Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

and that effect was because the artists saw how fast the ai slop was produced compared to them spending several hours to make each image.

Their own work was drowned out and often didnt get much comment, or was replied to with the same positive comments that the ai slop got which no longer encouraged them to make more or improve.

It fully destroyed the space artistically. Pretty soon after the game itself replaced a lot of its own art with ai art, the community became a ghost town.

For the last 20 years ive been part of a small online modding scene for a very niche sandbox video game where a large part of the communtiy is people of all art ability contributing to produce work for the game either in written, 3d or 2d art form.

the introduction of ai generative image work into the community lead to 95% of the human designed 2d and 3d graphic art to stop being produced entirely.

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this cat came up to me, meowed and then walked away. is there anybody fluent in cat who can translate? have i just been given a quest?

Deployed a small trick in front of my forge: Caddy checks if an x-bot-check cookie is set. If yes, it reverse proxies as usual.

If the cookie is unset, and the request path is not allow-listed, it will serve a small HTML page that uses JavaScript to set the cookie and reload.

The expectation is that bots will not run the javascript, and thus, will not have the cookie. It does require JavaScript, but my forge requires that anyway. Human visitors should see minimal interruption.

Will see how that plays out in the longer run! I do need to add this to my logs, though, so I can actually measure the effectiveness.

there literally isn't a single linux distribution that I can recommend to a new person without adding a sentence long "but..."

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A thought for trans allies in this time:

You often ask us what you can do to help. Well, here's something you can do. Wear trans badges, buttons, pins, scarves, whatever you've got. Explicitly. I wanna see that blue and pink EVERYWHERE.

Because the more of you cis folk do that, the safer we will be in crowds and such. It will mean that wearing a badge of support for trans people doesn't necessarily out that person as trans.

"But wait," you're thinking maybe, "if I do that, people might think *I* am trans!"

Well, why is that a problem for you? Would you be offended by someone thinking you might be trans? Would you be scared? Welcome to our world.

This is your time, cis people. You were all ready to call yourselves allies when it didn't matter more than changing your PFP background. Now the rubber meets the road. We need you. We need your help to normalise our existence to other cis people. It could save lives.

If someone accuses you of being trans (imagine being *accused* of existing while trans?), don't deny it. Ask why it matters to them. Keep calm.

#LGBTQ #trans #allies

@joepie91 it's to make sure you know it's not for extra security, they just hate you

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There's a somewhat popular idea that "computers have become too complex for anyone to really understand them" but honestly I don't think that's specific to computers at all.

The same thing has happened for goods and infrastructure; who *actually* understands anymore how the things they use on a daily basis are created, and what social factors play into that?

You can see this in the preppers who believe an isolated bunker will sustain them, the seasteaders who believe that they can just not pay taxes and infrastructure will somehow magically exist, and yes, also in the people on fedi who would rather just move to a shed in the forest that's cut off from society, but who have never thought through the implications that that has for their ability to eat.

All of them are completely disconnected from the process by which their daily sustenance is produced; there's no recognition that building social ties is *unavoidably necessary* to maintain a society or even just one's own life, that you can't just completely isolate yourself from others and survive.

The Nation serving Google ads on an op Ed about Google’s evils is ironic and morally short sighted.

Reminds me of lefty bent liberals with a Substack, or all the environmental websites pushing people to the Nazi bird site for traffic.

We have to start expecting moral and practical voices to walk their own talk, even if it’s less profitable.

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