Zip Martini

24 Followers
40 Following
243 Posts
Boston MA USA. ~50. Photos, comics, other stuff.
CityBoston, MA, USA
PixelFed@[email protected]
Homepagehttps://zipmartini.photography
Threadshttps://threads.net/@zipmartini
Still trying to decide on a new instance. Pretty much narrowed it down to:
• aethy.com
• artsocial.boston
• nsfwphotography.social

Frankly, the biggest weapon we have against #Threads is exposing to their users that members of other Mastodon servers are extremely happy (and completely functional) elsewhere, and they would be, too.

Being invisible to them does nothing.

And telling them that migrating off of Threads to another Mastodon server likely means that they will lose access to all of their Threads followers/follows is worse than nothing; it's the exact reason they haven't left already.

In the same way that marriage rights are really divorce rights, one of the great things about Mastodon servers is that you can easily leave them.

I'm going to begin the process of migrating off of photog.social.

If my e-mail provider declared their belief that Google was a monopolistic terror, and that they were therefore going to block all incoming and outgoing e-mail from or to Gmail, I would certainly have to leave them also.

Leave the blocking to me.

#Threads #Fedipact

#Luminar Neo is the latest package hitching their wagon to the late-capitalist subscription model train, doing away with the ability to purchase extensions outright; they must now be subscribed to, in the interest of "simplicity" for their customers.

@darktable

https://userguide.skylum.com/hc/en-us/articles/15732095694866-What-is-going-to-change-in-January-2024-

W3C has posted that we are no longer active on X/Twitter and have directed all our followers here to Mastodon.

We are encouraging all W3C-related accounts to do the same.

Encourage your friends to follow us here!

Playing around with Imagine with Meta AI:
➊ "A professional American football player riding a unicorn by moonlight, photorealistic, dramatic lighting, cinematic"
➋ "An ancient pyramid wooden lodge built by viking aliens in a wintry tundra, edge light, well lit, bokeh"
➌ "The Mona Lisa if she was a cyborg designed by Apple"
➍ "This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius; let the sun shine in."
➎ "A giant peacock swatting down airplanes while wrapped around Big Ben"
➏ "A Jack Kirby drawing of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
➐ "Beware: the mailman is considering performing acts of unspeakable evil, and is not to be trusted."
How AI is fooling the photography world

In this episode of Status Update, Becca Farsace visits “promptographer” Boris Eldagsen in Berlin, Germany, to learn how he uses generative AI programs like DALL-E and Midjourney to create photorealistic images that rival real photos.

The Verge
My backup drive died this morning… now going through the white-knuckle experience of raw-dogging my data until a replacement drive arrives.
With all of this talk of transition away from Google Manifest V2, I made the jump over to @Vivaldi today.
G/O Media Shutters Jezebel After Abandoning Sale Efforts | Defector

G/O Media, the holding company led by dipshit media parasite Jim Spanfeller, abruptly suspended the operation of Jezebel and laid off the site's entire editorial team Thursday morning.