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Yes, you need the game specific runtime formats and for user generated content the toolchain used is relevant. Some of the most popular games with modding support had model and animation import locked behind proprietary solutions that were used when the games were created. Nothing wrong here, but if this toolchain used more open tools, the entry barrier is lowered and import/export would be much easier.

Sure, at some point people created specific plugins for Blender as well, but it creates additional hurdles. And the middleware used is also important. Havok did pose problems for import/export of models in Blender. Of course these are other licensing constraints again that are not only affecting Blender.

Maybe it reduced hate on this single metric, but the complaint is more about the errors in fact checking.

And single subreddits aren't really convincing about the reliability of fact checkers if their independence is in question. In the end they do rely on a truth-authority, which is problematic, especially for political content. And Meta reported that political demands increased.

Claims are challenged all the time by other users and there are enough cases where fact checkers were wrong or heavily biased.

EU legislation tries to introduce "trusted flaggers". A ridiculous approach, an information authority by a state-like entity doesn't work, even if they paint these flaggers as independent. They simply are not, a trusted and verifiable fact.

Community notes provide higher quality info, it is the better approach. That is an opinion of course.

We will probably see community notes on trusted flaggers.

How would fact checkers access the 90% of private content? And should they? I don't think so, even if the respective private content is questionable.

The EU goes its own way with trusted flaggers, which is more or less the least sensible option. It won't take long until bounds are overstepped and legal content gets flagged. Perhaps it already happened. This is not a solution to even an ill-defined problem.

That should finally put arguments that Blender would not be "production ready" to rest.

Although to be fair, Blender did awesome jumps in capability in recent time. Love the tool, I wish them the best. Certainly a deserved success.

For a gaming company it should also be the tool of choice because user content still is part of the most successful games. There are many arguments to revisit your toolchain if you do not yet use Blender.

I think internet discussion worked far better without fact checkers, where some of them cannot really be called accurate. The community notes are the better approach. They aren't always correct either, but it certainly is the better fit for freedom of expression and freedom of speech. Fact checkers are the authority approach that just does not fit.

It simply worked better. I live in a country with strong hate speech laws. They don't work and they decrease possibilities for free expression.

It is legislation from the times of monarchy and doesn't fit the modern age. Instead of embracing liberties, my country restricts speech and opinions out of fear until it becomes the birthplace of the next autocratic personality again.

The idea of hate speech is ridiculous in the first place. Of course you are allowed to hate something, just as you are allowed to love it.

I believe the killer feature would be sensible embedding tools with respective functions that support generating facts about internal data.

You generally cannot just push your data tables with millions of entries to your AI, but you can reduce them to statements that the AI then can work with.

It would be quite nice for training if a company can embed their product catalogue or their process instructions. Or technical data and common faults for customer support.

Also production monitoring would benefit from AI, but you also need to reduce the large amount of data into congestible statements. Usually the same work you do when you build some kind of dashboard.

In most cases that would mean you either run an AI locally, which I would heavily prefer, or you serialize the result of said embeddings and have them be used with your cloud AI of choice.

There were times when users warned about the consequences of putting your images on the net. If you upload them on Facebook services, you gave away the rights on them I believe.

True, I just thought that it being voted through now would also pose news, as the contents weren't yet set in stone, but the criticized parts are still in the final version. I believe the vote being held on Christmas probably lessened the media echo about this.

I wonder why the recently adopted Cybercrime Convention isn't a bigger topic on many media sites.

Some lawyers argue that it allows platform data of citizens to be shared with authorities abroad and that it can circumvent national data protection. There are many civil rights group that criticized the topic, but that fact that the convention was adopted was somehow not in the news cycle, as it would especially impact journalists.

Would welcome some thoughts about this.

> Last year, we saw that about 75% of developers use some kind of AI tool for software engineering

I heavily doubt that if I look left and right. They are prompting them in a browser, but few have adopted AI in their toolchain yet.

> “Software engineers are getting closer to finding out if AI really can make them jobless”

It might indeed partially work if people are able to describe a problem and prompt an AI. Do they know how to describe a problem and prompt an AI, rhetorical question?

In practice is does indeed allow other engineers not in software to churn out some scripts and they mostly are of good or at least decent quality. But for complex work or integration, the AIs just lack any context that is needed for the specific problem to be solved. Still, AIs do help the developers themselves.

I would assume that not everyone with a "great body" would want to do stripping and I don't think it is a "no brainer" at all.

Problem with many sports is that they just don't earn enough money, which mostly is in advertising, and that doing it professionally is rather costly.

That probably is a patent that shouldn't exist and probably not a sensible innovation either. Not saying that Netflix technical solutions aren't great. What isn't great is their legal department. They might want to reinvest its costs into other departments like engineering.

The patents have some arcane descriptions in the lawsuit:

> "System and method for attributing to a corresponding virtual machine CPU usage of a domain in which a shared resource’s device driver resides"

> "System and method for attributing CPU usage of a virtual machine monitor to a corresponding virtual machine."

> "Starting up at least one virtual machine in a physical machine by a load balancer."

Be that as it may, patents here absolutely fail to provide their intended purpose. This is a legal system that is run off course.

Even the closed-system solution pose problems. I think it didn't get much airtime, but when Chrome switched their approach to save passwords, a lot of users lost access to their accounts. A case where a feature wasn't sensibly discontinued.

The workaround now isn't using passkeys, something few people understand. Instead most seem to be migrating to an external password managers. Honestly, I don't have many arguments against this as these at least generate save passwords. There are many advantages to this approach.

I believe moving forward, sticking to passwords might indeed be more viable. I think explaining users to upload their public ssl key is safer and more universal at this point.