For all his faults, Donald uniquely has the charisma to pull this act off. His children are all rizzless goofs. My personal feeling is that anyone trying to do "The Trump" will fail miserably. What we're more likely to see is someone else come along with a different style but that's also charismatic.
C# is good. I use Visual Studio on Windows, so I'm not familiar with the tooling in VS Code in Linux, but I've heard good things. .NET is a nice environment to work in, the runtime works on all the OSs, and you can even package it into a self-contained binary with a little finagling.
Finally a critique of AI that I can get behind. I've never bought into the idea that the tech itself is bad. And I've also never bought into the idea that training these models was somehow theft. But they are trained on the human compendium, so we should all have rights and a stake in their use more broadly in society and industry.
The problems I've had with my RPis have all revolved around the fragility of their SD storage. I got burned one too many times trying to host something important in my house with these things, just for them to get corrupted and lose everything. Backing up these systems was its own nightmare, which failed as much as it succeeded.
Unfortunately it inevitable. If a publicly traded company exists, it will have to extract more and more and more until this kind of rent-seeking model happens. And if a company is private, it will eventually go public. And even if you truly believe in a company's owner to not sell out, eventually they will die and the company will go public or get sold. Eventually, money always wins.
I wonder if SD 1.5 would be better suited to this Where's Waldo style, since generating scenes over 512x512 causes it to start repeating itself, with elements flowing from one 512 region to another. If someone with a ton of VRAM wants to test that theory for me, I'd appreciate it!
I wonder if this model would see an increase in quality if it had the same quantity of data as something like stable diffusion. It is impressive, but I've found that it lacks knowledge of some things that stable diffusion understands.
If my understanding of the GPL is correct, you can definitely build it yourself and publish it on fdroid. Can't use the same name or any trademarks noti has, though.
There is a disproportionate amount of wealth concentrated in the older generation and those who will inherit it will probably be even worse with that money than the last generation.
Don't worry, this isn't going to happen. Inheritance, I mean. Almost all of that generations wealth is going to be eaten by elder care. At $10k per month, and zero of that being covered by Medicare until you're basically destitute, nursing homes are going to demolish that store of wealth and their descendants will be left with nothing.
I remember seeing things like this back in my CECS courses.