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Re:MusicLM: Generating music from text on Friday January 27, 2023 @07:29AM (#34545256)
I wonder if this technology will eventually revolutionize music the same way synthesizers did. Or at least lead to music and effects/filters that are simply not possible with current DAWs and plugins.

Custom generation of samples from text alone seems revolutionary.

Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:01AM (#23757450)
Agreed. I'd guess for ~90% of web users, GDPR popups have lost all meaning. The thought process is not about opting in or out, it's more "how do I close this popup as quickly as possible?".
Re:More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:11PM (#18123583)
https://boingboing.net/2017/04/22/internet-archive-to-ignore...

They are gradually expanding the scope of sites where robots.txt is ignored, perhaps "testing the water".

Re:More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:06PM (#18123535)
I'm guessing Archive.is will probably disappear within the next 5 years, taking all data down with it.

Nobody knows who owns or maintains the site, and recently the mysterious owner started taking donations to keep the site running. It's a commercial enterprise.

Slick UI or not, Archive.org's longevity is probably more feasible.

Re:More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:47PM (#18123350)
"bothered to index" and "IA can be quite selective" implies that there's a human overseer to the Wayback operation, not true!

Pages are archived automatically, and sites are crawled by robots, not humans.