BertramDitore

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[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

It’s not a fun answer, but without an invite your best bet is to keep the site open in a tab and refresh it every day. Or use a change tracker to watch it for you. One day your patience will pay off and they’ll open registrations. Hop on it immediately when they do, sometimes it’ll only be open for a day or less.

Geek is a great place to start though, it’s a solid indexer (trackers are for torrents FYI, usenet has indexers for nzbs). Dog is overrated imo, I wouldn’t worry about getting in there.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 days ago

I don’t want to pile on too hard, because hopefully you’ve internalized some of the other criticisms in the comments, but this is actually a great example of why “AI” art makes so many people so angry.

On its face, this is a nice-ish comic strip with a joke that might get a smirk or chuckle in response. The moment you look at the image critically, that all falls apart. And don’t you want people to look at your art critically? Don’t you want people to zoom in and enjoy every part of what you created? Thing is, this isn’t your art. You didn’t create it. You wrote some sentences, and then an algorithm (without permission) used the real, painstakingly created artwork of artists from all over the world and throughout history, to spit out some pixels that look like this. You didn’t pick up a pencil or stylus, you didn’t ink the lines and labor over the facial expression or color pallets. You didn’t build on a lifetime of artistic experience to create something new in a style that you’ve been developing for yourself. And then you signed it to make it seem like you had actually done all that. That may seem okay to you, but it’s deeply insulting to lots of people.

I’m a shitty visual artist. I couldn’t draw to save my life. And that’s totally okay, not everyone is Van Gogh. I find other outlets for my artistic impulses.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It sure looks like he tried to cover up a bug bite or some other kind of rash to me, but two things:

  1. Who the fuck cares about what T-bag’s hands look like? He’s an unhealthy elderly man.
  2. It’s just another example of how sad, disturbed, and insecure this fool is. When most people get a big bug bite on their hand, they just forget about it until it goes away. Maybe put a bandaid on it if it’s really gross. He’s such a deeply strange man.
[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

I loved coming across the various hot springs in Ghost of Tshushima, especially the ones that are really well hidden.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As I was reading this, I was thinking to myself, “Huh, this is written really badly. Huh, I’m pretty sure they repeated the same point a bunch of times. Huh, this sure sounds like bullshit LLM slop.”

Lo and behold, when I got to the end:

For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.

So yeah, you should skip this story, it’s not worth your time.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 18 points 5 days ago

This is exactly it. Unless we get really specific, this shit is more of the same middling platitudes, and different audiences will only hear what they want to hear. Seriously disappointing, and not at all helpful.

Ex-politicians like Obama (but not just him) need to shut the hell up unless they have PRACTICAL ideas that we can use. Someone like Obama should understand that his words have gravitas (love your username btw, fellow Banks fan I presume?), but his rhetoric goes straight in the garbage unless it’s backed by actionable ideas.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 20 points 5 days ago

The show is very different from when you last watched it, and Stewart is very different from when he was the full-time host. He’s far less accommodating of moderates. I recommend watching some of his Monday shows and see if your opinion changes. You really can’t judge the current iteration of the show based on when it had a totally different host and format.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 41 points 5 days ago

And of course, thanks to this ridiculous merger, that means Stewart’s contract is at risk of not being renewed.

Because anything less than happily fellating this president is unacceptable to these free-speech hating, right wing profit-mongering fascist sleezebags.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 days ago

This is super helpful, thanks for the explanation.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 95 points 5 days ago (16 children)

Much of the camp was built in a high risk flood zone, a zone where building is strictly illegal in many states with responsible safety measures. Since Texas doesn’t give a shit about human life, they not only allow building in dangerous flood zones, but they clearly don’t have the infrastructure to make it even remotely safe.

The camp never should have been built there. This tragedy is exactly why planning for future risk when building something (especially something for kids, but that’s pretty much irrelevant) is not optional.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah, this is what I came here to mention. Environmental damage and power consumption are what bitcoins cost, but those costs don’t give bitcoins any inherent value.

It’s actually a pretty appalling example of human ingenuity. We’ve managed to invent something that has a disproportionately terrible impact on every person on earth through its environmental effects, while simultaneously producing no practical value to anyone other than those wealthy enough to be in control of it.

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