fyi, the news story which this meme is premised on turned out to be a hoax.

none of the claims that there was a measurable drop in inauthentic social media activity as a result of the strikes on yandex datacenters held up when i tried to verify them. one of the graphs supposedly demonstrating it was obviously AI-generated and had dates in the future, while another was a cloudflare graph showing a drop in bot traffic but the bot there was solely yandex’s search engine web crawler traffic.

it’s remarkable how many people continue to believe it.

I literally downloaded the one you’re referring to and replaced the old one with it, without doing any editing of it

i guess your instance must have downscaled it then

Nah, I’ve had this one since the 2010s. There was no AI upscaling back then.

There was, actually: the SRCNN paper was in 2014, and widely accessible tools using CNNs for upscaling became available soon after (such as waifu2x in 2015 and Neural Enhance in 2016).

There are some other image scaling algorithms which could possibly maybe produce artifacts like that without a neural network but I am relatively sure that the image you posted was “AI upscaled”.

Now that this comment has linked you to a full-res version of this image, I hope you’ll edit the post

Already did.

The version you’re linking to now is at least readable, but still full of compression artifacts and is a third of the resolution of the version @[email protected] linked to.

I am baffled as to how you could think it was a good idea to post this image you posted.

Some of the text is entirely unreadable; it was obviously scaled down too far and then scaled back up using AI upscaling:

Now that this comment has linked you to a full-res version of this image, I hope you’ll edit the post. (I’m linking to what you originally posted in this comment so people can see why this post got downvotes after you do.)

also imo when linking to a meme with an abridged version of a quote it’s nice to include a link to the unabridged version also. So: here is the text and pdf scan of the Letter from Birmingham Jail.

came here to post the same but since you already did i had to fix the image:

It is a real shame that people think that this is vibecoded

we can’t see your source code but the copy on your transparency page sounds like LLM voice:

• “Your feed is people and communities, not advertising.”
• “This is a promise we keep in good faith, not a technical guarantee.”
• “Analytics let people see how their posts, profiles and communities are doing. This is everything they record, and nothing else.”
• “Eight promises:” […]

If you say you wrote some of the code by hand, cool, i don’t doubt it. But it’s still giving slop.

Also, charging money for a “plus” account on a centralized closed-source activitypub implementation is…

Lastly, it’s difficult to reconcile these two statements:

as a software engineer with over 15 years of experience

[…]

the core is closed for anti-abuse reasons

fyi, the news story which this meme is premised on turned out to be a hoax.

none of the claims that there was a measurable drop in inauthentic social media activity as a result of the strikes on yandex datacenters held up when i tried to verify them. one of the graphs supposedly demonstrating it was obviously AI-generated and had dates in the future, while another was a cloudflare graph showing a drop in bot traffic but the bot there was solely yandex’s search engine web crawler traffic.

it’s remarkable how many people continue to believe it.

https://www.spacejam.com/2021/ is not much different tho

i’m not sure but i think that detector might be detecting an openai-specific watermark which indicates that it was not a ring camera’s slopification but actually a fake. or maybe the detector itself is fake and the image is real, who knows.

in any case, fuck this meme for normalizing ring cameras and acting like they’re cool and ok - there are lots of reasonable ways to do video surveillance of your own home without sending all of the data to amazon and the cops and the various other private and government entities they share it with.

people with ring cameras should be shamed.

…i regret to inform you: 🥛🤝🦆

😢

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

they were/are a shittier-than-average CA that got famously hacked in 2011 and less famously other times; later they bizarrely tried to trademark the name “Lets Encrypt” (after the real Lets Encrypt already existed). Since 2022 they’re called “Xcitium” and “Sectigo”.

It actually was their slogan back then

which period “back then” are you referring to? 1976 maybe? the Apple I was affordable (at just $666.66 😄) compared to other kits at the time, but the Apple II (1977) cost more than twice what a TRS-80 did and afaik since then Apple has always positioned itself as a premium brand.

i don’t recall them ever having a comparative-price-related marketing slogan or campaign, but maybe i’m forgetting something?

explain xkcd will come back up tomorrow, October 21, once I wake up and have a chance to install the new patch.

yes indeed it’s another exciting day in computer security… the prudent thing for PHP sites to do right now is to stay offline until the impending PHP update is published, which is currently still scheduled for 14:00 UTC (still 75 minutes from now) despite the fact that the vulnerability details seem to have leaked more than 12 hours ago 😬 🍿

until it comes back you can read explainxkcd via archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20260919100810/https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/927:_Standards

OP is a new second time, just to be clear.

you sound very confident but you are mistaken. just to be clear: the screenshot in the post shows a still from the same video as the 2024 tweet i linked.

this is a real thing he said, but it was in 2024

Irrelevant to the fact that Taiwan is an independent country.

do you mean that you think it is an independent country, or rather, that you think it should be one?

if you believe they are already independent, why do you think they still have an active independence movement? do any other independent countries have that? 🤔

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_Taiwan

Get out of here.

Did you read that article you’re linking to? Did you notice how many UN member states actually recognize the Republic of China (Taiwan) as a country? Eleven.

For comparison, a lot of people in the United States and Europe would confidently tell you that Palestine is definitely not a country, but it is actually recognized as one by 157 of the 193 members of the UN.

Hello blatant propagandist trying to retcon the fact that there literally was no primary for democrats?

there actually was one