@federicomena That one I actually didn't notice yet. But we also need a name for this indescribable feature that all these AI generated images in restaurant menus, posters, ads, etc have. Something about being too perfect but average and lifeless. It's upsetting that I can't even put it into words.
But it's also interesting that so many small shops are using that now instead of stock images or paying some graphics designer or doing it badly themselves. And for many of the images I mentioned before most people don't even notice (and I'm not saying I always do, it became impossibly good if you try hard enough to make it look real).
Almost everybody hates it if you ask (or listen to mastodon), but almost everybody still seems to use it even if not forced to. Because it's too cheap? Too useful? Too easy? People think that's how stuff has to look now? I don't know, I'm not in the position where I have to make commercial graphics 🙂
@chergert Sure. The important bit is that it hasn't been established in precedent yet, and so you are taking on a legal risk by distributing it. The risk may be small, you and/or your lawyers may be comfortable with it, maybe in your jurisdiction that risk isn't so risky, etc. Still, a relatively elevated risk is present
I should have said "potential GPL violation". I have no opinion on whether the licenses are compatible and frankly I'm not qualified to have one
@chergert Yeah, a sysext should work like that. Or you could even just bake it into your base image. The problem is, of course, the legal risk of distributing the GPL violation (if you choose to distribute it)
As for why systemd won't support it: it's not part of the Linux kernel, and systemd targets things only in the kernel. Also, no reasonable way to test it. I won't speak for the systemd maintainers though. I'm sure @brauner or @pid_eins will have plenty of opinions
And sure, you are free to prefer social network v algorithmic network too. What I like about social v algorithmic is that it is nuanced enough but not radical. Some in the comments want to use words like propaganda etc, but I want to focus on the human v machine factor. Which also can go in both directions — good or bad.
@alatiera @zbrown @danirabbit My favorite part of the Lord of the Rings, which I am sure you remember as well, was when Ace Ventura defeated Saruman with a tiny blowpipe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieLPn0gdpEU
Update: I made a new, simpler performance profile recording of my "every 15 seconds or so, Firefox freezes up for roughly one second" bug report at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2056048
It seems like it's caused by… an incremental CC and GC running?! :blobsweats:
I'm starting to really like Firefox's built-in profiler, that thing is black magic. How the heck does it get perfectly symbolicated profiles everytime without me needing to install gigabytes of debuginfo packages?
