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I'd love to use this but sadly my local GPU is just crap. I know everyone hates hosted offerings but I'd be a happy customer; I mostly use topaz's hosted stuff too for this reason

A friend of mine was sent to a similar place in the late 90s, specifically for queer kids, but what I heard was eerily similar except with a lot more Jesus. He escaped and his parents were somehow convinced to send him back! He killed himself soon after, in a very painful and slow way. I could not bring myself to go to the funeral. There are few things in this world that truly anger me, and decades later I still feel it.

Dance is such a nuanced thing. Really I think it is more like a language than anything else.

My favorite example of this is at somewhere like a rave or Phish show etc where you can see people form their own little conversations and groups and move on as the night goes.

And of course you have people just enjoying having a nice talk with themselves and the music.

In more professional settings you see people try to fit dance into little boxes and say what it is or is not... it predates spoken language. It is something very primal, not even uniquely human.

After Effects still has some features that keep me stuck with it, but I'm excited for more competition. Adobe seems to be paying attention somewhat.

I am still a bit upset that I got banned without even a warning. I tried to adhere to policies and figured if anything was wrong, I'd get a warning at least, and then I'd know better what the limits are. Unfortunately there is little recourse and even less feedback.

Even more annoying is that it terminates your YouTube account entirely, so now I can't even login to use it. And I was a premium subscriber, too!

The best thing about YouTube is their agreements with rights holders to allow music and revenue sharing easily, which makes it very simple for creators and remixers etc to not get their stuff removed via DMCA.

I started doing this with my cat. It's easy to try to explain away the underlying thought processes as coincidental association, and some of that is certainly true, but experiencing it first hand with a cat you know well is certainly different. My cat presses a button for his name when he wants attentions, buttons for outside, food, water. A button for YouTube (the startup sound), since he likes watching other cats and critter videos and nature documentaries on there. I was working in the other room during a stormy day and he was watching some nature video when I heard him repeatedly pressing the YouTube button and his name. But he was already watching it? When I went out there, I saw there was a video playing with a cat that looked almost exactly like him on the screen. He seemed extremely interested. Did he think it was him? Or was he just calling attention that it looked like him and wanted to tell me? Either way, never saw that behavior before or after.

That's a pretty wide brush you are painting with there

Over five years of paid SoundCloud here, I thought something was wrong with my setup. If this continues I'll have to cancel, basically. What a pain.

On a personal project I've decided to do the opposite and every commit message is meow or mlem or hisssss or purrrr etc

I can't wait until it is easy to rotoscope / greenscreen / mask this stuff out accessibly for videos. I had tried Runway ML but it was... lacking, and the webui for fixing parts of it had similar issues.

I'm curious how this works for hair and transparent/translucent things. Probably not the best, but does not seem to be mentioned anywhere? Presumably it's just a straight line or vector rather than alpha etc?

For those unaware, Raku is the evolution of Perl 6, basically. It's honestly a beautiful and seductive language. At the same time it terrifies me.