Find someone to fuck, relationship is much harder. And you need to be hot. I don't know how the 500 dollars will help unless it's to find someone wanting to be paid. Many times people offered me money and I rejected, so I guess they might have found a market.
And grindr is good to find people to fuck like Facebook is good to find used products. It's shit, it's disgusting and no one would use if not because everyone is only there.
As usual, the users are the product. The software is garbage and they abuse their position as much as they can, just like Facebook.
Oh, and it's not grindr that makes it easy to fuck. Gay people do. Before grindr there were websites, and before that, there were famous parking lots and toilets. We always found ways to have sex with random guys. Straight women are very different.
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Yup. I used to to think that future generations would look at our car culture the way we look at slavery. Destroying the planet for profit, comfort and laziness. Then the battery revolution happened and if anything the laziness got even worse.
Even vehicles that used to be prohibitive are now used more then the better option, like electric scooters, bicycles, etc. I see a lot more electric bicycles on the road now than proper ones. And most of them teenagers, so that's not even the usual excuse of *it's replacing a car " because they can't drive, it just added more vehicles, just unlicensed ones.
But it makes people feel good with hypocrisy to pretend that they are doing something good, without really making any effort or sacrifice, except spending more money and consuming more.
Same. I'm more healthy than everyone I know my age, and at 40 something my sleep is getting increasingly horrible. While people a lot less healthy sleep 8h every day. I'm so jealous...
I think it's because they are happy. I hate happy people.
Yup. People forget that whatever the Nazis did, we only see them in a bad way is because they lost. Their enemies are making the movies and TV series we consume to this day.
Unless an actual enemy of the us defeats them, they will never be seen as villains. Even if they lose a lot of power but one of their allies takes over.
England committed countless atrocities and while that is known, they are not seen as villains. They are not in power anymore but their ally is. Even Israel can be a thousand times worse than Nazis, as long as they remain in the winning group they will be forever the poor victim of antisemitism defending itself against evil.
The regime lost. They went into hiding or ran away. It's not necessary for every single person related to a group to be killed for it to lose.
The soviet union lost. Nazis lost. The Ottoman empire lost. England, Spain, Portugal didn't lose to an enemy but their empires died. One group is always thought as evil in western education, the other is not.
The united states need to be properly defeated for the next winners to see the American atrocities in a proper light.
But I would be already happy with just their empire fading away and only lies remaining in school books.
Yes, you can test with a magnet. If it doesn't react, it won't work. Aluminium for instance doesn't work.
I don't know why you were down voted and the user below gave misinformation. I bought a non stick pan before without noticing it wouldn't work with my induction. Now I bring a magnet when choosing a pan.
Before I started posting on Lemmy I didn't know this was for monetising. I thought it was internet etiquette and I did the same. I thought people found it rude, like here you can't say retard, for instance.
You see that everywhere and you don't know why, so you start following it too. I'm happy some people complained when I did it. I feel like I've lost a burden.
I wonder how many people do that as well not knowing it's meant to please corporations.
That loud cars not only exist, but there are actually more of them than in 3rd world countries. That it's a "culture" here, and people actually use their excess money to make cars louder, bigger and more dangerous to everyone else (not the driver, he pays extra for his safety).
Coming from a 3rd world country to Australia it was one of my biggest disappointments. I thought we had loud cars because we we're "uncivilised" or didn't have the money to fix them. I was so wrong...
There are many others, but I guess this was the biggest illusion I had about first world countries.
That's what I thought, but when I talk to these sick people they say they "like" the loud, horrible, scary, obnoxious sound. They do it because they feel pleasure with the sound itself.
If it was true, they would do it even if they were alone. They would drive to the middle of nowhere to enjoy their horrible sound without other noise. But they only do it in heavily populated areas. Almost if they are really just fucking assholes wanting attention.
What is the truth? I guess we'll never know. I can only hope for the law to be changed.
But unlike you, I wish no harm to the machines. Only to the drivers. Machines are useful tools, even if loud. The drivers should lose the right to drive. If you remove their tool they will find another one to misuse.
The drivers are the problems, the criminals. Not the tool they use to commit crime.
US President Donald Trump signed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law Thursday, completing the passage of the largest military spending bill in US history—$901 billion, or over $1 trillion when combined with supplemental funding passed earlier this year. ...
It's funny people down voting but even the "propaganda" website they mention have a lot of non China content, but this guy is 100% foaming against China as if nothing else exists in the world. If that's not propaganda I don't know what is.
I'm not a fan of China, but there's much worse evil in the world right now like the US and Israel before his brainwashing can work.
It's not the reliability of the sources. It's the obsession. Even the website you complain about have non Chinese content. But you are 100% constant anti China posts.
China does a lot of bad stuff. Every country does. But why do you obsess with them so much?
I would really like to know. Because with no explanation it either looks like you're being paid by an enemy of China like the US or that something bad happened to you and you need to seek help because you got some deep trauma.
I don't think Lemmy is big enough for the US to pay someone to do propaganda. So it looks really odd.
A company removed your freedom, their founder even famously saying that consumer don't know what they want but apple does, knowingly give up all their rights to a corporation when there are alternatives, declare that they trust the corporation, accept when the corporation forbids them from giving anyone else money, and now they are going to cry when the corporation fucks them? Like it did several times in the past and yet they remained loyal?
Apple users are insane... The only reason to use android is because it's the only current viable alternative to apple. But they use their stuff out of some weird masochistic choice, and then cries when their daddy beats them.
They 100% deserve what they got while they keep rewarding apple for their evil behaviour.
And if I ever give Google money, I 100% deserve to get fucked while using it too. And it would be stupid to expect anything else.
I'm happy to lower my life expectancy if that means billionaires die earlier too.
Parasites having microwaves is one thing, them lasting longer is a massive issue for the world. Imagine trump living 200 years, being elected another 10 times. Or Putin, or netaniarrurrght.
First we solve the billionaires problem, then we solve longevity. One problem is much bigger than the other.
That's such a massive extrapolation that there's no longer any relation to any current problem. Longevity is fiction, but somewhat plausible. Your scenario is fantastic fantasy.
Currently, the top 10% is literally destroying the world. Them living longer means the world will end sooner, longevity or not, amongst many other problems.
And they are just the face of the evil nature of humans. If we don't solve our evil there is no point in living longer. I don't want to live in a world where human evil has more power, nor do I think the other species would want to.
The massive issue is your first paragraph. The rest makes sense.
You should have found a different comparison. Photoshop, at least before they added Ai, was a tool that required competence and learning to use. You became better using and failing at it over time.
Llm as a bank of stolen work from great artists has its uses, like for initial concepts, which before I would do with Google images, looking at other people's works. And like that, it just requires that I know what I'm looking for, not that I have any competence nor did it teach me anything other than learning what other people do.
The radicalism is bad but it's inevitable since most people are trying to sell it as something that it is not.
Specially the employers. They don't care if I'm getting better or learning anything, but that I'm outputting something faster and costing them less. It works for them, but it's causing a great damage.
You seem to be ignoring some stuff specific to llms, but anyway I'm curious; which graphical llm is not based in other people's work?
Perhaps stolen was a strong term, but they are all based on other people's work right? When I used it I could clearly see the styles of some artists it was trained on.
I'm curious about that but even if it's magically original to me that's is still only useful to look at someone else's work, even if is a computer work. It's not a tool in itself I can master and improve my work.
Like fluid simulation for instance. You can light and render it well, but you can't fully control it, because you're not the one making it. When I need a very specific splash for a render I need to manually model it. And then llm is even worse because it controls the whole thing by itself.
The subject is so interesting, but I forgot how cancerous and disgusting YouTube videos became. I rarely watch videos on it anymore.
The stupid doll stuff, the advertisers, the unnecessary fluff... Even the most interesting subjects become unwatchable. I would like to watch a video with just the comparisons, which are pretty cool.
If you like this comment don't forget to like and subscribe. You can also visit my patreon for more content because I don't enjoy what I do and this is a job.
I used to make Blender videos back in the day. I loved when people liked what I did or wanted to learn. Charging money for it would destroy the magic and make it a job and eventually I would make garbage like this to maximise the profit.
I deleted my YouTube account when I realised what it was becoming. I had no idea it would actually get much, much, much worse than I could ever imagine.
Either way that just makes a shitshow even worse. The only hope of the internet is smaller areas like Lemmy. And even that is being destroyed. The amount of ai slop I see on the front page is increasing, and it's not their fault. They took the content from a cesspool like Facebook and didn't realise what it was. Even I saw many things and I didn't realise it was a fake. And when I do, it make me want to use the internet less.
It's a good option for those wanting to use YouTube. In my case, I just avoid it where I can. I'm not going to fight against a content creator. If he wants to make videos for algorithm garbage it's because he doesn't respect audience like me. He doesn't have to make what I like, I don't have to watch it. It's just annoying that from time to time I fall prey to a video trough Lemmy.
I use newpipe by the way. YouTube itself is blocked on my browser. But I use it too rarely to bother with more blockers.
It may be a generation thing. For quite a while YouTube was about content, not presentation. You usually watched the video about something and that was all the video showed, specially because monetisation wasn't so common. Even garbage was mostly just the garbage itself (and there was lots of it, but different than now). It was a treasure chest, full of content people uploaded just because they wanted other people to see.
I guess this guy is OK for the current "standards*, but that's a very, very low bar now. I'm not criticising him in particular, but YouTube in general. It's always a shock to me when I get exposed to it, which is luckily rare.
On the other hand, I'd pay extra to not give those cunts and their israeli buddies a cent. But it's almost impossible now. I call the hotel and they say "make a booking through booking.com (or one of its thousands of sites)"
Before I would hang up and look for another one, but I realise now that the cancer has taken total control.
Airbnb, Amazon, this shit.... Only someone insane would refuse to bend to our benevolent overlords, and I am still insane, putting up a fight I already lost.
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Thanks for the article. I have much more respect for China now.
Houses becoming more affordable? Imagine the poor investors crying! Oh the sadness! I sure am happy living in a country where parasites don't have to ever worry about such an unspeakable suffering!
But honestly, everyone who buy houses for profit can go get fucked with a pineapple.
In other news, try Krita and node based video editors that run natively in Linux.
But sequence based editors... Yeah, it's tough. There is Kdenlive and Blender, but for serious jobs it make it difficult.
I would say adobe is the biggest stone on Linux shoes. The brainwashed with their office braking compatibility would be easily fixed just ditching microsoft, gamers just don't want to switch to something that works. But adobe, with all their patents are a big issue. The moment a real alternative comes up they will sue.
I literally changed jobs to not have to deal with adobe.
I had this idea recently: if people are willing to pay a small fee monthly for streaming services or Photoshop, surely some would also be willing to pay a similar amount for the FOSS they use. Even a few cents monthly would add up to quite a substantial sum over a vast userbase*. In light of this, I've started working on an app ...
If it's completely offline and the banking thing can be completely disabled it's awesome.
I would love to know the softwares (and their dependencies) I use more so then I can decide how to donate myself. The dependencies being a big thing. Like on android I use syncthing fork, which would be nothing without syncthing. And there may be other essential stuff running on boot that I don't know and should help.
After watching This Cody Gindy video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8N00rjil_4&t=268s) I knew I had to use the effect on my characters. Problem is, after hours of hand painting an object space normal map, I learned the lighting doesn't work right on a rigged character and it needs to be in tangent space (the issue can be seen ...
He mentions on the video that you need to convert to tangent. You can do that baking a tangent normal map from the original pose with the object space map you made. As for painting tangent, that will be very hard trying to simulate flat surfaces painting on a tangent map in a round object. A better solution is to sculpt on the high poly mesh (use a flatten brush for instance) and then baking from the sculpted to the original mesh. Like a standard high poly sculpt to low poly bake. You'll find many tutorials on both options.
On the resulting tangent map, you could also distort the image with brushes or filters and get it more painted like.
By the way you don't need substance for anything he showed. Not sure why people use it since it's a lot less capable. You can do all that in Blender.
I think car privacy isn't talked about amongst any privacy enthusiasts online ever, and it apparently is one of the biggest data collectors out there. For someone like me who values electric cars for there affordability and environmental reasons, but still want physical car buttons and control over my data, how would I go about ...
To complement the above reply, although you paid a lot for the car, you're paying even more daily, giving many away to very nasty companies that will turn your investment against you to increase their profit. Your data will be sold and you're donating money to billionaires.
Is that what you want? Are you happy to have ads on a windows install you already paid, for example?
Because that's what you're doing. If you got a massive discount on account of the daily extra profit you'll give them I would understand. But if not, why be so charitable to people who don't deserve it?
"It’s safe to say that the people who volunteered to “shape” the initiative want it dead and buried. Of the 52 responses at the time of writing, all rejected the idea and asked Mozilla to stop shoving AI features into Firefox."
That would be awesome. Like a greasemonkey/advanced unlock for those of us who don't know how to code. So many times I wanted to customise a website but I don't know how or it's not worth the effort.
But only of it was local, and specially on mobile, where I need the most, it will be impossible for years...
No. That's what I don't want. If it was a company I trusted I would, but good luck with that. Mozilla is not that company anymore, even if they had the resources to host their own.
But locally or in a server I trust? That would be awesome. AI is awesome, but not the people who runs it.
As an older gay guy, as you grow older, being gay stops being important. You just like guys, and the other guy like girls. That's it.
And it's actually kind of annoying how some people make that their entire personality. But when I left my mom's house I even hanged porn pictures on my room, to tell everyone what I am and that I wouldn't hide anymore. So I was the same.
But over time I realised that I should never have to hide, I didn't have to keep showing either. I didn't really want. I just did it because I was angry I had to hide.
My point is; we are here. Just not that visible.
Plus we didn't have internet back then. Thank god. I wouldn't want to see again the things I would have written.
Edit, I must also say that it's because a lot of people fought for our rights. I couldn't just be a guy who likes guys back then. It's a luxury I love. I can say stuff like "my partner, he does this or that" and it never becomes "what, are you gay?" anymore. It's just like a straight guy talking about his female partner most of the times, and that's awesome. I can choose to make it my personality or not these days without having to hide.
It always annoyed me so much that gay was a personality type like goth or nerd or jock, in US media.
Yeah. Same. The dream was to just be normal. That liking guys is the same as liking girls. You can be a femboy gay, or a macho yanktank straight, or the other way around. But it's not anymore simply who you like that catches people attention.
You can simply be gay, and that is just one detail of your life. Not a whole fight anymore.
Being gay is soooo much easier today. I would say we reached the utopia, because I don't hide and yet my life doesn't seem different than straight people.
The screaming ones one both sides, the "everyone must know I'm gay" and the "no one should be allowed to show they are gay" are the minority, but they sure are loud. And internet is their megaphone.
But that depends on the country of course. I'm sure gays in Saudi Arabia are not happy.
3D. I'm hoping it's mature enough now. Seeing the release notes it seems that only recently they have some things unity always had, but I'm not expecting parity. It will be just a hobby. But maybe I can make something nice. Plus, it's open source so that's awesome.
I'm not a programmer so I won't go very far anyway with the scripts. Plus I'd rather not get involved with anything related to microsoft if I don't have to, even if it's open source.
And I'm amazed at how small Godot is. The .net extra seems to be much bigger than the engine itself.
I don't care at all as long as it's not below inflation.
I have my super with australian ethical and banking with great southern bank, but I'm sure both still invest in israeli companies and the like.
If anyone have better suggestions I'd love to hear. From my researches I couldn't find much.
I'm much more worried about helping criminals get richer than to make a profit.
It's a vicious cycle when you're depressed. Internet helps to ignore the horrible life you want to forget, but it also ensures your life stay horrible. I've been there. When you're not on the internet draining your brain you feel much worse.
Some people use alcohol or drugs instead. I'm just coming out of 4 months like that and I don't know what I could have done instead, when you just don't have the will to do anything, not even to kill yourself. Internet doesn't require any will.
I prefer the usual villain that kills the world and doesn't pretend to be sorry.
This shithead did so much evil, destroyed education worldwide with his fight against open source, made the whole world poorer and now pretends to be a nice guy.
At leat Steve jobs was an asshole all the way to his grave. I prey for you to die more quickly bill gates.
Grindr Is Testing a Premium AI Tier With a $500 Monthly Price Tag ( www.them.us )
The move is part of the app's plans to become “an AI-first company."
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History will not be kind to the USA
New York City Housing Authority to Replace Gas Stoves With Battery-Backed Induction Stoves in 100 Apartments Under Energy-Efficiency Pilot Program ( citylimits.org )
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What is your biggest "first world" disappointment?
Mine is not having a chance to fly on the Concord.
Democrats vote to give Trump $1 trillion for global war ( www.wsws.org )
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Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results ( 9to5mac.com )
Life extension ( en.wikipedia.org )
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What's the biggest case of planned obsolescence you've dealt with?
How pixel art looked completely different on CRT monitors ( www.youtube.com )
We're going backwards
You can contribute to an open-source keyboard by glide typing
I initially tried FUTO and switched to Heliboard (which uses a closed-source glide typing library) because FUTO's open-source version frankly sucked. ...
Why China Can’t Sort Out Its Property Market Mess ( www.bloomberg.com )
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The Next Version of WINDOWS - CatTrigger
I'm waiting for baited breath for ONE work-related app to have a Linux version before jumping ship on my main computer. ...
Would you use this app?: 'Subscription' to FOSS
I had this idea recently: if people are willing to pay a small fee monthly for streaming services or Photoshop, surely some would also be willing to pay a similar amount for the FOSS they use. Even a few cents monthly would add up to quite a substantial sum over a vast userbase*. In light of this, I've started working on an app ...
Need to Fix My Normal Maps
After watching This Cody Gindy video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8N00rjil_4&t=268s) I knew I had to use the effect on my characters. Problem is, after hours of hand painting an object space normal map, I learned the lighting doesn't work right on a rigged character and it needs to be in tangent space (the issue can be seen ...
Most, if not all car companies collect and profile your data, how can I improve my privacy when buying a modern car? ( www.mozillafoundation.org )
I think car privacy isn't talked about amongst any privacy enthusiasts online ever, and it apparently is one of the biggest data collectors out there. For someone like me who values electric cars for there affordability and environmental reasons, but still want physical car buttons and control over my data, how would I go about ...
I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla ( manualdousuario.net )
"It’s safe to say that the people who volunteered to “shape” the initiative want it dead and buried. Of the 52 responses at the time of writing, all rejected the idea and asked Mozilla to stop shoving AI features into Firefox."
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Learning resources recommendation for an artist?
Hi, I wanted to start using Godot, and I'm wondering if people here have recommendations on learning resources for a first timer. ...
Greener banking in Australia: how to put your money where your values are ( www.theguardian.com )
Godot Engine – 2025 Showreel ( www.youtube.com )
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Scientists criticize ‘straw man’ arguments in Bill Gates climate memo | Tech billionaire relying on ‘false binary’ with call to focus less on emissions and more on aid for poor, experts say ( www.theguardian.com )