Jamie

When it comes to selection, we already have a valid form of copyright which is explicitly that- compositions. If I take a bunch of royalty-free songs, and make a book of sheet music where I hand selected songs to be in that book, I can own a copyright on the composition without owning any of the featured material.

So, if someone selects a bunch of individual elements in an image using img2img, is that now a composition?

I accidentally submitted early, but also, I wrote out the lyrics. It's the most bland version of those breakup-depression kind of songs imaginable. I guess people voted it as "feel-good" out of irony.

Sitting at my favorite cafe

Sipping my tea it's saturday

Thinking about all he's done, to everyone

This town is full of broken dreams

Shattered hopes, and silent screams

Somebody please help me

Betrayed by this town

Let's tear it all down

We're all just destined to fall

I've lost it all

Betrayed by this town

Let's tear it all down

We're all just destined to fall

We've lost it all

Alone in the streets, alone in my thoughts

Thinking of all our favorite spots

I thought someday things might turn around

But I was lost and never found

Betrayed by this town

Let's tear it all down

We're all just destined to fall

I've lost it all

Betrayed by this town

Let's tear it all down

We're all just destined to fall

We've lost it all

Faces painted with smiles

Lies are told

A facade of unity

A vitality sold

So I sit here in silence

Just wondering how

To rewrite the tales

This town won't allow

Betrayed by this town

Let's tear it all down

We're all just destined to fall

I've lost it all

Betrayed by this town

Let's tear it all down

We're all just destined to fall

We've lost it all

I've lost it all

We've lost it all

I have a feeling they knew how this would be received considering it seems like they're rage-baiting and acting pretentious to try and get attention.

Some AI generated images can require a lot of tweaking to get a final result. For example, someone might have a workflow that involves generating several images, then picking one as a base. They then take that base, and use img2img to rework certain parts to suit a vision before applying a set of post-processing effects in a traditional editor.

Or, they generate an image and use it as a base for some sort of more traditional art, or use AI generated elements in a work that is otherwise drawn traditionally.

There's a lot of grey where I think just dismissing any creative vision is doing disrespect to the person that wanted to make something out of that vision, and put in a good amount of work outside just proompting and taking the first image that looked okay.

The issue, I think, was because most of what I use it for is anime. So some shows wanted the Japanese title, others wanted the English title, some couldn't be found at all. My US TV shows and movies never had that problem.

The title matching is what made me go to Plex. Some shows were impossible to get sorted right on Jellyfin. Plus there's a lot more ecosystem around Plex

I mean, I like mounting an SFTP server on my system and playing stuff with MPV just fine, but I host this stuff for my friends, too. Having something like Plex where they can use an interface that's familiar and easily watch what they want is worth it to me.

But then, none of us are watching porn on it, either.

One of my favorite search ads that appeared in the mid 2000s happened when I was bored. I searched "grandpa" without any context just to see what would come up, because I really was that bored. One of the ads that appeared was one of those where they just shove your search in the title verbatim so someone not paying attention might think it was what they wanted.

It said something like "Looking for grandpa? Find great deals here!" I don't remember exactly what the second part said, but the "Looking for grandpa?" part made me bust out laughing. I then started searching other random stuff to try and get something equally stupid, but it didn't capture me quite the same way. Either way, my boredom was alleviated.

I don't run a directly customer facing department anymore, but when I ran electronics I got to be both the employee that didn't know much, and the one that tells you more than you asked for.

I went to college for network admin, but never actually landed a career in it because COVID hit right after I graduated. I've done a bit of everything with computers and can speak to a lot of things.

But I haven't used every electronic device we sold or have even basic knowledge of some of them, so I had to fall back on "Well, a lot of people buy this one, so there's probably something nice happening there."

I discovered that when playing FarCry 5. I attached cheat engine to it to do some messing about and the game would force crash itself every time. Annoyed me that I couldn't ruin my own SP experience

I always think the revelation types that think they're definitely getting saved before the apocalypse is funny. The Bible says 144,000 will be saved, but the current estimate of Christians on earth is about 2.2 billion from what I can find. So you just gotta hit that 0.006545% chance.

While they're at it, they can go to the casino, bet their entire life savings on a single number on the roulette wheel, do that twice in a row, and their odds of winning that are 11x higher than being picked for rapture.

Art of the deal