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blind3rdeye

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    GIMP - Development Update: Closing In on the 3.0 Release Candidate

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  • Yeah, cars suck.

  • Less than 10 days after Helene made landfall, Florida braces for another hurricane, potentially a Category 3

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  • Stay safe.

  • one more shitty techbrofad down

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  • I agree with most of what you said, except this:

    And at some point even the loudest haters will look back and go, wow, how’d we ever do stuff without this?

    The haters are not going to do that, because the AI's capability is generally not the thing that people are hating on.

    Here are some of the things people dislike about AI generated content:

    • It is trained with the work of people, without compensation or consent. Essentially this means it is stealing other people's work for and using it to increase the profits of big corporations.
    • It is used as an excuse for further data harvesting. ("To use our amazing AI services, you need to send your data to our servers for processing...")
    • It has massive computational cost, which means large environmental costs. The cost is largely hidden, because the computation are done somewhere else.
    • It devalues human effort. Since the AI can generate some fairly good output very easily, it discourages people from learning basic skills. i.e. instead of trying to draw or create something themselves, and thus improving a person's own skill, its fair faster and easier to make the AI do it. In the short term this doesn't matter, but in the long term it may result in deskilling the very people who the AI is meant to be learning from.
    • Since it is very easy to create, there is a flood of AI created content now on the internet. This huge amount of added content means it is now harder to find non-AI content than it use to be.
    • There are obvious problems with impersonation, spam, scams, etc. being made faster and easier with AI.
    • ...

    You get the idea. My point is that "it's not useful" isn't really one of the main complaints. Rather, people hope that it isn't useful, because they don't want it to become too entrenched.

  • SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market

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  • nar. HDDs don't require power to maintain their state. So that's an advantage they'll always have over SSDs, which means there will be use-cases where HDDs are the better choice.

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  • That's true, Mozilla's vision of ads is much better than Google's. But is there any reasons it will be one or the other? Is there any reason to believe that Mozilla's ads will displace Google's ads? Or are we just going to end up with more ads: Google's very bad ads plus Mozilla's less bad ads.

    [edit] Just to be clear - I don't want to sound any Mozilla. Mozilla hasn't actually acted on this yet. Firefox is still good right now, and will continue to be good at least in the short term. It's just that Mozilla have stated their intention to work on making ad systems. So when that actually happens, it will be bad.

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  • I sure hope so. I've been on team Mozilla for a long time, but right at this critical moment they are starting to wobble. Their CEO seems to be steering them in a direction that I don't agree with.

    (I still believe Firefox is the best option right now; but I'm a little concerned for the future.)

  • OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion

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  • The name use to be closer to the truth, but then money corrupted it - as it always does.

  • Mozilla removes uBlock Origin Lite from Addon store. Developer stops developing Lite for Firefox; "it's worrisome what could happen to uBO in the future."

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  • I use to follow a subreddit called /r/degoogle, which was nominally for conversation about how to remove and avoid using google products. ... But I ended up leaving because in pretty much every thread there was a whole lot of posts shitting on any and every suggested alternative, mostly for not being hardcore enough. It was as if the only acceptable approach was to never use any electronic device ever again. Firefox of course was constantly under fire for taking money from Google; which apparently made them worse than Google themselves. ... Anyway, I strongly suspected that people were deliberately trying to destabilize the group so that it couldn't grow or become functional. I had no other explanation for how counter-productive the bulk of the conversations were, and it would certainly be an easy and potentially useful group for pro-google people to target.

    I'm less convinced that it is happening here though, but I'm certainly more suspicious of it after that experience with /r/degoogle. I reckon probably why we see a lot of any Mozilla stuff here is just that the audience on Lemmy is very interested in what Mozilla is doing - and negative news always gets more traction than positive news.

  • A short, wholesome story

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  • People downvote for a very wide variety of reasons, many of which don't really have anything to do with the story. For for example, someone might downvote because they don't like posts that are just screenshots from reddit. Or maybe they don't like the brands mentioned in the story. Or maybe they've seen it before and don't want to see it again. Or maybe they're just in a bad mood and are voting harshly. Or maybe it is about the story, and they think its creepy. Or maybe it reminds them of a bad memory.

    In any case, it should never be surprising when a post gets some downvotes. The more people who see it, the more likely it is that someone will have some issue with it.

    (And of course, complaining about downvotes almost always results in downvotes.)

  • Every tech company

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  • Nar, I don't think that's quite right. I reckon it's more like nice looking cubicles (with normal walls) but also lots of cameras from all different angles.

  • End nuclear fusion!

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  • Privatization seems like a really bad idea to me. Helium is non-renewable resource. Privatization is about being 'efficient' at maximising profits. Do you think the people / companies that own the helium reserves are going to be interested in keeping helium available for centuries in the future? I'd say probably not.

    For a profit based company, the only motivation to preserve the helium for future use is that maybe it will be worth a lot more money in the future. But there are two big problems with that. Firstly, the timescale is likely to be too long for the profit to be of interest. And secondly, the main reason the price would go up is scarcity; and that scarcity will come sooner if the helium is wasted in the short term. (Unless one company actually has a monopoly on helium, in which case they can create artificial scarcity by just not selling it. But that would obviously be bad for other reasons.)

  • reDUcTIon iS gAIn

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  • I'm not sure why you're saying its clocks that are wrong rather than the other stuff. Currently we have x = r cos(𝜃) and y = r sin(𝜃), and that's what makes anti-clockwise rotations mathematically natural. But if we instead just used x = r sin(𝜃) and y = r cos(𝜃) then clockwise would be the natural positive rotation. And in that case, the unit circle would start at the top and go around clockwise... like we do for compass bearing (and clocks of course). So perhaps that would be better than changing what clocks do.

  • Cancer Memes

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  • I wouldn't say 'outperform'... Cell death is a deliberate and desirable feature. Without it, we'd be unable to repair damage.

  • Better prepare

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  • There's no way hippos have the long-distance endurance of humans. Pretty much everything is faster than humans at sprinting, but for endurance running, humans are next level. (Not me of course, I'm not really fit enough to be called human in this context.)

  • Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development

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  • Yeah. They've done a good job. Strategically its so that Steam can't easily be crushed under Microsoft's enormous boot. So it's a good forward-thinking commitment that everyone can benefit from. (Everyone except Microsoft, I suppose.)

  • Pedal To The Metal

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  • Slowmo is me mocking Scomo.

  • Pedal To The Metal

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  • Nar, I actually know. It's Albo. Slowmo was the previous guy. (And Bazza I just made up.)

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  • 'monetized'

  • Pedal To The Metal

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  • Probably something like Bazza, or Albo, or Slowmo.