Random Dent

Smashing Pumpkins 1996-05-15 at Brixton Academy, London

It starts off kind of low-energy and then for whatever reason about halfway through they just start blasting it.

Sample

I guarantee they’re also adding AI slop trained on other people’s work into their own content, while simultaneously suing anyone who does the same with theirs.

Fuck Disney

Calibre can do this! If you go to ‘Edit metadata’ there’s a button to download a cover. There are also plugins that expand the search, so you can include Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Amazon etc.

I got curious and had a quick poke around, seems like it’s called “Prue Leith: Journey With My Daughter” from 2020, but the only copy I managed to find is in Chinese on the Internet Archive. If I find an English copy though I’ll let you know!

Yeah my VPN (Mullvad) is super affordable and I just leave it on all the time so I never have to worry.

Also maybe a seedbox could work for this sort of situation? I’m not overly familiar with them but I assume that would also just be running no matter where OP is.

Thanks for uploading these, very handy!

You still can, it’s on archive.org!

Edit: not sure if I’m allowed to post the direct link, but it comes up right away on the search.

I didn’t think it was a bad movie at all, but definitely not Oscar-sweeping good.

If it does work, does that then mean they’ve effectively declared torrenting to be legal? Or at least as long as you claim not to have seeded?

Can confirm! I also have AdGuard & BPC and I can browse around it with no trouble.

The Canadian stores have been owned by Sobeys since 2013!

Safeway had them on sale for like $3.50 so we loaded up lol

Not sure yet, I’m looking into it! I’ll report back if I find a good one though

The only thing holding us back at this point are our shitty internet companies lol.

Fuck you Telus!

Le livre des visages

Canada here! Literally cancelled Netflix last week and talked to my SO about using the money instead to pay for a seedbox lol.

Also trying to do a grocery run without buying any American products is a challenge but doable! Loading up on Dr. Oetkers pizza and Romanian pasta

Yeah I agree with copyright just being about 20 years or so, but more just for the sake of art and having a robust public domain that can preserve cultural things. If that also benefits AI in some way, sure, whatever.

I think ultimately there’s always going to be someone who doesn’t give a fuck about copyright anyway, be it China or just some random person on the internet who’ll eventually train an open-source LLM on everything they can get their hands on. The current copyright system hampers innovation (not just in AI, but in all sorts of areas) and holds back culture for the sake of making a handful of corporations rich, and is largely irrelevant nowadays anyway because of the internet IMO.

I think it’ll quickly move beyond the ‘overseas’ bogeyman anyway, especially with LLMs becoming open-source. Once that gets properly rolling, anybody could theoretically train an LLM on whatever material they want regardless of how illegal it is, and people won’t really give a shit, they’ll just use whichever one works best.

Yeah I literally just close the tab. Same if anything comes up with a paywall or login or weird capcha thing. Just like “ah fuck this” and move on lol.

I bought a quite expensive piece of animation software (that cost over $1000) to use professionally. The specific term it was sold to me under was a “perpetual license.” I took this to mean “never ending”, which is the dictionary definition of the word “perpetual.” You can probably guess where this is going.

A few years later, in the middle of a professional project, it stopped working. I contacted support, and was told that they changed the way they were doing licenses so I’d have to buy a new one (at almost double the price) or eat shit. I’m paraphrasing, but that was the gist of it.

So yeah, if you’re thinking of buying a Toon Boom Harmony perpetual license, maybe save yourself a lot of money and hassle and just pirate it instead. Or tell them to get fucked and use their direct competitor. I have done both.