Technically I didn’t make money, I just got some money back. On multiple occasions, a few years after moving homes, the student housing company would suddenly pay back money that I apparently overpaid for gas and electricity. I’d get another email in which they’d apologize (again) and yeet another pile of money my way. It was usually something like 80-200 euros if I remember correctly. Truth is, I never really felt like I was paying much anyway. Compared to what I’m paying now it was absolutely nothing. But hey, I’ll never say no to “free money” I guess…

Things don’t need to be true to be insightful, but many viewers will feel disrespected if they get served something fictional that is presented as something real. I have no issues with a photoshopped or AI generated image of it’s clearly marked as such, they can be gorgeous and insightful all the same. But when something looks (partially) fictional but is presented as a real thing, it feels incredibly deceiving. Capturing a one in a million moment has great value, but photoshopping or using AI to mimic such a moment makes it all worthless.

The butterfly was probably just being goofy, and the light weird. But if it was photoshopped into the picture then the picture would absolutely not have the same value to me and presumably many other viewers. A large part of this photo’s allure is the fact that the photographer got such a rare moment perfectly framed. If it turns out to be faked then that would be a major deception.

Another Rabbit Hole is “how much editing is too much” ofc. Personally I obviously don’t mind colour adjustments, sharpening, some retouches etc. Even moving the butterfly ever so slightly around to get it perfectly aligned with the eyes would be kinda okay. But if it’s significantly moved, enlarged, or just straight up pasted in it would be an unacceptable deception imo.

I decided to go through his insta. I couldn’t find the specific photo, maybe he hasn’t posted it yet. But none of his other photos that I saw on his insta look this sus. So he was probably just unlucky with the timing making the shot look photoshopped. I can’t imagine someone with such a portfolio risking an egregious Photoshop like this. Animals can be a bit derpy sometimes, I’ve shot quite a few bird pictures recently and I’ve definitely noticed this.

It’s just that you can’t really trust anything anymore nowadays. If it looks fake, that’s often because it is. Even after seeing his insta I cannot help being a bit sceptical, but based on his portfolio there’s really just no way a rational person would fake this.

Yeah many of them are a bit too heavy on the editing for my taste as well. Some editing is always required to get something beautiful, but many of them look a bit too unreal to m. Still great photos, and obviously some hard work

The butterfly looks so weird in the photo, almost like it was pasted in later. It looks like a butterfly just sitting still, but then cut out and pasted into the air. Wings folded, legs in seating position. Might just be a coincidence though, maybe it just flapped its wings like that and had its legs out to land.

If it’s not photoshopped, it’s really an amazing shot.

Idk, but here in the Netherlands I wonder why restaurants often have so little vegetables. I tend to easily reach the 200 grams of vegetables a day when cooking myself. I’m always surprised how little I get at a restaurant here.

Yep. Or maybe the channel already existed because he’s not the only one there. But he presents a lot of the content indeed

A channel that’s missing here which I personally really like is TimeGhost history and their other channels World War Two and The Korean War. Their coverage of world war two in real time (which they finished already) was especially great. I’m not necessarily the biggest history nerd, but there’s something quite enjoyable about following history “live” this way.

Yeah okay but Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man’s Sky were new games, not an ancient game that should easily run on a Switch 2 but somehow doesn’t. And even then it required an insane turnaround before people loved them again. Cyberpunk has undergone a crazy transformation since launch and it’s all for free (as should be expected when you release a dumpster fire).

This is not an easy thing, and not something you can keep doing constantly. Bethesda seems to be on a roll with releasing broken, overpriced, boring shit for a while now. And constantly milking Skyrim. There are plenty other games that I personally have played that aren’t there yet in this timeline either. Cities Skylines 2 just got a new developer and is still not that great, I don’t they’ll turn it around. Stalker 2 is on the right path (and I personally really liked it on launch and even more now), yet a lot of fans still seem pissed and the game is still properly janky. Pulling a Cyberpunk is the exception, not the rule

Compared to most of my friends I’m not into food tbh. But not in the way that I don’t care about it. I’ll generally eat whatever and like it. I can enjoy a microwave meal or a frozen pizza. And I get very impatient with people who insist that the rice needs to dry to the air for god knows how long because it makes the taste better. Cooking is something I used to hate, so I’d always go the easy route. Either a microwave meal or something like pasta with pre-cut vegetables and premade sauce from the supermarket.

Nowadays I have changed to a diet with more vegetables and less overprocessed stuff, so I tend to just grab some veggies and throw them in a pan with some meat (or replacement), some random herbs and spices and a little bit of pasta or rice. Sometimes it’s nice, sometimes it sucks, but I don’t really care because I’ll eat almost anything and I hate throwing away food. Most important to me is that it’s healthy most of the time. But I don’t really care for recipes or spending time to prepare something nice, I have better ways to spend my time. I also really like my rice to be sticky, so I don’t really waste time on washing the rice either.

The thing in the top of the image is definitely weird. But honestly I think it’s just a real image. Too many small details like the mesh of the suitcase that I wouldn’t expect gen AI to get right. I think the third wheel on the right makes sense tbh. It’s probably just a suitcase with 4 wheels that’s folded open. Due to the perspective it looks a little offset but that’s reasonable. I’m not a 100% sure tho, it’s hard to tell sometimes these days

Uhmmmm can I also teleport back from Albania? If so, then sure. I hate travelling so I never really go far, being able to go to Albania and back at the blink of an eye would be chill. Going for a nice lunch walk and then teleport back. Otherwise I’ll go with the eye colour I guess, the rest is useless.

Most people I know who do that use them as kinda bookmarks. Tbh, I do also sort of do this on my phone. I keep some tabs open with stuff I still wanted to check out. And every now and then I go through them and close the ones I don’t need. But on PC I just close the whole session with all tabs when I’m done

Thanks for sharing! I personally use Darktable and negadoctor, but honestly this doesn’t look too complicated either. Sometimes it’s very hard to get consistent results. Usually there’s not one set of settings to gets me satisfying results for all photos on a roll (usually due to tinted lighting, under/overexposure, etc). I tried using the first part of the roll, where there’s usually a fully exposed and fully unexposed part, for tuning the initial values. But this also doesn’t always deliver consistent results. Usually it’s a lot of back and forth between different photos.

Ice skating and/or inline skating. Not sure how safe that is to do for so long, but I like going fast.

Yeah I feel like anyone who blames Linus for this is missing the point. Was it dumb, yes, but if we want the average (or even a bit tech-savy) Windows gamer to transition to Linux then the distro they use needs to be resistant to this. Most people don’t read shit, they just want things to work so they can play their games. And they’ll happily click through multiple warnings to get there.

Fun fact, this loop is kinda how one of the generative ML algorithms works. This algorithm is called Generative Adversarial Networks or GAN.

You have a so-called Generator neural network G that generates something (usually images) from random noise and a Discriminator neural network D that can take images (or whatever you’re generating) as input and outputs whether this is real or fake (not actually in a binary way, but as a continuous value). D is trained on images from G, which should be classified as fake, and real images from a dataset that should be classified as real. G is trained to generate images from random noise vectors that fool D into thinking they’re real. D is, like most neural networks, essentially just a mathematical function so you can just compute how to adjust the generated image to make it appear more real using derivatives.

In the perfect case these 2 networks battle until they reach peak performance. In practice you usually need to do some extra shit to prevent the whole situation from crashing and burning. What often happens, for instance, is that D becomes so good that it doesn’t provide any useful feedback anymore. It sees the generated images as 100% fake, meaning there’s no longer an obvious way to alter the generated image to make it seem more real.

Sorry for the infodump :3

The people who use it happily don’t make memes about it. I do have some weird errors every now and then, it’s definitely not as stable for me as X11. However X11 wasn’t very smooth with my multi monitor setup, and Wayland improved the smoothness of my PC enormously, so the random issues every now and then are worth it

Is it? I doubt there are many fibers in there. Unless you count the tomato sauce it doesn’t really contain a lot of vegetables either. I’d be really surprised if tomato sauce on the average pizza is healthy, it’s probably so over processed that all the fibers and vitamins etc are gone and it’s just a big carb nuke. And a pizza contains too much fat as well. A good pizza might be decent compared to most fast food, but I can’t imagine the average fastfood or supermarket pizza being a healthy meal.

Oh really? I did have fun with the Outer Worlds. Nothing too amazing, but it was fun enough to keep me invested. Parvati was also a large reason for that, I loved her character.