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- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 days ago:
This actually made me curious enough to dig just a little deeper down this rabbit hole, so I did a little
GooglingDucking on it. There’s quite a few articles regarding this, not sure how much it does or doesn’t pertain to AI rules and regulations though 🤷♂️ - Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 days ago:
It most likely depends on the country you’re in. Some countries are already adopting such laws. Not much different than the age verification thing some countries are doing, total invasion of privacy, to appease the powers in charge.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 days ago:
It didn’t used to be that way, sure. Until now when governments want all the info on users with hardware that can process AI…
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 days ago:
Though it’s been forever since I’ve used anything Nvidia, I have heard something about that.
Since Nvidia has jumped full force into Artificial Intelligence, governments are requiring information on who owns and uses such hardware, and it most likely also comes with spying on what you’re using it for.
We truly live in a fucking dystopia now. ☹️
- Comment on Is this a tumbleweed? 5 days ago:
I’ll toss you a haha and upvote for the sarcasm, but there’s no recycle bins around here (or probably anywhere in my state or neighboring states for that matter).
- Comment on Is this a tumbleweed? 5 days ago:
Not too far, Mississippi.
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- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 5 days ago:
It’s mostly because of fatty foods. The fats/oils tend to solidify in the colder temperatures of sewage lines, ultimately causing clogged lines.
Our waste though has generally digested a large amount of that fat, whether it gets built up on your belly and ass or whether a lot of it gets expelled in the sweat.
- Comment on It's just for testing, promise 🤞 6 days ago:
My dad had a habit of collecting random junk, particularly electronics and appliances, for parts or repair. I’m not sure what device it was that it came out of, as it was only the base of the device with two of those capacitors and a pretty big transformer.
One of the capacitors failed and started leaking the electrolyte out as soon as I tried testing it, but the other one apparently worked fine at least.
- Comment on Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice? 1 week ago:
At today’s prices, I have to buy shoes by the toe. It takes 10 months just for the toes, and that’s not including the heels, soles, socks, and tariffs and shit…
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- Comment on Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice? 1 week ago:
I have about the same luck with shoes. Once I finally find the perfect fitting shoes and wear them out, I’m lucky if I can find the same shoes new even once again… ☹️
- Comment on It's just for testing, promise 🤞 1 week ago:
Side test…
Put a nail in the middle and see how magnetic it gets.
Hell, attach a paper cone to said nail and see if you get audio out of it.
Hey, if you’re gonna rig things up for testing, why not have a little fun in the process?
- Comment on It's just for testing, promise 🤞 1 week ago:
I forget what voltage it was rated for, but I think it was over 400 volts. I never charged it up to full voltage though, I just used it as a filter capacitor for an 18 volt document scanner.
Why? Well I didn’t have a proper 18 volt power supply then, so I just rigged one up by wiring a few random wall-wart power supplies in both series and parallel (don’t ask, it was a mess), to get 18 volts. But, as you’d expect with such a rig, the power was rather noisy, leaving me with really grainy scans.
So, entered the 18 Farad bad boy to filter the power. Scans came out much better, but I bet OSHA wouldn’t approve…
- Comment on It's just for testing, promise 🤞 1 week ago:
I had an 18 Farad capacitor for a while. Yes, 18 Farads, not microfarads.
Not for wimps, it was similar size to a 40 ounce beer bottle and could weld metal when charged.
If that cap rig is yours for testing purposes, well good luck 🤞
- Comment on Could maybe use some more testing 1 week ago:
That’s completely understandable, and I don’t blame you a bit. Hope you have a good day.
- Comment on Could maybe use some more testing 1 week ago:
If it worries you, then run it in a virtual machine, or just don’t bother with it, that’s up to you. It was developed in and runs best on Windows XP.
I wouldn’t literally sign my name to a project that would cause any mischief or tarnish my reputation of being a generally decent person. It’s harmless, I guarantee it. Maybe a little buggy here and there, it is a prototype after all, but it’s harmless.
- Comment on Could maybe use some more testing 1 week ago:
I’m not about to share the source code.
The front end GUI code was written in RapidQ, which itself was an incomplete prototype programming language by William Yu, released unfinished and buggy in August 2000.
It only had a relatively small following under Yahoo Groups before that got shut down, where some really talented hackers managed to patch the language to fix memory leaks and find workarounds to practically all the bugs.
And that, my fellow Lemming, is the main reason I won’t be sharing the source code. You’d look at some areas of the code and wonder what the fuck, unless you were very familiar with RapidQ and it’s quirks.
Why did I pick RapidQ? Because it was free, and the project has its earliest roots in QuickBasic from back in 2009, so it was easier for me to migrate to RapidQ when I got ready to delve into Windows programming.
The backend code is written in FreeBasic, which actually is portable between Windows and Linux, but the code looks like QuickBasic and C made love and had a baby.
To my knowledge, there’s only about a dozen people that even half understand how the program works, as it’s rather abstract compared to other graphics software.
- Comment on Could maybe use some more testing 1 week ago:
My software is no virus, it doesn’t even make any communication with the internet. It was a work of experimental passion of color processing.
I’ve never been interested in web apps, I’m a firm believer that software shouldn’t be tied to the internet unless absolutely necessary.
It’s basically an innovative way of processing bitmaps and photo-accurate color gradients. Try it out if you want, or not, that’s up to you. But I guarantee you it’s no virus.
- Comment on Could maybe use some more testing 1 week ago:
Yeah I know, I spent 2011 through 2017 researching that.
- Comment on Boys and beans and... 2 weeks ago:
What pants?
You wear pants?
- Comment on Boys and beans and... 2 weeks ago:
Who said I don’t?
My leg length is right though…
- Comment on Trump's New Streaming Service Truth+ Is a Conspiracy Theorist's Dream Come True 3 weeks ago:
‘It’s the best Bible ever Bibled, I wrote it in my own orange blood…’
🍊🤡
- Comment on Trump's New Streaming Service Truth+ Is a Conspiracy Theorist's Dream Come True 3 weeks ago:
What, you don’t believe in Alien Lizard Jesus?
Have you been living under a rock?
😂🤣
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Where I’m from, they’d probably confiscate said dirt as evidence, charge the person with trespassing and some sort of misdemeanor property theft, and you’d never see your dirt again, as it was evidence in a crime.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I don’t have any significant distrust in society in general, just a heavy distrust of the greedy oligarchs in positions of power.
Meanwhile, the orange turd posted an AI generated image of himself as the next pope…
youtube.com/watch?v=5AvLxeTvivY
Go ahead and read some comments there, he done offended even the atheists out there!
I’m not a governor, attorney, judge, senator, etc in any position to directly do anything about the crooked powers in charge, but as a citizen, I guess this is the best I can do, share the news.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Interesting perspective, I’ve never really looked at it like that.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Do you pay property taxes?
You don’t own it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’ve helped the NSA return stolen laptops, and risked my life putting out a forest fire with my hoodie before it got a chance to reach the dead grass field.
Of course there’s things I can and have done to help change the world, but politics ain’t quite my thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The real propaganda is money.
Like, whoever designed the idea of rent (which is basically a safe place to perform the biological function of sleep and store your stuff).
You don’t own a damn thing anymore, nor do I. But for real, whoever invented the concept of rent, invented the concept of taxing humans for the right to sleep in a safe space.
