It has been my belief that training a system on content to generate other content, is making a derivative of that content. With most free licenses this is not allowed without mentioning the source (all of them) and in case of normally copyrighted work it's just plainly forbidden.
I hope this case, and the others they mention, succeed.
Finally Mastodon will show incoming text formatting (with today's release) and the rest of us can stop wondering how garbled our posts are going to be on Mastodon and we can just post as we intended. Mastodon people still can't write rich text though. Baby steps.
It's not true though that Mastodon used to strip all formatting from posts. They were just very selective about what formatting they preserved:
me about a year ago: yeah, I can buy this pack of 10 downloads, it's valid for a year, plenty of time to choose; when I've used all downloads in a few months time I'll just buy another pack
Though it may seem weird that PeerTube indicates one (1) view on a video and CloudFront shows 300 requests to that file, seeing that most of those requests were made from Chrome Mobile on an Android tablet located in the Netherlands, from my own ip address, I think we can understand the discrepancy.
Both Friendica and Pleroma seem to have the same problem that video files are loaded the moment they appear in your timeline(*), whether you click play or not. And both are completely ignoring the provided cover image. Mastodon does this much nicer, showing the cover image, the actual PeerTube channel account, and only loading the video in an embedded player after you click to do so.
(*) I know, because when I'm browsing on cellular data I'm almost immediately out of my data bundle if a PeerTube video post appears in my Friendica timeline.
Natalie Portman spoke at the United Nations about violence against women. She posted it as an Instagram reel, I've mirrored it for those who don't want to access mainstream media.
Natalie Portman speaking at the UN about violence against women and girls. Mirrored from Natalie's Instagram. Natalie's description:
It was an honor to speak at the UN about the urgency of ending violence against women and girls, and to highlight the @spotlightinitiative’s effective model for doing so. Woman Life Freedom. #WithHer @unitednations #UNGA #SDGActionZone
(Copyright remains with Natalie and the United Nations)
122K likes, 9 comments - natalieportmanSeptember 20, 2023 on : "It was an honor to speak at the UN about the urgency of ending violence against women and girls, and to highlight the @spotlightinitiativ...".
Actors and writers strike going strong. The studios should pay them properly and give them adequate protection against AI. Photo: Ivana Baquero picketing, on her insta.
Just like I mentioned for The 4400, I have not seen the last season of The Dead Zone I have on disc either. Here I have seen season one to four on my discs and watched them many years ago, but forgot to watch my season five disc. I've found out there actually is a sixth season as well.
I watched the series because of Nicole de Boer, but her involvement became smaller and smaller, explaining my lack of interest. In this fifth season she's only in a few episodes. More in the sixth.
Let's see whether I still remember the plot. Some guy, Nicole's character's husband gets into a coma. Many years later he unexpectedly wakes up, finding his wife remarried with his best friend. He also finds that he suddenly has visions of things, and decides his mission is to stop bad events and investigate crimes.
Nicole's character is the standard Hollywood 'wife of', where the writers show they don't know how to write an interesting female character. #NicoleDeBoer #TheDeadZone #NowWatching
It starts with the Christmas episode that other lists have as the last episode of season four. It's exactly as you would expect a Christmas episode to be on American television. Now for the real season start.
Database disk had filled up, so thanks to the elasticity of EBS I could just increase the size.
I do think however that on a single user instance, a db of around 30GB is too much. But then I think we shouldn't be storing remote content, but we do.
The way American tv series are made, causes them to often feel like a book of which the last chapter is missing. The hope is that you've lost interest in the book by the time you get to that chapter. Sometimes you get a quick summary of how the author meant to wrap things up in that chapter.
I don't check Twitter everyday anymore, since there literally are days there are no new posts. Just checked and the most recent one was 12 September. The joys of a highly curated experience.
My technique: follow interesting people since they tend to know, or work with, interesting people. Here's Melissa Barrera, who I only know because she acted in Scream with Jenna Ortega, singing on stage and being rather good at it.
(The event is related to a Frida musical and a friend's album release and Hispanic Heritage Month, see her caption)
Original caption by Melissa Barrera: A taste of @fridathemusical ❤️🔥 Had the immense honor of performing “Wings” last night at @lincolncenter Atrium to celebrate the release of my dear friend @jaimelozano ‘s album: Songs by an Immigrant v
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Maybe this will show the video for a while for those who don't like the insta link. I can't guarantee that I'll keep it up.
Image description: Melissa in a red dress on stage, seemingly filmed from the first row of seats.
Original caption by Melissa Barrera: A taste of @fridathemusical ❤️🔥 Had the immense honor of performing “Wings” last night at @lincolncenter Atrium to celebrate the release of my dear friend @jaimelozano ‘s album: Songs by an Immigrant vol.2 (go stream it now to hear the full song and other incredible ones that will make you cry). It was also a beautiful way to celebrate the beginning of Hispanic Heritage month AND Mexican Independence (Viva México ca***es!) 🇲🇽 a night en Familia. PS: I hadn’t sung live on a stage since probably 2016 so this was an extra special night. Gracias Jaime por la invitación y por tanto 🙏🏻
I'd ask why this guy is slapping a plastic pigeon but that wouldn't be fair to the vision impaired people. I didn't include that in the image description and there is no way I know how to describe that.
Reminds me that I'm still on the lookout for the film Carmen that came out this year in North American countries. Melissa Barrera is the lead in that film and does a lot of singing in it I believe.
My favourite period? This exact moment when King Edward desperately wanted a male heir to succeed him on the English throne, was dying, and nature told them no. Every descendant, even from the lines they didn't want (bastards, Catholics), was female. So on his death bed, he placed a woman in line of the succession for the first time ever: Jane, a 16 year old girl and I think one of the brightest people ever. She did become queen that next day and stayed so for a few more days, deposed by another woman (Mary I) who raised an army.
This is Tudor times and I don't know whether that counts as medieval or modern.
For people who are interested in "Western" history, what's your favorite period?
(I realize that breaking it down like this is probably going to piss some people off, but there are only 4 poll options and this isn't a fuckin journal)
Self regulating system on fedi: start an account with a female avatar, make a post that says the 'boost' button is to boost reply-guys out of your timeline and for everyone answering 'you need to use the block button', answer 'thanks, and done'.
Dove Cameron's first album is going to drop in the fall. It's going to be called ALCHEMICAL, will be a two parter with the first part coming out this fall. She just announced this on Instagram. #DoveCameron #Alchemical
Sure you remember Lexa Doig, the actress who played Andromeda in the scifi tv series Andromeda. She has a daughter who turned 19 today. Yeah, I don't know how that's possible either, feels like that series was only yesterday. That daughter, Mia Shanks, has written and produced her own song that came out today that's called yesterday. And it's not bad at all, someone to keep an eye on. tidal.com/track/313586990 #MiaShanks
Mia is also an actress, e.g. once playing the younger version of her mother's character (in Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, which I unfortunately haven't seen). Here's a photo of the two of them in their trailer from Lexa's insta. No, you're not seeing double. instagram.com/p/CWt6KJuPIl3/
I was looking for this photo, the absolutely best post Lexa has made on insta of the two of them. Mia not just 'cosplaying' her mother's character Rommie, but wearing the absolute original costume. instagram.com/p/CFF6oFnne8A/
Jenna Ortega's new Dior campaign photos are finally posted by the Dior Instagram account. Some had already seen them in the wild, as it includes a street advertising campaign. They promote the jewelry collection "Rose des Vents".
The mentioned site is fun (though I don't see the quoted questions, but different ones).
Reading through the various answers cures you from ever thinking these kind of AI can give logical answers. The 'I bought 10 apples ...etc' question had a massive amount of totally wrong answers, the 'five planets closest to the sun' question shows that many computers can't even count to five, and a disturbingly low amount of them knows that the Earth's 'distanceToEarth' is zero.
"Would you love me if I was down, and out?" "Would you still have love for me? "If I fell off tomorrow, would you still love me? "If I didn't smell so good, would you still hug me?" "If I got locked up and sentenced to a quarter century, could I count on you to be there to support me mentally?" "If I went back to a hooptie from a Benz, would you poof and disappear like some of my friends?"
Maybe we should have a social media/microblogging/fediverse platform where external links are only loaded when someone clicks to see it. This would apply to link previews, quoted posts and replies to a conversation.
A long time ago I watched The 4400, a series with Jacqueline McKenzie. I have all four seasons on disc, but somehow never got around to watching the final fourth season. Let's start it now, I hope I remember enough of the previous seasons.
It's a somewhat scifi series, with 4400 people suddenly returning to earth after presumably having been abducted by aliens. Jacqueline is not one of those, but a police person investigating things around it. As strange things happen: they start to show special abilities, they form a cult like organisation, and what really happened to them while they were missing is still unknown.
I liked seeing Eliza Dushku in the two seasons of Dollhouse. The concept allowed her to act different characters each episode and I see why she (co-)created the show like that. It's not unlike iZombie in that respect, where Rose McIver had great fun acting differently each week.
But the concept of people having their mind completely wiped and replaced by another personality, then sent on engagements with often (as they call it in the show) 'romantic' aspects, I choose to see as something purely fictional. If you'd consider it as a real thing, there's obviously a big problem with (lack of) consent. In show they have a flimsy excuse of a contract signed by participants. iZombie had Liv's personality only half mixed with someone else's, and that's actually quite smart.
It was weird seeing how in some episodes writers were well aware of this consent problem and dealt with the consequences in the story, then in a next episode it was as if they themselves were wiped and they were oblivious again (but this time with a male subject).
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I liked seeing Eliza Dushku in the two seasons of Dollhouse. The concept allowed her to act different characters each episode and I see why she (co-)created the show like that. It's not unlike iZombie in that respect, where Rose McIver had great fun acting differently each week.
But the concept of people having their mind completely wiped and replaced by another personality, then sent on engagements with often (as they call it in the show) 'romantic' aspects, I choose to see as something purely fictional. If you'd consider it as a real thing, there's obviously a big problem with (lack of) consent. In show they have a flimsy excuse of a contract signed by participants. iZombie had Liv's personality only half mixed with someone else's, and that's actually quite smart.
It was weird seeing how in some episodes writers were well aware of this consent problem and dealt with the consequences in the story, then in a next episode it was as if they themselves were wiped and they were oblivious again (but this time with a male subject).
Season two the story and subject matter was quite different and avoided the problems of season one. This was mainly due to the different things happening with Echo's mind, which I can't say due to spoilers. #ElizaDushku #Dollhouse
I have the disc of Underworld: Blood Wars in my to-watch stack and I think I better check where in the series this one fits before I watch it. Because I'm lost. I skipped the non-Kate Beckinsale ones, that I do know. #KateBeckinsale #UnderworldBloodWars #Underworld
This is the last one in the franchise, it's possible I find out why. (There are some final seasons of tv series where you realise they really had to stop)
It's a bit light on storytelling and on characterisation, but entertaining enough.
Maybe the "Dawn Alert!" over the PA system of the vampire coven was the best bit.
Selene does so much pining for her daughter Eve and others do so much searching for her, that maybe they should rewatch Underworld: Awakening and see India Eisley as Eve. Somehow the memory of that performance is what underpins this film.
Oh-oh, the spammers have found the address of my dev Wordpress. Maybe I'll just change the url or take it offline. Now it's asking me to moderate a comment on that boat post.
Finestkind will have its premiere at TIFF any moment now, but you can already watch a scene courtesy of this Deadline article. It features Jenna Ortega and like everything she does it's immediately captivating and intense. They say it's going to be on Paramount+ in November. #JennaOrtega #Finestkind
I didn't know Voyager 1 is still within the Oort Cloud, because I thought when people say 'interstellar space' they mean beyond the solar system. Things I learnt...
But Voyager 1 hasn't left the solar system. At 161 AU, its current distance from the Sun is a fraction of Sedna's 936 AU aphelion (though it is currently further out than the minor planet).
And it's nowhere near the inner edge of the Oort cloud, thousands of AU from the sun.
This chart shows Voyager 1's location in 2013, with distance from the sun plotted on a log scale. It is at roughly the same place today, since the next step on the scale jumps from 100 to 1000 AU.
I once said that trains in the Netherlands were ok as long as you don't need to go anywhere, and only after I said it realised how much this described them completely failing at their purpose.
What I meant is that it's a problem if you depend on them, like for getting to work (not just on time, but at all). If you are just planning an optional trip outside of rush hour and are ok with going somewhere completely different instead, then it's fine. #PublicTransport
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