- donkeyd parentThe only thing you find on social media is influencers showing expensive cars. Good luck planning a holiday based on that.
- We made this site for people who search. We were those people, searching Google for where to watch cars racing on the Nürburgring and then getting nothing but cryptic route descriptions on forums.
So we created a map with actual walking routes and people were finding them. Now they're not finding them and they're back to lots of searching.
We get some traction on social media too. But it's people who already go there and know a lot of what we provide already. People don't search Instagram for walking routes to POIs.
- You can write a web site about Coca Cola if you want. If it's just factual information that's all within fair use.
As long as we don't use the trademarked name 'Nürburgring' or their logo or an outline of the track in branding, it's all fair game. If we were to start selling t-shirts it would be a bit more tricky and we'd have to be pretty careful.
- We have a single list with affiliate links on there. Which happened because a company proactively approached us to share their link on our site because they liked the content.
Edit: I do see how it may have seemed like we had a lot of referral links due to the setup of outgoing links. Changed that now, so there is pretty much just the one left.
- Last year a friend and I made a website about the Nurburgring. It provided basic info for first time visitors that we were missing on our first visit. My friend spent a lot of time creating a UI with a custom map for displaying locations and routes. I wrote a bunch of content that was thoroughly researched.
At a certain point we ended up being invited by one of the largest rental companies to see whether we could work together. They invited us because the content was incredibly useful for their visitors and they preferred our calendar over the official one for ease of use.
So clearly, our site was adding value for the target audience we had in mind. We were also consistently getting visitors through different search engines that were looking for the info we provided. The number of visitors was growing consistently and pretty much all the feedback we got was positive.
In March, Google rolled out a new algo which all but completely removed us from search results. Out visitors dropped about 80% and growth has disappeared. What was a fun project that we spent many hours on is now a waste of computing resources.
I hate that Google gatekeeps the internet.
- > The rules on this vary across Europe
Not really, ECHR has already ruled on this.
It's pretty much only allowed if there's an important reason for it. For example, to recover something invaluable (contract, code, report) that isn't available somewhere else and cannot be replaced. In that case that's also the only thing that them employer can look for. They can't open obviously unrelated e-mails. So before talking to legal, make sure you have a valid reason.
- I worked as a detective in the Netherlands and we had a single task; 'waarheidsvinding', which means 'finding the truth'. We didn't have the task of convicting someone or finding a crime, we had the task of finding the truth. So in a case like this, that meant finding out exactly why someone jumped or fell from a balcony.
- I feel like this one is impossible to do right. On one side, it's people like you saying: 'government oversight is hurting our innovation'. Directly opposed is: 'AI Companies are growing too fast and something bad will happen if oversight doesn't come soon.'
I agree with both and really don't have a clue what's the wise thing to do. I think it's probably the oversight thing, but since other countries will definitely compete without this oversight, someone will eventually release SkyNet. But do we want to be the first?
I don't know...
- For giggles I asked ChatGPT to write a typical SEO optimized recipe. It picked cookies and started with:
"Ah, the sweet aroma of freshly baked cookies! It always takes me back to my grandmother's cozy kitchen, where the warmth wasn't just from the oven, but also from the love and laughter we shared."
It's always impressive (almost scary) how well ChatGPT manages to work with these types of prompts.
- > I also almost never use apps like dedicated banking apps or social media apps; instead, using Safari.
Nearly every bank I know of recommends using apps over their website, since in general they're safer than using their websites. But I'm in The Netherlands and I don't know whether banking apps in different countries have the same security standards.
- I was unaware of this act before reading this, but I kinda like it. My current employer wants to do the absolute minimum in securing the software they develop. However, it's used at in organizations working on national energy and communications infrastructure, so it's somewhat important for it to be secure.
Meanwhile, we're way behind on updating much of our infrastructure and hardly ever check whether any of the open source libraries we use are up-to-date, nor whether they're reliable. I really hope this legislation pushes companies like mine to improve their software development practices, because I'm scared of the future.
- Unless literally all headlines around this subject are incorrect (which wouldn't be the first time), Italy banned cultivated meat:
> Italian MPs have voted to back a law banning the production, sale or import of cultivated meat or animal feed
My Italian isn't good enough to actually judge whether this is a case of mistranslation or misinterpretation, so if you have any more nuanced quotes please provide some.
- > If Jews can have Kashrut and Muslims can only eat halal food (basically everything, except pork and its by-products), we can say no to lab grown food.
As an agnostic person who believes church and state should be very separate, you make the perfect argument for why I think this law is stupid. If you don't want to drink alcohol, smoke, eat pork or lab grown meat, go ahead. But don't force others into your religious ways of doing through restrictive laws. Just don't buy that stuff at the grocery store.
- Like our current food supply isn't highly processed already [0]... This law has nothing to do with preserving tradition. It has to do with populist right wing politics that ban anything new. High level cuisine will always exist, even when affordable alternatives arise.
0: https://foodtank.com/news/2022/11/database-indicates-u-s-foo...
- > very shortsighted
While the western world is getting angry about change, China is out eating our lunch by moving into all these emerging technologies. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a conscious effort to push conservative extremism in western countries for this exact reason.
If I just look around in my country, new electric cars are quickly becoming mostly Chinese and most solar panels are Chinese. Meanwhile, a very large group just voted for a party that wants to stop pretty much every investment in renewables, while also pushing out migrants in an already very tight and quickly aging labor market.
In the long term, our own bigotry and climate denialism is going to severely bite us in the ass. Especially since we're already barely above sea level.
- I remember when you shared the first version on HN, I was totally impressed with what my little phone could do. It was my first step of many into the incredible world of SD. I never expected this app to be maintained this long and especially this actively. And all of this for free.
So thank you very much for your work!
PS, will you be adding Turbo directly to the app in the near future?
- Actually, no. This is just another example of a headline leaving out important details of the actual case. In this case the plaintiff actually named the AI as the producer, not themselves. From the case:
"the sole issue of whether a work generated entirely by an artificial system absent human involvement"
This leaves a lot of wiggle room for AI created art with some form of human involvement. I.E. import the generated image into Photoshop and edit it. Perform some inpainting to improve certain parts. Possibly even prompting and configuring things in Automatic1111 might be regarded as human involvement.
This is going to bring many legal procedures before there's a clear answer to whether AI generated art can be copyrighted.
- I'm just going out on a limb here, but a paid service needs to be good with limited input. I've used SD locally quite a lot and it takes quite a bit of work through x/y plots to find combinations of settings that produce good images somewhat consistently. Even when using decent fine tunings from CivitAI.
When I use a decent paid service, pretty much every prompt gives me a good response out of the box. Which is good, because otherwise I'd have no use for paid services, since I can run it all locally. This causes me to go to a paid service whenever I want something quick, but don't need full control. When I do want full control, I stick to my local solution, but that takes a lot more time.