See this is a normal response to this. It kinda weirds me out how common it is for people to be all “Heh heh, tell me Chinese AI… China bad, right? It won’t say it! Authoritarianism!”
Like maybe straighten out your priorities a bit? The country we live in killed like 300 little girls in Minab a few months ago. That seems a bit more important than the AI not letting you have your gotcha moment.
It doesn’t discuss anything Chinese politics related, and sometimes just wider politics too. It’s just a blanket filter on like any chinese politicians name or anything else the company decided it didn’t want to risk it talking about. It’s not about positive or negative the filter isn’t that advanced. It’ll just clam up the instant one of its filter words is hit.
I cracked up at I don’t understand the question lmao. I also read that and was thinking, “huh?”
Exactly. I try to tell this to my family and they all act like I’m crazy. Well my house is stocked atleast even if they don’t stock theirs. I’ve also been experimenting with growing my own food. Have potatoes, corn, blueberries, peaches, blackberries, mullberries, onions, and butternut squashes. Summer squashes and beans going in soon. Also have a few books on edible wild plants and stuff for foraging. Fishing gear too.
I honestly think this is the only logical stance someone in the US can take. Like wtf is China going to do to you? Is the CPC going to come across the pacific and try to arrest you? No. But ICE might come knocking if google figures out your not on board with Trumps new President for Life position.
It is not just possible. They do use domestic Huawei chips. The Ascend 950 specifically. Which is a big part of why they can operate so much more cheaply. No need to buy those insanely expensive NVIDIA chips.
I disagree. While most things are best measured per capita dividing it this way is kind of silly. China uses MUCH less energy per person than the US. As does every country. So it’s not really a useful comparison. It’s better to look at the percentage of total energy usage by country that is renewables. Dividing it by person ignores the fact that the average USian just uses an absolute metric fuckton of energy day to day. Like many times the global average. For China specifically, the average US person uses 2.5-3x more energy than the average Chinese person.
LOL right? Like does the other person not realize that unless your running a local LLM or using something like duck.ai ALL of the AIs are training on your convos. It reminds me of all the “Chinese Surveillance” fearmongering around TikTok as if Meta and Instagram don’t do the exact same thing.
Yes. GPS is a free to use and seperate thing run by the US Military. Any phone can use it that has the hardware for it. I’ve never used lineage os tho so can’t speak for that specifically. But it has nothing to do with google. Google does have its own location services but those use wifi and other means to make it more accurate. They’re entirely optional.
I used it the site is garbage but the image test does actually do the job. Like as long as you ignore the weird comments about “why” the photos are labeled correctly. But despite the thing saying there are 700+ photos I kept getting repeats in the same quiz.
Easy Mode Mixed:
Ultra mode Nano Banana:
It took me a bit to get used to the new model with Nano Banana when I started I wasn’t sure but after a couple I could tell.
Eh, I literally never see ads and block them everywhere, I couldn’t tell you the last time I saw an ad, and I can spot an AI image from a mile away. Gen Z tho. It’s just got this look to it. I can’t even describe how I know. It’s just got the AI vibe. I’ve watched videos where older people try to learn how to spot AI images with tricks and stuff and I’ve never used any of them. I just see it and know. I think it’s because I grew up looking at real images on a computer screen all day every day and watching youtube videos and stuff. So now when an AI one pops up I just get that uncanny valley feeling. The best way I can describe it is they’re too smooth.
Edit: I can do it with writing too. I can spot AI writing pretty well. Even small snippets.
Hey! Comrade, leave those sharks alone!
Buckshot Roulette is a game where you play a game of russian roulette with a shotgun against a creepy dealer and have various items with abilities to help you win. It’s small but fun. Can do multiplayer.
Half Sword is a very interesting melee combat game. It’s hard to describe but its mainly about their unique way of controlling a melee character and fighting in battles in a medieval themed arena. It’s a bit wonky, but very fun.
The Walking Trade is a zombie apocalypse store simulator. You have to run a store and stop zombies from eating your customers.
Retro Rewind is a game where you run a VHS store in the 90s. You gather various VHS tapes, hire employees, and upgrade your shop.
They Are Billions is a game where you try to build up a colony in a world overrun by thousands and thousands of zombies. You’ll be attacked in waves and the game manages to run very well even while thousands of individual units are on screen. It’s quite difficult.
Edit: Actually want to add one I havent played yet. Thick as Thieves seems like it has a lot of potential.
If you get Organic Maps you can use GPS navigation. It works entirely offline so you can turn your phones cellular off and just use GPS which is passive and doesn’t send out signals. Best practice would be Graphene OS as the base and not having google services installed at all too.
HA! Not even. Florida has nothing worth hitting really. You know what I’d hit if I was Cuba? The LOOP. Offshore oil tanker loading and unloading facility in Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana. The LOOP handles roughly 10-13% of US crude oil imports and is crucial for exports. You think gas prices are bad now? Just wait.
Well technically android is fine its google services that are the problem. If your on Graphene OS or similar with no google services your fine.
This is how I listen to music too. What I did is I made a bunch of massive playlists inside the services of 80s, 90s, 70s, etc music seperated by decade. Like you’d have on a radio station. Then I plugged them into Parabolic and ripped mp3s of them from youtube. Shoved them in a folder and just listen to those on shuffle. As for supporting artists, half the people I listen to are dead first of all, and for the ones who aren’t I do also have a physical media collection. A single purchase of a cd or vinyl gives them more money than 1000 streams would.
You know who else liked the facts straight? Diogenes. Which is why when Plato said that man was defined as “a featherless biped” Diogenes defeathered a chicken and carried it up to Plato screaming, “Behold! I have brought you a man!”
Just wanted to add that to this comment thread because I love that story.