Oh damn, i did not see that.

I havent really been part of the vocaloid community for years, i was curious if dedicated Lemmy spaces exist for it and somehow ended up on this thread.

To add a little to the appeal that transcends music/concerts

Basicly because they are supossed to be instruments the characters don’t really have an official backstory. Having such could limit create freedom. Kagamine Rin/Len for example are designed to work together (sold together). They are often perceived as siblings by the community but Crypton (company) specificly did not make them siblings so they can still be used in a romantic duet.

This means the characters are like puppets where everyone can project any of their own feelings and interpretation on top of them. Making them ideal for telling stories with.

So their are also tons of sketches and animations featuring them that have little to do with music. Also fueled by mmd software (mikumikudance) which was created for musicvideos but was also very compentent for general amateur animations.

Unike real people they also can’t be involved in scandals or offensive statements. Neither can they get offended by the extremeties of fandom expression.

Its genuinly a very safe space for exploring all kinds of creativity.

Guilty as charged.

Do you have a link?

Long mug can still be used as a bowl.

Thick fork has no practical use whatsoverer.

I got banned from saying not all that is called ai is bad by giving video game npcs from the last decades as an example.

I thought it was just llms that they where against but nope. I imagine Alan Turing spinning in his grave.

My neurodivergent ass just had to recover and tape-fix a box from the trash, i trew it away yesterday after asking if we should keep it.

Do not believe this meme, do not throw away that box!!

Oh sure, thats a miscommunication error then.

I wouldnt call it stealing myself but i can find myself in your definition.

Maybe in some perspective but could not be further from mine.

All non personal Informations should be free.

Code is just information, who is one person to tell me i cannot arrange letters and words in a certain order because they did it first.

In context, i was already firmly opposed to the concept of copyright long before llms became consumer accesible. Imitation is the greatest honor someone csn receive.

I often get a question about “means to live”when i mention that. In short i think all people deserve the means to live comfortably regardless of economic output or labor.

I dont propose to change the current system overnight though, i would need to write a couple of books to fully explain the gradual transformation to the zero profit society i envision.

Expert?

Gamers often use “pro” which comes from profesional, i never really saw a connection with money there.

My subjective opinion is that yeah it is unethical, but not more then so many other things we normalised.

Systematicly slaughtering animals for meat for example.

I am not a vegitarian by any means. You cannot fight on all fronts at once and have to pick your own battles in context of your own lifes challenges.

Cars poison the air and kill many people, i dont drive a car for that reason because thats a fight i can fight. I have sensativities with food, so i am not cutting out meat. (I aim to do so some day)

I moved to linux some years ago by getting help from an llm which requires datacenters build by malicious companies. I don’t have a google or meta account and my cloud and media is hosted locally on recycled hardware. Where for others those services require datacenters build by malicious companies.

Life is various shades of grey.

Definitely a good point if if doesn’t actually need to be plastic, i highly prefer natural materials overall. But thats not always practical.

I dont get the “someone elses problem” though. If the item is still perfectly usable then why would the next owner not also just want to use it? I personally value a hand me down that “served” my family for ages over “new thing”

If it is broken then it can get a new life by getting recycled.

Under current consumerism the pattern is that shit breaks and you buy it new, which causes us to psychologicly devalue the item (and thus materials) as it ages, i believe this is why so many plastics end up non recycled.

If items where durable, reliable, repairable. People will be more capable to perceive their value and be more concious about what happens to it after it breaks because losing it will hurt. Not quite like but somewhat similar to how we care about what happens to remains after death.

Also things being repairable increases the awareness of the materials because your working with them.

Supposedly greenpeace calls it “the poison plastic” and “the most enviromentally damaging plastic”

Gonna have to ask them for their scientific sources.

Personally i think plastics are fine if the product is actually durable. I take good care of my things. My 15 year old ipad mini is practically mint and if it wasnt for “making it more enviromental” i would still be using its original cable also.

Almost anyone can cut and paste a face on a different body using a classic photo editor.

It still takes a profesional to do it in a way that delivers a quality result.

Linus Torvalds is a professional, the linux terminal is his baby, if we can trust anyone on this, its him.

The amateurs using ai to produce slop that resembles what we perceive as quality, is sometimes hard to tell but 25 years ago people though half life 1 looked insanely realistic and that graphics could not possibly look any more real. Over time our brains will adapt and we will be able to tell slop from real work in a heartbeat. I bet most people here can already tell if a mail was written by an llm and not audited by a human with ease.

And give up the opportunity to get applause for planned obedience? That is not how you capitalism.

Its quite telling that ever since apple got forced to use usb-c the quality of their cables made a huge leap. It’s almost like the availability of competing cables is good for innovation or something.

FYI:

Greenpeace pressured apple to stop using PVC in their plastics around 2007

Apple realised they could gain PR while making more money by having customers needing to rebuy new cables.

Does the signal bot need its own phone number?

Having done a few clicks to look into why this specific article is gendered.

Cybernews is reporting an article By NL times

The article by NL times was already gendered.

NL Times has wrote other non gendered articles on this issue but this article was prompted by a lawsuit being prepared by Offlimits

Offlimits is an organization that combats sexual abuse.

The context of this Lawsuit is the discovery of telegram and other channels for the distribution of “creepshots”, often sexually pictures taken from compromising angles.

The victims of these creepshots are almost always women.

Its similar to catcalling. It does happen to both genders but if it happens to men its a noticeable rare event. By the time a women reaches adulthood its another tuesday.

You may not be aware of this or do it intentionally but responding “what about the men” when the topic focuses on “women” is a common frustration online.

The reverse scenario, where the focus is men rarely gets a comment “how about women”

You’re technically not wrong though, everyone could be affected and i do expect journalistic pieces to be inform more broadly about an issue, but the issue does seem to disproportionally affect people who appear to be women and its also fair to note this difference.

I am sure there is no ill will on your part but i have seen online “fights” break out over this pattern. At first it confused me but once you understand it, you notice it everytime even when the post is by and for women and posted on a women focused community it will get a comment like this.

There are enough articled and discussions calling out the meta privacy issue in a non gendered way. The few adressing women are not harming any man.

All of it is strings of ones and zeros that are instructions that tell my computer what to display.

Its basic freedom of speech. Imagine not beign able to give instructions in other contexts because you didn’t pay to use the words.

Its not a public pack sorry But the changelogs for some mods speak for themselves no human does 20 seperate release updates in a day and comments every sentence with an emoticon