stay mad

I vow to make this comm 1000% more trans and leftist if appointed mod 🤓

I am in cahoots with the international trans mafia. I will not show anyone any quarter. (I already mod shit on here)

lol 🍿 honestly hope the instance just goes back to being a trans instance, hurry up and leave

Well, cool, but you’re a highschooler so you don’t have much real world experience, though being a closeted queer as a highschooler is definitely a hellish and radicalizing experience, I’ve been there. Also, as a trans person thats been transitioned for a long time, you begin to realize the number of allies you have is very few and debate is very much a waste of time (fun for cis people, terrifying for trans people) and its far more important to build independence and resilience for the community and remove awful people from your life. Hexbear has mutual aid drives and housing support groups that have saved many trans people from homelessness and even their lives. Think: does SJW or lemmy.world do the same, or are they just all hot air and complain about ‘tankies’ in a vague way while doing nothing? Is it fine to be rude to people who think debating your existence and the existence of other marginalized people is good fun?

A place with a high amount of queer and trans socialists that all the cishets on the fediverse mald about. The instance is something like 66% queer / queer adjacent and 51% are trans / trans adjacent. Essentially, a lot of people are very aggro about the fact that they have carved a safe space out for themselves prior to lemmy becoming popular recently. Tldr:

Here’s some of their demographic surveys.

https://hexbear.net/post/2687582

https://hexbear.net/post/3635039

Truly unhinged that they decided to come out on this. Fellas, you are fucking Swiss why throw yourself under the bus for the US election

Its honestly kinda weird, bazzite and nobara are fairly big. Must be a bug

Edit: Looks like flatpack usage prevents them from monitoring OS, a lot of fedora stuff uses the flatpack for steam. Flatpack users are 5.73% of all linux users, most are on steamos.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=linux

Nextdns is a good choice for on the go, I’m pretty sure its an easy swap on iphones.

In my experience, Nobara requires way less fiddling and works out of the box. CachyOS was way more fiddly. I have newer hardware so things are a bit weird for me in general.

Do wish Nobara had more maintainers. Cachyos isn’t a whole lot better in this regard either, if you wanted something for gaming that has a lot of maintainers you should probably go for Bazzite. Personally, I had issues with Bazzite as well, Nobara seems to play nicest with new hardware out of the box.

This is of course all very well known. The best way to prevent this sort of data collection is to install open source FOSS alternatives or block internet access to devices at the router level. For things like Android, you can do a more finegrained approach.

https://www.privacyguides.org/ has a decent list of alternatives, but are by no means exhaustive.

For Siri, it is very difficult for it to still function as a device without invasive access. You’d need to find a different thing for this, there are many Home Assistant compatible options that don’t phone home. As a matter of fact, all of these sort of smart home devices tend to have home assistant compatible devices that can be stripped one way or another of all their telemetry leaks.

Pihole can rip out telemetry data and block ad domains at the router level too. For android without software changes (like swapping to Graphene OS), I strongly recommend https://nextdns.io/ which will help block telemetry and ads even in unpaid apps.

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The current system of AI stuff are mostly good for summarizing a ton of articles at once, translating, and filler for artists. Just the other day I was driving somewhere and had to find a parking spot that was cheap/free and had duckduckgo’s chatbot summarize 30 enshittified search results for me which led me to a real free parking space. All the apps and sites for the nearby area are basically worthless for listing the actual pricing in a quick way. As for art, its never particularly good at making very complex things unless you get a good roll of the dice or have a dozen extra systems built over it, but its great at filler.

As for translating, I have some Chinese friends and its fun to freak them out by emulating dialects from certain regions they’re from with qwen’s llms.

If youre using it for things like important manuals and so on, you’re essentially just programming a search engine that detects natural language and outputs RAG based on keywords, which can be done in a much less resource intensive way than an LLM.

also, part of what makes something a bullshit job is that it provides no value to society, but doesn’t human expression enrich people’s lives?

The average artist isnt going to have AIs trained on their stuff. Its only cream of the crop stuff (greg rutkowski, who is rich, or van gogh or something) or styling from big companies that gets trained on. These people all benefit from passive income, they can get fucked

It feels bourgeois to me anyways to be so deeply concerned about the purity of art as many on here do. One of the biggest early Soviet artists, Alexandr Labas, was pressured out of art and into architecture and began designing theaters. Dmitry Nalbandyan was conscripted and later made to make propaganda. In fact, all Soviet art was for the purpose of propaganda and perpetuating socialist ideals, whereas modern art is of course, by definition, slop and consumerism.

To me, art and these other fields that are being so cruelly attacked by AI, are just bullshit jobs in the first place. Everyone is all worked up about this, but think about how this sort of discussion looks to someone who does hard labor? Do we not all agree that the first world is filled with labor aristocrats? Then why are we so vehemently defending them? Let alone the artists that continue to accrue money passively that these AIs were trained on.

Using AI to help in your workflow isn’t a bad thing - but using AI slop in a very meticulously-crafted art project (like Project Zomboid) has a very real effect. It cheapens the experience and the tone. It devalues the artistic intention behind the rest of the game. Worst of all for a game as good as Project Zomboid, it can scare away new potential players who have very legitimate concerns about the ethics of AI in art and games, and makes the game look like a cheap slop cash-grab to others.

this is hilarious to me. project zomboid, truly an artistic experience

Me using photoshop/gimp/krita is removing the local paint man’s ability to sell paint and we should oppose photoshop/gimp/krita because it exploits the people who work on it with low wages and… you know its just all ridiculous, AI shit isnt going to replace artists except in the most evil shit you can imagine like fucking billboard ads or in the most mundane shit like someone generating quick art for a throwaway dnd character. This same hand-wringing was done about digital manipulation software, I’m old enough to remember that outrage too and its the same shit.

Theres all these stories of companies trying to get rid of artists and just telling some random person to generate art for them and it always blows up in their faces, and I frankly see almost no chance of it getting better.

This isn’t really a good way to spot it. Theres a lot of tools that artists use that can end up with digital paintings doing weird artifacting like this, one I can think of are custom brushes or people that collage to make their art. Also, theres a whole new brand of artist that uses AI in a workflow to make their images faster. They might sketch something out and then have ai fill in the most time consuming parts (such as a head of hair) and it will all look very believably not AI. It basically is just collaging but way faster.

less bootlicker trans community here than on reddit

I did the previous synthwavy banner one day and also my avatar. I dont actually know if I have the full sized version of my avatar anymore I’ve swapped systems a lot lately but its marceline from adventure time with a soviet flag.

I have a bunch of other doodles and art I do in my free time, largely for various board game projects that me and friends do, but I can’t divulge those because it’d give away my super secret identity 🥷

bergamot is ok but leaves a lot to be desired