[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 points 14 hours ago

Yes, I'm very aware of everything you just said. Doesn't mean it isn't frustrating to find out that an idea you had was a good idea, but you couldn't study it because you don't know enough about the subject. I love science and engineering, but I didn't find that out until after I graduated and I don't have the money to "respec".

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 19 points 21 hours ago

Are you sure that's not a microphone for videos? It'd be really weird to have a hole like that. Water should easily push itself through that hole. I honestly don't know what you're talking about when it comes to air pressure. I'm pretty sure your eardrums can survive close to a 1 atmosphere difference in pressure, and those are way more fragile than your phone. I'm not sure why your phone would need to normalize air pressure.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 23 points 1 day ago

It seems like the big weakness of torrents is that if the front-end goes down, then no one can get new torrents anymore, making the front-end an obvious target due to its centralized nature. However, has anyone considered making an activitypub-powered torrent tracker/download site? Kinda like a hybrid between soulseek and BitTorrent. The sites in the network all get torrent information from each other so you have a billion front-ends. Good luck stopping that if they all sync their databases together.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Step 3b: it's a deceptively simple idea that someone else already thought of a while ago, that everyone agreed was a great idea, but actually implementing it is so impractical that no one wants to do it.

I had a thing like this recently, though I'm struggling to remember what it was.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What's worse is when you have an idea, don't have any idea how to pursue it because you're not a professional [career] and don't have experience making whatever it is; and then you see a successful paper or product months or years later about that exact same idea, made by someone who actually knows what they're doing.

It's frustrating yet validating. Frustrating because, "that could have been me", validating because "I thought of the idea before it'd been developed too! I'm so smart."

I should start keeping a list of times when that happens. If I had a nickel for every time it happened, I'd have 2~3 nickels; which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened two or three times now.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 26 points 1 day ago

What's wrong with his shadow? Also, you may have an extremely advanced case of double breast cancer and will need to have them removed. (I didn't even know they could get that big, is this photoshopped?)

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 10 points 2 days ago

I had a similar thought about AI; that it's more like imagining something than actually drawing it. When you ask a program like stable diffusion to draw something, you're basically asking it to imagine something and then you reach inside its head to pull the image out. I think that if AI was forced to draw the "ol' fashioned way" then it'd be both better and worse. The results would be more "correct" but the actual quality would probably be worse. It'd also take it longer to get to the same level as a professional artist.

There are a ton of shortcuts you can take in the digital world to save time; you're basically a god limited only by your computer's specs. You can do extremely complex things near-instantly. This saves significantly on training time when it comes to AI. An AI forced to learn how to do art the ol' fashioned way would take significantly longer because it can't take the same shortcuts.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 12 points 3 days ago

Where do I read more about this?

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 47 points 3 days ago

There's actually a lot of cool science stuff that AI is doing, it just isn't in the public eye.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 47 points 4 days ago

Are you saying you literally just made up shit and coincidentally referenced a science thing?

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 37 points 4 days ago

Personally, I'd find it very concerning if I went to piss and farts started coming out instead.

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Leading up to his death:


For those of you outside of the community (and possibly wondering why the furry side of social media is on fire), Dragoneer did a hell of a lot for the furry community. FurAffinity is the largest furry art host and social network; he could have sold out and allowed AI, or made the site friendly to corporate advertising, but he didn't.

He intentionally didn't.

If he had, he probably would have been able to afford healthcare, but he didn't.

He died because he wanted to keep the site in the community instead of whoring it out to corporations, resulting in him not having the money for healthcare when he needed it the most. I wish I'd been more aware of what was going on because I would have chipped in to help (if he'd allowed it).

It makes me fucking furious that the US, the country with the highest GDP in the world by 10 TRILLION DOLLARS, still allows this to happen.

RIP Dragoneer, we'll never forget you. Wherever you are, I hope it's filled with fur, feathers, scales and wagging tails.


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Edit: I was trying to make a joke about how her new fondness for the number "34" was because "haha funny sex rule number" aka "rule34".

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Sauce

Edit for people who are curious: it's not Photoshop, it's a troodontid mask made by Archesuchus for their "Weird Birds" series. Here's what it looks like under normal lighting conditions.

Not gonna lie, I really, really want one. But fursuit heads are expensive (I'm assuming the cost would be similar since that's basically what it is) and I don't have the skill or tools to make one myself. :c

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