It was always fucking terrible. Always problematic. This isn’t a ‘modern lens’ thing. This is asshole white edgelords trying to be ‘cute’. Fuck those guys.
It’s so sad that I can no longer share my photos online without also involuntarily training future #AI models.
I’ve been playing with #Nightshade to “poison” my images against training, but the tool introduces quite a lot of distortion and artifacts that grate on my nerves. I guess this is the immediate future for us, until someone discovers a way to poison images in a way that is less visible to humans.
Here’s an example. The first image is an original, and the second is one that has been poisoned by Nightshade.
The third is one poisoned to a “low” degree. It’s OKAY—it’s not great, but it’s not as bad. I wonder how effective a “low” setting is versus a “default” setting.
@drahardja back in the day, I wouldn’t export anything larger than 500px by 500px to prevent folks harvesting and printing them. I’ve pretty much stopped posting my photographs (rando snaps on here notwithstanding), as I’m just so tired of having shit exploited.
I am once again betting that the #SCOTUS will not grant Trump immunity, because a. it is patently absurd for all its implications, but more importantly because b. it writes the SCOTUS out of a job. By giving the President immunity, the SCOTUS effectively cedes a huge part of its potential power. I don’t think they are ready to do that.
Having said that, it’s pretty clear that SCOTUS is corrupt and stuffed full of Trump sympathizers. What I think will happen is they will rule against Trump, but in such a way that it doesn’t interfere with Trump’s chances of winning the 2024 election, maybe with delays, or by calling any other decisions (like the Stormy Daniels case) temporarily into question.
@andrewabernathy@drahardja the founding fathers never assumed a bad actor could be in the driver’s seat.
Of course, a lot of the current powers of the president are relatively new things. There was also much more of a hard separation between each branches… almost adversarial. Over time congress granted the president more power.
@jensimmons I think the thing I thought I understood but according to your demos I clearly do not… How do I predict which column an element will fall?
In my head, I thought (given L-R/T-B std. western orientation) that the content would propagate left to right, and would 'float' to abut the element above it. (ex: 4 columns, elements 1,2,3,4… element 5 will always appear under element 1, regardless of 1's height, 6 under 2, etc.)
But this doesn't seem to be the case according to your demo.
I'm trying to pay my Virginia income taxes online, and they have disabled paste in any field of consequence. Paste in a password? Nope. Your bank's routing number? You're gonna have to hand-key that. Your bank account number? You better believe you're typing that in.
If you wanted to force people to create crappy passwords and cause them to accidentally siphon money out of strangers' bank accounts, this is how you'd do it. And somebody went to extra effort to make it be like this!
With all due respect, Denise didn’t give the show long enough to turn Tasha into anything but a “token blonde”. Yar’s character showed promise but we’ll never know what the writers could have done with her because she left. In the very first season. https://meta.masto.host/@GamingNews/112264913798622479
@gedeonm@GamingNews also, even in that first season she was very NOT there for sex appeal. She was always in full uniform, unlike cleavage-to-the-navel Troi, or casually dressed ‘librarian hot’ Crusher. She was kinda tomboy/lesbian coded.
👏🏻The #Biden administration announced $7.4 billion more in #StudentLoan cancellations, bringing its total of such debt relief to $153 billion. The administration said the 277,000 people it identified would be notified by email on Friday -NYT
@GottaLaff why does that feel like it’s a scam? Maybe it’s the ‘will be notified by email’ part. We’ve been trained for so long to reject things similar to that. You’d think they would send official postal mail.
@GottaLaff I’m not saying it is. My reasoning was in my reply. For 30+ years we’ve been taught about phishing attacks and they’re going to send out an email to people basically telling them the answer to their prayers has happened.
Neither Vision Pro nor Humane's Ai Pin are 'the future’, but they’re both showcasing aspects that will /become/ the future. A pair of glasses, running an OS like visionOS, with advanced multimodal AI smarts. That's the next product that can truly change the world, something anybody and everybody can wear all day every day, and give the smartphone a run for its money; what we have now are science projects — really cool science projects — but science projects nonetheless
@stroughtonsmith Remember when companies had research divisions? Maybe not everything half (or less) baked needs to be thrust into the public for general consumption.
Turning the masses into alpha testers (and having them pay for the privilege) stinks.
About 5 mins into the show, they put the #AIDS crisis front and centre. It was such a horrible time. It was the No. 1 killer of people 25-44 throughout the 90s. AZT came out in the late 80s, but it was expensive, had horrible side-effects, and lacked efficacy our modern HIV medications have.
It's interesting to see other aspects of 1990 through the lens of 2024
"People can see just by common sense that the sun is not 93 million miles away."?
“If they’re telling us to not look at the eclipse, it’s prolly good for us to LOOK AT THE ECLIPSE.” ??
“When the eclipse happens, ditch the glasses. They are a lie. Look at it with your eyes, and the flat earth truth will be revealed. The glasses are not to protect your eyes… they are to protect their LIES!”???
@tankgrrl@CStamp@obeto OMFG my shitpost was a total joke, but it’s really a thing?! Gods I hope they all go blind. Does that make me a terrible person? Probably, but fuck people who insist on being ignorant shitgibbons.
Every modern Apple blockbuster has been relatively small and light, with close to zero moving parts:
iPhone
iPad
AirPods
Apple Watch
Relatively speaking, a home robot is massive, much more complex and fragile. Likely MUCH more expensive than the highest priced iPhone or even Vision Pro.
Such a beast would require a major commitment from the buyer, which means far fewer units sold.
@flargh@davemark In the sense that I'm hoping they don't just change the label of the boondoggle, ie: s/car/robot /g.
Every house robot is a shitty house robot, barely able to do the task it's designed to do (roomba vacuums don't vacuum as well as a human doing the vacuuming) — because designing these things and having them not be terrible is literally as difficult as creating a self-driving car, albeit with slightly lower stakes.
I wish there were an OS-level setting for all search boxes in all applications that prevented any auto-filtering or page-jumping from happening until I type two or more characters (or hit enter/return).
Watched the first ep of #XMen97 cause everyone seems to be talking about it. Was pretty fun but I’m kinda lost. Never watched this show back in the day. I know some of the characters but that’s about it. Some of the art direction is pretty impressive.
@gedeonm it’s a slight modification of one of the plots in a modern XMen flanker title, which in and of itself os a reimagining of an ‘OG’ XMen plot. Basically the sentinels massacred thousands of mutants on Genosha, which is about to spark a human/mutant war.
