Also check out his other video on his Connextras channel where he basically suggests dismantling capitalism.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2qSaD1v4cQ

What is religion? Philosophy

I wish people just saw religion as a metaphor, but they really do believe there is a god and act accordingly even though there is no evidence of any gods existing.

The training for the models still requires massive data centers, ai has caused data center power usage to double in the last five years

That’s a good argument for stopping the training of AI models, but the models we have are here to stay.

The personal impact is the artist that does not want their art used this way.

Maybe they shouldn’t have publicly released their art to the world if they didn’t want people or machines to make things similar to it. Copying is not theft, I think Nina Paley is right about that.

Honestly I think whatever this Ghibli trend is about, it’s just good advertisting for the real Studio Ghibli.

It’s a good read, but I’m not sure if it’s a good take. This seems very emotionally-driven and not really logical. Someone could make low quality Ghibli style images by hand in large quantities. Is that just as bad?

The environmental impact argument doesn’t really work anymore now that you can produce AI generated images on a standard gaming PC. Also I’m not sure what you mean by “personal impact”. I can understand “social impact” but if the person generated the image themselves, I assume they would enjoy it and not have a negative personal impact from it.

This isn’t very old lol. That computer could be from 2010 and CD’s and Sharpies were used then. Also, LimeWire was functional until like late 2010.

standard Google keyboard on my Pixel, nothing fancy

The issue is that I am using something fancy.

Well there is no em dash or en dash key on the mobile keyboard. And there isn’t a … key either.

Understand and operate any arbitrary interface without having to have it explained to me by rote

Omg, this all the way. I’m in a class for learning AWS stuff and its crazy the amount of people who suddenly can’t do anything when one button is on a different screen than the instructions told them it was. Like come on, use some basic thinking skills.

Another infuriating situation was having to do a class on Microsoft Office. It was infuriating because it was incredibly basic stuff. I’ve never used Outlook before, but I completed each task they asked of me in like 5 seconds because I have a basic understanding of how software works.

Remember a fairly broad swath of special character altcodes

I use the compose key. When you message with me, you are sure to receive proper dashes and real ellipsis.

Well, unless I happen to be using my phone or another computer at the time.

I made her network two computers

How did she do it? Just plug a crossover cable into both of them?

This is what the editor should have sent in the signal chat after the ordeal.

They all look like pencils to me.

it isn’t managed directly by Mozilla

I was about to make a snarky comment about how it is, however, owned by an advertising company, but then I found this.

https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/7/waterfox-regains-independence-abandoning-the-advertising-company-system1/

I really wish seamonkey still worked for modern websites. It’s so cool.

Road crews carry the world on their SHOULDERS. haha punny

As a fellow OSM mapper, thanks for advertising. :D

Maintaining roads has never been sexy

Well I can’t say building or maintaining roads gets me sexually aroused, but why is maintaining roads not “sexy”?