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You can hold something like a fire cracker in an open palm and walk away with mild burns

I can attest that because I blew myself up with a pistol flare in 2025 (long and stupid story). My left hand at the moment of the explosion was half-stretched out and the charge blew up a few centimeters below my hand. Only superficial burns to the hand and permanent hearing damage.

If I had the charge in a closed fist, it would have easily torn a hole through my hand. And that was just 2 grams NEC. A stun grenade is much more powerful than a pistol flare (my completely random guess: 20g NEC equivalent), so I reckon that eviscerating the entire hand is not out of the question.

Oh, true. I don’t think I’ve seen even a single person in real life deny cookies on a website. That does make it weird that they start tracking even before interacting with the TOS.

Gamers Nexus recently released a 2-hour video on LG smart TVs and how they spy on you. I haven’t watched the entire video yet, but it seems that the damn things start recording data as soon as they receive power.

so this would be legally a nightmare for them

To many corporations such as LG, laws are just the cost of doing business. Assuming they even receive a fine it will be so small that it won’t matter.

Honestly the atmosphere of Doom 64 is unrivaled. I need to replay it again some day.

From what I’ve heard we are actually forgetting how to make CRTs. Not sure how valid that claim was though as I didn’t research it at all.

In any case if you’re thinking about getting a CRT you might as well get one while they’re relatively cheap. Here in Poland you can get a used CRT from anywhere between 50-100 USD for the hypercommercial models up to 200-500 USD for the enthusiast ones. And I doubt they’ll be getting any cheaper.

aye, i also really hope this will turn out good in the end. but you know what they say - hope for the best, prepare for the worst. at the same time…

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if i recall correctly i think Rick is the only person calling the shots in terms of development. if that’s not the case then your sentiment holds up a lot but if he really is the only one then i’ll keep being worried. i’ve seen too many developers go down the AI path and absolutely gut their image as a result and i hope that’s not what’s gonna happen to paint.net, there’s genuinely no other program like it

honestly? imo it should not have existed at all then. i feel like this is going to be really bad for the long run if Rick starts using AI not only for the compatibility layer but also for paint.net’s core codebase.

and frankly i think if he had made the codebase open source again we would have made a lot more progress on Linux compatibility. paint.net doesn’t really have a solid reason to stay closed source imo, especially because Rick has already shown that he can handle copyright infringment cases when he secured the paint.net domain (his reasoning for making the codebase closed source was that people were stealing his code, rebranding it, and publishing as their own. imo his decision didn’t do much as you can still decompile the binaries, change all the branding, and then recompile and publish, so this only really hurt contributions to the project and nothing else)

that was the old controversy. nowadays it’s the latest alpha release (v5.2) being coded in large part by AI

i know right LMAO i need to get some popcorn too

i bestow upon thee the gift of READING THE ARTICLE!!!
sorry

anyway rick brewster, the dev of paint.net, used Claude to code the compatibility code for Linux. on one hand i can understand it because Direct2D is a piece of shit but on the other hand i feel like he could’ve gone about this in a different way than slopifying his codebase.

i think both are legit. the first one is maybe mildly suspect but the visual context and overall visuals check out. the second one is very odd because of the circumstances but just like you i see no signs of AI.

AI detectors are almost always bullshit from what i’ve heard, a.k.a. they just use another ai model to look at the input image and return whatever the model’s verdict is. i think some imagegen models are starting to introduce some like embedded watermarks or something along those lines which could lead to the development of actual reliable detectors, but the false positive and false negative rates are allegedly still high.

it’s honestly getting scary how indistinguishable from reality some AI generated images can get. lately i’ve been having more and more cases where I got duped by an image that looked genuine but then turned out to be generated. they don’t immediately strike you with that “AI aura” like they did previously. i’m honestly losing my grip on what’s real and what’s not anymore.

as for AI images in this comm i’ll repeat what another commenter said. we’re human and we make mistakes, so don’t stress about it. if a seemingly genuine image turns out to be ai-assisted, then i’d add a visible note to the post, and if it turns out to be ai-generated i’d either remove the post or maybe rather leave it up and turn it into an example on what to look out for when verifying an image

with A4’s divide-by-two shtick an A85 might unironically have a surface area of only like a couple atoms. it’s too late in the night for me to calculate this so i pass this task onto someone else

even with all of webp’ faults (of which i’ve yet to see any), avif is still so much worse. for each AVIF there’s like a 50% chance it will load just fine on my browser or image viewer and a 50% chance that it won’t for reasons equating more or less to “fuck you”

Used to? Still has!

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there’s also zadupie, which literally means “behind-the-ass place”, and also wypizdowie, or wypizdów, which i can best translate as “fuck-off place”

my friend group also uses Wypizdów Dolny, the context for which is like that one spongebob episode with Bikini Bottomer (or -est, i don’t remember), but wypizdów edition.

yup. the air is 10% spiders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballooning_(spider)

technically there WAS a trepang1 from what i’ve heard but it was a crappy game about a sea cucumber. i think Phann made a video on it (EDIT: found it). and then trepang² somehow spawned out of that