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[โ€“] lazycog@feddit.uk 7 points 3 days ago

This comment section is gathering personal attacks so we are locking it.

Additionally: we don't have a rule against AI generated images, so we had a discussion about this and wanted to hear what the !buyeuropean@feddit.uk community thinks about it before acting on the reports.

Will announce more about the AI discussion soon in a separate post.

[โ€“] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 86 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Now get a human to redraw this.

[โ€“] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 43 points 4 days ago (4 children)

seriously, I'm thinking of blocking the users who keep spamming these AI bullshits.

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[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

perfectionism is the enemy of progress

This is a "buy european" community, not an anti-AI one. This image gets the message across. It doesn't have to pass a purity test.

[โ€“] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Woah how can you tell here? I have been bamboozled

[โ€“] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The text made me suspicious - I never really thought about why it looks weird, but from closer inspection it looks like almost every letter is unique. It just has such an uncanny look. If it was made with a normal font then letters should be near identical. I suppose some artists who hand draw text could be caught up, but I don't think that's common unless they're drawing a uniquely stylized font. For fonts like this that are just plain, it wouldn't make sense to hand draw each character.

The 2 apostrophes in don't and doesn't in the bottom left are a super obvious example

[โ€“] Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Not OP but when I saw the font it reminded me of the same font used in AI generated drawings with words. Can't be sure though, usually there's some defect in the words but not this one

[โ€“] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago (4 children)

"for the people"
Continues to cross post ai corpo "art"

[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

critique to build, not to tear down

#1 dude. Be better.

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[โ€“] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 30 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I often see people giving others flack for switching to Proton because their CEO etc.

But any step in the right direction should be praised, Proton etc. Is far from perfect, but it's so much better then never moving away from Google / Microsoft etc.

[โ€“] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Upvote cause good point, but I have to really mention that OpSec is a black and white thing.

You make one OpSec mistake and you're cooked. Look how they got Ross Ulbricht.

Meshtastic seems to me to be easiest to have good OpSec at the moment and I really hope we can develop it further.

[โ€“] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Isn't meshtastic unencrypted radio transmission?

It supports encryption. I think encryption is only forbidden when using ham radio

[โ€“] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I believe all mechtastic channels are encrypted, it's just that the default channel's key is preloaded so that everyone can use it as a "public" channel.

[โ€“] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The CEO was saying that Trumps pick to help fight big business was great, not that Trump himself is great, the fact that so many people didn't see to get that and instead just went, Proton CEO likes Trump! blew my mind

[โ€“] femtech@midwest.social 7 points 4 days ago

And he was also wrong about that point as well.

[โ€“] huppakee@lemm.ee 17 points 4 days ago

This reply by @pelespirit@sh.itjust.works on the original post may help someone here:

Imperfect Allies Aren't Enemies

  • Critique to build, not tear down
  • Organize, don't just argue
  • Movements win, not individuals
  • Perfection is the enemy of progress
  • Ego kills movements
  • Plan for the long game
  • Meet people where they are
  • Power doesn't care about feelings
  • Division is a weapon used by elites, don't play along
[โ€“] TheFudd@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I love how the propaganda bots have persuaded everyone to focus on whether or not this image was made with AI, and everyone completely forgot about the very positive and constructive message in this image.

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[โ€“] dumnezero@piefed.social 14 points 4 days ago (10 children)
[โ€“] nublug@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 4 days ago

daily reminder that luddites weren't against new tech out of fear or misunderstanding, they were against the owner class hoarding all extra productivity as wealth instead of reducing workload and/or increasing pay for the workers alongside tech advancements.

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[โ€“] Squorlple@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (22 children)
[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

It doesn't matter. Buy European, comrade.

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[โ€“] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago

All of these rules would have helped the Occupy Wall Street back in the day

[โ€“] Zexks@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (5 children)

The perfection over progress is killing us.

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[โ€“] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

If only the [insert subgroup that vaguely annoys me] would listen to this!

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