FriendOfDeSoto

joined 2 years ago

The short answer is a court of law.

The long answer includes a reference to the location because a few countries do not list "escape from prison" as a crime in itself recognizing the human yearning to be free. So only incidental stuff would be interesting in a subsequent legal case, i.e. damage of property, threatening people with violence, etc. If you can manage to slip out in a laundry basket, you are okay. Andy Duphresne would be liable for the wall and sewage pipe he broke. (And committing fraud, of course.)

Do you have Inkscape installed? I think it would be easier to draw the mask, i.e. the edgy edges, in there. You could just trace the one from your example pic as well. And then you could go back to GIMP and attempt the same procedure again. I would just make sure you convert all your images to PNG or JPEG. And to make sure you add the alpha channel before you do anything else.

Tbh I would use the clip function in Inkscape and then export the image as PNG to use in your slide. But I've always been more comfortable on the vector side of things.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 100 points 3 months ago (12 children)

Yes, we are. Please stop masturbating. Thanks.

If you're only looking at the tools everybody can get a hold of, I agree. I think if you look a bit further, you will find medical diagnostics that can hopefully top human detection scores and that's worth pursuing as well.

I don't see any good reason why the general public needs to have access to most of the models today. Most people just play around with it - and I don't see the value there. When we get the final tally, we will have made the climate crisis worse and caused droughts with all the thirsty data center consumption. All so Alexa can remember what you said two queries ago and you can animate your childhood teddy in the Ghibli style.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ich würd ja sagen der is 2 huso, der huso huso

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I agree that women are still being objectified and that's bad. I don't agree with workers being dehumanized by being referred to as such. "Workers of the world, unite!" was a big rallying cry. For some people, it's an identity-establishing part of life that they're using manual labor and not fart into a desk chair all day. They take pride in being working class.

If by referring to a group of working folks is dehumanizing then we cannot talk about people like housekeepers, street sweepers, nurses, or engineers either. They're people too. And I don't see "people with job X" catching on in the language either.

I don't have access to a good PC, which is why I went mobile. And I'm using Android.

I'm not sure what point that is. My inkling is that OP doesn't live in the States.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

No, you're not overreacting. You know you and you can point at serious consequences now. Keep the license valid if you can - you don't know what life still has in store for you and you want to keep your options open. But by all means toss the keys to somebody else.

I think both Apple and fictitious closed Android would be way more interchangeable and data from within would be more portable. Developers would get more of a cut. The saving grace for Google in the real world is that they can do Apple shenanigans while pointing at the open-source availability of Android and not get dumped in hotter antitrust water. If we only had two OSs and both were closed especially regulators in Europe would hit both of them much harder. And like tougher environmental restrictions on cars became the de facto US standard for everyone, the forced equal playing field (the EU guys LOVE an equal playing field) would over time make shit better for all users everywhere.

If there was no Android I think we would have a long list of failed attempts to build one that all fail because every company wanted to build their own walled gardens, and didn't get enough traction. iOS probably would have succeeded thanks to Apple marketing budgets and their somewhat cultish follower base. But I suspect it would have followed more the initial Steve Jobs idea of doing most stuff in browser; the app revolution wouldn't have happened. So there would be a big iOS share and then the lower 30% or so would be fractured into other walled gardens for poor people. One result of that would be an earlier agreement on a RCS-like texting solution and not just in the States but everywhere. Because more players would have a stake in seamless communication because stuff like WhatsApp (a reaction to high texting rates, mostly in Europe) and blue/green bubblr iMessage did not happen.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You've discovered the birthday problem.

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