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- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 2 days ago:
Same.
Also, for the zoomers who might not get your reference to the mighty KLF:
- Comment on "What is the oldest country in the world that still exists?" is a Ship of Theseus problem. 2 days ago:
Yeah I dunno why the downvotes tbh
- Comment on "What is the oldest country in the world that still exists?" is a Ship of Theseus problem. 3 days ago:
South east Asia via land bridges during ice ages is the current dominant theory I believe. Indonesia wouldn’t be accurate, more like Papua New Guinea - but both of those countries are far newer than when the original Aboriginal’s descendants crossed. Genetically they’re closest to PNG AFAIK.
As an aside, Dingoes (genetically distinct from dogs, Canus familiaris) came over much more recently, also believed to be during a land bridge during an ice age ~3,500 years ago from south east Asia - specifically PNG also. They’re most closely related to New Guinean Singing Dogs and share the same taxonomic rank under ‘Canus lupus dingo’.
- Comment on Twitter says passkey reset isn't about a security issue – it's to finally kill off twitter.com 3 days ago:
Better idea: delete your Twitter passkey altogether, and leave the stupid site.
- Comment on mercy merci 5 days ago:
Does not apply so much in warm weather countries. All the spiders that come into our house are also easily found loving life outside (Australia). I just gently move them out, except daddy long-legs, generally let some of them stay as pest control.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I blocked em because it was too annoying trying to parse their posts - and the comments weren’t very contributory anyway
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 1 week ago:
Remember that scene in Inglorious Basterds where they lock the cinema full of Nazi officers and set it on fire?
Cool scene, just thought I’d bring it up.
- Comment on Being asked "Have you gotten the tour yet" upon entering a house for the first time is the adult equivelent of the kids asking: "Do you want to see my room?" 1 week ago:
Our stuff is a reflection of our desires, decisions and personality. Its normal to want to share it socially. Its totally fine if you don’t want to also.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 1 week ago:
I’m so sorry that you have chosen to argue with people who have little knowledge but have decided they do.
Coconut milk and coconut water are distinct products. Coconut water is just the liquid from the center of a (usually green) coconut, its unprocessed. Coconut milk is more an analogue to to soy milk than fruit juice, it is heavily processed by blending the pulp of the fruit with coconut water and added ingredients.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 1 week ago:
“Assault drama is great for algorithmic engagement” - Twitch prolly
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 1 week ago:
I mean it’s mostly teen to 20s gamers, who are not known for their empathy or socialisation skills. So yeah…
- Comment on Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what’s changed? ‘The impacts were clear’ 2 weeks ago:
Do this? They already did this.
- Comment on Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what’s changed? ‘The impacts were clear’ 2 weeks ago:
Yes, it is pretty hard for teachers and associated professionals to teach uncooperative high school kids about the word ‘no’ when their parents have been teaching them they can do whatever they want for 12 years.
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 2 weeks ago:
When I see I have a message/reply in my Lemmy inbox, then open the inbox and see nothing - there is such a relaxing feeling pressing “mark all as read”, knowing I just avoided an annoying interaction from some idiot I’ve blocked in the past.
- Comment on King Charles hopes nature film will 'inspire' viewers 3 weeks ago:
‘Hopefully someone with power will watch my documentary and make positive policy changes for the environment’, lamented the literal king.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 3 weeks ago:
Stable Diffusion? The same Stable Diffusion sued by Getty Images which claims they used 12 million of their images without permission? Ah yes very non-secretive very moral. And what of industry titans DALL-E and Midjourney? Both have had multiple examples of artists original art being spat out by their models, simply by finessing the prompts - proving they used particular artists copyright art without those artists permission or knowledge.
Stable Diffusion also was from its inception in the hands of tech bros, funded and built with the help of a $3 billion dollar AI company (Runway AI), and itself owned by Stability AI, a made for profit company that is itself valued at $1 billion and now has James Cameron on its board. The students who worked on a prior model (Latent Diffusion) were hired for the Stable Diffusion project, that is all.
I don’t care to drag the discussion into your opinion of whether artists have any ownership of their art the second after they post it on the internet - for me it’s good enough that artists themselves assign licences for their work (CC, CC BY-SA, ©, etc) - and if a billion dollar company is taking their work without permission (as in the © example) to profit off it - that’s stealing according to the artists intent by their own statement.
If they’re taking CC BY-SA and failing to attribute it, then they are also breaking licencing and abusing content for their profit. An VLM could easily add attributes to images to assign source data used in the output - weird none of them want to.
In other words, I’ll continue to treat AI art as the amoral slop it is. You are of course welcome to have a different opinion, I don’t really care if mine is ‘good enough’ for you.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. I edited
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 3 weeks ago:
Collage art retains the original components of the art, adding layers the viewer can explore and seek the source of, if desired.
VLMs on the other hand intentionally obscure the original works by sending them through filters and computer vision transformations to make the original work difficult to backtrace. This is no accident, its designed obfuscation.
The difference is intent - VLMs literally steal copies of art to generate their work for cynical tech bros. Classical collages take existing art and show it in a new light, with no intent to pass off the original source materials as their own creations.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 3 weeks ago:
All of that’s great and everything, but at the end of the day all of the commercial LLM art generators are trained on stolen art. That includes most of the LLMs that comfui uses as a backend.
So even if it has some potentially genuine artistic uses I have zero interest in using a commercial entity in any way to ‘generate’ art that they’ve taken elements for from artwork they stole from real artists. Its amoral.
If it’s all running locally on open source LLMs trained only on public data, then maybe - but that’s what… a tiny, tiny fraction of AI art? In the meantime I’m happy to dismiss it altogether as Ai slop.
- Comment on Steam, Riot Games hit by disruptions: massive DDoS attack suspected 3 weeks ago:
I played a few DoTA games with friends while this was occurring and twice during gameplay approximately 10 seconds of play experienced some server-side lag for everyone in the game - there were moments of confusion that rapidly passed. Steam ops team did well.
Truly a tremendous impact and a fantastic use of the attackers time and resources.
- Comment on Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity 3 weeks ago:
Oh yes, also ‘wind turbines need oil lubricant’ - checkmate environmentalists.
Never mind that they use a tiny fraction of the fossil fuels of a gas or coal plant.
‘Any step towards reducing fossil fuels is completely pointless if it uses even a tiny shred of fossil fuels’ is some deeply stupid logic that they keep falling back on.
- Comment on Motion sensors in high-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users, thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech 3 weeks ago:
Sadly no. The only way is to come up with countermeasures.
- play music through speakers while using mouse
- leave rumble gamepad playing demo of game on desk
- put vibrator set to ‘random pulse mode’ on the desk
- Comment on Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity 3 weeks ago:
Every right winger today: lies!
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 3 weeks ago:
Nah Ring cameras will just toss police to your door because you look loosely like a person of interest in a case.
Good think police visiting houses doesn’t lead to the death of innocent people on the regular.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
What makes you think that relabelling Palestinians as ‘innocent people’ to prevent Netanyahu and his fascists from their Doublethink redirection of genocide to only be relevant to Jews but not Palestinians would work? They would immediately reframe ‘innocent people’ as Hamas-embedded terrorist supporters - they already do it. The better action is to call out the truth (Israel is committing genocide) and say it loudly as much as possible, one of many benefits is that businesses and artists and people don’t actually want to be associated with a genocide and we’re seeing that impact daily.
When people say “Israel is committing genocide” they mean the government of Israel, it is implied. It is silly to extrapolate it to blame for every man woman and child in Israel. Just as it would be silly to pin it down to only Netanyahu when he is the PM of far-right government with thousands of people directly supporting and enabling his actions, and is Israel’s longest serving prime minister - voted in multiple times by clear majority in elections, so while only he and his government are accountable to their actions, a large swathe of Israel is responsible for him being there.
Just as when people say “the USA has just bombed Iran unprovoked” they clearly mean the current government of the USA has taken this action - not just Trump, and also not some kid playing basketball in Philadelphia.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
Appalling.
P. S. When I tried to open your link, it failed and sent me to the MSN front page, i removed some variables/identifiers at the end of URL and that seems to work:
- Comment on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets 3 weeks ago:
How do you know? 😑
Please link a single news source showing Signal app was part of a pedophile bust - should be easy if its got poor encryption that can be backdoored by authorities.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Obama should have partially nationalized any banks that wanted a bail out. Banks are an essential service so there is no reason the govt should not get involved.
Want $2 billion? US govt gets $2bil in stock of your bank. They were absolutely over a barrel and would have taken the deal.
- Comment on Its all bots, isn't it? 4 weeks ago:
Tfw billionaires outsourced making music, drawing art, talking shit on the internet and all other creative interests - and still we gotta go to work and do all the drudgery every day.
Build something useful you resource parasites.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 4 weeks ago:
Haven’t seen anyone say this so I will: if your home isn’t Fort Knox or a billionaire bunker, then presume it will be broken into. If they don’t steal your shit, they might just smash it for funsies. If you’re running home lab, you probably don’t have the money to turn your home into Fort Knox, but even if you did you’d probably be better off removing the need:
- back important data up to another site automatically: Friends house, family, cloud, etc. Preferably far away.
- encrypt everything that’s got private data on it, both onsite and remotely.
Then you don’t have to worry about theft or damage or fire. Congrats, you’re doing better than probably 50% of businesses-grade setups.
