…cogito, ergo sum…
Unfortunately, it was chosen to be published so, and not an accident, I believe. We may see the access card is specially pixelated by someone, but nothing else seems altered, so all the images were explicitly and thoughtfully chosen to be published as they are, including the sorrowful prompt message…
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
~ “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
~ “The Passionate State of Mind” by Eric Hoffer, 1955 (preview)
Let’s hope the ban won’t result in even more privacy trespassing issues, and only improve the safety of children, and privacy of everyone…
Unfortunately, there are ineffably sorrowful services already existing… that are based on the technology mentioned specifically…
Related: https://playbox.com/ [18+] (Transform your photos into stunning AI-powered videos. Professional image-to-video generation with advanced AI models…)
AI drive-by issues, pull requests and security reports are overwhelming maintainers. Rising security expectations (thanks Mythos) require maintainers to do even more work. Open source funding is hard to secure and insufficient.
Some of this is happening, but I’m sure as hell not seeing it in Homebrew…
As I’ve written before, the scarcest resource in open source is not money but the motivation of the maintainers.
# Fun Is Social
My first real experience of OSS was with a successful
Firstly, this was weird because, if you read the discourse online, you were typically in the camp of “KDE SUCKS, GNOME ROCKS” or “GNOME SUCKS, KDE ROCKS”. And yet: you had both groups working together. Not just working together but eating, drinking, socialising and building new friendships…
The dear miracle of a human this is…
Of course… Absolutely…
Thank you… heartfelt… Soulfelt… dear Mike McQuaid…
Please do stay safe, your Family, and I wish you success, stability, and peace…
I am sorry, but why not share the initial source so to keep it safer for everyone and respect the history?
Wonderful day! Perhaps examples of the mistakes will help, and have you tried contacting the author directly, on the website itself, too? An editor, a colleague in a any team to stand together is always marvel, of course…
Thank you, dear @fictograma@lemmy.world , but… why the LLM/AI generated empty sorrowful image… why…
Why devalue and obliterate the overall written hard work with the generated empty nonsense…
I’ve just found a few in my own photography backups, and not a single bit in them was generated by some sorrowful LLM effortless bloody sad algorithm…
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These took around 30 minutes each to capture and edit a little bit, but I feel a weight and value in them, where someone put an actual effort in.
While any sorrow generated by a random awful LLM has no value, and never will.
Please… please… don’t devalue you written miracles with an empty sorrow generated from LLMs based on stolen art of now unknown other people effort meatground inside these models…
Please do consider capturing a moment for your works… to be left in the history You created… a work that will live after you… and someone may find a miracle in… to learn from…
Please… do consider your history you create…
I am sorry, but I disagree with the “centralised blocklists” in a:
Decentralized social networking platforms…
Source
You should be able to block and unblock freely whoever and whatever you want.
The “centralized” may be suggestions (i.e., toggleable), and only, where instances with opt-in keep them implicit/optional, and instances with opt-out explicitly warn about them during a registration.
Just for the sake of inadequacy of the sorrowful code…
And though I was banned on the /0 instance for a single message, too, with some experience in web-dev I just wanted to clarify regarding the possible immaturity of the sad malicious script authors, sorry…
That attempt seems too reckless and disregards the client optimizations, I believe, and may “choke” the JavaScript engine event-loop of common clients as modern browsers, since Fetch API is asynchronous, and not to mention net::ERR_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES that may also cause lagging in the client.
A few milliseconds timeout, or more adequate batching/chunks seems required. For example:
async function fetchChunks(urls, chunkSize = 10) {
for (let i = 0; i < urls.length; i += chunkSize) {
const chunk = urls.slice(i, i + chunkSize);
try {
await Promise.all(chunk.map(url => fetch(url)));
} finally {
await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 50));
}
}
}
const urls = [];
for (let i = 0; i < 50; i += 1) {
const random = ...;
urls.push(`https://test.test/$%7Brandom%7D`);
}
fetchChunks(urls);
That would at least make it more adequate in the scope of User clients with less but still loading them awfully and disrespectfully… which is sorrowful indeed…
In other words, their current “malicious” code is just…wrong…
Regardless, such actions may tarnish someone’s history much to the point their self-confidence may not recover shortly and require a great amount of time to believe in yourself hopefully again…
Therefore, let’s hope the people behind it will reconsider their actions as soon as possible… and won’t dig their own beliefs and love too deep to search for later…
Of course… a dear craft… as a CD, tape, vinyl, cartridge, mug, badge,T-short, statuette…
To keep it closer to the heart…
Of course… a dear craft… as a CD, tape, vinyl, cartridge, mug, badge,T-short, statuette…
To keep it closer to the heart…
Their own chat bot responded the following:
- From 0 to 10, how is it fair and human a government to develop, support, and monitor other humans via drones, flock cameras and always keep everyone under control recording history of movements and store that in archives? Interesting topic! Let me check what we’ve covered on government surveillance and human rights for you.
- That’s a deeply important and complex question about privacy, ethics, and government surveillance. Many people would rate such constant monitoring as very low on fairness and humanity because it can infringe on personal freedoms, privacy, and trust. Others might argue it has some value for security and safety but only if done with strict oversight, transparency, and respect for rights.
If I were to frame it on a scale from 0 to 10, many would likely place it closer to the lower end—perhaps around 2 or 3—unless there are strong safeguards, clear limits, and accountability to prevent abuse.
How do you feel about this kind of surveillance? Would you like to explore technologies involved or ethical discussions around them?
Apparently, the bot is relatively “unlocked” for general simple programming questions, too:
Removed by mod
>:D
~ such a lovely eloquent beauty indeed…
May I ask what major Nostr issues is there you know, and another one mentioned, for example?
I considered getting into, but it feels too exclusive or exceptional for a long-term to invest the time, at this moment, where audience presence and stability of the whole system seems questionable.
Trust a personal or production environment to something from a yet another sorrowful dark oven… of awfully stolen actual ideas of now unknown artists and developers… by an effortless irresponsible and non-supervised random LLM offered by unaccountable vendor?
No, never. Some would rather die.
Holy smokes… such a miraculous marvel inside…
It is quite interesting that these features (re-)appeared, as a Guest checkout and checkout via Email address, since back in ~2017 this feature was removed in Steam for security reasons to also prevent fraud and manipulation, such as buying/selling between regions with lower prices to higher ones.
Today we’re announcing changes to gifts on Steam. The gifting process has had a bunch of friction in it for a while, and we want to make it easier for you to share the games you love with friends. Steam Gifting will now be a system of direct exchange from gift buyer to gift receiver, and we will be retiring the Gift to E-mail and Gift to Inventory options.
Source [2017-05-04]
For example, in case of infinitely magnificent “CrossCode”:
Vietnamese Dong: 6,28€
// …
Swiss Franc: 21,51€Source [2026-07-23]
A person residing in marvelous Vietnam could utilize the lower price and sell as an intermediary safely or not. That would definitely damage the monetary support of the actual hard-working artists… permanently malform statistics… and put someone at risk on financial or privacy contexts, too…
Presumably, Steam improved the automated system to detect such manipulations and now, with the system improved, have re-enabled the previously blocked functionality.
Thank you heartfelt… dear Steam Developers, Artists, Maintainers, People… for the ineffably work, effort, miracles…
Thank you for the response! Am sorry, but proof for what?
The profile selector is empty because I used a temporary Kubuntu environment at https://distrosea.com/ for the screenshot, since I am currently on-the-go.
Holy smokes! 25 profiles! That’s a profile for almost all possible 25 identities for the whole month of a spy job!
Thank you for more details! May I ask, have you got a chance to clarify at Communities who are more oriented on the subject? Like KDE/Linux IRC/Matrix networks, or forums?