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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/28095114

Vapor World: Over The Mind is a Soulslike Metroidvania with an evocative, painterly art style reminiscent of Lies of P and the narrative platformers of Playdead. According to Korean studio Alive Inc, the game had 100,000 wishlists just before its early access launch on August 19, mostly on the strength of a demo available since January 2025.

But what should have been a triumphant early access launch went pear shaped very quickly. At launch, few talked about the quite distinctive worldbuilding or the parry-heavy combat. Instead, all focus was trained entirely on something absent from the popular demo: very obvious AI use.

Completed (pending moderation at time of posting): https://pcpartpicker.com/b/hXFgXL

Parts list: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/yakko_at_feddit.uk/saved/#view=dcMhmG

Built this to keep me doing anything I want until computing gets cheap again, riding out the AI bubble and all. Wanted to build something for decades, always ended up compromising with prebuilts. No more!

Runs on Linux Mint (basic b to my core), does everything I ask. Renders video 10x as fast as you can watch it, plays anything.

The mobo is actually a Sapphire B850M Wifi but that wasn't in the list. Sorry!

Getting everything to fit was a nightmare. I had to use a low-profile fan for part of the AIO's length due to a piece of the motherboard's radiators extending into that area:

I also had to get an extender to make the GPU fit vertically, since it's the size of a freaking cereal box. But I've got the GPU sipping directly on ambient air, and I've configured the rear fan as an intake so the motherboard gets plenty of cool air too. Everything vents out the top. So far not much dust inside, I think I've got the positive air pressure neatly dialed in.

The LCD cap is running my own handmade graphic. Pretty happy with that, vid: https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/cce310aa-58f0-4867-b444-14d225a627bb.mp4

I also built a custom phone cradle for the USB retro phone I make work calls with. The stone is lapis lazuli.

Named this one Twinkling Titanite for the colours. All of my computers are nicknamed some variation of Titanite, this might be the end of that trend. Nowhere to go from here unless I build a data centre (Demon Titanite lmao).

cross-posted from: https://crazypeople.online/post/23992245

The CoE whose job it is to protect peoples’ human rights under the Social Charter of Council of Europa has hired an exclusive US tech giant to confine their website to Cloudlare’s walled-garden.

This means several demographics of people are excluded from being informed about their rights. Anyone not in Cloudflare’s preferred demographics of people (such as the Tor community) are blocked from access. Even the world’s ubiquitous public library (archive.org) is blocked from making copies of the website for public consumption.

Exceptionally, this link works where at one moment archive.org was able to visit CoE: https://web.archive.org/web/20260219202536/https://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/full-list?module=treaty-detail&treatynum=035

But it’s enshitified to the point of just rendering a blank page, at least in my case, after refusing some shitty popup about cookies or some shit.

I wrote a small test of an idea that I had, and the thumbnail to this is an example of one of the images it produces.

Basically, it scrambles an image into block regions visually, and then optionally XOR's the image data with a secret to create an encrypted image which AI struggles to properly recognize, and makes the image become junk for training. Users with this tool for this can then compute the original image for themselves.

This has the massive benefit of not adding extra information into the image, so it can 'blend in' with real images as well.

This process (with encryption) is reversible in a visually imperceptible way at lower 'magic' sizes (which this image pushes due to vibrancy), while taking time for any motivated scrapers to brute-force.

you can test this yourself with a block size of 128 and magic of 35. The code and some more information is available at https://codeberg.org/emmowo/scrapescramble

In the future, I might implement this as a bit of JS you can add to your websites (or as a browser extension) as a means of making all visitors passively decode the image without needing to use an external app.

This implementation is just a proof-of-concept, so tonnes can be done to increase the complexity of 'cracking' these images later on. This is meant to be more of a deterrence than outright prevention, but it does have some use for it.

Either way, feedback would be nice!

Peaceful protest by anti-Zionist #Jews and pro-Palestine supporters in #Midwood yesterday against the sale of stolen #Palestinian land, being chased and harassed by a mob of #Zionists .

In short:

Last year three police officers arrested an Aboriginal teenager at gunpoint, pulling him off a bus before realising he was not who they were looking for.

A report from the Commonwealth and ACT Ombudsman has found the 17-year-old was searched inappropriately following his arrest.

What's next?

The ombudsman made eight recommendations, five of which were accepted in full by the AFP and ACT Policing, with three accepted in principle.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/scientificarticles/p/1357190/popular-erectile-dysfunction-drug-linked-to-eye-disease-that-can-cause-irreversible-visi

A couple of fishy snorkeling photos 😁

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#WildLifeWednesday #SeaWednesday #PhotoMonday #OC #Underwater
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#August #Finland #Archipelago #Åland #AlandIslands
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Today's game is Old School Runescape. I got approached by a wizard who asked me to solve his maze. I love mazes so i figured why not. I have to admit though it threw me for a loop with how trippy the walls are. It made navigating it difficult. I managed to make it through though with around 60% rewards left so not too hard.

Honestly, that brings me to my main point. I love how Runescape isn't really grounded. They'll just throw shit at you and i love it for that.

I've spent the last few days just running quests and trying too get my levels up. I hope to take on the Dragon Slayer quest next. After that though i'm not really sure what my next goal is. Maybe i'll travel somewhere i havent been yet.

Anyways, a lot of these quests have kept me hovering around Lumbridge. I neglected a lot of my earlier skills so these are perfect for leveling up everything i had ignored.

That's probably all i'll end up doing for the rest of the evening. Tomorrow i think i'll go back to control. I finally caught up to my save last time i played and i don't want to let that go to waste.