Of course it did. All of these AI companies scraped absolutely everything they could to make the biggest training corpuses they could. Quality, morality, legality be damned. The potential fines will never meaningfully dent the profits.
Maybe 1PB more of pirated content will finally get us to AGI ;p
Usually I accept that I’m going to completely veg out sometimes and I’ll watch something. Youtube, streaming, scrolling around social media. Maybe listen straight through a music album that was made for full listen-throughs.
Consumptive hobbies leave you with more to see than you ever could in one lifetime, so there’s always something.
Not every hobby or every moment needs to be productive. Sometimes you need down time, moments to let your mind rest like you let your body rest.
Item 38 from the Evil Overlord List, an internet classic.
If an enemy I have just killed has a younger sibling or offspring anywhere, I will find them and have them killed immediately, instead of waiting for them to grow up harboring feelings of vengeance towards me in my old age.
Let’s not pretend that the worst thing someone could come across online is just “a naked human body”. Even just within the realm of porn there’s some absurdly extreme things out there. Then there’s LiveLeak, cartel stuff, etc.
Let’s also not pretend that protection of children is anything more than the cover story. This is a full-court push by the global elite to tie real world identity to specific hardware and to online identity, eliminating digital anonymity. It’s happening over multiple countries too.
A new Evangelion series was just announced directed by Yoko Taro. Can’t wait to see what additional batshit trauma he lumps on the characters this go around.
What’s that logo? Safe bet that it’s an entirely intentional attempt to go viral by getting people sharing it like you are, going “oh my god that looks like goatse”.
They can safely let it spread brand awareness and salience through posts like this, then never actually roll it out, or make some sort of “apology”, but the goal is already accomplished.
But that’s kind of my point. 8GB was a good amount of RAM for heavy use with Windows a decade ago. It’s unfortunate with the current costs of RAM, but 16GB is kind of the floor for modern computing with Windows.
I know the struggle. Around a decade ago I took an Android programming course. I was using a laptop on Windows 7 with only 8GB of RAM. It was fine for most of my other courses and for the light gaming I did on it, as long as I didn’t have much else open. But Android development uses Android Studio. A Java IDE built in Java as IntelliJ, with a whole bunch of awesome but RAM guzzling features. Then Google strapped all their additional Android shit on top. Then to test the app you made, you were supposed to run an Android emulator that used at least 4GB of RAM.
I ended up having to borrow someone’s old Android phone for testing, and I had to use another program to shut off all other programs and Windows Services while I worked. And saved up, and upgraded to 16GB of RAM, because it’s what I needed for how I was using my machine.
It sucks. Developers, especially those making shit built into an OS, need to be far more aware of the resources their programs use and optimize better.
But at the end of the day our options are limited and we have to accept the changing times.
Or work around them. There are plenty of flavors of Linux if you need something lighter, or options to strip down Windows like tiny11 or Windows Ameliorated for 10.
That’s one hell of a story, especially with the little I saw scrolling your profile. Anyway, just wanted to say that a bunch of folks have reverse engineered Lego Island into an open source codebase that they can get running on just about anything now.
You can play it in your web browser even, but it’s a little tough to control on a phone.
Yep, plus, who is running Windows on a machine where 1GB of RAM is precious?
My work laptop has 16GB. It runs the full suite of Microsoft bloat (CoPilot, Teams, Edge, OneDrive) plus various antivirus and work security/monitoring tools constantly. I usually also have Outlook open, ~5 active tabs in Edge (with up to 20 inactive), an RDP session going, Excel, VSCode (often with long running scripts going), OneNote, Notepad++, and either YouTube for music or a teams meeting with video.
I’ve never had to close anything for the sake of performance except when I was installing a big program, doing a deep search through tens of thousands of files using very inefficient PowerShell code, while having all the rest open.
I’m not saying CoPilot using a gig of RAM at rest is OK, I’m just saying it’s not the huge performance impact being implied.
Lol, the reasons this reviewer loves it are exactly why I’m not 100% on-board with it. It’s not bad, but drastically different from any of the other animated takes on it.
Yep! In fact I might be mixing up some of Tea Time of the Soul with it. Been quite a while since I read either of them. I’m due for a re-read of Adams (both Hitchhikers Guide and Dirk Gently), plus the “professionally made fan sequel” of And Another Thing.
Love to see old gods adapting to the times. But bro, when was somebody going to tell me Aphrodite and Nefirtiti had OnlyFans? And they collabed!
More seriously, I love this sort of shit in fiction.
Douglas Adams’s Long Dark Teatime of the Soul covers (among other things) just how hard it would be for immortal beings to try and survive in modern bureaucracy. Try getting a photo ID, social security card, passport, etc when you have no birth certificate. Then try getting a job, bank account, etc. He uses it as the most fun twist on homelessness I’ve seen, which is to say it’s still quite emotionally dark, but sometimes they turn into an eagle or destroy something with lightning.
If you can pirate it or buy it used, and can put aside the author’s transgressions, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods is an interesting one as well. Lots of different takes on how different gods have and haven’t adapted to modern life.
My favorite though is probably Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series. MC is intentionally kind of a chauvinist, out of trying to protect women due to past trauma of thinking he’s responsible for the death of his first love, so you do have to put up with that.
This guy has a super deep voice and has voice acted a lot of these “brother, no” memes quite well, including this one
Considering it has the director of Nier on it, I expect things will get pretty weird by the end at least.
Hey, as long as they cast Danny Devito as PenPen, Rei, Asuka, Fuyutski, or Kaji… Really as just about anyone I guess, they have my watch.
Now I want to sit down and figure out the absolute worst casting for a live action version.
He had horrible racing games too!
Unfortunately that seems to be the pattern with a lot of beliefs right now, especially ones that the rich have vested interest in ensuring spread.
AI bros just updated their AI doomsday timeline again, from 2026 to 2030. At some point you’d think they’d see the parallels with the “world is ending on this specific day” cults and the constant timeline shifting.
Fucking tease.
You’ve got a job waiting for you with Nanotrasen’s finest doctors aboard the illustrious Space Station 13!
It’s a bunch of slapped together simulation systems in a trench coat, slathered in a layer of spessman slime and clown wigs, and shoved in an ancient diy MMO engine from the mid 2000s solely kept alive by this game.
More importantly, you can strap someone to an operating table in medbay, slice off their butt with a scalpel. You can then wear it as a hat.
Alternatively give it to the chef so he can cook a butt burger, or give it to the roboticist who can slap it on a talking roomba that runs around repeating what people say but switching words with “BUTT” (help changeling in BUTT!). People without butts cannot fart emote, and certain illnesses that would cause them to fart instead deal internal damage until they explode in a shower of blood and viscera.
You could host your own Lemmy instance. Other instances could defederate from you, but they couldn’t stop you from posting whatever you wanted on your own instance.
Any option to prevent others from taking something you want to post online down is going to require you to run or host it yourself. But then you’re still beholden to the DNS company, hosting company, and the payment processor for how you pay for it all.
There are apparently ways to pay for your hosting through anonymous crypto, and ways to route the connection between your hardware and the open Internet in private ways, and even private DNS services.
Ultimately, this all depends on what your risk profile is, how what you want to post runs foul of the rules elsewhere, how much you’re willing to spend on this, etc.
You could look into the tech stack and services other controversial sites are relying on, like what PirateBay or 4chan use.
“How private?” “How censorship resistant?”