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Edit2: As of third of July we've achieved the minimum amount of 1 million signatures! But organizers recommend as many signatures as possible to cover for possible invalidations (1.5M would be ideal). If you have not yet signed, you can still help!

Onto the post.

Yarr citizens of the high seas! The Stop Killing Games movement is still ongoing and we've recently had a second wind. It's within reach!

We're all lovers of media in here, and games currently have no safeguard that guarantees that they won't be locked down long after being released and abandoned. If crackers help us, they can still be played long into the future, but many times there isn't such a possibility, specially in multiplayer games.

This initiative seeks to change that by mainly:

• Disallowing planned obsolesce in paid video games. (Ex: By disallowing phone-home based DRM after the game reaches end of life. Like in Ubisoft's The Crew)
• Ensuring that paid multiplayer games can still be reasonably played long into the future. (Ex: By releasing relevant server hosting software)

If you didn't sign yet, there is only one month left. Tell your friends too.

Do you live in the EU?

• You can sign it here: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

Do you live in the UK?

• You can also sign a different one here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/

Do you live elsewhere or would like to know more?

• https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

Disclaimer: Reminder post, sort of relevant since piracy movements have much to benefit from this initiative.

Have a fine day!

Bespoke-Chan!

Created by yours truly. Based on a pretty unusual/neat open source Digital Audio Workstation called Bespoke.

Originally Posted Here

Fanart!

Don't you hate it when that game you used to play, vanishes from your library? Or what if you download it, but it doesn't work anymore because it's a single-player with an online only DRM. Or you're waiting for the DENUVO crack, but it never comes and the games goes EOL and forgotten? Well, turns out someone had enough and decided to start a campaign for it. If you pay for media, you may want this. If you like it free, someone needs to crack first it, and that doesn't always happen. So you may want this too.

Spread the message. If you're European, seriously consider voting. We don't own digital movies, and if we don't put a stop to this, more games will follow. Make the pirate party proud.

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci

Greetings citizens, pirates, denizens and all of you fellow incredible people of this society of brave internauts who wish the world was a little more free. It is with great curiosity that I pose my inquiry, seeking guidance from those who sail the high seas of knowledge, for I yearn to embark on a journey towards the treasure trove of information that is most precious.

Usenet, still a thing? How do I get into thing?

k thks.

Greetings Citizens of Hopefully Useful AI.

It has come to my attention that there are plenty of videos, as well as workflows that would get so much better if there was the possibility of textifying their audio content.

That being said, I hear Whisper, at least in the past 9 months or so was the cream of the crop when it came to audio recognition. And was also open source to boot (shocker).

Therefore, I'd be quite pleased to know if anyone created a method to more easily make use of the model. Because dedicating mental space to remembering specific adhoc commands does not make for a good long term tool.

For reference, I can throw a 24GB of VRAM at the problem if need be, and am running a Windows machine. Anything like Oobabooga or A1111? (Or a standard program would work just as nicely.) That would be very much appreciated.

Type in your answer, and ENRICH the future of Lemmy with your knowledge. (As well as answer one's question, pretty please.)

Thank you very much for reading and have a most fine of days!