I wish they'd fix the issue that under Linux Mint, my mory use grows to over 50% and VM use gradually climbs to 95% over several weeks when doing nothing but web-browsing and this is only released when I exit FF and re-enter. Memory leaks anyone?

Please fix the bugs before you start adding more "fluff".

Wait a few months and you'll hear:

"Has anyone seen my shirt? I'm an investor in this eVTOL air-taxi thing and I seem to have lost mine. What is 'due diligence' anyway?"

Don't be so generous.

I would not be surprised if this move was designed to deliberately blur the line and visual difference between creator-generated and AI-generated content.

"Why?" you might ask?

Well right now Youtube has to hand over more than 50% of its ad revenues to the pesky creators that make the videos people watch on the platform. If they can replace those creators with AI then they get to keep *all* the money -- and that is a very, very large chunk of change -- more than enough to incentivize such a move.

YouTube (and its parent Google) long ago lost any interest in not being evil and now *everything* they do is all about hiking revenues and boosting that bottom line. If you think otherwise then you're sadly deluded.

Calling all hackers, calling all hackers....

Since you already own the car, hacking it to unleash its full potential can't be a crime.

Mind you... I've been using electronic test equipment for decades with similar stupidity. You buy an oscilloscope and it has a specified bandwidth and/or feature set. Pay more money, enter a code and voila -- it suddenly has a higher bandwidth and/or more features. Everything was in their when you bought it, you're just paying to activate it. Once again though, many bits of kit have been hacked to sidestep these artificial limitations.

Well I don't pirate -- although I'm pretty sure that what I do will likely be declared illegal soon because the movie and music studios will claim I'm depriving them of revenues.

When DVD rental businesses started shutting down a few years back I bought as many disks as I could find. That's given me probably over 1,000 movies on physical media. I'm slowly ripping all these to a NAS and when that's done I'll be set for life. At my age I can't remember much about a movie within a year or two of watching it so I'll just cycle through these titles.

Nobody's going to put up my prices, reshuffle my library of titles or delete what I *OWN*.

Take that Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and the rest of you!

One word: Vindaloo

I have a simple seven second hack that would solve Woz's problems if performed each night just before bed.

Yeah, YouTube should not be allowed to hide behind that S230 defense because I've been reporting scammy ads on the platform for years and almost without exception, those ads never disappear until the advertiser's budget is fully spent. Then they re-appear a few months later.

YouTube doesn't care -- the only things that matter to them are revenue and profit -- all else is simply incidental.

Well that's going to give me nightmares!

How would such a door even work... I mean you've got a huge heatsink on one side of the die and the PCB on the other. Such a door would have no room to open and even if you could open it -- the inside of the die isn't hollow -- there'd be nowhere to go even once the door was open.

This all sounds like scifi to me.

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I think the courts have already ruled on the ineligibility of such works for copyright protection when used as part of a dataset for AI training.

Good luck Universal, can you afford to buy the right judge?

Official statement from Universal:

"Do as we say, not as we do"

Statement ends.

But would it really be non-polluting?

In fracturing its atomic bonds, N6 will likely release most of its energy as heat and we all know that if you heat N2 and O2 enough you end up with all types of oxides including a nasty pollutant called NItric Oxide (NO). I can't see N6 simply disassembling itself neatly into 3(N2) in an oxidative environment such as the earth's atmosphere.

Is this because companies are trying to leverage as much AI as they can these days?

We're told that AI will improve everyone's life and give us all more leisure time -- but I'm getting the impression that "leisure" is equated with "unemployed" by those making the predictions. With AI taking over so many roles that often required a degree I think it will only serve to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, with no trickle-down or benefit to those who can't use it to their own advantage.

Only time will tell I guess.

I suspect the two biggest earners for Fiver were app coding and voice actors. Sadly, these are also the two categories on which AI is having the biggest impact.

Why would you hire a voice actor from Fiver when you can use AI to give you an adequately good result for much less?

Likewise app coding.

I suspect that we'll see far more "prompt engineers" offering their vibe-coding and AI-voiceover expertise on Fiver but the prices will have to fall.

I have several computers in my office but the only one running windows is the one I use for video editing. Everything else runs Linux and has done for over 15 years.

The only reason my video editing rig still runs Windows is because it's just easier than battling a bunch of limitations tied to using Davinci Resolve under Linux. If BlackMagic Design could provide identical capabilities on Linux that Windows machine would be reformatted in the blink of an eye.

To be honest, I hate having to fire up the Windows machine because I'm constantly interrupted by all manner of ridiculous things I don't want or need and I'm constantly nagged to upgrade. If I step away for more than a few minutes I can sometimes come back to find that Windows has decided to download updates or do something else without being asked to do so. With Linux I am in *full* control of my computers -- with Windows, not so much.

Right now I'm considering altering my video editing workflow so that I can finally get rid of the evil that is Windows. Hopefully this will happen sooner rather than later.

Those who still use Windows for stuff like websurfing, word processing, spreadsheets and other day-to-day tasks are suffering a self-inflicted pain. Freedom and relief is just a download away. Do it!