I_Has_A_Hat
@I_Has_A_Hat@startrek.website
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Oh so you have seen it and fully understand it then. Got it. Thanks for your contribution.
- Comment on Xbox Slammed For AI-Generated Art Promoting Indie Games 10 months ago:
Every artist uses copyrighted images to learn how to create their own work. Just because AI does it better and faster doesn’t make that any different.
- Comment on Xbox Slammed For AI-Generated Art Promoting Indie Games 10 months ago:
I see literally zero problems here. Did they have a contract with an artist? They didn’t? Well then it sounds like they have no obligation to use a real artist.
AI art is here to stay, and companies will be using it heavily. It’s ignorant to think they would choose otherwise. Why pay an artist to make an image you may not even like over the course of a few days when you could get hundreds of images to choose from in a few seconds using AI? It’s 1000 times easier and more convenient.
- Comment on Xbox Slammed For AI-Generated Art Promoting Indie Games 10 months ago:
AND WELCOMED TO THE JAM!
- Comment on Locking myself out of the Ghost achievement in Dishonored, I might have made the game more enjoyable to me by accident 10 months ago:
I wish there was an option to just disable all achievements
Piracy
- Comment on I wish someone would flush already... 10 months ago:
The man showed up his first day as Twitter CEO literally carrying a sink. That’s about as subtle as a brick to the face.
- Comment on Hackers steal NFTs worth millions. In other news, NFTs worth millions. 10 months ago:
Not to mention they usually count the weight of whatever they’re in too. See a big news story about the cops seizing tons of product at a port? Well they’re including the shipping container weight.
- Comment on Hackers steal NFTs worth millions. In other news, NFTs worth millions. 10 months ago:
What insurance company would be braindead enough to insure NFTs?
- Comment on SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant 10 months ago:
Iowa is pretty flat, it’s not hard to run cable across flat land. Try doing that in a mountainous area like Montana or Utah and it gets much trickier.
- Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable. 10 months ago:
“And now on the Democrat line, we have Bubba from Florida”
“Yea I’m one of them woke liberals and I think all us woke liberals need to get good with Jesus and start worshiping the one true savior, Donald Trump. Also, fuck them illegal immigrants!!”
- Comment on Vintage Animation Shooter Mouse Gets New Gameplay Trailer And 2025 Release Window 11 months ago:
Steamboat Willie enters public domain on January 1st.
- Comment on What the hell! Let's all just go crazy! 11 months ago:
The Channel Lock Lets Boats Through
Now in French:
E a’el oh es oas trou
- Comment on Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos 11 months ago:
where companies can’t sell an LLM product with copyrighted training data.
If an artist learns their technique from copying other artists until they are competent enough to produce their own original works, should they be banned from selling their original work or services? After all, they used copyrighted training data to gain the skills needed to produce said work and services.
- Comment on PlayStation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries | The change comes as Warner Bros. tries to add subscribers to Max, Discovery+ apps. 11 months ago:
Dirty Jobs, Cash Cab, Future Weapons
- Comment on should i?? 11 months ago:
Let’s say 40% of people in the US will use a q-tip at some point during the course of a year. That’s 136 million people. 12.5K injuries would be .009%.
So again, rules written for people too fucking stupid to know not to jam them in as far as they can. And yea, kids are included in that. Kids are fucking stupid.
None of this means that q-tips are remotely dangerous for anyone with even a small amount of common sense.
- Comment on should i?? 11 months ago:
Ah yes, warnings written to protect the .02% of users who are too fucking stupid to know not to shove them in as far as possible.
- Comment on Gonna need a few rewrites 11 months ago:
They had no idea what they wanted to do with Ferengi in this episode. By the end, they are downright feral. Wearing furs and jumping around screaming like cavemen. After watching them in later episodes, this one just feels really weird to see.
- Comment on The perfect marriage 11 months ago:
So what’s the deal with Keiko? Was she intentionally written to be an awful wife? She frequently holds double standards, is lukewarm to O’Brian at the best of times, and constantly acts like she’s just in a marriage of convenience. I honestly can’t recall a single time she ever showed genuine affection for O’Brian. It’s like she expected him to die long ago to get Starfleet’s widow benefits, and every day he’s still alive she resents him for it.
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 11 months ago:
Why is a bike not on this list? Fuck a vehicle that needs gas, give me some pedal powe.
- Comment on Hummingbird feet 11 months ago:
we have no idea what makes it do that
Isn’t it the alignment of molecules in a material so that their electrical charges are all oriented in the same direction, thus attracting the opposite charged ions of other molecules in other objects towards the corresponding side of the magnet material? That’s why magnetism only affects materials like iron where the molecules naturally form in a uniform orientation during it’s transition from solid to liquid, and not other material that has a more random orientation.
I mean, I guess when you really boil it down, there may still be some question as to why positively charged ions are attracted to negatively charged ions in the first place. But then we’re getting into quantum mechanics which is way deeper of an answer than a grade schooler would be looking for and so far down the rabbit hole that making a claim like “we dont know how magnets work” is only true in the technical sense. And by that, I mean it holds as much truth as “we don’t know how anything works”.
- Comment on "Earth-like" 11 months ago:
I hate the term earth-like when all they really mean is rocky surface with signs of maybe water.
Nevermind if it’s a frozen wasteland. Nevermind if it’s atmosphere is made of sulphuric acid like Venus. Nevermind if it’s so close to it’s star that it’s tidally locked and half of it is a constant inferno. It’s “earth-like”!
- Comment on The library where my wife works is having a Black Friday sale. 11 months ago:
I wish I could. Sadly my local library has been taken over by homeless people doing drugs.
- Comment on Black Friday not the cheapest time to shop, says consumer group 11 months ago:
Long story short, don’t shop on Black Friday for deals in electronics.
Note, this does not apply if you use responsible stores like Micro Center.
- Comment on Second SpaceX Starship launch ends with explosion. What happens next? 11 months ago:
Retrieved, not reused.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 11 months ago:
No, that’s fundamentally breaking the 7 inch limit.
In that scenario, both your hand and foot would have traveled more than 7 inches. They would have traveled 7 PLUS the pre-teleport distance between your hand and foot. That’s the same distance every part of your body would have traveled.
It doesn’t matter how you cut it, or how you define “you”. You would be teleporting more than 7 inches.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 11 months ago:
7 inches is enough to get through any doorway.
But not necessarily your whole body. Unless you are a beanpole and your entire body is less than 7" thick, part of your body is going to be stuck in the door.
- Comment on Landlords Throw Party to Celebrate Being Able to Evict People Again 11 months ago:
You bought it in the fucking 90’s when a bank loan required a high school degree and a firm handshake. Yea, I’m so sure you “worked your ass off” and your property value hasn’t increased by 10x since then.
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 11 months ago:
I have over 1600 hours in Binding of Isaac.
- Comment on and they're gonna pay 11 months ago:
Those bastards lied to me
Yes, that is the plot to Jurassic Park.
- Comment on It's not just about facts: Democrats and Republicans have sharply different attitudes about removing misinformation from social media 1 year ago:
But where do you draw the line? Sure, microchips in vaccines is one thing, but what about simply warning people the vaccine doesn’t stop the spread of disease? During the pandemic, that would get you crucified, except now it turns out it really isn’t very effective at stopping transmission.
I was and am pro vax. It saves lives. But I’m also not going to pretend there wasn’t a weird animosity towards anyone saying anything contrary to the official, government sponsored, talking points during the pandemic. People were vilified for suggesting the virus came from a lab. Or that masks weren’t as effective as we were making it out to be. Or that the tests were producing false results.
It’s all well and good to say people shouldn’t spread falsehoods, but sometimes the lines of what’s true are blurred through the lens of hindsight when they seemed so clear in the moment.