#sysadmin bitching

[sunny-satellites]

I'm gonna be honest, professionalism is a disease. Sometimes you just need the words to bring reality to someone who won't listen and they can't start with per my last e-mail.

There's a specific site at my job that drives me nuts because they just don't listen to instructions carefully and this problem is endemic across their entire management pool. They'll also constantly cross lines and do shit like call me on teams without warning because they *know* I'm good at my job and I'll fix the damn problem if I can, but sometimes I'm in the middle of doing other shit and I can't be pissed to fuck around for fifteen minutes to reset johnny dipshit's RSA because he chronically can't remember a 4 digit number.

So this week was a gigantic headache because small minded upper management made an absolutely awful decision and has set a 90 day ticking time bomb on our password policy due to a delayed overreaction from a security breach that happened in October, they forcibly reset every call centers password and unfortunately because of more dumb shortsightedness they specifically decided to flag it for VMware logins. VMware is not directly attached to our primary IDP so it caused a ton of IDP flowback issues usually locking people out of random applications on other subdomains and often locking people out of active directory login entirely.

I've had to basically route a large portion of this intake for this specific issue and it's been mostly resolved as everyone who got flagged in these domains has reset their shit and had a temporary password issued and their accounts synced for proper primary IDP flow down.

I got a guy today however who managed to dodge this issue and I told him I'd have to route his issue to another team because someone already picked up this ticket, but genius middle management refuses to let people be unproductive for a bit and he's in my dms telling me to reset chuckledick's password again.

I can't tell him he's a technological hazard and that his mother should pound sand on the beach that makes you old and block him because that's ~unprofessional~ so instead I tell him this is a bad idea because the department under me already reset his shit and synced it from the jump server and this will reset it back to square one and probably break any other access that was working along the way. I know what the issue is and that it's elsewhere but I'm a network engineer so I *shouldn't* modify this person's OUs if it's already someone else's ticket. However he's not taking my polite "No" for an answer so I reset the person's acct and issue a temporary password, he tells me he'll be back in 5 minutes. It takes him 25, meanwhile I'm regularly refreshing the domain that has NT logins registered on it and see that the password update flag doesnt reset, meaning chuckledick cant log in.

I fuckin set myself to busy so these people will stop bothering me and leave him a message before he can even return: "I see user was unable to log in meaning this issue is IDP domain flow down related like I had initially diagnosed, in the future please refrain from wasting (network dept name)'s time and arguing with us over tickets already assigned to the correct department. I hope you take this lesson to heart." Which is about the politest way I can tell this person he is a fucking fool and I hate working with him.

[thosearentcrimes]

I feel like FOSS should probably split definitively into separate "we would like to make usable free software to empower users to get the most out of their computers and to undercut rent-seeking software companies" and "computer touchers only, normies fuck off" factions, would probably resolve a substantial amount of confusion!

Like, there's absolutely nothing wrong with the latter point of view! It's not like anyone expects guys who work on classic cars or constantly have three motorcycles taken apart in their shed and zero operational ones to do free maintenance for them. Well, ok, maybe their friends and family might, I've never owned a car so I'm not really familiar, but at the very least they shouldn't. Even for ostensibly utilitarian tools, there are hobbyists or specialists whose interests and preoccupations are drastically different from those of general users, and they will develop communities and jargon and so on, and they will feel alienated from (and perhaps even hostile to) the general public, even see themselves as naturally superior because of their deeper understanding of the tool. That's normal and there's basically nothing wrong with it. Power tool guys are like this too I gather.

But it's inconvenient for this conception of the computer, as a niche hobby or skill with its own insular community, to coexist with the concept of FOSS. I'm not a computer toucher myself (though I have them among my friends and family) but I really appreciate that there is this huge community which does insane amounts of work and coordination and it all allows me to use a computer without having to worry about being trapped in Microsoft or Apple or Google's walled gardens, that maintains a lot of software that is competitive with (and sometimes superior to) paid alternatives, and that pays attention to accessibility so that I have this ability without having to learn to be a sysadmin (and in fact with less effort and specialized knowledge than making Windows usable would take, though I do also have the aforementioned computer touchers who I can ask for help in a pinch). It is an immense boon to my life and I think it would be one to a lot of people currently stuck using proprietary software and hating every minute of it. If that's someone reading, then trust me, it's not that tricky, for the most part it just works and it's really user friendly these days.

The problem is that when both of these groups can be identified as "FOSS" and run in the same circles and have the same culture to the point of being indistinguishable (and in some cases, the same person but on a good/bad day), the former group are inundated with normies and the latter group are starved of new users, on account of how the aforementioned normies take one look at FOSS, see someone who seems personally aggrieved that they have dared to use a computer, and retreat to the walled garden.

Also if installing that program really had been just a matter of running three console commands in sequence it would have been easy to make an "executable" shell script, right, but it's not that simple is it. There's actually a lot of complexities involved (python environment) that make it impossible to reliably just run three commands in sequence and get it working, aren't there. Complexities that might frustrate someone used to simple executables, perhaps. The developer is not obligated to do the impossible and manage builds for every environment for a random side project they're sharing out of good will, and the user shouldn't be a pissy bitch about the way things are without having any idea of why they are that way, obviously. Ideally people would be taught what computer is and how to use it.

[ghoulangerlee]

Ghost band IT au (based on my experiences working at a small business IT shop)

Copia (unfortunately) owns the place (the last three owners were uh replaced. it might be a curse actually, to be the "owner" jury is still out on that one)

Sister is the accountant and does all backend accounting work (no one ever sees her but she's always There)

The ghouls (all of them) are techs and they each have various specializations.

Dew: surprisingly good with Server stuff when he's not bitching about people waiting last second to upgrade before the EOL

Aether and Aeon are the firewall guys, but only firewalls sorry. We play into strengths here and the last time Aeon tried to do anything beyond a firewall, the client ended up being down for like 2 days before Cumulus figured out he'd touched something he wasn't supposed to

Cumulus and Cirrus deal with all other networking stuff (internet, UniFi stuff, switches, APs, cloud keys etc) they work hand in hand with Aether and Aeon 99% of the time

Mountain is your guy for phone stuff, mostly VoIP related but he can be assed to run a few cables if he needs to for more traditional services

Rain and Swiss are go to guys for any computer repair stuff needing to be handled either in shop or on customer site—drives in the Server gone down? They're your guys. They come as a pair too usually, sometimes a trio with Dew (especially if it's server stuff)

Aurora and Sunshine are sysadmins, dealing with any and everything they can. They sorta stick their toes in where ever they're needed. Aurora hates Azure and Sunshine hates SharePoint so they're like match made in heaven <3

this is so much more elaborate than our own setup at my job with two techs who unfortunately do everything rip

[kyi195]

Yea! And the even better (worse) part is that the level of familiarity with mobile OSes like iOS and Android are driving the development decisions of modern desktop OSes! From UI all the way down to the level of troubleshooting! Literally, on new Windows devices that are managed by an Intune environment, you aren't encouraged to wipe-and-load. Receiving a new device from an oem doesn't mean you slap it down on a workbench and lay out a fat image on it. You use the OOB image, hook it up to the network and it pulls any configuration down from whatever Intune tenant has the device's hardware hash stored. AND if for whatever reason the OS hits a point where its unusable? No REAL troubleshooting past surface level "oh are the drivers updated?". You just fuckin factory reset the bitch like a phone.

Legitimately fucking infuriating for people who actually want to know WHY shit breaks. Oh you want to run an automated tool? Hope you don't like having logs where you can go back through and see what happened. You just get some fucking cheeky "Hold on a second! Our code hamsters are monchin away at your problem!" until it finishes. Drives me up the goddamn wall!

But the problem is that boomers and Gen-X-ers just think "kids know computers" so no one fucking TEACHES kids how computers work these days. How to set them up. Its just expected. So there's a WHOLE new level of astonishment when some early 20s kid DOESN'T have some innate level of control over a standard desktop computer.

We got a new tech where I work who's like, I dunno, 20? Maybe? And she had to have training on how to set up a laptop setup (laptop dock, two monitors, soundbar, keyboard, mouse). That's not a drag on her, she just never had a reason to learn and this is her first step into the tech industry. But that's just something I took for granted because I, as someone who straddled the line of "go play in the street all summer" and "I play games on my computer with my friends", learned how to set a computer up when I was like, 7. I learned to not use both video cables (at that time, VGA and DVI). I knew what plugs went where. But I also grew up at a time where if you used a computerized device it was a proper desktop computer. Phones were still nokia feature phones. She's doin great now but I'm still catching myself saying phrases I'd use with my boss or the sysadmin team I shadow with and forgetting that she doesn't know these phrases because she never had to learn them before college.

this can't be true can it

[biohackerellie]

[nitallica]

Server: "\\[Server IP address] is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions."

Me: "The fuck I don't ... motherfucker, I *AM* the administrator!"

[realwizardshit]

i love admin access on windows like i click on a Secret Restricted folder and its like ‘You don’t have permission to access this folder’ and theres literally a button you can click to be like Yes i do... Bitch

[clatterbane]

And, crap amusingly? Tonight I had to ask the Household IT Guy to take a look at it!

I hadn't touched anything since it finally got up and running, but it suddenly stopped working last night--claiming that Nightscout couldn't connect to the database. The error message suggested checking MONGODB_URI (which I knew I hadn't touched).

So, I checked that Northflank wasn't showing any server outages, and that both the Nightscout service and MongoDB were showing as running. Restarted both of them for good measure. Peered at what logs I could find through Northflank's dashboard, and nothing really jumped out. They did both look to be running as normal with no recent updates to anything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That just about exhausted my own troubleshooting ability dealing with this shit, and I decided just to leave it alone and hope it was actually some issue on Northflank's end that they might fix soon. When that hadn't happened by after supper this evening and I couldn't think of anything better, I finally decided to cave and call in a professional.

(He's bounced around some and is currently working DevOps, but has spent probably the majority of his career sysadminning. Since the mid-'90s.)

He was scratching his head at this one too, and not just because he seemed about as enthused with Northflank's customer dashboard as I am. Though that was probably part of it. The UI leaves something to be desired--though I won't bitch too much, with being on free tier and all.

But, anyway? Those roughly 30 years of experience did come in clutch! It's working again. And what did the actual problem turn out to be? Pasting the damned MONGODB_URI string into the environment variables again fixed the fucker after all. Which I hadn't tried because it was just too obvious, and I hadn't changed it! 🤬

"Idk, maybe solar flares? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It be like that sometimes."

Whatever the fuck scrambled some bytes around somewhere, I am very glad it's fixed now, and my watch is showing the right readings again. I almost forgot and overdid the insulin earlier, glancing at it on autopilot and just barely remembering in time that the display hadn't updated since after supper last night. 😒

I am so done with all of this for tonight. Time to take out some frustration in games, and/or try to just chill and watch some videos. Preferably not tech-related.

But, I did find it darkly funny in a way that the best solution I have found so far to actually keep useful access to several years' worth of Diabox data, is to finally get a Nightscout instance up and running properly. Which I have kept meaning to do anyway. Should be able to import that data, and keep some continuity with the current xDrip+ install. (Which was kinda developed for use with Nigjtscout.)

That would of course also make it easier to, like, put a handy CGM display widget on my computer desktop or feed it to a variety of other displays. Which was my original draw.

Looking into it again, I am sorely tempted to just use a hosting service like NS10BE and have done with it. It's well worth €50 a year for me not to have to fuck around with that anymore, and they do seem to have a good reputation.

But! But! With my hobbled filthy foreign devil bank account and its debit card, I cannot pay the nice tech company! 🤣 I am blocked from any repeating subscriptions, and Maestro doesn't work with some payment processors anyway.

So yeah, either I am going to have to ask Mr. C to pony up for that--OR I am going to have to eat my pride and ask him to please help get the existing middling-DIY attempt up and running properly. I mean, it probably wouldn't be a major problem for him to set up something completely self-hosted in house, never mind sort out whatever the hell OTHER error I started getting trying to access that database once the one I mentioned there was out of the way.

But, my "just knowledgeable enough to break shit in interesting ways" tinkerer ass really avoids asking for any technical help from the Household IT Professional on his own time. I feel like a dumbass, and he spends MORE than enough time and energy on frustrating tech problems as it is.

Anyway, I did find it darkly hilarious in the context of some ongoing frustrations which are currently really flaring up here, that I cannot even reasonably bail myself out of this little cluster of aggravations for €50 on my own.

[leam1983]

Microsoft and Project Pluto

I've been doing some digging around Microsoft's future plans, seeing how more or less astroturfing several manufacturers into releasing TPM 2.0-compliant potatoes that can barely run Windows 11 seems to have gone over well.

Welp, their long-term goal is to lock down AMD and Intel-based compliant systems to be forced to execute and sign on Microsoft code alone. As in, no bootloader, no Linux, no picking the most lightweight option for your server stack if you're in IT professionally - Windows or bust. Installing Linux on machines like this would force hardware devs to issue the proper certs on their own, instead of working like they have for the past twenty or so years and just close their eyes, agree to a standard - usually Microsoft's - and hit Go. There's also talks to tie Windows Update with your system kernel, which means that in practice, the House that Gates Built could steal a page from Ubuntu and find a way to issue kernel revisions while the OS is still running. It's also possible that they could use that to push non-mandatory, but recommended updates onto you, potentially undoing previously-used features or maybe bricking your rig, depending on your hardware setup.

Seeing how Satya Nadella's response to entry-tier hardware barely managing to run Windows 11 as their stock OS was to basically shrug and go "Welp, just go buy a nicer PC! Here's a list of affiliates!", I think we can fear the worst.

If it really falls down to motherboard or chip manufacturers not taking whatever payola M$ might hit them with, we're effectively screwed. We've known for years, now, that Microsoft wants to lock down the PC ecosystem to something closer to Apple's own walled garden. Their stated pretense is usually added security at the corporate level, but I'm really dreading the future of what's both my job and my hobby if it all boils down to me choosing a locked-down box with an apple-shaped logo or a locked-down box with four squares on it.

Windows worming its way into my firmware's microcode.

The very thought makes me queasy. Oh, and all the normies are going to settle with an eye-roll and a sigh, of course. I've heard it all before. "They're making computers easier to use, isn't that a good thing?! Whatever man, you'll whine and bitch and then load up Steam to benchmark things as usual, so why the Hell do you care that much?"

This isn't about ease of use. This is about control. I own every screw, every chip, every via and fan blade in my two rigs. I own them. The data that's on them is also mine, within reason.

If Microsoft has its way, we'll all be subletting our ability to do our damn jobs, as fucking dystopian as it seems. How the fuck do you think sysadmins at the corporate level are going to take to someone at Microsoft pushing a revision on Windows 12 or whatever, and settling with a pithy apology for all the late-in-cycle computer parks and IT budgets they've just ruined? Fuck, my boss practically has a panic attack whenever one of the kids in the call centre fucks up a headset or a mouse pad; I can't imagine how she'll take to repeated wholesale overhauls of our workstations because someone at Redmond decided to shorten the shelf life of a perfectly good product!

One of the top dogs came up to me a few days back and started joshing around. "But seriously man, why are you making us use Linux, bro? Like, everyone knows Windows!"

I smiled. "You're running off of a reskinned Ubuntu MATE, Steve, because if I asked you to buy me ten thou's worth of Windows 11 licenses and then told you we'll need to add new hardware to make 'em run, you'd rip my badge from my jacket, piss in my trash can and send me home without so much as a please and a thank you. Using my method, all you had to deal with was one afternoon's worth of file migrations and budget enough for eight PowerPoint slides, a twenty-minute break and some extra coffee, to train everyone."

Sometimes, small-to-medium business heads can be absolute idiots.

[krixwell-liveblogs]

Which left me in the gift shop with Dragon.

“I have a sworn responsibility to protect that data,” she said as she turned her attention to me.  She sounded surprisingly normal.  Her voice was clearly digitized, but it was still too human to match the massive metal frame.

Heh.

“Can’t help you there.  One of my teammates has it.”

“Where are they taking it?”

On one hand, of course Taylor isn’t going to volunteer that willingly.

On another, she’s being interrogated by a sysadmin. If she wants to know where her precious data is going...

I stayed silent.

“Your teammates left you behind.  I’ve read the file on what happened after the Endbringer attack.  Hard feelings?”

Correction: “teammate”, singular.

“Something like that.”

“If they aren’t going to be loyal to you, why protect them?”

Dragon does seem to be assuming that this is a thing with the entire team. If not for the clear difference between Bitch and the rest of the team from Taylor’s perspective, this might’ve worked.

Because someone else was depending on it.  But I wasn’t going to say that out loud.

...are you talking about Dinah? I suppose that’s fair.

The whine of the lightning gun increased by an octave.  I saw Dragon’s upper body shift in reaction.

Oh right, that thing is still going. Sheesh, how long until it explodes?

“Move the insects away from my suit, now,” Dragon ordered me.

“Why would I-”

“Now,” she ordered, and there was an urgency in her tone that banished any suspicion on my part that there was a ruse or that somehow it might serve my interest to disobey.  I withdrew my bugs, but I kept them poised to return if needed.

Yeeah, probably best to get out of the way before that gun becomes a zappy firework.

If you’re lucky, she’ll unfoam you to make sure you’re safe from it, too.

[aireyverkhovensky]

>log on computer >os updated during the night, everything re-opens >but wait, three of my numerous textedit files have disappeared! >quickly find them in finder, they’re still there >attempt to open >You don’t have permission to open this file. >bitch i made this file >go to Get Info >Get Info says I have permission to read/write >still can’t open file >apple tech support says to contact sysadmin >B-BUT I AM SYSADMIN

>log out >log back in >everything works suddenly

[mimisapje]

📬

📬 + tell me about yourself

Hmmm what to tell about me? The basics: A 21y old female, who still lives at home and who studies to become a sysadmin. My only hobbies are my pc and ordering food. I have 4 kitty cats who I adore even though they can be lil bitches.Besides that I have a incredibly ridiculous sense of humor, my sister even dubbed my jokes as ‘Joke jokes’ (because my name is Joke) so basically you call something a Joke joke when I tell the joke and if the humor level is pretty low. I’m bad at telling about myself, I always stare blankly before me and say a lot of ‘uhm’s when somebody asks me this But thank you for asking! ♥

[icksie]

i’ve been tagged by @mark-watney-spacepirate ty <3

Rules: tag as many users you want to get to know better.

How old are you?: 21

Current Job/Dream Job?: Sysadmin and embedded systems engineer(?)/IT security researcher

What are you talented at?: Take things apart, put them back together and have parts left

What is a big goal you are working towards (or have already achieved)?: I'm gonna try losing some weight this year and maybe even gain some more muscle

What is your aesthetic?: Burning trashcan in a pretty pink room

Do you collect anything?: Data. Lots and lots of Data

What is a topic you’re always up to talk about?: About how pretty all my mutuals are. Look in the mirror darling you're stunning!

What’s a pet peeve of yours?: People trying to give "constructive criticism" that ultimately just bitch around and make you feel worse

Good advice to give?: Taketh no shits, giveth no fucks

Recommend three songs?: Mars Argo - Using you, @perfectlyvindictive - Stronger than you, Donny Hathaway - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know (Live @ the Bitter End, NYC)

i tag: 

@im-the-swamp-witch @captain-thunder-pants @pottersuperwholockian @theweirdunicornnn @trixiestar @bilumi @danigreen-sebu @tech-no-logic-bb @emperor-princess @greenjeweledforest @ezilmars @sleepsfor100years @sp4ce-4ngel @hero-and-leander @fratboycipher @miraculoustinylesbians @silverfluffle @charmstarrr  @sapphic-corgi @brightblack @ihearttech @makeitrainfrost @trashcandroid @manicpixiedreamgoose @hot-nocoa @everlessdrop41 @eggmayonaise @drackoning @davejohnkatwillalwaysbecannon @abelwisk @likeafrenchiee @caramel-latios @enfpnepeta @fruitcry @littleshadowhuntingkitty @motley-c @lingworm @itsjustsel @codingflumps

[thrown-away-opinions]

I think we agree on a lot of things already, particularly that AI is not a threat and that people will always seek media made by people. From what we’ve seen, the most aggressively pro-AI people are not especially creative. They are having a lot of fun making all kinds of wacky pictures, but they come off as people who have never flexed a creative muscle in their lives and no one needs to get worked up about those kinds of people having access to better and better AI tools. Reddit upvotes and DeviantArt faves don’t pay the bills, after all.

I would argue that piracy “for profit” is also less clear than it seems. If someone pirates photoshop and takes commissions, are they not profiting off their piracy? Some would argue that not spending money on a product that you got to enjoy anyways is a form of profit. I’m pretty pro-piracy either way, but as the original anon in this post pointed out, it’s fine when they do it to others, but it’s a huge problem that needs sweeping law reform when it might (but not actually) impact their personal income. 

As for the Piracy angle, I’d say again that we agree. The overwhelming majority of people making stuff with AI are not selling them and are not profiting, so there’s no problem. They aren’t taking jobs. They aren’t stealing patreon donations. Likes, faves, and retweets aren’t a finite resource. There is possibly an argument to be made for all the services like NovelAI and Midjourney charging fees, but they are selling access to the AI, not selling the pictures people have generated. Hard to know how much they are profiting, if at all, but from an outsider’s perspective, it does seem like there’s more work involved to keep things running, and that is more of a question of if you think a programmer or sysadmin or IT guy deserves pay for doing their jobs. Also if there’s any point in getting pissed off at how people decide to spend their money.

Where we disagree is about the technology, because I’ve seen plenty of artists who are HEAVILY reliant on digital assets, special stamp brushes, and so on. People who could not draw a simple 2 point perspective square room to save their lives who just drag and drop some CGI scenery in and call it a day. People whose workflow would grind to a halt if they didn’t have some cloud and forest and tree trunk brushes to quickly fill out their backgrounds. People who exclusively use photobashed and heavily filtered images for all their backgrounds. And I’m not saying they should feel bad. Work smarter, not harder. However, they should not be this outraged about digital shortcuts. Technology is fucking great and allows people to do amazing things, but these people who are so angry about other people calling themselves artists because they didn’t struggle to learn those skills... But lots of artists have not learned any of the skills that would allow them to be artists at all if they didn’t have their fancy drawing tablet and a pile of up to date software.

On that note: The problem about people calling themselves artists and claiming AI output as their own work. I think this is a semantic issue, but also just a general issue with some people being fucking stupid. We saw people trying to sell prompts and trying to copyright their super special secret settings, and they’re idiots. I don’t think anyone for or against AI should disagree with that. On the other hand, getting angry at someone calling themselves an “artist” while also making it clear that they’re just tinkering with Midjourney, is not hurting anyone. Lot of people call themselves artists and make dogshit art or just take shitty selfies or whatever. Anyone taking themselves so seriously and summoning up so much vitriol and outrage over some goony losers being smug on twitter is clowning themselves. They shouldn’t bitch about how they might lose their jobs and then donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to some shady group of cunts who want to buddy up to the fucking Copyright Alliance that partners with the goddamned RIAA and MPAA.

And yeah, that last point about customers is golden. The unspoken implication is that any person who uses an Art AI was a potential commission or patreon donation that was taken from them. Either those people were already paying for those things anyways, and there was no guarantee that they’d continue forever, or they were never part of the wider parasocial community of fans of artists who constantly seek commission of their OCs or whatever. Again, it’s a lot of people getting very angry that people who weren’t going to give them money didn’t give them money.

Artists when artists are copying & distributing art from companies for their own use and profit without paying them: 'Lol, theft removes the original, this doesn't. Copying art is not a crime! yo-ho yo-ho!' Artists when companies are copying & distribuying art from artists for their own use and profit: 'What! Collage is a crime! You wouldn't download a car!' Good to see that the God of Irony still has a job!

I was going to write something about this subject too, but I got hung up on that gofundme thing.

Up front, I think there is some legitimate complaints about artists not wanting their shit scraped and fed into an algorithm. That's not an unreasonable demand. Datamining is out of control on the internet. There needs to be way less of it.

But also... All this bitching and moaning about ethics and morality is hollow as fuck. The piracy thing right up front. How many scanlated manga or fan-subbed shows you think the average seething artist has read/watched? How many movies did they pirate? How many ads have they blocked? How many streaming service passwords shared? How many second-hand things have they purchased? How many college textbooks downloaded? How many programs have they cracked and used for years without ever paying a sub fee? How many little things have they shoplifted? How many immoral and unethical things they've done without ever making up for it?

Short version is blatant "rules for thee, but not for me!!" bullshit. It is an ethical nightmare that some programmers have in some way appropriated raw data from something made by someone else because they, the artists, deserve payment and royalties for their art being viewed in any way they don't approve of, even if it's just some ephemeral fragment of something they made once, did not license, did not copyright, did not commercialize in any way.

Every other artist and employee who worked on and produces all the shows and products and services doesn't deserve payment because... uhh.. because late stage capitalism or whatever!!

It's a double standard that doesn't hold up to a moment of scrutiny. Some of this hysterical bullshit would even be forgivable if it were just about not being happy about having their work used in a way they don't approve of. Instead, they had to go with this moronic, exaggerated ethics angle, they had to pool their money to try and get the US Government involved. All this constant wailing and gnashing about losing jobs and work when nothing has actually changed and no one is making 6 figures yearly on an AI Art patreon. No one is losing commissions to some now world famous prompt expert who charges even more money.

We've long accepted piracy as an unavoidable aspect of the digital age, but suddenly that's not okay because it might (but not actually) impact some freelancer/indie artist's ability to get work that they either aren't losing because of AI (remember that the global economy is falling apart), or they might lose jobs that they don't have, they aren't trained for and/or aren't pursuing anyways.

But you know what else is kinda fucked about all of it? Most of these artists wouldn't be where they are today without technology and software advancements. Do you have any idea how many artists would be fucking hopeless without all the custom photoshop and CSP brushes they downloaded for free (and never credited the creator)? Do you know how fucked these people would be without all the built in color correction settings and filters and gradient maps? They can't even imagine drawing in procreate without all the built-in tools for correcting their sloppy-ass linework. There's SO MANY successful and highly paid webtoon comics out there that wouldn't be where they are today without the CSP asset store allowing them to drop in 3d background assets and pre-set pose and hand guides.

These whiny fucks are up to their eyeballs in technology that props up their entire profession/hobby, but they are screaming at the top of their lungs because someone downloaded a booru or scraped pinterest to feed into an AI Training algorithm.

tl;dr - They're a bunch of immoral hypocrites who badly want to dress up their impotent outrage as some kind of meaningful, ethical catastrophe.

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Are you currently troubled with the disconnection issue either?

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