JohnEdwa

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[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They did have a shoddy ceasefire agreement from 2015 onwards where the "little green men" totally not anything to do with Russia fought in Donbas, until Russia invaded properly again in 2022. So technically 11 years 9 months, but seriously only for around four. Which really isn't much better.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Do you mean the "fuel charge" tax on gas, at 17.6 CAD cents (0.11€) per litre?

Because that's a rather adorable try.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In Finland, car sales tax and yearly tax are based on the Co2 output, and it worked quite well to keep most cars small, light and efficient. Until hybrid and electric cars arrived on the market, that is...

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

Would be interesting to know which is actually worse for spread of misinformation, AI summaries, or "news" being shared on Facebook.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Way too many artists.
For many the choices are paying for their patreon or following them on twitter or instagram, both of which are ass.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You need a Meta account, not Facebook. They are different.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Exactly. Back when it happened, their reports on it were directly "Russian drone explodes on Chornobyl nuclear plant protective shell – video" and "Russian drone strike caused tens of millions worth of damage to Chornobyl".

But russia has since denied it was theirs, and nobody else has proven otherwise, which means anyone following journalistic guidelines can't claim that anymore - the best they can choose from are basically "Drone attack that Ukraine blamed on Russia" and "Drone attack Russia denies was theirs".

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

With your personal vehicle access device, aka, the car key. Immobilizers with transponders in the key have been a thing (and in some places a legal requirement) for like three decades.
They've just gotten more aggressive now with "keyless" entry and being able to use your phone as your key, so some validate that info in real time - no network, no access. (Up to a point. They won't immediately strand you just because you ran out of cell coverage obviously, but apparently Porsche did enforce some part of their system to that point)

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Because it was the anti theft system and immobilizer.
It would be pretty useless if it could be defeated by putting some foil on the antenna so that it loses network connection and defaulted to allowing you to drive.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It was split with the artists of said wallpapers, and was also kind of a gallery app thing.
But hey, as a Finnish saying goes, "It isn't the one who asks who is stupid, but the one who pays."

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

And 90 million took a look at Trump and Harris and went "both look fine, I don't care enough to vote".

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The thing is, with LLM code completion in every IDE, AI features and filters in Photoshop and other image editors, video/audio editing software etc, it will very soon be that there are only games made with AI assistances, and games made by devs lying they used tools with no AI.

I've made a game using AI features all the way back in 2010 - I used the brand new content aware delete & fill feature in Photoshop CS5 to edit visual novel backgrounds. That was AI.

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