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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I would personally prefer to not have AI Generated photo realistic content that can easily be mistaken for real photo in this community.

    At the same time its very nature makes it really hard to moderate and control, and can easily spiral into witch hunts or limiting the content from only an handful of trusted sources, which would kill the already limited contributions outside of the ones from the wonderful anon.

    The only solution I can think of is adding a vague rule, as someone already posted, asking to avoid it and be lenient on the casual trasgressors, asking, educating and warning first. Not straight out banning or demeaning.

    At the same time I feel there should be low tolerance towards the amount of vulgar, harsh and honestly disheartening comments that tend to flood discussions even vaguely related to AI on lemmy. There’s a really vocal group of people that floods any thread that could potentially be AI or about AI.

    I get the reaction, but I think it has no place here: this has always been a wholesome, kind, community.

    About artsy AI (drawings, comics, fake paintings, digital pieces etc) I don’t really have a strong opinion, mostly because I don’t follow this community for the art but mostly for the photos of real owls: I just think it should at least be properly tagged.





  • Using Chroma (v50 annealed GGUF Q4) it was pretty straightforward to get a centaur in whichever style, so I tried to make something weirder, making the head a completely different style from the rest of the image.

    It was kind of a PITA to get something somewhat coherent and not messed up, but I think with enough prompt massaging it could output something really nice, but I don’t have the hardware to experiment too much: it just takes too long to gen.
    Still, it was fun.








  • 125g per person if you only eat that, 80 to 100 if you eat something else too

    Good brands you can usually find outside of italy with not outrageous prices are Rummo and Garofalo, less good but still okay, and at a generally lower price, you can usually find Voiello or De Cecco

    Barilla is the most common, but outside of their spaghetti I’m not a big fan

    There are a bunch of others, but these tend to be easier to find

    That’s all, thank you for coming to my TED talk





  • Giorgia Meloni is trying to position herself as a mediator between America and Europe, which honestly I think is a fool’s errand, but it is in line with her Atlanticist foreign policy.
    I would have personally preferred a real, firm, statement towards Ukraine’s support but until we’ll have people like Salvini - a Putin’s lover - and his ‘Lega Nord’ party in the government it is infeasible to expect it.

    At the same time FdI (Meloni’s party) has historically been pretty pro-ukraine, so I will be very surprised if something is not going to happen in the next few days.

    Remember that this quote is from Crosetto, the current Minister of Defence, just a few days ago: “Peace, however, must not mean humiliating a free people who have done nothing but die and sacrifice to defend themselves.”

    I’m not in line with their national policies - by a wide margin - but currently Meloni’s party and the Partito Democratico are the only pro-ukraine voices in Italian politics with some weight

    It’s depressing.




  • This was all theatre where nothing in reality changed, to show how tough and intransigent this admin wants to be: the real problem is that if formally and informally allied nations start to think that the USA would really commit to bullying as a real negotiation tactic, they will start to divest from it and expand their pool of partners to make these tactics less impactful.

    This could be disastrous in the long run, with decades of integration and diplomacy going in smoke. But in the short term there will be a lot of “winning”, as they keep saying. I guess.

    The first Trump term was seen as a short term derailing. The second one has a complete different international impact.

    Goodwill is a real diplomatic form of currency and it is getting burned at a real fast pace.