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Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced
  • Thanks for the reply. Makes sense. I haven’t had any jobs recently that would push us there.

    CC is also priced low enough we can sign back up for a month if we need it.

    One feature set of CC I’ll miss is the libraries functionality working across all the apps. Someone on the team needs a client asset in any app ? (AE/ID/PS/AI) There it is.

  • Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced
  • How so? Genuinely curious what’s missing as someone who tried it on a job, and loved it.

    I just sent a job to print yesterday and the printer didn’t bat an eye.

    Are we talking specific types of printing? Like booklets or runs with specific imposition needs or something else?

    I think ultimately it will depend on what one needs printed. It would easily meet most common printing requirements as far as I can tell.

  • Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced
  • I tried Affinity Publisher 2 the other day and it convinced me to pull the plug on Adobe and switch on the Affinity suite. Everything was straightforward and far more intuitive than InDesign ever was (which itself was far better than Quark Xpress before it).

    I bought the Affinity Suite, exported all my Creative Cloud libraries (they’re just zip files with a different extension), copied all my Creative Cloud files to our self-hosted Nextcloud and off we went.

    I promptly cancelled creative cloud. As I’ve said before, I’ll miss generative fill in photoshop - it was very good.

    It’ll also take a while to figure out / learn Fusion as a replacement for AE but having spent a lot of time with Shake in the past, it’ll be fine.

  • Chinese cars are pouring into Mexico — and the U.S. is worried - Autoblog
  • Rode in a BYD EV vehicle to the Mexico City airport this week. It’s an impressive car.

    Tons of MGs around too (rebranded SAIC cars also out of China.)

    But the answer isn’t cheaper cars unfortunately. It’s fewer privately owned cars.

  • Raspberry Pi becomes a public company
  • Yes indeed.

    The last project I did with one was build a moon and tide clock - all written in python with a motor controller, external display and individually addressable led lighting.

    They’re also great as diy audio streaming devices for whole home audio.

  • Raspberry Pi becomes a public company
  • I’ve had lots of fun with the very affordable Pi Zero 2w. Will pick up a few more before they disappear.

  • Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ and other purposes
  • The illustrator tools are terrible. But removing and replacing backgrounds in Photoshop has been spectacular with one caveat - they are less great if you give it any instruction. If you use the generative fills with prompts the results are not at all great. However, if you leave the prompt blank it does a bang-up job matching the existing background set / scene.

    Equally impressive has been generating parts of photos that are missing when extending the canvas size.

    It tends to work best with photos that are “inside” (interiors) with strong geometric cues - but it has expertly matched lighting, backgrounds and their level of focus (or lack thereof).

  • Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ and other purposes
  • As someone who’s used their tooling and the generative tooling… I have to admit trying to push its limits for giggles. It is VERY conservative already so I don’t see why they’d need additional moderation privileges.

    This is an awful change.

  • Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it - Gothamist
  • As someone who’s experienced the same thing, some of the messages I received were shockingly well written.

    The fake “find my” site they tried to use to convince me to log into my iCloud account was wildly convincing, if not for the index.php at the end of the URL - something Apple would never configure for service endpoints.

    They continued to try - but never threatening. However I never engaged and eventually they just stopped trying.

  • What’s the best ad blocker for you? - Firefox Add-ons Blog
  • pfBlockerNG at the network edge and ublockorigin on devices.

  • Jerry Seinfeld’s Teen Girlfriend Saga Resurfaces After Duke Walkout
  • Chuck Berry: hold my guitar.

    Jerry Lee Lewis: hang onto this piano for me.

    The list is as long as musicians are famous.

  • Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA)
  • The Option 121 attack is a concern on networks where you don’t.

    Exactly where you’d want a VPN. Cafes, hotels, etc.

  • 'Deeply unhappy' grocery shoppers plan to boycott Loblaw-owned stores in May
  • Thanks. Added my local independent grocer.

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  • Pijul is a very exciting project. I’ve wanted to try it for months buy haven’t found the time.

  • As bans spread, fluoride in drinking water divides communities across the US
  • Fluoridation is part of a communist conspiracy to sap and impurity all our bodily fluids.

    Powerful men have been worried about it since the Cold War.

    Great, if dramatic, video on the subject: https://piped.video/watch?v=J67wKhddWu4

  • Cloudflare Alternative
  • I’m on iOS and do the same thing.

    The WireGuard app has a setting to “connect on demand”. It’s in the individual connections/configurations.

    You can then set either included or excluded SSIDs. There’s also an option to always connect when you’re on mobile/cellular data.

    I imagine the Android app is similar.

  • Energy efficiency of active travel (walking, cycling, ebike) compared to an electric car
  • I think it’s safe to assume the post author means level 1 e-bikes. IE those that are unmodified/legal in their jurisdictions and require the rider to pedal for assist.

  • Energy efficiency of active travel (walking, cycling, ebike) compared to an electric car
  • I believe most e-bikes in Europe are limited to 25km/h. 32km/h in Canada.

  • The OpenTF Manifesto

    cross-posted from: https://derp.foo/post/136732

    > There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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    The AIR Vocoder with Alex Ball

    While this is probably more interesting for a synthesizer community, Alex usually touches on how these instruments influence production and writing. Plus he's a brilliant musician in his own right.

    And so, I thought it equally belongs here.

    Hearing that opening line brings back so many memories.

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    Native Instruments Absorbs iZotope, Brainworx, Plugin Alliance

    It looks like the transition to a single company is underway.

    This kind of monolithic beast isn't often musician friendly (look at what Waves tried recently). But, it also opens up the door for new players to make some headroom (har har).

    It'll be interesting to see how the matrix of these products looks in a year's time.

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    What are some of your favourite online music making resources?

    It could be anything from tutorials, YouTube channels, plugins/software, anything goes for this first post.

    One of the most recent things I've stumbled across recently was Baphometrix's Clip-to-zero series. While I don't work on music that needs to be competitively loud, the in-depth series helped provide a new perspective to incorporate into decades-old mixing habbits.

    Link to the playlist:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UT42-ur080&list=PLxik-POfUXY6i_fP0f4qXNwdMxh3PXxJx&pp=iAQB (I didn't watch every episode)

    I also really appreciate the work Dan Worrall is doing these days: https://www.youtube.com/c/DanWorrall

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