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  • Showrunner wants to use generative AI to recreate lost footage from an Orson Welles classic

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  • I'm okay with this.

    I'm not okay with AI potentially replacing artists/actors and putting them out of work.

    But we're talking about recreating lost footage from the back half of the last century. Everyone involved is dead and gone. There's no compensating them. As for their descendants, they are free to make their own money — but by the same token, the AI shouldn't claim it's their ancestors acting when it's generating the stuff. And in fact, it should change it up so it doesn't resemble any real person.

    Honestly the audience for something this old will be quite niche anyway.

  • Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users

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  • Because they want to stop people from using ad blockers.

  • Crunchy roll and yt-dlp

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  • IIRC Crunchyroll used to be a pirate site so that may be where you heard that? But they've been legit for years.

    I would say just look for x265 (HEVC) webrips of your favorite content and throw it on a Plex (or Jellyfin if you don't have any Apple stuff) server. On the flip, if you have all Apple tech, Infuse is a good option, but IIRC it doesn't stream outside your network like the other two do.

  • How would I turn an old android phone into a music streaming server

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  • I wouldn't. I like the idea of repurposing old electronics, but the issue is, it's meant to be a low powered device meant to run off a battery.

    You can run Plex off a RPi and those are like $20. A bit more if you want the case and heatsinks and such. They are also (similar to the Android) low powered ARM64 computers, but the hardware and software is more open.

    I also have an old 128GB Android phone. I use it as a cosplay prop and I treat it like an iPod Touch. I'm primarily an iPhone guy, so of course it has Apple Music on it, but I also know Android and know where Android excels, so it also has Firefox with uBlock Origin, and Nova Launcher Prime. It's way better to type on because the iOS keyboard has always been dogshit.

    Also, you're in the Piracy community. Not to be pedantic, but this is where you'd go to ask how to get the files to populate your music streaming server with. That's my weakness there — I mostly self-host stuff I've bought and ripped myself. There are good tools and you'll find good advice here, but something something old dogs, something something new tricks (me being the old dog, not you, unless you are, in which case, good on you for trying to break the mould). Right. So, what you want is the Self-Hosted community. Don't ask them about where to get the music (that's this community), but they can help on hardware and software. Me, I just use Plex, and I host it off a Mac mini. My desktop computer. You don't need to spend nearly that much on a server. My Mac is a couple generations out now, but it's still overkill for a music server.

    The only time I use either of my phones as servers in any capacity is to like send a few files or something — and yes, I can do it just as capably with either. Honestly though both of them can easily host a file server another phone (either platform) can connect to and download from.

  • Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring

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  • I hate to say it, but I don't think Wikipedia is as neutral or as open as it claims to be. Some of the article comments talk about there definitely being some bias against anonymous editors, even if they're correct.

    I'm not sure if it was in that article or in another comment section, but someone said after Elon Musk did the Nazi salute at Trump's event, an anonymous user mentioned it and there was a big controversy. And a registered user took it down and berated them for it, and another registered user came along an added the salute info back in and it was fine. Or something like that.

    I definitely still think Wikipedia is a net good. But it seems to me any time you have a centralised source of information, a small group of people will fight to control the narrative so they can spin it any which way they want. For example, on Reddit, my favorite band's unofficial subreddit is run by a guy who bans any fan cams of the events — unless they're his. So obviously he does fan cams so he can make ad money on YouTube, but he uses Reddit to block those of others to direct the traffic to his. I think Fandom (the shitty wiki site with all the ads) run a lot of gaming communities, again, to drive ad revenue. Lot of that shit going on. I mean, if they tried that on Lemmy, someone could just open a community on another instance and the users could then decide who they want to support.

    Is Wikipedia susceptible to that kind of influence? Of course it is. And I worry about it being taken over by the wrong people. I don't think that has happened yet, but I've seen it happen on other sites.

    To be clear, we should definitely support Wikipedia against the alt right, but we should also be cautious that they, and other bad actors, don't destroy its credibility from within. Yes, the alt right has their own Wikipedia (Conservapedia or something like that) but that's not good enough, they want ours to be theirs, too.

  • Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring

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  • Is it paywalled in some countries? I saw the article when it first went up and it was paywalled then — The Verge restricts new articles to paid subscribers. But after an hour or two it went free to read and the link is fine now. At least from my machine in my location — can't speak for others and the Archive link is definitely welcome.

  • Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn

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  • Right, the part I don’t get is, the video of you isn’t going to include what you’re looking at. And if it does you can say they faked it. They could put anything there. They don’t have a shot that includes both you and the screen. They can get sound though, so they can match sound, but that can be faked too. Strip out the audio. Separate the sounds of what you were really watching from the ambient sounds (and the grunts/moans from you) and then dub those sounds over the new audio and it should be passable.

    Also, I just wouldn’t do anything embarrassing with a camera pointed at me. I’d cover the camera or point it away from me. Even sitting on the toilet browsing, back cameras point down at the floor, front camera points up, maybe gets the top of my face? Nothing private is seen by the camera by my best intentions. I just do this naturally. I guess others don’t?

  • Kevin Barry, the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher has stopped working on Nova Launcher and the open sourcing efforts.

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  • Yes, Widget Locker! I used that too. Now there's KWGT (I think that's how it's spelled) and also KLWP and KLCK. Kustom is the brand and their apps make widgets, live wallpapers, and lock screens, respectively. But Widget Locker came first IIRC.

  • Kevin Barry, the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher has stopped working on Nova Launcher and the open sourcing efforts.

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  • It's not even the 6th yet! ...which tells me he's in Europe and that makes Nova a little cooler.

    iPhone guy but of course I have Nova Prime on my backup phone. I wanna say I had a couple other apps he made, too? Tesla Coil sounds familiar. But it's been almost 10 years since an Android phone was my main phone.

    So Nova should be usable for a few more years at least... but... what's everyone gonna replace it with? For what I use my S10 for, it should be good enough. I mainly need the launcher to support custom grid sizes, larger icons, and custom icons since my Android phone is a cosplay prop. (It's meant to look and act like the NookPhone from Animal Crossing. It's fully functional — you open Nook Music and it's Apple Music which I'm subscribed to, as long as it has WiFi it will play, and it has a lot of stuff downloaded. And of course the browser is Firefox with uBlock Origin — it's just Redd the fake art purveyor on a globe rather than the red panda we all know and love.)

  • ‘Life Is Strange’ TV Series Set at Amazon From Charlie Covell, Square Enix, Story Kitchen, and LuckyChap

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  • I'm in. Especially if it's Max and Chloe. But probably even better if it's completely original.

    I think Life is Strange 2 was the best one. I preferred Max, but I like the loose steering of LiS2. That is, the decisions you make affect hidden scores which in turn affects what the brother chooses. And you can't really steer him, unless you follow a guide, I suppose. I guess if someone got into the code or just gamed out all the choices... Anyone who hasn't played it, I'd say ignore any guides and just go with your heart. You can't really lose these games. The first one had a scene that you could avoid if you followed a very specific guide but for most people it triggered. Though, for some who avoided it, they said just being empathetic to the character let them navigate around it. I think they're lying, I think they have GameFAQs bookmarked on their bookmark toolbar, and I don't think they actually enjoyed the game, but maybe that's just sour grapes because I got the bad scene. Doesn't matter, you still get to the end.

  • Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn

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  • Black Mirror had an episode about this.

    Surprised it took someone this long to actually make it.

    I forget the name of the episode. If you're curious, it's on Netflix, it's in season 3, and it's right before San Junipero. It was bleak AF, which is why the only happy (and arguably the best) Black Mirror episode came right after it.

  • Disney Decision on Doctor Who’s Future Delayed Until 2026, Says Bad Wolf

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  • Thank you! A lot of people didn't seem to like Torchwood, but I did. Honestly it was not that good, but I still liked it.

    Luther is like Torchwood but better, minus all the sci-fi though. I mean it's a gritty cop show set in the UK, and Idris Elba pulls audiences for the same reason Barrowman used to.

    Oh yeah, they're probably not bringing Barrowman back because he exposed himself to other cast members. He said he only did it for laughs and never to an audience, only the cast members, but that was enough to get him canceled. So a future Torchwood would be Eve Myles (Gwyn Cooper) only, since other than Harkness, IIRC she's the only survivor. So she'd be leading the branch with new characters, or maybe some Dr Who alumni, like I can see Martha Jones joining, maybe get Mickey (Rose Tyler's boyfriend) and some new guy. Cooper as the copper, Jones as the scientist, Mickey's the comic relief... so that just leaves muscle?

  • 24′s Kiefer Sutherland Offers Major Series Update: ‘Something Has Been Written’ and It’s ‘Really Strong’

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  • Didn't the last couple seasons of 24 (to include spinoffs) suck, though?

    And wasn't Homeland supposed to be "the new 24"? I couldn't get into it. Then Strike Back came out and I felt like the market got oversaturated for this kind of thing.

    Give me a good mystery. I'm rewatching The Leftovers with my wife, and we're waiting for FROM, Severance, and Silo to come back. (I know what happens in Silo, I read the books, but they're changing a lot on the show.) I don't necessarily need it to feel like LOST (like The Leftovers and FROM), but that's a good formula (see also, Wayward Pines, but stop after the first season, we don't talk about the second season). In that vein there's also The Promised Neverland (again, we don't talk about its second season) but that's getting into anime and that's cheating, way too many good options there.

  • 24′s Kiefer Sutherland Offers Major Series Update: ‘Something Has Been Written’ and It’s ‘Really Strong’

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  • After David Palmer, sure. He was okay. I think Bauer suspected him once when he was a Senator or whatever he was in the first season, but beyond that they trusted one another.

  • Kurt Russell Officially Joins ‘Yellowstone’ Spinoff ‘The Madison’

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  • It's a Western, that's kind of the default.

    As for the spinoffs, Paramount botched the licensing for Yellowstone. At least with the earlier seasons, even if you paid for Paramount+, you couldn't get Yellowstone because it was on Paramount Network and they couldn't get their shit together (literally). That's why they started making Yellowstone spinoffs, because Taylor Sheridan prints money.

    But I think once Kevin Costner dipped out, the bubble burst, and they're trying to strike while the iron is still lukewarm. I stopped caring about the whole franchise by the end of the first episode without Costner. I saw Yellowstone itself got canceled, read what happened on Wikipedia (in the story) and said "yeah that's not worth watching." I'm not saying Taylor Sheridan lost it, just that I'm personally over the whole Yellowstone franchise and can't wait to see what he does next. I just hope he doesn't drag the whole neo-Western fad down with the Yellowstone spinoffs trying to convince people the series wasn't just Kevin Costner. (Honestly I thought Beth was the best character, but even she (and Rip and Kaycee) isn't carrying the show on her own.)

  • UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost

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  • Yeah, no shit. But they nearly doubled the price. I canceled my membership, but I doubt enough did to actually matter.

    I was fine paying $60 a year for Office. I was never gonna use the AI stuff. When they said it was $100, I bailed. So now they don't get the $60. But enough people will go on paying that they will actually make more money on Office in the next year, not less.

    Not enough people are willing to vote with their wallets or even their feet to effect any meaningful change. At least not when it comes to their tech toys.

  • Apache OpenOffice vs LibreOffice (2025): Which One Actually Delivers?

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  • Do that many people in 2025 not know that while OpenOffice was first, LibreOffice is the more actively maintained fork and that OpenOffice has been somewhat problematic in the past and is kinda avoided?

  • Apache OpenOffice vs LibreOffice (2025): Which One Actually Delivers?

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  • I clicked your link, and I actually like how that office suite has the options on the left rather than the top. Like it was made for widescreen monitors.

    The only other office suite I've seen do that is Apple's. As a Mac user, I recognised the style immediately. So I use iWork stuff because it's on my Mac already and it's good enough for me. I like the way LibreOffice is looking but I don't need another office suite. But I really like the way calligra looks. It might need some polish, but they have some good ideas.

  • Half of Young Men Would Rather Date an AI Girlfriend Than Face Loneliness or Rejection, New Report Reveals

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