Not arguing against trying to stop this as much as possible but I also recommend assuming your website will be scraped by bots and taking advantage of that to poison all the AI models you can. Feed in nonsense to the robots in places on your website that aren’t public facing to humans on your website, have 5% of your content be blatant nonsense that asserts obviously untrue statements confidently but in a way that doesn’t disguise the clear intent of purposeful absurdity to human viewers.

See it as an opportunity not a vulnerability. Text is cheap, it doesn’t even really take up storage space on your website so why not?

Be the change you want to see, from everything I have read it takes a shockingly small amount of “poisoned” information to undermine AI models, especially if multiple different non-consenting inputs to an AI model are participating in this strategy the impacts will grow exponentially as problem bits of data mix and mingle and become impossible to fully extract from bulk datasets scraped from the internet.

No thanks, I prefer human DJs and you should too, they are better.

…Old England?

yes!

Hundreds of thousands of years and people living on that island still haven’t quite figured out how to use fire to make good food…

Just one small teeny-tiny request. The greatest gift you can give the Fediverse (Original: Lemmy.zip and Piefed.zip) isn’t money, praise, or interpretive dance (although we would absolutely accept the last one). Its participation.

Participation awards are given out here, this is just that kind of degenerate place where that kind of stuff happens. I have seen the underground storehouses filled with participation trophies made of solid platinum and gold under some of the larger instances, it is staggering. We are the deplorably thanked for participating, witness us in our moral decay.

Move fast, break things, pay fines, *make even your own family despise you for being a prick

The real horror is the trend. Between 2009 and 2023, pedestrian deaths rose a staggering 80%, while all other traffic fatalities increased just 13%. In a decade-plus span, pedestrians have been dying at a rate nearly seven times faster than population growth. This isn’t random. It’s the intentional outcome of systems designed to prioritize vehicles over people.

Shameful and pathetic, what a material abandonment of the social contract.

Good point!

For the former, limiting how fast brightness can change would effectively be the same as a poor pixel response time. This tends to manifest as image ghosting past a certain point and is usually seen as pretty undesirable given it means you lose a lot of detail around anything in motion

I am well aware there would be distortion, I would turn the compressor off when viewing dynamic content.

I am not primarily interested in adjusting the overall breadth of range in contrast of pixels, I am interested in moderating how FAST overall brightness is allowed to change with a small degree of limiting maximum brightness/blueness added in as well.

Fuck ICE

I think some kind of “pod” system would be nice where similar posts/crossposts could be visually grouped together like a “pod” of dolphins all surfacing on your feed together in a natural flowing way (randomly assigned color coding maybe?). Seeing one dolphin surface after another should feel like cohesive movement of a pod and any one post should link towards other dolphins in the pod not currently visible too.

You could then as a user “pod” a post by linking it with another post and the resulting feed of newly “podded” posts could itself be a browsable “pod feed”.

Obviously a different word than pod may be better, but I like the whale pod metaphor.

I actually think a multipurpose digital screen could be quite useful and fun on a refrigerator, not needed or necessary at all but I think in a less enshittified timeline an open source version of this, possibly even an e-ink screen, could actually be nice. It would make far more sense as a whiteboard type object that you attach to your refrigerator though and obviously this entire concept is predatory on so many levels it is mindboggling… but the idea of having a sort of communal digital screen on a refrigerator isn’t a bad idea itself I don’t think as hard as it is to imagine a reality where an appliance like this was designed in good faith.

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Meanwhile the planet is dying from all the increased emissions from data center usage.

Hmmm could you download to desktop pc and set up a Syncthing share to your Steam Deck? Synthing will sync directly over a local network when possible so it shouldn’t be too slow.

Well know that you have outed yourself as a cool indie dev you must eventually post some sneak previews of your game to a gaming/game development community on lemmy/the fediverse!

Square Valley

A Way Home

Dicey Elementalist

Perfect Grind

The Way Home

Well for one Einsteins general relativity equations predicted the possibility of black holes before we ever found any!