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Re:What Happened to the Neanderthals? on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:19AM (#50269612)
still to come, the sasquatch in Canada
Re:Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans on Thursday October 22, 2026 @06:27PM (#50201959)
are you talking about the brain?
nobody making enough money with a job, but there's a new way to tax them
i saw a commercial of a presumably 18 year old ignoring their family at dinner and gambling under the table on their phone and the line went something like "they dont need to know how much fun youre having!". this was during a baseball game im watching with kids. its totally fukt
Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @10:31PM (#50127319)
turbo boost
propaganda
have you heard of this dude named karl marx?
hey there. fellow indie dev here. i feel you, i see copyright and ai slop ripoffs on the daily. in fact i used to be most upset seeing my opensource code show up in much bigger commercial projects unattributed (looking at you microsoft) but im here to tell you the real answer: you have to compete. you have to compete against the slop and the clones just like youre competing with the original ps and the gimps and the kritas already. it doesnt seem fair, it seems harder, and it is. but thats the truth. ai is out of the bottle. you can still make a better photopea than some dimwit ai and the loser trying to publish their clone, because you think about and obsess over and care about your product way more deeply. that manifests. and you might say why obsess when it can just be copied. and now you sound just like metallica did in 1999. welcome to 2026
Re:Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:38PM (#49997780)
that may be true, but doesnt change the outcome. that it's literal copyright infringement here is quaint: the same user can turn around and give us a new photopea clone with 0% matching code in about 10 minutes. then what?
there is no more software IP. ai does not need source: it can infer or deduce the logic or algos. and in the case of private software dont think it hasn't been sucked up too
Re:Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:53PM (#49986465)
there's the rub, ai cloned is not derivative in the copyright sense. we need to figure out what we value as a society here and let the law catch up. its wild right now
turtle island is not a literal place. its an indiginous reference to the world. a dei expert claimed there was an island the indiginous people were from. the point being they were not an expert. similar challenges happening today for ai safety experts
reminds me of a time when my company had a dei consultant come in and he couldnt find turtle island on google maps...
yes afaik copyright law has nothing to say about being sherlocked. it's happening - virtually any software you can think of has some shit slop clone out there already
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:23PM (#49916554)
i was working on a performance optimization problem with 3.1 and gemini asked me to "just make it stop". i have not used gemini since
Re:Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah on Monday September 28, 2026 @08:36PM (#49886434)
jesus fucking christ
Re:T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97 Degrees on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:50PM (#49744933)
id assumed as much since seeing jurassic park in 1996
Re:Leaving Linux on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @01:29PM (#49715819)
how intellectually stimulating. did the box it came in also feel premium?
Re:The UN challenges five centuries of cartography on Thursday September 10, 2026 @02:14AM (#49639126)
have we renamed the world america yet?
yeah sure lets defend ben gvir
you mean a rectangle over the entire page?
brains do it with 20 watts because theyre analog. llms require massive amounts of power and this isnt changing any time soon without a breakthrough
Re:App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours on Friday August 07, 2026 @05:27PM (#49216432)
because it would be rejected again
Re:Stolen Buttons on Saturday July 25, 2026 @01:31PM (#49049651)
none of them work
in 15 years we might all be fighting terminators
Re:My Midlife Crisis Corolla Is Fast, Furious, and Modded on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @12:00PM (#48922878)
hacker vibes would be sharing how he learned to program the ecu with a laptop. or putting in a short throw. running linux on the headunit, etc. but no, all this guy did was put a louder, annoying exhaust on it and drives it like its a go kart. im just left wondering what stickers he will tastefully add to it? haha but its ok, its a mid life crisis after all.. if he is feeling happy and like a child again, thats totally great
legislate volume knobs
Re:A new Android malware from Google on Thursday July 02, 2026 @04:55AM (#48758467)
how is graphene these days, or is there a better alternative that can run map apps that depend on google play services (like waze)?
Re:Should every baby's DNA be sequenced? on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @08:13AM (#48731586)
yes. not to throw the garbage ones off the cliff, but to do our best for their future

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