https://www.comparitech.com/kodi/kodi-piracy-decline/

https://www.digital-digest.com/news-64644-Netflix-Amazon-Join-Forces-with-the-MPAA-to-Sue-Kodi-Box-Maker.html

Based on our research, comparative search volume for “Kodi” has fallen around 85 percent from 2017 to 2022. Google Trends data reveals the dramatic decline started in Q2 of 2017 and has, for the most part, continued that trend up to this point. Consequently, the decline in people searching for Kodi directly relates to the appearance of the coordinated attack against piracy in the form of ACE.

And this is with Kodi furiously distancing itself from pirates at the time.

Attacks don’t have to be direct. Though they absolutely can be, too.

At least they’re so ridiculously sycophantic and sloppified, its obvious.

Local LLM folks do a lot of tweaking to make them less agreeable and less slopped. But the vast majority of spammers are too stupid to seek that out.

I am guilty of this.

It turns out “self healing” is no match for attention optimization.

If you think of Kadyrov

Yeah, the Chechen guy.

he’s visibly very unwell

I don’t wish sickness on folks, but honestly, that’ll help me sleep easier. What he says in public is scary.

That serves the purpose too. It’s harder to pin Plex as an “illegal distribution service” when you have to pay for access. Either the streamer or “distributor” can’t be very anonymous, which makes large scale sharing impractical.

On the other hand, the more money they squeeze out, the more they risk appearing as if they “make money from piracy,” which is exactly how you get the MPAA’s attention.

You may (half) joke, but MPAA attention on Jellyfin would suck.

Every news site is biased. Read them with that mind.

As an example, one of my usual sources since like 2015 is Axios. Their site is clean, lean, and they are extremely well sourced in Washington. But they recently got a big cash infusion from OpenAI. And, surprise surprise, they post a small but steady stream of Tech Bro evangelism on the side now.

RT is generally awful, but sometimes their reporting outside of Russia, where they have incentive to dig, can be good.

Hence, my bucket for Guardian is “high class liberal catnip .” They are clickbaity. That’s they trend so much here on Lemmy.

They’re well sourced. Their integrity is leagues beyond, say, rawstory or dailybeast that get spammed on Lemmy. So you have to filter their stories with that in mind.

And this is pretty much what ALL written news is doing to survive, if they can. Because their competition on YouTube/Facebook/whatever is not bound to the same standards they are.

If they don’t, they die.

I used to write small articles for a tech hardware site. The owner chose to take the site down rather than chase the clickbait game.

“Why is the world this way?” says the blue checkmark Tweeter clutching their phone.

Though to be fair, many are more disingenuous cash farming influencers.

Playing devil’s advocate, I understand one point of pressure: Plex doesn’t want to be perceived as a “piracy app.”

See: Kodi. https://kodi.expert/kodi-news/mpaa-warns-increasing-kodi-abuse-poses-greater-video-piracy-risk/

To be blunt, that’s a huge chunk of their userbase. And they run the risk of being legally pounded to dust once that image takes hold.

So how do they avoid that? Add a bunch of other stuff, for plausible deniability. And it seems to have worked, as the anti-piracy gods haven’t singled them out like they have past software projects.

To be clear, I’m not excusing Plex. But I can sympathize.

Like it or not, that’s journalism 101. You don’t make claims unless you can directly verify them, even if they seem obvious.

And if you do, you attribute to who said it. Like the UN or IAEA.

Guardian should have just omitted that blurb from the byline, TBH.

Ghostty has single-instance mode on Linux that shares some resources.

Oh I didn’t know this. I will have to try it sometime.

That’s fine for lightweight usage, but for workflows like mine that involve heavy TUIs and multiple tmux sessions with dozens of windows/panes with big scrollback buffers, it becomes a bottleneck when one or more panes are flooding output from scripts/playbooks/etc.

Yeah, for sure. Different use cases. Hence I can keep both installed, heh.

I think you’re being abrasive about it, but are making a decent point.

Yes, lots of clickbait exaggerated Russia’s fragility. Some actual analysts underestimated certain aspects of Russia.

And Russia won many geopolitical dice rolls:

• Trump won.
• Europe is still bickering internally.
• India bought their oil for a long time.
• China stayed tolerant.
• Wagner coup failed, but only barely.

And so on.

There are some nasty, ambitious figures in Russian politics apparently “reigned in” by Putin now. If he’s deposed… what happens? Do we get a Russia fractured by warlords armed with Soviet warheads? I’d much rather see it vassalized by China or something.

And yeah, at the end of the day this is the physically largest country on Earth, backed by the most populous, invading a tiny one. Endless war is utterly catastrophic for the Russian people, but (if the US basically withdraws from NATO and Europe keeps being Europe), they are on an extremely slow track to grind down Ukraine and claim the ashes :(

Anyway, you should read ISW’s reports on the war:

https://www.understandingwar.org/

They have a quite grounded take. And from the even before the war started (when forces massed on the border), they’ve been warning that Russia has the political power to grind on. They tried to warn policymakers about the clickbait.

Eventually he’ll be replaced. We can’t influence or predict the personal characteristics of his successor, but whoever replaces him will very surely want to end the war, and doesn’t have to save face while doing that.

One thing I learned reading the ISW’s reports (especially around the Wagner coup attempt) is that Putin is apparently a moderate in Russian politics. There are some regional leaders I might honestly prefer Putin to.

For all the criticism of AI, this is the one that’s massively overstated.

On my PC, the task energy of a casual diffusion attempt (let’s say a dozen+ images in few batches) on a Flux-tier model is 300W * 240 seconds.

That’s 54 kilojoules.

…That’s less than microwaving leftovers, or a few folks browsing this Lemmy thread on laptops.

And cloud models like Nano Banana are more efficient than that, batching the heck out of generations on wider, more modern hardware, and more modern architectures, than my 3090 from 2020.

Look. There are a million reasons corporate AI is crap.

But its power consumption is a meme perpetuated by tech bros who want to convince the world scaling infinitely is the only way to advance it. That is a lie to get them money. And it is not the way research is headed.

Yes they are building too many data centers, and yes some in awful places, but that’s part of the con. They don’t really need that, and making a few images is not burning someone’s water away.

I am not the expert, but… Complexity?

Sometimes I use Foot instead of Alacritty/Wezterm to save RAM in extreme situations. Foot’s also really nice because it uses a server/client model (again, saving RAM with many terminals), though I don’t know if that’s fundamentally impossible with GPU terminals.

It’s misleading.

IBM is very much into AI, as a modest, legally trained, economical tool. See: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite

But this is the CEO saying “We aren’t drinking the Kool-Aid.” It’s shockingly reasonable.

That’s interesting.

I dunno if that’s any better. Compiler development is hard, and expensive.

I dunno what issue they have with LLVM, but it would have to be massive to justify building around it and then switching away to re-invent it.

…The same Zig that ditched LLVM, to make their own compiler from scratch?

This is good. But also, this is sort of in character for Zig.

That’s exactly what I said, and meant: I miss my jailbroken iPhone; I wish I could jailbreak mine now. But I can’t. And my 6 would be basically unusable without App Store support now.

That’s not why I’m replying though… I’m curious; what’s with insults like “eat me” over interpretations of someone else’s comment?

Serengeti park, yep.

Yeah, I was lucky by every definition… and have a “big cat” meme folder to reach into now.