riskable

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any social media without memes and US politics?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Without memes? 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  An unnecessary emulation too! Of fascists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neighbors take back Southeast Portland street, replacing RVs with community garden⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Turning people’s homes into “gardens” is not positive news. It’s just one step away from Soylent Green.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the REAL minimum power supply needed for a RTX 5060 Ti?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on your CPU and whatever else you have in your PC (e.g. is your cooler a beast too? Do you have six spinning disks? etc).

  Generally speaking, 750W should be fine if you’re using a boring air cooling setup with an SSD or two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, right? Why send my BBQ data to the cloud when I can just cook with a handful of GPUs, locally? To start the grill you just ask the animated waifu to dance and sing a random, AI-generated song that matches your taste in music. Then the fans spin up and send scrumptious GPU heat into the grill, cooking up a delicious hallucination where you’re animated waifu sings, “That looks yummy! Yummy yummy yummy hai hai hai!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas Floods Timeline: See When Officials Issued Weather Warnings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did the camp have a, “no cell phones” policy? Because that would explain a lot.

  …which is why solely relying on cell phones for emergency alerts isn’t a great plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those schools are heartless!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they probably just took the first image that was generated without even checking it. For today’s generative image AI you usually want to generate great big batches then pick the best ones.

  Then if you’re looking for high quality in your meme you’ll also use inpainting and pull the result into Krita or the GIMP to make further improvements (e.g. add text with a proper outline/drop shadow). Then when you’re done you’ll use AI to upscale the image to a great big size so that it’ll look nice when you print it out and hang it on the wall in your cubicle or the stick it to the office fridge or some filing cabinet 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The truth is, anything but saccharin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CRISPR-Cas9⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your spoiler transcription suppressor failed

  FTFY 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CRISPR-Cas9⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno. For hundreds of thousands of years we’ve been selectively breeding puppies.

  Puppies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft is trying to make Xbox into Windows: Where 3rd parties make the hardware and then license the platform from Microsoft. It’s a vastly more profitable model. Especially if they get all those end users signed up for a subscription service.

  The problem is that the world thinks of “Xbox” as a console (and a specific kind of controller). To pull this off Microsoft is going to have to re-brand Xbox entirely by making people think of it more like a game-specific app store that runs on Windows and special handheld hardware. It won’t be easy.

  There’s a bigger problem with this plan though: No real coordination with the Windows OS team. Windows on handhelds sucks. The past twenty fucking years of Windows development has been almost entirely focused on improving enterprise features with very little attention paid to end users or gaming.

  Growth in Windows gaming has come despite Microsoft’s investments. Not because of them. In fact, I’d argue that if it weren’t for Steam, Windows—as a gaming platform—would be a fraction of what it is today.

  Don’t get me wrong, though! I love this new Xbox roadmap! Windows gaming has been holding back Linux desktop adoption for far too long. The latest benchmarks that show games on SteamOS vastly outperforming the new Xbox-branded handhelds pretty clearly demonstrates all that bashing of Windows by Linux nerds was deeply accurate.

  It turns out that Linux on the desktop really is superior! 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Ma!”

  Also, it has to be shouted. As a kid—coming into the house from who-knows-what adventure where I destroyed an item of clothing—again. Or as an adult trying to reach her over Fox News with the volume up way too loud.

  This is the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not POV: your the only boy at the slumber party⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trust me when I say that if you do this with that many girls in the bed… Urine trouble!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prairie Beast⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Underneath that mask is a sheepish grin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crikey ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Missing:

  • A game console
  • All the maps in the world + compass
  • Gigantic notepad
  • Calendar
  • Entire stack of catalogs
  • Newspapers
  • Thermostat
  • A whole fucking supercomputer
  • An entire building-sized stack of photo albums
  • Flashlight
  • An sycophant assistant who makes shit up just to keep you happy.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another Dumb Electrical Code Change Could Ban DIY EV Charger Installs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To summarize: Requiring installation by electricians means that people will still DIY… They just won’t bother to get a permit/get it inspected.

  Whereas allowing DIY encourages permits and inspection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s New Xbox Strategy Starts with Windows and Ends with No Console⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mods on Xbox only exist for games where the game itself officially added mod support. I mean, sure it’s great when a game maker does that but usually it’s not as good as community-made mod support because community mods don’t require approval and can’t get censored/removed because the vendor doesn’t like it.

  Remember: Microsoft’s vision of mods is what you get with the Bedrock version of Minecraft. Yet the mods available in the Java version are so vastly superior the difference is like night and day.

  Console players—that are used to living without mods—don’t understand. Once mods become a regular thing that you expect in popular games going without them feels like going back into the dark ages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s New Xbox Strategy Starts with Windows and Ends with No Console⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All the fun of Windows gaming with the locked-down ecosystem of a console (no mods). What could go wrong?

  It’s Windows Mobile all over again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollywood studios target AI image generator in copyright lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The courts need to settle this: Do we treat AI models like a Xerox copier or an artist?

  If it’s a copier then it’s the user that’s responsible when it generates copyright-infringing content. Because they specifically requested it (via the prompt).

  If it’s an artist then we can hold the company accountable for copyright infringement. However, that would result in a whole shitton of downstream consequences that I don’t think Hollywood would be too happy about.

  Imagine a machine that can make anything… Like the TARDIS or Star Trek replicators. If someone walks up to the machine and says, “make me an Iron Man doll” would the machine be responsible for that copyright violation? How would it even know if it was violating someone’s copyright? You’d need a database of all copyrighted works that exist in order to perform such checks. It’s impossible.

  Even if you want OpenAI, Google, and other AI companies to pay for copyrighted works there needs to be some mechanism for them to check if something is copyrighted. In order to do that you’d need to keep a copy of everything that exists (since everything is copyrighted by default).

  Even if you train an AI model with 100% ethical sources and paid-for content it’s still very easy to force the model to output something that violates someone’s copyright. The end user can do it. It’s not even very difficult!

  We already had all these arguments in the 90s and early 2000s back when every sane person was fighting the music industry and Hollywood. They were trying to shut down literally all file sharing that exists (even personal file shares) and search engines with the same argument. If they succeeded it would’ve broken the entire Internet and we’d be back to using things like AOL.

  Let’s not go back there just because you don’t like AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This just proves that Google’s AI is a cut above the rest!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From a copyright perspective, you don’t need to ask for permission to train an AI. It’s no different than taking a bunch of books you bought second-hand and throwing them into a blender. Since you’re not distributing anything when you do that you’re not violating anyone’s copyright.

  When the AI produces something though, that’s when it can run afoul of copyright. But only if it matches an existing copyrightes work close enough that a judge would say it’s a derivative work.

  You can’t copyright a style (writing, art, etc) but you can violate a copyright if you copy say, a mouse in the style of Mickey Mouse. So then the question—from a legal perspective—becomes: Do we treat AI like a Xerox copier or do we treat it like an artist?

  If we treat it like an artist the company that owns the AI will be responsible for copyright infringement whenever someone makes a derivative work by way of a prompt.

  If we treat it like a copier the person that wrote the prompt would be responsible (if they then distribute whatever was generated).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So… You were lovin’ it and they were having it their way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't these code-writing AIs just output straight up machine code?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Umm… AI has been used to improve compilers dating all the way back to 2004:

  github.com/…/Artificial-Intelligence-in-Compiler-…

  Sorry that I had to prove you wrong so overwhelmingly, so quickly 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't these code-writing AIs just output straight up machine code?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To add to this: It’s much more likely that AI will be used to improve compilers—not replace them.

  Aside: AI is so damned slow already. Imagine AI compiler times… Yeesh!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, so cute. Here’s what you need to do: Find what you like to do, then pick a realistic career path that you think you could do and do that instead. I highly recommend picking a career that lets you work from home. That way, you can skip the commute, do your laundry, and face existential dread at the same time; it’s better for the environment 👍

  Comfort and happiness are what happens after work. You have to work to attain it! It’s the capitalist dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨purpose⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What would happen if bedbugs went extinct? Other than mass celebrations, I mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good point. Many do seem to worship the holy blunt 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the lesson here is that marijuana just isn’t toxic enough to kill anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acorns!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since they don’t have fingerprints they ID the pecker.