides to nuke your guild there's not an alternate discord to connect to, they must switch to a different client and service.
If an IRC network decides to nuke my channel I can just switch to a different network.
Overall the likelihood of a well behaving guild on Discord getting nuked randomly is low, but regardless of Discord or IRC you should still have alternative methods of communications and not put all your eggs in one basket. You don't want to lose connections with all of the people you talk with because some moderator or IRCop got bored.
So then the question arrives: since there's going to be a native Windows binary regardless what's the point of putting in the extra effort if it works well enough?
I think compatibility layers (Wine/Proton) are very useful especially considering many developers don't want to put the effort into making a well supported Linux binary (or make something open source so it can be compiled/patched against updated system libraries), but it very well may be a snake eating its own tail situation that hampers further adoption if things are "good enough".
Personally I think the best thing Windows 11 has going for it to stand out from more than just being a nicer coat of paint on Windows 10 is removing as much legacy things as possible and update to "modern" standards given they've already put a hard line in the sand regarding modern CPU compatibility.
It's not the end all be all of how you can use a computer, but some people manage to make it quite effective and fast to have a keyboard driven tiling wm.
Just because this would be easier for them to have official backdoors doesn't mean they can't ever do anything given enough interest and funding behind it.
>eventually blaming "Russia" for every attack based on trivial IP geolocation
There's plenty of political reasons to state that (even if they were to know otherwise) and if they actually do have more accurate information on a different entity it could avoid showing their hand if they just attribute it incorrectly.
>The reality is that the FBI can't beat maths and has no leverage over services from foreign companies. i.e, a Russian VPN on a clean VM is probably enough to skirt the whole of the FBI.
Probably can't beat math, but if the FBI is running the supposed "Russian VPN" that gives them lots of information. You only have to make one mistake and you could potentially out yourself. (Assuming you don't have further layers to fall back on)
>US digital intelligence is, for all intents and purposes, a paper tiger in 2021. The whole thing is a farce to give the appearance of sophistication to act as a deterrent.
Are you willing to bet your life that this is the case?
I'd love to find some good testing on it somewhere, but I do recall off the top of my head that Windows XP or Windows Vista/7 (with Areo disabled) had significantly lower latency than the GPU accelerated counterparts in Vista+. I believe it has to do a lot with Vsync, but imagine there's some additional overhead involved as well.
Of course many would say removing screen tearing is a valid tradeoff there, I mostly agree but not everything is significantly effected by tearing either.
Thankfully I've been able to avoid that for the most part, but I will say it's certainly easier to avoid with plasma's compositor.
>I doubt i3 is actually drawing shit on the screen faster than Plasma with animations off.
I'd definitely be interested in a raw speed comparison if there was a good method/benchmark, but I don't think that has ever been my limitation (although if I were running on lower spec hardware everything counts)
Plasma certainly has more features, but it's still definitely heavier than i3 (or most (all?) tilingWMs), LXQt, icewm, and the like.
On decent hardware there's not a huge point other than preference, but when you've got 2GB of RAM and a 12 year old CPU every bit helps https://i.imgur.com/vZszQFE.png
Not in my experience, though I have pretty high/less realistic standards coming from i3.
It's plenty usable on modern hardware (anything midrange+ from the past 10 years or so), but it is worth noting that I've still run across folks running core 2 duos in recent times. (Although fwiw they were running plasma, just complaining about it not being very responsive)
I suspect that's a lot more controlled these days, but it wasn't very uncommon for signified staff to be trolling along with everyone else.
The destruction is always immediate, there's always risks, and there's always going to be another possible (virus|war|dangerous criminal|wrong-thinker|...) in the future.
The only time I have any (although low) expectation of a policy ending is when I'm given a definite end date with a binding promise that it won't be extended.
Unfortunately the search is far from independent of the recommendation algorithm.
If the alternative is being harassed by the police it's not voluntary.
* Your terms of service (as linked on the "Sign-in" prompt when signing up) leads to /terms which doesn't exist.
* It's not very visibly obvious that the sign-in prompt will lead to a sign-up flow.
I'm plenty fine with content I'm not a fan of being on a platform, but it's pretty abhorrent to be promoting it from official channels.
What he's referencing, not work appropriate: https://odysee.com/@Odysee:8/axxl-on-odysee:c
Their marketing strategy seems to miss the mark and if the company can't understand that it's a huge mistake which will probably not get better.
I think your examples are a valid criticism, it's just that many of the alternatives are far worse (depending on your standpoint)
FWIW I would suggest looking at the home page of YouTube in incognito mode, most of the videos don't meet my quality standards either.
* TikToks that will get you in trouble
* Medical Emergencies: When Acts Go Horribly WRONG!
* Family Guy roasting every country
>I can't block these channels or show disinterest even though I made an account.
Yeah I think appropriate filtering options are vital for less curated platforms to be more usable. That's not an impossible problem to solve, but I would have expected better options by now.
>My issue isn't the politicalness, it's quality and relevance.
I think it's mainly a chicken and egg problem, there's not as much quality content as I'd prefer so there's less relevant quality content.
My biggest hope is that a certain threshold can be met where more quality content will be added and people aren't scared by the preexisting lower quality content that they don't want to be associated with.
There's definitely a need for there to be some competition to YouTube (Google et al.), but it's a pretty large hill to overcome to get there.
Of course YouTube still has a very strong hand in regards to monetization.
I guess I would say I'm aiming towards examples that are big enough to be notable and not just directly focused on political analysis or similar or type channels.
A lot of what throws somewhat sane people (I would include myself in that but of course I'm biased) off of using the alternate video sites is the second you load up the home page of something like BitChute or rumble and see nearly an entire page full heavily one-sided political content and many (justifiably) believe there's no content for them if they don't align there.
Odysee could use some more quality content for sure, but they at least operate in such a way that I'm not convinced they're only for one type of content and some of the creators I watch in Linux/technology space have somewhat of a presence there.
By the standards of "alternative" video sites there's a pretty diverse set of content including mirrors from some well known YouTube creators (KhanAcademy, EEVBlog, GreatScott, Veritasium, HarwareUnboxed, Not Just Bikes, EposVox) who don't produce heavily political content (whereas many other alt tech video sites are just 99% political content going a single direction)
Given goals towards freedom of speech, some content won't align with you politically (and some might), but there's enough decent content that you can potentially use it as an alternative platform successfully.