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UnpopularCrow ,

“We obviously have tight security around any form of access to customers content.”

scotthelme.co.uk/the-adobe-hack/

originalucifer ,
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adobes promises are meaningless. you are now their product

CosmoNova ,

Because when someone presents you a lengthy document. One that describes all the ways they claim ownership of your work (and work in progress) - in detail - it only matters how much they really mean what’s written down? Let me spare you the sarcasm and just say this doesn’t communicate the professionalism professionals are demanding. Quite the opposite.

JeeBaiChow ,

Every time we trusted a large tech promise on an unverifiable claim, they ended up shafting us. Just sayin’.

xavier666 ,

“We promise”

Source: Trust me, bro

TheImpressiveX ,
@TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml avatar

Not yet, anyway.

retrospectology ,
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I’m betting the reason they want access to “moderate” your projects is to train their AI. Literally looking to steal artists work before it’s out the door.

ytsedude ,

That’s absolutely what’s going on.

A fun way to combat this would be to get every artist to add giant, throbbing dicks to everything they create in Photoshop with the hope that it creates the thirstiest, nastiest AI model out there.

retrospectology , (edited )
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Not just dicks, but dicks mixed with other art so it just completely pollutes the training data and the AI has no idea how to draw anything without it kind of looking like a dick. Dicks with human and animal faces, boats shaped like dicks, dick buildings and landscapes etc.

It would take an immense amount of bad data to actually work, but it would be funny.

edwardbear ,

Oh, if they PROMISE.

Fuck Adobe. I’ll pirate PS and AI until I die. Greedy fucking pigboys.

Jakdracula ,
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Does the PS pirate version have the Ai stuff, removal features and such?

edwardbear ,

the pirate stuff lets me control what version I want / need.

glimse ,

It won’t have anything that relies on “the cloud”

When you use the AI services in Photoshop, it tries to connect to their servers. But to crack Photoshop, you need to blacklist all those servers. If you try to, say, use the automatic background removal tool, Photoshop will give you a message saying that it will run the (worse) version locally because it can’t connect.

Not that I’d know or anything. A friend of a friend told me. Basically a stranger. Don’t even know his name.

Jakdracula ,
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Right, Since it can’t call home, the advanced features will not work or at least not work as described, is that correct?

glimse ,

That is correct. Most (all?) of the services are run on Adobe servers, not locally

SacredHeartAttack ,
@SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world avatar

That 15 yr old cracked CS5 I have on an old hard drive is looking mighty scrumptious right now.

refurbishedrefurbisher ,

Pirating Adobe software is exactly what they want you to do. Their business model relies on businesses paying for their license because people already know how to use their software, in large part because people pirate it, and also they have deals with schools to teach their software.

What Adobe actually doesn’t want you to do is to learn the software of their competition, since that’s how they will lose money in the long term.

joojmachine ,

This. Right here.

The main reason we need to push for open source alternatives is this. The more people learn how to use them the more content around them we get and more people take interest in using it and helping develop it (and donate to it).

disguy_ovahea , (edited )

I went to Affinity Photo and Illustrator years ago, and I’m a fan. One time purchase, easy to use, and full tutorials from the creators on Vimeo. Only downside is that it’s only available on Apple devices. Turns out it’s available on Windows now too.

affinity.serif.com

joojmachine ,

And it’s a huge downside. Meanwhile open source apps are usually available on every platform, with no purchase required.

disguy_ovahea ,

I hear you. I used to use GIMP before I paid for PS. I bailed when Adobe went subscription, and figured I’d try Affinity for $10. It’s worth every penny. I’d get behind an open source alternative again if it met my needs.

joojmachine ,

I can understand it, I almost paid for Davinci Resolve Studio due to it still being the most complete video editor that works on Linux, most of the time closed source apps function better (specially due to the biggest funding), but still, using open source whenever you can basically prevents this from ever happening (specially after Canva bought Affinity, I’d keep an eye out for the eventual enshittification)

EldritchFeminity ,

Affinity is also on Windows - at least Designer is. I’ve been using it for a couple of years now.

disguy_ovahea , (edited )

My mistake. That’s good to know! I’ll edit my comment for clarity. I think they launched as Apple only years ago. I’m glad to hear they’re growing.

EldritchFeminity ,

I think you’re right that they were Apple only for a few years at least.

HarriPotero ,
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And they have a -50% flash sale.

Imagine that timing.

USSEthernet ,

Is there an open source PDF editor? I would really love anything other than acrobat.

MaggiWuerze ,

You can host your own version of stirling. It’s open source and can do all sorts of things with pdf

github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

edwardbear ,

I use Figma at work hahaha

technocrit ,

Those are the easiest apps to replace. I’ll just use Gimp and Inkscape until I die. Not even tempted by Adobe’s bloat, spyware, etc.

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