PonyOfWar

joined 2 years ago
[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I support it and think it could work. It would make people more happy and free, while removing a lot of unnecessary and expensive bureaucracy from our current welfare system.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My company has 2 CEOs. One of them doesn't ever really talk about AI. The other one is personally obsessed with the topic. His picture on Teams is AI generated and every other day, he posts some random AI tutorial or news into work channels. His client presentations are mostly written by ChatGPT. But luckily, nothing is being forced on us developers. The company is very hands-off in general (some may say disorganized) and we can pretty much use any tools and methods we choose, as long as we deliver good results. I personally use AI only occassionally, mostly for quick prototyping in languages and frameworks I'm unfamiliar with. None of the other devs are very enthusiastic about AI either.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Browsing various art platforms, when I see a user where I'm not entirely sure if their art is AI (usually I think I can tell immediately though), I check how old their profile is. If it's older than 2024, I check how their art from before that year looks. If there hasn't been a sudden and radical shift in style and skill, I consider the art human-made. Otherwise, likely AI.

That method might be a tad unfair to artists who are only starting out now, but I don't know of any better way.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

A phone that's off is off. No power supplied to the components, so it can't record anything. It would be trivially easy to find out if it were otherwise, not to mention your battery would get drained.

The phone somehow "seeing through objects" is just straight up fiction. How is that supposed to work?

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure most people with a bit of education could name philosophers like Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Marx, Nietzsche and Kant. And especially in case of political philosophers like Marx, people sure seem to have paid attention to him.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 13 points 1 week ago

I'm 32, still got a box of marzipan chocolate from my mom for St Nicholas day today.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Elementary school I think. Don't remember the specific instance, but I used to get into fights with another kid in my class.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It would be more like 3 years though, as he's 15 right now. Maybe reducing the money for now and paying the rest into a fund to give OP's brother once he turns 18 might be a solution. The parents should still be able to provide for their son, but no reason to let them save up any money.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing that crazy I guess, but two events I remember:

  • A small fire broke out next to the tracks and the train driver actually stopped the train and got out to extinguish it

  • A train busker played so loudly and terribly that a group of random passengers got together to shove him out of the train at the next station.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A radio would be my first thought. Either a simple one with speakers or a pocket radio with headphones, depending on what her situation allows. Doesn't really need any interaction other than turning on/off.