This blog is clearly AI slop.

I wouldn’t focus too much on the anachronistic technology, that’s more to keep with the vibe of the original trilogy.

The farming audits, IMO, are pretty directly an analog to what ICE is doing in the US.

There’s definitely some WW2 influence and stylistic choices, if anything that’s to keep the execs willing to fund the thing, but later on you’ll see some more blatant comparisons to our modern situation.

An excellent game, but if at all possible, I implore anyone reading this with a prime subscription to cancel it in solidarity with boycotting the new regime.

It’d be far more ethical to sub to a VPN and sail the high seas than support billionaires.

They’re really not. I’d recommend reading the Dawn if Everything by anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David We grow, which reveals that our true ‘human nature’ is actually egalitarianism and cooperation, and that our current modes of existence are an oddly different blip on the timeline of humanity.

PSA on Swamp Ass from your friendly Captain Malcolm Reynolds :)

Arguably it’d be better to use air conditioners as long as that energy is from renewables such as solar (where the southwest is particularly suited) to help save water, which is in critically short supply in those areas.

As a fellow user of Librewolf, I’ve also lamented that I can’t use the dark mint theme due to that setting. The alternative Alexandrite and Photon frontends we host have easy user-editable themes, though it can take some getting used to if you’re used to the standard lemmy-ui.

Your comment prompted me to look into if there’s a workaround, and I found this, which describes how to disable the ResistFingerprinting setting, and instead modify the FingerprintingProtection setting in the about:config settings menu to replicate the functionality of ResistFingerprinting while still letting the user set the default page theme.

When I compared the standard ResistFingerprinting setting vs the workaround with dark theme enabled in the user settings, it showed no difference in fingerprint score over on CoverMyTracks, so that could be a good temporary or permanent solution (extra bonus that it effects all websites)

poVoq is also investigating the possibility of adding a dedicated dark theme option to slrpnk as well.

I was thinking Mon Mothma’s speech, in particular.

Season 1 is, yes. Season 2 is very much targeting today.

Andor.

The guy who heads that gave a fantastic Defcon talk showing it in action.

AFAIK, krita has had non-destructive editing for a while now (while gimp just got it with the 3.0 release).

The text tool is a pain point still, though thankfully a new from the ground up text tool over 6 years in the making is soon to be released for Krita this year, likely making it the most capable open-source option.

Also @ICastFist@programming.dev

It’s mostly a lack of reach than lack of care. It’s mostly known in English and Polish speaking countries, but there’s a lack of media in other languages on it, and more importantly, a lack of people with large followings in those languages that will spread the signal.

Newer versions of Krita now come with G’mic built in, which add so many incredible tools, including a content aware fill that works incredibly well, and a really nice edge detecting cropping tool called foreground extract.

Damn, that sucks :(

Is it… Is it supposed to spoil so much?

The video is about a retro game, it’s just that the retro game has content you don’t like and don’t want other people talking about.

Far as I can tell, it does that when the phone is running low on ram. At least, that’s when it does it to me.

I think the analogy holds up beautifully.

The man proceeds to tell the booth talkers that he’s taken great pains to avoid seeing or hearing politics in his daily life, such as quickly muting political ads on TV, requesting his neighbors take down their Trump flags and local candidate election signs in their yard, and taking backroads to avoid seeing a political billboard on the way to work, all in the effort to spare their eyes the misfortune of sliding across disgusting politics. So it’s perfectly reasonable that he demand to the booth talkers they cease their discussion immediately, and switch to a topic he approves of, he explains, confident in the knowledge that they will understand the pains he’s gone through.

The two people in the booth glance at each other uncomfortably, wondering what terrible fate brought this demanding and oddly entitled man to their booth. Finally, one of them flashes a half-grin and spreads their hands disarmingly “Hey man, I get it that you don’t like what we’re discussing, but if we give in to your request, wouldn’t that mean we’d have to give into any other request you have about topics? What if we were talking about sex amongst ourselves and that too wasn’t acceptable since you go to efforts to avoid that topic as well? I don’t think we want to live our lives beholden to your feelings on things, that’s for us to decide. Have a good day.”

Interesting, by your guidelines, there’s quite some limits on expressing oneself to appease people who can easily avoid and skip over a clearly labeled piece of content.

From my perspective, it’s as though someone came into a tavern and, fresh ale in hand, overheard a political discussion happening in a corner booth. Perhaps the subject was particularly distasteful to this theoretical tavern goer, and instead of ignoring it or moving to a seat where they can’t hear it, they instead march up to said booth and demand these booth talkers cease their discussion immediately, explaining that they come to the tavern to relax, not have these political ideas pop up everywhere they go.

I suspect the people in the booth would be quite bewildered as to why this theoretical person is going to such trouble to involve themselves in ceasing an activity they could so easily avoid.