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tal, 10 months ago

If the Daily Mail's editors do it, it must be a good idea!

tal, 10 months ago

But now every boot takes an additional 60-90 seconds with a blank screen.

Hmm.

Maybe whatever changes gparted did altered the root partition UUID; after it doesn't come up, maybe your distro has some sort of fallback to find the partition?

In /etc/fstab, you may have a line that looks something like this:

UUID=3aafadcd-1d21-4c82-97f8-f872f341bbe2 /           ext4    errors=remount=ro        0       1

If you run blkid, you can check and make sure that the UUID matches.

Or, as someone else mentions, maybe it's waiting for the deleted swap partition. Should be in the same file. Can comment out the reference to said swap partition.

EDIT: Wait, I'm being silly. The reference to the root partition that you're gonna care about is gonna be in the grub config file, not /etc/fstab. On my Debian system, that's at /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

tal, 10 months ago

Also generate more sales for book publishers, I imagine.

tal, 10 months ago

Bring back Twitter

I've never had an account on the service before or after the rebrand, and for the three or so people who I occasionally glance at the accounts of, I normally use nitter.net.

However...was there actually any significant functional difference associated with "X" rebrand?

The most-significant technical shift that I was aware of was many years back, when they increased the tweet character limit.

tal, 10 months ago

the world would be an infinitely better place if Twitter died

I think that Twitter is good for footage of emergency-type situations.

All sorts of people who don't know each other put images or video up, and the community is pretty good at associating it.

tal, 10 months ago

JavaScript can be used to identify a user through Tor in a number of different ways. This is why Tor Browser comes pre-bundled with the “NoScript” plugin. This plugin can either reduce or disable JavaScript’s ability. When the plugin is set on the “Safest” setting, JavaScript is completely disabled. This level of security is required to completely stay anonymous and secure on Tor.

There was a point in time when I used NoScript, but years back, I stopped, as it had simply become impractical to browse the web with the degree of breakage that switching off Javascript by default produced.

I'm not saying that the article is wrong about it being necessary, but I think that from a functionality standpoint, that bar may be a high one. Maybe if you are just browsing a specific site or so, but I think that for general use of the Web, it's going to be a problem.

tal, 10 months ago

Clearly the game needs a Dogmeat facial expression mod.

https://img.ilcdn.fi/IzG_zochUwlOAhQBDnbDTftjGcg=/full-fit-in/612x/img-s3.ilcdn.fi/33c3f60a7ac4a5c63152c9835552888c10104f6688c6c17f342543889a49dee2.jpg

https://post.bark.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/main1.jpg

https://theawesomedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/derpy-dog-portraits-by-kevin-sarasom-28-1.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/75/21/77/75217779432d335f6bbd2b6e370b6cee.jpg

https://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/15-dogs-with-facial-expressions-that-are-so-human-it-s-hilarious-12.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cYNlJYQI3Uw/maxresdefault.jpg

tal, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I used to think the Bethesda glitches were cute too until 76 came out.

I enjoyed Fallout 76, but I also ignored it until something like three years after release, at which point it was in a decent state.

It wasn't Fallout 5, which is what I really wanted, but I got my money's worth out of it.

Only bug I hit that was kind of obnoxious was the occasional inability to pick up an item from a corpse, where one would have to look away from the corpse and then back. While being a bit immersion-breaking, it was also pretty easy to work around.

Honestly, the whole Fallout series has been pretty buggy, starting with Fallout 1, but still, a good series. Some of it just comes from the complexity of having a bunch of scripts running that can interact in odd ways in a relatively free-form world.

One of my bigger wants for Fallout 5 is easier diagnosing of problems with mods and trying to be more-robust against such problems. Maybe produce more-foolproof API functionality for common script tasks or something.

tal, 10 months ago

I imagine that LLMs have been trained on his reviews by this point and are vigorously producing articles exploring the intersection of pop gaming and the Elder Things.

tal, 10 months ago

I mean, an automated grammar checker should get this. Shouldn't even require a human editor.

https://languagetool.org/

Plugging it in there catches it and suggests "least buggy".

tal, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

That's probably part of it. A big chunk of the aspects that I didn't like about it relative to Fallout 4 -- from killing off slow-mo/pause VATS, to not having a world that can change much, to limited-size "settlements", to limited moddability, to having immersion-breaking other players jetpacking around with not-in-theme names, to having limited story content -- come from the fact that they built it to be a multiplayer game.

But even so. I've seen some footage of the game at release, and it was pretty bad. And not just bugs, but the content...I mean, a Bethesda game not having human NPCs?

I will give them props for putting a lot of effort into fixing the game post-release, but I still feel that the thing shouldn't have shipped when it did. It simply wasn't ready when it went out the door.

Also, some of the fixes they did do that I think people did like -- like reducing the severity of the food/water/radstorm survival elements, which many players didn't like having to hassle with, or reducing the role of PvP, which a lot of the playerbase didn't like -- didn't result in game rebalancing. Like, the player shelters were clearly intended to be a significant element to deal with radstorms, but radstorms are essentially ignorable. Food was intended to play a bigger role, and there are features oriented towards things like reducing the rate of one's demand for it, but that was removed.

If you look at Fallout 4 or even moreso Skyrim, modders went through and rebalanced the game long after the release. I'm not saying that everyone who played those games got to enjoy those changes, but I think that they were good ones. Fallout 76 isn't really moddable in that way, so it's dependent on Bethesda's devs to do all that...and they didn't really do that.

There were no really memorable moments from the game, the way, I don't know, the battle for The Castle or the arrival of the Brotherhood of Steel's aircraft or some other moments in Fallout 4 really stuck with me. I guess to some extent that's part of just having to make a lot of the content something that you play over and over, but it still was kinda disappointing.

And I'm not demanding that they work for free. I bought all the DLC for Fallout 4 and Skyrim. I'd happily have bought something like the (excellent) DLC packs for earlier games in the Fallout series for Fallout 76. But, instead, they only sold mostly-aesthetic content in the Atom Store. Which, okay, great, if someone really wants to decorate their player camp and wants to pay for it could be appealing to someone. But they didn't create a route to pay for more story content, more maps or the like. They did create new free content, but that necessarily has a limited budget, and again, was kinda oriented around multiplayer (and didn't catch on much with me and didn't seem to be terribly popular with players on the fo76 subreddit, either).

There are some things that I did like about it, that I don't think it got credit for. The building mode performance was significantly-improved over 4. They toned down the "everything is dark and awful and evil and every person and company is twisted" aspect in 4, which I think was a big plus; there were plenty of people just trying to live their lives in difficult situations, which felt more like 1. I'm not absolutely rabid about the new areas, but the Mire looked nice by the standards of their engine, was a good use of their engine's godrays. They did a bunch of performance and stability work (that had to happen, given that one couldn't just "reload earlier saves" if something broke in a saved game a la the single player games).

I could have lived with Fallout 76 not being Fallout 5, but what I wished that they could have done was to keep selling single-player content in traditional DLC form. A lot of MUDs and similar games have a "remort" feature where one can start with a new character and earn some persistent rewards for doing so, so playing through story content multiple times is still fun. "New Game Plus", kinda. The online aspect for single-player content would just be to provide DRM, so that people wouldn't just go swipe all the stuff that they're selling in the Atom Store. And the stuff on offer in the Atom Store...ugh. If you look at the mods in Fallout 4, people created high-resolution texture packs, new companions, new story content, and they don't have anything like that for sale. You could have segregated anything that affected balance out of the multiplayer areas, had very solid single-player-only content. It might not have been Fallout 5, but I think that it could have done a much better job of making people who wanted that happier while still providing a multiplayer game for those who wanted a multiplayer game.

tal, 10 months ago

I don't think that the issue is the quality of their QA. Well, okay, maybe that's a factor, but I don't think that that was the big one for Fallout 76.

Some of the issues in Fallout 76 that they shipped with, they had to know they were shipping with. It wasn't that QA didn't turn up problems, but that they took too-ambitious a plan, ran out of time, and then didn't delay the release to fix all the broken stuff. Yeah, they did a lot of work to fix the game post-release, but by then, a lot of players had already been soured by the initial bad experience.

They did significantly delay the Starfield release, so I assume that they are trying to put this out in a more-sane shape.

tal, 10 months ago

Maybe if they make enough money on this, they can expand and develop The Elder Scrolls and the Fallout series in parallel, as well as whatever else they have cooking, instead of working on only one title at a time.

tal, 10 months ago

France doesn't have the First Amendment. I mean, I don't much think that this is a good idea either, but different country, different system of government.

tal, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I don't agree with this prohibition, and I doubt that it's likely going to achieve much, but if my experience looking at past government restrictions on things that people want to do is predictive of the situation here, it'll mean that someone will sit down and figure out the exact limit that the French government prohibits and then figure out a garment or combination of garments that accomplishes as much of the original aims as possible without crossing whatever specific garment line is there.

I mean, what's a women's garment that does the head and neck? The bonnet?

googles

Hmm. Apparently it actually did have some religious background.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnet_(headgear)

Bonnets remained one of the most common types of headgear worn by women throughout most of the 19th century. Especially for a widow, a bonnet was de rigueur. Silk bonnets, elaborately pleated and ruched, were worn outdoors, or in public places like shops, galleries, churches, and during visits to acquaintances. Women would cover their heads with caps simply to keep their hair from getting dirty and perhaps out of female modesty, again, in European society, based upon the historical teaching of the Christian Bible. In addition, women in wedlock would wear caps and bonnets during the day, to further demonstrate their status as married women.

But, as far as I know, they aren't banned. So someone says "Okay, so people can't wear (religious) abayas, but can wear (secular) trenchcoats? This new garment isn't an abaya. This is a bonnet and trenchcoat." Or, you know, whatever.

tal, 10 months ago

I broadly agree that "cloud" has an awful lot of marketing fluff to it, as with many previous buzzwords in information technology.

However, I also think that there was legitimately a shift from a point in time where one got a physical box assigned to them to the point where VPSes started being a thing to something like AWS. A user really did become increasingly-decoupled from the actual physical hardware.

With a physical server, I care about the actual physical aspects of the machine.

With a VPS, I still have "a VPS". It's virtualized, yeah, but I don't normally deal with them dynamically.

With something like AWS, I'm thinking more in terms of spinning up and spinning down instances when needed.

I think that it's reasonable to want to describe that increasing abstraction in some way.

Is it a fundamental game-changer? In general, I don't think so. But was there a shift? Yeah, I think so.

And there might legitimately be some companies for which that is a game-changer, where the cost-efficiencies of being able to scale up dynamically to handle peak load on a service are so important that it permits their service to be viable at all.

tal, 10 months ago

It sounds like it's just trusting whatever people plonk in in searches, so you can presumably poison their database with whatever GPA and SAT score you want.

tal, 10 months ago

Hmm. It'd be interesting to go through game credit screens and build a database to try to predict good games.

tal, 10 months ago

I don't think that the situation is that similar.

Rome ran into a situation where whoever could buy off the military, or enough of the military, could get power.

But in this case, we haven't really seen offers to the military or them switching sides to whoever puts forward the best deal. In fact, as I recall someone pointing out, Russia hasn't really historically been much subject to military coups.

tal, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Parmigiano Reggiano

Producers estimate that global sales of counterfeit cheese amount to around $1.73 billion (€1.6 billion) annually.

In the United States alone, the production of imitation Italian cheeses reached an astonishing 5.7 billion pounds (2.6 billion kilos) in 2021, according to Coldiretti.

Oh, for Chrissake. It's not a counterfeit. "Parmesan and Reggiano" is a genericized identifier in the US. Everyone in the US knows that they're buying a variety of cheese, not a cheese from Italy. If you want something from Italy, you look on the label for a "product of Italy".

Saying that this is a counterfeit is roughly equivalent to me saying that the EU produces counterfeit Wendy's food because Wendy's-the-hamburger-company doesn't own the Wendy's trademark in the EU. Nobody in the Netherlands going to Wendy's is expecting that they're getting something from Wendy's-the-hamburger-chain.

tal, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/wendys-locations-europe-netherlands-goes-restaurant

Frikandel Speciaal, Bitterballen, and something called “smulrol” are a few favorites on the menu at Wendy’s in the Dutch city of Goes. There are no 4 for 4€ deals, no Baconators or Son of Baconators, no Frostys to dip your fries. There’s not even an adorable, freckle-faced mascot. Instead, it’s the glorious mullet of the chain-smoking man behind the counter, Albert van der Hoek.

This is what Wendy’s looks like in Europe: A hole-in-the-wall chippie run by some brute Dutch sailors with a serious case of stick-it-to-the-man-itis. It’s the reason a certain billion-dollar, red-headed American fast food chain has been kicked off the continent.

tal, 10 months ago

Blasphemy laws being expanded in 2023. Not what I think people would have predicted in, say, 1990.

tal, 10 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_desecration

It looks like most countries in mainland Europe either restrict flag desecration in general or desecration of their national flag.

Of the mainland Europe countries for which data exists, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, and Romania permit it, and Denmark prohibits desecration of international flags but permits desecration of the national flag.

It looks like the British tradition is to permit it -- the UK, Ireland, Australia, the US, and Canada permit it (though New Zealand does not).

It looks like most countries around the world prohibit desecration of their own flag but permit desecration of those of others.

The only other countries that take the Danish approach (permit desecration of own but not of others) are Uruguay and Japan.

It looks like Europe is actually one of the most-restrictive places in the world in terms of flag desecration. Few countries around the world restrict both desecration of one's own flag and the flag of other countries; almost all are in Europe, with only Israel and South Korea doing the same outside of Europe.

tal, 10 months ago

I don't think that the interesting question is really whether Islam is a good idea or a bad idea. I think that the interesting question is whether a form of condemnation of anything -- Islam, another religion, or anything else -- should be prohibited because some people don't like it being condemned.

tal, 10 months ago

You dont need to burn a Quran to condem Islam

No, but you certainly can choose that as your form of expression.

What would you say if people flock to burn Torahs instead?

That's fine too.

tal, 10 months ago

The region that would benefit most is West Wales, in the United Kingdom, where there would be increases of almost 16%.

Huh.

tal, 10 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEET

tal, 10 months ago

We've had much-warmer temperatures on Earth, but outside of when humans were around.

https://www.climate.gov/media/11332

If you're in Europe, 90°F is ~32°C and 50°F is 10°C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_and_icehouse_Earth

Throughout Earth's climate history (Paleoclimate) its climate has fluctuated between two primary states: greenhouse and icehouse Earth.[1] Both climate states last for millions of years and should not be confused with glacial and interglacial periods, which occur as alternate phases within an icehouse period and tend to last less than 1 million years.

Earth is now in an icehouse state, and ice sheets are present in both poles simultaneously.

A "greenhouse Earth" is a period during which no continental glaciers exist anywhere on the planet.[6] Additionally, the levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (such as water vapor and methane) are high, and sea surface temperatures (SSTs) range from 28 °C (82.4 °F) in the tropics to 0 °C (32 °F) in the polar regions.[7] Earth has been in a greenhouse state for about 85% of its history.[6]

We can live in even the warm areas of an Earth like that, but it'd be an Earth that's warmer than humanity has ever experienced.

tal, 10 months ago

When talking about computers, it was always 1024.

The problem is that each time you go up another unit, the binary and decimal units diverge further.

It rarely mattered much when you're talking about the difference between kibibytes and kilobytes. In the 1980s, with the size of memory and storage available, the difference was minor, so using the decimal unit was a pretty good approximation for most things. But as we deal with larger amounts of data, the error becomes more-significant.

Decimal unit	Binary unit	Divergence
kilobyte (kB)	kibiyte (kiB)	2.4%
megabyte (MB)	mebibyte (MiB)	4.9%
gigabyte (GB)	gibibyte (GiB)	7.4%
terabyte (TB)	tebibyte (TiB)	10.0%
petabyte (PB)	pebibyte (PiB)	12.6%
exabyte (EB)	exbibyte (EiB)	15.3%

tal, 10 months ago

"The Russians have a lot of form here," he says. "Throughout Soviet and post-Soviet history there have been suspicious air crashes when rivals were a threat or became too popular. For example, Yuri Gagarin in 1968 and General Alexander Lebed (a one-time possible contender for the presidency) in 2002 both died in mysterious circumstances in air incidents."

Prighozin, sure; he'd expressed all kinds of disapproval of government policy and had just attempted to send his forces against Moscow, had disregarded Putin's order to stop, had been investigated, various patrons and supporters have disappeared in the past two months, his organization was disbanded, many predictions were made from reputable people that he would be killed, and he was flying in a (relatively safe) passenger plane with other top Wagner associates between Moscow and St. Petersburg.

It looks like Gagarin died when doing MiG training under non-ideal conditions, and Lebed's helicopter crashed into power lines. I don't think that those are remotely near being in the same bin.

tal, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

If the eastern countries were not run by prostitutes they’d split and form their own block.

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Well, you're Serbian, yes? You are not in the EU. And you do have CEFTA. And you've got that Open Balkan thing.

But you don't want just that, because it's small, yes? Same thing applies to the EU at a larger scale.

Thing is -- something that I usually point out to people from Germanic EU musing about how cool it would be if they could go break off into their own bloc -- is that none of the Germanic/Latin/Slavic blocs are all that large on their own. Individually, you've got something like the population of a Brazil.

I'm in the US, and we're expected to bypass the EU in population this century, and we're a lot more-politically-integrated. Even with that, we're the shrimp among the largest powers -- as China and India develop, they're gonna get a lot beefier in terms of clout than they are today, even if today they're poor, because they can leverage that population.

So if the EU says "okay, not only am I gonna stay somewhat politically-not-integrated at the bloc level, but I'm gonna split into a couple of blocs" and on top of that have a smaller population than anyone else even before the bloc pie starts getting cut up, it's gonna be tough to get enough population to have a lot of clout, I think.

I mean, that's an option, but I'm saying that it's inevitably going to impact the EU's position in the world.

tal, 10 months ago

a nightmare of “equal but inferior” relationships between the west and east...Germany

Pretty sure that this is Austria doing it and for domestic political reasons.

And while I agree that attempts by countries to leverage their "inside before others" position to block other members is obnoxious, there have been vetoes from any number of countries. A while back, Greece was threatening to veto things to shift positions on Cyprus, for example.

tal, 10 months ago

Wagner Channels already announced another March of Justice™ in case YP ate shit.

My understanding is that they had their heavy weapons taken away and were moved out of Russia, maybe specifically to guard against this scenario. And some people signed contracts with the Ministry of Defense. I don't think that there's much of an intact independent Wagner organization in Russia right now.

tal, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

So, if you've got the population involved, I could believe that you could do an uprising with small arms, sure.

But this isn't "the Russian public is pissed to the point of fighting", but "some people in Wagner are pissed". Wagner's got military-trained people, but they aren't that big.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group

Largest number there was 50K, and I don't think that they're anywhere near that big any more, because they don't have convicts on short-term contracts any more. I think I remember seeing something like 5k in Belarus. Some Wagner people are in Africa or elsewhere. My impression is that the Kremlin wanted them out of Russia as an independent organization -- the people there had to sign on with the military, and I assume that they probably dispersed those. So, a lot of that isn't an internal threat.

I think that they weren't likely to pull off the first march if it came to a serious fight, and that was before a significant portion of the organization was dismantled, and people who agreed with them, like Surovikin, were removed. What was notable then was that a lot of the people in the public, local Russian military, didn't really care, weren't aiming to resist, and they had some level of support from the public, so maybe they could have just rolled into Moscow in some sort of a coup situation and supported that. But if their patrons are gone, I assume that that cannot happen either.

My guess is that if Putin is at risk, it's more because now he's more-dependent now on the military, and maybe someone in the military could perform a coup. He doesn't have Wagner as an independent force to play off against them. Lots of countries have leaders that have been deposed by the military if military leaders think that they can get a better deal with the leader gone.

tal, 10 months ago

I would have thought he’d make it harder for them.

The guy is on the West's shitlist and then got himself on Putin's shitlist too. Where is he going to go?

The West probably isn't going to assassinate him, but I suspect that he'd likely be heading for a courtroom and later jail cell over some of the things that Wagner did.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/02/03/ukraine-prosecutor-general-prigozhin-wagner/1181675434937/

Ukraine's Office of the Prosecutor General has filed charges against Wagner mercenary group head Yevgeny Prigozhin. The organization is accused of war crimes in Ukraine, Syria and Mali.

Maybe you can hide somewhere, but that's a lot of parties out there who would like to get ahold of you.

tal, 10 months ago

or take your job.

The unemployment line there makes for quite the mental image.

The “Erect Horse Penis - Concept LoRA,” an image generating AI model that instantly produces images of women with erect horse penises as their genitalia, has been downloaded 16,000 times, and has an average score of five out of five stars, despite criticism from users.

tal, 10 months ago

Yeah, I think that there may be something like that -- the ability to prove things with a camera is useful -- but it's gonna be more-complicated than just that. It's consumer hardware. If you just do that, someone is gonna figure out how to extract the keys on at least one model and then you can forge authenticated images with it.

tal, 10 months ago

I do kind of wonder what the end-game is in terms of fertility rates in society if we can manufacture ever-more-perfect simulations of sex.

The Amish might still be around, but...

tal, 10 months ago

Arguably a good application for AI image-to-prompt functionality, I suppose.

tal, 10 months ago

Maybe Google uses geographic location as an input, and it was just some other correlating factor, like people in your area, rather than a global trend.

tal, 10 months ago

Public domain absolutely exists in the EU.

Hmm. There was some kind of issue with that in the EU that led to the creation of a Creative Commons license, IIRC. Maybe nonstandardized handling of stuff not under copyright. I remember that in the US, putting something in the public domain wasn't an issue, but in at least some of the EU, it was important to use Creative Commons instead.

I think that something not being under copyright isn't analogous everywhere.

googles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-domain-equivalent_license

In 2009, Creative Commons released CC0, which was created for compatibility with jurisdictions where dedicating to public domain is problematic, such as continental Europe.[citation needed] This is achieved by a public-domain waiver statement and a fall-back all-permissive license, for cases where the waiver is not valid.

tal, 10 months ago

They know nothing they haven’t seen before

Strictly speaking, you arguably don't either. Your knowledge of the world is based on your past experiences.

You do have more-sophisticated models than current generative AIs do, though, to construct things out of aspects of the world that you have experienced before.

The current crop are effectively more-sophisticated than simply pasting together content -- try making an image and then adding "blue hair" or something, and you can get the same hair, but recolored. And they ability to replicate artistic styles is based on commonalities in seen works, but you don't wind up seeing chunks of material just done by that artist.

Like, you have a concept of relative characteristics, and the current generative AIs do not. You can tell a human artist "make those breasts bigger", and they can extrapolate from a model built on things they've seen before. The current crop of generative AIs cannot. But I expect that the first bigger-breast generative AI is going to attract users, based on a lot of what generative AIs are being used for now.

There is also, as I understand it, some understanding of depth in images in some existing systems, but the current generative AIs don't have a full 3d model of what they are rendering.

But they'll get more-sophisticated.

I would imagine that there will be a combination of techniques. LLMs may be used, but I doubt that they will be pure LLMs.

tal, 10 months ago

AI will also solve the housing affordability crisis too so you won’t need to worry about that…right?!?

I mean, realistically, I do expect someone to put together a viable robotic house-construction robot at some point.

https://www.homelight.com/blog/buyer-how-much-does-it-cost-to-build-a-house/

A rough breakdown of the overall costs of building a home will look like this:

Labor: 40%

Also, I'd bet that it cuts into materials cost, because you don't need to provide the material in a form convenient for a human to handle.

I've seen people creating habitations with large-scale 3d printers, but that's not really a practical solution. It's just mechanically-simple, so easier to make the robot.

I don't know if it needs to use what we'd think of as AI today to do that. Maybe it will, if that's a way to solve some problems conveniently. But I do think that automating house construction will happen at some point in time.

tal, 10 months ago

More-generally, if you see something of this form:

[email protected]

Where the community above is:

[email protected]

You can just plonk that into the search field in kbin, and it'll bring up a page where you can subscribe to it.

You can also link directly to the search -- and doing so apparently also works on lemmy servers, since the URL format is the same:

[Search link](/search?q=pixelart%40lemmyloves.art)

Yields:

Search link

tal, 10 months ago

It got trained on the Internet, I imagine.

tal, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I'd bet that there's a spoof website out there somewhere, and that's where it got it from.

EDIT: Also:

poisoning the results

Heh.

tal, 10 months ago

The existence of the Liberian flag registry!

tal, 10 months ago

This is not a feature that a device with limited available power to consume needs.

I don't disagree, but I'm not sure that that is the long-run game.

I think that many of us consider Android to be a supplemental platform to a "heavyweight" computing platform, like Linux, MacOS, or Windows.

My understanding is that an increasing number of younger people don't know how to use those platforms. Just a smartphone platform.

And I see attempts to shift towards heavier-weight Android devices.

It may be that the aim here is to move towards larger Android devices.