@aral
i've tried glaze on a few images & it's not for the patient & is cpu intensive.

it took ~12 hrs for 1 images to process on the medium scale & close 7hrs for the default settings.

it is awesome & i want to see more use…

@aral I wouldn't count on it being intergrated into official releases of Fedi servers, as it doesn't seem to be an open source project. Maybe clients could if they choose to but then you won't find them for download in F-Droid. Individual instances could maybe integrate as well. I think it makes more sense for the user to process images themselves before upload if they wish.
@dansup

@aral That is very interesting, I am working on a webhook feature in @pixelfed that would make this really easy to implement for users or admins!

I'll take a deeper look into nightshade this weekend, thanks for sharing!

@aral https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/111733424207266157

@aral Watching Facebook vs Fediverse is like watching a teen slasher film, where the protagonists _know_ who the killer is and they still invite him in the house because he hasn't killed any of them yet.

And you're just standing there, yelling at the screen, because you saw them watching him murder everyone else in the neighborhood.

@aral If the Dante's Inferno game was published these days this (circle 10. Surveillance) would be a nice DLC :P

@aral See, now I'm mad that gitea/forgejo don't use it for the short forms of the commit hashes...

@aral Node.js / Next.js?

@aral This sounds very interesting to us. Tell us more. 😻

@aral https://youtu.be/vRC0cK_MSA0?si=HdqKd0ukNex0VZ4w

@aral kes amınakoyduğum çocuğu senin o peşmerge ananı apoyla Selo grup yapıp siksin sende o sikik hayali devletin kadar olan namusunla kenarda ağlaya ağlaya izle amın feryadı

@aral anneni kapitallere siktireyim proletaryaya filmini izleteyim amcıkkk hoşafı

@aral

People still trust Meta /Facebook how do we convince those people ?

@aral

It's so insane.

If platform and instance owners start working with Meta it will go badly wrong for the Fediverse, and what will they say?

I'm guessing they'll either deny anything is wrong, or say "We had no way of predicting this", or say "We had no other options".

Anything but admit they were going into this willingly, and knowing how terrible Meta is.

@aral

I've had a couple of exchanges the last few days which were very much like conversations I've had about cryptofascist politicians with well-meaning people.

@aral I mean, what can you expect from the Technoking. 🙄

@aral I heard that quote in a TL;DR video and was like...

Excuse me, WHAT?

@aral @Daojoan
Elon actually wants existing governments to descend to anarchy (no rules or governance), so he can leverage what he has (wealth) to make him a dictator over his rules and governance.

He is a child who doesn’t ever want his mummy to tell him what to do, even if it’s good for him.

@aral github is just a git remote and free bandwidth to host binaries. We're not migrating to some other service that would probably not offer massive amounts of storage while disrupting years of issue tracking just because MS is running out of ideas to implement. That would be shooting ourselves in the foot.

@aral Observation from a non-developer: just reading that blog it seems whoever writes it insists on mixing up "GitHub" the platform and "Developers" the profession with headlines like "Developers adapt AI" etc.

@aral As another alternative, I started using #sourcehut and the git email workflow, and I really like it.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al mandating putting a specific key in trust stores?

Well WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!!!!!

@aral interesting how all of a sudden cryptography is not the enemy anymore. Looking at you, #chatcontrol

@aral @feedle @preslavrachev This is great, thanks for this! I love #RSS and still use it very much 🙌

@aral @feedle Thank you so much 🙏 Feedle is a side project I help a small team from Germany develop, maintain, and spread the word about. #RSS has been our passion since its very inception in the early 2000s, and we have taken it as our mission to help promote it and the #OpenWeb with every means possible.

As you'll see, Feedle is not perfect - there are a few rought edges we are still working around. Not every blog post is as easy to find there as we want it to be, but are working on it! 💪

@aral @feedle @preslavrachev love this! Just added it to https://coywolf.surf

@aral@mastodon.ar.al musk defending me is one of my self reflection triggers.

@aral I hope I will live by that mentra

@aral :blobcatgiggle: one of my points to live by :blobcatgiggle:

@aral Keep dreaming. You are dealing with selfish humans who only interested in telling others what to do or having power. Even those who push their agenda. They always right and the rest not. Bella the cat told me so and she is right.

@aral #WiseWords 👍👍

@aral I found out yesterday about the Jewish concept of 'tzedakah', which is exactly what you describe here: it's usually translated as 'charity' but, in its highest form, should result in the recipient becoming self-sufficient

@aral It’s lies, just all lies. I guess this is all we can expect from both Facebook and Google from now on.

@aral Thx for this instructive article. I’ve shared w/ two close friends.

@aral
Well, the message stays the same.

Ditch Chrome, like, yesterday.
Firefox. must. survive.

@aral This is really neat, great job!

I've been thinking of making a @pixelfed profile QR code generator website, and also want to document/blog about how I did it

htmx is something I've wanted to try out, and I think kitten would be the perfect fit for this!

Kudos for making web dev more easy and accessible, long live the #smallWeb ❤️

@aral no ethical consumption under capitalism

@aral No headphone jack either, apparently. 👀

@aral

Sorry Aral, .... But the general public expects an Android phone to act like an "Android phone".

There is a version with e/os being sold somewhere else. Because Fairphone did work with e/os for the fp4 at some point iirc. So there are options.

But the average consumer just wants regular Android

@aral fishhook politics

@aral

Apart from them both being evil, I'm struggling to see the connection between fascists and neoliberals.

Facism is authoritarian, forcing people (except possibly a select group or two) into government controlled misery while neoliberalism lets the market freely allocate misery.

Facisists want to close borders to prevent others from taking their shiny toys while neoliberalists want to open borders so companies can exploit everyone at lower costs.

They result in different dystopias.

@aral they have manners?

@aral exit-oriented startup

vc-funded startup

anything but letting Them keep the word

@aral 100% agree. If it's VC funded, it's better to assume it's going to be shit sooner rather than later.

@aral Yeah I was a bit suspicious of it from the beginning with their using soapbox.

Obviously that shows they're people that have paid absolutely zero attention to the meta or the population they wish to work with etc

@aral

I'm having Old-guy flashbacks to IE specific code and Netscape Navigator.... *shudders*

@aral Yeah! Websites should also run on lynx/elinks/w3m/dillo/etc.!

@aral If you really mean it, develop in Firefox, and test periodically in Chrome and Safari. I had to do that, and had to do two different implementations of saving files coming in via WebRTC.