knightly
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- Comment on China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport. 1 week ago:
It was big news 75 years ago too.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 1 week ago:
You can deny it all you want, but profits still = income - expenses.
Every dollar paid to a shareholder is a dollar stolen from someone who works for a living.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 1 week ago:
You literally just did: feddit.org/comment/6103029
- Comment on What the AI Obsession Tells Us About Our Own Society 1 week ago:
I’m sorry to hear that, if everything is political to you I imagine you must be experiencing a very hard life situation.
I fit the stereotype of the cynical old anarchist to a tee.
I don’t have a reason to make it all political because in my country we have a lot of support from the Gov.
So, you’re saying it is all explicitly political but you get to pretend that it isn’t because… why, exactly?
impair the creative process
Not for me. It was a tool to help me execute my creativity a lot like photoshop. I didn’t had to spend 3/4 days modeling.
Sounds to me like you missed out on 3/4 days of creating artwork and are allowing your creative skills to atrophy just like how people’s critical thinking skills deteriorate when they let LLMs do the thinking for them.
copyright infringement
Well I don’t have a word here because I pirate shows, movies, book etc. Have you ever?!
I’m a furry. We pay our artists very well for their work and get extremely pissed when corporations try to use it without permission or compensation.
asshole bosses
My boss can’t really do that in my country because we have strict labour laws and very powerful unions, if that is not your experience your country should vote better
For who? The only options on the ballot here are all anti-union.
I’d be dosappointed
well besides the fact that you suck the joy out of a fun gift,
One of my partners collects those cheap vinyl figurines that get made of everything. He has never once had fun with them.
you are focusing on the bad side of tech but a lot of good can come from it.
Ah yes, a lot of good can come from making more cheap, flammable tchotchkes to clutter up our houses with.
In the 90s we didn’t had DNA technology and new tech + great minds, turned it possible to identify dead bodies, find missing people and murderes, Identify disorders and other genetc problems, and not to mention CRISPR tech that literally cure some cancers and save people. We wouldn’t have all that with only bright minds we also need to support them with technology.
Lol, sounds like someone is wandering off topic.
Again if you experience with new tech is so negative, and if “everything is political” to you may be that it’s not a tech problem but a life problem
… Please re-read this thing you just wrote, because a “life problem” is exactly what politics is.
and I really am sorry about that, but again not everyone has the same life experience.
I already have to live in a society filled with people like you, you can tolerate a brief reminder that there are people like me. Just accept the fact that we do not share values and move on.
- Comment on What the AI Obsession Tells Us About Our Own Society 1 week ago:
I think it’s more likely that I have a fundamentally different set of values.
- Comment on What the AI Obsession Tells Us About Our Own Society 1 week ago:
Everything is political, especially new technology. We can’t have a real conversation about generative models without talking about how they impair the creative process, devalue the very concept of art, and are themselves the product of mass copyright infringement, to say nothing of the economic bubble of their overinvestment or all the people being put out of work by asshole bosses who still think they can replace them with LLMs and GANs.
I do genuinely hope that your brother was delighted by your gift, but I’d be disappointed in my brother if he gifted such a thing to me. A handwritten letter would show more care and attention than a computationally-derived and automatically-fabricated figurine.
- Comment on They're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs. 1 week ago:
The Favela lifestyle would probably improve a lot of Americans. Forced to live in the cramped confines of a slum, conservatives might suddenly find out that they have bigger problems than the existence of trans people.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 1 week ago:
Where else do you imagine dividends come from?
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 1 week ago:
Employees and customers, just like every corporation ever.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 1 week ago:
It’s not for the communities, it’s for the shareholders-to-come.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 1 week ago:
It’s not really for communities either, it’s for locking communities into a corporate platform.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 week ago:
When accused of crimes, deflect by admitting to even bigger crimes.
- Comment on What the AI Obsession Tells Us About Our Own Society 1 week ago:
If you could imagine it, you wouldn’t have to ask a robot to imagine it for you.
I also work in “cyber” and my mind only gets blown by how the infinite possibilities have been constrained to those which generate profits for middlemen and how the only processes that get fast-tracked are the ones designed to squeeze more profit out of the same customer base.
- Comment on xkcd #3077: de Sitter 1 week ago:
Yup! That saddle is a shape of constant negative curvature. On a toroid, the inside of the hole would have negagive curvature and the outside would have positive curvature.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 1 week ago:
The UK made an invisible weapon?
- Comment on xkcd #3077: de Sitter 1 week ago:
Spheres are examples of surfaces with positive curvature. Negative curvature (where the angles of a triangle add up to less than 180 degrees) is represented by this saddle shape:
- Comment on Off-grid hosting 2 weeks ago:
This is entirely doable, but you may need to do some manual network configuration.
- Comment on What if there is an equal alien civilization also incapable of light speed travel but developed a telescope that could view planets like ours. 2 weeks ago:
Alternatively, they could get useful resolution if they had a telescope the size of the solar system, something that’s doable with interferometry.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 2 weeks ago:
Tariffs are normal, they encourage a strong local economy that doesn’t get screwed over by a dominant economy that decides to use the trade relationship against the local economy
But America was that dominant economy, right up until the tarrifs were imposed. Now it’s more like we’re brexiting ourselves.
- Comment on What are people from Moscow and Versailles called? 3 weeks ago:
Muscovites and Versaillians.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 3 weeks ago:
0, and I’ve done 4 of these in the last year.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 4 weeks ago:
Or having a button to refresh RSS feeds.
- Comment on Revolt's language options 5 weeks ago:
I’d presume the check mark means the language pack is available locally and the warning sign means it’s probably missing some localization strings.
- Comment on Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works 5 weeks ago:
I think it comes from the right place, though. Anything that’s smart enough to do actual work deserves the same rights to it as anyone else does.
It’s best that we get the legal system out ahead of the inevitable development of sentient software before Big Tech starts simulating scanned human brains for a truly captive workforce. I, for one, do not cherish the thought of any digital afterlife where virtual people do not own themselves.
- Comment on It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning. 1 month ago:
Yeah, once you know to look for gaze-directing design you’ll start seeing it everywhere. In movies and shows especially, a big factor in cinematography lies in how well the director can lead the audience’s focus.
- Comment on It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning. 1 month ago:
To oversimplify, it makes the image seem more balanced.
The audience for this image is folks who can read English and are therefore habituated to parse text and images from left to right. By having the hand-shaker on the left use their distant hand, they avoid becoming the dominant figure in the image, thus emphasizing the figure on the right and leading the eye toward it.
- Comment on What are the democrats actually doing to help? 2 months ago:
Pretend they are Republicans and start breaking the rules.
- Comment on place yer bets 2 months ago:
In short, we already have a plan. DART proved that we can do it, and off-the-shelf rockets like the Falcon 9 have plenty of performance. All that remains is to wait until early 2028 when we get a proper fix on the asteroid, then we’ve got 7 or 8 months to prep and launch a mission before the window of opportunity closes.
- Comment on place yer bets 2 months ago:
Well, yeah. Deflecting an impact that’s scheduled 4 years in the future wouldn’t take much force and we did it once before with the DART mission. We can just do that again in the months between when the asteroid comes back around and when it flies past us.
- Comment on place yer bets 2 months ago:
We’ll get a better idea of whether it’ll hit or not in 2028 the next time it passes close to earth, which will give us plenty of time to respond before it might hit in 2032.
