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.
#ai
* 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.
From @danikowal on facebook:
Me, not following the submarine lost in the ocean news:"Look, you just can't add the suffix -gate to every damn thing that goes wrong and blows up in the faces of the rich and powerful!"
*sees the company willingly called itself Oceangate*
"...well that's just asking for trouble..."
*learns that they fired the engineer who said it wasn't safe*
"...okay and NOBODY had a problem with it failing crush tests?"
*realizes that they are specifically going to see the 'unsinkable' Titanic*
"...yeah okay that's just freakin' hubris at this point."
Random PSA/infodump just because I'm reminded that people don't know these things and still think cryptocurrency is investment fraud (notably people calling it a ponzi scheme).
First, to be clear: crypto sucks, but it is not investment fraud. It's an entirely legitimate investment, just a risky one (all investment is gambling).
The biggest problem I have with people calling it a Ponzi Scheme is that it's confusing people on what a Ponzi Scheme is. So here's a short intro to the two big types of investment schemes:
- Ponzi Scheme: These schemes typically look like entirely normal investment opportunities that some person or organization is offering you. The notable aspects that are required for a Ponzi Scheme are that you're being promised returns on your investment (not you buying and selling investments, but just making the investment once and getting routine payouts) and that they are continually looking for new investors (no set amount of money they're trying to raise).
Part of what makes these schemes especially deceptive is that they're often started accidentally. The basic structure of these is that whomever you are investing with is not actually investing in the way they're telling you, they're taking the money you gave them to pay the returns of earlier investors in the scheme.
- Pyramid Scheme: These schemes are always intentional frauds and are painfully obvious to anyone who knows what a pyramid scheme is (they survive because of how many people don't know what pyramid schemes are and the sheer amount of manpower they have to spread the fraud).
The basic structure of a pyramid scheme is that, unless you are one of the original investors, you are not investing directly in the organization. Instead you will always be investing through other people under the promise that you'll make money by convincing other people to invest through you. They spread aggressively because you're incentivized to put pressure on everyone below you in the pyramid to spread it as aggressively as possible.
MLM's (Multi-Level Marketing) are a type of pyramid scheme in which your "investment" is buying materials to sell on their behalf. Notable in comparison to legitimate work, there will be no controls to limit competition in the area (meaning each added person you didn't bring in yourself is cutting into your ability to sell product) and you will be expected to "buy in" through another "investor" rather than with the company itself directly.
Notably, these fail because there's a practical limit to how many people you can add and once you stop adding people the revenue dries up.
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.
Been feeling wiped out and critically low energy lately. But I just want to share that my siblings have brought me so much joy these past few weeks, one providing video documents of neighborhood stray kittens, the other documenting their progress training crows for mischief.
And the memes have been great as well! 
I just wanted to put out there that I love my chosen family so much
Yassie > moved to 0w0.is likes this.
Yassie > moved to 0w0.is likes this.
Oh look, randomly attacked on the fediverse! #actuallyaustistic #actuallyadhd #neurodivergent
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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.
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