For E-Mail there are plenty of hosted alternatives. Fastmail is usually what I recommend, but there are others: https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle?tab=readme-ov-file#gmail-...
Readit Newsdna_polymerase commented on Ask HN: Degoogling in 2024 · Posted by u/docflabby
dna_polymerase commented on Lego price per part over the years brickinsights.com/statist... · Posted by u/janandonly
The first data point in the time series seems to be from 1991, yet the x-Axis starts at 1949. Why? I'd have a better overview of the price changes if the actual data had more space.
dna_polymerase commented on Adobe Firefly repeats the same AI blunders as Google Gemini semafor.com/article/03/13... · Posted by u/belter
> I asked Firefly to create images using similar prompts that got Gemini in trouble. It created Black soldiers fighting for Nazi Germany in World War II. In scenes depicting the Founding Fathers and the constitutional convention in 1787, Black men and women were inserted into roles. When I asked it to create a comic book character of an old white man, it drew one, but also gave me three others of a Black man, a Black woman and a white woman. And yes, it even drew me a picture of Black Vikings, just like Gemini.
Why would we expect Gemini or Firefly to not be able to produce these images? I can definitely sympathize with not wanting to make offensive images but there’s no way these tools could be sanitized to not produce something offensive given the right prompts. Just like how you can’t stop photoshop users from creating similar images manually.
It's not like black soldiers for Nazi Germany are offensive. It's just stupid and everyone who knows how ML works knows that Google does a lot of stupid, often called “woke”, stuff to produce these images. Any other non-mutilated ML algorithm would just give you the more historically but also more common in the dataset version of white Nazis.
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Does this have any merit aside from satisfying intellectual curiosity? I assume GPS receivers to be quite cheap these days?
dna_polymerase commented on Picking the Widevine Locks: Acquiring and Using an L3 CDM ismailzai.com/blog/pickin... · Posted by u/zlingasdg
Even Widevine L1 is effectively broken. The actual protection offered by it is negligible. Will it stop the average Netflix user from "Right Click -> Save File" on any episode? Sure. But it does nothing to prevent pirated content from being released on the internet and other people downloading said content.
I oppose piracy, but I really wish rightsholders would give up on requiring DRM at this point. It only makes things more annoying for people who legitimately bought the content. At least the music industry went back to offering DRM-free downloads. I hope the video industry gets there as well.
I'm not particularly fond of piracy either, but I get people doing it. If I were to consume more media content, I'd probably do the same, the whole shenanigans around which show/movie is with what provider today ruined the experience of modern streaming platforms. Early Netflix (streaming) was perfect, but the movie studios/distributors ruined it, they deserve to suffer.
dna_polymerase commented on Oklahoma receives first "Made in Oklahoma" EV oklahoma.gov/omes/newsroo... · Posted by u/millzlane
Thankfully your opinions and beauty standards mean nothing on the internet. I for one think they look fantastic.
> Thankfully your opinions and beauty standards mean nothing on the internet.
But mine do...
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