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Cake day: June 11th, 2023
  • Mechanize@feddit.ittoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Russian sales of Chinese cars surge after western sanctions hit
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    1 year ago

    Nice data, but I think we should take a broader view too:

    https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?end=2023&locations=RU-IN&start=2019

    I semi randomly picked India because it is part of BRICS and had a similar economic trajectory: It is quite interesting playing with all those nobs and labels.

    In this context I think PPP - which you showed - is a good indicator of the internal quality of living, but as far as I understand it, it has an hard time showing the difference in quality and standards of the consumer products between countries, so a dip in nominal GDP is an interesting context with the PPP adjusted rise. Less expensive things, because they are less regulated?

    Aside from that Russia has almost completely pivoted to a war economy which, as far as I know, tends to give a big initial boost but it stresses and makes the real (for lack of a better term) economy crash in the long run.

    What do you think about this? It is an interesting topic.

  • Mechanize@feddit.ittoNews@lemmy.world•Artist is Suing Copyright Office For Refusing to Register His AI Image
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    2 years ago

    This is getting weird.

    If I would generate an image with an AI and then take a photo of it, I could copyright the photo, even if the underlying art is not copyrightable, just like the leaves?

    So, in an hypothetical way, I could hold a copyright on the photo of the image, but not on the image itself.

    So if someone would find the model, seed, inference engine and prompt they could theoretically redo the image and use it, but until then they would be unable to use my photo for it?

    So I would have a copyright to it through obscurity, trying to make it unfeasible to replicate?

    This does sound bananas, which - to be fair - is pretty in line with my general impression of copyright laws.

  • Mechanize@feddit.ittoLinux@lemmy.ml•Howdy face recognition on 24.04 LTS?
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    2 years ago

    disable this system security feature temporarily,

    This should be - if I’m not mistaken - possible using the pip env var I posted about earlier, like this:

    PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES=1 sudo apt install howdy

    Or exporting it for the current shell, before running the installation

    export PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES=1

    But I personally highly discourage it, because - AFAIK - if it even works it will mess up the deps in your system.

  • Mechanize@feddit.ittoLinux@lemmy.ml•Howdy face recognition on 24.04 LTS?
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    2 years ago

    I’m no python expert but reading around it seems your only real solution is using a virtual environment, through pipx or venv as you already had found out, or using the

    --break-system-packages

* Allow pip to modify an EXTERNALLY-MANAGED Python installation

  (environment variable: `PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES`)

    pip flag which, as the name suggest, should be avoided.

    EDIT: After rereading I got your problem better and I was trying to read the source for Howdy to see how to do it, so far no luck.