Mustard

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[–] Mustard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 6 months ago

I remember when i first started using GIMP the thing that threw me the most was that there was no 'safe default' state that you could get to by pressing escape, like 'select' is for other programs.

If you think this is a small thing consider that escape/back is one of the only 3 default controls on phone UIs. It's super important and Gimp doesn't have it.

[–] Mustard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 7 months ago

On your link there, I'm sorry to say the author is making a very silly argument. It boils down to 'if you see a specific race in this racist caricature then you're the real racist'. This would only be true if racist caricatures were a new thing never seen before. It's akin to saying 'oh i didn't mean black people when i screamed the n- word. You're the racist for thinking the n- word refers to black people'.

That's an extreme example but you see my point that there's a history that's being ignored.

[–] Mustard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Worth pointing out, this specific kind of attack targets a device based on its mac address and sends it shedloads of junk requests. There is no chance of it interfering with emergency wireless transmissions.

That said, i agree it's not OK to mess with other people's devices like this.

[–] Mustard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago

We only work on orthographic! Specifically isometric.

[–] Mustard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a means of securely and reliably getting it? Cause I don't.

You really come across as coming from a place of privilege whilst lamenting that the reason poor people are worried about this is because they're just not as nice as you.

[–] Mustard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Believe it or not I need to eat food. Crazy I know.

[–] Mustard@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 10 months ago

They've all already done that haha. You could argue that a human has only one life in which to remix that art but an AI is theoretically immortal, so it's a different category of customer.

At any rate, it's clear that AI should not have free access to copyrighted works, like news articles, academic papers, stock images, and various kinds of non deviantart art.

[–] Mustard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Unironically yes, if AI companies paid for training data everyone would be much happier.

I sincerely doubt that NOBODY is willing to sell data to them. It's far more likely that they have not offered anyone a fair price yet, which makes sense because that would set a precedent.

Even then, if people don't want to sell them their copyrighted work then tough. You can't compel people to take customers they don't want.

[–] Mustard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Incident occurred in West Virginia

""" WV Code §11-9-9 : Aiding, abetting, assisting or counseling in criminal violation.

Any person who shall knowingly aid or abet or assist or counsel another person in the commission of any act prohibited by this article, whether or not such act is with the knowledge or consent of the person required by law to do the act, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, or imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months, or both fined and imprisoned.

""" The court will determine whether or not the marketing is sufficient proof that the plaintiff knowingly aided another in the commission of this crime.

[–] Mustard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, it kind of sounds like there's this kind of... divide between certain groups of people where some can make it and some really struggle. Any ideas on what we should call these two CLASSes of people? Maybe we could figure out some kind of CLASS SYSTEM.

[–] Mustard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A miserable little pile of secrets!

[–] Mustard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

What do you mean by a distributed power grid? Do you mean power generation happening locally? This is already a thing and is growing in the form of Combined Heat and Power. This doesn't get rid of the need for base load, the overall grid will still need balancing and will still have a base load unless you plan to disconnect local grids from each other in which case welcome to Texas...

Money is not the point here (even though nuclear really doesn't cost much per kWh). I'm talking about the need to build a system that will produce more power over it's lifetime than it costs to make. This is still something that is surprisingly close in many cases so any extra bit of inefficiency risks making the overall system pointless.

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