google doing their best to make me move to a different platform for my next phone.

anybody know of other options?

shame? the usa is fucking proud of it.

good?

I’ve never cared for this jackhole, but a douchbag doing good is a win in my book.

I’m suggesting arm the poor and kill the rich.

If you had asked me this 15 years ago, I’d probably describe a housing complex with low rent and with on-site grocery store, post office, liquor store, and other amenities.

shit’s gotten quite fucked since then.

Today, my answer is guns and ammunition.

starfield looks uncanny as fuck anyway

The starfield demo looks better with dlss5 on, but that says more about starfield than it doesn about dlss5.

I’m happy with the updoots that I got. I’d be even happier if I see someone else use it in a comment thread.

i dream of being out of debt

A few days ago I tried to find the best frame of the video to turn into a meme. This is what I came up with.

If you made all the training data yourself, or ethically acquired the training data, then go nuts do whatever you want with it. See Corridor Digital’s ai chroma key thingy.

If the training data isn’t ethically sourced, then it gets iffy.

I use ai primarily for my own entertainment. None of it are things I’d want to share with the world. Is “dicking around” justifiable? Eh. I eat meat and shop at amazon, both of which are things that some people would find “not justifiable”, so someone is going to be upset with me no matter what.

In the case of artistically, I don’t take offense to ai tools being part of a process, what’s important to me is that the ai isn’t the entire process. You wouldn’t go to a cinema, record the movie with your phone camera, then post it online saying “look at what I made”. That’s nonsense. But if you took clips of that same movie, rearranged and dubbed over them thus creating a new unique work, you could post that online and say “look what I made”. Whatever the ai output, no matter how detailed your prompt, should be treated as being made by someone else. You don’t get to say “look what I made” unless you actually do something with it.

Another use case is summarizing conversations and compiling notes. This is another one that I do often. I could go on for hours about a subject (usually while drunk) and at the end I tell it “compile a detailed report on everything discussed, be verbose and leave out no details” or something similar, and that output goes into my notes documents. It’s fine to copy pasta that, because it’s not going to be anything that anyone ever actually sees.

I’d like to let people know that Sceptre still makes dumb tvs and they’re pretty good.

there’s legitimate complaints against valve, but I don’t think this is one of them.

as far as I remember, this has only happened twice in recent years, last time being silksong.

love seeing small and/or independent devs show up the aaa’s.

I have a source I believe to be reliable about such topics, who probably would want to remain anonymous. If this isn’t true, then they’re fucking with me, which is entirely possible but I think unlikely about this.

It’s very specific, and you won’t be mistaken for one of them if you do it “wrong”, and you will do it “wrong” if you’re not in the know. I’m not in the know, so I don’t know how to do it, but I know someone who is (in the know, not in one of those groups).

Ladder lacing. specifically on boots, is a means by which white supremacists / neo nazis identify each other in public.

Glad that I’ve switched platforms. sam altman should probably be in prison or something.

I’ve been using Venice lately, they claim (I have done zero research to determine if this is true) that they’re privacy focused. They do run uncensored models, which is a big plus.

That said, I find myself using the lying machine less these days. It was like a fun video game when I first got my hands on it, entertaining for a while, and I’m moving on. Maybe I’m not imaginative enough to use it to the fullest potential, but I’m having more fulfillment actually writing and actually drawing (even though I am very bad at both).

I used to work at a thrift store a decade ago, it was pretty common for people to drop off laptops (some of them pretty sick at the time), I’d ask why and the response was always “we have ipads”. I doubt things have improved since then.

I’m in the process of migrating my community to Stoat (formerly Revolt). It’s janky as all balls because new platform, but it’s going well.