I think YouTube has a lot of room for improvement but why are people still so ignorant about the DMCA and the obligations of platforms to maintain safe-harbour status? YouTube must take down content on claim or open itself up to being legally liable for all user generated content. This Tom Scott video is still relevant https://youtu.be/1Jwo5qc78QU
Pretty sure it’s a bad LLM „analysis“ of the code. It has that flavour to it.
Gen AI isn’t an author and there is definitively no good AI art because it isn’t art. Art requires intent. Hope that helps.
Separating the art from the artist has never been about avoiding the moral complexities of supporting bigots and fascists (financially or just keeping them in the Zeitgeist). It is that authorial intent is not relevant to personal interpretation (aka death of the author). So yes, you can separate the art from the artist but that’s an entirely different thing from what is being argued here.
If you want to argue as to whether their works should be consumed at all - paid for or not - we should absolutely not be separating the artist from the work. There is little value in them that can’t be found elsewhere and capitalists see the enduring popularity of „that fucking book“ and keeping forking over money for the IP, whether people pirated it or not.
I went to the Farina Cologne shop (the factory that developed the first Cologne) in Köln where they do tours with the guide in period costume pretending to be the founder. I wasn’t expecting much but it was genuinely fascinating and the guide was very charming and witty.
Sure I don’t get any retirement or healthcare benefits, but look at all the company scrip I get for the sloppy autocomplete that is stealing all my groundwater no matter how many times someone says „closed loop cooling“.
Unfortunately it’s the best option in Germany after Google threw a tantrum over privacy laws here. However OpenStreetMap is getting better.
ShotCut is my personal favourite of those. Simple but powerful, though the UI is admittedly clunky.
New Zealand is completely fucked. No production - not even any domestic refining, more car dependent than the US, geographically isolated, and almost at the top of the list for force majeure being exercised on them.
If my job ends up being reviewing AI code spammed at me by vibe coding juniors all day, I’m joining a nunnery.
The Xenoblade Chronicles trilogy if you like JRPGs.
I‘m switching hobbies to gunpla. No one has managed to put DRAM in an airbrush to the best of my knowledge.
It’s discussed in the Bluesky thread but the CI costs are too high on Gitlab and Codeberg for Godot‘s workflow.
Wellington airport in New Zealand has had intermittent public transport options for decades, and they charge outrageous surcharges for taxis leaving/arriving. NZ is even more car-brained than the US though.
With what money? If you haven’t been paying any attention, there’s almost zero investor interest post-COVID contraction in gaming unless its massive controlling buyouts. The little there is requires sacrificing yourself on the altar of gen AI. No one working in games has enough money to self-fund the initial funds for a studio unless they have rich parents (Sandfall) or are one of the problem executives.
It was more that graphics hardware got a lot more flexible. Less fixed functionality meant that DXVK (DirectX 8-11 to Vulkan translation layer) was a lot more viable as you were able to emulate old behaviour on the GPU through Vulkan.
Graphics APIs are a lot more „thinner“ these days as well. Creating a Vulkan renderer from scratch is like „first one must enumerate the universe“. But it means that DX12<->Vulkan translation is relatively straightforward, and all the crazy stuff is done in shaders which can be recompiled for different APIs.
Speaking of carbon, did scientists give up on lengthening carbon nanotubes at some point? They were supposed to be a miracle material as well.
Never stopped hating being forced to use that piece of monopolistic trash ever since I was on dialup when HL2 released. I buy everything I can on GOG.
I especially resent how closed off the Steam Workshop has made the mod ecosystem for a lot of games.
Any Kobo can install KOReader with a minor firmware update (that only needs to be done once). There’s instructions here: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Kobo-devices It supports OPDS out of the box (though IMO is a little unintuitive to use)