Finally a surrealist reference I get

The aspect ratio problem only seems to affect images in edited comments. The viewport size remains cached even though the image src is different.

Nah. Still, I find them pretentious and prefer en-dashes (which the text is also littered with): 20 em-dashes (—) and 5 en-dashes (–) – counted by my text editor – is just too many.

They have released a statement about this so rest assured it’s OK.

Edit: I visited them at 39c3 and they’re humans (with cat ears).

Not yet, the TLD application needs to be submitted (that’s what costs all that money) and approved, so it will take about 1.5 years if successful.

What’s your 🏴󠁥󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Catalan project BTW?

Well, they’re a team of 6 including a dedicated graphic design & marketing person and they’ve produced a video and FAQ too, plus they’ve succeeded at bringing the ICANN application fee down as a non-profit. Yes, “kinship-based infrastructure” rubs me the wrong way too but because it reeks of corporate investor talk, not AI. So I’m pretty sure they did take the time to write the article and every piece of text on the website. Not to mention the legal document (bound by Belgian law) that ensures the money goes towards the stated mission.

I don’t like that a big tech corporation can register .meow too but there’s no avoiding that. Even the Catalan domain, whose purpose is to promote their language and culture, has seen “misuse” such as nyan.cat.

Hmmm… All right for me, why can’t I replicate the issue with this comment?

FYI, Thiruvananthapuram is in India. I don’t know why neither cared to mention that.

Many of them don’t use drums or paper rolls anymore, they had solenoids installed with a microcontroller and MIDI interface.

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No way Teams is the most lightweight vehicle around

You’re right. Later in the video, this shot with the same fake film effect appears and that’s indubitably AI (look at bottom right):

The video narration implied this is footage from a rare or unfinished film, though.

Which spoiler works in Thunder?

    ::: spoiler Lemmy syntax  
    <content>  
    :::

Reddit syntax: >!>!<content>!<!<

Are you implying it’s from a stock footage site that used AI? They would definitely get their previews indexed on search engines. Alternatively, it’s been generated on request, which would make it impossible to find.

I put them in a spoiler. Compliant viewers should hide them by default.

The film artifacts are quite unusual (the vertical lines span exactly one frame, one of the lighter spots stays on pretty much the same spot between frames 1 and 2) but I noticed no other red flags. In fact, the hair is very convincing. The eyes seem to reflect different things but her right one is somewhat in the shade and the light source reflection could be different because it’s close to her face.

It’s the legs, you…

Lethal humanoid monsters, weird voice acting (likely not AI though) and “telephone”-distorted audio (it’s not just because I limited the bitrate to 20 kb/s to fit under 10 MiB, the YouTube video is like that). It’s an artistic choice but not a very rare one, so likely not directly inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s audiobooks.

You are right, QR codes are very easy to decode if you have them raw, even the C64 should do it in a few seconds, maybe a minute for one of those 22 giant ones. The hard part is image processing when decoding a camera picture - and that can be done on the C64 too if it has enough time and some external memory (or disks for virtual memory). People have even emulated a 32-bit RISC processor on the poor thing, and made it boot Linux.