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Comment Re: User friendly UIs... (Score 1) 79

Sure, they added some extra graphical fancy stuff, but generally speaking, not a lot changed from win95 up to win7. Then 8 fucked it and it never really recovered.

Uh, 8.1, 10 and 11 have perfectly fine user interfaces, each is just a minor iteration off the previous version, skipping (with extreme prejudice) anything related to "tablet mode" in Windows 8.

You may have issues with the underlying implementation and privacy issues, but the UIs listed are solid.

Comment Re: Relavant XKCD comic (Score 1) 79

He's now working on voice-command features, bur argues that Spaced Linux "is already extremely usable, extremely efficient, extremely fast, and extremely reliable.... And it's only going to get better and better."

This just in, Developer creates his own Linux distribution and declares it's "...extremely usable, extremely efficient, extremely fast, and extremely reliable.... And it's only going to get better and better."?!?!

Amazing!

I'm really looking forward to a voice command line interface, that sounds awesome!

Comment Re: Are you sure that's wise? (Score 1) 225

things were less chaotic when he was POTUS even during COVID

As a reminder, when Biden took office the Vaccines for COVID were out and they were injecting one million Americans a day and Biden oversaw the world reopening after shutdowns.

Trump presided over a one-upsmanship competition of governors and federal officials trying to shutdown the economy while coincidentally having a presidential election.

Comment "Pay" or "Refund"? (Score 1) 225

German energy company RWE has said it will abandon its offshore wind projects in the U.S. after reaching a $1.2 billion payout deal with President Donald Trump's Department of the Interior (DoI).

Pretty sure if any reporter bothered to look into this the Trump Administration is *refunding* $1.2BN to the German firm, reflecting the lease payments they previously paid paid for their wind projects.

Comment Re:How can you watermark a song ... (Score 1) 33

Actually, no, what they usually do is much more insidious: fingerprinting rather than watermarking. The fingerprint isn't actually included in the audio, it's included in a database. If they want to tell if the track was generated, they just try to match the fingerprint in the database. Can't filter it out of the track like you can with a watermark.

Comment Re:Open source solution (Score 4, Informative) 33

The two mainstream options (both about half a year old now, we're due for something better) are Ace Step-1.5 and Stable Audio 3 Medium.

Ace Step has full vocals with its music. See here for examples. The downside in my opinion (judge for yourself) is that it has Suno's flaw of sounding too "clean", "mainstream" and "uncreative", except even moreso (Udio was always much better than Suno at this, albeit "less well behaved" - but Udio is out of the game now).

Stable Audio 3 doesn't do vocals, though it has other useful features, like inpainting (great for fixing glitches in recorded tracks for example). In my view, it sounds a lot better. It can also be used to create sound effects. License is a bit more restrictive, though, if you actually care about that, but generally won't affect the average user.

Both are trained on fully licensed data and both are open-weights. So even if the devs released a version that included some sort of watermarking in the future (or someone developed a fingerprinting algo for the existing versions), you could just finetune them to break that.

TL/DR, if you want open source and want to just churn out a full track: choose Ace Step 1.5.
If you want open source and want to do instrumental tracks or to supplement manual work (such as your own vocals) or do audio editing: chose Stable Audio 3.

Comment Re: Another democracy safeguard dismantled (Score 0) 124

How?

How does the current regulation 'protect' anything?

Let's say there's a network, we'll call it BOB. The BOB network currently owns local stations in major markets that add up to 39% of US households, the current limit. By preventing the BOB network from owning a broadcast station in another, smaller market - what evil are people protected from? As a note, BOB currently has a nationwide network of affiliate stations that carry BOB network content, and the BOB network is carried on all local cable companies (thanks to its affiliate stations) and streams its content over the internet, as is available on DirecTV.

What protection do you imagine limiting transmitter ownership provides? How, exactly is democracy being "dismantled"?

I believe, but can not confirm, that there are still limitations on station ownership in individual markets - for example, my imaginary BOB network couldn't buy every station in the San Francisco market, it is limited to just one.

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