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The lowest of the low hanging political points scoring fruit will be picked.

I make this point on HN each time it comes up: Dealing with actual CSA requires actual people going to investigate actual reports of children's living conditions out in the real world, not "scanning digital files". Seems obvious when you say it like that, but the alternative seems to still score heavily on the political scale. Ironically, spending more money on "scanning digital files" takes away from resources that could prevent those digital files from being created in the first place, so all the additional time, money, and effort towards combatting CSAM is time, money, and effort specifically _not_ working against stopping CSA. It's categorically _not_ protecting the children.

Teachers, in Australia at least, have mandatory reporting where any kind of abuse is suspected. The heart-breaking irony is that the resources to investigate the reports are so scarce that they can only respond to reports where the child's life is in immediate danger.

Caveat: the above was true a few years ago, I genuinely don't know if it's still true. What I do know is that 'social work' isn't suddenly a high paying job, so I doubt resource availability has changed much.

There is no easy answer to this. It's entirely nuance.

Adelaide, South Australia: https://threedradio.com/

Fiercely local, fiercely independent. Has been great for new music discovery for me for years.

Words matter. If you use words that remove meaning to describe a thing, then the thing itself will have have diminished meaning. It's the same with politicians using dehumanizing words to describe a group of people that they want those listening to think of as less than human; "illegals" as topical example.

Ie. If you see yourself as a 'content creator' then the best you're going to be is a slop merchant. If you see yourself as an author or a writer then you at least have a chance at being a real artist, like Michaelangelo.

It uses lots of words to make it's point which, for me, smacks of 'content' (I was expecting there to be a recipe at the end). They haven't stopped 'creating content' but they're attempting to stop calling it that.

That's what I got out of it anyway. But then again I may just be salty that I'm not also a Don Draper (slop merchant).

Does this trigger you: Modern car LED headlights

There doesn't appear to be any standard being followed (anymore?) on brightness or angle or height (or shape). A selection of them are easy to confuse with high beams. Makes driving at night in the rain some kind of epilepsy inducing overwhelm of lights and reflections and lens flare coming from everywhere, reminiscent of the cyberpunk aesthetic.

... replying to internet comments to reassure the fact that cloud AI is worth it because we're 'this close' to shipping a product that allows more efficient usage of cloud AI ...

But seriously, a friend of mine has been both amazed and frustrated in equal measure by cloud AI, and I think the frustration part is resultant from the new precedent set by the amazing parts.

... his project is as-yet unshipped.

My unhelpful answer is: It sounds like what you're describing is logical. Can you go ahead and set that up and report back?

The singular reason I setup Sunshine/Moonlight is because some night as I was drifting off to sleep I remembered SSX Tricky from years (and years) ago and how much fun it was, and couldn't get the desire out until I had it all setup.

On a big screen TV with the upscaled graphics made it feel a lot less like retro-gaming too.

Yep, and I can't disagree with that either, they know their niche (and know they're niche) and are catering to it.

Having said that, mikrotik hardware running OpenWRT feels like something that might scratch one of my itches.

The Sunshine/Moonlight combo allowed me to stream emulated, upscaled SSX Tricky (PS2 game) from my desktop to an (at least 7 year-old) Android streaming box as smooth as silk.

The only downside was that the game had to be running, visibly, on the screen of the desktop machine, meaning the desktop is unusable for anything else - ie. if someone else wanted to play the game while I was working on the desktop.

This appears to solve that. Sunshine/Moonlight was already cake with a fair layer of icing. This is a sprinkling of glacé cherries on top. I love glacé cherries.

That was my thought. It was only released in 2020, and to great performance fanfare. To be 'not able to run it anymore' seems like it could be infested with a number of undesirables.

if a bit on the expensive side.

chokes on coffee

From my old-man, everything-is-stupidly-expensive point of view, this is my scale:

cheap side | reasonable | expensive side | Deciso boxes

Wow, wasn't really expecting a response, but got a quick response along with a fix. Thank you, excellent support!

Nice detailed write-up too, and great explanatory diagrams.

I can't read the nearly-white (or super-thin font) text on the white background.

Is that representative of using mikrotik hardware?

Interesting as an example of what is possible via low powered and offline devices running ultra-niche applications of AI.

"They came for the X and I said nothing"

(XXX in this case)

It's the precedent it sets, and especially with the ... sensitivity ... in the US at the moment around 'opinions on things', this feels like it could be the first pebble of an avalanche.

So, TP-Link isn't sold as consumer level devices in stores in the US?

It's had the Huawei treatment?

It's one of the primary networking electronics brands in Australia.

I'm yet to watch The Odyssey, I'll let you know how much your pointing it out ruined it for me ;)

As much as I agree, I think Texas is within their rights to ask Verisign to perform a massively overbroad action.

Verisign is likely to respond depending on how good they think the relationship is between Texan lawmakers and the current Whitehouse administration.

Yeah, that whole setup stinks. It actually gives a great use case to alternative DNS and decentralized infrastructure.

Multiple Internets over Internet time. Sadly. Some damage can't be routed around.

But that, more appropriately, only affects internet users in that country (ignoring the cloudflare network blocking that causes various other sites to also be blocked).

This appears to basically wipe the site from the entire internet, for all countries.

obtained a court-ordered writ directing Verisign, the company that maintains the “.com” domain registry, to place the domain “motherless.com” on a registry lock, hold, or similar status.

So they're using the fact that Verisign is a US company and can therefore be leaned on.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. What do other countries do who don't have Verisign to lean on? US companies really don't like being told what to do by governments of other countries, but when the shoe is on the other foot...

That is pretty amazing, with more intricacies and a coherence of shapes / objects through the whole thing.

AI as artists tool, not AI as artist.

I think that's also why it's good, and an example of the need for relatively heavy human fingerprints applied to AI to do 'art' (which feels like I'm just repeating what @anon7000 says in top comment).

Three and a half years at the rate of AI progress has gotten to the point of reality-level picture quality, but there's a lot AI gets wrong without nudges here and there. That may be slightly unfair, however, given that this film clip took a couple of months and the ones in TFA cost $100 max and took less than an hour.

Now it feels obvious that I'm comparing apples and oranges. I mean, nice to know that we all seem to like 'proper art' better than an hour worth of an AI generated version of 'one art please'.

I'm possibly retro-fitting my answer here, but that film clip feels like the band, feels like it fits well with the music, I think that's why that clip came to my mind in relation to the produce-generica of the original article.

The clip incorporates images of the band and, as @DoktorDelta pointed out (which I didn't know before), it was trained on art created by some of the band members. It also totally fits the psychedelic rock vibe, not just for this song, but also into the canon of psychedelic rock film clips and general psychedelia media.

most human produced music videos ain't art either

Sounds accurate to me

Looks like some auteur-level work on the prompting to keep all of that so tight. That really is great.

Trent Reznor would make a decent Snape...

I personally do not, but I strongly appreciate some of the output of those who do.

Now _that_ is freaking amazing. I couldn't look away for the whole thing.

This is how you do AI music videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njk2YAgNMnE

Lean into the not-quite-but-almost uncanny-valley-ness. Make it a feature, not a bug.

That was sort of like what The Mandalorian dialogue devolved into, with some explaining what's happening right now, and then some explaining what they're about to do.

Once you notice this, it's impossible to not notice it.