a corporate goon

I’ve been on Lemmy too long, because this is starting to sound like a double entendre.

Too bad ChatGPT lacks the self-awareness (let alone any actual reasoning skills whatsoever) to appreciate it.

I’m well aware of the meme. You used it inappropriately.

It’s not. it’s a completely different set of steps (at least at runtime). The Venn diagram circles don’t touch.

If your training data has a pixelated circle as an input and a circle as output, your neural network will “upscale” your pixelated circle to a circle. If your training data has a pixelated circle as input and a high definition pie as output, your neural network will “upscale” your pixelated circle to a high definition pie. Even if it’s the same algorithm in both cases.

it’s applying advanced lighting methods like subsurface scattering to make materials more lifelike.

It is not. It is approximating the results of training data consisting of output images that have been rendered with subsurface scattering. It isn’t actually running the subsurface scattering algorithm.

It seems increasingly to me that the screeching about them is projection by the ones perpetrating them. For example, there is a conspiracy to create a “New World Order,” and it’s shit like this and this.

My city moved up half a USDA Plant Hardiness Zone (7B to 8A) when the latest map came out in 2023. That’s not weather, that’s climate.

It’s not yet been decided what monetary damages, if any, will result from the ruling, nor is it clear if Subnautica 2’s release will be affected.

Sounds to me like fair damages would start with removing Unknown Worlds from Krafton’s ownership.

To be fair, it’s plausible. They might not have wanted a home inspector writing up “low water pressure” as a potential problem. 'Course, the inspector might write “water splashes out of the sink” as a problem instead, but that at least is more straightforward to solve, rather than being possibly indicative of a bigger hidden problem.

Pop!_OS uses COSMIC (a modified GNOME), not KDE.

Linux Mint uses Cinnamon (a modified GNOME 3) or MATE (a modified GNOME 2), not KDE.

The answer to “why not Debian” is that I try to install Debian first every time, but if it doesn’t work for whatever reason I grab Kubuntu instead of trying to troubleshoot it. 3 of the 4 desktop computers I’ve tried to install Linux on lately ended up with Kubuntu instead of Debian.

(For my personal desktop that tends to have a bleeding-edge graphics card at the time of building/installing, that’s understandable. For the other computers, for other members of my family who don’t need the latest and greatest, Debian’s failure to support several-year-old hardware – at least in the installation environment, without fiddling – was less forgivable.)

Yeah, hostile design (or “hostile architecture,” which is the more searchable term) is like IRL enshittification: it’s not just when it’s bad, it’s when it’s intentionally bad in order to serve some goal other than fulfilling the needs of the user.

The most common example is a bench with an armrest in the middle so that homeless people can’t (easily/comfortably) sleep on it.

When your adventuring party Mansa Musas the local economy.

I already know about it, so there’s no need to tell me.

Keep reading, down to the “Chrome/139.0.7258.158” part.

For historical reasons, Chrome’s user-agent string says “Mozilla” and then “AppleWebKit” and then “KHTML” before finally saying “Chrome”

What’s a better alternative that uses apt and KDE and has relatively up-to-date packages (other than Debian testing)?

Corporations can go out of business, have an incentive to enshittify, etc. Communities/non-profit foundations generally don’t.

The only way a community project can cease to be “stable” (in the “not going away” sense you’re using it) is if literally nobody competent cares enough to maintain it anymore, and if that’s the case, was anything of value really lost?

You’ve got that backwards. Community distros are more likely to be stable than corporate ones.

I think Duolingo requires it in order to do speaking exercises.

“I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me.”