Like Sword in the Stone Merlin on vacation?

Picture for reference:

I think this is completely missing the point when it’s talking about “the minutiae of art”. It’s making two claims at the same time: art is better when you suffer for it and the art is good whether or not you suffered. But none of that is relevant.

When Wyeth made Christina’s World, I don’t know if he suffered or not when painting that grass. What I do know is that he was a human with limited time and the fact that he spent so much of his time detailing every blade of grass means that he’s saying something. That The Oatmeal doesn’t draw backgrounds might be because he’s lazy, but he also doesn’t need them. These are choices we make to put effort in one part and ignore some other part.

AI doesn’t make choices. It doesn’t need to. A detailed background is exactly the same amount of work as a plain one. And so a generated picture has this evenly distributed level of detail, no focus at all. You don’t really know where to look, what’s important, what the picture is trying to say. Because it’s not saying anything. It isn’t a rat with a big butt, it’s just a cloud of noise that happens to resemble a rat with a big butt.

That video is what you could’ve linked in the first place. It clearly explains the whole situation, and the colors and numbers make sense in the context (they’re highlighted examples and not really exceptional cases). Don’t act like you’re doing any “work for free” when you yourself admit you’re lazily cropping other people’s work.

I don’t see that picture in the linked article. A similar picture, but it doesn’t have the numbers and shades of green.

I know how to use search engines, by the way. But I also think that it’s the responsibility of the person sharing graphs/maps to provide context for those graphs to enable readers to understand the data without having to go and do their own research. There’s no guarantee anyone finds the original source or that the source even provides the necessary context, if the sharer just grabbed a picture from Google Images without regard for the source.

So no, I won’t even attempt to find context and happily push that burden back on the person who lazily shared a graph without explanation.

This map needs an explanation. Is grey just no data? Why the two shades of green? The numbers, what do they mean?

Atypical is pretty good, it’s a coming-of-age about an autistic teen. It managed to evade the Department of Premature Cancellations for 4 seasons and even reached a satisfying conclusion.

Agreed, not just because someone is being an asshole. Everyone should feel the need to protect their personal information, because the world is full of assholes of different levels and your personal information being publicly available can only cause harm to you. It really is as simple as setting your profile to “friends only” to counter the lowest level of assholes.

The distinction there is that they detect the activation command client-side and start sending to server after that. Chat control could technically be implemented in a similar way, where the client decides when and what to send to central processing. Only problem is… do we do all detection client-side then? Or do we let the user activate the detection by saying “Hey Interpol”?

Everyone regardless of victim status should use the tools available to protect their personal information online.

If someone is publishing your personal information without your consent, local laws and regulations may apply. You kinda have to be lucky with police and the legal system to take you seriously though.

Just watched it, can confirm that it’s reallyreally good.

I love coming-of-age movies and… what’s the genre called where the main is a bit of a fuckup who can’t really find their place in the world? Because my collection is filled with those.

So I liked our main floaters of course, but one character who isn’t as obviously “lost” is Allison. She’s just as insecure as Megan about her place in the world, but she solves it by clinging to her old friend group and aggressively asserting that her way is the normal way actually. That’s a side I hadn’t thought about before.

Sorry about that, some people don’t know ani.social exists and create comms on the wrong instances. They’re supposed to show up in my local feed, but now they’re in yours and you don’t even appreciate them!

It has existed for decades (though it had a reboot), but it’s spiked in popularity in the past few years.

Soulseek is the most popular now. It’s peer-to-peer on a different level than torrents, you download from a single other user, which is a little more finicky than connecting to a swarm. But there’s a lot of music available there.

Curling her arms around me, dragging me into the dark deep, holding me tight as I struggle to get free :3

This, I think, is the real promise of vibe coding tools—that you can learn how to code without a CS degree.

I learned to code without a CS degree. I used a for Dummies book, W3schools, Stack Overflow and the good guidance of a senior developer. Learning to code was never the issue. And I think poking around in the code, experimenting, stumbling on unrelated but helpful answers, before finding your problem, are all great ways to become experienced that are prevented by the use of a tool like Bolt. If Bolt produces code that confuses experienced developers, how is the vibe coder supposed to learn anything useful from it?

I like the texturing of the skirt, it’s a neat technique.

There’s some good discussion in the issue raised on the repo. The developer says that Play Integrity was provided as an example of how to verify client integrity, but that it wasn’t a hard requirement and updated the readme to reflect that.

What an absolutely terrible article. I read the whole thing and I’m still unclear on what the check is and what it actually applies to and I’m pretty sure the author+GPT is too.

The reddit post (that our author mangled to churn out an article) is pretty clear about it: the age verification app will perform a Play Integrity check to ensure it is an official build on a “supported” OS (whatever that means, my crDroid passes Play Integrity). This doesn’t mean anything for any other apps running on that same system, it only applies to the AV app. It does mean something for the OS, because passing Play Integrity needs some Google services running at root level.

That all assumes you even want or need to run that app in the first place. It’s just a reference app for now, open for member states to adopt into a potential digital AV system. If your country doesn’t have any concrete plans for AV for porn/booze/memes yet, but might in the future, then getting involved in local politics will do a lot more than getting worked up about a github repo.

And the reason it has to be safe is not just because of investors, but because they’re giant companies structured for making big games. You can’t use a full team of UI designers on a small indie game with a fast development cycle. You can’t really split those resources up among 100 tiny projects either. So if you want to make use of your big company and your in-house engine and all that, you have to make a billion dollar game and it has to earn back that money and it can’t take any risks.

I also have to laugh when someone takes a very rough estimate (around a hundred miles) and converts it to metric with 4 significant figures (160.9 km). Even 160 is too precise when talking about a distance of 80-120 miles. If the original number has 1 sigfig, the conversion should too, even if that feels way off.