This issue is largely manifesting through AI scraping right now. Additionally, many intentionally ignore robots.txt. Currently, LLM scrapers are basically just bad actors on the internet. Courts have also ruled in favor of a number of AI companies when sued in the US, so it’s unlikely anything will change. Effectively, if you don’t like the status quo, stuff like this is one of your few options.

This isn’t even mentioning of course whether we actually want these companies to improve their models before resolving the problems of energy consumption and potential displacement of human workers.

Corporations want the existing copyright system for their own products but simultaneously want to freely scrape data from everyone else.

I mean, they say earlier that music is actually well-preserved, but it’s disproportionately popular music. If the goal is then to preserve everything, I’d expect them to go for stuff that isn’t likely to be in some random audiophile’s collection or whatever then.

1. Over-focus on the most popular artists. There is a long tail of music which only gets preserved when a single person cares enough to share it. And such files are often poorly seeded.

• We primarily used Spotify’s “popularity” metric to prioritize tracks. View the top 10,000 most popular songs in this HTML file (13.8MB gzipped).
• For popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).
• For popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to OGG Opus at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.

Perhaps I’m reading this wrong, but is this not a little backwards? Since unpopular music is poorly preserved, shouldn’t the focus be on getting the least popular music first?

first public speech since becoming chief of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency two months ago.

It took two months just to repeat what was already known lol

Yeah, sure, but a number of them still exist. They’re just mostly reliant on word of mouth now (or using something other than Google). There’s some old Star Wars forums that seem to still be surviving, for example.

They still exist, they’re just kind of rare. There’s even federated forums like NodeBB. I actively read stuff on SpaceBattles, Sufficient Velocity, etc. It’s admittedly difficult to find something with absolutely no like/karma system, but for instance the hellhole known as GameFAQs still exists.

Yeah, I’d be kind of surprised if it’s them, but then again most OEMs have issues with updates so who knows. If we were just talking about hostility to custom OSes, the choices have gotten pretty slim too (basically Sony, OnePlus, and Nothing, with some smaller OEMs and one-off unlockable devices from others).

This whole situation has been bizarre and really poorly communicated.

Fucking finally. Also from a linked article about their apparent Android PC project:

Osterloh touched upon Google’s efforts to bring its AI stack to PCs. “This is another way we can leverage all of the great work we’re doing together on our AI stack, our full stack, bringing Gemini models, bringing the assistant, bringing all of our applications and developer community into the PC domain. And I think this is another way in which Android is gonna be able to serve everyone in every computing category.”

No one gives a shit about your AI crap, just stop ruining AOSP.

Except I said literally nothing about America in the original comment. I feel like the exact opposite mentality is also very prevalent on Lemmy. If you say anything bad about China (or Russia, North Korea, etc.), you will immediately be met with “well what about America huh???” There’d probably be more actually constructive dialogue if every post criticizing China wasn’t immediately met with whataboutism.

Likewise, those same people will criticize the West for doing something and then praise China for doing the exact same thing. There was literally a comment in a thread about China just a day or two ago about state surveillance where someone was like “actually state surveillance in China is good because it benefits their citizens so it’s a-okay” while then criticizing the West for state surveillance.

It’s basically just my team vs. their team mentality.

EDIT: actually, I’ll put it this way: in the many, many threads criticizing America or Europe, I don’t often see someone randomly bring up China. In contrast, in threads criticizing China, I always see someone criticizing America or Europe pretty much out of nowhere.

Given how many tankies are on Lemmy, it was really not obvious at all that you were agreeing with me as opposed to saying “ackshually it’s not a utopia, but it’s working on becoming one and America is shit for xyz reasons so you can’t throw stones at China.”

Can’t really say for the older devices, but I have a recent Pixel, and its battery life in my experience has been pretty close to my old (but still newer than OP’s) iPhone. Maybe I just use my phone differently than most people, but I never had amazing battery life with iPhones.

Yes, if you are part of the mostly culturally homogeneous majority, hold no views that the state has arbitrarily determined are verboten, are not in some way part of the many groups that have been arbitrarily determined to be verboten (such as increasingly LGBT individuals), are fine with a leader who is set to rule for life, are not below a certain age and unable to get a job in the ruthless job market, live in a city rather than a rural village with poor future prospects, are fine with widespread surveillance in said city far beyond most of the West (UK might give them a run for their money here), are male, and so on, I’m sure it’s a lovely place to live.

Using America as the example is just funny. Did I say anything about America being good? America is an utterly dysfunctional state. Ironically, it seems both the Chinese govt and Trump’s admin agree that gay people shouldn’t exist. Pretty sad given that things had been trending in a positive direction for LGBT people maybe 15 years ago in China.

You could probably sell your phone and get an older Pixel for pretty much nothing if you wanted to swap now.

In other words, force gay people to have straight marriages. I’m sure those will be functional and healthy relationships that aid the state. Not like that hasn’t resulted in numerous suicides.

To put it simply, this is just ignoring reality and trying to stamp your own superficial views of society over it.

Ah yes, the socialist utopia.

Apparently even the venture capitalists are like “maybe there’s a bit of a problem” now.

I think fundamentally a lot of people do not understand that just because China and Russia (or a number of other countries) are in opposition to the US doesn’t inherently make them “good.” They’re pretty much all shitty too, just in different ways than the US, yet actual problems get brushed off as “the loss of making Winnie the Poo jokes,” as if not being able to make jokes on Weibo is the problem.

I will never understand the hypocritical surveillance state apologism when it comes to China or Russia on this site.

If China’s surveillance state was purely for the benefit of their citizens, they wouldn’t need such an extensive censorship apparatus that frequently censors minorities and minority beliefs (e.g. LGBT topics) as well as content that reflects particularly poorly on the government.