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I think 1) and 2) have already been that way for at least 15 years. Software copy protection used to be very simplistic and is getting improved constantly. Also when I grew up games didn't yet talk to servers and they do it for quite some time already. Every new physical video format gets a new copy protection mechanism... DVD, BluRay,... now streaming services with DRM... Illegal sites get shut down all the time.

The piracy scene also adapts, changes their methology. I'm pretty sure it'll continue that way. I asked the same question 10 years ago and yet here we are.

The adult content is getting worse though. But i think mainly for the big and well known commercial streaming sites. Maybe there are still torrents of that around and pirating adult content will get similar to pirating a tv series.

Agree. Not sure if I'd use the word "tool" to describe him... But he's certainly "special". Glad I found one of the few discussions where it's not just his fans praising him for his " visions" despite him not delivering on the last 50 promises he made. Or the latest edgy memelord thing he read somewhere or came up with... Usually I just shut my mouth and don't comment on that because it's just so many people following the hype.

No? I left out the detailed info here as I thought it's of no concern. I provided it with pretty much the same info I'd write to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. With computer bugs that's usually steps to reproduce the issue, exact versions of everything, exact error messages and my findings from googling and looking at the code...

That was one of the issues I had that only gave me one or two search results and it's unlikely that someone comes up with a solution since the hardware is outdated and not many people have that specific board lying around and also the expertise to understand the low level hardware coding involved.

I mean it kind of fits the rest of the picture I have from using ChatGPT and similar stuff. It can do easy stuff. And write boilerplate code pretty alright. With the Arduino code I'm tinkering around as a hobby... not so much. I once asked it to do the inverse kinematics for a small robotics project. And the AI can tell me about what I just read on the Wikipedia article about that topic. But that's it. Not an idea how to apply that info. And that the complicated part is to come up with the specific Jacobian matrix. And not just tell me that using one is one of the few approaches to that problem. That's obvious from reading the Wikipedia article or reading any textbook. And it did silly things like write code like equation.solve(parameter1, parameter2, parameter3) ... Sure. I mean if I already had a framework that did that and was available on an embedded platform, I wouldn't have had that problem in the first place...

So my attempts at using AI for the issues I have with computers regularly fail. I can see how that's not the experience everyone has, but still... It doesn't really help me with specific problems or rare issues.

And I still have a few I can try to question some AI about... An slow Wireguard VPN tunnel inside if another tunnel that I already fixed the MTU and it's still unbearably slow... A few obscure webframeworks that don't tie into things... But I'm pretty sure I'll get the same results.

Have you ever been lucky with AI and issues that didn't get you any search results because no one ever did it before? I mean I'd be happy to learn how to use AI properly as a tool. It's just I've tried and I don't think I'm too stupid to prompt it. It's just that I've given up since it doesn't seem nowhere near intelligent enough to tackle the real issues I have. I'm not opposed to AI. I use it and it helps me get small stuff done easier/faster.

I've tried. And usually the questions I ask are too specific. I mean I can answer the basic questions myself and often I get several result when it's just that. The AI just mumbles general advice and is always wrong if it's too specific. Like for example: Why does the graphics driver crap out on any OpenGL ES instruction on the old single board computer I have lying around, despite the SoC being supported?

Alright. Thanks. Seems I know the concepts, just not the names. I don't think I'm into these booths 😅

Maybe I'd consider these theatres where some swinger people meet. If I someday feel the urge to do so.

I think we have an appropriate amount of adult shops in the city where I live. They're quite different in selection and atmosphere. Some look a bit more filthy(?) and are still filled with DVDs. Some are modern, clean and well lit. Last one I visited has a fetish shop on the upper floor with more equipment and expensive clothing, not just the stockings and 25€ sexy maid outfits with cutouts for the ass cheeks...

Can somebody explain to me the terms "adult book store" and "adult arcade"?

What we have here are sex shops that sell mostly toys, sex shops that focus on dvds and magazines, is it that?

And what's the arcade? Is it what we call "Pornokino" im Germany? A dark room with 6 booths with a TV set a chair and a tissue box? Or do you have sexy arcade cabinets and orgies there?

(Edit: Btw: For NSFW questions there is [email protected] which also is a nice community to ask such things.)

I don't get it. Where does he say "algorithm"? Does Google Gemini do PAC learning?

AFAIK "AI" means "machine learning" and machines with "intelligent" behaviour, whatever that means. It includes everything from expert systems, statistics, markov chains to LLMs. And people nowadays slap it on every product out there.

"Algorithm" means a (finite) sequence of (rigorous) instructions. At least that's what Wikipedia says. It's well defined and doesn't talk about where the instructions come from or if it includes statistics.

And one of them is Java?

Uh. That's a complicated question. I mean if I were to pirate something instead of buying it... It'd be obviously good for me and bad for the creator. But that question really is a can of worms. I don't think there is a single, simple yes/no answer to that. Personally I'm leaning more to the "Robin Hood" approach. I'd have less issues taking and copying a multi million dollar hollywood production than doing the same to a small and independent creator. But in practice I might have done both. Copied the textbook my electric engineering professor wrote and downloaded the Lord of the Rings TV series... But I myself also make sure to regularly pay for stuff if I can.

I see no difference. Takes time and effort to write the standard book on electronics and also takes time and effort to produce the new scifi tv series. Both are (different) jobs but I don't think there is a difference if I pirate one or the other.

You can skip subs, flairs and the gamification aspect (trophys, medals, gold, ...)

Most people need to learn about communities and instances. Rest should be similar. OP, comment, post, DMs, ...

Etiquette varies. Some people here like people who are nice to each other. Of course this doesn't always work.

I also pay attention to upvote people who reply to me. And I keep shitposting to the dedicated communities.

The dynamics and technical details can be different in detail. Some things don't work as smooth (yet). And we're only a few people here compared to the big commercial platforms.

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