Kings never went away, they just changed to a different form and name to remain accepted in society, as the ones with the crowns ended up in the gallows.

Depends on where you live I suppose. Irrational AI hate is something I only really encounter online. Then again my country has pretty good worker protections, so there’s less reason to be afraid of AI.

If you use StableDiffusion through a web UI (might exist for others as well), you might have access to a feature called ‘interrogate’, which allows you to find an approximate prompt to an image. Can be useful if you need it for future images.

It can also be done online: https://huggingface.co/spaces/pharmapsychotic/CLIP-Interrogator

Halfway-North American

That makes a lot of sense then yes

I cant even remember blocking any bot, no. But I see it similarly, if it actually provides good discussion then its fine in my book. I get that we dont want to just rehash reddit but its not like link aggregators dont aggregate from other link aggregators.

Maybe its just me but I havent seen any of them?

Get one of those pillows where you can remove or add stuffing - Be your own Walter White.

The opinion of Hexbear doesn’t seem to be the problem, and because of certain ideological overlap to users here that should be quite obvious in my opinion. You seem to have focused on the wrong part of the OP.

The problem is that they are presenting themselves as an ideological army. And especially that the admins of Hexbear seem to support this position, rather than it just being some rogue users.

Imagine if a Lemmy instance opened up for a specific religion and their whole point was to inject themselves into as many discussions as possible to push information favorable to their religion. The problem isn’t that they believe in their religion, or even that they want to make the best case possible for it. It’s the fact that they are trying to wield open discussions as a sword to convert people regardless of relevance or appropriateness.

Of course you are. There’s nothing wrong with defending your beliefs, or advocating for them in the right context. Especially if they have sound arguments to back them up. (Also, I don’t see any indication why that wouldn’t be allowed based on this post, or the rules of conduct)

But pushing your beliefs is different. It’s about foregoing actually convincing people and instead using underhanded tactics such as propaganda, brigading, or botting to make an opinion seem more sound than it really is. (Not saying your opinion necessarily is, by the way.)

I mostly see psychological benefits:

• Building confidence in writing and (when roleplaying) in interacting with other people. LLMs dont shame, or get needlessly hostile. And since they follow your own style it can feel like talking to a friend.
• related to that, the ability to help in processing traumatic events through writing about them.

For me personally, interacting with AI has helped me conquer some fears and shame that I buried long ago.

You can’t mitigate a man in the middle attack on a technical level… Because they are a man in the middle… That’s the point of using DDoS mitigation. Nothing’s stopping them from just sending incoming traffic to a phishing site if a bad actor was in control of it.

That’s easier said than done, DDoS mitigation requires a large amount of servers that are only really useful to persist an active DDoS attack. It’s why everyone uses Cloudflare, because of the amount of customers they serve there’s pretty much always an active attack to fend off. Decentralization wouldn’t work great for it because you would have to trust every decentralized node not to perform man in the middle attacks. But if you know of any such solution I’d love to hear it.

P2P exposes your IP to those you need to connect to. So if you’re a streamer or something - share a file and you dox yourself. It also means if you’re offline you can’t send the file.

It’s just not practical over remotely hosted for it to be the default. There’s other apps you can download if you still want to use P2P

Might want to post this on c/reddit - It’ll probably be removed here, check the mod post for c/lemmyworld: Community moderation policy

Had gehoopt dat met het zonnige weer de prijs nog wat omlaag zou gaan door alle zonne-energie, toch maar m’n energiecontract verlengt met dit nieuws, 't was al weer iets duurder dan voorheen helaas.

I use a 3rd party app maybe 1/4th of my time on reddit, so I could’ve technically gone without it. But I think anyone keeping up with the current situation can see old.reddit.com is on the chopping block soon, if not next. When reddit’s admin team said half a year ago that the APIs aren’t going anywhere for at least the next couple of years, and now have to deal with being called out on their deception, and even adding new lies onto the pile like the whole Apollo debacle, you know they can’t be trusted in any capacity to keep promises.

If keeping an API accessible that does the exact same thing as their own app is too much of an expense to keep open, imagine how much maintaining a completely separate front end for their entire website must ‘cost’. And that’s in part why I’ve made this switch now and not when old.reddit.com gets killed eventually.

And that’s something that’s easy to forget once you’ve made the change. Uprooting something you use daily, to move to a new platform which feels new and different, takes quite a bit of mental effort and requires you to accept some anxiety, as you wean yourself off your habits. But when the power users go, and the new place becomes more familiar and understood, the rest will follow eventually as every step becomes easier to accept.