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More than 5,600 artists signed an open letter protesting the auction, saying that the works used AI models that are trained on copyrighted work.

All artists are trained on copyrighted work.

Hi, I’m The Fediverse Chick, and I’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty!

While defeating such a restriction is usually trivial, the point isn’t so much to stop you from using the app, as much as it is to make you aware of just how much time you’re spending on it. Sometimes being made aware of how much time you’re dedicating to a habit can help you in breaking it.

I know somebody who used a similar mechanism to quit smoking. He’d tally up each cigarette he’d have throughout the day, and having a number to reference helped to quantify the problem for him. Counting his smokes wasn’t what made him quit, but it helped him realize just how severe his problem was, so he was able to actually find the motivation to do something about it. Similarly, an app timer may trigger the thought of “I keep spending more time on this app than I promised myself I would, I need to figure out what keeps drawing me to do this”.

This advice only applies if you have inkjet showers, this isn’t an issue if you have a laser shower.

The real reason is boring: CDN logistics.

This will be a grossly oversimplified explanation. Streaming platforms mirror their files across dozens - sometimes hundreds - of server farms. However, it’s not efficient to mirror everything in every location. For instance, if a YouTube channel has a viewer base that is 99% located in the UK, it wouldn’t make sense to waste the bandwidth to transfer those files and the storage to keep them on servers in the US, in the off-chance an American clicks on that channel’s video. So when you try to play a video that isn’t already cached on your regional server, you have to fetch it from a farther-away server, which results in degraded stream quality as you’re literally accessing a file from a physically farther location. But a larger channel with a more widespread audience is more likely to have viewers in farther regions, so those files are more likely to get mirrored to other server locations.

Ads, however, are smaller files, and are generally going to be locale-specific, so it makes sense to keep those cached in all the local servers. So you never have to reach far to pull an ad, but you may have to reach far to pull the content you actually want to see.

https://youtu.be/L3UqyHtaM_8

Adjacent to video editing, do you have any interest in visual effects? Lots of really sophisticated CGI and other VFX in film can be done from consumer-grade GPUs like yours.

Everybody worse than me is a scrub, anybody better than me is a tryhard.

Okay, this “$1 trillion” metric is a bit of a reach, and seems to be based on an arbitrary value assigned to an estimated amount of data Google has collected, and not actually $1,000,000,000,000 in revenue. It does not appear that Google has actually made a trillion dollars from CAPTCHA data.

Nanomachines?

Nope! Once the shirt gets saturated with dead skin, sweat, and drool like the pillow case has, you just slap another tee shirt on there.

This meme is so private that it doesn’t even show up on Mbin.

I feel like there’s also a lot of overlap in the middle.

pronounced two-by-four

Unless you’re in the south, in which case it’s pronounced “tuba-fur”.

Ah, I see you’re a man of culture as well.

OP is critical of Lemmy.ML’s tankie politics, not their memes.

“… but on a Dorito shell.”

Just FYI, you do wash cast iron, you just don’t use detergents on it. One common method is to dump a handful of salt and a tiny splash of water into the pan and start scrubbing. You can use a gentle dish soap, but I’d avoid using the dishwasher, because those detergents will be a lot stronger and will actually ruin the seasoning (as well as linger on the surface and end up in your food, which is also bad).

I dunno about that, I wouldn’t even put it in the top 10 stupidest things that have happened in America this week.

Stop swearing!