I mean with Cheeto-man the jokes just write themselves

I mean that’s the thing though, that rabies shot and antibiotics is a hell of a lot better than doing nothing, and if you do end up infected, improve your outlook a shit ton.

Yes dude.

The point isn’t that the museum is responding to some fuckwit mayor, that’s just a minor detail.

The point is that they’re saying anything at all and making their position loud and clear, when up until now they’ve stayed silent.

You may want to read through what I actually wrote again.

Someone takes an image, runs it through image-to-image AI with 90% strength (meaning ‘make minor changes at most’), and then claims it as their own.

That last part there is what makes it stealing. It’s not the theft of the picture. It’s the theft of credit and of social media impressions. The latter sounds stupid at first, until you realise that it is an important, even essential part of marketing for many businesses, including small ones.

Now sure, technically someone who likes and comments under the fake can also do the same underneath the real one but in reality, first exposure benefits are important here: the content will have its most impact, and therefore push viewers to engage in some way, including at a business level, the first time they see it. When something incredibly similar pops up, they’re far more likely to go “I’ve already seen this. Next.”.

Human attention is very much a finite thing. If someone is using your content to divert people away from your brand, be it personal or professional, it has a very real cost associated with it. It is theft of opportunity, pure and simple.

Sure it is. If you make minor AI alterations and claim the new version as yours, you’re stealing credit for someone else’s work.

I dunno dude, taking an image-to-image generation with 90% strength to just change a few details to make it look like your work sure sounds like stealing to me

The problem there is the same as that of idealised communism, you’re relying on humans to do what they typically don’t do. Humans will take for themselves at the cost of communities if they feel they can get away with it, including the ones in government.

I’d love to be charitable to them but by god they make it hard

Rabies aren’t the only diseases wild mice can carry. Definitely get yourself checked out next time!

More specifically, it’s not for us. It’s for the people in Russia (who have no opposing viewpoints to hear) and the… special kind of individuals down at Lemmygrad (I don’t have any sort of excuse for them)

Tiptoes, a movie about small (dwarfism) love where they cast Gary Oldman in the role of a lifetime.

Linux does the same. It’s the orange bar in the group output

Because software development in a corporate environment relies on milestones, deadlines and guarantees. Open source, which relies on volunteer work, doesn’t do this well.

The people that shat themselves over Windows 8 probably aren’t the kind of people to experiment with a new OS.

Why not?

It used to be that Cyanogenmod (the precursor project to LineageOS) shipped with Google apps pre installed until they got a cease and desist from Google.

I do need to be fair though… The ones the other person mentioned, they are infact more ‘windows-like’ than Ubuntu’s default. It isn’t hard to learn Ubuntu’s setup by any means but it is something to learn.

Side dock, top panel, lack of a “start” menu are already three immediately visible differences, and you claim it’s not that different?

The side dock is a taskbar except on the left hand side. Big whoop. Top panel is basically the system tray as seen on Windows, with all functionality fairly obvious just by looking at it, and there is infact a start button where you can type in the program name you’re looking for, just like most people do in Windows. Not exactly MacOS levels of relearning.

Which is EXACTLY why I mentioned them, so that they can Google it.

Or…you can explain what you are talking about. Like I did for you. Sending newbies off on wild Google chases is not helpful.

The default UX used in Ubuntu may actually be confusing for newbies, as it’s quite different compared to Windows.

It’s not that different, dude, and it’s not like they don’t give you a tutorial on first boot either.

Perhaps a distro which uses KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon, MATE or LXQt by default.

Gauge your audience dude. A Linux newbie will not know wtf anything you just named is. (For any other newbies reading, these are all ‘desktop environments’ - essentially collections of programs that make up a user interface)

First time? Use Ubuntu. Not only is it easy to use and a good UX overall, most tutorials assume a Ubuntu based distro (there are differences between distros that can be…hard to translate over). That’s going to be really useful when you’re looking up how to do stuff