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New comment by zirgs in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

zirgs — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:14:39 +0000

Yeah, someone would have started to cross the oceans eventually. Europeans happened to do that first.

New comment by zirgs in "A new PNG spec"

zirgs — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:22:19 +0000

Yes, but, unfortunately - devices like that exist.

New comment by zirgs in "ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry"

zirgs — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:44:15 +0000

And now it slaps "xbox" on everything.

New comment by zirgs in "A new PNG spec"

zirgs — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 08:36:42 +0000

Yeah - it's a mess. Some devices only charge with a charger that supports PD. Some other devices need a charger WITHOUT PD support.

New comment by zirgs in "If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)"

zirgs — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 10:18:40 +0000

We are pumping oil that's located under the seabed. It would have seemed completely insane in the 19th century when all oil was easily accessible. Asteroid mining might be feasible in a few decades. If it really gets going - it could make gold as cheap as aluminium is today.

New comment by zirgs in "Spaceballs 2 Will See Rick Moranis Return as Dark Helmet"

zirgs — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:42:38 +0000

Honey, I shrunk the Grandkids.

New comment by zirgs in "Medical aid in dying, my health, and so on"

zirgs — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:59:44 +0000

If I had a disease like that - I would not want to drive at all.

New comment by zirgs in "Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’"

zirgs — Mon, 05 May 2025 12:44:57 +0000

A tariff is a tax - so additional tax on BDs, DVDs, cinema tickets, etc. It's stupid, but it's possible to implement it.

New comment by zirgs in "On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots"

zirgs — Mon, 05 May 2025 12:11:48 +0000

The guy who took that photo of Barbra Streisand's house had no idea how significant that photo would become later.

New comment by zirgs in "On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots"

zirgs — Mon, 05 May 2025 11:58:21 +0000

We are no longer in the film era. You won't run out of storage. So I take pictures of both.

New comment by zirgs in "Game preservationists say Switch2 GameKey Cards are disheartening but inevitable"

zirgs — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:44:52 +0000

Disc rot is a thing unfortunately. And they are no longer making new PS3s.

New comment by zirgs in "Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now"

zirgs — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:28:26 +0000

Germany committed the Holocaust in my country. They murdered more than 100k of our citizens. And even more died in the WW2 that they started. But now we are in the same political, military and currency union with them, because countries and their ideologies change.

New comment by zirgs in "Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now"

zirgs — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:24:50 +0000

NSDAP hasn't been in power in Germany for like 80 years now. Meanwhile Mao's CCP is still in power and they haven't disowned him.

New comment by zirgs in "OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show"

zirgs — Thu, 23 May 2024 07:48:26 +0000

Imagine if switchboard operator careers were protected. We still would not have the Internet today.

New comment by zirgs in "Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile"

zirgs — Fri, 17 May 2024 12:12:27 +0000

If that was true then we would still be living like in the 18th century. They would have pumped out all the easily accessible oil. It's not possible to access current oil fields with 19th century tech.

So yeah - if this civilization falls - the next one won't be able to have their own industrial revolution.

New comment by zirgs in "Who's winning in Sarah Silverman's copyright suit against OpenAI?"

zirgs — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:52:37 +0000

I'd like to know if what I'm attempting to do is legal BEFORE I do it not after.

New comment by zirgs in "Who's winning in Sarah Silverman's copyright suit against OpenAI?"

zirgs — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:46:10 +0000

But you won't need to spend 50M in the future. Hardware improves all the time.

Remember all those "can it run crysis?" memes? Those GPUs are now slower than mobile phones.

New comment by zirgs in "Who's winning in Sarah Silverman's copyright suit against OpenAI?"

zirgs — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:35:03 +0000

Attempts to prevent piracy are laughable and ineffective. Even North Korea can't fully prevent imports of Western cultural products.

This is why the music industry gave up and now we have services like Tidal, Spotify and Youtube.

New comment by zirgs in "Who's winning in Sarah Silverman's copyright suit against OpenAI?"

zirgs — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:31:02 +0000

That's because the musicians flooded the market. Good music isn't rare and it is not hard to find it. Spotify has 100M tracks - even if 99% of them were crap - that would still mean that there are 1 million good songs. More than you can listen in a lifetime.

New comment by zirgs in "Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators"

zirgs — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 19:36:43 +0000

Does it survive AI upscaling or img2img? If not - then it's useless. Nobody trains AI models without any preprocessing. This is basically a tool for 2022.