If you download a movie from a torrent site, you have committed an illegal act in the US. It doesn’t matter if you watch the movie and then write a fanfiction based on the movie. It’s the copying that’s illegal. It seems clear from OpenAI’s statements that they torrented the data they used to build their models.

Yes recording at Netflix stream is pirating. That you got away with it doesn’t mean you couldn’t be sued for tens of thousands of someone found out.

You don’t think it’s unethical but it is illegal in the US and people have been sued for thousands of dollars. This is still going on today: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/isp-sued-by-record-labels-agrees-to-identify-100-users-accused-of-piracy/

OpenAI has said they need to violate copyright. But they didn’t say that the law should be changed. They want an exemption for themselves.

Did you buy the Ghibli movies you trained on or did you pirate them? Because OpenAI has argued that they are allowed to pirate and no one else.

“McTiernan was sentenced for having lied to the FBI during its case against Anthony Pellicano, who was known as the private investigator of the stars.”

Lying gets you sentenced to prison?

So you are leaving your laptop behind as the server?

What’s your budget? I’d build a separate server but that’s me. I would think you could get old hardware practically free that would run your services fine by checking Craigslist and your local recycling center.

They already said they are going to charge $30/year for patches. They want recurring revenue from ads in 11 or from you paying yearly for 10.

Its $500 today but at the time it was $1500 and required cable and beacons.

They’re also modified with fiber cable so they can’t be jammed.

Yes. They also added an option to pay for patches.

I do. But I also see a need to support content creators.

It’s not that they won’t do it. It’s that they currently don’t so it’s a good choice.

When they add ads, then we can find something else. I’m on Roku now but have been increasingly annoyed by the increase in ads.

Street price: $1200.

“Depending on how Bluetooth stacks handle HCI commands on the device, remote exploitation of the backdoor might be possible via malicious firmware or rogue Bluetooth connections.”

I of course don’t know details but I’m basing my post on that sentence. “Backdoor may be possible via … rogue Bluetooth connections.”

You literally need physical access to the device to exploit it

You don’t need physical access. Read the article. The researcher used physical USB to discover that the Bluetooth firmware has backdoors. It doesn’t require physical access to exploit.

It’s Bluetooth that’s vulnerable.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/undocumented-backdoor-found-in-bluetooth-chip-used-by-a-billion-devices/

He demonstrated that he is senile when he blamed the current trade agreements on the president who signed the last agreement. Trump signed the last agreement. He can’t remember.

That’s why he changes from tariff off to tariff on every week. He has no plan. He has lost his memory.

I’ve been using minipcs with integrated graphics ( and one with a laptop class GPU) instead of desktops and see no reason to stop.

With the current Minecraft monthly updates, paper is always behind on the latest features. There are also minor problems that paper introduces with its performance improvements.

Years ago paper was critical for a good Minecraft experience, but a newer PC (newer than 6 years old) runs great on vanilla.

So if you’re planning to have the kid play on Switch or something like that, it’s not going to work.

You can run Geyser (a modified Minecraft server) to let bedrock clients play on your Java server.

Which is weird because one of Rossman’s sources claimed that they were on the phone with Brother, asked how to do manual registration, and were told it couldn’t be done unless a genuine Brother toner cartridge was installed.

“training a new model”

Is equivalent to “make a new game” with better graphics.

I’ve already explained that analogy several times.

If people pay you for the existing model you have no reason to immediately train a better one.