westyvw
@westyvw@lemm.ee
kde, linux, busses, open source and the good old Grateful Dead.
- Comment on The priorities of life 4 days ago:
You don’t just have your podcast auto resume whenever you start driving?
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 4 days ago:
I can tell every time. Nasty stuff. Reminds me of sachirine. I get that stevia is natural, but it’s taste is real obvious. If they want to use less sugar… Just use less sugar.
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 4 days ago:
Even then it would be a copy. In this case it would be like downloading an amalgam of thousands of movies, not quite like any of them
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 5 days ago:
I could have that discussion. But it still wouldn’t be theft. Nothing was actually stolen.
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 5 days ago:
I’m going to say it again. It cannot be theft. Nothing is stolen. What did they have before they don’t have now?
I see people disagree with me but they are too lame to try and say why, and they definitely could not explain how, when there is nothing in AI but a probability algorithm.
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 5 days ago:
I can’t buy into the theft idea. It is like describing ideas in mathmatical concepts. The ai contains nothing of the original.
Is there another word that fits better? I don’t know.
On the other hand, why would anyone buy art without knowing the artist? I commision art, I buy art, but I always get to know who it is from and in most cases how they made it: watercolor, oil, pen, etc.
- Comment on Disney+ Lost 700,000 Subscribers in Final 3 Months of 2024 1 week ago:
Been there, done that.
- Comment on Disney+ Lost 700,000 Subscribers in Final 3 Months of 2024 2 weeks ago:
So are they getting a lot out of watching something over and over again?
And yes, no TV is better than any TV. That is a valid adult view, and not idiotic at all.
- Comment on Disney+ Lost 700,000 Subscribers in Final 3 Months of 2024 2 weeks ago:
That itself is sad. Being a good parent might mean finding something better for your kids to do than watching TV.
- Comment on Disney+ Lost 700,000 Subscribers in Final 3 Months of 2024 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but now you have Hulu.I hate that one even more than Disney.
- Comment on The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad. 2 weeks ago:
Hulu did this shit in 2014. Never used them again. Hulu is crap, you are kinda getting what you deserve.
- Comment on I'll show them 2 weeks ago:
I am partial to freetube on the desktop. I can make a list of channels without actually subscribing or having a YouTube account.
- Comment on I'll show them 2 weeks ago:
Why don’t you just use a youtube player that filters the ads out? Seems like extra steps.
- Comment on ‘Superman’ Estate Sues Warner Bros. Discovery To Block Film’s Release In Key Territories 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t have know, thanks for posting this.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 3 weeks ago:
You might not be that far off. I can’t think of a kid who is interested in going to six flags. A whole school was going to go for the day, for free. Only a handful expressed interest, the rest said no way they are standing in lines, in the sun, to take a 3 minute ride to nowhere.
- Comment on My Honest Opinion 3 weeks ago:
That would be interesting: a tag that gives you a rough idea of the energy used in creation. So if some one did it with only solar power on a local model that would handle column a.
- Comment on My Honest Opinion 3 weeks ago:
Sorry you’re the type of person that added lead shot to your gas tank after they banned leaded gasoline.
Well that devolved quickly. People with attitudes like yours make other people really not give a shit what your argument is. Also makes me know you can’t or won’t understand that I don’t really care what happens to AI, and that since there is no data taken it cannot be stolen. But you cant understand that I guess, and we have the same tired arguments.
- Comment on My Honest Opinion 3 weeks ago:
this bullshit again…
- Comment on My Honest Opinion 3 weeks ago:
Would you also want one for everything photoshopped? I fail to really see a difference. What if I train an AI to use photoshop? Then what?
- Comment on Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots 4 weeks ago:
I still run websites. Some simple and static, others forums, yet others are blogs.
I like to have small communities around simple interests and they get enough traffic to stay interesting.
The blogs are for recording things I do and want to remember and share, like setting up postgres to do interesting things.
None of them have ads or generate revenue. I just miss the old internet and like to see these things exist.
At the same time, I don’t really care if AI scrapes it. It’s out there to be looked at. Of course one website is a complete farce, illogical and fake product nonsense. I enjoy it getting scraped the most.
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 4 weeks ago:
When Hulu still had ads when you bought a subscription, I swore I would never pay them ever again. That was around 2014. I have stuck to it, and every year I am reminded why. Fuck Hulu.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Please don’t say breaking.
- Comment on Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins! 5 weeks ago:
I hope this doesn’t clog up the feed in your search for admins but I have to say: You are doing something right. I see people say Lemmy is slow, or there are large amounts of downtime. That has not happened on this instance. I have been very happy here.
I really hope you find the admins you are looking for.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 5 weeks ago:
I have a uncle with a similar situation. He ended up getting him a smart watch. I don’t remember which, but the search was for the strongest vibrate he could find. The phones vibrate didn’t do the job, but he feels the wrist vibrate.
He also is used to wearing a watch so he feels weird without it and there fore doesn’t forget it.
Maybe that could help you.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 5 weeks ago:
Not my experience at all, seems to be just about anyone can be an asshole.
I was in the library for the first time in ages, two of them actually. Mixed group of people, pretty busy. I am happy to say I heard not a single notification or phone ring the whole time. I hadn’t thought about it until you mentioned it. That was kind of refreshing. Unlike waiting rooms, the bus, coffee shop, the quiet lounge at the airport. Maybe I got lucky.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 5 weeks ago:
Unless I am actively waiting for something, the phone is on vibrate. But even then my attitude is notifications are what I see when I bother to take a look. There is usually nothing that cant wait until I want to take the time to deal with it.
People are so Pavlovian about their devices, I see it all the time.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 5 weeks ago:
For the record, not a boomer, but why are you targeting that group? Everywhere I go it is someone, just as often young as old, that thinks I want to hear their notifications, tiktok, or whatever bullshit of the day they want everyone to hear.
- Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think I could eat stoufers, I find that stuff really not good.
Besides its so easy to make. Beans, rice, a rotesserie chicken if you want to get fancy cheese and enchilada sauce. Make in advance and freeze portions of it. Cheaper in the long run and actually tastes good.
- Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore 5 weeks ago:
My expections would be extremely low based on the brand. The less in the box might be a good thing.
- Comment on Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes [404 Media] 5 weeks ago:
They are getting ready to roll out the Hate and Bigotry themes.