imagine being a photographer that takes decades to perfect their craft. sure another student can study and mimic your style. but it's still different than some computer model "ingesting" vast amount of photos and vomiting something similar for $5.99 in aws cpu cost so that some prompt jockey can call themselves an AI artist and make money off of other peoples talent.

i get that this is cynical and does not encompass all ai art, but why not let computers develop their own style wihout ingesting human art? that's when it would actually be AI art

These people literally don’t care what your definition of what is and isn’t art is, or how it’s made, they just want a lock screen wallpaper of themselves fighting against Thanos on top of a volcano.

The argument of “what is art” has been an academic conversation largely ignored by the people actually consuming the art for hundreds of years. Photography was just pop culture trash, comics were pop culture trash, stick figure web comics were pop culture trash. Today’s pop culture trash is the “prompt jockey”.

I make probably 5-10 pictures every day over the course of maybe 20 minutes as jokes on Teams because we have Bing Chat Enterprise. My coworkers seem to enjoy it. Nobody cares that it’s generated. I’m also not trying to be an “artist” whatever that means. It just is, and it’s fun. I wasn’t gonna hire an artist to draw me pictures to shitpost to my coworkers. It’s instead unlocked a new fun way to communicate.

in the context of what i was saying the definition of what is art can be summed up as anything made by humans. i have no problem when its used in memes and being open sourced etc.. the issue i have is when a human invests real time into it and then its taken and regurgitated without their permission. do you see that distinction?

But many big players do want to use this commercially and that's where a lot of these lines start to form. No matter how lawsuits go you will probably still be able to find some LLM to make Thanos fighting a volcano. It's just a matter of how/if companies can profit from it.

Art is the biggest gate kept industry there is and I detest artists who believe only they are the chosen one.

Art is human expression. We all have a right to create what we want with whatever tools we want. They can adapt or be left behind. No sympathy from me.

i just wrote a WTF email to their support, but most likely i will be discontinuing my account. can't imagine what they can possibly say that will make this OK

I had some words with their support department, here is what they said:

>Hello,

>Thank you for contacting pCloud's Technical Support.

>This is a pCloud banner for Black Friday and it's not a notification. Unfortunately, you won't be able to remove it manually and you should wait until the end of the Black Friday promo - 30.11.2023.

>Should you require any further assistance, do not hesitate to contact us.

>Regards,

>George Lewis

>pCloud's Technical Support

Like it matters that its not a notification. You still need my consent regardless of what kind of ad it is.

  Hi there,
 
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ideally you're investing into creating shareable code libraries and into infrastructure that makes the process of maintaining/referencing shared components easy enough for engineers to want to dedicate their precious sprint time to it.

the moral of this story, the engineer being a logical man refused to try reproducing the problem and devoted infinite time to watching the user shop every night. that way he gets paid to hang and eat ice cream

    tell application "Safari" to do JavaScript "
        (() => {
            const loc = Array
                  .from(document.querySelectorAll('[rel=\"next\"], .next, [title=\"Next page\"]'))
                  .map(i => i.getAttribute('href')).filter(i => i)[0];
            if (loc) {
                document.location = loc;
            }
        })()
    " in document 1

Note that this requires Safari's "AllowJavaScriptFromAppleEvents" preference to be set, either via a "Develop" menu option or directly in its preferences file via, e.g., the

    defaults write com.apple.Safari AllowJavaScriptFromAppleEvents -bool TRUE

[1] Check the Automation group in the Privacy tab of the Security & Privacy preference pane for a list of programs so authorized.

I annotate on screens all day and there are no useful shortcuts for moving between drawing and erasing. Also the drawing button requires 2 clicks. I’ve wired my wacom tablet so the two buttons fire off shortcuts, they run a service I’ve registered in the menus, they run the applescript, it fishes about for the right windows in zoom and clicks the buttons. It could not have worked but it just happens to because I can trigger a button and then focus moves to the next button (which I can’t otherwise target) and then I can push “space” to get the job done.

    tell application "System Events"
    repeat with theProcess in processes
        if not background only of theProcess then
            tell theProcess
                set processName to name
                set theWindows to windows
            end tell
            set windowsCount to count of theWindows

            if processName is "zoom.us" then
                repeat with theWindow in theWindows
      tell theWindow
   set theSize to size
                        set windowName to name
      end tell
                    if windowName is "annotation panel" then
                        if item 1 of theSize is 776 then
                            tell theWindow to tell button 5 to click
                            key code 49
                        else
                            tell theWindow to tell button 4 to click
                            key code 49
                        end if
      end if
                end repeat
            end if
        end if
    end repeat
    end tell

tried the code playground, but seems there is no intellisense?

i think that would be very useful to learning

Here's my favorite explanation why: https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/a/634

Here's another similar discussion: https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/5777/python-...