Adobe arrogates the ownership of the content created by its users. Users pay the company and that act of payment means the company can take ownership over whatever the customers create using the product. It’s as if I sold you paper and then claimed ownership over the book you wrote on it.
The reason why Adobe does it is because the content created by its users is useful to train Adobe’s AI. Which Adobe will then monetize and take away the users’ jobs. In the end, nobody will have money to purchase Adobe products because there will only be AIs talking to other AIs.
This is going on everywhere – Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, etc. Whatever we create is arrogated, sold and used to train house AI with the goal of eliminating as much human labor as possible.
It’s urgently necessary to introduce regulations on AI. But we have such a sclerotic leadership and such an emotional, pouty electorate that it doesn’t occur to anybody even to stop and think why nothing is being done to regulate AI. We are poring over moronic partisan concerns and completely missing something of an extraordinary importance.
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It means if you do anything creative for a living, writing, artwork, music, and you use a computer for any of it, it is past time you had a dedicated computer for it, that is not hooked up to the internet. No work goes to intermediate internet “storage” of any kind– straight from you to your publisher/client, no stops along the way.
Otherwise, it belongs to whoever runs the server it’s stored on, and you have no rights to it.
This has been true at least since FB decided every photo you upload belongs to them. Think of it as stuff you’re storing in someone else’s garage– at any time, they could sell their house and move, and leave your stuff out by the curb. They could sell your stuff at a yard sale. They could get a roof leak or have a house fire, and it could be ruined. You have no control over any of that, and much depends on how much you trust the person holding your stuff. Cloud storage is trusting someone you’ve never even met, with storing the stuff you depend on to make a living. Don’t.
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So there are three versions of Adobe Creative Suite (aka Adobe CS) that aren’t buggy in terms of interoperability and don’t require Clown Servers …
That would be Adobe CS4, CS5, and CS6.
Those versions only work on Windows XP and Windows 7, and the earliest one is limited to 32-bit.
So now you have to have virtual machines (or VMs) running these 32-bit OS versions, plus you now have to have other matching software, plus Adobe makes even this much difficult.
Adobe doesn’t allow you to sell licences or transfer ownership, so you have to find increasingly rare uninstalled packages still in their shrinkwrap to do this legally, assuming Adobe still allows product activations.
While you are at doing this, you will have to use Acrobat 9 or Acrobat X for PDF on those same systems, and you may as well pick up Corel X3/4/5 to do the stuff that Illustrator sucks at.
So now you will inevitably install Windows XP SP3 Retail and Windows 7 Ultimate Retail.
All of this forces you to online sellers because of the rarity of unused, unopened, and uninstalled Adobe packages, plus unactivated Windows retail licences will put you there as well.
In addition to this, the VM system presents its own issues, especially with VirtualBox which means you are forever stuck on the last release of VB 5.2 because VB dropped support for 32-bit starting with the version after that one.
Inside your VMs once you have activated all of your software, there are a number of Adobe and Microsoft servers you will need to block in DNS and host files by setting the IPv4 address to loopback (127.0.0.1) so they can never phone home.
Now you will have two VMs always running with this stuff, along with at least a third VM providing shared file storage via SMB, and so you always have this memory hit on your system.
It’s not so bad on a 128 GB system but it’s awful on a 16 GB system, especially since you’ll get stuck on a 32-bit OS, possibly even more stuck because of the video adapter chip (which is soldered on the main system board of a laptop).
By now, just go ahead and pick up Microsoft Office 2003 Pro for XP and Office 2010 Pro for Windows 7, then those are in your VMs to use.
This is my everyday writing and drawing environment because Adobe started this Clown Server shit over 10 years ago and this was the only way to opt out.
Bill Gates was and is a smug, entitled prick, but even he couldn’t stomach doing business with John Warnock and the rest of Adobe, which is why all versions of Word after Word 2000 have utter shit support for Adobe formats.
If you have a big vector drawing, such as an architectural plan, the preview gets generated by Word and looks like shit, and that’s because Microsoft didn’t trust Adobe file formats and had their image filter vendor generate a crap preview on the fly.
But I have working prepress and typesetter stuff with all of this shit I would gladly replace … if the rest of the print world would kick Adobe and Microsoft to the kerb.
Don’t even get me started on the shitshow of getting QuarkX to run, that’s its own VM as well, as is PageMaker which I still also have.
Adobe can choke on a bag of dicks.
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Oh, but we’re not done yet!
The host VM system passes your real CPU ID to the guest OS unless you override that with settings of your own that you have to load into the VM system’s equivalent of a registry.
This keeps you from needing to redo your registration every time you upgrade your physical hardware.
So my VMs with all of this are stable by pretending they’re on an Intel CPU so old that it predates the i5/i7 naming.
That CPU was heat gun desoldered from its laptop main board many years ago and sits in a box in a safe so nobody else will get legitimate use of that CPU ID.
All of this shit as well just so I can continue to use software for which I paid thousands of dollars for “perpetual licences”.
Adobe can start chowing down on that second bowl of dicks now.
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“It’s urgently necessary to introduce regulations on AI. But we have such a sclerotic leadership and such an emotional, pouty electorate that it doesn’t occur to anybody even to stop and think why nothing is being done to regulate AI.”
You love making blanket statements like this one. Maybe there isn’t anybody concerned with this in your circles. There are many people in the USA who have been focusing on this issue as their top priority for years.
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Yeah, and “scleretic” doesn’t get at the wide-eyed, “Isn’t this amazing?! We have to let the companies be free, so we don’t fall behind!” attitude feom U.S. politicians that seems both childlike and pan-generational.
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You wouldn’t want to stop your companies from being more efficient and profitable, right?
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The entire article is here:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13278447/german-court-rules-sundays-robots-teo-tegut.html
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Found the original article:
Brickbat: Robot’s Day of Rest
A German court has ruled that the robots at the Tegut supermarket chain must be given Sundays off, just like human workers. Under German law, retail stores must close on Sundays and Christian holidays in order to give employees a day of rest. Tegut has gotten around that law by fully automating its stores, and it gets 25–30 percent of its sales on Sunday. A union that represents shop workers filed suit to force the stores to close on Sundays, saying it fears the company’s success could undermine support for the nation’s blue laws.
https://reason.com/2024/05/10/brickbat-robots-day-of-rest/
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Regulate WHO … please, anyone?
194 WHO Countries Agree to Arrest Citizens Who Oppose Bird Flu Vaccine – Media Blackout
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Response (ASPR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said officials are moving forward with a plan to produce 4.8 million doses of H5N1 avian flu vaccine for pandemic preparedness.
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“The WHO has confirmed Australia’s first human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu was contracted by a child who had travelled to India last month.”
One Russian-speaking Israeli posted those links now. Normally, I view him as a kind of conspiracy theorist who thinks we somehow enabled Hamas to do 7.10 , but after covid and with those new laws of arresting dissenters.
Another blogger, this time a Russian one with communist ideas, nevertheless published something that sounds true – the ‘health’ operations aren’t about health at all, but about new no-borders technologies of controlling masses.
When people talk of the wars created by nation states and idealize some global world order, they haven’t seen yet what this order brings and whom it’ll benefit the most (not them).
Reminded of the last line in this poem re a borderless world:
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