Loki

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[–] Loki@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 day ago

they're not any more excited about the mustard than I am

Obviously they were if they were talking about it for 20 minutes.

[–] Loki@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But nobody is excited enough about mustard to hear about it for that long.

Some people are, but more importantly it's about sharing your conversation partner's excitement because you care about them, not the mustard.

(Also, life's more fun when you let yourself be excited by the mundane. We all die some day.)

[–] Loki@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't self-host my music streaming currently (lack of funds) but I'm planning to in the future. I live in a large city and borrow CDs from the library to rip at home. This might not work for more obscure stuff or if you don't have a good library in your area, but this way I don't need to make more space for CDs and I support the library doing it. If I want to support artists, I get merch and/or go to concerts.

[–] Loki@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even if you come to the conclusion that these models should be allowed to "learn" from copyrighted material, the issue is that they can and will reproduce copyrighted material.

They might not recreate a picture of Mickey Mouse that exists already, but they will draw a picture of Mickey Mouse. Just like I could, except I'm aware that I can't monetize it in any way. Well, new Mickey Mouse.

[–] Loki@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You're proposing to waste 10 hours sorting photos when the right tool could probably do it in less than 2 minutes? What?

And how does taking pictures translate to being addicted to tech?? We've had photography for over 100 years