Yeah, one of them definitely had the fake, post-processed bokeh effect added to it that a lot of phones with "portrait mode" use. Which, to be completely fair, makes that technically an AI-generated image.
I was looking for artifacts of AI generation, and I found them, but I'm still wrong. I can't win.
Cool, thanks for verifying that!
Is Micro.Blog actually federated with ActivityPub? The site says it supports cross-posting to Mastodon, which sounds like it's more of a post mirroring service than an actually federated instance. I couldn't find much more clarification on their About page.
Instagram is still decently big among GenZ for still-photo content.
As the owner of a 2000+ user server, this setting is an absolute necessity because yes, disposable email accounts are plentiful and Discord still does a poor job of detecting them. Server raids still happen, and temporarily restricting access to non-verified accounts helps mitigate this.
However, Discord's phone number verification blocks most VoIP or burner numbers from being registered. It's one of the few things Discord does pretty well these days, IMO.
How often are you using Firefox on your TV?
If you wanna be rebellious around Christmas, all you gotta do is serve somebody a coffee in a red paper cup.
But that aside, both "Christmas" and "Xmas" are equally religious. The X in "Xmas" is actually meant to be the initial for Christ's name in Greek (Χριστός), so it's still ultimately the same thing as saying "Christmas".
If you're in line at Burger King, your life's already in kind of a dystopian place as it is. Clearly, several things have gone wrong for you to end up here.
It's half of one billionaire. It's a drop in the bucket.
I'm pretty sure the average person can tell the difference between a Tesla and a Jeep, though.
It doesn't matter, anyway. It's not a part of the story.
explain to me why I should care what the designer thinks anyway
Because they're the ones who ultimately control the future of the AP protocol. How it behaves today may not be how it behaves tomorrow. If their intent was to create communities that are isolated islands on the internet, they would've just made a new phpBB. So understanding their design philosophy is going to be important when it comes to running a community on that protocol.
That's not how modern AI image generation works. AI no longer just mix-and-matches various assets from a library. It's creating its own unique images based on what it knows about the shapes and colors of things its been trained on.