Get_Off_My_WLAN

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[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Same same. This is why I use YouTube only through Firefox Focus or DuckDuckGo on mobile.

Any videos I want to watch later, I'll save the URL in a note app. On the PC, any videos I want to keep in history, I open up a Firefox container specifically for whichever genre of recommendations I want from it.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wholeheartedly agree with this guide.

When I was in college, I reached a point where I was wishing I was dead. I couldn't even remember what it felt like to be happy. What was the point of living? What was I suffering for? But I remembered there are things I really want to do in life. So what was keeping me from doing them?

I decided, if I'm going to die, why don't I just go ahead and do the things I truly want to do in life.

Even if I fail and want to die again, I can wait until after trying all the things I want to do in life first.

Today, I'm feeling great. Ever since that time, I've gotten to do more and more of the things I wanted, accomplished goals that would've felt impossible for me back then. Because I figured out what was important to me and decided to keep moving forward.

So don't stop! Don't be afraid to fail horribly. Just keep moving. Life is too short to always be worrying about all that stuff all the time. Figure out what you want to do and do it!

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago

Okay, that's enough imagination for today.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The name's Bond, J

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As border tensions intensified, the sight of soldiers and journalists carrying heavy field gear underscored the harsh terrain and long deployments at the frontier. For those in such unpredictable conditions, reliable equipment becomes essential.

Like the 5.11 Tactical Backpack, Rush 72 2.0, designed for military and field operations with multiple compartments for carrying essentials.

The sudden shift to advertising gear in the middle of article caught me off guard, lmao

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The disappearance of the moth memes were what made me think about how memes nowadays come and go way too fast.

But the moth memes are so unforgettable that they they still come up every once in a while. I'm strangely happy when I see it. It's like an old friend.

P.S. Nice username.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

The stars of the PRC's flag

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In a post on social media on Friday, Lt Gen Ben Hodges of the army compared Tuesday’s gathering to a 1935 “surprise assembly in Berlin” where German generals were “required to swear a personal oath to the Führer”, Adolf Hitler, in the lead-up to the Holocaust and the second world war.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I was talking to someone about his time in the Singapore Air Force, and when he mentioned that although the army has new rifles, the air force (or his unit at least) uses old M16s. I was like, "Oh wow, which ones? A4s? Or probably A2s, right?"

"The ones with the triangular grips."

My god.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 7 points 4 weeks ago

Everything he touches turns to 💩

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The animation is so crazy, it even bankrupted Madhouse at the time.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 12 points 1 month ago

I met a Russian student studying abroad who was very intent on staying out of Russia as much as possible because he's aware of how messed up things are. Had very a good sense of humor. His jokes about Putin and the Russian government would be enough to get people there thrown in jail.

 

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I wanted to post the reply I was writing to a comment on a now-deleted thread in @technology@lemmy.world (because it was only a screenshot of a post) regarding the Studio Ghibli style AI "art."

How is that different than a human artist using their eyes to look at some Ghibli art, taking inspiration from the style, and making a unique drawing or painting with the same style? Artists take inspiration from and copy the style of other artists all the time. If I had the ability to copy the style of Leonardo da Vinci and if I made a painting of my daughter posing like the Mona Lisa on a street in New York, would I be counterfeiting the Mona Lisa? Same style, same pose, different character different backdrop, inspired by the original but not a copy of the original.

I won't talk too much on the copyright aspect, but I want to comment about why I believe it's different from an artist using "inspiration."

I stumbled upon this artist's video a while ago, where she included what I found to be a beautiful anecdote about some of the things that influence us, as human beings, when we produce art.

It's not the same as with an AI, that processes hundreds of thousands of images (usually without the image owner's knowledge or consent) and spits something out without feeling or thought. It's a machine's recreation that lacks depth.

Aside from "studies" where we try to copy the art exactly, usually used for learning techniques, we will rarely get a perfect recreation of likeness or style. Humans aren't machines, and expressions of our personality, our life, and our hours or years of practice will show up in our artwork.

When an artist uploads their work, it's meant for other people, fellow human beings, to see, to empathize with, and to hopefully take inspiration from. We're happy when other people get inspired by our work and want to try something similar. Artists don't feel that same joy with AI "art." Nor were we expecting our work to be used as training data for generative AI.

It's been a while since I've made art, and I haven't uploaded anything in years, but this is why I strongly empathize with artists' concerns lately about AI training off of our artwork.

tl;dr I don't think it's the same as artists "taking inspiration" from other work because it lacks the depth of human expression.

Sorry for the wall of text. Thank you for listening to my TED Talk.

 

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