There is a community for that kind of stuff if you’re into it - !hardwaregore@lemmy.world. It’s kinda inactive and only has a new post once every other month, but there’s a photo of basically the same thing done to an HDMI cable seven posts down.

I really like photos like this. The shallow depth of field creates a very blurry background, and that makes the subject pop more than “only” colour contrast. The plants in the unfocused foreground add another layer to the photo that makes it feel a lot more three-dimensional, too :3

Oh my, the one in the second photo is so smol and cute :3

That’s true, and especially smaller businesses often can’t afford translation services. If a machine translation can increase their sales, I won’t blame them for using it. I’m just a language nerd who knows nothing about running a business (and I’m not even an actual translator, I just happened to speak the right language at the right time).

Maybe I’m not super up to date on AI stuff, but I worked as a translator for a year, and AI (they used ChatGPT and DeepL) still made a bunch of mistakes that you’ll immediately notice when you speak the language. It feels like their training input had a bunch of older, Google-translated articles in them that were just bad. Maybe an AI trained specifically for translation with curated learning material and a “teacher” who corrects mistakes can get closer to replacing human translators, but it’d still miss the cultural context of certain words and phrases that are in a translator’s passive vocabulary, at least in less widely spread languages.

That being said, it’s definitely harder to make a career out of translating because companies who don’t know any better just use AI instead. As long as they get their point across (and make money), they don’t care about the finer details.

This owl looks so thoughtful. I wonder what’s on their mind. “Maybe I’ll go for a mouse later today. Yes, that sounds like a good plan.”

Yes, the added contrast from the black stripes on the sides of their face make it stand out very nicely and regally.

So, instead of just playing video games by myself, I should do a livestream?

He ate a lot of his poop, yes, but not all of it and always straight from his butt. I think they do that because it contains nutrients they need but don’t get (or don’t get enough of) through their normal diet. He had a litter box in one corner of the room that he peed and pooped in, and he never touched that when he was done.

Our bunny looked at me like that every time I collected his poop to use it as fertiliser for my plants, but he got used to it after a while. I think he was still silently judging me.

That’s what’s so wild about hiking (and life). You look up and see how far you still need to go, but then you turn around to look back, see how far you’ve already come, and realise that you’re already halfway there.

It’s so cool that there are so many people who take care of injured wild animals. Whether it’s owls, hedgehogs, or others, these beautiful people use their skills to help animals that would otherwise die. That makes me so happy <3

It feels like the owl agrees. One of the other photos you posted in the comments definitely has “this better be worth it” vibes.

I do that, too! It’s a convenient way to keep the cookies you want (like the ones that keep you logged in) and discard the cookies from random shops and news websites that you don’t want to keep. And my Youtube frontpage is empty, which saves me a ton of time I would otherwise waste on random videos their algorithm shows me.

Looks like there’s a cookie banner in there. The “Options” button is probably hard to find because it’s only a slightly different shade of the background colour, and you’ll have to manually uncheck twenty “legitimate interest” boxes hidden in a submenu. Pretty scary, indeed!

Aww, an angel on a Christmas tree <3

Wow, this is a beautiful painting. The owl looks so realistic that if you made the rest a bit less fairy-taley (like the mushrooms growing so perfectly on the branches), I’d scroll past this and think it’s a photo. And her other paintings are just as pretty. Thank you for sharing her amazing art.

One of the toughest choices so far! I really don’t know who to pick because they’re both beautiful owls, each in its own way.

So smol, and so precious. The Eurasian Eagle Owl has nice trousers, and I love the photo where it has its claws out, but I have to vote for this little goober.

The blurred background, the high saturation, and those huge eyes give the second photo AI vibes. It was uploaded to Flickr in 2009, long before modern image generation was a thing. It’s a beautiful photo, and it makes me very sad that this AI hype immediately made me suspicious like that.