_cryptagion [he/him]

Actually, the NYT published the results of an investigation last week, and it showed that in the states that track voter registration by party affiliation, democrats lost 2m voters and republicans gained 2.4m. taking into account the states that don’t track voter registration by party, that means the 6m people who didn’t vote for Kamala last fall were democrats that switched party because there isn’t a real difference between the two parties on most things, and they wanted something new.

So maybe if the democrats want to win, they can stop jumping ship and voting for fascists.

Sure, there are a ton of things the blockchain would be great for. Also, it just so happens that nobody uses them for that because the people developing the tech only dream about using it to join the bitcoin billionaires club.

I just checked, the credentials are still good.

I wouldn’t say people are incapable of noticing the difference. most people just don’t care as much as a very vocal minority of the population seems to. especially people watching shorts. nobody watching shorts is looking for quality, they’re looking for short videos that don’t outlast their attention span. it doesn’t matter whether or not something is AI, all that matters is it engages them for ten seconds or so till they scroll to the next short, and keeps the dopamine flowing.

right, which is literally what I said.

well, is it still working?

It does not support dual boot on a single drive.

this is not true, but they don’t recommend it. they provide instructions for single-drive dual boot on the website.

there might be a few youtubers or purists who would pay to opt out of something like that, but the average uploader isn’t gonna give two shits about enhancements youtube makes. especially when it took this long for a few people to even notice.

a typical CPU in a phone would do just fine. AI effects in photo and video started coming out in phones before new phones started having dedicated hardware to accelerate it. phones have been doing stuff as intensive as that for years. for example, iPhones have been able to make complex and precise full scale textured replicas of real world environments that you can then import into Blender using their lidar capabilities for years. that’s quite a bit more intensive of a process than using AI to edit a video.

and as for a PC, there isn’t anything you can do to edit a video using AI that a PC CPU would not be able to handle. if a 10 year old laptop can generate video out of thin air using genAI, then applying a sharpening effect would be a piece of cake. hell, I’ve done stable diffusion on a laptop with just 4GB of VRAM. it’s quite a bit slower than with a faster PC, but certainly doable.

it wouldn’t need dedicated hardware, it would just be slower on phones without that hardware. there’s nothing that AI does that can’t be done on any phone or PC.

same thing with ray tracing, it’s technically possible on cards that aren’t a part of the RTX line, they just can’t do it as fast as an RTX card (per NVIDIA).

I don’t pay for a lot of services I couldn’t do for myself.

american stupidity.

I mean, the english may have apple pies, but if JOLLY has taught me anything it’s that they apparently are nowhere near as good as american apple pie, to the point there’s a fancy pie restaurant in London that specializes in american pies.

the neat thing about measurements of distance is even if you drive 20 kilometers , you’re still driving for miles .

honestly, why would anyone pay for a blizzard, when the only thing they do to it is mix candy with ice cream in a blender? you do that yourselves.

mastodon isn’t dead.

the “bigger-boys”, as you put it, are currently fighting it together on appeal in a lawsuit. once the appeal is finished, it will probably head to the supreme court, where Kavanaugh has said it will likely be found unconstitutional.

this doesn’t kill the fediverse. mississippi can’t do shit to you if you aren’t in mississippi unless the state you’re in agrees to cooperate with them. and that’s only after they subpoena your hosting provider, which might not even cooperate with them at all if they are outside US jurisdiction. and if you go through cloudflare? that’s another subpeona from a corporation that doesn’t like revealing information about their users and has gone to federal court on many occasions to fight both state and federal governments.

any state that doesn’t have one of these laws on the books is unlikely to decide to extradite you for something that isn’t illegal where you live, especially since it’s not a criminal charge.

I mean, it’s good till next year, so does it really matter all that much?

it’s all good