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  • Yeah getting the motion blur right is quite hard 😅

  • Yeah I did that with some digital pictures like the one below, but I didn't often get it right so I was a bit cautious with film.

  • Ah that makes sense. I tried that once as well and it was indeed quite hard to get right

  • Well if I could quickly check how all clothes would fit on me without going to the store and without having to change clothes, I'd probably spend the same effort. Having a character creator would also be neato

  • Was this image edited? It's very cool/cyan, which I usually don't see in Kodak Gold

  • I'm aro/ace and honestly same. I refuse to use any longer acronym because to me it sounds silly.

    In a similar fashion, I'm also not a major fan of the pride flags with more than the rainbow. It's fine for special occasions in order to draw attention to a cause that needs it, but not as the default. Adding black stripes, the trans flag, and intersex flag all at the same time seems ridiculous to me, and it only invites other groups to feel left out. Adding the black stripes, the trans flag, the intersex flag, or whatever to the flag for some event, protest, or personal reason is great but imo we shouldn't permanently muddy the flag like that.

  • Yeah same. It makes the elections quite annoying because I agree with the local green party in almost every other way. But to me nuclear power is an important way to get reliable green energy. Something that still provides energy when the wind is not blowing and the sun isn't shining. And to me some of the arguments feel way too "feeling based" instead of facts based. That its unsafe or dirty.

    Preferably we'd have fusion, but until we manage to get that going I think nuclear fission is a decent alternative. Not forever, but for the coming 50-100 years until we find a better alternative.

  • I've found myself transition from subscriptions to the feed over the years. My subscriptions became such a long list of past interests while the feed somehow almost always seems to know what I want. It's exactly the poisonous quick dopamine hack that every other social media is also abusing. I hate it, but at the same time I don't quite have the energy to fight it. After I arrive at home tired from work and grocery shopping I just need some quick entertainment, and the feed usually knows wat better what I want than my own subscriptions.

  • Very dangerous. If you buy this, NaN money will be deducted from your bank account and thus your resulting amount of money will also be NaN.

  • Yeah it definitely took some getting used to. Very annoying. I usually always keep the cap with the bottle anyways, so it's not helping me. But I suppose some people would just yeet those caps everywhere

  • Remember? I still use it for my second monitor. My first interaction with DVI was also on that monitor, probably 10-15 years ago at this point. Going from VGA to DVI-D made everything much clearer and sharper. I keep using this setup because the monitor has a great stand and doesn't take up much space with its 4:3 aspect ratio. 1280x1024 is honestly fine for having voice chat, Spotify, or some documentation open.

  • Hmmm those are some good extra tips. I'll take a look, thanks!

  • I've been quite stupid with this but never really had issues. Ever since I changed the open ssh port from 22 to something else, my server is basically ignored by botnets. These days I obviously also have some other tricks like fail2ban, but it was funny how effective that was.

  • It used to be quite short, and only for many drinks. But lately I've even been having hangovers that span 2 days. If I drink any alcohol right now my next day is going to suck a lot more. So usually 1 day, sometimes 2

  • I don't think you're fully wrong, for many people exercise does do wonders for their mental health. But it is definitely not the fix for everyone's mental health issues. And telling people that all their issues can be solved if they would just exercise is just plain wrong.

    Mental health is complex and there is no silver bullet. People who say "oh you're depressed? Just do X, it always helps" are always wrong. For many people therapy works, but not for all. For many people exercise works, but not for all. For some people a simple blood check will reveal some vitamin D or B12 deficiency, and tackling this issue might improve stuff, but definitely not for all. Mental health for most people isn't a battle where you flip one switch and get back into "the light". It's a long battle with ups and downs, that often doesn't ever reach a fully stable "good" state. For me personally there are still plenty of bad moments, but now that I know that things can get better again and I've got the tools to get there, the bad moments generally are only temporary.

  • I'm aware that to the far left everyone who doesn't want to abolish capitalism is considered right wing. I mean the normal (Dutch) political spectrum. Social democratic

  • Cool, but less cool when I remember what dark shit this kind of technology can be used for

  • I have a very different experience. When Hexbear was still federated with the large instances it was total mayhem. They would turn every thread political, constantly spam images of dictators like Stalin and Mao, and swarm anyone who disagreed. I've seen them deny the wrongdoings of China and the Soviet Union quite often, which is probably also what's necessary if you spam Mao and Stalin unironically.

    I'm quite left of center myself, at least relative to most people I know in real life. But these people seemed totally insane. It was probably also a numbers game, since Hexbear was relatively large at the time compared to basically every other instance. So maybe this was just an annoying minority. But nevertheless I'd never purposefully go there, and I'd recommend anyone to stay away. It's way better than for instance a Trumpist/far-right instance, but I'd rather avoid both.

  • These models don't get single characters but rather tokens repenting multiple characters. While I also don't like the "AI" hype, this image is also very 1 dimensional hate and misreprents the usefulness of these models by picking one adversarial example.

    Today ChatGPT saved me a fuckton of time by linking me to the exact issue on gitlab that discussed the issue I was having (full system freezes using Bottles installed with flatpak on Arch). This was the URL it came up with after explaining the problem and giving it the first error I found in dmesg: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/linux/-/issues/110

    This issue is one day old. When I looked this shit up myself I found exactly nothing useful on both DDG or Google. After this ChatGPT also provided me with the information that the LTS kernel exists and how to install it. Obviously I verified that stuff before using it, because these LLMs have their limits. Now my system works again, and figuring this out myself would've cost me hours because I had no idea what broke. Was it flatpak, Nvidia, the kernel, Wayland, Bottles, some random shit I changed in a config file 2 years ago? Well thanks to ChatGPT I know.

    They're tools, and they can provide new insights that can be very useful. Just don't expect them to always tell the truth, or to actually be human-like