It started with 9€, is 49€ now, and will be 58€ starting 2025.
You can buy for a single month when booking through the right company. "mo.pal" is a good one, for example. However, I agree that it is a bit predatory.
For me, integrate an init system that allows for proper dependency management between services. Also, one that keeps track of all processes spawned by a service, allowing me to shut down a service, even if it isn't a well-behaved one with a single daemon process.
That's more or less the only thing stopping me from using FreeBSD (on servers).
I would guess that if you can get payouts from some small chunk of users, you can then use those funds to 'reinvest' in tracking down and catching more.
As soon as the process is sufficiently automated to be margin positive, you might as well scale it up to the whole population.
Your point is degraded when you use the term autistic as a stereotyped insult.
At risk of doing the same kind of generalization, I'd venture a lot of people of varying degrees of autism spectrum on these forums, would probably agree with you on your overall moral stand, if you didn't needlessly drag us into this.
Nope, this isn't pushed by the government, but legal circumstances here allow for cheap and automated detection and extortion of "offenders". I assume the right holder are making deals with big law firms specialized in the "Abmahnungs-Business", allowing them to track "offenders" on their behalf. Law firms then threaten to sue at courts sympathetic to rightholders, extort the "offenders" and give kickbacks to the rightholders.
I'm diagnosed autistic and I approve of this usage. I would be grateful if normies would refrain from getting offended on my behalf, I'm plenty offended enough by other things.
I 100% understand frustration of outsiders of a group being offended on some other groups behalf. I'm in a particularly progressive part of Canada so it happens a LOT! :=D
If it helps at all, I was talking on behalf of myself, not yourself. That being said, the term "normies" also irks me, so clearly our differences have nothing to do with our position on spectrum :->
(neither "offends" me, but as per above, I automatically take less seriously the user of such words)
I did not leave SE (yet), but I'm currently studying sustainability / waste management / etc. It's going great so far, I can recommend going a different or additional route, if you are able to.
Professional cameras often do not have auto focus, compare to some RED camera models. You either prepare your focus points ahead of time or you work in teams, where your camera assistants act as the "auto" focus.
I don't quite understand why blog writers care to include a random AI at the top of their posts. Just give me the content, I don't want to scroll past a random elephant first.
Everyone says they that and has been before AI. What they always miss is the little word "relevant". A relevant picture can be helpful, a random picture is just distracting and annoying.
The image is there for social media shares, which grab a prominent image to put beside the link. Even if it's a bit distracting in the post, if it grabs your eye enough to click the link, then that's job done.
Links without an image are just physically smaller on Twitter or Facebook, they don't stand out as well.
I don't find it that random in a post about Postgres to show a picture of an elephant. If it had been a badger or something, then yes, but an Elephant is pretty relevant as animals go.
> hand crafting something for every post is exhausting.
Spending hours doing trial-and-error with image-generation prompts is also exhausting.
Are we at the point where authors can feed their entire article text into an image-generator and it repeatedly (95%?) produces appropriate, if not very apt, artwork?
I will say, when I have used them I haven't spent more than a few minutes on the prompts. But I'm typically more focused on the writing and the image just needs to be "good enough" unless it's something specifically relevant to the content.
You can buy for a single month when booking through the right company. "mo.pal" is a good one, for example. However, I agree that it is a bit predatory.