MinFapper

@MinFapper@startrek.website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some stores require you to use the app for order pickup.

  Sounds like a store to avoid like the plague.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube creator sues Nvidia and OpenAI for ‘unjust enrichment’ for using their videos for AI training⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, before the invention of the camera, the most valuable and most popular creative skill was replicating people on canvas as realistically as possible. Yes, we remember famous exceptions like Picasso, but by sheer number of paintings the most common were portraits of rich people.

  After the cameras took that job away, prevailing art changed to become more abstract and “creative”. But that still pissed off a lot of people that had spent a very long time honing a skill that was now no longer in demand.

  What we’re seeing is a similar shift. I think future generations of artists will value color theory, composition, etc. over specific brush stroke techniques. AI will make art much more accessible once enough time has passed for AI assisted art to be considered art. Make no mistake: it will always be people that actually create the art - AI will just reduce/remove the grunt work so they can focus more on creativity.

  Now, whether billion dollar corporations deserve to exploit the labor of millions of people is a whole separate conversation, but tl;dr: they don’t, but they’re going to because there is little to stop them in correct economic/governance models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope. I work for Microsoft and I can assure you that any effort I make to increase code quality or reduce jank (or anything other than shoving more AI in there) will not affect my bonus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s unfortunate, but AI image generators will make exactly what you want, royalty free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A better comparison would be an iPhone. Apple has locked that down so much that it’s impossible to install something like CrowdStrike falcon, thus it’s not possible for something like this to happen.

  Microsoft is saying if the EU would let them, they too could lock down their platform enough to prevent this from happening.

  However, I would prefer to maintain control over my device and do what I want with it, instead of just what Apple/Microsoft want; even if that means I might break my device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could absolutely install software on Windows 3.5 that would crash the system.