I do wonder if they plan to draw a line somewhere in “how AI” the image needs to be. Like, if it’s a raw photo, that’s fine. If it’s enhanced by filters or something, probably not AI fair to say.

But what about the, like, magic eraser and infilling? If I use a tool to erase a bunch of people from a bridge and draw new parts of bridge that weren’t in the original photo… is that AI?

If I use AI to pull a mask and cut someone out from the background, and then put them overtop of a stock background, that uses AI to do work I could have done by hand. Probably fine. But what if I use AI to paint a new background that didn’t exist before this photo. Is that AI?

If I take a picture of me in a real place, doing a real thing, and then use AI infill to paint a different face onto my face so it’s not me anymore, but the rest of the photo including my body is real, is it AI because that person doesn’t exist?

I just feel like if you’ve seen one comic about a dolphin tearing through someone’s asshole and falling in love with a woman only to be cuckolded by her dog, you’ve seen them all…

I remember when art was creative, unique, and surprising…

😉

To be fair, my example was illustrative. The equivalent would simply be:

3 5 8 + 2 * 17 36 9 / - + +

3
3 5
3 5 8
3 5 8 +
3 13
3 13 2
3 13 2 *
3 26
3 26 17
3 26 17 36
3 26 17 36 9
3 26 17 36 9 /
3 26 17 4
3 26 17 4 - 
3 26 13
3 26 13 +
3 39
3 39 +
42

Or

3 + (((5 + 8) * 2) + (17 - (36 / 9)))

I don’t know who the non-psychotic person is he’ll think about from time to time, but I have to assume it’s Violet 😉😛

In the link you posted to the original question, it has a section on self hosting. That link takes you here where they say there are two servers.

Also, the documentation for Self Hosting basically starts by saying there are two servers.

I’m not sure how you self hosted it without hearing about it 😛

Ah, the Relay Server is only half of the service! If I understand correctly from the documentation I skimmed, and my existing knowledge of streaming systems, the relay server is just there to handle relaying the video stream from one device to another one in the worst-case-scenario that they can’t reach each other to form a direct client-to-client connection.

So probably your relay server has never been used.

But that’s just for media, and just for bad network configurations. The actual part that coordinates who can see which devices, etc, and sets up the media connections, is the other server, which it sounds like you’re not running. So your services are currently still using the public server to find each other and initiate contact!

I don’t know, I haven’t hosted RustDesk myself, but it sounds like maybe you’re not actually using your self-hosted server for your clients? Because that message sounds like it’s entirely about “The Public Server” which is not your server. Right?

Let me say, as a person who worked at a company that used to silently disappear people, it sucked finding out in Thursday that so-and-so has been gone for a week and a half and wasn’t coming back.

So I, at least, appreciate the idea that they get to communicate at all.

News still sucks, but I wanted to throw that in

No, they’ll leave during church service!

Do all Christians call it mass, or is that just a Catholic thing…? 🤔

Smoke up, Johnny!

😛

Nah, respectfully, I think you’re wrong. Or at least you and I don’t agree on what’s the funny part.

In the original the comic introduces the guy died, we learn about the tattoo, and then the joke is that Death is bashful or whatever. And the extra panel doesn’t really move that joke forward at all, or enhance it or build on it. It kinda undermines it by leaving us with a feeling of “none of that mattered though” rather than leaving us with the image of embarrassed Death. It’s still in there, but it’s no longer the final image that lingers.

But the thing I find interesting is that you’re not alone… I’ve seen jokes and comments before that I felt were just one panel, or one line, too long. We had the punch, and then there’s just something more after. And it’s happened enough I feel like it’s got to be like a “kind of person” or “sense of humour” rather than just “skilled vs unskilled”, you know?

Because your version does have a kind of subversion to it, a sort of second twist… but I think for me it’s a twist back to where we already were, so rather than feeling like it’s adding to the scenario, it instead feels like it’s unconfident in its punchline. Like the comic equivalent of asking someone out, but then hedging with “as a joke”, because you wouldn’t want to be seen taking a risk and failing. But by not sticking to your guns you’ve also weakened your initial pitch. In this case they made the joke that Death is excited and shy, that’s the bold premise, and the new panel instead says “but whatever though he’s still cool and unmoved and the same thing would have happened whether the guy had the tattoo or not, and the joke is actually that you’d think it would even matter nevermind”

Well, that’s my unsolicited critique! Sorry I just happened to read your comment while I had time and was feeling “typey” 😛

Maybe the couch is the first kid? Sex with your kid is one of the principles of the administration, I believe.

Yeah… that’s why it’s allowed to expire now. We don’t allow people to use useful or relevant things! 😛

Right, that’s where the other definitions come in. I’d say itch is a distributor rather than a publisher, but even if you don’t care about that distinction, it is definitely the case that itch doesn’t tell the developer to do anything. So publishing on itch doesn’t affect the vision for the game.

Nintendo… I mean kinda yeah. They’re a weird one. Some of their games they’re just the publisher, and there is another developer with a different name. But some things they do actually develop and self-publish. And some of the games have surprisingly few people working on them…

There may actually be a few Nintendo games that are kinda indie, oddly enough.

I think the most accurate definition is “produced without a publisher”. That’s the thing they’re independent of.

Where it gets grey is things like “okay it has a publisher, but they’re tiny and cute and only publish indie-feeling game”

So the “feeling” of indie is “made by a small group of people with a shared cohesive vision and minimal outside influence”, where publishers tend to be large sources of outside influence, and teams larger than, like, 50 people tend to be unable to all have a truly shared cohesive vision. And a single person, by definition, always has a shared vision no matter what they make. But if a publisher is low-touch, or brings a game that’s basically done to market without asking for changes, and the game feels cohesive and personal, then that’s good enough.

As soon as The Muppets and Lucasfilm were both owned by Disney, my friends and I spent a lot of time taking about how a Muppet Star Wars just makes sense.

Now, it’s a bit of a crowded space, with Blue Harvest and Space Balls already doing a lot of parody work in this area, but I think there’s still room. The only problem is that I think the normal formula would have Luke be played by a human and everyone else be Muppets, but Kermit feels like he’d be a great Luke. So you’d need one of the other key roles to be human to balance it out.

I don’t know, I haven’t seen the scene or heard the vocal delivery, I’m not sure what kind of anime it is, or what kind of tone it’s trying to strike. If the mood is “she has discovered a dark secret and is scared” then yeah, “I didn’t realize you were a pedophile” would work great.

But if instead she’s found some porn that isn’t necessarily naked children, and it’s played off as deadpan funny or awkward or misunderstanding, then I think “I didn’t realize you were a pedophile” might not come across light heartedly in the way “I didn’t realize you were a creep” or something similar would. Even if it’s an accurate “word for word” translation, it might not sound right in the scene or match the character’s delivery.

But I don’t know this anime or what it’s about, so I don’t know what the tone should be. It just sounds like there’s disagreement with the line as chosen.