Except you can very much use it as a tool to create a work. With img2img you can feed it a drawing (or anything really) and have it remake the image you fed it in a whole new style. With inpainting you can take an existing image and have AI fill in a masked area with something else entirely. Controlnet lets you control how things in the generated image are composed or even do wild things like create unique QR codes. And absolutely nothing is stopping one from taking the AI generated image, pulling it into an editing software and editing it further into a greater piece too

With tools like these its very easy to see how an artist might make something like say, a fake time travel log or use it as a tool to reduce how much labor is needed to complete a larger work

AI is like photography. If all you do is rely on the machine you get output exactly as good as the thought and effort you put in, but if you approach it as a tool to use in your artwork it opens up a ton of neat possibilities that are yet to be seen and can be a brilliant tool to keep in the toolbox

not because they’re ever good but because of the conditions they were made under. So, still actual art.

I’d argue that torturing GPUs into generating thousands of extremely similar but still unique pictures of anime titties has a bit of poetic artistry to it

(I’m mostly shitposting here, but there might be a kernel of truth somewhere in there)

My understanding is that Android has shitloads of out of tree modifications to the open source projects it relies on, then every single device manufacturer has even more out of tree modifications to Android and aligning all of these modifications of modifications of modifications of open source projects whenever the mainline project gets an update takes a ton of time and testing, and ultimately managing to get all of that done within a few weeks of an upstream update is a massive headache.

Basically it all comes back to the original sin where Google decided not to force hardware manufacturers to open source their device drivers and let the drivers exist out of tree. And while Google could still make it happen, they choose not to likely because a truly open ecosystem can lead to devices running forks of Android with Android app compatibility (like Amazon’s FireOS) which then might reduce Android market share and therefore app store recenue

Correct, Daily Beast is a real news website. They have a strong leftward bent and tend to spin things more than more serious publications but they do report on real news and are not satire

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but 3 rights make a left!

It’s a pretty common assigned reading in schools these days

That’s one of the reasons why many smaller farms run 50-70 year old tractors, they’re machines designed to be maintained and kept running indefinitely so we have farmers using literal antiques to get work done. Literally they’ll drive off the field to the antique tractor ride then head back to the field to finish the days work after the ride.

I think you misunderstand the economic choice that smaller farms are making. When you can get a 50 year old workhorse tractor for 20k that you can actually maintain yourself, it makes far more sense than any 200k+ tractor whether diesel or electric. Additionally folks are used to diesel, they’ve already got a big tank on the property that they refill every few months, and they might not have sufficient electrical connection to get several of the giant swapable battery packs for their tractors and keep one on the charge while they work.

If farmers were starting from scratch, sure it might make sense to go all solar and all electric, but these are folks who are constantly squeezed for cash, constantly relying on crop insurance and well-timed loans and subsidies to stay afloat living on 200 year old farms that have been in the family since the land was stolen from the native Americans, and probably still using the equipment dad bought in the 60s and 70s because that’s the most financially viable option.

almost all used cars at lots are lease returns or repos. In both cases the car is beat and unmaintained.

I was with you until this point. You forgot about trade-ins. Dealers love getting folks trapped in a revolving line of car loans especially if they can convince those folks to keep coming back to them every 3 years for a different vehicle to buy on a 72 month loan, max out their debt to income and convince them to buy an ESP or two. With customers like that they can sell cars a bit above market price, pocket the kickbacks from the both the ESP provider and the lender and the finances are kept simple because all of the money is coming in B2B. This requires keeping folks coming back and trading in vehicles before the vehicles are too worn to be worth their effort. It’s scummy as shit and preys on consumers not understanding loan terms, and their fears as they are not knowledgeable of how vehicles work and wear, but at the very least the cars themselves can still be perfectly decent for those who managed to avoid a revolving vehicle debt cycle

And it would’ve required him to have a buddy in the first place

Dude two of the colleges I toured when I was a high schooler ended up shutting down and losing their accreditation. Only reason I didn’t attend either of them was my parents told me they were too expensive and I was just a high schooler with zero concept of money who had yet to work at all (and honestly I had a bunch of other contributing problems but that’s well outside of the scope of this discussion)

Last year I busted my ass on a project with a pricetag measured in millions. 6 months later as we were finalizing the build and about to present it to the stakeholders was the moment executive leadership changed their minds and decided they didn’t want it after all. We shelved the code and will probably never use it for anything else because it was extremely specific to that project, so unless someone in executive leadership decides they want the same thing again, it’s just millions spent for literally nothing

Lemmy has generally had several kicks of revivnig old memes and old meme formats. A few months ago folks were doing the beans thing from several years ago, I’ve seen folks trying to bring advice animals and demotivational posters back, etc.

I’ve seen the same clip. Charlie Kirk was in the process of answering a follow-up audience question so it could have just as easily been an event coordinator communicating to whomever was running around with a microphone in the audience to get the next audience question ready and potentially even indicating what kind of question they were after given the complexity of the signal

Also while sitting in a tent plastered in “prove me wrong”

Yeah I’m going to be a bit surprised if Trump’s body survived to the end of his term. My wife was a CNA for a while in a couple of assisted living facilities and the conditions he has and the general decline that’s been visible in his public appearances, he’s not got long left at all. For an average joe in a nursing home I’d guess months left, for a leader of a wealthy country I’d say he has a chance of surviving to the end of his term, but he’s going to be less and less able to hide the declining state of his health as time goes on

The craziest thing about that is that being a halfway decent human is the default position. You have to actively try to be a peice of shit at the scale he was

Conspiracy theories are already saying he had increased security and started wearing bullet proof vests, but I doubt there’s any truth in that

Jezebel posted a story about paying an Etsy witch to hex Kirk just 2 days ago

My first thought was that the pacing and humor was perfectly on-point for the Onion so it makes perfect sense that that’s where it came from