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You might be anti-ai in the sense you aren’t comfortable with all your data being shipped back and forth to a third party.

Yeah I don’t think they are over-priced, last I checked all those companies are still losing money hand over fist. I guess the question is more he doesn’t want people catching up b…

Also all the bad food choices me and my fellow stoners make when we’re high.

Yeah but messaging apps are really only useful if there are lots of people on them to message. So in the real world a relatively small number of providers, WhatsApp, Signal etc, ar…

Really hope they aren’t forced to do that. Apple TV one of the few streamers with decent quality audio. We don’t need a “loudness war” for TV and movie content.

You’re way off here. Conflating DCT-based compression of audio data (like MP3) to dynamic-range compression of an audio signal (as done on an audio compressor during production) sh…

Uh huh. What people are now talking about here is to normalise the “average volume” (by using compression to increase it, or just lowering the volume to decrease). The problem is t…

You “turn it up” by using dynamic range compression. Which is fundamentally altering the work. It’s right and proper YouTube do not do this to people’s work.

Because content creators have a right to produce audio how they want. If it’s a video of someone speaking in a quiet voice it shouldn’t have to have an average volume level of a ne…

Replaygain works reasonably well for modern music, as do the LUFS units. The problem with video content is there can be extended very quiet parts. If you try to bring the “average”…

But the training expense is part of their costs! The question is can they just stop training at some point, fixing the models in time, and still have a useful product.

It definitely costs them a lot. Implementing v6 without doubt saves money for ISPs. Especially in the CGNAT game as those boxes aren’t cheap.

Exactly. And because the infra was never public in the US, and thus no “privatisation with rules”, it’s been a bit of a disaster.

Indeed. This is a funny legacy of how telecoms was run and regulated in different countries. Now the US has the least consumer choice, and shitty ISP practices from exploiting peer…

Was that real DIA?? I’ve seen this commonly from them with residential service. They mostly give you a private v4 address behind CGNAT in addition to IPv6. If you want a public v4 …

A lot of web scraping. The ones that got KimWolf’d were/are doing a lot of DDoS (SYN floods etc).

It’s very tricky because the IPs are all on normal user ranges you can’t block without blocking those users. The company behind this blog - spur.us - offer some paid services I thi…

VPN ranges at least are obvious so that’s different. Tor less so but it doesn’t seem to be commonly used for this kind of abuse.

Absolutely. Bear in mind the scrapers wouldn’t need to use these proxies were they not being blocked by the sites they are scraping. So it’s being used to evade blocks. For some co…

Nah it’s messing up peoples home internet, and massively abused to perform denial of service attacks and scraping of web content by large AI companies who are otherwise blocked. Yo…

I connect every few months (with cable) to check for firmware updates and the like. Otherwise agree it stays offline.

This is to frustrate those using distillation techniques to train their own models right?

There is, see my other reply. CDs are able to store much louder tracks than can be cut on a record. The technical reason things on CD got louder is because they could.

CD has better dynamic range, sure. But a CD is also able to represent a signal with _much less dynamic range_ than it’s possible to cut on a record. It was the move to digital that…

ULAs are standards compliant but tbh it's a layer of complexity I rather not have. Just give me GUAs and be done with it.