But all sharing the same keyboard? I need to understand the logistics behind that feat

You mean the 40 horsepower is actually 40 Indians under the hood??

Does a WoW subscription count? I’ve played on private servers for a looooong time, that alone would’ve been some 20+ months of sub.

It’s tricky for me to estimate because the majority of my piracy happened around 2004-14, so lots of stuff I don’t remember, plus some of the games I pirated back then I ended up buying later on at a discount (Jazz Jackrabbit, SupCom, UT2004, X3TC). I still don’t own a legal copy of Age of Empires 2, so you can add that one to my debt.

Oh, that reminds me, if I add the many, many, MANY emulated roms to that list, boy, that’ll be a lot of debt. Some 500 games times ~40 dollars average, that’s 20k.

There are also the many anime episodes that simply didn’t exist as available for purchase, so “at original price” I guess it’d be zero.

Question, how’s the performance on Waydroid? I know using something that fully emulates an Android environment tends to get slow on slower (5th gen i3 or celeron equivalents) computers

Offer it some weed

How is it for file sharing? It’s my main use of telegram

I’m basing it mostly from personal and family experience. My mom often ends up watching AI made videos (stuff that’s just an AI narrator and AI images slideshow), my RPG group has poked fun at the amount of AI books that Amazon keeps suggesting them, anyone using instagram will, sooner or later, see adverts of famous people endorsing bogus products or sites via the magic of AI

The apparent main use for AI thus far is spam and scam, which is what I was thinking about when dismissing most content made with that. While the internet was already chock full of that before AI, its availability is increasing those problems tenfold

Yes, people use it for other things, like “art”, but most people using it for “art” are trying to get a quick buck ASAP before customers get too smart to fall for it. Writers already had a hard time getting around, now they have to deal with a never ending deluge of AI books, plus the risk of a legally distinct enough copy of their work showing up the next day.

Put it another way, the major use of AI thus far is “i want to make money without effort”

They want you to believe that analyzing things without permission somehow goes against copyright, when in reality, fair use is a part of copyright law, and the reason our discourse isn’t wholly controlled by mega-corporations and the rich.

Ok, but is training an AI so it can plagiarize, often verbatim or with extreme visual accuracy, fair use? I see the 2 first articles argue that it is, but they don’t mention the many cases where the crawlers and scrappers ignored rules set up to tell them to piss off. That would certainly invalidate several cases of fair use

Instead of charging for everything they scrap, law should force them to release all their data and training sets for free. “But they spent money and time and resources!” So did everyone who created the stuff they’re using for their training, so they can fuck off.

The article by Tory also says these things:

This facilitates the creation of art that simply would not have existed and allows people to express themselves in ways they couldn’t without AI. (…) Generative AI has the power to democratize speech and content creation, much like the internet has.

I’d wager 99.9% of the art and content created by AI could go straight to the trashcan and nobody would miss it. Comparing AI to the internet is like comparing writing to doing drugs.

The hardest thing to believe is that call centers still had humans somewhere to call/answer calls

Blender’s UI overhaul from 2.7 to 2.8 was a much needed and very welcome update as well

Ypu know what I don’t hear on lemmy? People complaining that crypto world consumes more energy than AI world and one of those is far more useless in grand scheme of things.

That’s because one has all the big tech companies madly rushing to implement it everywhere, while the other even Ubisoft has abandoned and is more or less stuck to their own cult

I wouldn’t call it unpopular because how the education system works in America and several other countries has been a very obvious problem for decades. What we should be teaching is more barometer question

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer_question

The student admitted that he knew the expected “conventional” answer, but was fed up with the professor’s "teaching him how to think … rather than teaching him the structure of the subject.

I don’t think they’re too keen with gaijins

Go for release order. People (including me) can complain about episode 1 all they want, I think it’s better to get a good grasp of “what was intended” first before understanding the whole fan recommendations

“It was for my kids, I swear!!”

Somewhat related, I recall Michael Bell talking about his experience with Soul Reaver, shortly after release. The voice of Raziel couldn’t get past the jump part of the tutorial and just gave up

That deserves a “do you know how to read?”, because the exit command is on the lower part of the screen for nano

80s programmers hated Unix, btw. Look up Unix Haters Handbook, it’s a free and funny read

A colleague is currently checking why the testing environment was uploading files to the production environment. A number of employees’ photos now show Goku