over_clox
@over_clox@lemmy.world
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 6 hours ago:
All I see is *******
- Comment on What makes a fart dry vs wet? 1 day ago:
It’s a delicate balance of semen content, obviously.
- Comment on How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days? 4 days ago:
Looking past the days of old, while also dismissing modern artificial intelligence, the same techniques would still work if you just processed the thumbnails of the images, which for simplicity sake, might as well be a 1/8 scale image, if not actually even lower resolution.
- Comment on How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days? 4 days ago:
JPEG works in 8x8 pixel blocks, and back in the day, most JPEG images weren’t all that big. Each 8x8 pixel block (64 pixels per block) could easily and quickly be processed as if it were a single pixel.
So if you had a 1024x768 JPEG, then the fast scanning technique would only scan the 128x96 blocks, not necessary to process every single pixel.
Of course the results could never be perfectly accurate, but most images are unique enough that this would be more than sufficient for fast scanning.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 4 days ago:
Incorrect. You don’t mirror flip it, you swap the images to convert between cross/parallel view.
Source: I wrote my own stereogram software, I know the difference.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 4 days ago:
Boo, these are cross-view, not parallel-view.
- Comment on irresistable 4 days ago:
Everyone counting legs, nobody counting arms.
My lady had a limb for every day of the week!
Don’t ask what the Friday limb was…
- Comment on Freedom 1 week ago:
You sound like the sort of person that would tell a poor person to go get a job rather than offer them a job cutting your grass or washing your car or something.
That sort of thing is part of the problem too, many would rather avoid poor people than to offer them an opportunity to earn money.
- Comment on Freedom 1 week ago:
Yes, voice systems have been around for quite a while. But there was almost always an easy way to bypass all that and talk to a human. It was just as simple as dialing 0, and there wasn’t hardly much wait time, they tended to have more actual people operating the phones back then.
And you don’t go to the Dollar Store to socialize with people, you go to save money when buying toilet paper and cat food or whatever the hell. But hey, you do you, if you got enough money to piss away just to avoid low income people, then by all means piss away and live in your little bubble. The rest of us tend to look for ways to save money when we can.
- Comment on Freedom 1 week ago:
When was the last time you called practically any company for any sort of customer service? What’s the first thing you hear? AI.
AI has taken over most phone support systems these days, it’s almost impossible to speak to a human anymore, because they’ve downsized the staff and have AI do practically everything.
When was the last time you walked into a Dollar Store? You’re lucky if they even have two employees working at any given moment, because yay self checkout, who needs cashiers anymore? And the damn self checkout wants a fucking tip no less!
And now we got driverless cabs out there, because who needs a job as a driver? Just let the computer do it instead!
Hollywood hardly even needs actors or video producers anymore, they can just have AI crank out new movies for us.
I’m sure there’s way more examples that can be added to this list, but yeah, AI and modern technology in general are indeed taking over jobs.
- Comment on Freedom 1 week ago:
- Trump is firing people left and right.
- AI and automation is taking jobs left and right.
- Big companies are laying people off left and right.
Someone riddle me this: Where are all the jobs at again?
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 1 week ago:
There was a certain type of perfume that seemed popular back in the 90s, that would make me instantly gag and almost puke within seconds. I have no clue how anyone found that as any sort of pleasant smell.
To me I thought it smelled like a woman with a nasty yeast infection, trying to cover it up with potpourri. But it wasn’t even the women’s health causing it, literal potpourri smell alone causes me the same gag reflex, the stuff just smells nasty to me and I can’t be in the same room as that smell for long.
So yes, there are reasons to be offended by particular scents, even if others somehow find them pleasant.
- Comment on Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please? 1 week ago:
Instructions unclear. Sees hole, unzips…
- Comment on what's going on at burger king? 1 week ago:
That wasn’t the question though. They asked…
“What’s going on by the Burger King?”
From what I can tell, it’s a hooker on crack blowing some dude dressed as the King, while fighting off a family of raccoons…
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 1 week ago:
I don’t even have half an idea what all foods do or don’t contain gluten, but I am still almost equally inclined to call out people just plain out being nasty, especially in a public space where they’re about to exchange paper cash.
Like shit, I totally respect paper cash, but FFS, try to make sure your hands are clean when handling or exchanging money.
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 1 week ago:
Our park is mostly a water park for kids at the front, with a couple pavilions, and a boat ramp and senior citizen center in the back. So yes, it’s not an official dog park, but unofficial its accepted as one by pretty much everyone.
We keep him on the leash when there’s lots of people or other dogs around, but on days when the park is practically empty, we let him roam free and burn his calories.
He was abandoned for like 5 months out at the park before we decided to adopt him, so most regular park visitors already know him. Police officers approve, they even helped us adopt him.
He’s a medium size dog, and mostly chill, just sometimes playful. He’s never hurt anyone.
Of course that’s not true for all dogs though, hence why we’re very careful regarding what sort of days we might let him roam around off the leash.
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 1 week ago:
Even though the woman proved to be a Karen, the cashiers working the store that day totally understood why I was upset. If only they had or enacted a policy of don’t consume any products in the store…
As far as the dog on the lease thing, we’re about 99% in favor of that, only exception being when we take our dog out to our city park, where we adopted him from as abandoned.
Brownie knows every inch of the park and I feel it would be wrong to not let him roam free occasionally when there’s not many people or other animals around. Those sort of days are few and far between though, so 99% of the time he’s on the leash.
- Comment on At first I thought this was the typical warning about the ocean depth rapidly increasing, but now I'm not so sure 1 week ago:
It means sex on the beach is allowed, but only if one of you is about to drown. Everyone knows this.
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 1 week ago:
My response might be sligtly convoluted, but I’ll try to keep it simple. It relates to allergies.
For me, I am extremely allergic to oysters, and largely also allergic to shellfish. I’m so badly allergic to oysters that I cannot be in the same room as someone else eating them, the smell alone makes me gag, my eyes water, and makes my bronchial tubes swell where I can’t even breathe.
I however am luckily not allergic to peanuts. Regardless, I totally understand how potentially deadly a peanut allergy can be to those with the allergy, and if I’m in a public place around strangers, I tend to assume that anyone around me might have a peanut allergy.
Last year, I was in line at a gas station, and the woman in front of me waiting to pay had bought boiled peanuts. And she was fucking shelling and eating the peanuts while waiting in line, the bitch couldn’t even wait to pay for them, with cash, and exit the store first.
I called her out on it, and even pretended that I did have a peanut allergy, and what she was doing was not only nasty, but also a danger to others handling her peanut juice covered money.
She proved to be a Karen and not give a fuck, but I did speak my mind, on behalf of people that could possibly fucking die over her nastiness and carelessness.
- Comment on Special thanks to fellow user ShittyDwarf for the inspiration 👍 2 weeks ago:
Interesting.
I saw a couple weeks ago where someone said TACO TOFU…
“Trump Always Chickens Out, Trump Only Fucks Up”
- Comment on Special thanks to fellow user ShittyDwarf for the inspiration 👍 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact:
STRAP ON spelled backwards is NO PARTS
You’re welcome.
- Comment on Car 2 weeks ago:
LOL!
That randomly reminds me of a random post I saw on that other site years ago, goes something like this…
‘Get 4 pigs, and paint them with numbers 1, 2, 3, and 5. Then let them loose in Walmart, and after they catch those 4, sit back and watch them look for #4…’
- Comment on Car 2 weeks ago:
We’re going to have to balance your engine then, so we’re gonna have to remove plug #6 so it runs sorta smooth.
Good luck 🤞
- Comment on can't be much longer 3 weeks ago:
Amateur, real men drink Tabasco Sauce!
/s
For real though, 49 views in ~6 hours?!
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 3 weeks ago:
I know right?! You could fit your entire wallet in there, and they’d never guess the password!
Don’t ask how I know this, I don’t have any trucknuts…
- Comment on Car 3 weeks ago:
I was the weirdo that could change a filter with my left hand, while eating my lunch sandwich with my right hand totally clean.
There were still oddball incidents though, like magnetic oil plugs getting stuck magnetically and spraying my face with hot oil :(
- Comment on Look at my french popsicle! 3 weeks ago:
🐸
- Comment on Car 3 weeks ago:
It appears that cylinder 3 is now locked up, but we can have a couple helpers push your car out. Put it in neutral Karen…
- Comment on Car 3 weeks ago:
Me as the pit dude, like your oil drain plug is missing, you have no oil, how the fuck did you make it here?
- Comment on Look at my french popsicle! 3 weeks ago:
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a what in the holy fuck is that?!!!