just a trans girl who likes to code and play music

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Disclaimer: I’ve not workshopped this much, so idk if these are the right words to convey how I feel

    I feel like using AI to generate images is akin to taking someone’s art and applying a light gaussian blur to it or putting an uncredited artist’s work in a big game.

    I know it’s done in a much more intricate way, and it’s genuinely impressive how AI companies got it to work so well, but if I try to sell AI generated images, especially if they’re meant to be made similar to an artist’s work, then that’s all I’m doing.

    I don’t necessarily see it as stealing from artists (though it is threatening the livelihood of a lot of artists), but more as exploiting artists but with a new buzzword.

    If I arrange 4 pieces of art in a jpeg and then apply a whacky filter, am I actually creating anything, or am I just exploiting artists and doing something similar to copying and pasting different bits of an essay and then changing every instance of a word to a different synonym?

    I believe AI does something similar to that, albeit in a more sophisticated way that looks like creativity.





  • NixOS configuration is done entirely through code, so all of your packages are in a list (although that list can be spread across multiple files; it’s a bit to explain)

    I’ve found it can be easier to manage what you have installed, since you can just look at that list and go “oh, why do I still have xyz installed, idek what that does anymore”

    I appreciate the way things are configured a lot, but I would not recommend it unless you really like coding and you have time to tinker. It’s not too hard to get simple config setup, but I spiraled down a deep rabbit hole really quickly.

    EDIT: If my comment for some reason persuaded you to use NixOS, I recommend you get a basic config setup before installing it. I’d also recommend you look at how annoying it can be to run dynamically-linked applications (i.e. you download a random executable off the Internet and try to run it, or you try to run something you downloaded with npm)