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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why would we be excited or happy about this? They can still cancel it at any moment. It's not real until it's released.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

DUFF BEER FOR ME, DUFF BEER FOR YOU

The sad bit is that they think we're all too stupid to put the two things together.

The sadder bit is that most of the country is too stupid to put the two things together

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait wait to cut costs? What about all the corpo propaganda saying it was to help people make their lives easier?

It should have been his decision though, but yes if he's free ( and Jon Stewart) we could have some amazing content

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Okay that's true I admit, I'm well educated, and I want others to be too. Just like Idiocracy told us though people who don't see how bad it is won't be bothered and will have children anyway. 200 bucks ho boy let's get busy!

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 104 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Very good article. I wish it would have connected the dots just a bit more though. You know what stops me from having children?

  • That daycare is unaffordable so one of us would have to work fulltime just to pay for childcare.
  • The public school system is constantly being underfunded or worse, defunded, and if I had a child they would deserve an education.
  • That PBS is being defunded so the few actually educational programs (the ones I even grew up with) are at risk
  • College is completely unaffordable without massive parental help
  • The job market is at best, iffy over the next few decades
  • Housing is so unaffordable that it would take too much away from my child to pay for mine, let alone if they want to have a home
  • The giant huge fucking elephant in the room of the climate disaster - sitting here in a heatwave that is somehow again "Once in a century" for the umpteenth time while we do absolutely nothing to curb it. I'm not bringing a child into a dying world for their profit.
  • I want us to be able to get an abortion if it comes to that, I don't want to see my spouse die just because she's pregnant and some politician says that the unborn child's life is worth more than hers.

Seriously, all of these are fixable problems and they've been doing the exact opposite! If they implemented even half of these it would completely change my mind about having kids, but no I guess having a 200 dollar annual tax credit bump is enough in their minds after defunding everything else I would depend on.

Wow this might be the first time I disagree with the anti-AI folks here. The big two arguments I see about using AI is 1) It was generated from stolen art and 2) It takes money out of the hands of real artists.

For 1, Pandora's box is open. It's done. It doesn't make it right, and I'm all for backing lawsuits against companies who did it, but I'm not going to pile onto a person who just had a joke idea and wanted to get it out there. "But he shouldn't use it at all" - yeah, except that gets into 2.

For 2, This was a silly thing that they wanted to make quick. Let's be very real, there was no way they were going to commission an artist to do this for them. In this way I think AI has democratized art a bit more in this sense. No, it's not winning any awards, but I'll admit I've had a lot of ideas to make a joke or meme, and I've felt left out because all I want to do is post it quick but I don't have the ability to draw. I have a lot of other skills, but I can't draw. So yeah, I don't get why this is such a big deal here, no creators lost out on a commission because of this.

Those who went to Art School, I fully believe in your craft and I value it, and I gladly pay for art around my house. This isn't that though, it's a silly comic strip I got a quick 3 second chuckle out of and then could have moved on if it wasn't for the endless comments below that made me want to post this comment. To me, this is a perfectly valid use of AI. Person had a silly joke idea, made a visual for silly joke, put it online.

Yup it's already proven to be cheaper, easier to make, lowe maintenance. It's why even the reddest of states and their electricity concerns have already switched huge chunks over. The Midwest is covered in wind turbines for that exact reason. It's better for them to do it, even if oil is being paid off. At this point we're just handing out subsidies and essentially bailouts to big oil because they're refusing to modernize.

I'm sure it will be just as good as the movie.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Agreed, also wonder how many people it proves that Linux is now perfectly valid for a gaming pc

Same, the entire point is going into their world. If I want to see a movie in this world I'll watch any of the other 80% of all movies ever

 

I'm thinking of spinning up some streaming for a couple of games in the near future, (I always do massive 400+ hour factories in Satisfactory) and was wondering if there's a place or software to stream on that's not Amazon, Google, Microsoft, or Meta? I'm not looking for revenue or massive followers, this would just be for fun and I'd post a link in a couple communities if they wanted to watch. I'm happy to host myself too.

Any ideas? Theoretically activitypub so I could link it on mastodon and here?

 

cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/323936

Tired of all the negativity online around this game. Wanted to start sharing that while there are a lot of people who are not enjoying it, there are just as many people who are.

170k Citizens, 5 in game years in, 30 real-world hours in, still growing

And since it'll be asked Ryzen 5000 series CPU RTX 3090 GPU 5120x1440@30ish fps Most settings on high (except for the ones they recommended disabling) Personal enjoyment level 5/5

 
 

(and I'm a mod of !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech , and I'm getting tired of how much they're using her popularity)

 

Just saw this and it's the first short concert I've seen! Worth a save

 

Signed CDs may be at your local record store!

 

People arguing about the price of gas, but as soon as someone mentions driving an EV they're "stupid" and woke

 

Hey all, I'm missing mod tools in my app. Is that an ultra only feature? It says it's enabled in the settings, and I'm logged in with my mod account, but I'm not seeing any options

 

Okay that was much faster than I expected, I expected us to be down for at least a week.

So what happened? As mentioned in my earlier post, some absolute asswipe of a person uploaded some extremely vile stuff over on a large instance. The admins were quick to let everyone know and we all purged the info. We here were not affected because the offending community was not subscribed here, but I purged the last 24 hours worth of images to be safe.

I won't go into all of the details right now, but previously I hosted this happily on a micro PC at home. When content is federated it means it's duplicated onto my server and served from there, which is real bad if I'm hosting it from my home, means that essentially they could come busting down my door, which is why I reactively posted that post and took everything down while I investigated.

What's changed is that we're now fully hosted on the cloud, completely outside of my home. I've enabled pretty much every guardrail I can in the short time and have been in constant contact with other instance admins.

I won't go into all of the details of how this is hosted, but the one clear thing is that we're now behind Cloudflare, which has free CSAM reporting enabled, which means if anything ever crosses over it will be auto-blocked and reported on, which of course I'm happy to help feds catch assholes who post that at all.

So we're up again for a while, we'll take it as it goes. Lemmy will be adding in new guardrails to also stop federating images (no changes to you folks, but essentially means I wouldn't have a copy of any image like that, it'd be on the hosting server).

Anyway, that's all, sorry for the swears today and how angry I sound. Someone decided to post some horrible shit, some instance owners are dealing with actually seeing it with their eyes, I lost the back half of my weekend to it.

If anyone wants to help with hosting costs, it's not very much but I'm expecting about 20/month at our current size. No one should feel obligated, but if you'd like to I set up a simple buy me a coffee, if anyone feels inclined.

-Scrubbles

 

Hey all, first of all I love you all for being here, this started as a small side project and ballooned into a fun area to talk about pop music. Sadly, I have to take the site down for a while while I rethink how I host.

Currently, this site is hosted on my own hardware, on my own network. Something that was never an issue, I had some protections around it to keep it safe.

I won't go into all details, but yesterday someone on another instance uploaded some extremely vile child content that federated to several other instances. Ours was not affected (luckily), but to be safe I purged everything from the last 24 hours.

Unfortuanately, this will be a growing trend, and Lemmy devs haven't done much to protect instance owners. If someone uploaded something like that to a different instance that we subscribed to, technically I would also be hosting that data. (Federation is cool, but it means we are all hosting it), which means the feds could come and beat down my door for hosting it.

In the short term, I'm going to let this go out so others can see it, but I'm hoping it'll be federated for other users while I convert over.

Step 1 is that I cannot host this locally, I need to get it off my network and into the cloud. Steps 2, 3, 4, and on are going to be adding protections so stuff can't ever get in in the first place, integrating tools, and probably working with the lemmy developers on ways to prevent it in the first place.

I don't know how long we'll be down, but unfortunately someone else ruined it for all of us for a bit. I'll do my best to come back up soon while I shore up our ingest.

-Your swiftie admin, Scrubbles

 

We went to Ed Sheeran last night and he pulled Macklemore on stage as a surprise guest! 81 thousand people just went nuts!

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