DDG also censors results indirectly since they use bing, which microsoft controls.

But really it’s a human problem. As long as humans get power, they will misuse it. Perhaps not all, but some will.

I agree with not wanting AI in your microwave or your file manager, but it seems the vast majority around here oppose any use of AI entirely. There are soooooo many uses that are legitimate and say what you want but they aren’t going away once the ai bubble pops.

Even as a dev, AI has tons of uses besides using it to code. I constantly use it to discuss algorithmic options for some pieces of the code. In the end it’s not coding it for me, but giving me ideas I wouldn’t have had without it. It can also explain a variety of things in a simplified way. I’ve used it for purchase recomendations (comparing product specs). In the end, as long as you don’t treat it like it’s always right and verify the information before acting on it, it’s a huge time saver accross many fields.

There were a couple “ai memes” that got downvoted on here. If the entire meme is ai, sure, but what’s wrong with using an ai image to illustrate your joke? As long as you don’t try to pass something as a fact, it’s just a joke, why does it matter if they used ai instead of a shitty photoshop?

True, honestly I’m no game dev, but I’d assume it would be hard to get anything “custom” for free. A lot of people don’t wanna have to spend much on a game that might just not work out. To be fair in this sotuation you could also just use free assets and replace them later. I’m just not a fan of the lemmy “black and white” AI is evil approach.

Well to be fair for quite a few people it’s either them and AI creates a game, or no AI and no game. Though if it were me, I’d use AI art, put it in early access and use the money on art commissions to eventually replace it. Then again, in this situation I wouldn’t be agaisnt an AI disclaimer.

Well hey it’s working well for adobe so far

A lemmy post of a twitter screenshot of a reddit screenshot with a tiktok watermark.

Depends on your usecase. It’s user friendly if all you care about is playing a video, but not if you want to push it further.

But really isn’t that just libavcodec behaving like that? VLC itself doesn’t actually read your video file, it just takes what FFMPEG gives it and blindly trusts it.

Faster, simpler but not user friendly.

I use it, just because some people’s first reaction in an argument is to look you up. While if you hide it then googling you takes longer and is not ordered properly. Hell a while back I replied to someone about my opinion on something and the first thing he said is “a guy who’s into x hobby can’t seriously have valid opinions”. So yes, since then, my profile is private.

But even if it were, wouldn’t a dyson sphere on the sun mean no more sunlight left for the rest of us humans on earth? We’d have to build it on a neighboring star, which would then complicate bringing it back.

It will always feel so weird to me watching a movie in French french, the villain trying to sound badass or evil but then says something in the parisian accent. It fails everytime, it basically sounds funny. Hell even their insults sound funny for some reason, not in their choice of words but in the delivery.

Well if you go back 500 years, every little corner of france has their own version of french, with Paris speaking roughly what they speak today. Canadians descend from other regions, mostly the north and west and inherited their way of speaking. So I call it “actual french” but really I just mean the french that was most common at the time, since this was the most populated region of france with a lot less people living in Paris.

This can be traced to a variety of sounds that we have in canadian french that are present throughout France as accents but not in the modern “standard french”. Such as the “eu” in “beurre”.

I don’t really have a source for this, this is what they teach us in school.

There are plenty of dialects in france similar to or worse than Quebecois. Maybe I’m biased, but to me parisian french is the one that sounds bad. In the end it was the accent of the nobility, hence why it sounds so pompous, while Quebecois was the accent of the commoners.

Vous parlez mal". i.e. You speak badly. I’ll never forget the horror in her eye

It’s funny that she would think that our french is worse than theirs, when canadian french is closer to actual french than parisian french.

For some reason Newfoundlanders have been the butt of every joke for a long time and I still have no idea why.

By default, most FDE have horrible performance hits and require significant tweaking, configuring and benchmarking to get it right depending on hardware, use cases, conditions… I’m sure there are quite a bunch of people out there who don’t want to do any tweaking while still having the performance they paid for.

/var/log and the likes aren’t really issues, I just have mine as a link to the real one in an eCryptfs folder. Though I guess you’d be right about qbittorrent, this is something pretty rare.

In the most paranoid hypothetical scenario, someone could mount your unencrypted /usr/bin and replace openssl with a compromised version.

I suppose if you’re in this situation, you have way more important things to deal with. That would imply someone has physical access to your computer, at that point if they really want to know what you’re doing they might as well setup a camera.

Is there any reason to do full disk encryption, vs encrypting a single partiton or a folder with eCryptfs? It’s not like your /usr/bin, etc… needs to be encrypted, but encrypting it reduces performance.