I have just come across this site, and it seems useful -
It identifies images or tags that are in the sources for various AI data training sets. Whilst it's not complete, perfect or enforceable, I think this indicates a way forward. Currently, dA images need to be opted out 1 by 1 - I don't know why the whole deviantArt.com/AfricanObserver URL can't be entered.
My work is either standard copyright where other's likenesses are involved, or CC-BY-NC - free to use non-commercially, but if you (intend to) make money from my work, please get in contact. So it being in these data sets is ethically and legal questionable.
This is what searching for "AfricanObserver" delivers - a selection of images from this site, some CC-BY-NC, some fully copyrighted.
(I suspect the name is a play on the excellent https://haveibeenpwned/ site which checks if your details have been leaked to the internet)
... technology distinguishable from magic
"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." Gehm's corollary to Clarke's Third Law
Like many people, COVID lockdowns taught me how to livestream. I have always loved tech, and the challenge of streaming was fun. In the last 18 months, I have streamed more lessons that I can recall, somewhere around 150 church services and about 10 larger scale events, including live music, with a 4 piece band.
The overarching lesson has to be that "content is king" - the tech is totally secondary. This well known, albeit a little sad for a techie like me. If you ever notice the tech, it has failed. The goal of eventing tech is to create a platform for the content, and to be effectively invisible. People noticing eventing tech can be regarded as failure. So one spends a whole lot of time (and money) on making it as transparent as possible - to achieve the magic of transporting people somewhere else, without noticing.
Really, a standard PC or phone webcam and microphone are good enough for any content worth spending the time engaging in.
But it is fun to geek out at times. This is a totally over-engineered streaming setup:
A Sony a7s with a Carl Zeiss 28-70mm lens as a webcam, feeding into the PC via HDMI
An M-Audio Luna large diaphragm microphone through a USB interface with nice clean pre-amps
A playlist of text and video items running in OpenLP
Streamyard livestreaming software to pull it all together.
Only the first two items are really over engineered in this case. The other two are stock software tools to pull together recorded songs, visuals and live input from multiple locations. The over-engineered geek version of the software is how we do it at school. There the audio is through a 24 channel desk, and a decent gaming spec PC (NVidia 1060 GPU) running OBS. So 24 audio channels and 5 cameras. With nice studio lights.
A Song For Mama
A colleague asked me to record him play Boyz II Men's "A Song For Mama" for Mother's Day. He plays beautifully (he is a professional, after all!). It's always easy to make talent look (and sound) good.
Enjoy.
Hello clever, patient and persistent people.
In Eclipse, when I click on the share-with-groups button, I see about half of the groups of which I am a member. And for the record, I have scrolled down.
I have logged a 'bug' on the dA tracker system, but that has elicited no reply.
Any ideas/ experiences/ ...?
Spider and Bees
