cygnus
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- Comment on Cloudflare Logs Suffer Critical Failure, Losing 55% of User Data 2 weeks ago:
ChatGPT-ass article. Is all news going to be like this now?
- Comment on 'Dark Patterns' became normalized: When asked to build web pages, LLMs use manipulative design practices they learned from web pages generated by humans, study says 3 weeks ago:
they may inadvertently replicate bad or even illegal practices
“Inadvertently”? Can we please force every journalist in the world to sit through a 5-minute overview of how LLMs work?
- Comment on The Right Has a Bluesky Problem 4 weeks ago:
This ties into the age-old debate about platforming bigotry in the name of free speech. Bigots don’t care that much about talking with like-minded people — they want to subject others to their beliefs and to feel as though they are a righteous majority. Without their hapless victims they become like a schoolyard bully alone in the schoolyard, impotently yearning for a victim.
- Comment on Lost In The Future 5 weeks ago:
Does Ed ever miss? I suppose it must be possible, but I have yet to see it.
- Comment on Meet the Star Trek: Section 31 Crew 1 month ago:
Well that’s good news — at least it’s one-and-done and won’t divert resources and money from SNW.
- Comment on Meet the Star Trek: Section 31 Crew 1 month ago:
Whaaa… Wasn’t this going to be a show? When did that happen?
- Comment on Meet the Star Trek: Section 31 Crew 1 month ago:
My expectations for this show could not be any lower.
- Comment on New "Lower Decks" poster 2 months ago:
This makes me want a Lower Decks movie.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Conservatism is fundamentally tied to a lack of empathy for people beyond one’s immediate circle, and creativity in large part is fueled by the ability to imagine other people’s experiences, i.e., empathy. It’s likely why there are so few conservative artists, and when they do exist, they tend to focus on literal/realistic or derivative art.
- Comment on Against all odds, an asteroid mining company [AstroForge] appears to be making headway 3 months ago:
That is brilliantly simple. Certainly better than using collector limpets.
- Comment on Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried 3 months ago:
That’s true, but what you describe is pretty much the end state of big-box retail. Amazon is essentially the same, if we exclude AWS. It’s all a race to the bottom. The solution, as always, is to buy direct from smaller producers if possible.
- Comment on Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried 3 months ago:
I dislike that you’ve put me in the position of defending Walmart, but don’t you find it rather misleading to imply that they made 163 billion dollars in profit when the real number is less than 10% of that?
- Comment on Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried 3 months ago:
Yes, but there are many more expenses associated with running their business beyond simply COGS. Their net income last year was 11B, which is pretty average for a company that size.
- Comment on Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried 3 months ago:
Not really — it’s because nearly everything they sell is highly fungible, and they compete on price. Nobody is willing to pay a premium to shop at Walmart. Twenty years ago you’d have been correct, but they’ve pretty much saturated the market at this point. They’re trying to find profitability in automation rather than adding tons of new stores.
- Comment on Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried 3 months ago:
Slim profit margins my ass. Walmarts gross profit for the twelve months ending July 31, 2024 was $163.786B,
Not to sound flippant, but do you know what gross profit means? They aren’t pocketing all of that. Walmart’s net profit margin is 2.66%, which is minuscule. They make up for that by having enormous volume.
- Comment on My journey with ENT theme 4 months ago:
- Comment on My journey with ENT theme 4 months ago:
Sounds like your feelings about the song changed quite a bit over time. You could even say that it’s been a long road, getting from there to here.
- Comment on Starfleet Academy Showrunners Explain Inspiration for Bringing Voyager's EMH Back to Star Trek 4 months ago:
That’s a very good point, I only thought of the good doctor as a character, not a replicable computer program (despite us seeing several in VOY). It still feel slike fan service, but seeing him is at least much more plausible than running into Riker at every turn.
- Comment on Starfleet Academy Showrunners Explain Inspiration for Bringing Voyager's EMH Back to Star Trek 4 months ago:
Doesn’t make it any less true, and showrunners seem to disregard all the contrary opinions too.
- Comment on Starfleet Academy Showrunners Explain Inspiration for Bringing Voyager's EMH Back to Star Trek 4 months ago:
It’s just Memberberries, like Star Wars keeps doing. I find this so tedious — seeing the same people over and over makes the galaxy feel too small.
- Comment on [Palmer Luckey] created Oculus headsets as a teenager. Now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine 5 months ago:
There’s a simple answer:
Yeah, but it’s still surprising. Most Trump diehards are pro-Russian. I almost have to respect Luckey for being driven by money above all else; at least this makes him a known quantity.
As for your other comment, I can’t even begin to imagine how that stands up logically. Russia could steamroll whoever they want if we weren’t armed.
- Comment on [Palmer Luckey] created Oculus headsets as a teenager. Now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine 5 months ago:
I’m actually surprised he’s pro-Ukraine, given how much of a right-wing scumbag he is (Trump supporter and all)
- Comment on Proton announces Docs in Proton Drive 5 months ago:
If you need more than one domain there’s also a business plan that gives you 3 for less money than the top-tier individual plan.
- Comment on don't use ladybird browser lol 5 months ago:
Wow I can’t believe the tech bro that insists on using only Twitter + Discord for his app is a total douche.
- Comment on Finally a useful feature (no) 5 months ago:
Can’t wait for an AI toaster that asks me to prompt it on toastiness levels
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
In my case it’s mostly text formatting. For example you can’t adjust spacing between paragraphs at all. I think that’s because it’s unsupported in the SVG spec rather than an Inkscape issue, but still.
I will say however that Inkscape vs. Illustrator is the closest matchup of the three Adobe design apps.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I couldn’t paint to save my life, so I didn’t now about that aspect. How does Krita stack up?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
The only apps I’ve used that come even remotely close are those by Serif/Affinity, but even they don’t have feature parity. They were also just bought out by Canva and will likely become fully enshittified soon.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
If you just want to crop and adjust levels, GIMP is fine. If you want to clone stamp or replace backgrounds etc (or of course work with motion graphics) then there’s no comparison. Nondestructive editing has been a HUGE drawback for GIMP since its inception but they are finally adding that, which is good. I’m not even sure if they’ve added CMYK support. Text editing is also godawful. I could go on, but for real work, it just isn’t the same at all. It’s like saying an e-bike is the same as a pickup truck.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Time to switch to Linux 😁👍 (there are plenty of Adobe alternatives for it,
Unfortunately this is not really true.
