Based on this list, it looks like you have to be sitting on a 2022 or earlier non-updated PS5 to have a chance at the 4.51 or lower firmware to use this. A chance it’ll open up to other firmwares and as said maybe there’s a limited functionality 5.xx exploit on the horizon, but just a bit of reality before you get too excited.
They figure once they have a captive audience, anything short of killing the hostage is fair game.
In the US there is a “right of publicity” that is based on state law, typically for commercial uses. There are also some laws depending on locality criminalizing deepfakes for revenge porn. Some countries use copyright law to the same end.
The “doppelganger problem” is really why this is not an easy issue to answer. If someone gets exclusive rights to a specific face, who is to say another person naturally having a similar face isn’t being wronged? How close is too close? What about similar names? And should that really be protected after death (which copyright and trademark and some publicity laws allow)?
Good rule of thumb: if you don’t know, don’t respond. You’ll see someone did post a credible and confident answer after your post.
Sorry to respond so abstractly, but, I think the main lesson the modern political era has is: be a tactician, not a strategist.
A strategist may plan twelve moves ahead, but has a huge Achilles heel. They won’t move until they are sure there is a winning path.
A tactician weighs the costs and benefits of acting in the moment, and acts in a way that improves position even without having a clear path to victory.
Putin is a tactician. For example, he flooded the US with propaganda and leaked emails starting in 2015 to do nothing except destabilize an adversary, kept it up as a cheap side-bet, and ended up getting two Trump terms in return. He attacked Ukraine without a clear plan, and will probably end up (I hope not, but probably - in conjunction with the last sentence) with semi-legitimized control of Donbas and Luhansk.
Republicans are tacticians. They kept attacking “Obamacare” despite healthcare being a top issue with voters and offering no alternative, and eventually the weight of their attacks made it so unpopular, voters were voting in politicians promising to remove it, despite that it would remove their own healthcare. They have been tacticians for a years with voter suppression (they succeeded in getting many state governments, the House, and so on). Stephen Miller is a tactician, and we saw it in how he kept pushing ICE’s unconstitutional policies.
The point is that each move we make, even without a clear strategy to the final goal, itself changes the reality on the ground. And tacticians are winning because their maneuvers take weeks, each time a free swing and way of moving the reality, the Overton windows, a little closer to their goal. If they fail, they have five other plans brewing, all free swings. Meanwhile, strategists’ maneuvers take years to show any effect. No long-term strategy adapts fast enough to counter those tactics.
We have become the stereotype of that republican quote: They act, we react; and while we react, they act again, changing the reality and killing our still-gestating plans.
So I’d humbly argue: The only way out of this is not to wait until 2028 (2029, actually, before a new president is hypothetically seated). It’s to act, now, using every legal tool we have, even if we don’t know the full path to victory.
I’m hoping we hit “peak stupid” with these nonsense metrics soon, but the C-suite MBAs who get all their AI-related information solely from vendor demos, Sam Altman and Elon Musk keep surprising me.
I can think of three problems with this way of thinking:
Trump has committed impeachable offenses, and to act otherwise cedes reality itself. It loses the game before even playing, and normalizes impeachable conduct. For a narcissistic sociopath like Trump and his Wormtongue Miller, this is an invitation to continue to ignore the Constitution. Their conduct will get worse without impeachment.
The impeachment process itself changes public opinion. A recent story said that Trump’s approval is already at Nixon’s lowest point during Watergate. Republicans likely will do nothing, I get it, but impeachment forces them to stand up for a traitor. When push comes to shove, they may flinch. We won’t know until we try.
The corollary of Democrats’ choice to “focus on other agenda” is true here: Republicans can’t focus on Project 2025 if they’re spending all their time defending against impeachment. Right now a depressing amount of Project 2025 has been pushed through, so ending their offensive is itself a win.
“I’m not a pedophile. Excuse me. Excuse me. I’m not a pedophile. You read that c— from some sick person? I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things. But I said to myself, ‘You know, I’ll do this interview and they’ll probably’— I read the manifesto. You know, he’s a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I’m not any of those things.”
“You shouldn’t be reading that on 60 Minutes. You’re a disgrace. But go ahead. Let’s finish the interview,” he continued, adding, “You’re disgraceful.”
Por que no los dos… He’s definitely compulsively lying, but when I read this, I can’t help but think, “If a whiny, soiled-diaper, cranky, colicky, ill-tempered baby was kept up way past its bedtime, could articulate full sentences and was accused of pedophilia, it would sound pretty much identical to this.”
Yeah, totally. I notice it, didn’t seem like you were shaming.
I mean, to each his own and everyone is allowed to post what they like, but I’d guess 95% of these types of memes are the same one or two people. I can spot a meme by this poster without looking at the name at this point.
I think the sentiment kicking off the husband explaining should have been “men are dangerous.” Then the shark metaphor makes sense, because enough men are dangerous and a low-probability but nonzero outcome for choosing incorrectly is so severe (rape, death, kidnapping) that it makes sense to have a prejudicial heuristic to treat them all as dangerous until reasonably proven otherwise.
“All men are dangerous” is an absolute statement and just poor semantic logic, so yeah, this is confusing.
Has the Steam Machine price been announced, or are you referring to PCs?
I mean, I agree we don’t want spying, but: a foreign government absolutely can use your data against you. Whether its creating a profile on you that could later be used against you when you enter that country, using it for statistical or targeted data for influence campaigns…there are a lot of ways.
China in particular has repeatedly deployed extra-territorial “police service stations” in at least the UK, Canada and the US to punish or harass those it’s identified as “Chinese” dissidents or sympathizers in other countries.
It’s more a trademark issue, which requires continued use (but that may still be legally satisfied even with a low active user base). If there is an active maintainer/owner, they probably could file a trademark suit.
Copyright in anything like code or content will outlive us all in Berne Convention countries. That protection is automatic, so the notice like you see there is not necessary, but it also indicates dates that begin the copyright clock, not the ending of it.
It’s probably a Goldilocks zone thing where too few prevents it from working, and too many will inevitably be overrun by bots and scanners.
The best argument for time travel is our ancestors somehow already knew a toilet should be called “the John.”
You have society’s permission to be ashoud, under threat of being pramed.
I actually think they won’t because they’ll have achieved what the investigation was meant to do already - install their MAGA fascist-friendly replacement.
I’ll just add to this thread: Being naive is a problem, sure. But dooming and refusing to be optimistic about the possibilities for the future plays into fascists’ hands, because we limit our imagination to whatever worst-case we expect, growing resigned in advance to their moves.
The only way out of this is to keep demanding a fair and just world - including through our expectations - while also preparing for the other side to do everything possible to derail it.