There could be a class action lawsuit. I wonder how other major players in AI are managing this, particularly labs in China, Israel, UK, Singapore, and India. Of course each nation had its own laws around copyright. Like isn’t there an equal pushback like this for Chinese AI labs or is it a uniquely American or western thing?

Yeah gimp has always been on like this cusp of being really good. I’m not sure if it needs to be forked or a full rewrite or just more funding. I know the biggest complaint has been the transition although that’s a tough egg to crack. It shouldn’t be a Photoshop clone but also not so dissimilar from industry norms.

I think the awareness depression / discontent thing is like the dunning kruger curve. That is the unaware are mostly content, as someone becomes aware they become increasingly discontent, often falling into some sort of nihilistic depression, then as one continuous past that point in awareness they grow increasingly towards being content and feelings of it internal wellbeing. This is a generalized statement, some follow very different curves.

Dems have been mostly impotent, and same to their voting base, particularly this last election. They seriously have a fetish for shooting themselves in the foot the past decade. For better and mostly worse the right has been very unified and a strong base. All that said I’m personally quite disenchanted with both parties.

My dream is a science based system in which all policies are tested to see if they increase the HDI, GDPPP, and decreasing environmental impact or some optimization of those three. Similar to science it would be in perpetual revision whenever there’s sufficient evidence to infer a policy or structure is no longer operating or operating as well as another. One can dream, for better or worse nearly all nations right now are enslaved by the political beliefs of people long dead.

I mean so are social networks mostly and most search engines and so on. Name of the game is to provide a service to gain people’s attention to serve them ads and / or collect their data. Either that or you pay for it up front and they still serve ads and collect your data.

I mean there’s almost no secret sauce about these AI’s currently which is why open source models are nearly as good. We are totally free to set up a nonprofit kinda like Wikipedia where people donate to train and run AI models for the public based on open source datasets. We’re now seeing people like PewDiePie kinda getting the ball rolling.

I mean we are glazing over the massive fact that they’ve controlled the house and the Senate as well. A president who doesn’t would likely face immediate and harsh backlash otherwise.

Yeah this! This is what I was thinking about. I like this comedian, I’m just famously bad at committing names to memory.

Yeah it’s definitely in the range of just building a box and installing steam OS, maybe even of buying a pre-built and installing steam OS, that said I still find their efforts very commendable. I know they wanted to be cheaper but it’s tough with the current hardware market.

Not saying you’re wrong but the Japanese market is a special place for gaming products. I wouldn’t necessarily project sales in Japan to the global market.

I would say Krita and blender are industry competitive but gimp has lagged behind. It’s usable but clearly not on a professional level yet. That said, if enough people started donating a fraction of what they pay to use Photoshop that this would change very rapidly.

If enough people started donating to FOSS like GIMP like a quarter or an eighth of what they pay for these E-corps I’m sure we could have industry competitive software that’s free and open source. Adobe has made their bed, they are ditching artists, essentially forcing them to give up their content to train their AI to change their business model to B2B. Now’s the time to revolt and have the community build their own tools for themselves.

So true, sidebar I could have sworn I’ve heard Twonk before. Looked it up and for this.

Twonk is a mild, humorous British slang term used to describe a foolish or silly person. It is typically used in friendly banter among mates to refer to someone who has done something a bit thoughtless or clueless, but not necessarily malicious.

I really can’t confirm if it’s legitimate though.

The Trump presidencies have really stressed what is legal and our response towards illegal action. This is a bit like when there isn’t a law saying you shouldn’t fuck a horse and then someone goes and fucks a horse so now we need the no horse fucking law.

Yeah the goal is to grab and detain without any connection to the family so there’s no means of response and ultimately deport in which a response is nearly impossible short if the person is wealthy enough or actually a citizen.

The secret about cheaper countries is they’re often very pleasant to live in if you’re willing to give up some comforts. I don’t have Uber eats but there’s a guy I know with a motorcycle I call and he picks me food from anywhere that’s around.

If you live in two countries and one is much cheaper than the other then you can work in the expensive one for higher pay and retire at 35 to 45 in the cheaper one.

Red fish, blue fish

I would prefer it called a clip of scissors but sure.

Looks like a stoned AF grey alien