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Cake day: November 21st, 2024

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  • Consider that “being mad” is an expression of much more complex feelings, like surprise and not knowing how to react, disappointment at not being told earlier and questioning why that is (“am I not a good enough friend to them, what did I do to make them not trust me?”), suddenly having to worry about this person doing this dangerous thing, realising that they didn’t know a huge thing about the person they thought they knew etc. The fact that you seem to think they’re just making it about them (“get over yourself”) is yet another concerning aspect of the posts you made in recent weeks.


  • If you’re mobile-only, that’s probably going to be a problem.

    The only tools I know are Glaze and Nightshade. Think of them as defense and offense, respectively. They both introduce subtle changes to your image that make it harder for AI to use it. Well I say subtle - the stronger the protection the more noticeable the effect is to the human eye.

    Glaze is defense, meaning AI can’t use the image to imitate your style. I don’t personally use it because I’m simply not well-known enough for anyone to want to specifically imitate my nonsense.

    Nightshade is offense, it poisons the AI’s data with useless information. Basically it makes the AI think that an image of, say, a cat is a chimney. That’s what I use on anything I upload.

    You can use both, though I don’t remember if there’s a recommended order in which to use them. The effect will then also be more noticeable. If you decide to use one or both, you should play around with the settings to see what’s tolerable to you and what makes sense for an individual image.

    Last time I looked, they were working on a mobile solution but I haven’t heard anything on that front, unfortunately.






  • I do wear glasses and I came here to post exactly your first sentence. There probably is a difference, sure, but I personally can’t see it unless I put both files next to each other and really try to see it.

    I’ve been digitising our movie collection so I played around with resolutions to minimise the storage space needed - I did settle on doing everything in 1080p but mostly because it feels weird to use a resolution the internet tells me is bad and I’m vulnerable to peer pressure (voice in the back of my head “oooh but what if anyone ever looks at those files?? What’ll they think???” type nonsense).

    I also had a few files that came in much higher resolution that I re-encoded to fractions of their file sizes and honestly same effect.





  • They don’t make me “happy” but I’m also not simply “sad” without them. They stabilise my mood, they prevent the big dips, the deep abysses, where everything is stupid and bullshit. They enable me to deal a little better with bad shit happening so that not every little fuck-up makes me crash.

    Some people might call that “dulling” or similar but I really prefer this over despairing at every little thing.

    However, it’s worth noting that, especially in case of psycho-active drugs, everybody reacts differently to them. Most people try a handful of different drugs before they find one that fits. That’s to be expected so if the first one doesn’t work or causes intolerable side-effects, there are plenty alternatives.



  • Not Halloween because that’s not a thing here but for Karneval I had the coolest Spider-Man costume. At least it’s the coolest in my memory. Anyway, imagine a beaming 7-year-old running around as Spider-Man for months at every opportunity with her blonde hair sticking out under the hood (which was really more like a Daredevil cap, probably so that kids don’t asphyxiate themselves).Then I lost the hood. Still used the rest as a pyjama for as long as I fit in it.

    Another time I was a witch disguised as a clown. I don’t know why. It was really just a collection of weird, mismatched clothing articles and some clown make-up.

    And for some reason, at one point I REALLY liked this guy:

    Not Mickey but the Phantom Blot. REALLY wanted to be him for Karneval. So my mum took an old sheet, dyed it black and then I had to explain to everyone in my class, one after the other, that ‘no not the phantom of the opera…’