I also often do followbacks. Though today has been very high traffic on all counts so it may be a while till I get back to looking at that.
twitter migration
I do find it interesting that of the matches on my blocklist, -none- share a server.
twitter migration
If you've been using fedifinder, I encourage you to also give debirdify a go. It'll have its own heuristics for finding fedi addresses, but more importantly, it can export your blocklist, which you can import into Mastodon. I don't have a huge number of hits there, unsurprisingly given the use of sock puppets & throwaways by The Worst People, but nonetheless, it did still get some matches.
Whenever I think "This person in the Python community is so awesome, surely they've already received the Community Service award/already a PSF fellow member", and when I looked into it, turns out I was wrong.
Then I make it right by actually writing up the PSF Fellow/Community Service award nomination for them so that they'll be properly recognized.
You too can nominate people who are doing great work in the #Python community! PSF Fellow nominations are due Nov 20!
Like, c'mmon, especially on a computer, you could easily show the base word definition alongside a definition for the particular inflection. If there are any non-standard connotations, then sure, include something more specific.
Would love to hear from folks who have moved instances multiple times. What did you appreciate about the experience? What was hard or annoying? What did you gain and what did you lose?
Boosts appreciated!
#metadon #interoperability #relocation #feditips #advice
Who Is “Web3” For?
https://strangematters.coop/web3-vs-fediverse-decentralized-internet/
> Like radioactivity, blockchain can be a useful tool in solving certain kinds of problems. Like dental hygiene, the decentralization of global communication platforms is an important problem, but not necessarily the right application for the instrument. Like Doromad Radioactive Toothpaste, web3 has little to do with solving the stated problem, and everything to do with profiting off of a buzzword, resulting in more harm than good in the process.
Lets support people on here who've been cleaning up for a while. Ones I've learned about are @Are0h and @CaribenxMarciaX.
Ro has a patreon you can donate to here: https://www.patreon.com/Are0h
Marcia has a gofundme here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-marcia-get-stable
If you know of any more please comment in the replies so I can learn about them and support.
And finally I was doing stuff with an artists pose doll. None of th results was my goal, but some are pretty interesting.
After the anime variations I had the brainstorm to ask it for versions of my portrait in Lisa Frank's style! And as a bonus treat, what happens when you ask it to mix Murakami and Frank together.
Contrast that with these two, which use d the same source image but a much older method. Also they were generated on someone elses server, rather than on my desktop.
Then I decided to play with my current profile pic and the original version of it. From this pic came this weird maze face. The rest originated with the source for my current avatar. All of these are "anime" style according to Stable Diffusion.
I've been playing with Stable Diffusion. First, I took my old Starbound avatar and generated higher rez cartoon versions. The original is the cropped version I use on Discord. The full version is sitting on my disk array, which is not currently turned on.They're still not great 'cause it failed to recognize that he goggles were on the forehead. Also the expressions are kinda weird.
for good and ill, adopted by the internet as a teen
politics: inveterate #anarchist
hobbies: #fanfic and #programming, sometimes at the same time
not interested in being defined by my work. interested in improving the resilience of critical systems, often times software, almost always threading a line between humans and automation. #infosec adjacent.
affiliations: #queer, gray-#ace, #trans, #polyam
Testing the waters at: @iarna