All and all, I would say there's nothing to see here. You got mad iphone copyright infringers threatening to weaken their devices security so they can keep getting "free" music.
Oh, you think there’s nothing to see here, but just wait until you see how all these mad iPhone users get even by downloading the latest iPhone hack next week. That’ll teach ‘em not to try and help secure devices!
Damn right I brought extra popcorn..
What's the difference if I listen to these same streams on Youtube, or using an app?
I’m willing to bet Musi has one hell of an ability to block the advertised answer to your question. That’s the difference.
Musi sued in October, hoping to quickly secure an injunction that would force Apple to reinstate Musi in the App Store..
So, let me get this straight. Musi streaming music illegally from YouTube, files a lawsuit to demand Apple allow them to continue their illegal behavior in Apples backyard because Apple stopped them on behalf of the actual legal content owner?
Since when is Blatantly Fucking Stealing a reasonable corporate charter? The hell exactly are we calling a legitimate business these days? Is Musi Too Big To Fail or some shit? Taxpayers didn’t get the memo on that one.
Meanwhile, Grandma still has a record from back in her Metalli-Napster days..
They're all going to end up at Goodwill, right next to the pile of old DVD players.
The DVD players will still work 6 months from now when you power them on.
Anybody in the situation would surely ask a "computer person" what to do and any computer person worth their salt would tell them to look for an alternative firmware, like OpenWRT or DD-WRT. I haven't kept up as I've long since moved to OPNSense, but there has to be some other new ones, too.
Two out of the six models affected were EOL’ed in 2015. Just to give you a rough idea of the situation customers are in.
If you’re still running a router/firewall that stopped receiving support a fucking decade ago, you probably have no idea what a “computer person” is.
Also sad news for fans of quality audio. Bose is known among musician circles at least, as being really good at creating a pleasing, but not at all flat soundscape. And it can't be made flat if that's something you happen to be looking for, like mix engineers or mastering techs. McIntosh could do the pleasing soundscape thing, AND could be put into a very flat mode. Something that will now most likely be killed in pursuit of cost savings and consolidation. In a just world, Bose wouldn't be allowed to suck up a competitor that does a better job than them, but this is a world built for the biggest to slowly subsume those a notch or more back on the economic scale.
First off, I can’t imagine McIntosh not coming with one or two patents on their sound replication. Something that Bose should capitalize on, not destroy. But more to the point, Bose IS “sucking up” a competitor that does better. Even they know it. Why would they buy them at a reasonable price if there’s no perceived inherent value?
McIntosh has always been a premium product for a premium audience that can afford it. Audi/VW Group bought Lamborghini in 1998. When they did, they didn’t forget what a Lamborghini was, is, and should remain. Bose should do the same. For the premium audience they just paid damn good money for.
I don't have much hope for McIntosh. The business model of Bose is to take cheap components and make something that sounds OK. They cost-reduce EVERYTHING.
A McIntosh stereo receiver, can easily cost $5000+. There’s cost reduction..and then there’s someone who thinks they can rebuild a Ferrari on a Ford MSRP budget.
Toyota and Lexus. Honda and Acura. Take notes, Bose. Otherwise that premium customer is gonna go elsewhere if all you offer is pseudo-premium that can be heard a mile away.
because the algorithm today is SO desperate to keep you locked in a rage bubble that it's nearly impossible to get it to show you something new.
Contrary to popularity, this is like being welcomed into the bar only to get your ass kicked for walking into a bar and asking for a drink. Every time.
The fuck is Instagram for again? I thought humans used it for something. Just can’t tell what.
WHY in the FUCK would we ever assume anything from a damn AI-enhanced bowling ball return machine to a surgical robot, NEEDS to know what the concept of “home” is?? Or “overtime” and “time off” for that matter? Might as well NOT replace the whiny humans if you’re gonna do that shit.
Greed is demanding that robot work 24/7/365. If you gave that job to a human with a conscience and never allowed them to quit, you’d probably create a psychopath. The hell did we expect a robot with a conscience to do. If we create AI in our own exact image, don’t expect anything less than an exact replica of every human problem. You thought the human worker going postal was bad? Just wait.
This isn’t how you replace human workers. This is how you build Skynet.
Microsoft Ignite 2024, one of the company’s largest annual tech conferences, is going on right now. That's why you're seeing so many Microsoft announcements.
Huh.
Ask 100 people a week ahead of time if they know when the next Apple event is. Or WWDC.
Now imagine how many, have even heard of this Microsoft event.
Interesting “marketing” strategy.
because they created images of people without clothes on
I suppose if the people Michelangelo and da Vinci depicted file a complaint, then yes. They are criminals.
Oh, for fucks sake. Do NOT do that shit. Please. Bad enough the woke mob wants to persecute your “crimes” from childhood. Last fucking thing we need is for someone to suggest we drag The Hague with us through the time warp.
And then, "we don't talk about toxic femininity" (what we really should define before even talking about it, it isn't widely used in the meaning you seem to give it) is a straight-out ideological lie, as you're proving yourself. Some, like you, try to make stuff like that the subject everywhere they go, even when there's not the slightest reason.
Sexism plus masculism.
You want a definition of toxic femininity? OK. Let’s see if this socially acceptable bullshit fits.
Cheat on their partner or spouse, blatantly lie about it for the better part of two decades for the purposes of stealing a grand felony of money via child support, support and defend laws that will put that innocent partner/spouse in fucking jail for non-compliance, and then have the sheer unmitigated gall to start a ‘Believe All Women’ movement while vehemently opposing ANY form of accountability as society attempts to pass mandatory DNA testing laws with no support from the women who demand men support abortion rights.
Perhaps “toxic” isn’t quite a strong enough word to use here. Women have justified far more with this.
Given the sheer amount and utter reliance this bullying has on many computing systems, I’d say the case for mandatory audit capture and usage recording of all computing systems is becoming quite necessary. Mass surveillance is already well-justified in school settings.
Hell, at least planting marijuana took some effort with finding a dealer that would sell to underage. Making AI images in a virtual machine is trivial
I wouldn’t call that entire attack and level of effort “trivial”. Took you a paragraph just to describe it and included financial crime. Ironically, planting marijuana is now trivial due to cannabis laws and accessibility.
How likely is it that a girl would make or fake pornographic images of other girls in her neighborhood and show them around? Among whom? Other girls? Some boys?
Tell you what. How about we make mandatory DNA testing a Federal law in America for every birth and case of divorce/child support, and make it retroactive for a decade or two.
After the insane screeching dies down and the test results come in, then we can talk about how “likely” gendered assumptions are.
A person generating hyperrealistic nude images without consent using the eeeevil “AI” to do it? Society says burn them at the stake.
Now tell me what happens when society stumbles across an inspiring artist. One who creates hyperrealistic images using that 300-year old John Wick technology. Also known as a fucking pencil. What happens to said artist when you find dozens of hyperrealistic nude images, created without consent? Is that still a deviant who deserves to be destroyed, or is that merely an inspiring artist?
(The father in me? Sure. Especially if it were my kid. Question still stands. Because society created it.)
Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book.
