Tabitha ☢️[she/her]

soulsseek would be better if the client supported a VPN/socksproxy (like QBTorrent does)

These days it just seems like you’re lucky if you’re receiving only one of: surveillance fascism, drone strikes.

but harming the creator by not buying licenses

This would mostly only apply to indie games.

in the case of companies like EA Activision etc., you could argue paying for it harms the creator by empowering their exploiters, and that paying for it harms the innocent because the US government receives a cut.

I think the Earth is hollow and the USSR is hiding there.

As long as they follow the rules, they’re more valuable as a list of IP addresses to hand over to feds.

might be too blurry lol

about the link specifically… I couldn’t identify what was wrong with the original version? Because I can think a lot of famously badly animated scenes, and the only problem I could see with the original scene is that they just stand around talking and doing nothing.

The AI version, while I did identify that a small number of shots were objectively better, I also noticed characters being replaced with a completely different art style and other random changes that imply a different authoral intent.

Also, the commenters in the thread did not seem to agree the new one was better. As tech experiment it’s not a bad comparison, but in terms of ways to blow $50, OP wasted their money, when literally anyone could tell you 5 anime scenes they wished were drawn better.

I think slop studios will use this for 90% of animations soon, and higher end studios might use future iteration of this to boost to 60fps and/or reduce the number of keyframes drawn by hand, which could in theory lead to a higher quality output at the same-or-reduced cost (with the same amount of labor, or in less time).

I’d say, in some technical sense, we’re actually more against “”“globalists”“” than the right, because ATM “”“globalists”“” are all varying degrees of capitalists/imperialists/fascists.

That term’s usage is often incoherent and detached from reality, and may have racist implications (depending on the speaker, knowingly or not). So we don’t use it.

We’re able to clearly articulate what we’re for and against, so we just do that instead.

I’m running low on reasons to go outside.

Ive thought about torrents but they require a paid vpn from what i know?

if you live in the US, fair, it’s probably required, but at the same time, 1 year of vpn probably costs the same as 2 months of whatever random netlflix/hulu streaming service. If you have a roommate, split the price? I wouldn’t trust a VPN with anything more sensitive than torrents (without extensive research). Then again, I’m not totally sure I’m willing to vouch for the value of a VPN vs your free options.

You never said what you’re trying to pirate, so I hope this is helpful in finding you solutions that don’t require a VPN:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/

100% of my failed Logitech mouses were left clicks.

Just livestream. Be ready to live stream. Test that live streaming works ahead of time. Have a lockdown mode setup on your phone. Remember to vote. Make sure some IRL friends and out of state comrades will how to find your live stream. Make sure people know you’re out and expecting you back in group chats.

4chan/Kiwi

I kind of think the 2000s were better in this regard? It was much easier to not know those types of websites exist, let alone ignore those websites, and also to be anonymous on the internet back then then it is now.

The only thing better in the post-2010 world for me is that my parents don’t gatekeep my money.

If anything, facebook/reddit/IRL Christians are all functionally 4channers and KiwiFarmers now.

absolutely fucking hate it

you could make an optional feature on a lemmy client that would show a randomly generated profile pic (e.g. dicebear) for users who did not upload one

I doubt any of them are real. It’s clear to me that whoever makes these aren’t even watching them first to make sure they make any sense at all. The guy just walks in after stealing? They drove a car all the way up to the front-door but there’s no tracks in the snow? It’s probably a fully automated setup. Or maybe this was the best out of 10 prompt attempts. It wouldn’t surprise me if most videos don’t break even on the AI cost, but a handful going viral and the pages/channels eventually getting subscribers from principled slop connoisseurs most likely makes this financially viable.

we’re doing the same thing, but with claude

had they not done it at the time, it is likely that someone else would have done it anyway not long after?

I think it’s a safe assumption that most inventions would have been invented by someone else, the opposite is usually the more notable exception. Some things may have been invented and forgotten by history multiple times because of random things like there was no supply chain for copper/steel/coal or w/e back then.

can always respect someone with a well balanced ideology