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- Comment on A golf course eight miles away from the hottest point on the entire planet. 4 months ago:
How else are they supposed to know whether its good to eat or not.
- Comment on Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web 4 months ago:
They’re the same thing.
- Comment on Dead Tesla traps toddler in boiling hot car as electric doors fail 4 months ago:
I really don’t think you understand the point they are making.
- Comment on US bans Kaspersky antivirus software due to 'national security risk' 4 months ago:
Get he out lest he be ready to drop to your knees and gibe praise to the righteous AUR as it doth demand.
- Comment on Amazon Customer Service has become awful 6 months ago:
I was transferred between 16 different reps on an amazon chat trying to return a busted chair. I refused to log off, was polite, and started asking what the record for transfers was and of wed best it. I refused to explain the pr9boem again after the third transfer.
I wanted to return the chair and get the same model but not broken. I refused to take it to the post office.
They ended up refunding me the money and I kept the chair. Which kind of works. You can sit in it. Just can’t lock it when you Kean back.
Same thing happened with a vacuum that worked but kind of shot.out dust when you first turned it on.
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 6 months ago:
What the fuck are you talking about?
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 6 months ago:
I read… Something once and they suggested the past we may have collectively possessed a more direct relationship with rekigi9n like you’re talking about. That for some reason or another we don’t tend to “hear the voice of hod” like we once did. Out relationship with our internal self had changed. Maybe it was bred out by our tendency to kill the religious folks who disagree the most with whatever the dumpster jour religion at the time is.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 6 months ago:
I, too, did a heroic dose of mushrooms once
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 6 months ago:
Who the fuck would rather repeatedly pause and in pause a fucking video, skim past bullshit, skip ads, or hell even USE YouTube over a block of text somewhere that c9ntains the info you were looking for.
People watch this dog.shit. is it because its.the only.place you can find info anymore? Or do people actually LIKE this format?
- Comment on Guess I'll die 7 months ago:
In tests they did in the 50s they told people yo cover their eyed with their hands and close their eyed and people could see the bones in the heir hands.
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 7 months ago:
I used to on irc when i was 10 fucking years old. You type.in the serve and then type #before the room you want to use.
Did they put lead back in gasoline when i wasn’t looking or something?
- Comment on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites 7 months ago:
Can we just start hanging the rich on live TV?
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 7 months ago:
You say this.
But its just not true.
It took my of all of a day with Linux mint before she needed to open up a command line and do things.
I love Linux . i would kill for Linux. Have killed for linux. And wil kill again for Linux. What’s that, tux? Sudo for person in store; do “$festoon_the_walls_with_their_guts”? If [[ -e $police ]]; then -eval sudo_works_in_real_,life; find / -type “*god” -exec /platonic_root/deicide police surviving_bystanders news_crews: fi; done
You’re always looking out for me bud. Sure I’ll do it.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 8 months ago:
It was all backed up publicly on push shift. Still is.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 8 months ago:
So, for an example of what the other user was talking about, I’m just some guy and for my first foray inyo programming / machine learning (I kind of just threw myself into the deep end) I modified stylegan 3 and trained it on about 500g of reddit porn that I scraped off reddit.
Now, I stopped the training after about a week (it was going to take about a solid month on my rtx 2080 ti) when I found out stable diffusion existed but I learned a LOT from that experience.
I couldn’t do that now. Arguably none of that was how any of that should be done but whatever.
- Comment on European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal 8 months ago:
And nobody gives a shit :(
Foucault was right. Civilization is just a fucked up sadomasochistic relationship. People want to be oppressed.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra 9 months ago:
I was once transferred 14 times but Amazon customer service. I refused to log off the chat, and insisted each new person read the entire chat history this far while being pleasant and polite “wow 14 times, is this a new world record? I bet we do it kurpreet, let’s go!”
I was trying to arrange for pi kuo of a vacuum cleaner that was foa. Wouldn’t take no for an answer. Politely.
Eventually they just said keep the vacuum cleaner it’s on us.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra 9 months ago:
Wow. I understood most of this.
- Comment on Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses 9 months ago:
Honestly my biggest issue with ipv6, aside from not understanding it, which I don’t, at all, I’ve realized while setting up my own opnsense firewall, is that they decided on FUVKING COLONS. AND LETTERS. Okay, cool, hexadecimal exists, that’s swell, but typing them is such a fucking pain in the ass.
There’s no way to put your fingers on a keyboard to make it feel natural.
- Comment on Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?” 9 months ago:
No joke, I think he should be tried for crimes against humanity for how he’s lead the merciless sodomizing of of our access to actual information.
If found guilty then he should have a chance to walk out unscathed. Five obscure questions. One computer. One elaborate limb removal device.
For every obscure piece of information he can actually find the answer to within the first 100 pages of results (don’t you wish the other pages were real now, you fucking sack of shit?) He loses a limb. If he can’t find the info at least once, he gets to watch his limbs get cut off one before it’s off with his head and into the nearest, largest sack pile of actual shit we can forget his worthless body parts in.
It would be on youtube and the special would be like 8 hours long. The ad revenue and their utter lack of a sould would keep the executives engaged enough to not repeat his mistakes.
- Comment on Conservatives on Facebook absolutely believe this. 9 months ago:
What’s the average speed of an unladen Taylor Swift?
- Comment on Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value 10 months ago:
The law says you have to show them your genitals now.
It’s an odd law.
- Comment on "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" 10 months ago:
Why do people hopl their TV’s up to the internet? I’ll never get it.
- Comment on 8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates 10 months ago:
I could not get either to work. Then discovered my root issue was my firewall so have up.
- Comment on Today's web is the opposite of what early Internet utopians had in mind. Now the situation is somewhat similar climate change: even committed activists can no longer turn the tide for the better. 10 months ago:
Social media is a huge part of the problem…
Stop using social media and 90% of the internets issues stop affecting you.
Search is still fucked tho
- Comment on Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times 10 months ago:
I’m with you.
Local everything I possibly can.
- Comment on Study shows AI image-generators being trained on explicit photos of children 10 months ago:
Yeah. You got it.
And sure you can hop on vocitai and download a model or lora or lycoris or comfyui workflow or whatwver. But we’re only at the beginning stages of ai.
Like. Face swapping is mainly done with with the inswapper. Onnx model which was pulled by insight face after it started making the rounds in the face swapping applicarion roop. It’s all well and good for hobbyist face swapping image gen but it’s a 128 bit model and low res. It kind of makes a blurry mess on larger images. Insight face has higher resolution models available but they’re not public, and to my knowledge there aren’t any viable alternative to this model that can match the same speed and accuracy. So everyone is out here playing with sticks and rocks while those who can play have shoyn new things.
There are very valid concerns about the harmful potential of deep fakes and I can understand how the models creator didn’t want to take responsibility for enabling that. But if, say, google wanted to use that or a similar closed source in house model to deep fake CASM for propaganda purposes or the same for political leaders, celebrities, not only does the public not have access to those models to understand how it’s being done and identify artifacts of that process, they lack the ability to “fight back” in any meaningful way.
To be clear I don’t think the above is, or is inevitably going to happen, but it highlights the asymmetric nature of ai that big tech wants. It doesn’t even have to be such high stakes. If you wanted to, say, swap out your son’s face for Luke Skywalker on the star wars movie for a Christmas present or something that’s something that would be challenging to do locally and convincingly with the right model, but barring thst could instead be forced to pay an absurdly high price by a private company or denied entirely due to fear of copyright infringement, even though I’m relatively certain doing that and not releasing it publicly falls purely in the realm of fair use.
And then there’s text, speech, audio generation. What happens if the tech gets good enough for someone to spend a few hours setting up some parameters for some pop songs with vocals, hits go, and generates music as consistently appealing as what we hear on the radio? And when no one else can access that tech? They’re able to pay artists nothing and basically produce free content wed have to pay for. If the public had access to that same tech then artists would still have a role in making popular music, even if the landscape had shifted totally. Either way the music business as we know it does, but there’s one option where creative people can still make money independently without getting on big techs sick to do so.
It’s a complicated issue and the ethics of it are fraught no matter where you look, but take one look at how cynically terrible all of googles products are getting and I think it’s painfully obvious we can’t trust them and their ilk with some access to this kind of tech.
- Comment on Study shows AI image-generators being trained on explicit photos of children 10 months ago:
Say it with me folks: regulatory capture.
Google et Al wants to make it illegal for the average user to run any kind of ai model locally… it’s scaremongering.
Even if po}pular image generation AIs did have images of children as part of their training dataset how many people would be able to have them generate anything even remotely like that?
Big tech will use this research, and research like it, to de-democratize artificial intelligence and take it out of the hands of ordinary people while actual pedophiles are training image generation AIs on actual child sexual assault media.
Sooner or later someone with a full blown cp generating stable diffusion model will be found and big tech is going to latch on to it like a lamprey on a shark, doing everything in their power to best the world over the head with it and ensure only they have the tools to make aim
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 10 months ago:
Oh yeah. Cities rock… fuck the country.
- Comment on The Atlantic: Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore. Why you’ve probably never heard of the most popular Netflix show in the world. 10 months ago:
soundcloud.com/kringo-sturng. I uploaded the first but to my SoundCloud ²hich I started at a friend’s behest.
I get my vyvanse from the pharmacy. Started it a few years back but I was never really productive about things until I lost my father to lung cancer. I’d always felt like life is short and tried to seize the day but it dawned on me that when I went I’d leave nothing behind. So I’ve been just… Creating. Learning how to create things j want to create but can’t. If I died tomorrow there’s be some evidence I was here, for a while anyway. It makes me feel more accepting of my inevitable death.
Also I’m definitely abnormal and pretty creative. When you stop caring about whether anything you make is good and just focus on the act itself you get better. It’s the damnedest thing.