My brother in Christ, Batman is a billionaire CEO.

Copyright infringement becomes theft when you make money off of someone else’s work, which is the goal of every one of these AI companies. I 100% mean theft.

My take is that you can train AI on whatever you want for research purposes, but if you brazenly distribute models trained on other people’s content, you should be liable for theft, especially if you are profiting off of it.

Just because AI has so much potential doesn’t mean we should be reckless and abusive with it. Just because we can build a plagiarism machine capable of reproducing facsimiles of humanity doesn’t mean that how we are building that is ethical or legal.

Hell yeah on correctly recognizing what year was the first year of the 21st century! Thinking the new millennium started in 2000 is a pet peeve of mine.

Interestingly enough, smoke detectors get more sensitive as they get older, but eventually they just stop working.

If your smoke detectors go off every time you cook, it’s time to replace them.

If you don’t know what a parasocial relationship is, you can always look it up.

OnlyFans is just one step below prostitution. They will vanish overnight when sex work is legal.

This is absolutely not true, and is absolutely dripping with sexism.

Settling for OnlyFans is ridiculous when there are literal TBs of porn out there.

People aren’t paying for porn. They’re paying for parasocial relationships.

Microsoft’s models run locally too. It doesn’t make a difference, because they are shipping everything you do home.

Oh man, I literally can’t answer this. I mainline EDM, I would end up laundry listing a hundred or so vocalists.

I’ll just say that JES is legendary and I have a playlist that’s like 15 hours of electronica with her vocals and it rules.

There’s a whole website dedicated to this nostalgic niche: https://racingsoundtracks.com/

Literally anything by Baby Queen.

Or, for a throwback, Cry For You by September.

Look, in whatever far away galaxy the Star Wars movies are set in, sound travels through space. Pretty self evident since every spacecraft and space weapon in those movies is loud af.

I used to live somewhere where I needed a car, and I didn’t think much of it.

But after moving somewhere where I hardly ever needed a car, I ended up selling mine within a few years because I simply stopped using it. I realized that alternative forms of transportation were far less stressful and way less expensive than driving, and I never turned back.

If you live somewhere that requires a car to get around, you’re stuck. If you don’t, I highly recommend switching to public transit and dumping your car. We underestimate how much stress driving adds to our lives because we never get a good chance to take a break from it.

You cannot be forced to give your employer access to your property, so just say that you cannot install it on your phone. Make sure you say that it isn’t possible. You don’t have to make it sound voluntary. You can just say “I cannot install this on my phone”. Even if the reason is because you refuse to install it, it doesn’t matter, that’s your call to make with your own property.

Your employer will either need to find another solution that you can use, or they will need to issue you a company phone so that you can use the mobile software they require you to use.

Just as anonymous as trip tags.

Weel, after layoffs there were only 244 people left working there. That’s still almost impossible that you will reach any of these people via Lemmy, (66K MAU).

There are plenty of discussions about this on Glassdoor and LinkedIn. I recommend doing your research there.

You wanted to find one of 11 people in the world, so you turned to Lemmy?

Maybe one day that will make sense, but this place just isn’t big enough for this strategy to work.

Just an important bit of context: Water doesn’t damage most electronics, especially not the solid-state hardware in a modern computer.

What does damage is short circuiting the electronics, which water can do.

As long as you cut power ASAP, remove and dry the battery (the most water-sensitive part of most computers), and make sure that everything is 100% dry before powering it back on again, you should be good, no matter how wet things got

This assumes that your electronics are wet with water. If you poured something more sinister into your computer, like sugary soda or beer, you probably need to rinse things off with alcohol and distilled water (therefore making things a LOT more wet) before drying it out and powering it back on.

The caveats are:

• LCD screens: they have lots of layers. Water between layers should be avoided if at all possible, as it will likely degrade the picture quality.
• Optical drives: moving greased parts with high precision optics and microscopic tolerances. Any dissolving of lubricant or deposition of residue could compromise the function of the drive.
• Hard Drives: should be sealed quite well with inert gas, but if any water gets in, it will fail catastrophically and will require disassembly for any chance of data recovery.
• Batteries: They can’t be turned off, and can explode if shorted out.
• Oils: if you spill oil into a computer, it probably won’t short anything out (depending on the oil), but you’re going to have to completely take whatever you dumped oil into apart and meticulously clean it with a toothbrush and dish soap.

The Musk followers? Good.

Probably most surprised by artists like Duran Duran, Gary Numan, and New Order continuing to pump out bangers, and embrace modern synths while keeping their signature sounds.