I haven’t used Soulseek in 2 decades. IMO, this sort of behaviour is not legit.

Thanks for the suggestion. This looks like a very powerful tool. Curious to see how well it works.

For movies/TV shows, try rutracker.org. The interface is in russian, but the torrents almost always include english audio tracks for US/UK movies. Movies from other countries typically do include the original audio track and english subs.

They have a tone of older torrents, with some relatively rare content. There are some strange nuances such as SD rips are often posted with Xvid encoding (even new ones) and HD releases have a rule where they need to include all known russian Dubs/MVO/DVO/AVO audio tracks, so a large part of the file is audio.

But the good thing is that, even low health torrents often eventually have a seed appear. They have a massive networks of seeds/peers that are actually “federated” with lots of other trackers).

For relatively high seed/peer content you can also basically stream the release via “Download in sequential order” and “Download first and last piece first”. I regularly essentially stream movies via this method.

They are decent for music too. Video games will likely be challenging if you don’t speak russian and many releases actually don’t include the original language.

In this case, the lack of Linux is the point. :)

They are just another sketchy large tech company. The first release might be a little less obnoxious for PR reasons, but they don’t give a fuck about anyone’s digital privacy.

It’s kinda the point of the meme. :)

“Apple Intelligence” is the name of their AI feature-set in the next release of iOS.

It’s an interesting dynamic where the ransomware groups have to be reliable and professional for their business model to work.

Oh wow, I did not read the source Reuters article and yeah it’s a Chinese project.

This is the kind of stuff that should make Americans evaluate whether their orthodox and somewhat parochial approach to “free speech” (the polemical definition as opposed to the broad concept) needs updating to reflect modern realities.

Even before AI and digitization, there were many examples of how an American interpretation of free speech was clearly lacking, but this AI spam and strategic methods used by russia/China are going to make these deficiencies a much more pressing matter.

I think there are times when it is more relevant, e.g. initial change from a feudal/agrarian model to industrialization. By all accounts this was perhaps the biggest, most impactful change in human history.

One could argue that we are now witnessing a similar transition with respect to the information age.

At any rate, this was a somewhat glib statement on my part. :)

This is a bit of cliche, but still relevant to our current times:

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.

Antonio Gramsci (Italian Marxist philospher from the turn of the century)

$700 dollars worth half decent?

Yeah, it did look like everything happens server-side. Still seems like a borderline scam.

CPU: Octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon (Snapdragon 720G to be exact, they don't list it on their page though)
Memory: 4GB RAM
Storage: 32GB eMMC

They have a bunch of other HW too (LTE modem, camera, voice etc.), but this does look like one of those “legal” silicon valley type scams.

Their subscription service costs $24 a month? This is madness.

I am guessing this because the processing is done in the cloud? But then why the $700 price for the “AI Pin” device; what exactly does it do justify a $700 cost if processing is done in the cloud?

I was young in the 90s/2000s and it honestly felt like computing was a new stage for human progress.

I clearly wasn’t the only one. There was the “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace” in 1996:

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

I think the moral of all this is that fundamentally technology doesn’t matter. If you don’t have the public structures to reign in the oligarchs, shills and liars, you’re not going to get anywhere.

Google had a privacy chief?

What exactly was he doing? Jacking off Pichai?

I wouldn’t go as far as making a big deal out of it, but it is funny.

Not happening at least for another 2 years.

With smartphones being “good enough” (even in the mid-range), they really need AI-focused marketing to try and push upgrades. Same with PCs and laptops.

I see, yes the tab bar was missing.

I admit this is something they need to work on.

What do you mean by multi-tab browsing.

I’ve used Firefox on Android tablets and while it does have a “phone app” UX to it, it works fine; specifically tabbed browsing is not an issue.

Guess, I will need to stop using Chrome unless I have no other option (I mostly use Firefox, but I occasionally use Chrome).