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Microsoft being Microsoft, in case you thought they might use the engine switch to generate goodwill, or dig in to chromes user base.



Adding cloak layers to digital projects
Glaze is a tool to help artists to prevent their artistic styles from being learned and mimicked by new AI-art models such as MidJourney, Stable Diffusion and their variants.
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Adding cloak layers to digital projects
Glaze is a tool to help artists to prevent their artistic styles from being learned and mimicked by new AI-art models such as MidJourney, Stable Diffusion and their variants.
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Post processing wizardry should happen after the shot, as a manual action/enhancement not representational of the shot.




Good point, mostly posted as the article was quite interesting.


Shared by @SinclairSpeccy@bitbang.social
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Fond memories of the original. Happy to see it might be finally out there.
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  • There was even talk that it could turn out to be more expensive than the console itself!*

Yikes.


Not surprising since the record stores are mostly vinyl with a small portion left for cds (and dvds) a complete turnaround. The prices for some albums here can quite pricey on vinyl. Happy to see it taking off though, there is something quite ritualistic with the process of playing a record.

Also love the two sided nature that was kind of lost with a single cd.


It’s VW dieselgate all over again.





Of the three Massive Attack albums from the 90s this is the one I'd rank as the classic, pushing in a more menacing direction than the more upbeat and relaxed Blue Lines [1991] or Protection [1994]. Its strong throughout (Man Next Door, Group Four etc) From [Pitchfork](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22703-mezzanine/) *.... But Massive Attack were the origin point of the trip-hop movement they and their peers were striving to escape the orbit of, and they nearly tore themselves to shreds in the process. Instead— or maybe as a result—they laid down their going-nova genre's definitive paranoia statement with Mezzanine. ..Originally set for a late ’97 release, Mezzanine got pushed back four months because Del Naja refused to stop reworking the tracks, tearing them apart and rebuilding them until they’re so polished they gleam. It sure sounds like the product of bloody-knuckled labor, all that empty-space reverb and melted-together multitrack vocals and oppressive low-end. (The first sound you hear on the album, that lead-jointed bassline on “Angel,” is to subwoofers what “Planet Earth” is to high-def television.) But it also groans with the burden of creative conflict, a working process that created rifts between Del Naja and Vowles, who left shortly after Mezzanine dropped following nearly 15 years of collaboration.*
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Yeah. Looking like season domination. Hamilton must be pissed, gg Aston Martin.
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Jounalist Finder
In Alpha. Great to see some niche ancillary services being developed with the potential to become useful for other communities, or a precursor to others. Hopefully will expand beyond the Mastodon = Fediverse approach over time.
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Something like you need to connect it via the home network once in a defined period.



cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/464068 > The goal of this two-minute survey is to help us improve the WordPress-related Mastodon instances and Mastodon as a meeting place for the WordPress Community in general. > We want to know your needs and challenges and how you think we – as WordPress-related instances – can strengthen the WordPress community on Mastodon.
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The goal of this two-minute survey is to help us improve the WordPress-related Mastodon instances and Mastodon as a meeting place for the WordPress Community in general. We want to know your needs and challenges and how you think we – as WordPress-related instances – can strengthen the WordPress community on Mastodon.
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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/463756 > Not sad to hear this. Checkout penpot as a possible replacement.
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Not sad to hear this. Checkout penpot as a possible replacement.
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Posting this as I ended up listening to some pavement today, finding out that they've reformed for a tour and are currently down my way right at this moment [!] Nice to think about going to the gig, but not too interested - they're not recording anything new, which makes it a nostagia tour. Good to have seen them live back in the day though. They have music on bandcamp but not this one which is what comes to mind.
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Lemmy has dms. Click on username > message


That looked like a great festival line up all round.




Doom originally supported multimonitor gameplay through the most overkill method possible by using a separate computer for each monitor. Even if you have the hardware, it's a lot of work to set up, but I've always wanted to give it a shot. So today I finally did!
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This is brilliant, has been my go to a couple of times already. I have renamed my classic albums community to use the word music in the name to help discovery :D


If there was ever a band that needed a reality tv series it was these guys… Drama Fest.


The Atomic Bitchwax always sound like they're having a lot of fun on their albums and it's great if you're feeling in the mood for something simple and upbeat.
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This would seem like a compelling option to replace instagram feeds in websites - [idotj](https://mastodon.online/@idotj) has created a great implementation for mastodon, but I cant see anything for pixelfed.
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As a metroid prime fanboy happy that players can now play an updated version on Nintendo hardware. The GC version is getting a little fuzzy.
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Enjoying this YOB setlist. 5 tracks over the hour.
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Good overview I enjoyed that.

Amazing they were able to restore the xcom rep with the last couple of releases. I thought it would never happen.

The first two xcoms are stone cold classics that still hold up today. Chaos (8bit) is a lot of fun. Rebelstar raiders II was great at the time.


Good setlist. Nick Oliveri is what gave Qotsa its spark IMO.
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That was quick. Square Enid had only just sold it recently. All comes back to making tv content / prime I guess.



Odd Fellows Rest, by Crowbar
Havent really listened to much crowbar but enjoying this based off a [recommendation](https://kvltofbrewtality.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/25-years-later-crowbar-obedience-thru-suffering/).
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New to me too, not that I have an xbox, but sounds like another avenue for peeps to get to play Metroid Prime :D
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No Dogs In Space — the Stooges (Podcast Series)
Posted for the reminder haven’t listened to yet. Recommended [here](https://indieweb.social/@STL_Inquiries/109717546315566286)
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Looking forward to this as I loved the first one (others around me not so much)


Yeah hope everyone gets to relax for a little bit!



*Believe me when I tell you - life won’t break your heart, it’ll crush it* This is a great album for when you’re feeling down and out a need a little catharsis. It’s also is very groovy and energetic in places. Andrew Weiss’ bass playing is a highlight. [Ripplemusic](https://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/rollins-band-end-of-silence.html) *It’s not just the lyrical content that I’ve found amazing about this album. The End of Silence is jam packed with music that shreds any preconceived notion of what hardcore punk is all about. And, that’s probably because this is anything but a hardcore punk rock album! This album is hopped up rock n’ roll turned up to eleven, just so the notes are that much more distorted and that much more intense. *
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Yes although not fussed on misskey inspired customisations. Active development and performance improvements sound good but perhaps just a short dev cycle to push their prioritised improvements.


Self run pleroma. Looking to test friendica but the host didn’t have the right setup. Mastodon social account for testing. Account on bookwyrn, account on pixelfed.social.


Aah ok. That’s the interesting thing about blocks, I can’t see yogthos post from sopuli (hence the double up) and it’s not something set on my account.

It would be good to get some indication of what convos you could be missing out on.



Anything that can work towards breaking the strangehold and pushes towards open data I can get behind.


What a waste of talent.

I have never been able to kill stupid things before they cause damage, or set a direction and have a team actually stick to it,"

From a related Ars Technica article

…Back in late 2021, Carmack also had some words of warning as Facebook changed its named to Meta and pivoted fully behind the amorphous idea of the metaverse. Carmack said we should be wary of “architecture astronauts” who do a lot of high-level hand-waving instead of building viable products that customers find useful.





Happy with full timeline, I’ve followed people for a reason. Not interested in others making decisions for me cough fb. What I would like is a way to rank prioritise people and increase decrease feed volume based on priority that I choose. Also set / mute by topic.

The idea of a trending digest, posted elsewhere is also a good one. Opt in approaches.



Breaking into the US would be a tall order for any sport, would have been interesting to see how a branded version of league would have gone. Mix in a bit of MMA attitude.

Re the game If a team has to expend all their energy in a semi odds are they wont have much in the tank for the final. Against Australia even worse, should be proud though. Samoan flags have been out in force until recently!



Jeff is on the fediverse at @llamasoft_ox@toot.wales
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Awesome - thanks for all the feedback. Looks like I have a bit of testing ahead of me.


Excellent will have to test it out at some point when implemented (personally wasnt a fan of the old k9 ui)


Bluesky surely has to be the front runner for the better twitter even if it is only an underlying protocol. I don’t think Mastodon will ever be the front runner in that the devs don’t seem to want to imitate the hooks that allowed twitter to become so big in the first place (not a bad thing)


Mastodon feels like an interim step to something else. That you feel like something newer could develop, but you could still connect with current activitypubapps - is refreshing.

Up until google builds something to suck the life out of it but they might be busy with ai-infested search indexing.


I always get awaiting approval from pleroma ( Mastodon works like a charm on evrything other than sopuli) not sure if I’ve missed something.


The Akkoma dev gave an indication hopefully it works out.

As many of you will be aware, back in 01/2022, there was something of a schism in the smallish group of Pleroma developers with no single cause in my eyes - it was the culmination of years of mounting tensions between two competing interest groups.


Great to see some detailed how-tos for something other than mastodon. Though in this case theyre using Rebased as the backend which is a fork of Pleroma.


My assumption is people won’t engage with a large dump of data. So when I posted about a site with good content I posted one link to the site and then posted one article as a taster and I thought that was a good approach.


Aah you’re going to make me test out a frendica account now :D I’ve only seen how it works from mastodon, which is limited but usable…

Have never got it working from my pleroma instance, but that just may be my lack of sysadmin skills.