With the uptick of AI image generation and soon video, and the current strike where it's one of the key issues, I had an interesting thought:
Once this is in full swing (and hopefully in a way that's equitable for actors), I'm imagining we'll eventually have an AI actor version of the Willhelm Scream. Have this one background actor who's in *every* movie and cinephiles will point, and I don't mean like Stan Lee cameos where they get dialogue and a face shot, I mean like Alfred Hitchcock cameos where it's a game to spot them.
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* One of the points I've heard they're striking over is because studios want to pay a background actor for one day of work to scan them in and then use their likeness forever. I hope they come to an good arrangement for the actors in this, they deserve to get paid.
Planned Outage
Power company is coming to work on the power transformer next Monday (7/17).
I've been notified that the planned outage is for 9am to noon US Central Time.
Outage Report 2023-06-20
Server was down for a few hours because internet was down for that time, had a water leak in a neighboring apartment and had to cut the fuse that the internet was on.
Obviously got that situation resolved.
Outage Report
Server went down as I was asleep, it ran out of storage.
I've expanded the storage and have adjusted the settings to reduce storage consumption. The biggest factor being that I had user profile caching turned on and it looks like my server discovered a bunch of new servers resulting in a large uptick in cached avatars.
This setting has now been turned off, it should make for a minor performance hit on new users but otherwise the big impact is significantly reduced storage space usage.
