Yes, I didn't mean to imply it's a bad thing. Just that it simply is. Plenty of comic artists do that, and I wanted to give context.

Artist self insert, given Lemmy even accused them of being AI despite them documenting everything. That's unfortunately the only way to validate at the moment, although if I'm being honest I kinda dig behind the scenes. It is especially interesting if you can see a beautiful photograph and all the work they put into getting the lighting just right.

I don't buy the bot narrative, but I also won't say this is a genuine jump in Linux users. Rather, as someone who has done statical research before, a sudden jump like this feels like a change in how that data was gathered plus a rather high point on natural variance.

For starters, why would bot behavior change in a month? Any serious bot network would already be on Linux, so unless bot filtering got significantly worse in a single month, I'm skeptical on that front. I suppose it's possible a patch to scrapping plugins happened, or a change in bot sensitivity on the researcher side, or something, but you'd assume someone would point that out.

However, Linux adoption explanations are also iffy. The "Year of the Linux" people point to summer being a factor, or maybe Steam machine release. Maybe someone went viral promoting it and somehow... doubled installs? Seems unlikely, although a small jump can be attribed to these factors I suppose.

But back to the statistics -- all samples naturally vary over time and this can be a major factor month to month as statical noise exists. If it drops back to, say, 7 or 8%, that's probably that factor, although this is much less an issue if the sample is large (which I think it is?). It's also possible there's a change in measurement error, such as Unknowns getting parsed correctly this month, though I'm not sure if that can explain most of the chunk coming out from Windows. I think these are the explanations I'm leaning towards, though (e.g. the Linux was there all along!)

All I can say from my experience is a jump like this is unnatural and usually points to variance and/or measurement error. Rather than the actual population having a change, the researcher does something different that changes results. It doesn't necessarily mean the new results are biased (they might be less biased!), but it also doesn't mean reality has suddenly changed. After all, we're talking about a doubling of the population; if 300 million use the Internet in the US, that's 15 million people changing to Linux in a month.

Hmm ... Bike Courier sounds more like an ideal job in a 15 minute walkable city. In most parts of the US, not so much.

While I agree the price is ridiculous (especially as a non drinker lol) I'm not convinced it's AI. Looking up Brewskey on an image search, you can find images of similar cans going back 3yrs. Very diverse styles, with common themes of monocle and hops.

That said, trying to find literally any info on artists both past and present is proving difficult. Most info is just about how they make their IPAs and any mention of art is all "the art of brewing" which isn't what I'm after. There are quite a few beer can artists out there though so I bet someone willing to search Instagram or something might be able to find an artist who contributed to Brewskey.

My God that camera is way too easy to "accidentally" tamper with, lol. At the very least, my kids greese covered finger tips while I stroll by.

The real question is who has an unsaved lesson plan open on their laptop. Just fuckin' improv style teaching method.

"Ceci n'est pas une pipe" turns out predicted the rise of AI image generation. Except I suppose that's "Ceci n'est pas de l'art."

Relax, it's 41.6% of 500 republican primary voters. A combined majority chose Trump, Congress or Corporations, which frankly are all good answers.

And again, these are GOP primary voters- although they have an open primary so it may include some Democrats and Independents. Just, not as many as registered Republicans.

And yet it's still weirdly expensive at home. I remember when a pound of ground beef was a couple bucks, tops. Now I've seen it as high as $9, albeit the lean kind.

This data is a few years old so we can already answer that: they crashed their economy by not raising inflation rates after COVID, then elected a woman who wants to be the next Margaret Thatcher. The love of capitalism is fucking them quite hard right now, lol

Can confirm; I teach statistics and allow take home exams. I don't even really need guardrails on the math-- if you cheat via LLM, your answer is almost always hilariously wrong.