#move fast and break things

[bipedalseal]

Brett Schreiber, an attorney who has represented clients affected by the faulty software, said he anticipates another potential wave of litigation from Cybertruck owners.

“What we have seen perpetually with Tesla is the ethos of a tech company, wanting to push out product as quickly as possible, wrapped up in an automotive manufacturer, which should be far more intentional and thoughtful in producing vehicles,” he said. “This is not an app, this is a multithousand-pound vehicle hurtling down our roadways at high speeds.”

Source: What the Cybertruck’s many failures mean for Tesla. Written by Kari Paul. Published by The Guardian.

problems with modern engineering ^-^^

[harebrainedmage]

When talking about AI content scraping, it's stuff like THIS that immediately shows the need for us to use data poisoning against these models. Reminder that corporations do not ask nicely for something unless they think that they can benefit in some way. If you have a little sign that says "Please don't scrape all of my content to use for your corporate overlords. UwU" there are ZERO consequences for someone scraping that data. You have no way of verifying that your data wasn't scraped. And legal recourse, even if it was theoretically possible at some future point, is meaningless with such a profound lack of evidence.

What you can (and should) do, is, if you haven't already, look into data-poisoning tools so that there are consequences for someone looking to profit off of the backs of other people's work. Below are links to Glaze and Nightshade, two tools from the university of Chicago that help screw up the image-generation models that're scraping artists' works:

https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/

https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/

These tools DO work, which is why you'll find tons of public-facing articles out there claiming stuff along the lines of:

"Data-poisoning isn't really a big concern, and like, we're TOTALLY going to figure out countermeasures for this guys. Source: Like, trust me bro."

But if you look at the research papers out there on the subject, it becomes clear that data poisoning incurs a substantial cost to the models that start swallowing the poison.

The only thing I have yet to find is a good way to data poison text without just putting random Chat-GPT nonsense in it. (I briefly considered using white-text on white-background at extremely small fonts, but this would screw up screen-readers. And I'm not aware of any other solutions that manage to be unobtrusive while also not screwing over disabled people.)

So if you're aware of any good methods, be sure to send some my way! In the meantime, start using glaze (and maybe Nightshade too) if you haven't already! Even if you're just reposting stock photos somewhere, or it's a photo of your dogs, or any other image you're posting! The more images you make into robot poison, the quicker these corporate stooges fold.

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[davidaugust]

“…the context of software and any context where life and limb are in play react very differently to things if one tries to fail fast.”

by me in this: https://bit.ly/BeingHumanInAgeOfAI

[waitineedaname]

I realized I made some notes on how different characters fight in mob psycho, and I never posted them. here you guys go, for any reference needs

Mob: mostly simple attacks, not very showy, just waves his hand and uses telekinesis/exorcizes something, doesn’t move around much. As ???%, much more destructive, psychic force seems to just emanate off of him and destroy everything

Teru: VERY mobile, throws himself around with telekinesis, puts his whole body into the attacks and tends to use moves from normal fights (punches, slaps, kicks, etc). Utilizes a variety of psychic techniques with flexibility, very creative. Piss stance, necktie sword. Much more flashy than Mob

Ritsu: uses powers to throw people/things around. While Mob and Teru attack with just psychic blasts, Ritsu tends to use his powers to grab other things as an attack (grabbing the delinquents and throwing them against each other, throwing the Claw guards against the wall, picking up cars to sandwich Shimazaki between them). Uses his environment creatively (fire extinguisher smoke screen against Shimazaki). More flashy than Mob, but not as mobile as Teru. Hand gestures for Drama

Shou: sneaky + speed + bomb!! Tries to be as evasive as possible using invisibility/speed (probably telekinetically enhanced?) to hit from behind, using either telekinetic force (his stomp in his introduction, the shockwave hit on ???%) or his charge bomb attack. Potentially uses speed/evasive moves as defense instead of the barriers we see most everyone else use

Serizawa: likes to channel his powers into an object (umbrella, business cards). Uses that object as a shield, sword, or something to blast psychic powers out of. Not very mobile in season two, moves around much more in the yokai fight. Not particularly flashy, but looks cool regardless

Reigen: deception/surprise!!! Either tricks people into thinking he’s going to do something else and then attacking, or just outright taking them by surprise and attacking before they know what’s going on. Usually doesn’t have a follow-up move, just does the one attack and hopes for the best. Prefers to bluff his way through a situation

[psink]

Did you know that there are actually 2 Saiki K 3ds games?

This one is called 「照橋心美のΨ難 いっぱいおっふ」 [The Disastrous Life of Teruhashi Kokomi: A lot of offu].

At first you play as Teruhashi against Nendou, Kaidou, Hairo, Toritsuka, Kuboyasu and Kusuo.

After beating all of them, you can play as them against Teruhashi and Kuriko.

You unlock Kuriko when you get S on her and Teruhashi.

Translation of characters' descriptions below. Other information in tags.

Teruhashi Kokomi: The ultimate most beloved girl. When you meet her, the first thing you'll do is say "offu". With her deadly "Angel Upwards Beam" she will destroy the walls of your heart.

Saiki Kusuo: A boy who controls various superpowers. With psychokinesis, he splits the ball and relentlessly attacks! He creates a wall, making his defense perfect.

Nendou Riki: His nickname is "mysterious idiot". The attack he unleashes charges single-mindedly forwards. It won't stop no matter what happens!

Kaidou Shun: Everyone acknowledges him as a chuunibyou. With his sealed, forbidden thunder, he can erase 10 blocks from this world.

Hairo Kineshi: A class representative with overflowing passion. With a burning hot ball, he breaks blocks with a single hit!

Toritsuka Reita: A spirit medium full of worldly desires. He summons ghosts of the ball to repeatedly attack the girl he's interested in!

Kuboyasu Aren: A former delinquent who was the leader of the gang "Espers". With his power, he can destroy even hard blocks with a single hit.

Saiki Kuriko: Saiki Kusuo transformed into a female form. With overwhelming speed and power, she attacks relentlessly!

[nightpool]

apparently my employer withheld 1 cent more of social security taxes than they should have. someone really fucked up their floating point calculations.

tax time how's everybody doing.

[itwoodbeprefect]

one thing i have to hand to people online who leave reviews on obviously low budget westerns is that at least they don't complain that it's an obviously low budget western. it seems that i can't say this for some of the people leaving reviews on obviously low budget queer movies

[oozeandgoo-art]

had an odd dream that i was reading a comic book. sketched a couple of the pages i could remember.

[lemmaeof]

So it turns out that every single major image generator - Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, DALL-E, all of them - was trained on a dataset that includes thousands of images of literal child porn

[deoidesign]

please take as much time as you need to rest and recover. burn out is so hard and takes so much to heal from. your art and your supporters will still be here when you get back :) take care <3

Thank you very much

Unfortunately, my situation doesn't really allow me to take the time I need. I've got a ~two month hiatus scheduled for my midseason, but much like my first hiatus I'll most likely be working double time during it...

It's unfortunate because I could really really use a bigger break!

Having the time and flexibility to work on other projects really fires me up and keeps me going, and being able to take a guilt free day off for family and friends is necessary to my mental health, and I've been having to turn people down lately...

This is a very kind message, and I'm sorry to vent in response! But I just feel transparency about the pressure I'm under is necessary and important. I'd love to take the time I really need, but due to deadlines and that pesky "needing money to live" I can't.

But, once the series is over I intend to take a pretty big break before I start whatever I'm doing next! I've got so many short stories and projects planned that I want so badly to get to, I can't wait to really get to truly dive in to them!

[ganondoodle]

so, my (not old) headset just broke out of nowhere (just randomly lost sound on the right ear and it doesnt come back no matter what i did with both its software bs and plugs)

can anyone recommend a headset with good sound and decent mic that preferably doesnt cost me more than 80€?

(broken one is a HyperX Alpha, i got another HyperX for work but its a different model and now idk if i should go for it again after this ..)

[keeps-ache]

why's all the colorful stuff always in the kids' options oTL

[fingertipsmp3]

I’m always so fascinated by people’s bad roommate stories. I’m not sure I’ll ever live with someone I haven’t vetted extensively beforehand ever again

[our-lady-of-mcr]

everytime i think im done ranting i remember something else LMFAO this one is extra long i hit tag limit god mf damn

[munch-mumbles]

ive been a little upset about it all night so i need to write out all the things that happened at work today and are bugging me so i can TRY to get it out of my head and actually RELAX bc i just keep pacing in circles around it instead of just accepting it and moving on

[pallases]