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[–] GEEXiES@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“modern design sensibilities”

How I dislike laptops not having trackpad buttons! No matter how good modern trackpads are, I still just want buttons. And lots of keys, and switches... and screws. Don't care how clean and sleek modern laptops look, they are a tool for me.

  • Bonus points for the trackpoint!
[–] GEEXiES@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The first image link doesn't work, but this one does:

https://media.piefed.social/posts/dR/Ew/dREwBXGL4ZKlZlx.jpg

[–] GEEXiES@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Now that you said ghost town... There is this sub I really liked that had around 500 000 members but with close to zero activity, like one or two posts a month and barely any comment. Now, with the changes, last time I checked it said it had less than 1000 active users!

I don't know if this change is good or bad for Reddit, but you can bet it was bad for mods, because they are complaining about those drastic reductions in member counts. I understand that there is no point in counting members if they are long gone, just like it doesn't make sense for a city to count their deceased for a population estimation.

Anyway, as usual mods there complain and complain but won't leave the site. I'm trapped there because of a few niche subs I can't find good replacements for, but I hope all these changes move more people out.

[–] GEEXiES@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

hiding total sub member count with a rolling view count

Wouldn't that be worse? I've seen a sub that had close to 5 million members and the new metric showed today 98 000 weekly users. r/gaming had what? 30 millions? Now it's 2.4. This makes it look worse, doesn't it? Or am I missing something?

But I agree with anything else you said.

[–] GEEXiES@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've seen kids with Nirvana t-shirts who knew nothing about the band. This might be similar.

[–] GEEXiES@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Not even unique I'd argue. He was lucky Digg killed itself at the right moment.

[–] GEEXiES@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Glad I'm not the only one! :D

[–] GEEXiES@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

As annoying as she was, Fi from Skyward Sword almost made me cry at the end of the game. Well, a couple of tears.

[–] GEEXiES@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I’m on 141.0.3

Same, yet I don't see any AI stuff (thankfully!). Maybe I'm missing something. Anyway, yes, screw any opt-out feature. I feel your pain.

[–] GEEXiES@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How come I don't see any of that AI stuff on my install? It's a regional thing? OS-based?

[–] GEEXiES@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Those were my thoughts. Now I'm also thinking of making it mandatory to include a piece of paper or whatever with the username written on it and have it show by the artwork on the progress photos. That could add a layer of complexity for the fakers.

The sad part is that all these will make the submitting process slower and more tedious, but that's the world we live in. But I guess artists will understand.

 

One of my biggest fears is to be deceived by AI works. Physical ones are easier to spot, but like half of the competition will revolve about digital art, and that's becoming trickier by the day.

I'm thinking of some sort of user verification (not of private personal data but of public profiles on Behance, DeviantArt, ArtStation, Pixiv, and others) as a first measure, though that could turn be intensive and slow if the number of participants becomes high. And once verified there's not guaranty they won't resort to AI one day.

So then of course there could be a requisite to submit some kind of "proof", a set of images or animation/video of the whole process, and maybe have mods/members check it and vote (real or not) if the number of submissions is high and I need help.

The competition is free to enter, and not that having to pay an entry fee would stop all scammers. I'll go invitation-only shortly after the website is up and running because maybe slowing down registrations, and coming with more and better ideas, could help.

What do you think? How would you go about it?

Thanks in advance!

 

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