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Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11
  • This time really is different because windows is ending updates for windows 10 in 2025 AND they will not allow many computers to upgrade to windows 11, your only choice is to buy a new computer, which obviously isn't an option for everyone.

    I built my gaming PC in 2017 and it still runs all the games and editing programs I want, but it is not eligible to upgrade to W11 because their DRM won't work on my processor.

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  • Cultural surroundings are very different than handing a child a book of fairy tales and telling them it's truth and that if they don't live according to that book they'll burn in hell for eternity. That is cruel.

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  • This isn't trolling, this is a meme by and for atheists. I think it applies to any childhood indoctrination by any religion though.

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    Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works
  • I get how LLMs work and I think they're really cool. I'm just trying to explain why OpenAI is currently limiting these abilities to continue operating within our legal system. Hopefully the court cases find that there is in fact a difference between publishing the information on a normal website versus discussing it with a chatbot so that they don't have to be limited like this.

    Publishing lyrics publicly online is illegal while communicating them privately in a chatroom is probably fine. Communicating them in a public forum is a grey area, but you likely won't be caught or prosecuted. If a big company hosts an AI chatbot which can tell you the lyrics to any song on demand, then that seems like an illegal service unless they have the rights.

    Feel free to look up the legality of publishing lyrics online, all I saw was information saying that it is illegal but they don't prosecute anyone but the larger companies.

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    Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works
  • It's not legal for anyone (human or not) to put song lyrics online without permission/license to do so. I was googling this to make sure I understood it correctly and it seems that reproducing the lyrics to music without permission to do so is copyright infringement. There are some lyrics websites that work with music companies to get licensing to post lyrics but most websites host them illegally and will them then down if they receive a DMCA request.

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    what are .webp files and why has my online experience been plagued by them?
  • FWIW I use Photoshop 2023 to convert webp images to other formats occasionally. My Mac has no issues viewing them but I think my windows 10 desktop has issues. Pretty much all browsers support it though.

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    Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works
  • Well, they're fixing that now. I just asked chatgpt to tell me the lyrics to stairway to heaven and it replied with a brief description of who wrote it and when, then said here are the lyrics: It stopped 3 words into the lyrics.

    In theory as long as it isn't outputting the exact copyrighted material, then all output should be fair use. The fact that it has knowledge of the entire copyrighted material isn't that different from a human having read it, assuming it was read legally.

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    Alternative to RARBG
  • Maybe you are copying the incorrect link? All of them work for me. Make sure you are copying the link to the plugin code and not the torrent website itself.

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    Alternative to RARBG
  • Here is the official tutorial: https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/Install-search-plugins#steps-to-install-search-plugins-qbittorrent-version-3110-or-more-recent

    In qBitorrent go to Search Plugins in the bottom right, then Install a New One. You'll go to that website link I posted and find a torrent site that has lots of content you like, like 1337, and click the little download icon off to the right of it in that table. That will open a tab with some computer code looking stuff. Copy this URL of the website and in qBittorent, in the Install a New One window, select web link and paste the link to the search engine plugin you chose. I did this for the top 10 or so most relevant looking websites for me in terms of language, content type, etc.

    Now when I need a torrent I just go to my search plugin section of the program and type in the search terms I would normally use on Rarbg, and I find the movie I'm looking for.

    Here is a YouTube video I found talking about the process:
    https://youtu.be/nksLKqotTys

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    MinimalGPT - A Side Project
  • Thanks for the reply, I haven't given them my payment info yet so maybe that's the issue, I may try that later. Their website made it seem like I was currently on the free plan which included the $20 credit, but that makes sense, maybe it's not active yet.

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    Alternative to RARBG
  • Rarbg going away was what finally got me to learn how to use qBittorent's built in search engine which has solved my issues and made it effortless to find torrents without going to sketchy websites.

    Go to the search section and add custom search engines and fill in all the good sites from this list:

    https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/Unofficial-search-plugins

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    MinimalGPT - A Side Project
  • This looks cool, but I'm also having trouble using it on Android. I installed the app like was shown and I entered the API key that I generated for this, but I get the error fetching response. I tried both the 3.5 and 4 models, I'm not sure how to check which I have.

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