I couldn't stand Linkin Park when they were first getting popular. I felt that they were too edgelord-y for me and wrote them off. Now, I wish I had actually given them a shot earlier on.
There was a pond nearby, but the fireflies would usually gather pretty far from it. I'm pretty sure it was the grass that they were attracted to, but I didn't consider the flowers! There were a few bushes that I recall, though I can't remember what type of flower they actually had. But I do remember them being really pretty in the springtime, but that's not really a helpful description lol.
It's been years since I've seen them. They used to always come out around this time of year when I was a kid, but it feels so rare to see one anymore.
At an old job I had, there was this garden-like section of this courtyard area people would take smoke breaks in. They had a special breed of grass planted there that seemed to attract the fireflies, and I guess it works because they'd actually show up to that little patch of garden almost year-round. I wish I knew what type of grass it was; I'd totally buy some seeds and do some guerrilla gardening around my apartment complex to bring back some fireflies.
The prompts aren't generally considered enough because there's too little control over the final expression, the same prompt can create wildly different outputs.
AI art isn't made by just entering a prompt, picking an output image, and calling it a day. There's actually a lot more involvement necessary to get the final output to be what you want. Some more advanced pieces of AI art take hours of tweaking the prompt and redoing certain sections, balancing positive and negative prompts and their weighting, not to mention training a model in the first place and touching up the final output in Photoshop.
There's a very big industry behind AI art right now, and they're not just using DALL-E prompts to do it. Whatever your thoughts about AI art may be, there's no denying that a large amount of human labor is involved in the creation of any piece.
They'll just come up with an excuse for why those people didn't actually deserve to be paid in the first place.
What's the difference between one technology you don't understand (AI engine-assisted ) and another you don't understand (human-staffed radiology laboratory)?
The difference is that people think they understand AI. Even here in this thread, there are people confusing this for an LLM.
Purge works both ways, Donnie.
I'm sure that an argument can be made that the final output can't be generated without the human-created prompt. Generative AI doesn't output images on its own without a seed/prompt, much like a canvas doesn't paint itself and a camera doesn't open the shutter on its own.
Coffee, wine, chocolate... it feels like every day there's a new study showing how they're either great for you or how they're giving you cancer.
It's appreciated! <3
While you're working on a more permanent fix, is there a preferred way we should let you know about hiccups like this? Or is pinging you in a thread in this magazine sufficient?
Sorry to nag, but it looks like it might be acting up again lol. Doesn't look like any sync has happened for 5 hours.
Nah, not really. Technically, this is better. But only marginally so, and unless Valve does something catastrophically, egregiously abusive with the Steam platform, then the people who will actually benefit from this are few and far between. Valve wouldn't just say "come sue us" if they weren't wholly confident that they weren't about to be losing any cases any time soon.
This isn't some huge "win" for the people; gamers aren't gonna rise up over this. For 99.999% of Steam's userbase, this is an entirely lateral move. Valve are the only ones who will see any tangible benefit from this.
Because it's not quite the good-faith gesture people are making it out to be; it's a cost-saving measure for Valve. From the consumer standpoint, very little actually changes, as the average user isn't taking Valve to court in the first place. It's not as if Valve is suddenly lowering their legal funding in conjunction with this move; they'll still defend themselves harder than most consumers would be able to, and will win their cases in court instead of in arbitration, which is even more costly for the consumer when they lose.
While arbitration favors companies, so do the courts. If anything, this just makes it more cost-prohibitive on the consumer side to make Valve face the law.
Remember the video of him getting into a fight with some teenage girl just a few days before he killed those people? The video they wouldn't let the jury see because it might show that Rittenhouse was an escalation-seeking rage-aholic? The video that his spokesperson has definitely seen?
Yeah, he was never disillusioned. He knew who this bastard was all along. He just stopped making money off the kid, is all.
What patent are you referring to?
Are we still having trouble? A thread I posted 45 minutes ago hasn't shown up on the instance I posted it to yet. The "Open original URL" menu on the post goes to the Fedia page instead of LemmyWorld. It seems like a comment I posted 2 hours ago is also not appearing on the original instance, either.
Valve has removed the arbitration clauses from Steam Subscriber Agreement
> > > Valve has updated the Steam Subscriber Agreement. The updates affect your legal rights, including how disputes and claims between you and Valve are resolved. Among other things, the new dispute resolution provisions in Section 10 require that all disputes and claims proceed in court and not in arbitration. Please review carefully. > >
For comparison, here is a Wayback Machine snapshot from yesterday: https://web.archive.org/web/20240925000911/https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber\_agreement/
I use an animation from this live wallpaper app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.at2_software.terracollageapp&hl=en_US
I believe it was just a one-time purchase for the full version of the app. The animations don't loop very well, but I'm not staring at my home screen long enough to see the loop that often, so it's not a big concern to me. They're pretty much all swirly, inky, starry sort of abstract animations, but there's a lot of color options so it's pretty easy to pick something that fits well with the rest of your phone's theme.
The developer hasn't updated it for over a year now, so if the previews don't look like something you'd like, I wouldn't bother buying the full version since it's unlikely that any more will be added.
Lemmy loves to shit on billionaires, until it's one they think they like.
Your TV doesn't need a screensaver. You can just... turn it off.
You're trusting that a) they're not malicious and b) they have their shit together and c) even though they do have their shit together someone doesn't find a random exploit anyhow.
You could say this about literally any solution short of hand-delivering cash in person.
Michael Moschen performs THE TRIANGLE
This 16 year old video randomly showed up in my recommendations tonight. This is one of the coolest juggling routines I've ever seen.
Tips/Tools for sharpening a recurved blade?
Hey guys! I've just recently gotten into collecting pocket knives, and I wanna make sure I'm taking proper care of them. My last two purchases have been karambits, both with fairly steep recurved blades, whose edges I'd like to be able to maintain.
I know that normal sharpening stones aren't going to allow me enough contact with the blade to actually put an edge on it, so I've picked up a Smith's DRET sharpener and have been practicing on an old dull knife with a stiletto blade, just to try to get some basics down. I'm getting better with it, but I'm struggling to get an even, consistent edge. Even without any special optics, I can see with my own eyes that I've got wildly uneven angles.
Granted, I'm practicing with a very low-quality knife that was already in pretty rough shape. I've managed to get the edge from "literally unable to break the skin with 20 pounds of pressure and aggressive sawing motions on my forearm" to "can cut through paper with about half of the blade before bunching up", though it's come at a cost of scratching the absolute hell out of the rest of the blade (which is just me being sloppy).
I figure that once I'm able to get competent enough with sharpening a normal blade shape that I'll move on to testing with a donor karambit. I picked up a super cheap, mall-ninja-ass karambit on Amazon because the reviews were all poor and said that the knife arrived completely dull, so I figured this would be perfect to practice sharpening. Unfortunately, it arrived with a surprisingly sharp edge, so I'm gonna have to abuse this knife for a bit before I can even practice anything on it.
Just curious what sort of tools y'all recommend for dealing with recurved blades, or any techniques I could try to incorporate into my practicing. Thanks!
OBSIDIAN SOUNDFIELDS - 028 "Obscura Highrise" // 1 Hour Ambience
> > > Perched atop a towering skyrise in a desolate city plagued by a toxic weather anomaly, the "Obscura Highrise" looms ominously from above. Volunteers, donning gas masks for protection, frequently go missing here, drawn by the call to uncover the source of this deadly phenomenon. Once thriving, the city now suffers from a containment breach at a secret laboratory, leaking an experimental gas into its fabric. The gas intensifies as one descends, Becoming increasingly potent. Causing a visual spectrum shift that reveals hidden aspects in ultraviolet and infrared while obscuring the familiar. Reality warps, with walls appearing transparent and solid ground feeling like quicksand, creating an ever-shifting, unreliable terrain and decent. Electrical interference adds to the danger, leading some to believe this chaos was orchestrated by the fabled "Phantom Port," a clandestine hub using mist-cloaked technology to guide humanity’s future from the shadows. > >
Reate Exo-K: Acceptable account of rattle?
Hey guys! This might be a bit of a longshot since I don't think this knife is too popular, so I don't expect a lot of people to have experience with it. I recently purchased a Reate Exo-K, and I absolutely love it. It's in no way a practical or useful knife, it's dangerous to the user and its own self, and it's illegal to carry in a lot of places. But it's fun, and that's what matters to me.
I often will idly flip the knife open and closed while working, and from the beginning there was always a little amount of rattle when deploying it. After having it for about a week or so, it feels like all the pivot points have gotten a bit looser, which I think is to be expected after breaking it in a little.
But now it's beginning to feel like there's more play going side-to-side with the arm, causing more rattle than before. While held in the normal reverse grip, it tightens right back up and there's virtually no play, so I'm not worried about it falling apart on me while I'm actually trying to cut something with it, but I'm worried that the arm may come apart somehow during deployment. Since a flipping motion is required to open this, I worry that I may end up launching a razor sharp blade in a random direction at considerable speed, which... isn't good.
For what it's worth, this is how much space I'm getting between the arm and the handle when in the open position. That much space exists while the lock is engaged. I'm not sure if this is typical for the Exo-K, or if this is an excessive gap.
Compared to the trainer, there's a significantly larger gap and louder rattle. But they're made from very different materials, so I won't know how much I can reliably compare the two.
Just curious to know if anyone else has had this happen with theirs and is normal, or if I should reach out to Reate for a warranty claim.
TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it
> > > Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize said advancement.It originated in a 2010 post at discussion board LessWrong, a technical forum focused on analytical rational enquiry. The thought experiment's name derives from the poster of the article (Roko) and the basilisk, a mythical creature capable of destroying enemies with its stare. > >
> > > While the theory was initially dismissed as nothing but conjecture or speculation by many LessWrong users, LessWrong co-founder Eliezer Yudkowsky reported users who panicked upon reading the theory, due to its stipulation that knowing about the theory and its basilisk made one vulnerable to the basilisk itself. This led to discussion of the basilisk on the site being banned for five years. However, these reports were later dismissed as being exaggerations or inconsequential, and the theory itself was dismissed as nonsense, including by Yudkowsky himself. Even after the post's discreditation, it is still used as an example of principles such as Bayesian probability and implicit religion. It is also regarded as a simplified, derivative version of Pascal's wager. > >
Found out about this after stumbling upon this Kyle Hill video on the subject. It reminds me a little bit of "The Game".
YouTube Needs To Delete This Channel Immediately... | YouTuber "TechLead" admits to abusing DMCA process to doxx YouTubers posting criticisms of him
> > > Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at an individual known as Techlead once again. This creator has had an incredibly controversial history but it's in the last few days he's decided to take advantage of the YouTube copyright system to gain information on his critics and unlawfully remove their content. YouTube needs to step in. Thanks for watching! > >
Added some clarification to the original title as it's a bit clickbaity.
tl;dw: A YouTuber by the name of "TechLead" has openly admitted to using the DMCA process to file illegitimate takedown requests against people who use any footage of him while making exposé videos.
The way it works is by filing a DMCA request against the video, which then forces the creator to respond to the complaint or have the video permanently deleted. Because DMCA complaints are a legal process, responding to the complaint entails supplying a lot of your personal information, which TechLead has been accused of leaking in the past. This forces creators to either expose their personal information to a person who has already had credible doxxing allegations made against them, or have their video removed and their channel permanently stricken.
This process is not only a violation of YouTube's ToS, but also several US laws; depending on what he does with the information he gets from the complaint response, it may fall under doxxing laws, but also knowingly submitting a frivolous DMCA request is considered perjury.
Don't poke the Viper in the jungle unless you're ready for the venom.
> > > Don't poke the Viper in the jungle unless you're ready for the venom. > >
Chrystabell & David Lynch - Sublime Eternal Love
> > > From the upcoming album “Cellophane Memories”by Chrystabell and David Lynch out on Sacred Bones Records on August 2, 2024. > >