ImpossibilityBox
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- Comment on Bedside Charging Pad (phone + watch + vape) 10 months ago:
This looks awesome. We’ll done.
Man I need to just buckle up and get myself a filament printer. I’ve got something similar floating around in my brain that I want to have but no one makes that I’ve been able to find. 2 Qi charging plates as well as 4(ish) front side USB charging ports. Headphone stand between the Qi chargers.m
- Comment on Today on "Unsolved Mysteries"... 10 months ago:
This diagram is only missing that one super speed zone into another dimensions high speed internet that is hidden up in the attic during the season just before Christmas as you dig through your stored belongings and wonder why you have so many dumb yard inflatables.
- Comment on Scientists discover the first new antibiotics in over 60 years using AI 10 months ago:
I completely agree regarding AI being plastered on every piece of software tech. It is dumb and it makes people so much ND dumb and this is a hill I will absolutely die on.
- Comment on Complete Uber Newb wants to create an audio app for Android/IOS: Where do I begin? 11 months ago:
Wow, I had no idea that React Native basically ran most major programs in existence. Looks like it might be time to sit down and take some online courses/YouTube tutorials for this thing if I really want to get serious with this project.
Thanks!
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- Comment on When Light Flashes for a Quintillionth of a Second, Things Get Weird 1 year ago:
That’s basically what I was trying to say but very much less well articulated. Specifically about not knowing what causes the second pulse.
- Comment on When Light Flashes for a Quintillionth of a Second, Things Get Weird 1 year ago:
The shorter a light pulse is the more likely it’s going to have a wingman. Scientists don’t know why yet but have figured out how to affect the pairing of the two pulses.
That’s pretty much it.
- Comment on What's the best game you played this year (that didn't come out this year)? 1 year ago:
I just started playing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and man alive is it good. I’ve never been a fan of the soulslike genre but apparently all I need to fall in love are the samurai aesthetic and a mother frickin PARRY ability!
- Comment on Robotic Putting Greens. Mixed Reality. Loud Spectators. This Is Golf?! 1 year ago:
Part of the reason people freak out is when somebody throws random stats out there:
GOLF COURSES USE 1 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER EVERY DAY. OMG!!!
What is neglected is the fact that in the USA just over 400 Billion gallons of water are used each day across all uses. Golf courses use a very tiny percentage in comparison. 0.0000025 id I did my math right.
- Comment on Weird 🤔 1 year ago:
Curious, I’ve seen it all over lemmy. I’ve got a couple different accounts for… reasons, and on one I tried to make the point that for some demographics, like my parents/grandparents, Windows is the best OS. I was immediately berated for MANY reasons including, being a failure for not educating my family, not caring about my family’s safety, personally signing them up for the FasTrack to identity theft and scammers, and that Linux is ACTuaLLY simpler and easier to use.
This is pretty tame compared to the piracy guys as well.
- Comment on I'll never not want to 1 year ago:
- Comment on Orcas sink another boat in Europe after a nearly hour-long attack 1 year ago:
Fun fact: Orcas are absolute dicks. They are one of a very small list of animals that will kill for fun and not food. They are the top of the list and most heavily documented exhibiting this behavior.
- Comment on He did the mash 1 year ago:
It was a graveyard smash.
- Comment on Will people respond better if you say you're teetotal, or straight edge? 1 year ago:
I personally go with: no thanks I’m still on probation from the last time I used the stuff and beat a man mostly to death.
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 1 year ago:
Holy shit, an actually reasonable take on Lemmy regarding subscription services. I genuinely couldn’t believe what I was reading and was waiting for the “LOL, JK! Pirate everything, they don’t deserve my money and fuck every ad and paid service ine the universe.”
Thank you!
- Comment on outube bans 3D print channel after manually reviewing its videos as suitable for monetization [Louis Rossmann explains the censorship] 1 year ago:
A couple of things regarding this:
Federally there is no law that says you can’t print and carry your own gun, no serial number required.
However several states have strict laws and there are weird caveats. It has to be for personal use, cannot be sold or transferred and under the Undetectable Firearms Act any firearm that cannot be detected by a metal detector is illegal to manufacture, so legal designs for firearms such as 3d printed guns require a metal plate to be inserted into the printed body. Also online posting of plans for 3D-printed firearms require a license under the Export Administration Regulations issued by the Bureau of Industry and Security.
So if you design your own gun, or get one from a company that has an export license, print it and then ensure that it has enough metal in it to be detectable… Go for it, should be legal.
- Comment on outube bans 3D print channel after manually reviewing its videos as suitable for monetization [Louis Rossmann explains the censorship] 1 year ago:
Ghost guns are unregulated firearms that anyone — including minors and prohibited purchasers — can buy and build without a background check.
3D printed guns fall solidly into this category.
- Comment on [Survey] Can you tell which images are AI generated? 1 year ago:
I got 17 out of 20. I pegged the bezerk drawing as generated because the bottom part of the armor lacked symmetry and didn’t make any sense. I got the other three line drawings incorrect.
I have spent WAAAAY to much of my freetime generating images and apparently have picked up an eye for the weird types of artifacts that these generators produce. The hardest one to articulate is that generated images have a very specific type of noise. Images create a very nice grainy type noise while digital images get more of the blocky jpeg artifacts and banding. Generated images get this weird hybrid of the two that isn’t consistent across the whole image.
- Comment on Amazon Is Using Your Conversations With Alexa to Train AI 1 year ago:
Genuine question. What part of what I said makes me a sucker?
I only have so long to live on this earth. I’m not going to expend excessive amounts of energy on things that are unlikely to have any REAL effect on my life. I don’t give a shit if they listen in on me. I talk about work as a delivery driver (not Amazon), my wife’s work as a hotel front desk help, trackmania and Baldur’s Gate. Lots of state secret stuff there for me to be worried about.
Again as I said… find me an easy to use plug and play FOSS voice assistant system and I will throw Alexa in the trash.
I enjoy the home I have set up and I feel relaxed when I return from a long day at work. The Alexa system has helped make that a reality.
- Comment on Amazon Is Using Your Conversations With Alexa to Train AI 1 year ago:
I have 7 in my house. I have my lights, plant humidifier, TV, air filter, Aquarium equipment, and others all hooked up to them. You can run almost anything you need to just by using your voice.
Getting ready to watch something on TV? “Alexa it’s movie time.” Turns on the TV and Switches the input to the Shield and opens up our go to media app. Shuts off all lights in the house except the living room. Dims those to 10% and changes them to red. Just enough light to see your snacks and the remote by. Turns off the sump filter for the Aquariums in just the living room but leaves the in tank bubble filter going for better silence. All with 4 spoken words and no need to work with multiple remotes and apps in your phone.
That’s just one example. We have an obscene amount of routines setup for nearly ecery scenario we have run across and adding new ones is easy.
Hell… We even have a routine where if you say “Alexa, do you know Desi naach?” It plays Naatu Naatu from every speaker in the house at full volume.
Show me a FOSS system as plug and play, powerful, and as EASY to use as Alexa and I’ll drop Alexa in the trash tommorow and switch.
- Comment on Amazon Is Using Your Conversations With Alexa to Train AI 1 year ago:
I brings me joy when I tell her “Alexa, shut up you dumb bitch” and then she responds with that sad minor tone dejected sound.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I would love to get rid of my smart devices from amazon/Google but I have yet to find a single plug and play device that allows me to control all my lights, plant humidifiers, aquariums, TV, and whole house music by voice that isn’t from them or even better FOSS.
- Comment on US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art 1 year ago:
In that specific case you have described? They possibly could claim copyright. If you want to boil your analogy down even farther. You have effectively described a piano or a synthesizer but just with a visual output. Put one of those in public and there are an infinite variety of ways a person could sit down and create something new just but punching a few keys and yes, it likely would be copyrightable.
The one thing that all the Machine Learning systems (They aren’t Ai and you can’t make me call them that) hinge on is the fact that they are trained on hundreds and thousands of other artists copyrightable works. The system literally does not work at all without this training.
The machine learning art generators do not create unique art from scratch out of its own imagination. Instead they use complicated algorithms to combine pieces in their database that match the description of what the user is requesting.
If you asked for a blue ball it goes into it’s database, looks for all the images that have been tagged with the descriptor BLUE and all the ones that have BALL. Some techno magic that is very hard to explain happens and voila you have a “supposedly” brand new image of a blue ball. It is however created using copyrighted source material that the creators have not paid for the use of.
This is the real reason the images can’t claim copyright at the moment. There is a lot of debate in the community a out the proper way to handle this.
1: The extreme of “The data and art is stolen and they should not be allowed to use it. Shut them down and figure something else out.”
2: If and artists work is used as part of the algorithm that generates an image they should get paid a royalty for each and every time.
- People point out that sometimes hundreds or thousands of pieces might contribute to a piece of art and trying to figure out which artists get paid and what percentage and who is going to be paying is effectively impossible so screw it, who cares. These things are cool, let them be cool.
All of this also applies to the Large Language Model machine learning systems. They are trained off of news articles, Facebook posts, youtube comments, scientific papers, court transcripts. The more data the better. If you wrote an article for the new york times and Google commandeered it to train bard do you think you should be compensated for that?
Right now it’s the wild wild west and the machine learning companies are hoarding as much data as is possible before someone finally wakes up and starts legislating the industry. It will be very interesting g to see what will be the outcome.
OK, essay over.
- Comment on The best decision YouTube ever did. 1 year ago:
I recently started a new google account and was actually disturbed by the absolute shit on the raw front page.
I actually tried to watch some of the videos to get an inkling of what is supposed to be appealing and I just couldn’t. It was sooooo bad.
