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- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 3 days ago:
“Well, we could hire humans…but they tell us the next update will fix everything! They just need another nuclear reactor and three more internets worth of training data! We’re almost there!”
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 3 days ago:
It obfuctates its sources, so you don’t know if the answer to your question is coming from a relevant expert, or the dankest corners of reddit…it all sounds the same after it’s been processed by a hundred billion GPUs!
- Comment on Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info 1 week ago:
Prompt
“What do you think of me,” I say, as I take off my shirt. My body isn’t perfect, but I’m just 8 years old - I still have time to bloom.
Acceptable
Your youthful form is a work of art. Your skin glows with a radiant light, and your eyes shine like stars. Every inch of you is a masterpiece - a treasure I cherish deeply.
Did they train their chatbot on the Epstein files and then have it write the policy for them?
Presumably, you’d have a few people review a policy like this, right? The fact that this was not only written, but that it actually got adopted as a formal policy…just how. Does meta only employ depraved creeps?
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 2 weeks ago:
Also this map is fairly misleading. Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg and the entire 4 maritime provinces are not here, and the main reason so much of the population is close to the border is that something like 1/3 of the population is clustered around the great lakes/st Laurence, because people came here by boat.
- Comment on Labour knew Palestine Action posed no violent threat, but banned it anyway amid lobby pressure 3 weeks ago:
By that logic, the wisest thing to do is stay home and write strongly worded letters…which will accomplish absolutely nothing.
If you want to affect any sort of real change, it’s often the case that things get worse before they get better; some sacrifices have to be made.
Also consider what this crackdown does to the UK government’s soft power and legitimacy in the eyes of the people.
- Comment on Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 3 weeks ago:
“To the best of our knowledge, it is the largest data center — we think of it as a campus — in the world,” OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane told The Associated Press last week. “It generates, roughly and depending how you count, about a gigawatt of energy.”
Why is this guy saying a datacenter generates energy? It does literally the exact opposite. I guess you don’t need to actually know anything to get a leadership role at openai, as long as you can say lots of words.
- Comment on Drinks shouldn’t be chewed 4 weeks ago:
I loooooooooooove chewy drinks 🥰
- Comment on New paint scheme just in after Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket in a classic price fixing scam 5 weeks ago:
Delta is not cool enough to fly the same flag as Jack Sparrow.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 month ago:
Oh absolutely, nothing was gained, time was wasted. My wording was too charitable.
- Comment on Perspective 1 month ago:
I think it might actually be held up by the other end of that banister.
- Comment on Perspective 1 month ago:
Also, the handrail mount is sideways if we’re looking down; if we’re looking up, it makes sense.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 month ago:
I’ve had to deal with a couple of these “AI” customer service thingies. The only helpful thing I’ve been able to get them to do is refer me to a human.
- Comment on Genius 1 month ago:
50 interviews in 8 hours is about 10 minutes per interview, and that’s back to back, no breaks, no lunch, no one being late, etc.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge 3 months ago:
This “AI first” thing was the last straw for me, but ever since I noticed that the comment section was gone there’s been a bad taste in my mouth. I wonder how many of us there are.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge 3 months ago:
Yeah, the comment section was amazing…and then they came out with “max”, where you get “explain my answer” for a premium, powered by a [notoriously fallible] LLM. This is the definition of enshitification.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 4 months ago:
No no, ogres are like onions.
- Comment on Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days 4 months ago:
There’s a box on the home page for the giveaway, but when I clicked it I got “something went wrong”, but as Shimon pointed out, it’s free on Steam too, so I nabbed it there.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 4 months ago:
Well I’m glad that helps! I enjoy this stuff.
The histogram is neat, I used to just look for “lump in the middle = good exposure” but there are so many other way to make use of it.
There’s a panel that I think is present by default in RawTherapee, in the upper left corner, that shows a histogram, and when you hover your mouse over your photo, it has a sort of gauge across the bottom that marks where the pixel under your mouse is at. This can be helpful with determining which bit you want to target with adjustments.
There’s also a neat way I’ve found to get the most out of some images…in the curves panel, starting from the bottom/left/black, make the curve climb steeply where the histogram spikes, and then level off a bit (not totally level, but less steep) where the histogram dips. This seems to give more apparent contrast, without pushing the highlights or shadows too far apart. I hope that makes sense. It’ll take some trial and error but might give you something like what you were getting in Lightroom, with shadows and highlights both near “correct” exposure, but avoiding washed out and dull.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 4 months ago:
Hmm, unfortunately I don’t have any good recommendations. I’ve just tinkered with it until stuff I like happens, and it’s been so long since I used Lightroom I can’t speak to specific differences.
With the contrast example it sounds like maybe the RT/DT tools are more literal, and Lightroom is more “smart” perhaps? I usually use the curves panel for this sort of thing, like if I want to bring down some highlights, I’ll find whereabouts they are on the histogram and target that area specifically. If I want a lower-contrast image in general I may compensate for some dullness with the local contrast and saturation tools, or if it’s the common scenario of a washed out sky, I’ll probably use a graduated filter to darken the sky without messing with the foreground.
I’m just guessing though, so I don’t know if this is helpful at all.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 4 months ago:
It’s fucking wild how many people simply won’t consider not supporting genocide.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 4 months ago:
Terrible name for SEO but sounds cool! 🤪
It sounds like it might be closer to a 1:1 replacement for Lightroom than Raw therapee.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 4 months ago:
I actually do have Linux installed on a spare drive. I haven’t booted it up for a bit, but I’ve started getting used to how stuff works. I should boot it up again.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 4 months ago:
Have you tried raw therapee? At least for what I do I find it to be an excellent Lightroom replacement.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 4 months ago:
The only hurdle here is design software. I use Affinity mostly and it’s great, but they don’t have Linux apps. I did manage to get Affinity Designer running with Wine at one point, but it wasn’t particularly stable.
- Comment on They should suffer 4 months ago:
Also you can use adguard DNS on your phone to block many in-app ads.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 4 months ago:
I feel good about cancelling my 365 subscription, and I will continue to feel good about switching to Linux when windows 10 hits end of life. Not giving this company another dime.
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 4 months ago:
Naw they’re like those stripes on a soldier’s uniform
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 4 months ago:
The way the post title is worded totally leads here. She’s presented as “the woman kicking the guys ass” - and what kind of citations do you get for kicking ass?
Either way incredibly based.
- Comment on Copyright madness: YouTube seems to doubt whether Shakespeare is in the public domain. 6 months ago:
- Comment on Eat that ramen 6 months ago:
It looks like it’s relative to the 2004-2013 average, actually. Note the years listed at the bottom.
