PhlubbaDubba

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PhlubbaDubba , to RPGMemes in Sometimes it's just easier to let the players shop

Hey, find a medicine man and you can actually get some good trade for those.

Apparently even today still, IIRC leaches actually do get used for legitimate medicinal purposes in the modern day. Them and maggots, I believe for cleaning out necrotic flesh.

PhlubbaDubba , to RPGMemes in Sometimes it's just easier to let the players shop

"I can give you 50 gold, after that we'll need to get the weights and measures out to trade goods. Don't worry, I don't cheat my scales."

PhlubbaDubba , to Ask Lemmy in What's the most stupid trend (or fad) you participated in yourself?

Why you always check for moth bites folks

PhlubbaDubba , to Ask Lemmy in What's the most stupid trend (or fad) you participated in yourself?

I dunno how much I'm about to date myself with this one but I still remember the heartbreak when my favorite squid shaped silly band snapped after I'd used it enough, whoever designed those was either a complete idiot for designing something that breakable for children, or a maniacal genius for designing something that would need to be replaced that often for children.

Either way, child targeted advertising should be completely illegal, that's just hitting the parents with emotional blackmail.

PhlubbaDubba , to Programmer Humor in How I date

Rust is to programming languages what a drunken orgy is to a night out.

That is to say, you have no idea where all these new tattoos came from have a head pounding migraine afterwards and some the hell how you learned how to use Rust as an end result.

PhlubbaDubba , to Technology in Tech Firms Prey on Poor Under Guise of Expanding Access to Financial Services

See also all those crypto apps

PhlubbaDubba , (edited ) to No Stupid Questions in Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”?

Importing and screen capping software can also have the certificate software on and sign it with the metadata of the original file they're copying, taking a picture of the screen with a separate device or pixel by pixel recreations could in theory get around it, but in practice, people will see at best a camera image being presented as a photoshopped or paintmade image, and at worst, some loser pointing their phone at their laptop to try and pass off something dishonestly. Pixel by pixel recreations, again, software can be given the metadata stamp, and if sites refuse to accept non stamped content, going pixel by pixel on unvetted software will just leave you with a neat png file for your trouble, and doing it manually, yeah if someone's going through and hand placing squares just to slip a single deep fake picture through, that person's a state actor and that's a whole other can of worms.

ETA: you can also sign the pixel art creation as pixel art based on it being a creation of squares, so that would tip people off in the signature notes of a post.

PhlubbaDubba , to No Stupid Questions in Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”?

There are ways to secure signatures to be a problem to recreate, not to mention how the signature can be unique to every piece of media made, meaning a fake can't be created reliably.

PhlubbaDubba , to No Stupid Questions in Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”?

I agree pretty heartily with this metadata signing approach to sussing out AI content,

Create a cert org that verifies that a given piece of creative software properly signs work made with their tools, get eyeballs on the cert so consumers know to look for it, watch and laugh while everyone who can't get thr cert starts trying to claim they're being censored because nobody trusts any of their shit anymore.

Bonus points if you can get the largest social media companies to only accept content that has the signing and have it flag when signs indicate photoshopping or AI work, or removal of another artist's watermark.

PhlubbaDubba , to Ask Lemmy in How do you manage to do all the things you want to do?

"That's the neat part, you don't!"

Actual answer, ya gotta learn to prioritize what you can manage at any one time, otherwise you're gonna bury yourself under the weight of mounting project pressure.

My boss and I wanted to do some fancy data formatting shenanigans this year, but I've fallen sick enough that we gotta backburner it until I can get back at full capacity.

PhlubbaDubba , to World News in U.S. Military Planes Are in Haiti. Haitians Don’t Know Why.

I don't have sources but I've heard tell the biggest gang right now is led by a guy who guys by BBQ, and his stated goals are basically a combination of Liberation rhetoric and demanding the government submit to his authority as the legitimate transitional executive.

PhlubbaDubba , to World News in U.S. Military Planes Are in Haiti. Haitians Don’t Know Why.

It's because they want to remove the political goals some of these groups have from their public narrative.

Which, you can debate how underhanded doing something like that is, or how good or bad based on what those narratives are.

PhlubbaDubba , to World News in U.S. Military Planes Are in Haiti. Haitians Don’t Know Why.

Looks like they're getting ready for whatever play they intend to make against the gangs and are trying to keep exacts on the hush hush to avoid the gangs being able to make preparations.

They're called gangs in print but it's worth remembering that these organizations have military training and equipment at their disposal far exceeding what you'd picture when someone says the word "gang", at this point it'd be more accurate to consider them warlord bands.

PhlubbaDubba , to Technology in New York bans “addictive feeds” for teens

Eh, whackamole enforcement usually cuts mustard with this kind of stuff.

Like yeah someone's gonna do it anyways just because, but then all it takes is enough people raising an alarm to bring it down, and as a side effect, remove more shitass developers from the market.

You end up with an equilibrium where not every example is getting the hammers of justice, but enough examples are that the average consumer still feels the benefit of a noticeably less toxic internet.

PhlubbaDubba , to No Stupid Questions in Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day?

Make sure you can go wide eyed enough that they start laughing if they were just razzing you

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