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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

This comment section is gathering personal attacks so we are locking it.

Additionally: we don't have a rule against AI generated images, so we had a discussion about this and wanted to hear what the [email protected] community thinks about it before acting on the reports.

Will announce more about the AI discussion soon in a separate post.

[โ€“] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Now get a human to redraw this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

seriously, I'm thinking of blocking the users who keep spamming these AI bullshits.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

perfectionism is the enemy of progress

This is a "buy european" community, not an anti-AI one. This image gets the message across. It doesn't have to pass a purity test.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Woah how can you tell here? I have been bamboozled

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The text made me suspicious - I never really thought about why it looks weird, but from closer inspection it looks like almost every letter is unique. It just has such an uncanny look. If it was made with a normal font then letters should be near identical. I suppose some artists who hand draw text could be caught up, but I don't think that's common unless they're drawing a uniquely stylized font. For fonts like this that are just plain, it wouldn't make sense to hand draw each character.

The 2 apostrophes in don't and doesn't in the bottom left are a super obvious example

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not OP but when I saw the font it reminded me of the same font used in AI generated drawings with words. Can't be sure though, usually there's some defect in the words but not this one

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"for the people"
Continues to cross post ai corpo "art"

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

critique to build, not to tear down

#1 dude. Be better.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I often see people giving others flack for switching to Proton because their CEO etc.

But any step in the right direction should be praised, Proton etc. Is far from perfect, but it's so much better then never moving away from Google / Microsoft etc.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Upvote cause good point, but I have to really mention that OpSec is a black and white thing.

You make one OpSec mistake and you're cooked. Look how they got Ross Ulbricht.

Meshtastic seems to me to be easiest to have good OpSec at the moment and I really hope we can develop it further.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Isn't meshtastic unencrypted radio transmission?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It supports encryption. I think encryption is only forbidden when using ham radio

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I believe all mechtastic channels are encrypted, it's just that the default channel's key is preloaded so that everyone can use it as a "public" channel.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The CEO was saying that Trumps pick to help fight big business was great, not that Trump himself is great, the fact that so many people didn't see to get that and instead just went, Proton CEO likes Trump! blew my mind

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

And he was also wrong about that point as well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

This reply by @[email protected] on the original post may help someone here:

Imperfect Allies Aren't Enemies

  • Critique to build, not tear down
  • Organize, don't just argue
  • Movements win, not individuals
  • Perfection is the enemy of progress
  • Ego kills movements
  • Plan for the long game
  • Meet people where they are
  • Power doesn't care about feelings
  • Division is a weapon used by elites, don't play along
[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (10 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

daily reminder that luddites weren't against new tech out of fear or misunderstanding, they were against the owner class hoarding all extra productivity as wealth instead of reducing workload and/or increasing pay for the workers alongside tech advancements.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (22 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It doesn't matter. Buy European, comrade.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I love how the propaganda bots have persuaded everyone to focus on whether or not this image was made with AI, and everyone completely forgot about the very positive and constructive message in this image.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

All of these rules would have helped the Occupy Wall Street back in the day

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The perfection over progress is killing us.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

If only the [insert subgroup that vaguely annoys me] would listen to this!

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