a pharmaceutical form of LSD…

So, there’s real, therapeutic uses for drugs Big Pharma has lobbied for years to keep illegal? And, it looks like they might be on board if they can make bank off it? Who would’a thunk it?

Eh. It helped a little, but the menu and button interface are not the biggest problems. It’s the way the tools work, or don’t work, that causes me the most issues.

“Free” software has a way of becoming paid. They put more and more features behind the paywall over time. Sketchup and Fusion 360 come to mind.

The main thing I always stumble over is selecting and “floating”, all of that seems unnecessarily complex.

Also, filters won’t apply to masks. In Photoshop, you can just add a channel, paint a mask and use any of the filters, and then keep that channel to use as a selection–it’s easy to make any channel a selection, including the color channels and alpha channel. It sort-of works in GIMP, but filters won’t apply to the channel.

Upvoted, because that’s me.

Although, since I have no professional reason for paying for Photoshop anymore, I’m forcing myself to learn GIMP.

It’s only a matter of time, and money.

And while Niantic hasn’t suggested any plans to provide its VPS data to authorities, it’s not hard to see how a tool that can accurately pinpoint a location based on landmarks in a photograph could look enticing to law enforcement.

Nano Banana 2: Image Generators Can Now Think

No, they fucking can’t.

They’re throwing away the one asset that could dig them out of this hole, if only they’d admit they fucked up royally.

This bubble won’t burst, it will explode.

Any ideas for how we can hasten the end? I sure would like to stop them before they build more data centers.

Sounds like a start. More is needed though.

The bill targets AI chatbots that impersonate licensed professionals — such as doctors and lawyers — and bars them from providing “substantive response, information, or advice” that would violate professional licensing laws or constitute the unauthorized practice of law.

It also mandates that chatbot owners provide “clear, conspicuous, and explicit” notice to users that they are interacting with an AI system, with the notice displayed in the same language as the chatbot and in a readable font size. However, the bill clarifies that this notice for users, which indicates that they are interacting with a non-human system, does not absolve the chatbot owners of liability.

Exactly. Governments around the world, including the U.S., of course, have made it crystal clear through their actions that they don’t give a fuck about protecting children.

Is it right every time?

The fact that AI is “not perfect” is a HUGE FUCKING PROBLEM. Idiots across the world, and people who we’d expect to know better, are making monumental decisions based on AI that isn’t perfect, and routinely “hallucinates”. We all know this.

Every time I think I’ve seen the lowest depths of mass stupidity, humanity goes lower.

Our government doesn’t care about us beyond what we can do to make the rich richer. If we’re not engaged in that effort 18 hours per day, then we should just fuck off and die, as far as they care.

So glad Win 10 was the last one for me.

They aren’t hard to remove, and you can buy valve stems that fit your hole at any auto parts store.

Good to know.

Seems like a good move. They need some market they can dominate, even if it’s a small market at the moment. But, the only way this works is if we buy their phones. I wish them luck, and maybe they’ll make my next phone. I want to get out of Apple and Google.

Yep, that’s the plan.

It should be obvious by now that governments don’t give one fuck about protecting kids. Not one single fuck.

The worst major fast food chain by a mile, and they’re pulling stupid shit like this.

Whatever your reasons are for paying ridiculous prices to eat crap at a place like this, they’re not good reasons. You can do better, you’re worth more. Stop abusing yourself.

You can stop buying from Amazon whenever you choose to. There are online alternatives to every product they sell. You don’t need to be part of it. Whatever excuse you give is wrong.

You joke, but…

Well, yeah, it’s just a joke. Not a funny one, either.