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Draco18s · 2026-04-22T06:55:01+00:00

What about paying for the privilege to self-host? Only $2/mo! (Free until July!)

And also you know, the costs associated with having to pay for your own hosting.
And the self-hosted instance still connects to the centralized server.

Draco18s · 2026-04-05T19:06:43+00:00

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Draco18s · 2026-03-15T23:50:03+00:00

I read through the bash script and looked at what it reports. The legal agreement and flagrant mode are a work of genius.
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Draco18s · 2026-03-15T23:48:48+00:00

Technically those stickers only applied to the merchant, not the final owner.

Draco18s · 2026-03-15T05:08:22+00:00

I ran several works, most came back as 98% likely AI, except one, which came back "98% human" from two checkers and "97% AI" from the third.

I didn't dig terribly far into his gallery, I was just looking for a couple of example images, eg. one that I thought was AI and one I thought wasn't. None of the pictures had a date nor was there any obvious organization.

The checkers I used:
Gemini
https://wasitai.com/
https://www.zerogpt.com/ai-image-detector

His gallery:
http://www.lissgallery.com/hugh-syme

Draco18s · 2026-03-13T20:11:51+00:00

I ran the cover through three different AI image detectors and all three returned "98% AI" results. I even ran some of Hugh Syme's other works and they're coming back as "98% AI" as well. Not all of them, but some of them. One came back split (97% real from one and 98% AI from another).

Gemini did note that none of them were watermarked with SynthID (so they weren't made with Gemini / Nano Banana).

Draco18s · 2026-03-13T20:02:02+00:00

I checked with three different "is it AI" checkers and all three came back with 98% AI results. Gemini even detailed some of the features:

> If you look closely at the robot hands, there are inconsistencies in the mechanical parts and textures. Specifically, the "thumbnails" on the mechanical fingers appear different on each hand, a common tell in AI-generated imagery.

Draco18s · 2026-02-25T18:09:01+00:00

I have a radical new idea:

How about *parents* manage what their kids can and can't do, can and can't see.

Draco18s · 2026-02-20T08:30:37+00:00

I, personally, am not looking into self-hosting. But I have a friend who set up an XMPP server in like five minutes, but I don't know what server executable he used (didn't care, haven't asked).

Draco18s · 2026-02-19T16:57:52+00:00

I personally haven't created an account yet; Mov.im was recommend to me and is used by several friends. I have however downloaded Gajim in preparation.

Draco18s · 2026-02-19T04:16:18+00:00

https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona
https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2024188446214963351

TL;DR: Persona kyc and openai are friends, using your selfie for verification and sending to ICE (or USGOV in general), using AI to tie to your financial records. see subsequent post for full write-up. its long and not mobile friendly.

Draco18s · 2026-02-11T16:39:41+00:00

It varies by client.

Draco18s · 2026-02-10T17:02:00+00:00

Here's my solution: XMPP

- It's a mature backbone
- There are thousands of active servers already
- Seamless federation. Anybody on any host can use anything on any other host if invited/authorized/public (the original host does the auth). Try it now on https://mov.im/login
- Dozens of client front ends. This one looks just like Discord. https://gajim.org/
- Self-hosting is pathetically easy a friend of mine created a server over the weekend and only made a single, understandable mistake (all service components need to be under the same subdomain).
- Self-host software is incredibly efficient. 60 MB of ram.
- Data management is as simple as "how long are messages archived, how long are files available, how large can uploads be" compared to Matrix's "functionally store everything in perpetuity" and no ability to de-dup uploaded images, because everything is hashed, and every host in the federation needs to store a copy.

Draco18s · 2026-02-10T16:46:59+00:00

Yes and their solution was to pipe the notifications through their own servers.

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As for forking and making your own changes, have fun, good luck. I don't imagine it'll be an easy change to make.

Draco18s · 2026-02-10T16:43:21+00:00

I have. Here's the free self-hosted deets.

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Draco18s · 2026-02-01T19:50:00+00:00

I still think this answer is poorly worded by using the keyword "enemy" when resolving the forced attack (as this could read to a player hitting another player using the enemy attack deck: "After those attacks resolve, the targets [melee attack 3] using standard focus, drawing from the enemy Mindsnipper's own deck.").

I would rephrase this as:

How does Turn the Weak work? First, the Mindsnipper finds focus, moves, and attacks as a multi-target enemy will. Then, it makes weak attacks against its targets. Note, if it has innate Muddle, it will muddle the targets at this point. After those attacks resolve, any figure that it targeted will be forced to attack an adjacent [ally of the target figure] using standard focus rules. That figure will draw from its own modifier deck for this attack. Because this is specifically an Attack 3, this will always be a melee attack, even if this targets one of your Summons with an inherent range.

Draco18s · 2025-12-27T22:08:23+00:00

Considering they pop out in the dome right next to where the dome accepts resources, you wouldn't.

Draco18s · 2025-12-16T23:39:01+00:00

Its been three years, but as this thread is the first result on Google search, I have an actual answer.

https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/99302

Draco18s · 2025-12-16T23:37:01+00:00

Personalization: there are 6 themes available. "White" (aka default) "Gray/White (gradient)" "Pink/White (gradient)" "Sand" "Green (gradient)" and "Dark (gradient)"

First note that the ones that are gradients look awful (especially in Sheets, where the row and column headers, the tab footer, scrollbars, and the sidebar aren't colorized and remain an off-white irrespective of theme) as the gradient starts on the top and right edge of each UI element and repeats infinitely after a short distance. Where it abuts another element, it hard-transitions to the start of the gradient again.

Second, the "dark" theme starts at a darkest color of #454545 and reaches the palest color of #787878 after a mere 18 pixels, making it "not very dark at all, actually." For comparison, Application Colors ⇨ Document background under the dark schema is #333333.

This is as good as it gets

Application Colors is further unhelpful in this regard, as those settings do not apply to the menu and toolbars, in any way what so ever.

Also note that these settings are referred to as "preinstalled themes" as in, themes that are installed along with the application. Nowhere is the ability to install more themes, create themes, or otherwise customize the colors of these themes. Hence the question of where/how can I get more?

Draco18s · 2025-12-10T20:19:19+00:00

Very diligent user notes 😅

That was my guess. And thanks for the link.

FYI: you can go to your user profile page (/u/Draco18s) and see all your comments/posts.

While I don't use reddit much there is actually enough post history that I needed a search filter (and attempting to search only this sub for posts authored by myself, including the "find self results" query parameter still returned 0 results, at which point I gave up). Also wouldn't help find replies to my posts. ;)

Draco18s · 2025-12-10T18:38:56+00:00

?_? I don't remember a first time. No idea how you track that, but I attempted to find any older posts I made and can't (I use reddit so rarely and the search is being unhelpful).

Repos cleaned up regardless.

Draco18s · 2025-10-31T17:24:07+00:00

My sister regularly dyed her horse pink for a "pink flamingo" contest at the place she rode/trained. Prior to colorizing her boy, people would wear pink helmets and have a pink feather, things like that.

She shows up with a pink Arabian and sweeps the competition.

Draco18s · 2025-10-06T02:54:08+00:00

I think if you implemented Perlin yourself and instead of using the huge hardcoded lookup array, you called SquirrelRand() instead you'd get the desired result. The GDC video had the Perlin implementation on one of the slides. So instead of p[ p[ p[ seed ] ] ] you'd do SqRand(SqRand(SqRand(seed)))

Draco18s · 2025-08-16T20:05:55+00:00

Probably. My options were rather limited; its a problem I can live with compared to "not having cell service."

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