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  • Lemmynsfw is down, possibly forever. The server is still serving images and videos though - if anyone wants to archive do it now!

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  • Porn angle notwithstanding, if nothing else, this should be taken as a sign of the fragility of the Fediverse, and a warning that server communities which are only administrated by a single person (who could get hit by a bus at any time) can disappear in an instance. In order to make the Fediverse more robust against stuff like this, we really need servers and communities to have at least 2 admins with the necessary level of access for handling unforeseen circumstances. A single person going MIA randomly shouldn't be enough to take down an entire Fediverse instance. (I saw something similar happen with kbin, when one day the site just... went down!)

    Now when it comes to the porn side of this, this is also kind of bad news for Fediverse adoption since there are a lot of sex/porn/kind-related communities on Reddit, and now we are kind of without a lot of that stuff.

  • How do you learn to be happy by yourself?

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  • Call me crazy but I'd argue that masturbation and sex-positivity is actually pretty damn important to learning how to be happy alone.

    Being single doesn't me an being a monk or depriving yourself of nice things.

    Take yourself and friends out to dinner and movies, buy yourself and your family nice gifts, and yes, learn how to sexually satisfy yourself too without shame and negativity.

    The idea that you can't enjoy your sexuality without a partner is kind of depressing. Sex-positivity is empowering.

  • disliking tech bros ≠ disliking tech

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  • I do hate unregulated capitalism.

    But that's not the only problem, even people in the non-profit space, as well as the supposed "communists" of the CCP in China are using and abusing machine learning techniques for the purposes of surveillance, oppression and exploitation.

    It's not the technology's fault, obviously. But at that point this becomes a bullshit "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument.

  • disliking tech bros ≠ disliking tech

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  • I hate "AI" because it's been built of the forced exploitation of untold millions of artists and creative laborers, without even so much as consent, let alone compensation...

  • Germs are scared of me!

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  • +2 points for honesty

    -10 points for wtf

  • Fetterman only Senate Democrat to vote to keep Homeland Security funded

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  • Maybe he'll stroke out again and have to resign.

  • Dubai CEO Resigns After Released Email Showed Epstein Thanking Him For ‘Torture Video’

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  • To think fucking "Dubai CEOs" have more shame than US politicians.

  • Will the AI bubble burst will actually help?

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  • It will help erase the notion that any of these companies are too big to fail and thus above the law and beyond regulation.

    Even if bubbles burst these tools will go nowhere.

    These tools can and should be regulated like everything else. Laws and regulations don't make things impossible, they simply disincentivize bad behavior by putting a real cost (money, time, or in some cases, life itself) on them.

    I think we have finally reached a point where nobody in their right mind would try to argue that training generative AI to create an infinite supply of slop should be considered "fair use", even under existing laws. And so a big part of making AI more fair and functional within our existing society would be to simply have it follow existing laws. For example:

    • If you want to train an AI to make art using an anime studio's art as training data, you must get (and probably pay a lot of money for) an explicit license to do so.
    • If you want to train an AI to speak using some famous actors voice as training data, you must get (and pay for) an explicit license to do so.
    • And the same thing for music, for written words, for code, etc...

    Illegally trained models will, of course, still exist out there on the net. But using those will no longer be considered legal or legitimate in the business world, and could open people/corporations up to serious legal liability.

    Every day I wake up I feel much shittier. I need to puke. I am seeing everything I love getting ruined by soulless bot or greedy humans who don't love art/music/story etc.

    You are not alone in this, and yeah, it can be very disheartening. It's entirely possible we may be entering a new cultural dark are where art and human creativity are not valued by the masses. Like Nietzche saying "god is dead", part of me truly believes that "art is dead", replaced by palatable corporate AI slop.

    However... the death of art and culture among the masses doesn't mean that we have to be devoid of art and culture as individuals. We have the ability to make caring about art and culture a core part of our own philosophy. We have the agency to create our own subculture where cool people continue to be rewarded for making interesting human works. We can, and should, still embrace humanity.

    I am sounding like a boomer but I am in my early 20s actually. I go to reddit there are Pro AI people laughing at us calling us Luddite or "Decel". I have no hope most of you guys are old folk. I want to leave this fast paced world & go do farming at my hometown. Reading Books made by humans and watching some movies made by humans in a week without caring about this whole hellhole.

    I'm not sure many of the people on reddit are even people these days. How many posts and comments over there are probably written by bots? And even among the real people on reddit, how many of them even have opinions that are worth a shit? Would we listen to these people if we ran into them on the street? In many cases, probably not...

    I do recommend touching grass, creating your own physical and digital media library, self-hosting your own services, and embracing traditional arts again. Buy a watercolor set, learn to play an instrument, broaden your horizons outside of the digital realm.

    I was so passionate about computer engineering I really loved technology. I was one of the early adopters of Gen AI who loved Midjounery because it was new & looked kinda magical to me now it looks like the most dystopian shit human yet created. I now resent my degree. I am a replaceable human who has no value. Human evolutioned much just to be replaced by some bots so I can do more slavery for corpo lords who believe that capital is ever growing like a cancer cell.

    As a programmer myself, I can resonate with this a lot.

    At the same time, technology isn't to blame for our current situation, corporate greed is. Machine learning has existed in theory and practice for decades. The big innovation of today's AI is theft. Like the Borg from Star Trek, assimilating everything in sight without consent for the benefit of the corporate machine.

    But technology can also help us fight back.

    Open source software allows us to put the power of technology into the hands of everyday people for free. The fediverse allows us to regain control over the internet and the means of communication. And even things like AI could theoretically be used to undermine corporate software (for example, AI-assisted decompilation of binaries) and even existing AI models (for example, increasingly sophisticated AI data poisoning techniques).

    This fight is nowhere close to being over. We still need you on our side.

    OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a month. Nobody wants to buy or consumer slop content. The novelty of all of this stuff is beginning to fade for most people. Legal questions have still not been fully answered. And technology can be used against corporations, too.

  • Anna's Archive Quietly 'Releases' Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback

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  • This is the same "preservation" group that sell data contracts to AI corporations like NVidia, right?

  • [CLOSED] what fediverse services do you recommend?

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  • There's honestly a lot out there...

    • Mastodon *
    • Lemmy *
    • Diaspora
    • Pixelfed *
    • Funkwhale
    • Matrix *
    • Misskey *
    • Peertube *
    • Loops *
    • Mbin *
    • Wafrn *
    • Plemora
    • Hubzilla
    • Piefed *
    • Friendica
    • Bookwyrm

    ... and probably more that I'm not able to think of. 

     
            * I recommend all the ones with asterisks. I haven't tried most of the other ones yet.

  • [CLOSED] what fediverse services do you recommend?

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  • Nothing is free. Someone is paying for hardware, electricity, internet, and man hours.

    On legacy social media, the advertisers and the consumers of your data are paying.

    On the fediverse, someone in the community is paying.

  • An ice dance duo skated to AI music at the Olympics | TechCrunch

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  • Yes, just like every other shitty, abhorent and misanthropic thing that exists in our world.

    That doesn't mean we have to accept, embrace, condone or endorse it. Nor does it mean that make it legitimate or above regulation.

    Resistance is not futile.

  • HP has laptop subscriptions now

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  • How is that laptop $3000?

  • Dr. Oz begs Americans to take the measles vaccine as infections soar

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  • Dipshits spend 15 years dismissing and spreading fud about vaccines, only to beg their people to get a vaccine. Too little, too late.

  • GOP's new fear: Losing the Senate in November

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  • Yes, many of the Democrats are a waste of fucking space, granted. I get it. You all should be voting in the primaries if you want to change that.

    But can be PLEASE for the love of fucking Sweet Baby Jesus remove the Republican fascist enablers from power? Can we at least give it a fucking try this time?

    My hope is that sometime in my lifetime people will finally realize that letting go of the rope isn't a good strategy for winning a tug-o-war. (So far, so bad.)

  • Trump says he will only accept the midterm results ‘if the elections are honest’ and again pushes to ‘nationalize’ voting

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  • Same shit he has said every election for 10 years.

    I wish people would cop this dumb fuck's modus operandi by now: he'll called it rigged if he looses, and he's also called it rigged if he doesn't win with 100% of the vote everywhere. Because anything otherwise would send him into a spiral of narcissistic collapse.

  • Featured

    Official Valve: Steam Hardware Launch timing (Q1/Q2 of 2026) and other FAQs

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  • I used to think that would be a bad idea (because it's very un-console-like to sell a device that isn't plug-and-play out of the box) but I might be coming around on it a bit if it means a more affordable option.

    They'd need to make it very clear to buyers, though.

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    Official Valve: Steam Hardware Launch timing (Q1/Q2 of 2026) and other FAQs

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  • I honestly wish they'd just release the controller sooner rather than later. I can somewhat understand delaying the Machine and Frame due to the supply shortages, but if the controller is ready then they should just put it out there.

  • Trump Asks Supporters to Prove Their Love With Cash

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  • Any way to proove my hate?

  • Trump Asks Supporters to Prove Their Love With Cash

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  • Nothing is ever enough for these people.