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Poser / Re: Give me one reason
Last post by Friedland -
Quote from: Nena – on
Btw. un-installed and deleted the rest, what windows always forget to delete, the folder it was installed to.
There is a good uninstaler called Revo:
Revo Unistaller
It's free and even support a portabe version (USB).
But if you install it, be careful with it. You may permanently whipe something you don't want uninstalled, by accident.
So if you are used to do the cleaning manually, maybe it's the better method.

Poser lights - yes ...
As I abandoned Poser at ver PRO 2012, I don't know what has happend since, but Poser lights was a very fiddly and haphazard business back then.
Some say it's vertually impossible to have good lighting with the standard lights in Poser - and I'm compelled to agree.
But, somewhere in my memory, there's something about Poser supporting HDRI and Image Base Lighting.
That would mean you can put large.glowing props in the scene (out of camera view) and use  them for lighting ?

But I honestly dont know if this still is a feature of Poser or if the devs removed that in the general enshittyfication of Poser.

- John -

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Poser / Give me one reason
Last post by Nena -
Ok, I did it, I downloaded Poser 14 and took a look.
Loaded a figure and right away I was like WTF?

Brows/lashes/cloth/hair you name it, load and then "attach to"

Got my figure dressed, set some lights, render *aaarrgghh* forgot to switch from this stupid superfly and the result was like that.
Changed to firefly, tried several lights, moving them around to get a good result, but the render came out just dull.

Even though I have some originals that only work in Poser, cause they were made for Poser. NOPE!
For me there isn't even a quarter reason to use Poser ever again.

Btw. un-installed and deleted the rest, what windows always forget to delete, the folder it was installed to.
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If it matters ... it matters / Re: Reasons against AI
Last post by Friedland -
On the same note as the Norwegian gigant owl, we have the Shrimp Jesus images:



They started turning up on Zuckerhell - sorry, Facebook - some 2 years ago.
The creator is Steven Mwangi, who most probably lives in Kenya (there we go again).
The incentive for posting the images was for visitors to click on them, share them and comment on them.
Because if they went viral, he was rewarded by Facebook with a small payout.

So Facebook wasn't only a participant in spreading these images.
They were an agressive participant who actually subsidized the slop.

Food for thoughts !

- John -
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If it matters ... it matters / Re: Reasons against AI
Last post by Nena -
*roflmao* we will be flooded with white Norwegian giant owls  :))

By now it's know, that chaqtgtp is spitting out more nonsense than any other intelligence
My hope is growing, that ai will kill itself  :))
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If it matters ... it matters / Re: Reasons against AI
Last post by Friedland -
Quote from: Nena – on
It's off topic ...
Yes, we have now landed way off topic, so lets get back ON topic.

The core question for me is if The Internet is dead already ?
Will search engines and an open Internet survive the great slopification that's going on ?

Is ChatGTP the new superintelligence or is it just the most effective spam generator of all times ?

Because when nonsense producing entities are given the ability to produce even more nonsense, the proportion of nonsense will increase exponentially.

Like the Norwegian gigant owl, anyone ?

You tell me !

- John -
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If it matters ... it matters / Re: Reasons against AI
Last post by Nena -
Thanks for the link ♥

Yes, I knew about his sympathies and when I read in the article, that Ikea paid 6 million Euro it made again "click" in my head.
This number really has to be something special to some creatures.
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If it matters ... it matters / Re: Reasons against AI
Last post by Friedland -
True !
... as I said about the "Fortune 500"-companies.

Whithout turning  political, it is widely known that the founder - Ingvar Kamprad - had nazi sympaties and more or less all of the funiture companies in Sweden considers IKEA to be an impossible client to work with, because of their demands.
Hence, IKEA turns to low income countries.

Among other things, they have been acused of using illegal logging in Ukraine and logging of primeval forrests in Russian Karelia.

Need I say that no IKEA stuff ever enters my home ?

- John -

180.000 petition ...
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If it matters ... it matters / Re: Reasons against AI
Last post by Nena -
We don't even need to go so far away.

It's off topic, so to say, but Ikea made its wealth with workers in the old GDR, cause they made most of the furniture for very cheap money, so Ikea was able to sell cheap in other countries.
And the workers really got almost nothing.

So yes, slavery still exists, sometimes far away, sometimes right around the corner.

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IKEA had furniture and accessories manufactured in the GDR until 1989, and there is evidence that political prisoners and convicts were used as forced laborers. An investigation commissioned in 2012 revealed that the company had been aware of this practice since 1978 (or 1981 at the latest), as production took place in state-owned enterprises (VEBs) such as Metallwaren Naumburg and the Waldheim Seating Furniture Factory.

Although IKEA cites the lack of control systems at the time, the company acknowledges that some employees were aware of the possible use of forced laborers and that steps were taken to prevent it, though these were insufficient. In response to the revelations about forced labor, IKEA agreed in 2024 to pay six million euros into a nationwide hardship fund for victims of the SED dictatorship to provide financial support to those affected.

Production included both complete furniture pieces and individual accessories, with some prisoners working under extreme conditions and far higher labor standards than in regular factories. While IKEA apologized for the failure of controls at the time and expressed regret for the victims, those affected criticize that a purely financial contribution to a fund without direct individual compensation for the suffering endured is insufficient.