Just a quick note for anyone wondering about the general support of the DRM Lease protocol: it is already supported in KDE on Wayland, as well as by wlroots-based Wayland compositors (Sway, Hyprland and LabWC). Steam has a help page with a bit more info.

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Quoting: CybolicUhm, those terms.... (emphasis mine)

QuoteBy entering this content (e.g., photo, video, text, etc.), You understand and agree that the Sponsor and anyone acting on behalf of the Sponsor or its respective licensees, successors, and assigns, shall have the right, where permitted by law, to print, publish, broadcast, distribute, and use in any media now known or hereafter developed, in perpetuity and throughout the World, without limitation, your entry, name, portrait, picture, voice, likeness, image, statements about the Campaign, and biographical information for news, publicity, information, trade, advertising, public relations, and promotional purposes without any further compensation, notice, review, or consent.

Surely that can't be legal? Signing over the rights to one's name, likeness and voice in perpetuity in order to enter a contest?

These are the default terms for each Gleam.io giveaway. Gleam.io is a platform for creating such giveaways and it allows for designing actions such as "record yourself saying why you love our brand best". Rest assured, nothing like that is the case here. What is collected first and foremost are emails to send info about prizes won as well as social media profile names to confirm that the action was performed (follow on Twitter etc.)

I understand the intended purpose, I'm just fairly surprised that the conditions don't say something along the lines of "shall have the right [...] to your name, [etc.] within the context of the Campaign" instead of a blanket statement that could include anything.

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Uhm, those terms.... (emphasis mine)

QuoteBy entering this content (e.g., photo, video, text, etc.), You understand and agree that the Sponsor and anyone acting on behalf of the Sponsor or its respective licensees, successors, and assigns, shall have the right, where permitted by law, to print, publish, broadcast, distribute, and use in any media now known or hereafter developed, in perpetuity and throughout the World, without limitation, your entry, name, portrait, picture, voice, likeness, image, statements about the Campaign, and biographical information for news, publicity, information, trade, advertising, public relations, and promotional purposes without any further compensation, notice, review, or consent.

Surely that can't be legal? Signing over the rights to one's name, likeness and voice in perpetuity in order to enter a contest?

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As someone who has never played one of these games before, I can't say that trailer did a good of convincing me to pick it up; it did leave me confused though, so that's something!

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Quoting: williamjcmIn the case of point #2, I'd like to mention there's a British game that actually allows this: Talisman Digital Edition (by Nomad Games). You can buy DLCs for the game on Android, iOS, GOG, or Switch, and use them with the Steam version just fine, as long as they're registered to your Nomad Games account. And except for the Switch version (Nintendo doesn't like games accessing DLCs bought from outside Nintendo's system), same the other way around, too. Bought a DLC on Steam ? You can access it from the mobile game, or the GOG version.

And Valve has been okay with this for years already.

And even outside of games that tie DLC to user accounts, there are plenty of visual novels that sell their "+18" DLC on their own site, outside of Steam, which can then be added to the game no matter where the user bought it - including Steam.

So far, I haven't seen any credible points in this lawsuit.

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And if anyone's looking for something similar in the style of VGA "simulators", I recommend Thunder Helix.

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For what it's worth, the developer elaborated a bit more on the process behind the decision in this comment on Kickstarter.

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Finally! It's been quite some time since I last tried to use my Index, but for a long time I kept getting soft-locked by the "looping 'updating' behaviour" - even when removing all my workshop subscriptions - until I finally just gave up; so this is a very welcome fix to see!

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Quoting: dannielloIf I'm not wrong chatgpt.com / copilot.microsoft.com it is website/cloud service. The same like google.com search. It cannot work off-line by design (without downloading all bigdata - so in case of large AI models like ChatGPT/Copilot it is impossible, because it would require download the internet:)

So what is the point for local NPU units? Except of course PR to sell additional fake features, i.e. some functions of website copilot.microsoft.com will be unlocked only when local NPU will be detected, but it is fully artificial limitation - some kind of DRM...

You can very well run models similar to the ones you mentioned locally. Some of the common uses that you might already find in your phone, for example, is stuff like assisted photo manipulation and handwriting recognition.

None of the models require you to download the internet, but some of the bigger models can be gigabytes in size. Remember, they don't contain the data they're trained on, but something more like the common links between each piece of data.

If you're curious to give it a try, I can recommend ollama as an easy way to get started.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI don't see the applicability of a specialized "AI" doohickey to general purpose computing. How is this going to help me watch or even process video, or play games, or do a spreadsheet, or browse the web? And if it isn't, why is it a selling point that I have to pay for it?

But it's not like I know anything; I didn't know there would be a point to specialized hardware bits even for doing actual AI stuff.

Some of this is actually what I'm trying to use it for on my machine. For spreadsheets, it's nice to be able to say "make a column that does A and B calculations on X and Y" and for web, I've been poking at auto-categorising my bookmarks into sensible folders - same thing with my growing collection of notes. One of the reasons I haven't gotten that far with it, is precisely because I'd prefer not to send my data to a third-party service, so running it on local hardware (with decent speeds) would be very nice.

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