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Comment on How Bill Gates is reframing the climate change debate in ~enviro
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Comment on Affinity V3 is here with a new freemium model in ~design
Grzmot Link ParentI own Davinci Resolve (DR) Studio and it has some features which are useful for non professional users, mainly extra codec support. I think the free version only supports h264, and not HEVC. That...I own Davinci Resolve (DR) Studio and it has some features which are useful for non professional users, mainly extra codec support. I think the free version only supports h264, and not HEVC.
That being said, DR is not a typical enshittifaction story. They have a very clear, very open business goal: The software is free, because they sell you the hardware to use it properly with. Even for professional software, DR Studio has a one time 300 USD ish price that gives you an actual lifetime license, and you get it with even the cheapest hardware editing keyboard they sell, which is like 400 USD.
The company behind it makes money by selling hardware to edit on, cameras, and instructional material like courses on how to use both with Davinci Resolve. This is different from Affinity V3, which, aside of the AI subscription, has no monetization.
Either Canva is banking on enough people subscribing for AI tools, or they're banking on this offer being so good it gets people off competitors. But even then, getting people off competitors and onto Affinity is only step 1 of the enshittification process, because there is no way to make it profitable in the current state.
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Comment on Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects US government grant with strings attached in ~society
Grzmot Link ParentI completely agree. Markets abhor instability. Back when America's leaders used to be smart, they understood that the backbone of America's might was international trade, which was one of the...I completely agree. Markets abhor instability. Back when America's leaders used to be smart, they understood that the backbone of America's might was international trade, which was one of the reasons your military got so big. Playing world police and keeping far away places safe was and still is interlocked with your own profits. Isolation is only going to lead to economic downfall.
That being said, markets don't necessarily need to be free to expand and grow. They just need stability. China got incredibly big even though it is not a free country, and there is significant corruption involved and getting any business off the ground, as the state plays a role in everything. But it is a stable country, human rights abuses be damned.
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Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment in ~games
Grzmot Link ParentAccepting the danger of sounding like someone just telling people to go touch grass, a lot of these internet communities are just weird. I'm in a few of them, though I never got into streaming...Accepting the danger of sounding like someone just telling people to go touch grass, a lot of these internet communities are just weird. I'm in a few of them, though I never got into streaming because it seemed pointless to me. Either you're watching a tiny streamer because with the 7 people in chat, they actually have the time and capacity to interact with you, or you might as well go watch Youtube, where editing magic cuts out all the dead space you usually have on a stream. And that's just interesting streamers that do actually interesting stuff, and not people like xQc that somehow make millions for producing boring reaction content all day every day.
There's just something strange that happens to people that spend all their time online like this, inhabiting various personas that just aren't real beyond the realm of the digital. Small real life communities tend to file off the rough edges of people like that because they're forced to interact with people in a way that online communities never do. I think it's a mix of attracting outsiders and the global scale of an online community.
Like every social platform, Twitch does the barest amount of moderation that it can get away with, and it culminates into shit like this every time these online communities descend into real life for a convention. I think attractive women in public spaces have always had this issue, I mean everyone knows the type of "journalism" that exists in Hollywood, exposing the private lives of movie stars like parasites, but there was still some distance. People who read that sort of stuff treated the real people involved in that drama like animals in a zoo. Streamer stalkers confuse positive interactions on a stream as something that isn't there. That's new.
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Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment in ~games
Grzmot Link ParentThe streamer having to hire a personal bodyguard is a direct consequence of Twitch's failure to enforce any sort of boundaries and security. They get the venue, they should be able to ban people...The streamer having to hire a personal bodyguard is a direct consequence of Twitch's failure to enforce any sort of boundaries and security. They get the venue, they should be able to ban people from it for the duration of the con, and keep that banlist up for future cons, so that those people do not get to enter again.
I get that being private security is a thin rope to follow, but the only reason she had to resort to it was because Twitch didn't give a fuck, and then also banned her security, directly exposing her to danger likely because their legal department got afraid of a lawsuit. This is exactly the sort of corporate process I detest, where decisions get made so far removed from the actual humans on the ground that the only thing the people making those decisions see are profit graphs, and they decided that it's cheaper to throw streamers into the meatgrinder, because new innocent fresh faces with a dream will always be pouring in.
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Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment in ~games
Grzmot LinkThis was originally posted on reddit and sparked some interesting discussion there, so I wanted to relay it here. It's just another entry in a long series of entries of Twitch not really giving a...This was originally posted on reddit and sparked some interesting discussion there, so I wanted to relay it here.
It's just another entry in a long series of entries of Twitch not really giving a damn about moderation. I suppose that's in line with literally every other social media site. I'm just surprised that they're letting this happen to Twitch partners. I guess with most kids nowadays wanting to become youtubers and streamers, maybe the company thinks its supply of fresh streamer meat is safe. Maybe they're not even thinking that far ahead and I'm giving them too much credit.
Either way, places like this need better security, I absolutely agree with the points of the streamers there. Obviously they foster these parasocial relationships to some extent to make a living, but that doesn't make what happens on the regular to them okay.
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'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment
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Comment on Forgot Chrome's unusable, any recommendations? in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentRunning Firefox with uBlock and everything works just fine? Usually CTRL+F5 fixes any issues with yt, but I've had not had those in a long time.Running Firefox with uBlock and everything works just fine?
Usually CTRL+F5 fixes any issues with yt, but I've had not had those in a long time.
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Comment on ‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder in ~tech
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Comment on ‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentExcept that it's not? LLMs have no internal logic, the fundamental basis of how they generate text is probability. That's why the training sets are so huge, it's just looking for something...In these cases, it seems more like a helpful and infinitely patient all-knowing assistant to one's incompetent executive.
Except that it's not? LLMs have no internal logic, the fundamental basis of how they generate text is probability. That's why the training sets are so huge, it's just looking for something similar. This is why LLMs have a weird response to being asked about seahorse emojis, for example, because a lot of people from the original training set data were not sure.
The thing is, to an uneducated user, they generate sensible appearing strings of text and can occasionally be helpful with simple queries. But they're sycophantic to a fault in a way that can be dangerous.
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Comment on ‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentExcept it makes the process worse for everyone else. The best case scenario here is that these idiots pasting AI answers into chats get detected as more of the dating app users wisen up to this...The differentiation will be between those who use their tutor to learn the material, vs those who are hoping their tutor writes their entire papers.
Except it makes the process worse for everyone else. The best case scenario here is that these idiots pasting AI answers into chats get detected as more of the dating app users wisen up to this new system. And it will suck for everyone who turns into a false positive in the process. I don't get why people use dating apps, but I'm also not the typical target audience. This will ruin the apps even further for those for whom they function well right now.
The realistic scenario is that the chats will go well and the first date will flop. That's still a massive waste of time of everyone involved. And the person lying and using AI to get to that first date will have learned nothing, and in the process wasted everyone else's lifetime.
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft: What do you want to see in the next season? in ~games
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Comment on Why I stopped being anti-woke in ~society
Grzmot LinkIt's a great video, and a great showcase of the "it's just a joke bro stop getting mad about it" to it no longer being a joke pipeline. I also enjoyed the breakdowns over the outrage industry a...It's a great video, and a great showcase of the "it's just a joke bro stop getting mad about it" to it no longer being a joke pipeline.
I also enjoyed the breakdowns over the outrage industry a lot, plus the satirical anti-woke analysis of Terminator 2 and Aliens if they came out today. They were incredibly on point.
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Why I stopped being anti-woke
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Comment on Travel essentials: eight items to pack for your next trip – and what to leave at home in ~travel
Grzmot Link ParentEven Kindles don't stop you from loading pirated books on nowadays. I went for a Pocketbook and am happy, but Kobo is also a often recommended brand. Pocketbook has e-reader starting from around...Even Kindles don't stop you from loading pirated books on nowadays.
I went for a Pocketbook and am happy, but Kobo is also a often recommended brand. Pocketbook has e-reader starting from around 100€.
That being said, I absolutely prefer a real book when I can, but I move around a lot and it's just so much easier to have an e-reader in your backpack and not worry about a thing. Plus, I also don't feel so bad because the books get beaten up over time in the backpack.
Also, genuinely, reading in the dark is fantastic.
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Comment on Travel essentials: eight items to pack for your next trip – and what to leave at home in ~travel
Grzmot Link ParentWhy not get an e-reader? There are great alternatives to Amazon nowadays, the displays are very different to a phone and much closer to the real page and the batteries last for weeks.Why not get an e-reader? There are great alternatives to Amazon nowadays, the displays are very different to a phone and much closer to the real page and the batteries last for weeks.
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Comment on Deathless in ~comics
Grzmot LinkThis comic was linked in a reddit thread about billionaire bunkers. It's come up a few times now, Douglas Rushkoff wrote a great book on it called Survival of the Richest. The new royalty of this...This comic was linked in a reddit thread about billionaire bunkers.
It's come up a few times now, Douglas Rushkoff wrote a great book on it called Survival of the Richest. The new royalty of this world is insulating against an incoming catastrophe, and tend to do it in all the wrong ways.
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Deathless
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Comment on Illiteracy is a policy choice: why aren’t we gathering behind Mississippi’s banner? in ~society
Grzmot LinkThis feels like a weird dig that the author admits is unfounded ("maybe"), especially when every single exchange student I've talked to that went from Europe to the US, from multiple different...And maybe our schools are doing OK compared with Europe, a continent that has barely experienced economic growth in the last several decades. But they’re doing poorly compared with what we know can be achieved.
This feels like a weird dig that the author admits is unfounded ("maybe"), especially when every single exchange student I've talked to that went from Europe to the US, from multiple different central/western EU countries described to me at great length how utterly dogshit the system over there is. Like, I'm open to having my mind changed on this, but then at least cite your reasons for writing this short paragraph. It just seems out of place to the rest of the article.
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Comment on OpenAI launches new AI video app spun from copyrighted content in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentI know it's not legally accepted as IP infringiment (hopefully only yet) but it's really funny in a bleak way if you read the sentence this way:I know it's not legally accepted as IP infringiment (hopefully only yet) but it's really funny in a bleak way if you read the sentence this way:
Copyright owners, such as television and movie studios, must opt out of having their work infringed upon by OpenAI
"Ending capitalism" would mean an international revolution on a scale that feels impossible on the climate change timeline we're on.