Those solar panels look pretty nice…

Couldn’t properly tell the story in an 80 hour show; it’s okay, though - a 2 hour movie will do the trick.

Ah man, that’s awesome! Thanks for randomly mentioning this, you just made my keyboard experience 100% better.

Wait, Keychron Assistant works on Chromium? Are you on Linux? Big if true, I thought it just didn’t work on Linux period.

I think about this a lot. So many technologies that we have, if we could trust everyone involved to be acting in humanity’s best interest, would be amazing. If we didn’t have to guard our personal data like Fort Knox, there’s so many great things we could do with extensive connectedness. If we didn’t have to doubt the sincerity of everyone who promotes a service or product, everything would be so much better.

We can’t have any of those things, because humans are shitty, and are as a whole just in it for themselves.

Applications (and websites) can definitely allow / deny copy/paste into specific text fields; I’m not sure if they could disable it for the entire browser as a whole but I can’t imagine they’d ever do so even if it’s possible.

What if it’s a collage of AI generated art pieces? Technically the artist did the same amount of work as someone making a collage of human-created things.

I remember downloading games from sketchy Warez sites on the school computers because they had a T1 line and I had dialup. They’d come in Floppy-sized segments; I’d go home each day with a stack of 10-15 floppies, copy the segment to my drive, delete it from the disk, and go back the next day to collect more. It would take weeks to get a whole game, and that’s only if the warez site didn’t disappear before I finished collecting parts. Then there was the butt clencher moment when I’d try to unpack the whole thing and see if it actually worked or not which, most of the time, it did not.

Those were the days.

Just google it, I’m sure it’ll be fine.

I mean, you could make the same argument for paint brushes for traditional art. Or pencils. There’s a really big difference between someone using a tablet and an Undo hotkey to draw something digitally vs. someone making something with AI. One of those clearly requires a ton of skill; one does not require any.

I wonder what percentage has to be created by a human to be eligible for copyright. For example, if someone generates an AI image and then changes a few pixels, is that human-created? What if they over-paint 30% of the image? 50%? What if someone creates something in Photoshop from scratch, but they use Photoshop’s in-built AI driven tools to enhance it?

Either anything that uses AI in any capacity is uncopyrightable, or there has to be a line somewhere, so… Where is it?

You offer no solutions, suggestions, or even counter-points - only negativity and nay saying. Frankly, that makes me not really give a shit about your opinion.

There is nothing you can say to convince me otherwise because I have reality as evidence.

Then there’s especially no point in discussing this further with you.

Well, if that’s your takeaway from all that, I guess there’s very little point in trying to discuss this further with you.

Protests don’t have to be about intimidating anyone. They’re important as a tool for letting other people, who might also want to resist, know that they are not alone. I’m guessing based on your phrasing that you aren’t from the US, so I’m going to assume you aren’t familiar with how things work over here. It’s a big country, in terms of landmass. The US is almost as large as the entirety of Europe (~3.5m sq. miles vs. ~3.9m sq. miles.) It’s essentially impossible to coordinate anything over that large an area, especially considering how spread out everything is. Organized protests like the No Kings events, though, present a unified front across the country, and let everyone know that people everywhere feel the same way they do, and even though they might only have immediate contact to their local community, the resistance is much larger than that.

“Standing up to our oppressors” is also more difficult than you seem to think. It’s really easy to sit there behind a keyboard in another part of the world and type big words, but it’s a lot harder to commit to an armed resistance that will, in all likelihood, result in dying. The US military is huge, and mega-funded. Local law enforcement is very likely to be on the establishment’s side. They’re all armed and don’t hesitate to quash even peaceful resistance with violence. How do you think it’s going to go when someone starts shooting back?

For a true resistance to be effective, it needs to be organized and coordinated, and that’s simply very difficult to accomplish. I certainly don’t know how to do it. Do you?

Or are you just advocating for people to go die in ineffectual attempts to assassinate government officials?

It’s just a video game breeding system. Like you’re trying to make the human with ideal stats by combining other humans’ stats. Funny that Real Life mimics video games like that; good thing there’s no single entity behind it, or Nintendo would sue.

Plus, if you make $100k per month and live like this, you’ve probably got $98500 left at the end of the month. You don’t need to have too many months like that before you don’t need to work anymore.

It’s the difference of controlling the character (mouse down -> head tilts down) or controlling a camera attached to the character (mouse down -> camera moves down -> camera stays pointing towards the character’s viewpoint -> view angles upwards) to me.

Element is a client that uses the Matrix protocol, not a separate thing on its own.

It’s pretty far from fine, but regardless, this is the midterms; he’s not running for anything.

Hey OP, if you don’t edit in the link to the article in question, your post is on Death Row.

Plot twist: This is in the lobby at a Vet clinic.