morphicpro

Local news reports on this matter:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/new-lawsui...

https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2023/09/11/portland-firm-n...

I hope YARDI bankrupts

Nice! Also love I love this clark track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKYrwuxLZtY

There is also a big distinction between fully disclosing that an image has AI vs the non post production edits. So why not just ask people to just be honest and disclose about the means of creating the content and disclose the images as being "AI" created vs telling people they should to be purists in their craft. Is the claim that the art made by AI itself is harmful or that the act of making it causes harm. Where is the real harm in this given people are properly informed as the the type of content they are looking at? The reasons why is because this has nothing to do with art and expression and everything to do with control under the guise of fear.

I don't see why Nature is pandering the privileged while also saying that people who get aid can fuck off? When you frame it in a matter of accessibility does that make you feel like an ass for telling people that they must make the grade and their work is not worthy? What kind of inclusive community does that create? Oh can't afford $$$ worth of glass and cameras, get lost. That's all I see here. I'm fine avoiding that community all the same too. Think about how many young people who are poor who have no means to get the gear required to participate, except they have this app that would allow them. But this community has made a clear message to that person they are not welcome. I think thats sad and a real statement unto itself and is a perfect reflections of our current "nature"

I think is more exhausting using platforms and syndication to promote ideologies that claim to cause harm (but mostly only to those who are successful, while also mostly being used by those who are successful) so thus it should be limited or controlled, though AI has the most value for those who they wish to control as it makes tasks accessible to those with out. To me its more like the people in power fighting to keep that power, of which I could give no shits about. Only thing I could say at this point to those who are still putting up a fight, deal with it. This is a matter of making things accessible, not a matter of who has the most talent. They would like you to think they are more worthy of making art than you. I'd be more worried about that.

"do i look like i know what a jpeg is i just want a picture of a god dang hot dog" -- My Chrome browser

Not always, Look at Instagram, there's a really big reason the web page support is not the same as the mobile client. It much easier to deal with these types of issues natively than in some web agent. There is a huge cost to uploading all those images into memory and scaling server side vs the savings letting the clients do the work. Also having access to the source is not exclusive to the client doing the work vs the server.

I have done this before with wasm and other libs too, but the issues is that you still have to load the image into the dom in somecases this can become an issue for large images. Given the size of images on phones now a days and then trying to run something like this on the mobile browser and you will quickly find out way this is not optimal. I would rather the browser did more heavy lifting via simpler JS apis. AS3 still has better graphical api compared to JS today. Canvas just does not cut it.

"morality"

frustrated is fair, I would say disheartened but yeah it's semantics.

I know mental health does not fix itself. I guess I'm looking for an environment conducive of supporting mental health. Not just supplementing it with therapy.

The thing that bothers me the most about all this and while I 100% get where you are coming from. I feel it just shows how broken everything is where the guy who will die from being crushed by a boom (yeah that was a good friend I still miss you Brandon) while digging a ditch laying a gas pipe line gets paid fuck all, while there is a guy sitting on his ass making 100k+ a year for sucking corporate dick. I hate it all. Sorry, I hope I didn't offend you, I just wish we supported the people who really work in this world. Programming is not work, its dick swigging at its best. There is no justify able reason why I make 3x as much as my wife who easily works harder than me on any day. I just made 90k in 6 months doing fuck all, spending half that time sitting next to people who wear suits to a dinner only to order a $200 stake with cheesecake on it. I did nothing to earn that money. I want nothing to do with these people. I'm just grifting capitalism, and I hate myself for it. I want to be reminded that I'm a human again.

Honestly if any of you idiot CEOs see this, fuck the corporate get away at the stupid vineyard, Take me to a shelter so we can volunteer if you want to build team mortality.

Image working at McDonald's where all the employee's have their own way of making hamburgers and you are constantly at odds with how they do it. That just barley scratches the surface of what its like.

The pain is self inflected due to the level of dysfunction and nepotism. Its completely the same as other jobs but also sooo different.

Honestly though, this is sound advice sometimes.

Thanks for the honesty. While I can also agree with you I'm also still look for something that is fulfilling. I made a bad example of that to be disrespectful of the current state I'm in. that not really fair of me. But its also fair to say its not been healthy either. I'm sure again I'm not saying anything exclusive to tech per say.

It's not fair of me to put it all on that. I have role in that too. All I can do is reflect on all that I could change within myself. I've come to a place where I feel I have compromised my integrity to belong to something that I never really was allowed to be in. I didn't go to school and learn C. I was too poor for that. To far already broken as a run away adult at 14. I found coding at the age of 16ish but I then ignored it till I was in a place stable enough in my life where I could learn it on my own. That didn't come till I was about 23, and at that time at best I was working fast food. I'm 43 now and I peaked my income this last year, but I don't ever see that happening again. Frankly I don't want the money. I want a life. The money was just getting me to a place in my life now where most in IT got to start at. I had a lot of damage to repair over the years. A whole other life long past. I just got my first adult couch and bed that I paid for with my own money not some second hand used thing.

The science of scarcity destroys any happiness you could have had. Its a privilege many over look. That said I'm not a victim, that was my bed and I laid in it. The best I can offer you in that is I try to look towards empathy in the people I see in my community who are in a much worse off place. I now know so much better now how truly privilege I've been. I'll never be that ignorant if I can help it. Thats a big part of the reason why I want out of tech now because its just not me. Its a different world of egos. I don't want to sit next to the dude who orders a $200 stake with cheesecake on it. I would rather sit next to a disable homeless adult man so they knew their not really alone. I can't even fucking explain that to dude eating that stake next to me. Thats when I have to face myself. And your right not all the issues I've listed are exclusive.

Funny story: I have worked at one of the largest non profits in my state.

What I learned was sad. In short: There's motivation to go after grants that you don't even have the resources to facilitate correctly to keep the plane flying.

This non profit was even self aware of this, which I do give them credit for. But the sad truth was the corners they had and were willing to cut I think puts real people at real risk of harm. I had to step away I even gave 3 months advanced notice. Their response. Fire me on the spot.

I really wanted to help, but I had no way of doing so that did not also put me and my family at risk. I just was not willing to keep playing the fool.

That said I would rather work towards something tangible in this world. Too much of what we do is too ephemeral.

At one point in my life (a few years before this non prof work) I had to override the code of a coworker who committed suicide. That moment really put it in to perspective for me. I wonder if my boss even considered what it was like for that team to just code over that person's existence just like it was nothing a few days later. I refactored his legacy. Optimized it. While the boss was too worried about his exist strategy after this successful sale of this lovely start up. I even ran in to that boss a few times later in life and he would always be so impressed and also so bewildered that I knew people in his circle or that they even knew me. We really do live in alternative worlds. That said I don't think he was malicious, just naive.

I miss the good old days when people would just burn down the server room. Would have saved a lot of people a lot of time.

/ Emacs joins the chat...

Bro I write in assembly with my farts.

It's always an interesting start after getting the job only to see the git history.

Location: Portland, OR

Remote: Yes (preferred)

Willing to relocate: Maybe, lets talk. Already have passport.

Technologies: Elixir, Ruby, Python, Vue, React, Graphic Design, Motion, Photo, Rust?

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/joshchernoff

Email: jchernoff [@t] morphic.pro

I want to work for people not corporations.

I build highly reactive web forms and displays.

I also build processing pipelines and message brokering systems.

I know how to open your photoshop PSD or rotoscope your masks while also,

consoling into your server to monitor/restart/deploy your services using distribution and virtualization. If I'm honest I build orchestration layers that automates that with tests and other gates.

No one tell them that most of us rails devs moved on to elixir/phoenix

Lol, I know for a fact you have never once done street photography. Everything you just said proves it. I didn't just make this shit up and my singling out men was my intent. I don't really give a shit if you believe me or think I'm biased, it the facts regardless if you can deal with it. For the record I considered myself male and yeah men fucked it up for everyone. Deal with it.

Also I've been through this very thing after I took photos of people reading books from out on the street at Powell's books in Portland. The company seen the photos on Instagram and re promoted the photos. I was attacked senselessly by angry women who took issue with photos without consent claiming they were creepy and offensive. https://500px.com/photo/253650727/portland-street-photograph...

There was nothing wrong with anything I had done. I just fell victim to a valid concern by people who have been pushed to their breaking point because of other men who abuse the public domain. So I have a personal issue with these men as they have cause me and countless others problems and yeah they fucked it up for me. I know some of these men personally and I don't care for them one fucking bit. Oddly they placate the issue just the same as you, saying similar things as you. go figure.

Low effort? No more than your butt hut response. By the way don't talk to me anymore cause I've had enough of your low effort.

The root of the issue with street photography has a whole lot less to do with the photograph and more to do with the ever present issue of male sexual abuse towards women.

No one would even give a crap about these photos if not for that root cause.

This is why intent is at the root of these issues. We won't likely address these issues of public domain vs privacy unless we address the root of why anyone really cares about the issues in the first place. I don't think people are saying I don't like art. I think people are saying "I'm sick of being sexually objectified"

I say all this as street photographer myself.

Also food for thought. Would this have been as big of an issue had the photographer been a woman? Would it had gotten the same push back? These are question that dig more the root cause of why this has less to do with the photo and more to do with who is taking the photo and why.

My #1 I take with this post is that Free ≠ Open.

Software need to be open! If it was meant to be free it would be called Freesource not Opoensource.

Trunk, root, more to my point.

Hello BTC, let me introduce you to Eth.

How many of you has this person ripped off? Some arrogance to promote his profile at the same time.

https://news.knowledia.com/

Nothing to do with the uptick of trump supports coming to the platform...

Having a good grasp on time vs space complexity helps.