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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

There are very few places on the Internet where your data won't be scraped and used for AI training. Every social media company does this, including Discord and Reddit. Federated platforms are quite easy to scrape (not sure if they are yet). Even if you make your own website, it's definitely going to be scraped by crawlers from every company wanting to make AI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Ah, the aspiring musician's keyboard who can't afford a real one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Keyboard players: everything is keys

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You can still yank the power chord out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Just like AAA game studios, movie studios don't want to take risks, so they go with productions they consider "safe": aim for the lowest common denominator, play into nostalgia, don't make anyone upset by touching subjects like politics, religion. And you end up with the garbage they are making right now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Also, the movie industry is struggling because of many reasons. Movies are getting too expensive, the safe formulas big studios relied on aren't working anymore, customer habits are changing with people going less to movie theaters.

At the same time, just like with video games, the indie world is in a golden age. You can get amazing cameras and equipment for quite a small budget. What free software like Blender can achieve is amazing. And learning is easier than ever, there are so many free educational resources online.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Zfs is just software raid, not an archival /backup solution. Sure, you can hold data on a zfs array for long term, but not without active maintenance (powering the drives periodically, replacing old drives, doing some kind of data refresh / scrubbing) and backups.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Hard drives offer the best price/capacity ratio, but they need to be powered periodically (at least once or twice per year). As with any other storage medium, include parity data and have multiple backups to avoid data loss.

Tape is too expensive.

Optical media can also be pretty good as long as you get discs made from inorganic materials and store them properly. M-disc is supposed to last like 100 years. The biggest problem is that they are on the path to obsolescence and optical drives may stop being manufactured. Also, it's a good idea to check on the condition of the discs periodically and redo any that shows signs of degradation (probably a good idea to replace non-M discs every 10 years regardless).

But regardless of the media, there is no archival method that doesn't require active maintenance, like periodically checking the data, ensuring you have multiple backups, refreshing any aged media.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That's why recycling goes after reduce and reuse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Sadly, unreadable on mobile. Text doesn't word wrap, dragging to pan it is annoying and makes the keyboard show up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Women are not good for the network connectivity

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Which includes mining all the rare materials used in manufacturing the GPUs and ASICs (that we're actually running out of) .

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