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by zirgs 4y ago
Game piracy doesn't work on game consoles. In order to pirate you have to jailbreak it (and risk bricking it in the process). Jailbroken consoles also don't work online. And not all firmware versions are vulnerable. Basically - it
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by zirgs 4y ago
What's especially fucked up in that case is that Google suspended his account and didn't restore it even after the cops closed the case and said that it wasn't a crime. So the lesson is clear - avoid Google as much as possibl
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by zirgs 4y ago
Locked down computing devices existed well before before the iPhone was a thing. Pretty much all gaming consoles are locked down. I'm fine with them existing as long as a non-locked down option is available. And controls like that woul
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by zirgs 4y ago
Except in this case everybody knows that there's a backdoor that can be exploited.
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by zirgs 4y ago
ANd yet - Google is making one of the best phones that can work perfectly fine without any Google software installed. (Pixel series). Nobody forces you to use Apple softeware. I have never owned a single Apple device and never will.
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by zirgs 4y ago
Also how do they prevent this from being exploited by hackers? If there's a backdoor it's naive to think that only the "good guys" will use it. Also what if some hackers put something on my phone to intentionally trigger
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by zirgs 4y ago
So we need to go back to talking to people irl. And basically assume that anything you read online is not written by real people unless proven otherwise.
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by zirgs 4y ago
In my country you already need it if you want to use government services or banking online.
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by zirgs 4y ago
Something like Makehuman could be a good starting point for humanoid characters.
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by zirgs 4y ago
Many rural areas have no gas stations nearby, but they do have electricity. So it's now actually more practical to have an EV in those places.
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by zirgs 4y ago
They have no way to enforce that "no bad things" clause. In practice they provide a product with no restrictions. Unlike other AI image generators - there's no keyword filter - you can input whatever you want in there.
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by zirgs 4y ago
Where's the catch in Linux?
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by zirgs 4y ago
Stable Diffusion is a project like that. It cost millions to develop it. It is free, open source and can be run locally.
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by zirgs 4y ago
Stable Diffusion is free and open source and can be run locally. I see no reason why we can't have free and open source ChatGPT too.
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by zirgs 4y ago
Can't wait until we have the option to run chatgpt locally. Stable Diffusion can be run locally and it has no restrictions whatsoever.
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by zirgs 4y ago
Turns out that we aren't the only ones that call freshwater "sweet water".
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by zirgs 4y ago
Here's a handy guide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_of_Silly_Walks#/m...
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by zirgs 4y ago
If you want to add new stuff to Stable Diffusion - you don't have to retrain the main model from scratch. You can train it only on a few hundred images at a time and then add the resulting model as an extension or merge it into the ma
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by zirgs 4y ago
Wouldn't it make sense for translators to send messages like that in multiple languages?
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by zirgs 4y ago
The model that's used by Stable Diffusion is only around ~4 GB in size.
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by zirgs 4y ago
You can already ask computers to draw you pretty pictures. Why pay a human artist for that?
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by zirgs 4y ago
AI art generators were shitty for decades. But now they got so good that many artists are afraid to lose their jobs. ChatGPT and other chatbots will improve too.
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by zirgs 4y ago
Gay people won their culture war in some places. Gay marriage is still illegal in most countries. In many countries even homosexuality itself is illegal.
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by zirgs 4y ago
There weren't that many people of colour in Europe back then. Eastern Europe is still 99% white.
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by zirgs 4y ago
Every single German soldier who kept fighting ensured that death camps stayed open for longer. Every single piece of land that they managed to capture was annexed to the Nazi state and the SS could do their dirty work there. It doesn't
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by zirgs 4y ago
HP Lovecraft was ridiculously racist. Do you perceive his works differently because of that?
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by zirgs 4y ago
A game based on her work is a top seller on steam right now. Her books are still being sold at grocery stores. I don't think HP will become irrelevant any time soon.
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by zirgs 4y ago
If you ban someone from reddit or twitter - their opinions only disappear from your echo chamber not from the real world. Maybe echo chambers aren't such a good idea after all. Those people banned every single dissenting opinion and af
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by zirgs 4y ago
I already moved from reddit to neogaf. It's nice - nobody bans you for saying that GTA should not be censored. And discussions about politics are banned.
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by zirgs 4y ago
Attempted murder is a crime pretty much everywhere.

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