cloudskater

The guy replying to me is (as far as I can tell) the sole owner and moderator of .wtf, which is the instance I've been using up until this point. I kinda already knew they allowed AI slop, as there's nothing in the rules that says otherwise, but this interaction really sealed my decision. "Hey, person who makes music. If you don't like another musician using the fascist plagiarism machine, how about you offer to create art for them? After all, if people simply donated their time and effort, maybe they wouldn't have to resort to pissing in the face of their fellow artists of a different medium. Think about it."
Also, I think you can donate to the instance in crypto?

Fuck right off with that.

On another note: PeerTube itself uses Whisper for automatic subtitle generation. It's something I don't LIKE, but I approached the devs about it and they responded very thoughtfully. I'll admit I don't know all the differences between locally run, open source models that are used for accessibility and the horrible plagiarism machines we all despise the most. I suspect they're still built off exploitive tech / trained on stolen data and whatnot, and Whisper being the product of OpenAI doesn't inspire confidence, but Framasoft only uses it to detect speech, not create it. That's hardly "generative" at all, is it? It's just creating subtitles. Now, that doesn't mean the program itself is ethical given how it was likely created (as the devs acknowledge), and we SHOULD push for ethical, FLOSS methods of doing these sorts of things. I'm sure it can be done, it wasn't exploitative before the AI boom, right? This is where my knowledge ends and I ask for feedback. Any thoughts?

I heard a PeerTuber I follow talk about controversy around "Rust" as a dangerous cult or something, but that she thinks people should put aside their "petty grievances" and focus more on what good the project will do for Linux. I'm out of the loop, but I think Rust is a programming language, right? Anyone know what this whole thing about a cult is? I want to be filled in on it, because it seems important.

I'm sure there's a name for this function, but you know that thing where your screen is constantly being captured but it only gets saved if you tell it to, and then it'll save the last minute or however long the buffer period is? It lets you capture cool moments in games and stuff? Yeah, that. Is there a way to make OBS do that? If not, does anybody know of an open source application I can use for that? It'd be really useful and fun.
Thanks!

Sorry for bringing politics into this space, I'm only doing so to ask for artist suggestions.

I'm a musician in the fandom who usually makes soft synth-pop, but I also love heavier genres and have been working on some very rage-fueled hardcore songs for the past year or so. Is anyone aware of artists who wouldn't mind drawing anti-capitalist/socialist themes for me? Heck, maybe you are one yourself, in which case I'm really interested in looking at your portfolio!
If you need a baseline for what kind of art I'm hoping to commission, I can confirm they'll be at least one flag burning, if not two. I'm interested in artists of all styles, but I tend to lean towards toony stuff, and honestly, having such visceral imagery portrayed in a cute, fluffy style really speaks to me. It sends a message of "Love and kindness doesn't mean letting yourself be walked over. Quite the opposite, as those things should be fought for." Damn, that's... almost a lyric I could fit in somewhere. lol