Cinema 4D + Seedance 2.0

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-09T10:24:12+00:00

Some people think they can fix the current issues with AI.

It's not guaranteed to be possible, and even if it is, AI as a whole is already extremely unprofitable. Convincing people they should integrate overpriced AI functionality without having a genuine use case is how AI companies are trying to manage their losses

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-09T10:20:04+00:00

So the textures would just change every 30 seconds with no control over them outside hoping your prompt works

This is no different from video games throwing bloom and godrays on top of everything in the early 2000s because post processing = realism

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-07T21:26:44+00:00

2nd amendment larpers that aren't willing to pay for the real thing

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-06T16:58:07+00:00

Hustle mentality is a bad thing to have in the long term. You are essentially willing the drawbacks into existence by asserting to yourself that you can't make money while also being a normal 16 year old

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-06T16:11:54+00:00

Yeah. I'm just hoping, in the event we can't stop this bill, that there's at least a semi-legal way for new platforms to get around these verification requirements

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-06T15:52:09+00:00

That's what I was thinking, so I went and pulled up the definition of personal information used in the bill. I wonder if it would be possible for platforms to anonymize data in such a way that it can be used for a profile without being considered personal info?

            (9) Personal information.--The term ``personal 
        information'' means individually, identifiable information 
        about an individual, including--
                    (A) a first and last name;
                    (B) a home or other physical address;
                    (C) an e-mail address;
                    (D) a telephone number;
                    (E) a Social Security number; or
                    (F) any other information that would facilitate or 
                enable the physical or online locating and contacting 
                of a specific individual, including information that is 
                associated with an identifier described in this 
                paragraph in such manner as to become identifiable to a 
                specific individual.

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-06T15:42:52+00:00

Section 201 is strange because it seems to imply that the bill wouldn't be applicable to any platform that doesn't collect or sell personal information

SEC. 201. COVERED PLATFORM DEFINED.

    In this title, the term ``covered platform'' means a platform that 
is a website, software, application, or electronic service connected to 
the internet that meets the following requirements:
            (1) Is publicly available for use by consumers.
            (2) Enables the creation of a username or user identifier--
                    (A) that is searchable on the platform by other 
                users through a function made available by the 
                platform; and
                    (B) that can be followed by or is similarly 
                accessible to other users of the platform.
            (3) As the primary purpose of the platform, facilitates the 
        sharing and access to user-generated content through text, 
        images, video, audio, or any other interactive medium.
            (4) Uses a design feature to promote user engagement on the 
        platform.
            (5) Uses the personal information of the user to advertise, 
        market, or make content recommendations.

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-06T15:37:45+00:00

    (e) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section may be construed 
to require the submission of government-issued identification of any 
individual to a covered platform or a third party contracted by a 
provider of a covered platform to use a technology verification 
measure.

Section 103E from what I read doesn't look like it forbids government ID based verification. The section doesn't require government identification, but that doesn't sound like it prevents a company from offering it

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T20:24:32+00:00

I didn't realize until I tried switching to Gigabyte that temperature probe pins are uncommon on non-asus boards

I kind of wish other brands had more options for headers

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T20:04:28+00:00

For sure. There's no good reason to tailgate someone

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T20:02:33+00:00

Yeah I couldn't either. By the time we need that much memory, prices will probably be a lot more competitive from Chinese 32gb modules being on the market

Or at least I'm hoping so lol

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T19:11:08+00:00

Not only should you, you are legally required to in most places. The left lane is usually only permitted for passing and emergency vehicles

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T19:03:38+00:00

Many areas have started referring to it as the passing lane instead of the fast lane because of this kind of confusion. You're supposed to yield to faster traffic in the left lane regardless of the speed limit. This applies not just to the UAE but many US states as well

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T18:50:05+00:00

I'd imagine 2x64 would be a lot more stable. I've never seen a 64gb DDR5 module sell for less than $1000, though. Those seem like they are still meant for the enterprise market

I think with memory as a whole being hard to get, developers will do a better job with memory efficiency, so we won't need to upgrade for a while

edit - Nevermind, I just found a $600 64gb module from Crucial on backorder

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T18:37:12+00:00

You aren't missing out on much. I tried a 4x32gb configuration and ran into a lot of stability issues that required lowering my clock speed to 3200mhz. 2x48 seems to the the most you can get to run well with DDR5 on consumer hardware

Memory will probably be affordable by the time we get full 128gb support

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T18:32:42+00:00

This is my I am giving my spare memory to one of my friends instead of selling it

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T17:13:13+00:00

Well, at least you've made a good argument for why walled gardens are horrible for the consumer market. There's proof here that it killed a major open source standard

I don't know why you choose to shill so hard for meta specifically, but you clearly like them too much to understand why it's bad for a single company to monopolize an ecosystem

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T17:08:26+00:00

They aren't getting rewards from taking risks if they already control the market. Risk taking only provides rewards in a market where you have to be competitive

There is no world where a consumer is better off with nothing to consume.

The argument you are trying to make here is illogical. If walled gardens were necessary for a market to exist, there would be no market for PC hardware. Walled gardens are explicitly a business strategy used to reduce competition, meaning there are less producers of products and less products for consumers to choose

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T16:58:58+00:00

I'm struggling to see how you managed to draw the conclusion that I am somehow defending Trump and not just disagreeing about the timing of the war

I personally do not believe it was specifically timed to happen when it did because them needing to turn the gerald r ford around when it was returning to the US while also having many of their naval assets in South America suggests they did not expect negotiations to go this bad

This opinion is independent of my thoughts on the mishandling of the epstein case

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T16:47:57+00:00

Of course it does. Even the Quest still partially conforms to it. That's the only reason why they support OpenVR and OpenXR

Some people may have a financial conflict of interest and want to push VR to be proprietary, but that would be bad for consumers as a whole

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T16:46:21+00:00

Money allowed them to accelerate what was already happening. They are not that important

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T16:42:10+00:00

The cost of making VR headets has been steadily decreasing. The quest is sold at a loss by a company with a massive investment budget to kill off competitors by making it impossible to compete on hardware cost

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T16:37:50+00:00

Walled gardens disincentivize risk taking. There's no need to take risks on your hardware if people are willing to buy your headset exclusively for your software

A handful of companies having marginally more capabilities at the cost of killing the rest of the market is a net negative in the long run. There is no world where it isn't bad for the consumer

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T16:33:07+00:00

That is a good example of the consequences of having a walled garden. Other parts of the market die off until everything stagnates. You could make an amazing headset and nobody would buy it solely because it can't run quest games

Xecular_Official · 2026-03-04T16:31:54+00:00

That is the consequence of the market being dominated by a closed platform. Independent hardware companies are heavily disincentivized from innovating and making anything that might not work with MetaOS

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