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  • You still need to actually be a decent singer to not make autotuning sound terrible. Also, big singers will have audio editors to clean up issues too. Partial use of generative AI will require the presence of basic skills to make everything work.

    I don’t think the same can happen with fully AI generated music. Unless it is stated immediately that they are doing it, people are eventually gonna find out that the artist is not actually singing and find it a scam. If they don’t show themself in social media, tours, and interviews to hide this element as much as possible they are most likely going to remain niche.





  • They are not, come on now.

    Retro networking is a different community, and all is still done behind a modern router. They are a subset of the retro computing community, but they don’t run such systems as their daily driver.

    Most of the legacy OS enthusiasts running on as their daily driver are not interested in matching their networking to be period correct, they just want it to work well and quickly like everybody else. For that you need basic modern equipment, that is often included into ISP plans.



  • That’s not how it works, especially since everyone doing this is behind a modern router.

    Nothing will happen if you have a Windows 98 computer connected to the internet when the home internet router is on default settings. And modern internet browsers implement security in themselves on systems they still support.

    Firefox still supports Windows 7 via the ESR channel, and every new install gets redirected to on automatically on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.

    Worry the unsupported systems behind pure internet or providing public internet services, or the users installing the free PDF editor Google advertised as first in search. Those are many more than older Windows enthusiasts.






  • Investment is done really to train models for ever more miniscule gains. I feel like the current choices are enough to satisfy who is interested in such services, and what really is lacking is now more hardware dedicated to single user sessions to improve quality of output with the current models.

    But I really want to see more development on offline services, as right now it is really done only by hobbyists and only occasionally large companies with a little dripfeed (Facebook Llama, original Deepseek model [latter being pretty much useless as no one has the hardware to run it]).

    I remember seeing the Samsung Galaxy Fold 7 (“the first AI phone”, unironic cit.) presentation and listening to them talking about all the AI features instead of the real phone capabilities. “All of this is offline, right? A powerful smartphone… makes sense to have local models for tasks.” but it later became abundantly clear it was just repackaged always-online Gemini for the entire presentation on $2000 of hardware.






  • The video works only in Firefox because many moons ago video playback was done via software installed on the system.

    Either via Windows Media Player

    Apple Quicktime

    or other video playback software that came with web plugins like Realvideo.

    This of course created a mess of inconsistency, and so eventually Adobe Flash Player and Java (Applets) were used to create platform-independent video players that the website embedded.

    As the video used the before-Flash way (likely to make MacOS users not have to forcefully install Adobe Flash Player), Firefox is able to extract the video URL and play it like a video playback plugin is present. Chromium simply didn’t implement this and decided to just error out for being deprecated.