An artist using references doesn’t just copy and paste, there’s a whole process of understanding what they’re looking at, their interpretation of it, of why it is like that and of how they can learn something new from it, things that AI generators cannot do. And the “romantic” part is essential because that’s what art is about. You make art to transmit a message, an emotion, it isn’t just about making something “pretty”, that’s something contemplated only by naive people who never made art or who don’t understand it.

Un’altra cosa utile sarebbe un modo per interagire con le varie forge senza dover fare un account su ognuna di esse, infatti qualcuno di Forgejo stava lavorando a una cosa del genere basata su ActivityPub chiamata ForgeFed, ma purtroppo ha uno sviluppo molto lento e ancora devo vedere un’applicazione pratica funzionante.

a tool that is going to change the industry and digital art, the same way computers did back in the day.

This type of comparison makes no sense: with traditional art you have to put skill, knowledge and personality into your work, with digital art it’s the same thing but with computers, with AI “art” you don’t. You just ask the mighty machine what you want and it’ll spit processed garbage heavily approximating what you asked for. You could try fixing the output yourself, but at that point it’s no longer just AI, it becomes a mix of digital art and AI “art” with all the other problems the latter carries with it such as copyright, constant output reprocessing and especially energy consumption as making one crappy looking output takes way too much power for it to be viable in the long term.

Boiling the frog, slowly… As more of these terrible decisions keep stifling Android up to a point where it becomes just a vessel to Google’s proprietary garbage (as it has been the case for many years already for a lot of things), it should be a wake up call for mobile Linux to keep improving and do it faster.

Notice the hard drive is a Southern Numeric branded Xavier Blue.

Just got a DM from her on Mastodon.

Windows 9x teal.

Will we see a change with this at least with H.264 since its patents are expiring? I hope so.

BAS- oh wait it’s about IP, not as based as I thought, I wish they cared about their artists at least.

Bro doesn’t think Google trains its own AI with data harvested from Android users.

I think there should be some work to do with Flatpak as well, but nothing major since it’s mostly there.

Didn’t know Tomoko used Linux, truly based.

Fedora 39 anyone?

Great quote I just found.

Here’s a better meme.

HP printers:

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Lmao.

Defederated means that the server has been forbidden from connecting and communicating with specific other servers that have decided to defederate with it, so users from the server can’t see or interact with users and posts on the server that defederated it and vice versa. Hopefully I was clear and coincise.

Couldn’t you just get it back to the store and get a refund?