A mild copyright violation based on a system designed around the constant distribution of copies of things is NOT a parable about sexual violence, people.
I feel like this extremely insensitive rape take is the fediverse’s version of the Godwin Law.
Read up on RCS’ history, and current standard.
RCS is a clown college of brokenness that doesn’t include encryption, and not even all of the telcoms in the country put together could make an official client for it. It is no more a standard than iMessage, and it certainly isn’t as good of one.
Drats. I give it a go every handful of years because I want it to be great, but that’s my experience every time, too.
I still hold out hopes, since Blender used to be the same way. When I last tried Blender, their keyboard shortcuts and scene navigation were clearly developed by someone who thinks that using emacs is a good idea, and that vi never should have been improved.
But they’re a serious pro tool now that has a foothold in the 3D industry which I would not have predicted back then.
This is a fantastic list! Thank you for sending it my way. Saved for later exploration and I commented with my latest free (though only partially open source) app suggestion.
I’ll have to check it out. Thank you for the recommendation!
In many specific applications current AI algorithms already exceed human capabilities. That’s been the case for much longer than the LLM craze. And as new AI algorithms are developed it becomes more and more likely that even without Artificial General Intelligence, the category of computing known as AI could reach a point that it exceeds human capabilities in all possible applications.
But even with that fact it’s true that we shouldn’t treat the current implementations of AI as if it were human.
If we ever develop an actual AGI and it is ad capable as a human, then we should reconsider, but nothing we have now seems to imply we are close to that.
Has GIMP improved much in the last five years?
My partner uses Adobe products for one of his jobs, and he had installed their cloud software on one of my laptops on his user account. Which forced it on all other user accounts, too.
I found that it installed horribly challenging to kill or remove daemons that would relaunch and reinstall their spyware bullshit if you didn’t kill all of them in the right way, and it was spamming me a pop-up asking for my password to install other things, which I couldn’t prevent.
I was able to stop it after many attempts and then got my partner to uninstall that junk from my laptop.
That was all still more user-friendly than the last time I tried to use GIMP.
Are there viable alternatives for their products?
This reference is so old, that Johnny 5 must be dead by now.
Keep pants on! Got it!
Today I learned I’m a fabulous dish!
Some people don’t even have puffin friends.
I think it was a one or two day thing, but it was glorious!
It still failed to hit projected box office returns with that factored in!
It’s just funny because it’s a good movie and the first one won an academy award but is terrible.
And they won it for writing “damaged” on Joker’s forehead… at least in part.
Except Apple did better than analysts forecasted, and announced a buyback, causing the stock price to go up.
He lost money compared to if he had waited until after.
Fun fact, The Suicide Squad (2021) was a box office flop, whereas Suicide Squad (2016), the only academy award winning DCEU film, was a box office smash hit!
Do you count prequels as spin-off shows? Both Better Call Saul and House of the Dragon are considered to be excellent and successful if so.
The fediverse has a built-in search engine?
I can only comment on my experience searching for communities in lemmy and people to follow on mastadon, but in both cases I am not sure I’d say “works quite well” would describe my experience.
But also that’s not what I think OP was talking about.
They want a search engine for a random fact like google. It’s been long true that you need to add “reddit” to the end of any google search to find the info you needed.
It’d be nice to have a fediverse alternative.
They would be android devices, then.
So no. They wouldn’t be good.