Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

Get your lead vaccines, people

I gotta say, I was locked-in to Visual Studio before, but JetBrains Rider just keeps surprising me in good ways.

Celebrity culture was always arbitrary, but the fact that people can become famous and wealthy now just for being a fan of the work of someone else entirely is eminently depressing to me.

@arossp The big difference is that with AI, the creative impetus is split. Yes, the AI is presumably trained on real and popular music, but it seemingly won't ever fully replicate that music, and to get it to even come close, you have to write very specific prompts and fiddle with it... So, when AI companies have procedures in place to prevent copyright infringement, but users relentlessly prod and push for ways that can fail, don't the users take on a degree of responsibility in the resulting infringement?

If I google "paradise city covers" and listen to an infringing cover made by a human, I obviously don't have any responsibility for the creation of that infringement. But if I twist an AI to do so, does that liability change?

@KawaTora@kolektiva.social Relax. The Church of Satan's got this one in the bag.

@jenniferplusplus That may work in places with adequate public transit infrastructure already, but in most of America, if we want people to use it, we need to build it first, and the money would be better put towards that. No tax credit is going to get me to use a bus that only comes every two hours and has stops more than a mile from my origin and destination.

So many of us in cars would be happy to use public transport if it just didn't suck so bad.

@SecurityWriter It's common for dock catch-and-release fishing, especially for kids.

But, in my experience, we generally went for fish that were easiest to clean and tasted the best.

@impermanen_ I get annoyed with people who slow down checkout because they can't put the phone down, but just while walking around shopping? What kind of busybodies would get upset about that?

When I was growing up, I heard the refrain "doesn't matter who you vote for, just matters that you vote" over and over. And I believed in it.

This year, though, if your vote would be for the guy who says he wants to be dictator, then maybe sit this one out.

Note to self: Before testing gamepad controls in your game, remember to turn the gamepad on.

When I was a kid, I always thought Buzz Aldrin's story was more interesting than Armstrong's. He was a real life hero, an inspiration.

It's too bad he turned into such an asshole later in life and ruined his good legacy.

@interfluidity I don't think it would ever gain traction then.

"Better the devil you know" and all that.

I truly don't understand why Democrats aren't hammering that last point every single day.

@interfluidity Would the random selection be made before the votes, or only if the slot won?