I mean, if you’re going to use AI to create something, what better application is there for it than someone that is already an android/uncanny valley territory?
Definitely formulaic and contrived. But honestly, there aren’t that many new, unique stories to tell. Most plots are the same archetypes anyway.
I liked it a LOT more than I expected to. It didn’t really scare me. Nothing does, though. But it was really fun and stayed fairly exciting throughout. I’m a SUPER harsh critic too. I give it 7.5/10.
https://youtu.be/-weYzZqiQ4Y Judging by the extrusion head on the current world record holder 3D printer, it will probably work.
Director. What I take from it is that directors have to do YEARS of development on a project that might never even get greenlit. So, when they finally do get to the shoot day, they can finally be paid the full DGA director’s rate. But until they are on set, they basically work for free and have a gigantic team of people that work for them to help them secure the gig.
This is what I had came to conclude about the real life prospect of being a DP. But this revelation isn’t unique recently. I heard the same thing in a podcast with a director. If true, this paints a damning picture of the film industry that even I (a union filmmaker) hadn’t fully come to understand.
Surely, the DGA is at fault here. That is just absurd. That’s basically what I (a set lighting technician…not even the DP or the gaffer) made over a two year stretch (when the film industry was still alive and hadn’t been absolutely decimated by Disney and Netflix’s monopolies).
Shawn Levy was behind the camera for this year’s “Deadpool & Wolverine,” Reynolds’ first outing in Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Shawn Levy is a DP? Wow! If you want to embarrass yourself, conflate cinematography with directing.
Unless your lights are hard-wired or connecting to a locked down guest WiFi network, you are exposing your WiFi credentials to potential attackers.
The microcontrollers that control Christmas lights are riddled with backdoors and holes.
That’s probably the real reason that this piece of shit NSA spook wants everyone to have smart Christmas lights.
“Trust me bro” style hand-rolled encryption.
Good observation. It made it clear that he’s a fucking stupid mook that can only play one needlessly verbose pretentious skinny dork character.
We’ll call you when we need a pretentious skinny dork, Jesse!
Neither of those seem like complete dealbreakers if there were some form of verification using DID’s and homomorphic encryption for example.
Marketing, to me, is a non-issue if the technology has evolved enough. We can start with nerds only and iterate upon it until the normies can’t deny the superiority of the platform and move over in droves. We are not there yet on the fediverse, IMO. Here’s Hoskinson doing a thought experiment about what would need to be done to truly achieve a decentralized Twitter.
For one, NOSTR’s tech would make this fairly easy for someone just a tad smarter than myself to implement. Of course it wouldn’t be foolproof but it would be FAR better than say Yelp or Google or GlassDoor reviews are on their own.
I’m under no impression that my idea is rock solid and infallible. In fact, I don’t imagine it would work in the current server client relationship. Full stop.
I’m hoping that our acute sensitivity to enshittification will eventually drive us to innovate around these (admittedly major) issues. One truth I can’t find a way to refute, though: A decentralized web is coming whether we like it or not;
There’s all kinds of interesting discussions to be had here:
The EU’s right to be forgotten, for example, seems to be an attempt to reverse the laws of nature, IMO. Information is a Pandora’s box. Once it is out, it is cached EVERYWHERE. Especially with AI scrapers in full effect, boiling our oceans.
Perhaps (probably?), the traditional server-client model of the web will someday give way to a decentralized model that is (IMO inevitably) censorship resistant.
You should try NixOS or something similar. It sounds like all of your gripes with Linux are solved by NixOS. It makes system management a LOT more sane than FHS has gotten.
Markets are crashing. TD ameritrade locked all customers out of their accounts presumably to stop the bleeding. I’m literally watching myself lose thousands because of it. THIS is why I want decentralized finance.
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/15780978
Am I out of touch?
No, it's the forward-thinking generation of software engineers that want elegant, reliable, declarative systems that are wrong.
Good point. Cant believe that printing footage wasn’t sped up. INSANE speed. :)