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Photoshop can do GIF editing per frame. At least, my old copy of CS2 could.

It just represents each frame as a single layer in the stack, and then combines them in order on export to GIF.

Nowhere near as nice as using an animation tool-style horizontal timeline, but it does work in a pinch.

What if it was their natural voice and cadence?

People can sound alike or even identical.

They absolutely should bear responsibility for authoritatively telling people wrong and unsafe cooking temperatures for meats or spreading lies about people on their results page, in their own voice. "It's just a random text generator!" isn't a protection against, say, gross libel.

They pass the threshold of criminal negligence when they keep up a system that they know will actively mislead countless people in subtly dangerous ways. The problem being hard or the tech being fundamentally unsound doesn't wave away their culpability - if anything it destroys any reason why they should be given some leeway.

> Companies cannot go to jail for crimes

Seems like they really should. No business activities, commerce or services for the period of incarceration; the company effectively freezes or ceases to exist.

It would naturally be as life-destroying to the company and its relationships with business partners, customers, employees and those who rely on it as it is to the average joe.

> You can’t actually trust ai systems

For a lot of (very profitable) use cases, hallucinations and 80/20 are actually more than good enough. Especially when they are replacing solutions that are even worse.

Or they might live in a place with an enriched and proliferate construction mafia, such as Quebec, and so having multiple roadway construction projects ongoing with no actual work done for months would actually be a frequent, intentional occurrence.

If you are in the majority of the countries in the world, it's not a minor inconvenience; the game straight up will not work for you, because PSN is not supported in your country.

The devs have explicitly warned those users to not create an account in a different region to get around this, as it is an explicit ToS violation.

Most of the reasons reported are around moderation. I think it's simply much easier for Sony to ban an account on their system (and revoke all of its content licenses as punishment) than it is to manage and wrangle steam account bans.

PSN accounts are subject to their own, malleable ToS whereas they are somewhat limited in their reprisals against a steam account, beyond simple bans.

> but choose not to act on anything they find on VPNs and other "privacy focused" tech?

Oh, they probably do act on it. For most things, I assume they use the intelligence they gather for parallel construction - if you know a fact about an adversary, it can make it easier to find other, more obvious (to that adversary) ways to "find" that information.

I'd imagine taking direct, obvious action on information gleaned from front and honeypot VPN services is probably only done for extreme cases i.e. an active threat to the country/administration/agency/allies.

If you want to settle for the Electrify America charging experience, sure. The plug on the end of the charger was never the main advantage that the supercharger network brought to the table.

> think the alternative is someone just like him but with all his flaws removed

Or just some other person, successful or not.

It's far from a dichotomy. There are plenty of successful companies and CEOs out there.

That may all be true, if you want to throw away the quality reputation that the superchargers built up and let the chargers and related travel experience sink as low as it is for the alternatives today.

I think adding your own touch to something you're more intimately familiar with helps ease people into it. Touching an asset file to modify a texture and instantly see the results in your favorite game is a lot more approachable (and appreciate-able) for someone starting out, I think.

Here's an easy one: actually do the vetting for verified bluechecks that he said they would do.

I have found that they are pretty reliably hidden behind the "unsafe replies" section much of the time, so that are clearly able to identify most of them but are unwilling to actually ban them.

Biden talked about it last month and there have been a couple of small grumblings in Congress since: https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-senator-urges...

Yes, but shifting the defaults from "something they take off because it is annoying every time they use it" to "something they turn off for specific types of cuts and otherwise never notice" can be a huge game changer for tool safety.

I hope they find a way to bring costs down. It seems like a very hard problem - you seem to need fairly high quality materials for the braking system to not bust up the machine itself, and the circuitry is a non trivial expense.

But if folks can't buy a $100-200 table saw, and they can't afford anything higher, then ideas like affixing a circular saw in an upside-down jig might start to become more common. And then they'd lose the baseline safety features of even a cheap table saw, such as the blade guard and riving knife, which might be even worse for overall injuries.

No, given the amount of injuries caused by table saws and their importance to carpentry and job sites, this is quite literally one of the more important things for them to be doing.

Education on existing safety features and measures just isn't enough to improve safety here.

Much like seatbelts and air bags, we all benefit if the baseline technology can be transparently improved to prevent entire classes of injuries.

> recognizing some of the things that Xbox has going for it right now with Xbox GamePass and cloud gaming

Or they don't recognize them as inherently good things. Game pass has potentially cannibalized "real" game sales on the platform and primed its userbase to "just wait for it to come to gamepass"; with the gamepass honeymoon developer deals drying up, this has had dire implications for third party support going forward. Xcloud has been a mixed bag - you can find countless reports of it lagging behind PS cloud streaming and various PC cloud gaming vendors in performance (latency) and image quality (though I personally haven't seen much difference between most of them).

For a lot of us, the current generation Xbox platform has been doing everything just as bad or even worse than it was with the Xbox One - they've stopped iterating on backwards compatibility, they've pushed Gamepass above all, and they've spent unbelievable amounts of money on M&A instead of building up their own existing studios and releasing more new original exclusive games. The quality of some of their major trumpeted releases has also been incredibly suspect, despite repeated claims of high quality from their internal tastemakers before release.

The dumb social media console war stuff has unfortunately gotten in the way of some important self-review and introspection that the Xbox team should be doing. As a longtime Xbox fan, it has been tremendously disappointing to see.

You can even start with corporate jail. No business operations of any kind allowed for weeks/months, be that preforming services for clients, servicing debts, contracts or payroll. And if that results in an existential threat to the company or a lot of lawsuits for failing to perform their obligations, then that would be the just results of the company's decisions.

It would be as existentially threatening and crippling to a company as it currently is to the average member of society.

Well, we'll see what they have to say.

But I wouldn't get my hopes up. "There are no changes to our current pricing model planned _at this time_" is already a very telling part of Serif's previous statement.

While they have earned a measure of trust, the problem is that they aren't the ones you need to trust anymore - if Canva wants to turn Affinity into a collection of bloodsucking subscription apps, then that's what's going to happen, short of a legally binding guarantee to the contrary.

Any dollars more than none is too many for auto companies and for dealerships. Even subsidizing it would still require them to spend time on the problem and that's quite unacceptable.

That's assuming that the technical problem, testing, rollout, etc. wouldn't run into any issues.

That all said, not all thefts are the kind that the Flipper team are describing (/the kind that the government is falsely blaming on the Zero). Lots of them are a lot simpler than that, even before getting to the Kia/Hyundai mess.

Actually making the mass car theft problem better would require a more in depth approach across several boundaries, and that's a lot more effort than just banning this tool.

Because the alternative would be to make some annoying demands of the auto industry, of various police services, and of CP Rail and the ports.

That's a lot of political capital to spend (or burn) on a lot of different groups, and would likely anger a lot of bases of power and financial support, for some citizen benefits that won't really pay off in the short term.

By contrast, banning a scary foreign hacker device with existing vague pop culture presence is a far more effective way of seeming like you're doing something with the average voter while not causing issues with any important groups and not having to spend much time or money.

The efficacy for stopping car thefts is not really the goal.

There have been initiatives and proposals from various legislators and interested parties to revamp the DMCA. Without fail, they all seem to universally make things worse for the rights of the consumer and small creators while vastly increasing corporate power. A few token concessions to normal people that inevitably have large loopholes or wording that make them actually meaningless.

So it may be the case that, while it is really shitty in a lot of ways, there is currently no way to open up that Pandora's box and change the DMCA without things getting much worse. The incentives and influences in place for legislators today are simply too perverse.

Since this is a case of McDonald's corporate and Taylor joining hands to exploit their franchisees, I'm not sure how this will help.

If they get it have the legal right to repair the machines, it's kinda pointless if McDonald's corporate merely needs to send down an order such that all franchises must not repair their own ice cream machines, as they would for any other kickback-driven franchise requirement.

Must have forgotten to include a "also we'll sell your data" line in their EULA or ToS. Or even the standard "we'll do whatever we want with your PC" line.

Pretty odd, that kind of thing is boilerplate at this point.

Maybe they just like the specific form factor or Sony controller more than the steam deck's.

> but the cost of living is also significantly lower,

You can look at random things like groceries, homes or car insurance to see that this isn't really true. 600 USD (or even 600 CAD) goes a heck of a lot further in most of the USA.

You forgot the last point, which is that creators who don't want their work used in the training data for these megacorp LLMs without permission will get what they want.