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bearmode··on Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought
>Do advertisers care about computer users who do not use graphical browsers much. As such a user, IME, the answer is no.

Almost nobody does this, so obviously not. You're probably in a group that makes up less than 0.0001% of web users. And that might even be generous.

bearmode··on Copyright Registration Guidance: Works containing material generated by AI
Sure. It's like having a friend who can draw. You detail to them something you're picturing in your mind, and they make it into something actually real.

Who would have ownership over that art piece? Who actually did the work to make it exist?

Copyright doesn't protect ideas, it protects the specific creative expression of those ideas. By creating a prompt you're creating an idea, but that isn't a copyrightable, creative action. You're just the 'ideas guy' for a robot artist.

And again on the 2nd point, the camera doesn't guide the photographer. It can help them dial in their vision, but they're in full creative control at all times. It guides you no more than a hammer guides you to the nail.

bearmode··on Copyright Registration Guidance: Works containing material generated by AI
Creating AI artwork is simply telling the computer the result you want, and picking what you believe to be the best output. There may be something of an iterative process there, but it's really not creative.

Also the photographer is not "guided by a tool". The camera doesn't guide them.

bearmode··on Copyright Registration Guidance: Works containing material generated by AI
And how will they know?
bearmode··on On Taking Photographs
Lightroom classic is great. Has the newer lightroom even got luminosity/range masks yet?
bearmode··on On Taking Photographs
I was about to post the same thing. I've been a hobbyist photographer for over a decade, ime the space is super welcoming to newcomers/hobbyists.
bearmode··on Venus is volcanically alive, new find shows
By the time humans are able to settle on Venus, I'd imagine we'd also have the ability to relieve the pressure ourselves.
bearmode··on Americans lost a record $10.3B to online scammers last year, FBI says
Why would you not report it?
bearmode··on Building a second income stream by writing a book
You forget that the £6k is total sales, he's made about 1/6 of that. I think 7k/year is extraordinarily optimistic based on the sales he's seen so far
bearmode··on Makelogo.ai: From idea to $65,000 exit in 3 months
They live in Bali, avg monthly wage is around $900. In that context it sounds pretty good.
bearmode··on $22B project to provide 8% of UK energy via undersea cable from North Africa
The fact that the UK is resorting to this instead of massively ramping up tidal power is crazy. We're one of the most tidally active areas of the world, and yet we only get 2% of our power from tidal, with seemingly no appetite to increase it.
bearmode··on SimCity launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series
Yes. So it's easy to tell which the title is referring to.
bearmode··on SimCity launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series
And which one launched a decade ago? How about we combine the three bits of info and see what we think we have... name = "SimCity", launch = 2013, reception = disasterous. Only one of those matches the '89 game, so it's clear which one is being referred to.
bearmode··on SimCity launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series
Normal people can infer context. Nobody thinks the original game came out in 2013. Everyone knows it was not a disaster.
bearmode··on SimCity launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series
The name of the game was SimCity.
bearmode··on Musk’s bid to start Neuralink human trials denied by FDA in 2022, report says
Elon was always a fraud and a liar. As he became more outspoken on social media, more people were exposed to what he actually is.
bearmode··on Future Fords could repossess themselves and drive away if you miss payments
- Public transport doesn't go near to where I need to go

- Camping overnight is both illegal, and less comfortable than the hotel I was basing my hikes out of

I drove there, stayed at a hotel, and hiked out from that hotel every day. It was a very memorable trip. I then drove home.

The alternative would have been to get a bus to the train station (40 minutes), a train to the south of the park (2 hours), get a bus from the train station to another town (only 2 buses a day, morning and night, so we'd have had to leave home much earlier or lose a day), get another bus from that town to another town, then get another bus from that town to another town. All whilst lugging a large suitcase, camera bag & gear, and another backpack between us. The buses would have taken another 3 hours. Then if I needed to get home in an emergency, or otherwise leave quickly, I'd have to redo it all backwards, and hope I could make that twice a day bus.

No thanks, I'll just stick with my 1.5 hour drive from my front door to the hotel.

bearmode··on Report: U.S. pedestrian death rate increased during COVID
I think the correlation would be stronger with the size of personal vehicles getting larger tbh. Larger vehicles are far less safe for pedestrians.
bearmode··on Report: U.S. pedestrian death rate increased during COVID
Don't forget significantly stricter tests for getting licenses, and generally just having smaller cars helps a huge amount. A truck hits you, you're taking the impact to your chest or upper back. A small hatchback hits you, and it's hitting your legs.
bearmode··on Future Fords could repossess themselves and drive away if you miss payments
Lol, absolutely not. I just came back from a trip to a national park that simply would not have been doable without my car. My commute into work each day would be significantly harder without my car. I wouldn't be able to visit much of my family without my car.

I can get into the nearest city and town just fine on public transport, and that's what I do. But public transport here is spoke-hub. If you want to go somewhere that is moderately far away from a hub, it becomes incredibly difficult (and expensive).

If you live in a city, and you never leave that city other than to go to other cities, then you absolutely do not need a car. Most other people do.

bearmode··on Future Fords could repossess themselves and drive away if you miss payments
What if it's behind a locked gate?
bearmode··on LastPass says DevOps engineer’s hacked computer led to security breach in 2022
Because that's unbelievably less convenient.
bearmode··on LastPass says DevOps engineer’s hacked computer led to security breach in 2022
I can't believe it's taken 6 months for them to divulge this.
bearmode··on The US Air Force successfully tested AI-controlled jet fighter
Wouldn't doubt it. Far less to crash into when flying a plane. No worries about pedestrians, cyclists. Usually have good visibility, nobody speeding around a corner leaving you no time to react.
bearmode··on See inside a 958-foot cargo ship (2022)
There are only 20-30 people working on a cargo ship, I wouldn't doubt that it's all quite pleasant. Lots of ship for so few people.
bearmode··on We [Reddit] had a security incident. Here’s what we know
I'd argue that cloning their intranet site takes this up a notch from regular phishing
bearmode··on Ask HN: Are we sure LLMs are that useful in a web search application?
I think they will be, eventually, but have a fair way to go on the accuracy front first.
bearmode··on Why Is Colorectal Cancer Rising Rapidly Among Young Adults?
Maybe reverse osmosis water?
bearmode··on Visual design rules you can safely follow
Speaking as an (ex) graphic designer myself, most of these are very good rules of thumb.
bearmode··on Why would a 21st century warplane shoot a balloon with a missile?
Yeah, those biplanes don't have armaments though. Most fighters of the time were maxing out around 30-40,000 feet, with high altitude recon/bombers maxing out around 50k-ish
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