On one hand, I could say it’s not necessarily a bad thing if channels can secure funding for years to come to keep producing great stuff. But on the other hand, people strangely just straight up keep forgetting what happened to Rooster Teeth and a few other big names of the past. Money can make channels die with a whimper.

I’d totally buy a haunted mansion if it’s haunted by a ghost from the 1990s. Hell yeah.

…Oh, I can imagine more headlines. Someone spending a lot of money to buy a house haunted by a communist, and the sociopolitical debate this purchase creates.

Remember:

Copyright law as a whole will stay the same. In the court of law, you will need to prove that you indeed operate a very big AI company that indeed does AI things before they will let you off the hook for massive copyright infringement. You can’t just use that excuse casually! Rules will be for thee, not the actual AI-companees.

A while ago I tried to look for something similar to Reddit’s Tip of My Tongue/Joystick (looking for media/games you have vague memories of and don’t know the title), but didn’t seem to find one. And I suspect it’s a bit niche thing.

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as wheel, is in fact, GNU/Wheel, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus wheel.

So you’ve tried art, and discovered it’s not for you. That’s still better than not having tried art at all in first place. You at least know where you stand in regards to that question now. …Or at least I hope so.

AI is good at doing a thing once.
Trying to get it to do the same thing the second time is janky and frustrating.

I understand the use of AI as a consulting tool (look at references, make code examples) or for generating template/boilerplate code. You know, things you do once and then develop further upon on your own.

But using it for continuous development of an entire application? Yeah, it’s not good enough for that.

Came to Mastodon when Elon nabbed Twitter, came to Lemmy when the Reddit apps got stuffed. (Well, I originally got on Kbin, not Lemmy.)

I’ve heard a lot of stuff on grapevine about various online services and how cool they are.

And then I visit the home page and it says “Powered by AI. You can be more productive with us. Because we have AI. Did we mention we have AI?”

And I’m, like, well, this service may or may not use AI in a meaningful way, but one thing is certain - they’re probably hiking the price, if not now, then soon. Sorry guys, I’m sitting this tech hype cycle out.

a purely financial decision

🤨 … riiiiiiiiight …

Remember: even in the most repressive autocracies, the leaders realised that jesters serve a purpose. Because if people can’t joke about how shitty things are at the present, they might see that as a sign that things are pretty bad, actually.

If the comedy is mucked with, that’s a sure sign that the politicians are getting a tad bit touchy.

I thought you were talking about Crusader Kings III

The sign on the door reads “Execution Chamber”

“We’re gonna see some serious shit. …Wait, this is a bit too serious.”

I’m in Finland. Over here every summer there’s always some streets that are being repaved or major public service buildings that gets closed due to “renovations”. Ha, I know that’s just a government cover-up. They don’t want us to know about the looting gangs who apparently have access to stealth technology!

I’m like, oh honey, we used to be able to do all this stuff. We had software for this. We had services in the web. Actually, I think we still do - hold on…

*looking at the national public transport route planning site*

*vague gesturing* this is peak technology and none of the AI bros have apparently heard of this shit, because they don’t use public transport.

The Web used to cater to the niche services, until Big Tech rolled in, and now they try to replace it with patently inferior solutions.

Unfortunately, Super Mario Bros. isn’t exactly a turtle-friendly game. If you took advice from a turtle game, you’d go “oh it’s just a little water. turtles could walk through that easily.”

People will no longer laugh at the term “military intelligence” for the obvious irony. Now, they’ll say “remember when the military tried to use artificial intelligence? ha ha what a disaster”

I wasn’t able to see this on my phone. Almost gave up hope. But. HOLY CRAP. Re-watching the LGR video on my desktop monitor and I can see the stuff again! So… thanks, I guess!

I was there when gmail was invented
Was there during the invitation period
Someone picked my preferred name
I ended up with a kinda dumb name
Didn’t matter much, because my primary email is a redirect, anyway, and gmail still lets me use those (kudos to them)
Google came up with Google Code (and other services) where your public gmail address is your identity
Nope, fuck off
Glad they died. Shame Github got eaten by Microsoft, but, eh…
Google hasn’t really been good at letting people specify their identity, ever since
Yes, this is also a transgender user story, why do you ask?

Tried various distances, that didn’t help too much. I’m afraid I have to hold to the theory that I’m officially old now and need bifocals.