Blaster_M
@Blaster_M@lemmy.world
- Comment on With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster 3 days ago:
AI auto detection is a coin toss at best - and it often hurts real artists/writers when they’re false positive’d, which is far too often.
People didn’t magically forget how to proofread or use Photoshop (or similar tools) when AI generation became popular - the good fakes are just better now. Small “tells” can be fixed in post by anyone that has previously done “photoshopping” work… the kind of people who have already been doing such things before AI generation. AI generation just makes it easier and faster if you know how to use inpainting or img to img.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
NAPS2. PDF scanning. Supports every platform. Dead simple for scanning and aggregsting multiple pages into a single pdf with ocr. Also can save as images.
- Comment on Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification 1 week ago:
facial recognition scans require a realtime video feed of you turning your head each way… a fake photo is not going to suffice
- Comment on Elevated 1 week ago:
- Comment on Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones 2 weeks ago:
Every single install I’ve tried of it feels “half finished”. There’s bugs and missing features everywhere… but that’s on just two of the interfaces. I have yet to try them all.
- Comment on Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones 2 weeks ago:
Getting pmOS to work on an op6t has been an exercise in … patience and not using colorful language.
I have already tried Plasma Mobile and the Purism UIs… which one is really the most feature complete for devices?
- Comment on Gunkroad: The creator-economy service Gumroad decided to open-source its platform at a suspiciously convenient time. (And even “open source” might be stretching it.) 2 weeks ago:
Alternative to gumroad?
- Comment on Marine Le Pen banned from running for French president after embezzling EU funds 3 weeks ago:
Well, that’s a given, but leading with why is more genuine than making what appears to be a propaganda piece by only mentioning the political part (far-right leader), which makes it appear that she was banned for being far-right.
- Comment on Marine Le Pen banned from running for French president after embezzling EU funds 3 weeks ago:
This is the context that’s missing from the headlines of the other thread of this event. She’s not being banned for being far right, but being banned for embezzlement.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 4 weeks ago:
privacytools.io uses affiliate links. privacyguides.org does not.
- Comment on Bigscreen Announces the Beyond 2 VR Headset 5 weeks ago:
You order corrective lens inserts for it
- Comment on Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank 5 weeks ago:
Gas powered cars catch fire all the time
- Comment on Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank 5 weeks ago:
Stuff I’ve heard on naysays:
“The battery will blow up!!!”
No, it won’t if it’s a solid state battery - solid state batteries barely even notice such a charging rate, their temperature might change by half a degree from this monster charging rate.
“You can’t supply the power because lines”
Modern large commercial buildings already suck down this amount and more.
“The grid overall can’t take 1MW”
So, the 1,000 MW nuclear reactor can’t provide 1MW? How about a reactor station with 4 units cranking 4000 MW? How about we add another 1000 in renewables? How about another 800MW with a single gas turbine? How about adding roof solar and a battery bank below ground for the charging station to supplement the power? We haven’t even touched hydro or geo yet. Making power is not a problem, and we’ll build out the power as we need it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
A relationship is a commitment. Once you have a partner, the two of you work together as one. If you do not maintain this cohesion, it will fall apart. You can’t have an “unrelationship”. That won’t work for long.
- Comment on Grandmother gets X-rated message after Apple AI fail. 1 month ago:
Visual Voicemail has been a thing for literal decades. The older ai models (before they were called such) were even more jank
- Comment on You guys have to end it 1 month ago:
Stupid is as stupid does. A significant portion of trucking accidents involve the truck driver missing a cue because they were mid gear change.
While it is good to have a person learn to drive stick, it is really hard to get people to learn how to drive if they have zero interest in actually learning how to be a driver, no matter what transmission.
I personally like dual clutch transmissions and daily’ed a car to 175k miles with one, yet I went out of my way to find a manual version of my current car.
- Comment on DeepSeek brings disruption to AI-optimized parallel file systems, releases powerful new open-source Fire-Flyer File System 1 month ago:
TLDR: 3FS prioritizes random reads and does away with a read cache entirely to optimize for performance with random read speed.
It functions in a similar manner to BeeGFS.
The lack of a read cache may be less useful for consumers, as this is hyper optimizing for datacenter-level NAS.
- Comment on Thousands of exposed GitHub repos, now private, can still be accessed through Copilot 1 month ago:
Github is for open source, use gitlab or self host for private code
- Comment on China’s Salt Typhoon Spies Are Still Hacking Telecoms—Now by Exploiting Cisco Routers 2 months ago:
Almost as if those “backdoors only for the good guys” ideas are bad ideas afterall…
something something leopards and faces
- Comment on Damn Okarun 2 months ago:
A victim of an unfortunate smelting accident…
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills 2 months ago:
Garbage in, Garbage out. Ingesting all that internet blather didn’t make the ai smarter by much if anything.
- Comment on Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Announce Trailer 2 months ago:
Me hoping for a PC release
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 months ago:
Ironically, the Aztek is way better, despite its age…
- Comment on FreeBSD On Laptops Effort Gets Proof-Of-Concept Intel 802.11 a/b/g WiFi Working 2 months ago:
Great news, if it was 2004 when this hardware was actually in use…
- Comment on Avoid ISP Routers - RouterSecurity.org 2 months ago:
RIP AT&T users, who not only can’t use their own routers for fiber, but have to put up with AT&T’s stupid ipv6 implementation that follows no standards regarding subnetting.
- Comment on Mass Effect 2 Celebrates 15th Anniversary 2 months ago:
Third game turns it around - those guys are the bad guys, they always have been. The second game was an “enemy mine” kind of situation. Not every fascist is facist for facism’s sake. A lot of them think they’re saving tbe world. You, as the player, make sure they get what’s coming to hem.
- Comment on Lemon wine and orange wine 2 months ago:
Whatever you do, do not put these next to the urine samples
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 3 months ago:
The 1880’s
- Comment on Microsoft warns Windows 11 install media bug blocks future security updates 3 months ago:
Back in the Windows XP days, not geting security updates was a death sentence for a pc. Even on a dialup internet, it only took minutes to get infected.
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 4 months ago:
…and that’s why you don’t use car navigation in airplane mode.
