MoonMelon @ MoonMelon @lemmy.ml

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Holy shit, for that much money you can get a commercial grade refrigerator that's built like a tank and has none of this crap.

Yeah, I'm old enough to remember this song and dance with Java. Also this isn't like deciding all your javascript should be coffescript. Rust has some pretty big differences. It would be hilarious if the AI just threw a huge unsafe around giant blocks of code.

They are, if you scroll to the bottom of the github repo that OP posted there are some examples of what works and doesn't work to break it.

Watermark data like this is stored in the least significant bits of the pixels themselves, or in the case of OPs example, they do a frequency decomposition on the image then store the watermark data in the coefficients. Basically you have to trash the pixel data at least a little bit to defeat it. So cropping or flipping the image won't do it, but resizing or rotating with some kind of filtering will.

I have no idea how the machine-learning technique listed there is working, and their documentation link is broken :(

Also Dr Who. Our school had a kid who wore a big Tom Baker scarf and hat everyday. I hope he's doing well.

The worst part of all of these charades is there isn't even a side-effect benefit for the average person. Our make-work programs don't build roads, they terrorize immigrants. Our "ghost cities" aren't future homes for a rapidly urbanizing population, they are enormous datacenters that actively harm rural communities.

As someone who enjoys urbex videos, at least I'll get to feast on abandoned datacenter explorations in a few years. Can't wait for that giant hole in the ceiling with a tree growing in the shaft of light surrounded by mounds of rust that used to be nVidia GPUs, the imagery will be great.

I've tried, it sucks. Each broker has their own process, often several steps, and often a step is broken (like server errors, can't get past a captcha, "try again later", etc). You end up not just having to do the process, but also follow up with many of the ones that are ambiguous or returned server errors or whatnot. I did the top 8 or so brokers and then stopped.

I was in a waiting room recently and the TV was tuned to "Nick at Nite", and they were showing Friends. Nick at Nite shows old shows, like Andy Griffith and Green Acres. Not shows I remember from childhood...

Ah you're right, I misread it. I thought he was leaving messages. Not leaving messages is unreasonable.

The man in OP said he leaves and message and calls again to be sure. That's reasonable. The 16/7 thing you added so you could be more angry about it.

Edit: I misread this and thought he was leaving messages. Not leaving messages is unreasonable.

Yeah, it's old fashioned, I think, but still in the domain of expected practice. Job hunting, selling something, expecting a visitor, etc are all reasons to actively expect a phone call during reasonable hours.

Edit: I misread this and thought he was leaving messages. Not leaving messages is unreasonable.

Not from this year specifically (but I only saw it this year): The Polish hackers who uncovered the train manufacturer's repair shenanigans.

• Part 1: Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains – Reverse engineering a train to analyze a suspicious malfunction (2023)
• Part 2: We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure (2024)

No ticks is pretty great.

When you say "run out of money" you aren't kidding either, you need to be truly indigent for this to kick in. The system is designed to completely strip mine the elderly of all their assets.

I was listening to a best-selling author's recent audiobook, and the professional voice actress messed this one up. So you're in good company. Really, who can we blame but the Greeks?

"Holy cow that borg has an absolutely huyuuuuge-"

"No wait, that's it! Hugh!"

Mastodon.art has a small but nice community. AI art isn't allowed. Someone could always lie, I guess, but the community is small enough that engagement bait isn't really a thing, there's much larger mastodon instances those people would probably use. They also aggressively defederate fascists.

YouTube offers random A/B testing of titles and thumbnails now, and unfortunately the clickbait/red circle/soy face stuff absolutely does work. Everyone seems to agree that the "metric has ceased to be a good measure" when it comes to the algorithm, but it's so opaque and omnipotent that people who can't afford for their videos to be buried have no choice.

YouTube doesn't just reward you for doing it, you are actively punished for not doing it. The same way one "underperforming" video can have cascading negative effects on your entire channel.

I can't imagine relying on it for my family's income. Google basically has hundreds of thousands of people doing spec work for them.

Since nobody polices the relationship between candidates, parties, and super PACs I feel like this law is already just pure symbolism. The fact that Trump and Steve Chabot are involved makes me think there's something sinister hidden in this, probably just makes the grafting more straightforward.

Years ago I watched this video that demos old iron smelting technology in Burkina Faso, and these people get farther. They have better natural iron deposits (also lots of people working together helps).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCnZClWwpQ

He did end up making a small blade at some point, but it seems like the process of getting iron ore from bacteria is excruciatingly slow. If he was in my area he'd be walking around in full plate armor by now.