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I thought the term "Fediverse" specifically referred to software that uses ActivityPub to federate content across instances. Like how Git is decentralized, but it's not federated. Now I'm confused.

Hmm, I tried it out after seeing this but I'm not really much of a fan of the mobile-first approach. I've moved on to HortusFox and it's more what I was expecting.

My wife is the one who'll be using it though, so we'll see if she likes it.

Alright, reading is hard, but here we go. If:

pieces of art metadata are being traded like securities

Then:

yes, the SEC should regulate their trade

They should be regulated according to securities legislation. Wow! We did it! Does little baby get it now?

Hmm... You could try Trakt but I find that it's very weird about anime. I use Anilist for anime/manga and Trakt for TV/movies because of this.

Okay? My other comment might help you then, you can change in the preferences whether to put your library in nested folders or not.

If all else fails, make a post on the MobileRead forums; there are lots of nice and knowledgeable book people there with tons of Calibre experience.

I'm not trying to get you to do something you don't want to, so your wall of text doesn't really make sense to be directed at me. I didn't make Calibre.

Hm, well, hopefully my other comment helps you then. I don't think there's an automated tool for this — though a shell script might do the trick, or at least get you most of the way, if you have basic scripting knowledge.

Have you tried Kavita? I use it to read comics and e-books on my Android tablet and my Kindle Paperwhite. It also uses OPDS so it has compatibility with some reading apps too, like KOReader, FB Reader, Mihon/Tachiyomi, Moon+ Reader, etc.

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1. Open the Preferences in Calibre
2. Click on "Saving books to Disk" (found under Import/Export)
3. Make sure "Save cover separately," "Update metadata in saved copies," and "Save metadata in separate OPF file" are all unchecked.
4. Adjust the "Save template" to the filename format that you prefer. You can use variables as folder names so, for example, {author_sort}/{title} would put everything by Stephen King in a folder titled "King, Stephen" and each book would be inside of a self-titled folder.
5. Select all of the books you want, then click the floppy disk icon and save them to a temporary directory.
6. Delete the old library, then import a new library (with the new filenames) from the temporary directory.
7. Delete the temporary directory.

Or you can just use symlinks. :P

No thank you.

Kind regards,

calibre

Would love to see a Dark Cloud 3. Not PlayStation exclusive though.

It's not lol. Not sure what this person is talking about.

An obstacle to backsliding? In what way? Look around the western world: right-wing governments everywhere, voted in by centrists and the conservatives that profit from fooling them with easily digestible status quo ideals.

Yeah, I know that, that's why I picked it for her.

I found it really easy, but I was pretty familiar with the terminal on Windows. I started off with Debian in December and set up LMDE for my wife a few weeks ago and it was dead simple, though I do have to be her tech support since she's not really a computer person.

I thought it would be a pain to install drivers and Steam and all that, but it wasn't. I did give up on trying to set up my printer, but I'll revisit that eventually.

I think, as a Linux beginner also (~10 months), the best way to learn the terminal is to figure out what tools are useful to you and then read the manual pages or [application name] --help (if the application supports that command). Learning how to use grep will also be really helpful for troubleshooting, since sifting through logs is such a pain.

Like if you want to download a YouTube video, install yt-dlp and then type man yt-dlp into your terminal to learn about how that tool works. You can do this for basic utilities too, like cp, dd, mv, etc. and other applications you have installed. You can also use yt-dlp --help but that won't open in the parser, just the terminal. Learn by doing things that are relevant to you and branch out from there.

There are also applications that will let you read the manual pages outside of a terminal, like xman, if you find that useful. After a certain point, you'll be able to write commands with switches/arguments without needing to check what they mean first.

The problem comes when producing work. A generative model will only produce things that are essentially interpolations of artworks it has trained on. A human artist interpolates between artworks they have seen from other artists, as well as their own lived experiences, and extrapolate [...].

Yes, but how does that negate its usefulness as a tool or a foundation to start from? I never made any assertion that AI is able to make connections or possess any sort of creativity.

Herein lies the argument that generative AI in its current state doesn't produce anything novel and just regurgitates what it has seen.

There's a common saying that there is no such thing as an original story, because all fiction builds on other fiction. Can you see how that would apply here? Just because thing A and thing B exist doesn't mean that thing C cannot possibly be interesting or substantially different. The brainstorming potential of an AI with a significant dataset seems functionally identical to an artist searching for references on Google (or Pixiv).

Having someone copy your voice to make it say things you did not say is something many will be very uncomfortable with.

So is this your main issue? I'm just not sure that that is really a valid reason, since many people are very uncomfortable with like, organ donation, pig heart valves, animal agriculture, ghostwriters, real person fanfiction, or data collection by Google. I'm sure there is something in the world that most people see as either positive or neutral that makes you very uncomfortable. For me, it's policing.

On the economic front, I agree - these companies should have been licensing these images from the start and we should be striving to create some sort of open database for artists so that they are compensated. It's possible that awarding royalties, while flawed, may be a good framework since they could potentially be paid for all derivative works and not simply the image itself. But that may be prohibitively expensive due to the sheer number of iterations being performed, so it's hard to say.

It's not theft, the artist still has their work. If anything, it's copyright infringement. When some 16-year-old aspiring artist uses another artists' work as a reference or traces something, what's that?

I guess you could call it practice, but then doesn't AI do the same thing by iterating based on its dataset? Some AI outputs look terrifying and janky - so did my art when I was younger.

I dunno, like this issue isn't as simple as I used to think it was. If we look outside of economics (because artists need money to survive, like all of us) is there actually a problem here?

I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about all of this, but it's pretty obvious AI isn't just gonna go away like NFTs did. I really am interested in discussion, I'm not trolling.

So like, I guess I'm just wondering how that refutes his point that it's a tool for artists then.

I personally am aware of people who run local LLMs trained on their own art so they don't have to spend as much time sketching or doing linework.

Maybe you're just not as open-minded about this as you could be? It's being used in sketchy ways by a lot of people, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a place, especially at the idea stage.

He argued that it's just the same when an artist draws inspiration from other peoples' art and creates their own - which is just plain false.

Hey, can you articulate the difference though? Stating this as a plain fact seems kinda like you're constructing reality to fit your opinion and maybe that's what your friend is pushing back on.

It's true that AI is often trained on copyrighted images, but artists use copyrighted images as references all the time. I know AI can't be literally "inspired," or have artistic intentions, but like, what actually is the difference? Other than philosophical differences that involve like, the inability to emulate actual creativity.

Seems like AI is just faster, because it's a computer that can do tons of adjustments instantly instead of iterating over time like a human. Anyway, just food for thought. I don't think AI is going to replace artists entirely but a lot of companies are definitely going to try to see how far they can take it.