Enkers
@Enkers@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Oh god 2 days ago:
Nonono… just do us a favour and don’t film it.
- Comment on Oh god 2 days ago:
Hairbrush. It’d fit fine, but it’s got rubberized paint that’s coming off the handle. :/
- Comment on Has the machine uprising already begun? In China, a humanoid robot suddenly attacked terrified engineers during testing 3 days ago:
And the video isn’t even THAT scary. When I first saw this video with a headline about a robot going “berserk”, I expected something closer to terminator like behaviour instead of erratic hand waving. It was clearly just a software bug with no “intent” behind it (apologies for the anthropomorphism).
- Comment on doctors 3 days ago:
You’re right, of course, it’s not impossible, but as someone who’s had several significant changes in BMI/body fat in my life, I can tell you exercising when you’re already in decent shape is SO much easier.
Being fat makes a lot of potential options for exercise much more difficult if not outright impossible.
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 1 week ago:
Just to be clear, they were fully transparent about it:
“Hello, just to be clear for everyone seeing this, I am a version of Chris Pelkey recreated through AI that uses my picture and my voice profile,” the stilted avatar says. “I was able to be digitally regenerated to share with you today. Here is insight into who I actually was in real life.”
However, I think the following is somewhat misleading:
The video goes back to the AI avatar. “I would like to make my own impact statement,” the avatar says.
It’s the victim’s sister’s impact statement, not his.
I have mixed feelings about the whole thing. It seems that the motivation was genuine compassion from the victim’s family, and a desire to honestly represent victim to the best of their ability. Here’s what the judge had to say:
“I loved that AI, and thank you for that. As angry as you are, and as justifiably angry as the family is, I heard the forgiveness, and I know Mr. Horcasitas could appreciate it, but so did I,” Lang said immediately before sentencing Horcasitas. “I love the beauty in what Christopher, and I call him Christopher—I always call people by their last names, it’s a formality of the court—but I feel like calling him Christopher as we’ve gotten to know him today. I feel that that was genuine, because obviously the forgiveness of Mr. Horcasitas reflects the character I heard about today. But it also says something about the family, because you told me how angry you were, and you demanded the maximum sentence. And even though that’s what you wanted, you allowed Chris to speak from his heart as you saw it. I didn’t hear him asking for the maximum sentence.”
I am concerned that it could set a precedent for misuse, though. The whole thing seems like very grey to me. I’d suggest everyone read the whole article before passing judgement.
- Comment on The Mobile Browsers That Stick Their Noses Into Your Business 1 week ago:
Now I’m curious how fennec stacks up. I’d imagine somewhere between Brave and TOR, since it still has addons and is thus susceptible to js fingerprinting. Ofc, you can also run NoScript as well, so that mitigates that issue, but it’s still not going to ever pass TOR.
- Comment on There it is, that funny feeling. 1 week ago:
🤦♀️ hey it works!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I’m playing V Rising for the first time, and doing it solo on brutal mode. I have to say it’s been very challenging, but also quite rewarding, and a ton of fun.
The way they do brutal mode is very cool. It’s not just number-based challenge scaling, but the bosses get new mechanics as well.
- Comment on Sweet pic 1 week ago:
Oh that’s funny I want for a walk today too! This is the picture I took:
- Comment on Mouse 1 week ago:
Please don’t call Ratrick short. He doesn’t like that at all.
- Comment on What's your favorite poker hand in Balatro? 1 week ago:
My most successful runs almost always seem to be flush into five flush using DNA. The scaling with couple of blue seals is nuts.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 2 weeks ago:
As much as I appreciate Japanese culture, they also created Oyakodon, which literally means “parent-and-child rice bowl”. Like damn, Japan, what’d those birds ever do to you to necessitate multi-generational violence?
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 2 weeks ago:
Omae wa mou… shinderou!
- Comment on Deranged 2 weeks ago:
I, for one, hail our robot overlords. 🥰
^^^(please don’t kill me.)
- Comment on Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google senior executives told employees to destroy messages 2 weeks ago:
Just to add, if it’s found that evidence was destroyed, beyond potential seperate charges for the destruction itself, a judge would also typically give an averse inference instruction to the jury. That means the jury should assume that the destroyed evidence would have been damning to whomever destroyed it.
What that tells me is, assuming google acted rationally in the destruction, either they thinks they have a reasonable chance that they can beat the evidence destruction charges, or that the evidence is so damning that the reality of the situation is considerably worse than whatever adverse inferences might be drawn.
(I am not a lawyer, so please take my interpretation with a grain of salt.)
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 weeks ago:
None of these. 2 has the best tines, but the handle sucks. These look like forks you’d find in a diner.
- Comment on K Y S 3 weeks ago:
I feel like someone was having a giggle, then it went a bit too far.
- Comment on Google loses massive antitrust case over its search dominance 3 weeks ago:
I mean… maybe? Could an EO be used to just dismiss an existing case? Maybe. It’s kinda make believe land over there right now, so it’s hard to say what is and isn’t in the realm of possibility.
And I don’t know the legal system well enough to say for sure how he could go about it. Presumably some bureaucracy would have to be intervened in to stop the case from proceeding normally. Whether or not he could do that legally seems to be a bit contentious:
hls.harvard.edu/…/what-power-does-the-president-h…
However, there’s also the question of could he just have some cronies walk in to the place with a bunch of dudes in black suits and do it anyways? I think the DoJ would be pretty pissed if he tried that, but he’s already been flirting with contempt of court and we haven’t seen any judge pull the trigger on that yet, so we’ll see, I guess.
There’s also the fact that nobody’s given him incentive to do it yet. They’ll probably wait and see, as Trump would likely need a sizeable reason to step in, so why pay potentially more on Trump whithout knowing what the damages will even be, right?
- Comment on 🥖 Kasane Teto 🥖 - Made community only for our queen: Kasane Teto 3 weeks ago:
🥖 My dude is on a Teto rampage! 🥖 Rock on. 🥖
- Comment on Google loses massive antitrust case over its search dominance 3 weeks ago:
I think you’ve got keep in mind that the cogs of the justice system turn slowly.
This is the district level damages decision which will finalize a ruling that was made nearly a year ago. After that, it can be appealed which can be heard by the circuit courts, and then finally the Supreme court, which is ostensibly where Trump has the most sway.
If there’s no play here, it’s because it still hasn’t got far enough through the system for him to want to interfere at this point.
- Comment on Kowloon Generic Romance - Episode 3 discussion 3 weeks ago:
As someone who picked this up on a whim with no idea what I was getting in to, I have to say I’m very pleasantly surprised. The romantic premise is quite fresh, but what really made these first few episodes great was the setting. It made me feel a deep sense of nostalgia for a place I’ve never been.
- Comment on Who's That Pokémon? 3 weeks ago:
Joggoly Piff!
- Comment on The therapy I can afford 3 weeks ago:
Just a reminder that corporations aren’t your friends, and especially not Open AI. The data you give them can and will be used against you.
If you find confiding in an LLM helps, run one locally. Get LM Studio, and try various models from hugging face.
- Comment on Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Party Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to an Infinite Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out for Revenge | Key Visual 3 weeks ago:
I’m still waiting for “I Spent My Rich Dad’s Money to Absolutely Destroy My Gacha Competition, and I Have No Remorse”.
- Comment on One day, a woman had 100 children 4 weeks ago:
Ughhhh…
- Comment on I can't believe it 4 weeks ago:
Looks like the Brits were trying to follow recipe for poutine, but read peas instead of cheese.
- Comment on YouTube considers a daily timer for users looking to cut back on Shorts 4 weeks ago:
Or at least give us the option to disable them. If I wanted tictok I’d go on tiktok.
- Comment on Do it 4 weeks ago:
“Two Trucks in my ass.”
- Comment on VIZ Media Wins Up to $26 Million in Damages Following RWBY Lawsuit Over Copyright & Trademark Infringement 4 weeks ago:
They certainly won’t get the millions they’re going for, but the sellers’ Amazon accounts will be locked and any funds currently in there will be frozen and recovered, so it’s not like they’re getting nothing either.
- Comment on VIZ Media Wins Up to $26 Million in Damages Following RWBY Lawsuit Over Copyright & Trademark Infringement 4 weeks ago:
Interesting. Did a tiny bit of digging, and it seems the defendants were mostly fake merch companies and drop shippers from the likes of Temu and Amazon, probably selling stuff like bootleg T-shirts, posters, body pillows, etc.
