It's the obscure ones I'm more worried about. I got a wilga off of simplaza and it's like the most fun I had in the game since it came out

Are any of the stock msfs planes good these days? I remember the A310 was alright, but not even A32NX or inibuilds A300 level.

The devil is in the details though. If they transfer over but are mostly borked it would suck for a while at least.

More of an ad than news nah? I actually love FS2020, can't wait. Hope the add-ons are compatible because I'm gonna take one look at all those features and then just gonna fly the fenix anyway lol.

That Africa was largely unexplored by humans and mostly unpopulated

Guess what though? That's literally all of history, dodgy AF, featuring an intrepid cast of characters more awful the deeper you look. That doesn't make the art or music worth writing off though.

Not at all, but as an accurate representation of who felt what? Yeah it's not the best source. Music is also specifically less so, because it's too abstract to really be propagandistic apart from the vague aesthetic of grandiosity.

"Earnest" is definitely not the word you're looking for.

It very much is, actually.

Earnest [adjective] - resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction.

A sincere intense conviction in gathering a generic dataset representative of the very broad concept of "images" in order to be the source from which future researchers can train a diffuser model as a proof of concept, to create patterns represented in those images out of randomised noise, driven by scientific pursuit and uncontaminated with the subjectivity of artistic taste is about as fitting for "earnest" as can be.

Remember, I wasn't talking about only the outputs of any given model, but the dataset itself.

Derivative, maybe, because you said it yourself, they're reflections; and as such, they're going to reflect what images of today are; like you said.

Yeah, the outputs definitely are, but derivative of an earnest representation of us. That makes it an interesting and unbiased account of what our images really are like.

It's interesting to go on SD and consider an idea, a concept, and what image it conjures in your head, then proompt and see what kind of images it conjures from the model. The difference is the difference in bias. It's an interesting reality check.

That makes them derivative

So is most human works. If anything, the randomness of noise, even by processor's famously incapable of any such thing, is going to be far more unpredictable than the copying done by humans.

In itself though I don't think that inherently makes either less valuable, all originality only exists as both an evolution of and in contrast to the established and accepted, and that is achieved by derivative works, perhaps even creating a genre.

If anything, part of the problem is that AI art is too original, sometimes inventing 6 fingers, or 7, the form is broken, and the idea of any image no longer resonates.

and I feel a vast artificiality that makes my heart sink when I look at the vast majority of them.

Personally I don't. I don't think there's anything that makes them any more artificial than any human work.

Ultimately all are a human vision - an image generator is just a lot of fancy matrices in a file without human input, neither it nor Photoshop can make everything by themselves.

All are ultimately .jpegs, products not of some singular vision but also of the tools developed and available to the human, all are concepts so far removed from nature, labeling one artificial but not the other is splitting hairs on a head freshly and cleanly shaved by a precision engineered mass manufactured machine shipped half-way across the world in system so complex most people don't understand it.

Choosing machine-created art over historical art is choosing a passing fad over centuries of culture.

Oh come on now. You can hate AI without resorting to delusion or ignorance.

Not only is AI art on the rise, but even a year or two ago the tools for generating images were good enough that it's already seeing noticeable widespread use, including in the physical world. And that's not even touching on the strides and accomplishments in the LLM space.

It's your right; but to write off history with a wave of the hand means you're missing out on truly expanding your horizons.

I'm not writing anything off as is hopefully evident by my writing here, it's moreso that the value of it as I see it is perhaps overestimated by yourself.

Admittedly not EU per se, but Europe nonetheless:

https://ash.org.uk/uploads/Use-of-vapes-among-young-people-GB-2023-v2.pdf

See figs 2, 3 and 4.

Particularly the 18-year old cohort as relevant to this conversation.

38% 'ever used' and 18% actively currently using e-cigarettes.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9932

Considering the nature of the activity, these figures are more likely to be on the low side of truth as well.

ITC study found that 24% of people aged 16-to-19 years in England reported having vaped in the past 30 days in 2022.*

*Done in UK, US and England.

https://www.bmj.com/content/386/bmj-2023-079016

In England again, a study of ~180k showed in 2023 that the proportion long-term actively vaping is now 10%, from 4% in 2021, and only 1.3% in 2013.

At 10%, that's 6.6 Million vapers in the UK.

Considering active research since the 90s has been in a desperate hunt to be the next big public health discovery, but has not yet managed to come up with any actual negative effects of vaping save the rise in BP from Nico comparable to a cup of coffee, and how surprisingly many say nicotine improved their mental health (see the ash study) myself included, I'd say it's unlikely people are going to stop any time soon either.

Shoplifting

Eh, I generally prefer paintings generated by an AI most of the time.

No u

Meh. Art history - sure! Books, writing, films, music.

Paintings though are a bit more dodgy. Most of the 'classical' paintings (in the renaissance and baroque periods) were created through a system of patronage by monarchs, if not for a selfish ego-boost of endless royal portraiture, then as a strategic move to enhance the prestige of the monarchy to it's neighbours.

Of course, music is often guilty of this too. Bach's famous struggles with securing patronage for instance, but due to its more abstract nature, it is probably a better source of information about the author than a painting about the painter.

It will hardly inform you of what the people or the world was like at the time, but rather what the monarchs wanted to project, which of course is helpful too for understanding the political situation at the time, but it's hardly an efficient way to acquire that information, nor do the ideas gained from such exploration likely to lead to concrete conclusions.

Kind of like judging a people by their government's propaganda department commissions.

What is interesting though is the fact that AI art, and the LAION-5B dataset used to train the models is a true and earnest reflection of sorts of what images today really are, from works of art to private commissions for furries etc to plain stock photos and other corporate graphics.

It's an interesting reality check to compare the kinds of images your mind conjures connected to an idea and the kinds of images stable diffusion produces instead, it's revealing of one's biases in a very unique way.

Huh? I don't think Philosophy or History as I mentioned expands your wallet size, dafuck?

Don't compare me to that techbro transphobe moron just because I'm offering a vaguely different opinion to yours.

Ty will check out

It's just a painting, it's not exactly science or history or philosophy or any knowledge that can extend one's horizons, it's more about a choice of mobile wallpaper, and I'm not enough of a consoomer "slob" to care about that.

Chad

AI one looks neat. Never heard of this other one.

Massive improvement

Lmaooo good luck, like half the population under 30 vapes now. Those wrappers all over aren't all one "vape georg" who is more nicotine than man.

If anything, if Europe wants to save it's entertainment and restaurant industries from streaming and ghost kitchens the #1 thing they could do to instantly boost interest in local spaces is to allow vaping indoors.

Huge reason no one goes to cinemas anymore is cuz you can't vape in there as freely as you can at home.

Well then you need to phrase yourself a lot better because that is not how you came off, clearly.

I don't think anyone welters in it when they re-listen to angsty music of their youth. For me it's just a matter of nostalgia and reminiscing.

Uhm. Like this from any other computer that you may have, someone else may have, a public library may have, etc.

https://www.google.com/android/find

In general it's very strange to not have at least a company-issued work laptop or desktop at the office if you're an office worker, but I'm sure you could find a friend with a computer you could borrow, or go the library and use theirs.

Maybe this is culture shock because I feel like on Lemmy the average computers owned by a user is easily ~13 not counting old phones/tablets that may be 'broken' but could still be made to work temporarily or in a limited enough capacity to work in this use case and ofc aforementioned corpo machines.

I don't like middle grounds in my packages, what can I say.

Docker containers are treated as immutable and disposable to me, like a boot CD, for each, I write a shell script to generate both a .conf if needed, a docker-compose.yml and run the container.

They're plug'n'play separate parts to the rest of the OS, while packages are about integrating nicely with the rest of the OS, in a non-snowflakey, non-disruptive manner.

I also hate .conf.d folders and always deleted them. One program, one .conf.

Yeah I was also an elite™️ 14-year old, all the normal girls were into LMFAO and LOL and their Flo-Ridas and BBM (what is that? Big boob messenger? Stupid thots. I was so much smarter than them. Humph! Looks are for the shallow!) and I was into far more intellectual things, like karaokeing to 'Somewhat Damaged', crying at least once to every single song on Still and speeding up the virgin power walk when the guitars come in on 'Beside You In Time'.

But then I turned 16, and I was into cloud rap, and a tad later, doom metal. I came to realize that people had varied, changing tastes that didn't necessarily give you the right to assume so much about them if they liked something I did not, it's not as if one cannot be objective about media at all, but moreso that using tastes to attack a person, or to assume personal traits about them, especially a group of people, seldom yields to accurate outcomes.

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It is a lesson I had to learn again when my CompSci colleagues at university didn't cruise through classes like I did, it wasn't because they weren't 'real' 'geeks' like I was, and it wasn't because they didn't use Linux, and once more, and again and again with many different things, undoing the brainwashing of a consumption society to see the wonderful complexity of people.

I make music now, and I've learned to see the wonderous complexity in it too, even in stuff that's 'not my cup of tea'.

I can critique it, but I no longer assume so much about people, and perhaps I am taking all this far too seriously, and that's fine, but if that applies to you, I hope you can grow up too.

^ Millennial who got bullied when they were 13 for liking Linkin Park and made it their whole personality and their life's mission to make sure no one thinks they like it again. 🙄🥱

Unironically grow up. Those people were dicks. They're well produced songs that are noteworthy for how well they portray teenage angst (a valid part of the human experience like any other) and connect with teenagers worldwide.

No, that's not what is meant by shared dependencies, and I don't use Gentoo, I use Debian.

1. Compile from source
2. Find alternative
3. Deploy in VM/Docker

If I wanted snap, flatpak or appimages, I would use windows. Shared dependencies or death.

I will be proud of myself for the fact I didn't notice or know

Don't need luck, I'm using Common Sense 2024™️ edition AV/EDR with an integrated SIEM.

Bruh you're in so deep you don't even see ads anymore 😱

When I was suicidal the thing that helped me most was lostallhope dot com.

"55% success chance, 15 minutes and 80-something agony for something as drastic as slicing one's neck? Fucking hell there's no getting away from it is there. " - I thought.

Think it got taken down a long time ago, last I checked it didn't load anyway, prolly cuz of the shady shit happening on SS

These helplines ain't shit, I'm not even suicidal and it makes me want to an hero seeing that patronising cringe shit. There better be some solid proof it works on the masses, I can't imagine how much actual mental health service funding in the UK could've been done from the budget of all that social advertising.

Look y'all we can have decentralised worker cooperative communes with everyone contributing and things distributed as needed for the betterment of everyone's living conditions rather than the enriching of the few, but only if I get to actually be Hitler in Secret Hitler next time we play!

Honestly with how the world is today if I saw this in a headline I wouldn't even flinch smh

You heard right. He never "sold" anything to any govt, he went to Dubai and hosted TG across like 50 different countries so glowies would be drowned in paperwork before they ever got a chance to submit a subpoena for anything, encrypted or otherwise, with it's founder in a nation that basically gives zero fucks about international laws and affairs.

This is why TG was so trustworthy and had such a massive and brazen criminal element

💥🔥🔥

wow that's harsh why'd they...

sees username

That checks out ig

Multiculturalism and it's consequences (good ones).

What bot?

Incredible that it's only happened now. Just goes to show how actually old the average Brit is. On the one hand it feels good, I'll still be "young" for another 15 years, even though past 25 it's all downhill, but on the other hand the downfall of civilization to the cheer of the boomer property tycoons hopped up on the daily heil isn't that nice to be around.

I don't use RA at all, I just have to fix it for those who end up using it because of Reddit. Thanks for the recommendation though, I'll check it out.