Earlier today, I posted an ai generated image. I thought it's a very good image. I wanted to share it because it was something special I hadn't seen before. The post was removed in c/memes after a while. The removal made me think. I removed it from c/lotrmemes myself.

What happened?

An "ai" generated a series of images of which a human selected one and shared it in a forum. It is coincidence that it was the first image that yielded the best result.

The ai could've posted the image itself. It wouldn't have needed a human. And even if it needs a human today to select the image, it might not need a human tomorrow to judge if a picture is of higher quality.

If we allow ai generated content in a forum where humans interact with each other, we risk our conversations and interactions. If we let a computer post what we read and see we lose our community life. We end up interacting only with machines and not humans.

I remembered a news story that facebook started artificial profiles on facebook/instagram. It would post only artificially generated content. 10 years ago it was important to facebook that we proof that we are human and no bot or alt account. Today facebook is only profit driven. It does not care if humans or robots interact with each other. It's cool that there are machines now.

I do not want to see posts of a computer, I do not want other people to see this content and interact with it. It is an incredible technology. It's astonishing what we achieved so far and what we will achieve in the future.

I do not want to live in a world where we interact with machines and can not distinguish between human reality and fiction. I am deeply sorry. I have thought about it and I am greatful that I have a better understanding of it.

Earlier today, I posted an ai generated image. I thought it's a very good image. I wanted to share it because it was something special I hadn't seen before. The post was removed after a while. The removal made me think.

What happened?

An "ai" generated a series of images of which a human selected one and shared it in a forum. It is coincidence that it was the first image that yielded the best result.

The ai could've posted the image itself. It wouldn't have needed a human. And even if it needs a human today to select the image, it might not need a human tomorrow to judge if a picture is of higher quality.

If we allow ai generated content in a forum where humans interact with each other, we risk our conversations and interactions. If we let a computer post what we read and see we lose our community life. We end up interacting only with machines and not humans.

I remembered a news story that facebook started artificial profiles on facebook/instagram. It would post only artificially generated content. 10 years ago it was important to facebook that we proof that we are human and no bot or alt account. Today facebook is only profit driven. It does not care if humans or robots interact with each other. It's cool that there are machines now.

I do not want to see posts of a computer, I do not want other people to see this content and interact with it. It is an incredible technology. It's astonishing what we achieved so far and what we will achieve in the future.

I do not want to live in a world where we interact with machines and can not distinguish between human reality and fiction. I am deeply sorry. I have thought about it and I am greatful that I have a better understanding of it.

Is that a bug or a feature?

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How good would the experience be with a linux phone and an external camera?

I've got a pixel 6 and although camera's are getting better each year, it's not even close to a dslm. And video qualit is probably better with a proper action camera.

I mean, directly "mounting" the camera to the phone and shooting with the phone.

I'm trying to figure out how to host one myself. I'm trying to use barvarder and localai. But I am failing due to not enough knowledge and missing instructions. Any advice? did someone succeed with anything? I'd be happy to make other smaller steps at first as well. As long as I get somewhere.

Fractal calls them Historical rooms and they are rooms that I left on other apps.

I thought that when you leave a room on e.g. Element it'll send a deletion request to the server and then to other servers if applicable. But I can see all historical rooms and the data is still there. It even shows when I left the room.

How scary is that?

I can't reach tilvids.com anymore. What are you supposed to do in such a case?

I can't find an option within the settings.

Firefox just suggested I should use firefox relay. I don't mind suggesting that and do a little advertisement. BUT I have protonpass installed which should do that job. Firefox interferes with my browsing which isn't nice.

I just found the gnome-translate-indicator which is great! I click on the button in the top panel and then I can lookup any word. It's only one way but that's not a big problem for me as I rarely translate to English, mostly from.

edit: the extension uses translate-shell which uses google, bing, but also apertium. So far I have not found a way to switch settings. I guess you have to point to a translate-shell instance which has to be configured.

I was wondering if there is an improved workflow for this. We've got bangs in the browser and is there a way to include this into the general GNOME search? maybe with a bang?

Additionaly, there is Light Dict which looks like a great app but doesn't work on my machine out of the box (it fails to execute a trans process). Before trying to find the problem, I'd like to know if someone is using it.

edit2: I can't find any attribution to any external dictionary. Use it at your own risk.

edit3: There is also Dialect with which you can translate via lingva or libretranslate. It looks like a nice gui app.

So, is there a perfect workflow for this? I'd lvoe to hear your experience with translation and dictionary lookups on GNOME / linux

From a privacy standpoint, i guess. I want to support open scrobbling with listenbrainz and the account isn't directly linked to a real acc. Why shouldn't I/ why don't you?

There are a lot of online maps. What do you use? What's your favorite? Is one funny/ strange?

I can hide the firefox-badge of webapps when you edit the icon on the homescreen. I'm on nova launcher. Is that the case for other launchers as well? Can you set a rule that hides all badges?

I recently started using webapps and it's a good experience. Which websites have good webapps? What do you guys use/ recommend?

GNOME search can't calculate stuff. krunner on KDE is increadibly powerful. Is there anything I can do to make GNOME's search a bit more like krunner? at least do basic math ...

My biggest wish is that there's an easy way to contribute images to wikimedia and to link them easily with osm. As soon as that's possible, we'll map the world much quicker and more reliable. Someone might take pictures of benches and another one will add the info if there's a backrest from home.