sanzky
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- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh 1 day ago:
Is the housing market in Sweden less crazy than other places?
It took me almost 10 years to save for my home and I had to move out of my city (Barcelona) to a small town since there was no way I could afford anything decent, even with a good Senior Software Engineer salary.
- Comment on Square Enix, Bandai, and other Japanese studios demand OpenAI stop using their content without permission, drop a not-too-subtle hint about legal trouble if it doesn't 2 weeks ago:
I f you believe AI companies should NOT be allowed to train AI with copyrighted works you should stop using Internet search engines. Because the same rules that allow Google to train their search with everyone’s copyrighted websites are what allow the AI companies to train their models.
sorry but no. most search bots have been for years quite reasonable in following instructions from the sites on what to scrap and what not. AI scrappers have shown they are willing to go to great lenghts to scrap content against the wishes of the website owners.
Additionally this scrapping has shown to put a tremendous amount of problems into some sites and platforms, open source projects, for example.
Last, search engines are a win-win. They get to show ads and then redirect traffic to the source. LLMs for the most part steal that traffic, by regurgitating the same content they stole in the first place.
- Comment on Square Enix, Bandai, and other Japanese studios demand OpenAI stop using their content without permission, drop a not-too-subtle hint about legal trouble if it doesn't 2 weeks ago:
This analogy is absolutely bonkers. the VCR is not made out of copyrighted material. If the VCR does not spit bunch of copyrighted material on demand because the makers put it there. AI Image generation models cannot be created without copyrighted material. That is not even a controversial take.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I think resolution is just a tiny part of why newer TVs are so much better than a 10yo TV. there is better contrast, HDR, more brightness, angle of vision, etc.
1080p content will look better in a good 4k TV and not just because the resolution.
- Comment on ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, OpenAI boss says 5 weeks ago:
It’s impressive how they have changed the expectations around their pro it as time goes by:
-Our AI could become sentient and destroy humanity to become sole ruler of the world -Our AI will discover the cure for cancer and so many other illnesses -Our AIl will soon have PHd level intelligence … -You can sext with our AI
- Comment on Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x06 "The Good of All" 5 weeks ago:
I feel with this episode the series is finally picking up the pace. the previous episodes felt a bit slow to me
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 1 month ago:
I feel we talk of the bad episodes way more than the good ones. It’s more entertaining.
- Comment on Apple demands EU repeal the Digital Markets Act 1 month ago:
While their arguments are absolutely ridiculous, I don’t think they are ‘demanding’. The EU specifically asked for feedback on the DMA and they provided theirs …europa.eu/consultation-first-review-digital-mark…
- Comment on The ultimate all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500+ 1 month ago:
honestly so don’t get them anymore. th fist ones were great for projects of people getting into pseudo-embedded stuff. they were cheap an use little energy.
but since the rpi4 and 5, the power to energy ratios is just not worth it.and when you add case, storage and power supply you are paying more than a second hand hp mini.
- Comment on Magic: The Gathering to Honor 60th Anniversary of Star Trek with Special Tribute Set 1 month ago:
after the marvel crossovers anything is for grabs
- Comment on Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x03 "Do Your Worst" 1 month ago:
100%
- Comment on The new iPhone is an emblem of our miserable minimalist era 1 month ago:
yes, but that part is even dumber and didn’t wan to talk much of it.
so they sell like 5 different iphones and one of them is marketed as the thinnest. it is apple trying to widen their almost saturated market, not a conspiracy.
- Comment on The new iPhone is an emblem of our miserable minimalist era 1 month ago:
People who dislike their phones so much should stop using them. I’m very happy with mine.
once you get out of social media you realize the problem are those , no the phones.
I love being able to talk good quality pictures of my kids without having to even think about it or sharing them with their grandmother.
I enjoy when my home screen presents me with a nice portrait taken years ago that I have forgotten about. live photos are an amazing detail that often without any intention capture a funny or cute scene.
The phones is boring but thy are also a canvas. look the kind of covers that teenage girls use.
the problems with phones are not the phones. it’s companies taking advantage of them to steal every second of attention from us
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 2 months ago:
which episode did you watch? I get people not liking the humor, but LD has never stroke me as cynical at all
- Comment on The iPhone 17 square selfie camera is a bigger deal than you think 2 months ago:
I don’t see how it would be fake. people have cropped photos to change framing for a long time and no one called it fake.
- Comment on The iPhone 17 square selfie camera is a bigger deal than you think 2 months ago:
I’m sure most people expectation are the standard aspect ratios. But probably there will be some third party camera app that will allow this (like they allow raw)
- Comment on The iPhone 17 square selfie camera is a bigger deal than you think 2 months ago:
yes. it is a square sensor that the phone crops automatically to be a a rectangle. so it can take photos on landscape or portrait no matter if the phone physically vertical or horizontal.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 2 months ago:
the free coffee for employees, probably.
- Comment on Michelle Yeoh Admits “We Could Have Done Better” With ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ 2 months ago:
they also play a big role in Into Darkness (not that anyone cares about that one…)
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x08 "Four-and-a-Half-Vulcans" 2 months ago:
Pike was so stiff. no idea why
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 2 months ago:
the trouble with tribbles, of course.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x07 "What Is Starfleet?" 2 months ago:
I think the writers were too committed to the documentary format but since documentaries don’t switch their mind half way, they got the worst of all options. the format does not work and they lost the opportunity to use a good story and critique starfleet in an interesting way.
- Comment on Nissan announces 2026 Leaf pricing, starting at $29,990 2 months ago:
Im surprised this is cheaper (barely) than the Fiat 500e. is it because tariffs or something? the fiat is cheaper in Europe (around 24k€)
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x06 "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" 2 months ago:
I loved that shot of him looking at the chair. he seemed even intimidated by it.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 3 months ago:
could the people who say they are not going to watch it please fulfill their promise so we don’t have to deal with their complaints later?
- Comment on How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Used a Murder Mystery to Pay Homage to Shatner, Roddenberry and the Original Series: ‘We Didn’t Have Any Adult Supervision’ 3 months ago:
I enjoyed the episode a lot. The USS adventure bits were hilarious , but I did wish the murder mystery was better. It seemed just like a pretext for all the meta stuff.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The School 3 months ago:
actually, looking at the trailer there are 2 cadets of the Red squadron from USS Valiant in the wall:
- Karen Farris
- Dorian Collins, The sole survivor, though in the wall the appear she is listed as ACPO (acting chief petty officer).
Unfortunately the wall seems to be more an easter egg than anything meaningful.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The School 3 months ago:
and Red Squadron in TNG “The First Duty”.
I think Uhura was also a cadet in SNW first season
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' first look welcomes cadets, Paul Giamatti's alien 3 months ago:
one of the photos shows a wall with many known names. it seems nothing interesting happened in starfleet between LD and DSC.
also. why is Joseph Mbenga listed as CDR instead of CMDR? (assuming it is him)
- Comment on Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones 5 months ago:
I don’t think so. Most people I know keep their phones from 3 to 5 years, sometimes more.