I think that the technology may have evolved a lot since the early days of photogrammetry, or perhaps making a 3D model of a face is easier than a large object like in your example. Also, how do you suppose they got 3D scans of Picasso’s and Warhol’s faces for those perfect, life-like rubber faces on that video? They were both dead decades before the development of 3D scanning and photogrammetry.

Finally, here are some examples of photo to 3D model applications that appear to only need one photo:

• https://facegen.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tETtRwCnLyg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VahuZjIL5ME

• Apr 7: “I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks”-

Someone had made a bypass hack that didn’t even need 3D anything, only generated metadata, but the ID vendor has patched it: https://age-verifier.kibty.town/

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For example the ICC projections assume that, towards the end of the century, we start becoming carbon-negative by figuring out effective carbon capture.

With magic fairy dust! How in the world did they base their projections on technology that didn’t exist and wasn’t even on the horizon?

We’ve been pointing this out ever since the concept of currency became a thing, but I’m sure we will learn our lesson this time and stop doing it.

I think that this became an issue even before currency. It happened as soon as agriculture allowed for accumulation of resources, power, and wealth. I sometimes think that that was really the point when humanity took the wrong turn.

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My biggest fear, and one that is not talked about in the article, is that we won’t have any asbestos removers in the future. Generative AI is being fed it’s own excrement and that’s being leveraged as working code to new coders. When this really becomes a liability we won’t have many left that can fix or figure out the fix cause it will have obfuscated all the usable info.

I think it’s going to be a complete shit show. Here’s the confluence of factors:

• From what little I’ve seen of AI code, it seems to write code that’s even more shit than human devs. I’m not in software dev, but I’m in IT operations and also studying CS. What I’ve seen of AI code in IT (PowerShell scripts) looked like it wrote 10+ lines where one or two would have done the job. In other words, it’s a form of obfuscation like you said.
• I strongly expect that fewer people are studying CS because they’re getting the message that AI is taking all the dev jobs. That’s true for the moment.
• Fewer coders are being hired, so there will be even fewer experienced devs in the future.

I think that this will all add up to a “dark ages” of software development in the not too distant future. There just won’t be enough people to fix all the AI junk, and the AI junk will essentially need to be ripped out altogether. Software quality and security will go down the drain, and it will take forever to fix it, if it even gets fixed at all. I think it really will be equivalent to the “dark ages” (I know that this term is not considered accurate nowadays, but I think it applies even more to this situation).

I’m hopeful for one thing though: that this phenomenon will strengthen free open source software relative to commercial software. If there are a bunch of devs who can’t get dev jobs, hopefully they will spend at least some of their time contributing to open source. On top of that, it appears to me that open source projects have been more resistant to accepting AI code. Let’s hope that this is a silver lining here.

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Honest question, is the ActiveDirectory PowerShell module available for Linux PowerShell? I can’t seem to find a clear answer from a brief search.

Discord does work, but i remember that maintaining it updated was a pain in the ass.

It may be better to run it as a Flatpak. There’s not only an official Flatpak for it, but also various third-party clients available too: https://flathub.org/en/apps/search?q=discord

Were you using the Flatpak version? You may have better luck with that. There are also a variety of third-party Discord clients for Linux. I’ve been using GoofCord without issues so far, but it’s early days.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/search?q=discord

My chief concern is that this wave of enshitifiation will eventually make it to Microsoft’s security support.

That and their general quality control. It’s already been happening. Their updates and new products have been having some serious issues with a lot more frequency over the last year. At least that’s the strong impression I have. Oh, here’s an article also calling this out: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/08/microsoft_lacks_quality_control/ - apparently they may have started going down this path over a decade ago, but it seems to have accelerated since they started using Gen AI.

The rdp client was renamed “Windows App”, remember?

Wait, let me say that this is not accurate without defending Microsoft (fuck them). The rdp client hasn’t been renamed, to my knowledge. What was renamed to Windows app was the other product very confusingly named “remote desktop client”, which was a Microsoft Store app meant to access things like Azure Virtual Desktop, their cloud Windows service, etc. Yes, incredibly confusing product naming from Microsoft, as usual.

Imitating the trending brand or model, including their terrible design decisions. It drives me nearly insane that so many companies do this. Look at how many companies have been copying Apple’s horrible hardware design decisions over the last few decades. SMDH

The exact timeline is not the point. The point is that the two most venerated American newspapers received information that the US was about to do something blatantly illegal and decided not to report this. But we’ve known for a long time that both of them (and all major media outlets in the US) are equivalent to state media anyway, so it’s not surprising.

I’m pretty sure blocking (if you’re using a Lemmy instance anyway, which looks like you are) doesn’t block users, but only the communities from the instance you’re blocking. I think I’ve heard that Piefed blocks more extensively though, probably including users.

Block the ani.social instance and it takes away 90% of the anime groups.