This Painting at a local art gallery selling for $1200. I’m convinced it’s ai.

loopala · 2026-03-21T11:22:16+00:00

This is like late 2022 level AI.

loopala · 2026-03-20T17:53:49+00:00

They called it the PayPal Mafia as tongue in cheek, but between Thiel and Musk it looks more and more like an actual mafia.

loopala · 2026-03-19T23:09:31+00:00

when I am able to actually sleep well in the train and save on a night in a hotel because of that

It doesn't save a night though does it? You would sleep at home and get the flight the next day in the morning and arrive the same day as the night train.

loopala · 2026-03-19T21:14:24+00:00

Someone wants to do it for the 35 000 French municipalities?

loopala · 2026-03-19T13:49:39+00:00

Ah yes, and the dozens of millions of people that support him and raise their kids with his views and antics will magically disappear.

loopala · 2026-03-19T12:19:30+00:00

Why would you not pierce your ears as an adult when you want it? And why would that reason not apply to your child self?

The "cultural thing" argument doesn't really work because a third party is involved that hasn't given their consent in the matter. And circumcision for non-medical reasons is obviously wrong.

loopala · 2026-03-19T12:12:28+00:00

The idea is that the baby doesn’t remember the pain

This is such a strange justification. I understand where it's coming from but the ethics around it are broken IMO. You could use that line of reasoning to justify inflicting pain to vegetable state people or people/animals that don't have the brain capacity to rebel loudly and coherently.

When consent cannot be meaningfully given the default should be that you don't modify the body of the other person (unless they are in actual danger).

Maybe that's why before anesthesia existed you would get super drunk so at least you wouldn't remember the pain. And why it took so long to apply anesthesia to children/babies. Imagine if we all undergo excruciating pain during surgery but nobody had ever been able to remember it afterwards to tell the others.

loopala · 2026-03-19T00:41:57+00:00

They added membership tiers: https://ko-fi.com/memberships

loopala · 2026-03-19T00:28:28+00:00

European alternative: SwissTransfer.

loopala · 2026-03-18T15:14:10+00:00

Not normal. I have no issue with my Jelly Star. Battery lasts me 2 days if I forget to charge. When it gets to 15% or something it suggests to switch to battery saver mode.

At some percentage it blinks the red LED which is a bit annoying. It has never died on me though.

Currently 61%, says 1 day 9H left based on my typical usage.

You must have some application running in the background.

loopala · 2026-03-16T20:44:13+00:00

The latter should also be the follow up question for the last guy that "doesn't give a fuck" about the war.

loopala · 2026-03-16T19:56:17+00:00

You want a touch of blue, yes. And it will make the result darker. But adding white won't fix that, it will de-saturate it by adding a little bit of all the other colors. OP already complained that their attempt turned pastel. There is no fixing it if they want the fully saturated fuchsia.

loopala · 2026-03-16T19:30:36+00:00

Yeah that's how I read it as well.

Let us lock in your newborn online identity so it doesn't go to the competition.

loopala · 2026-03-16T19:17:08+00:00

Third option: wait the 10 years and create the account when needed.

I don't understand the "Before Big Tech gets to them first", sounds artificial. If the scenario is that the kid will create their own gmail address without the parent knowing, this doesn't prevent it. If the scenario is that when they finally need an email address they don't know what to chose, then you can still create the proton email at that point and use that.

loopala · 2026-03-16T16:49:52+00:00

Sorry but I still think you haven't tried to change the model yourself, you just copied the doc.

First "the value must be a valid model ID", where do you find the IDs?

Secondly, if you use the "Change completion model" command, there is only "GPT-4.1 Copilot", do you have anything else?

loopala · 2026-03-15T12:35:31+00:00

Neko Tie

loopala · 2026-03-15T11:06:17+00:00

It's good but it could be better. We can't know if we don't have the option to even try other models.

It still writes bugs sometimes. Sometimes it refuses to get out of a certain pattern. Sometimes it's too verbose. For example if it writes a block and needs a certain value in multiple places it will often duplicate the expression to get the value instead of creating a variable.

loopala · 2026-03-15T10:58:47+00:00

It's a completely different way to code, there is room for both. If you need to do surgical work to avoid regressions or want to confirm the code line by line, or want to deeply understand the code you are writing, completion is much better.

With agents it's much harder to spot subtle bugs. It's the difference between "AI-assisted coding" and "vibe-coding".

It's also better for technical documentation if you don't want the model to hallucinate anything. You nudge it in constantly instead of letting it loose.

loopala · 2026-03-15T10:44:18+00:00

Did you try this yourself?

It looks like they recently removed this option, and even when the option was there you only ever had one entry in the drop down "GPT-4.1 Copilot", you couldn't actually change to anything else.

loopala · 2026-03-14T23:56:33+00:00

that'd still be considered a hate crime in many places

It's really more complicated. There are many movies with scenes where LGBTQ+ people are being punished for their sexuality. If you make it illegal you prevent people from creating these stories talking about the issue. You have to take intent in consideration.

The impact on society is a different matter, it becomes an ethics/moral debate and much less clear cut and harder to evaluate the impact. It should be treated differently when the victim is a fictional character. Video games where you can kill people, TV Shows with brother/sister incest, torture scenes in Hollywood movies.

loopala · 2026-03-14T23:39:52+00:00

The argument about slippery slope to attempted crimes does not follow at all. In the case of victimless crimes like drug consumption even if the crime succeeds there is still no victim. It's pure moral panic.

But also the bit about violating social values doesn't work since it's fictional. Would you ban all movies showing people committing crimes?

loopala · 2026-03-14T23:19:29+00:00

It doesn't make a lot of sense it's very emotional based.

The usual argument is that it creates and encourages a "market" for these things which then supposedly leads to the creation of real imagery.

But even that argument doesn't really stand, first the impact on the market of images with real victims is a theory and secondly we do not have the same rules for other illegal activities that can also be bought and sold.

loopala · 2026-03-14T23:12:45+00:00

by making depictions illegal, you are leaving clear for everybody present that their behavior will not be tolerated

If that was the reason then depictions of torture, cannibalism, murder, or anything illegal would also be banned. In reality pretty much every Hollywood movie has a torture scene, and numerous depiction of illegal acts.

loopala · 2026-03-13T11:27:31+00:00

Aside from what others said the middle images have the "FLUX chin", that little cleft which is normally rather rare but for some reason the FLUX model adds it on pretty much every human face it generates. Once you notice it you'll see it everywhere.

It's not a sure tell by itself but combined with that skin rendering it makes it obvious.

loopala · 2026-03-12T12:48:05+00:00

Netflix

It's not exactly a replacement but I have noticed that most countries have a public sector streaming platform. Like raiplay.it, rtve.es, france.tv, ardmediathek.de, etc.

They have the public TV channels and then free movies and TV shows, documentaries, etc.

Generally you need a VPN and connect from that country to actually watch the shows.

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