Completely impractical. If something is AI generated, or manipulated with Photoshop or in the darkroom really doesn’t make a difference. AI isn’t special here, photo manipulation is about as old as the photograph itself. It would be much better to spend some effort into signing authentic images,including a whole chain of trust up to the actual camera. Luckily the Content Authenticity Initiative is already working on that.

What I find even more mind boggling is that despite all that tracking, advertising still misses the mark by a mile. I regularly see the same ad repeated 10 times in a row while also being completely irrelevant to me. Meanwhile I also frequently miss stuff that would be relevant for me and that should be covered by ads (e.g. movie releases, I might pick up the first trailer, but completely miss when the movie actually hits cinemas).

For the money and effort spend on ads you’d think they could do a lot better than what they are.

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Retina doesn’t refer to screen resolution, but to pixel-per-degree, which at the time of them introducing the term retina was not exactly a commonly used measurement and still isn’t outside of the VR space.

Apple isn’t building a VR headset, but an iPad for your face. It’s not just a name change for no reason, but a product that is focused on a completely different use case. VisionPro has no controller, no locomotion, basically nothing of the things that have dominated VR for the last 10 years. It’s much closer to video glasses (Eye-Trek, Sony HMZ-T1, XRealAir, Rokid, …) than a Quest3. Even if the underlying tech is very similar to a Quest3, the goals are completely different.

Hololens did have quite a lot of feature overlap with what VisionPro is doing, but since Microsoft never developed that into a consumer version and didn’t manage to fix the low-FOV issues, that thing never really went anywhere. If they had continued with their WMR headsets they might have something like the VisionPro themselves, but WMR has been on life support for years and is now on its deathbed waiting to be removed from Windows.

It’s also not like Apple are the first with renaming things, Facebook tried it with Metaverse and Microsoft called theirs Mixed Reality.

With IPFS every single website you look at becomes cached by your node and redistricted by your node, that’s the whole point of it. Redistribution is illegal by default, unless explicitly allowed or public domain. The problem is even if it is allowed, say Open Source software, that often comes with conditions such as “you must include the license when you redistribute it”. With IPFS even that doesn’t work, as each file or even subsections of a file will get redistributed independently, so if the license is in another file than the one you are redistributing, you are in violation of that license. With Bittorrent in contrast you redistributed whole directories at once, so that’s fine.

Unless you want to use IPFS exclusively with only 90+ year old works with expired copyright, I just don’t see it working. At the moment nobody really cares, since it is small enough, but that can quickly change.

ISPs and sites like Youtube have exceptions that allow them to redistribute illegal stuff, if they remove it when they are notified. No such exception exists for regular users and I’ll doubt that we’ll ever get one, as with IPFS there is no origin of a piece of content that you can shift the blame to.

It means that using it properly is automatically illegal. I am not seeing how that’s a “feature”. It renders it completely unusable.

Lemmy is not a “free speech” platform, unlike Voat. It can be moderated. Offending instances in the Fediverse can be blocked and all that stuff. As long as the moderators do their job, they can filter everything they want to filter, just like Reddit.

The more interesting question with Lemmy is if the federation will actual have any advantage in the long run, as cutting other instances off is the easiest way to moderate them. Which than in turn means the users have to hop between server, which is annoying and will in turn will lead to more centralization again.

For the time being I see Lemmy not as “The Solution™”, but more as a “not-Reddit”. It can and will run into all the problems as ever other Web forum will.