paysrenttobirds

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Does AI-generated art posted on lemmy bother you?

I find that i can spot AI Images fairly easily these days, especially the sort of fantastical tableaus that get posted to the various AI communities around lemmy. I’m tired of seeing them; it all looks the same to me. Was wondering if im being too sensitive, or if other people are similarly bored of the constant unimaginative...

paysrenttobirds,

I think it’s not cool unless it’s funny. I’m trying to think of a good philosophical reason for that. I agree most of the time I am annoyed and don’t even look at them, scrolling past as if they were advertising.

paysrenttobirds,

In a practical sense, I can tell you that in mobile apps, some parts of gdpr are implemented based on phone language settings or in the case of websites, the domain suffix of the page (.fr or .de, etc). I’m guessing this is an interpretation of the section described here:

strong indications that a non-EU business is intentionally offering goods or services to data subjects in the EU and may therefore be subject to the GDPR:

  • Use of the language of an EU Member State (if the language is different than the language of the business’ home state);4
  • Use of the currency of an EU Member State (if the currency is different than the currency of the business’ home state);
  • Use of a top-level domain name of an EU Member State;
  • Mentions of customers based in an EU Member State; or
  • Targeted advertising to consumers in an EU Member State.

Most people seem to be leaning toward just applying them to anyone as that’s the way things are headed and once you’ve figure out how to do it technically it’s easier to just do it all the same way. Also, the EU is doing it’s best to set precedent for a broad interpretation.

paysrenttobirds,

I’ve heard complaints of senior software engineers who, though they do all carry calculators in their pockets and even usually have laptops open in front of them in the meetings, avoid doing math of any kind (simple order of magnitude multiplication, for example) in front of other people. Which makes group decision-making super obtuse.

So, maybe there is something for teachers to do along the lines of let’s get confident and quick at doing this math however you want to do it. I hope things are changing in this direction.

paysrenttobirds,

A lot depends on the angle you are heading relative to the wind and how strong and variable the wind is and how easily you want to be able to steer or hold your course.

The simplest case that I think you might be wrong is going down wind, especially in light air, you want the sail to catch the wind like a bag and direct it toward a central point to add all the vague forces into one direction instead of just twisting the sail one way or another. Like I didn’t think you actually want the wind hitting the outer edges of the sail straight on as this would just move the sail, not the boat.

Stiff, even hard not cloth sails are useful to go into the wind at a slight angle, where they are optimized in shape like an airplane wing, and they even talk of the force generated as lift.

paysrenttobirds,

Yes, the yellow is the good part and you don’t even have to be driving anywhere in particular

paysrenttobirds,

I like the desert :)

paysrenttobirds,

Is she carrying a bunch of 2x4s out of the woods?

paysrenttobirds,

Except that second button won’t be there. There’s something weird going on in our economy where the customers can’t actually afford the products but somehow their attention/data is still valuable. I don’t get it

paysrenttobirds,

We lived in a city where high schoolers take public transit and that worked well for them, but the district could never hire enough drivers for the elementary and middle schools. Even with the drivers they had, they had to stagger school start and end times so that buses could do multiple routes. Some schools started at 7 and others at 9. Then the problem you highlight comes up, that there are only a few hours between shifts, so it was harder for drivers to have a second job. Many drove Uber between.

paysrenttobirds,

Gaslamp district in San Diego had a cafeteria like this years ago, guessing it’s no longer a thing, but simple cheap menu would have steady customers, maybe profitable, it’s the business development people who would oppose.

paysrenttobirds,

It usually says price per total area, but this whole thing is why I just buy the recycled ones. If someone’s going to cheat me it may as well be for a good cause.

paysrenttobirds,

I’m really amazed at all of the people working hard to make Google-free this and self hosted that. Moreover, Google has over time been a really frustrating service as they kill off products or reduce functionality and user controls to force their agenda, so I’m always looking for ways to export my own data for safe keeping, or put a different user interface on their apis.

But, I also kind of like living in this super connected hive future. I’m not sure you can get the social side of things without taking some privacy risks. If you’re going to risk it, Google is one big risk vs. many small ones. FOSS sounds great if people are really checking, and checking the dependencies, and checking again each month as things are updated. But nothing’s guaranteed and a rooted device not using Play services gives greater exposure to bad actors other than Google. What are these services you pay for that don’t sell your data and how do you know? As far as I can tell every business everywhere has figured out they can get more money from other businesses than from subscribers so customer as product is attractive to all of them.

I think it’s a case of, yes I want people to be watching this and letting us know the danger and fighting the erosion of privacy and consumer rights, but also you’re never really much better protected than everyone as a whole, so the more interesting solutions are going to be how to know, regulate, and mitigate impact of the major players, not just saying “stop using them”.

paysrenttobirds,

It took way more than a decade and the help of other countries. Learn from it if you can, you’re on the same track

paysrenttobirds,

This is what I always wonder when they tell me a plant “tolerates clay soil”. Like does it really? Or does it just avoid it by spreading out all its roots in the thin topsoil? This would seem to be the latter.

paysrenttobirds,

Haha, I thought you meant the loopmas, which is funny, too

paysrenttobirds,

But this one’s really big

paysrenttobirds,

Wait, so you actually swirl around these tendril things? How strong are they?

paysrenttobirds,

So, basically, also pockets

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