It might be nice if auto reviewers included a “privacy rating” for a vehicle based OK whether it broadcasts anything via radio (e.g. cell or tire-pressure systems can be used to identify someone). It’s not just auto manufacturers, but anyone who wants to set up a radio monitoring network, if there are unique IDs being broadcast.

I don’t know how a reviewer could know whether there’s a way for a manufacturer to gather logs during maintenance.

AGI is not a new term. It’s been in use since the 90s and the concept has been around for much longer.

It’s not new today, but it post-dates “AI” and hit the same problem then.

If she’s the only alternative in the primary race and he has a heart attack or something, I would assume that she winds up becoming the Republican nominee.

In the Lemmy Web UI, beneath a post or comment from a user, click the three dots and choose “Block User”.

In the Jerboa Android client, tap the three dots beneath a post or comment by the user and choose “Block”.

If you’re using a different client, it’ll depend on that client.

I’d point out, though, that @Track_Shovel doesn’t just do gross-out AI art. He also submits stuff that you may (or may not) like more, like this series of Warhammer 40k images in various media:

https://lemmy.today/post/3476458

So even if you really don’t like gross-out art – I myself am not a fan of the genre – you might just want to downvote stuff that you don’t like and upvote stuff that you do, or you could miss future stuff that he submits that’s more up your alley.

Consider that you’ve submitted a broad range of stuff yourself:

• Sexy Gadget
• Some New Zealand art
• Fried spaghetti memes
• A chibi Sailor Moon Christmas nativity rendering
• A “serious” photographic image of a girl
• A joke image of Santa breaking and entering
• A papercraft fox
• A detailed antique bottle in a store
• A model snowy village

That spans a lot of types of image; someone might like one but not another.

checks Lemmy Explorer

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=eyebl

looks to be the Threadiverse analog.

Or, I mean, we are an AI art generation community and all. This is like someone at an Olympic swimmer convention asking “can someone be a lifeguard?”

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/0ba12f67-d700-41d4-98a0-8f955e3ef20b.png

dog, beagle, heroic painting

Steps: 20, Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 14, Size: 1024x1024, Model hash: ebf42d1fae, Model: realmixXL_v15, Version: v1.7.0-133-gde03882d

If you compare what it used to take to ship a package and the kind of selection that a local store might have, it’s pretty great.

Also, a lot of that is automated to take a bunch of the drudge work out. Twenty years back, I remember that a guy I worked with at a research lab was working on some of the in-production-back-then automated-sorting-and-aligning-of-boxes-on-conveyor-belt stuff, which was done in a pretty clever way, by just activating and deactivating rollers on a conveyor belt, no robotic hands or anything mechanically-fancy needed.

googles

Not the system in question, but an example of another:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqLYhhV7u7Y

I believe that it is, in fact, an area of focus right now. I see Stable Diffusion papers coming out on the SD community and the Midjourney guys were putting in text synthesis work in their most recent update.

https://www.greataiprompts.com/guide/midjourney/how-to-get-midjourney-to-write-text-in-image/

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/fb437603-f73a-407a-95ef-b21396fb4951.jpeg

https://lemmy.today/post/2426962

And specifically that comment:

https://lemmy.today/comment/2877043

What if I have quad 12-core Xeons with 196GB of RAM?

I have a 24-core i9-13900 and 128GB of RAM and I briefly tried it and recall it being what I’d call unusably slow. That being said, I also just discovered that my water cooler’s pump has been broken and the poor CPU had been running with zero cooling for the past six months and throttling the bajesus out of itself, so maybe I’d be possible to improve on that a bit.

If you seriously want to try it, I’d just give it a spin. Won’t cost you more then the time to download and install it, and you’ll know how it performs. And you’ll get to try the UI.

I just don’t want to give the impression to people that they’re gonna be happy with on-CPU performance and then have them be disappointed, hence the qualifiers.

EDIT: Here’s a fork designed specifically for the CPU that uses a bunch of other optimizations (like the turbo “do a generation in only a couple iterations” thing, which I understand has some quality tradeoffs) that says that it can get down into practical times for a CPU, just a couple of seconds. It can’t do 1024x1024 images, though.

https://github.com/rupeshs/fastsdcpu

I haven’t used it, though. And I don’t think that that “turbo” approach lets you use arbitrary models.

I can see your comment from lemmy.today and on lemmy.ml and on kbin.social.

I can see a response to you from @dandroid on lemmy.today and on lemmy.ml. I cannot see that response from kbin.social.

Posting from a kbin.social account to avoid the lemmy.today issues – on lemmy.today, the current behavior looks like the messages in the queue go out when the instance is restarted, but not until then. It’s running 0.19.1.

I am not the admin there, but wanted to make that available in case other instances are affected and trying to diagnose similar behavior; federation problems themselves can cause communication problems in trying to understand the issue.

I would guess that any platform-exclusive game is going to have some level of that, just because you’ve got fans of Platform A and fans of Platform B. And Starfield was purchased by Microsoft specifically to have an X-Box (well, and PC) exclusive, so…

Go back to the 1980s, and it was “Mario sucks” or “Sonic sucks”.

I play games almost entirely on the PC, so the Starfield acquisition (as well as the other recent acquisitions by Microsoft or Sony or whoever that have been driving the antitrust concerns) haven’t really been on my radar, but if I had a popular game coming out on my platform and then someone paid to ensure that I didn’t get it, I’d be kind of irked.

I did use a Mac, many years back, and I remember being annoyed when Bungie – then a major game developer for the Macintosh, in an era when the Mac wasn’t getting a lot of games – was purchased by Microsoft in 2000. Halo did come out for the Mac, but Halo 2 didn’t, and I imagine that a lot of people who were on the Mac then were probably pretty unhappy about that.

I dunno. It’s growing pretty quickly globally.

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/e-cigarette-vaping-market

The global e-cigarette and vape market size was valued at USD 22.45 billion in 2022 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.6% from 2023 to 2030. The public’s growing understanding of e-cigarettes being safer than traditional cigarettes, particularly among younger people, due to numerous studies conducted by medical institutions and associations, is forecasted to fuel market growth. In addition, it is anticipated that the manufacturers’ wide range of customization options, including temperature control and nicotine dosages, will help the product demand. Moreover, growing e-cigarette technologies like pod systems and squonk mods have gained popularity and user adoption in recent years.

Market size value in 2023

USD 28.17 billion

Revenue forecast in 2030

USD 182.84 billion

The anti-smoking movement – at least in the US – didn’t center around nicotine addiction, but around the negative secondary health effects.

Any similar secondary negative effects for vaping are pretty limited. So it’s arguing just against the addiction alone. And I’m not sure that that’s an easy case to make.

Yeah, vaping is growing in the US too.

I do not myself like /r/TwoXChromosomes, and I don’t think that it was a great idea to make it a default sub on Reddit back when that happened – IIRC the rationale was to try to improve Reddit’s appeal to women. But it’s…kind of a bitter, angry place, and I don’t think that that makes for a very good default experience for new users.

However, I certainly think that people who want that environment should have access to it. I mean, people need to vent about stuff. So, hey, good to have it as an option for people.