“I had the best water quality results in history, i really did… They were tremendous!”

Wow thanks. That sounds amazing!

Will definitely give it a try asap

I’m doing my part!

I used to go to my local loblaws chain almost exclusively because it is so convenient (like, literally across the street). For months now i have actively made an effort to avoid them at all costs. So that’s thousands of dollars revenue gone for them

At the same time, i’m getting higher quality food from elsewhere

I count myself very lucky to have the resources to escape the clutches of the westons (and metro/empire). I realize many dont have the means to do the same and we need to do better to give everyone more options

Steam has been so easy since proton, i honestly never learned to use lutris. I think i played with it once and gave up, but this was 6 years ago at this point. Maybe its easier to use now

If we could somehow merge steam’s linux support, with GOG’s dedication to DRM-free preservation of games

I really tried to support GOG for a long time, but steam was much easier when i went 100% linux

Just get rid of the regulations. Now 0% of the water has failed testing! 100% safe!

Machine learning for helping a radiologist analyze images is super helpful and a mature field.

Whatever “AI” LLM nonsense tech bros are trying to add in to everything in the last 2 years is probably not all that helpful, but i could be proven wrong

Thanks, I’ll check those out.

I’m there for a work thing, so hopefully there’s stuff that’s walkable from the hotel downtown

Going to regina next week for 5 days. Any tips on what to do?

The flip side of the headline: “How society is grappling with older drivers refusing to hang up their keys”

Free = libre, not gratis

I just spent a month in europe eating and drinking myself to death

Time to get back to work. No races on the calendar, and no structured training planned. Just trying to get through the winter with some decent mileage in the legs

I have always used conversation view in my desktop email client. Not sure why you think this is revolutionary or exclusive to gmail.

Probably not what you want to hear, but I think exiftool + bash script really is the way to go. A few years ago I had a similar need and searched for hours online… I ended up hacking together a “good enough” bash script that reads all the dates of my pictures and does some stuff. It took 30 mins of reading some basic bash scripting basics. Way less time than searching for a tool that probably doesnt exist.

In 2024, you can probably just ask chatgpt to write a quick and dirty bash script for you and it might require another 10mins of debugging/begging chatgpt to fix its mistakes

Europe is not designed for oversized cars.

Too many drivers are selfish morons and will manage to cram their oversized vehicles into any space without consideration for the safety of anyone outside their own bubble. Doesnt matter if the city was “designed” for it or not.

I was just in Bellagio Italy last week. For some reason, cars are allowed to drive through the medieval city center through extremely narrow roads packed with pedestrians… Which is OK if you’re driving a fiat 500… But this oversized jeep cherokee drive right through town, with barely any space for pedestrians to move aside. I’m not sure if it was a lost tourist or a local resident, but drivers should not be trusted to pilot such a vehicle through crowds with so little margin for error.

Sorry, my comment wasnt really directed at you specifically… Just the fediverse general hate for all things AI

yours was the first that mentioned “art” which triggered me, lol

I think we are actually both on the same page… You have a reasonable view of the whole AI thing. It’s rare on lemmy/mastodon

LLMs and image generating models are completely different things. Outputting an image doesnt require or benefit from reason and logic (other than making the model “understand” the prompt). Drawing a three headed monkey isnt “logical” and doesnt follow “reason” but that’s ok because art isnt about making photorealisitic images.

AI images could totally be useful as a tool in art. “But a computer made it! It’s not art!” It’s the same tired argument we heard about electronic music before.

But the fediverse seems to have such a hate boner for ANYTHING associated with AI (dont get me wrong, there is lots to hate. Mostly with tech-bro grifting…) that people are unable to see that these can be useful complements to human creativity.

Here’s another example… People crying that when an image contains AI generated elements, or maybe a video game contains some AI assets. People fly into a rage and want to dismiss the ENTIRE work and throw it all out. Human art doesnt require 100% human hands to make. Go look at any famous painting by a renaissance master. Did you know a lot of these guys had whole workshops of lackeys filling in background details for them? Are we going to throw out all the raphael and rembrandt paintings because they had assistance from other uncredited people?

Same with AI. Why cant an artist spend MORE time on important details and let AI draw some happy little trees in the background?

Yes, that’s a big part of solving the homelessness problem.

Like all my friends with investment condos brag about how smart they are, but at the same time they complain that society is crumbling around them and the TTC is basically a mobile homeless shelter/mental asylum. And they never put 2 and 2 together

You want to fix the housing problem not because you care for thr homeless, but because you want to have nice public ameneties that arent overrun by homeless people using them as makeshift shelters/injection sites.

riscv is the future.