I got a 2020 mustang and it even more basic in terms of tech than my previous car, a 1999 bmw.

Sending you two questions that produce garbage:

Q: why would i use EDODF (error diffusion with output dependent feedback) instead of Floyd-Steinberg?

What to expect: at least some mention of green noise characteristics, clustering behaviour and reduced dot-gain and dot-loss.

What is wrong: Reduced worm-like artifacts, blue noise characteristics, some fine-tuning garbage it spitted out.

In the same chat you can then try:

Q: Describe the MED class algorithms to me.

What to expect: MED stands for multiscale error diffusion. Generally speaking it scans the image progressively, starting from a coarse grid and ending up with a single pixel to paint either black or white for each pixel in a predefined pixel budget. A similar approach was introduced by E. Peli in the 90s but perfected by Fung and Chen in the 2000s. It could be used for both dithering with both green and blue noise characteristics.

What I got: Hallucinations of some Minimum Error Disturbance class of algos i've never heard of. it seems to have something mixed up, as it seems to crop up in other fields. It was trying to describe something closer to a DBS (Direct binary search).

What is wrong: Anything related to DBS.

If you feel like you need any more I'll do my best to think of some more.

Anytime you get into specifics instead of surface level knowledge it starts getting wildly inaccurate while still being confident af.

Off the top of my head I asked it about EDODF (error diffusion with output dependent feedback), a dithering algorithm dating back to 1999, and a very important milestone in halftoning for print.

At first it told me it's not sure what I'm talking about, so I elaborated and extended the acronym. At that point it confidently hallucinated absolute garbage based on its interpretation of the name.

If you want to check chatgpt's answers about edodf (or many other concepts) against a proven and cited source written by human I highly recommend Modern digital halftoning.

Not trying to be rude, but maybe the questions you are benchmarking it against in your stated fields of experitse are rather basic?

As I've mentioned in another thread, I believe YouTube provides analytics on this (hence the "most replayed" parts for some videos), and I'm certain I've seen some creators mention sposors requiring that information before a deal is made. So it may really hurt some small youtubers that can't rely on merchandise sales.

That said, I personally use sponsorblock as I don't feel like wasting my life on nordvpn ads, but I have to admit sponsor segments are a whole lot better than regular YouTube ads.

Edit: And as I far as I know they pay much better than regular ads.

I believe this is because sponsor segments are like traditional TV ads. They don't use trackers, they are not targeted and they respect your privacy.

I would love to have an open, hackable, linux-based eBook reader.

Do you know if there is a EU-wide place to report such behavior?

The biggest privately owned TV channel in my country not only does that, but actually just redirects you to a pdf file if you want to "manage cookies". And it's not like I can submit a complaint on a national level, as the ruling party's website uses google analytics without a cookie notice at all.

I'm not sure if streaming 1080p video over Tor would be very appreciated by the rest of the network. Or that it would be a very pleasant experience.

While Mozilla is far from perfect, I think they've managed to avoid getting shitty for almost 20 years.

To be honest it's possible they're not joking.

Linux mint is insanely user friendly, to the point where my father istalled it by himself as his first linux distro long after the first symptoms of dementia appeared and used it for years.

Do we really need excuses for pirating media?

I pirate movies because I think digital access to them is overpriced, goes to the copyright holder instead of the creators, it's convenient and most importantly because I can.

I can't pirate going to the cinema, nor can I afford to build my own, therefore I gladly pay to have a seat and enjoy a movie there.

Edit: I thought this may be relevant to the movies example I gave. I don't think movie studios, giving nothing back to society after massive profits are the ones we should debate the morals of stealing with.

It's so encouraging to hear so many pro Firefox opinions lately. Then I remember I'm logged into the pirate instance of a federated platform and anti-corporate sentiment is probably as high as it gets.

Sadly most younger people haven't even heard of Firefox.