Mastodawn

Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows.

Zendadaist 2h ago

Kaye Menner Photography 3h ago

#Central #Bearded #Dragon by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/central-bearded-dragon-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html

#lizard #reptile #scales #spikes #eye #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

Zendadaist 3h ago

Catherynne M. Valente 4h ago

Every once in awhile, I think of my favorite “…the fuck did you just say?” phraseology, which is from Homer’s Iliad, proving we have never, ever changed as a species, only become less fancily inclined.

“What nonsense has escaped the barrier of your teeth now?”

Zendadaist 14h ago

jonny (good kind)19h ago

I am loving watching the vibecoding bubble bursting and reforming in real time. It turns out it is ludicrously expensive to have humongous billion parameter models generate a whole library of code in a loop hundreds of times per hour rather than, you know, "writing code." Cursor's pricing model finally started to try and operate at less of a loss and people revolted since they could no longer autogenerate code for 8 hours solid, and now Amazon is trying to capture the runoff with a first-hit-free cursor replacement.

Very funny how, to me, FOSS is about creating a credible bulwark of power so that we aren't at the mercy of information giants, but for vibe coders it's like a "how can I get locked in and get got as deeply as possible" speedrun.

Zendadaist 19h ago

Eatsbluecrayon 1d ago

That's 5D-educational chess.

#FuckGenAI #ChatGPT #GenAIsucksCamelDong

Zendadaist 2d ago

AlternativeTo 2d ago

Search engine DuckDuckGo has introduced a new filter to hide AI-generated images in its image search results, relying on open-source blocklists from uBlock Origin & uBlackList, and user choice for more private searches.
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/duckduckgo-introduces-new-option-to-filter-out-ai-generated-images-in-search-results/

Zendadaist 2d ago

Megan Lynch (she/her)3d ago

Huge AI blocklist for importing into UBlock Origin.

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist?tab=readme-ov-file

GitHub - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist.

A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

GitHub

Zendadaist 2d ago

I set things backing up last night, as I often do, and when I woke up this morning was concerned that it was only 40% done instead of having finished up at around 4-5am.

After investigating the PC thoroughly and finding nothing acting up or out of the ordinary, and noting that the process had not stopped or stalled, it was just going very very sloooooooowly, I couldn't figure it out. CPU use was at 5%, drives were read/writing at MB when they could be doing GB, I'd shut down every program and process that wasn't needed - the machine was just about idle.

Then I spotted my error. I'd plugged the backup cable into a dusty long-unused USB 2 port right next to the USB 3 one I always use for everything (including the backup). I didn't think that port still worked...

D'OH.

Zendadaist 3d ago