Redjard

@Redjard@reddthat.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A street merchant in Little Bulgaria just sold me something unusual⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  artist

  monster_caesar.artstation.com/projects/OoYzPJ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I asked for a sign, *sigh* at least I got a sign⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s slop. Has a watermark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ordinarily I’d not judge someone for 1 mistake, but this is at least OPs 4th from the last 15 posts.

  lemmy.world/post/53544531
  lemmy.world/post/53879044
  lemmy.world/post/53433669

  Not bot-farm levels but still odd. @Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world please employ some judgement and slop watermark cgecking before posting.
  Especially this one should be blatantly obvious, it’s way way too detailed to be remotely realistic, to the point even fakes (or art) wouldn’t make it that realistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure you can trust that. What you can trust is the openai synthid watermark embedded in it.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lady balls⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Na it Nuts from Berk.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lady balls⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lady balls⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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  Finally a use for this image I’ve had for years. 2nd oldest, after one about being executed for using pov incorrectly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thats my secret⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sprich Deutsch du Hurensohn!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truly innovative feature for breaking it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, that’s pretty clear.

  Don’t see how @chungus_eater@lemmus.org is calling people retards for not memorizing looks of niche apple products though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truly innovative feature for breaking it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a fellow retard, I would like it explained how to know this is ai.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the dog tips you off⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why DDG is the superior serch engine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and mm markings, letting you measure 28.8cm or 288mm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goteem⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This ip probably sits outside the firewall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An award-winning ESPN producer resigned after 24 years over the network's embrace of sports betting: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even more to it too. Once it gets big enough you start getting match fixing, so it ruins the sport and also endangers all players since fixing all but necessitates organized crime.
  The final outcome is a world where someone bets on a runner up, and goes out to shoot the champion, to steal money from the addicted masses.

  The same issues apply for betting on other real world things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon keeps up with new tech⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  7950 xtx, 9070 xt, …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A full megagram?.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not How It's Supposed To Be⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can also ask your mom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Through this meme I learned I was named Hunter because the song hunter was no.1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bisexuality released in 1995 and the devs still haven't dropped an update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I know this is unpopular but Pansexuality was a cash-grab. They just rereleased Bisexuality with a new marketing campaign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification che…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If anything truly local and zero knowledge was allowed, there would be someone sharing their access eu-wide and everyone could install that and be done with it. One person authenticating millions.

  Just due to that every system proposed has at minimum a central authority that does rate limiting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Useful things at the mall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First, @nialv7@lemmy.world was roght, the background by itself without the box has a synthid, I commented some screenshots below.

  I also see those “ai artifacts” on the barcode, though I wasn’t as sure about it before seeing the synthid.
  I can make out that the lines don’t run quite parallel but form these V and Λ shapes, closer together on one end and merging together.
  Counting the left most blurry line as one, the 5th is leaning into the 4th line at the top for example. The compression is strong and the image doesn’t have enough resolution to make it out very clearly, but it still looks like an actual detail not a compression artifact to me. The lines are all a bit wonky, more than the noise could do.

  Here’s a way more obvious example:
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  This has some other artifacts too that I don’t see in the post, but you can see the general wonkiness. And also how some lines have “bled” together, though this isn’t a great example of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Useful things at the mall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If so you can black out the product package and check if there is still a synth id.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electrifying ⚡️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People found out I’m not a very good electrician.
  They were shocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Impressive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or non bendy, like metal. Tube does a curve, straight thing won’t fit.
  But also this is likely made up. The pee tube does circular contractions just like your throat, moving stuff out very efficiently. Even something bendy shouldn’t go in more than you push it and immediately come back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To be happy…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  20° where there used to be glaciers :|

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lil fella⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The piano uses hammers so it’s not a string instrument, it’s percussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that makes sense. I commend your valiant effort for cat-kind.
  Hope you did manage to break that fight at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been scratched by cats but never bitten. And I’ve been around a lot of cats. How’d that happen in your case?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greatest unsolved mysteries⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Think they meant sliding. I don’t see any rubber feets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  consumes a colossal amount of resources […] so it takes a huge amount of oil

  Solar is the main source of interest, since it’s gotten so cheap. And solar is fundamentally a thin slice of silicon with trace amounts of mystery elements. The entire thing can be made extremely thin, but it doesn’t really matter. Because silicon is just fancy sand, and we have enough, it’s not a concern. The trace amounts of mystery elements (dopants) are so minor they don’t matter, regardless of what they are and how they are sourced. Then there are conductors and structural elements, for which you can use what is available. This would be say aluminum for contacts (though they are very thin so you can still use fancier elements), aluminum and epoxy for the frames and protective layers, …
  In sum solar has no problematic elements, and the amounts involved are minor on the scale of large construction projects.

  Wind I want to say is similar. Mainly bulk construction materials like resin, concrete, steel. With some electrical components. The main difference is that here you have generators that might need a lot of copper. Though that is changing, I am not sure how far that is in the rollout but it won’t a concern into the future. Generators won’t need nearly as much copper in the future.

  The only thing relevant for pollution, oil use, cost, supply, … in the constituent resources are the batteries. If you put electric car batteries from 10 years ago into a box, you’ll have a bad time.
  Since then though, we’ve seen chemistries that make good lithium batteries without problematic elements like cobalt or nickel.
  Making batteries that don’t move lets you optimize things even further than for cars in that respect. The production for car vs grid batteries are now also separate due to that.
  The main issue of current grid batteries is thus lithium. Which is environmentally problematic to refine, and is expensive, but is readily available and does not depend on oil to my knowledge. The existing production also does not emit enough CO₂ to matter in the ultimate CO₂/kWh numbers when those go into grid use for decades, especially under overprovisioning where you need less batteries per renewable power production to begin with.
  And ofc there are many developments in battery tech. Lithium is not inherently necessary for all batteries, there will be alternate chemistries available not too far into the future.
  If you are thinking of building a nuclear plant now, then you need to consider what batteries you would need to buy in 10 years when it would be done, not which batteries are available now. In 10 years I’d expect something like molten metal or iron batteries that don’t have any even slightly problematic elements.

  the fact that they require an enormous amount of space

  Loosely about 0.1% of current agricultural land. Even if you don’t want to build some solar farms in place of existing farms for various reasons, it’s not that much compared to other large infrastructure like cities, roads, agriculture, so you can find mixed use situations where they fit well.
  For example over parking spaces providing shade, on top of roofs where you don’t usually see them, or on top of crops that benefit from the shade.

  If you look at countries that have a few tens of percent of their grid on solar at present (often with gas turbines instead of batteries), there will of course be a few panels visible when you get around, but it isn’t omnipresent.

  the fact that we still don’t have even the beginnings of a storage solution capable of lasting more than a few hours

  Overprovisioning. If you naively assume you build exactly as many solar panels as you need to average to the demand over the year, you get some very large numbers for storage. But given that solar is very cheap and batteries are expensive and problematic, there is no reason to do that. What you do in practice with both solar and wind, is you build more than you would need, enough so that under suboptimal production you still don’t need to draw from storage. Wind turbines don’t always spin when it’s windy, especially very windy, since then they produce so much power all demands are fulfilled and the rest would overload the grid. For solar it’s increasingly the same, you just can’t tell.
  Private micro-solar often has a maximum power it can send to the grid, and home solar installations are over-specced for that and can send the maximum for far more of the day. Simply because overspeccing is minor increase if cost compared to everything else so financially the best decision.

  In short: The sun shines every few hours, you don’t have to store seasonal power.