molly0xfff

molly0xfff, 7 months ago to random

in hindsight it may have been a mistake to google "gimp mask" to try to figure out how to do a layer mask in gimp, the free and open source equivalent of photoshop

#gimp

molly0xfff, 6 months ago to ai

AI is going just great
https://404media.co/users-cant-speak-to-viral-ai-girlfriend-carynai-because-ceo-is-in-jail/

#AI

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to RSS

"RSS is dead"

#rss

Screenshot of an access log from citationneeded.news, showing that about a third of requests are to endpoints like /rss and /feed.xml

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

finally! i've always wished i could look at my #NFTs on [checks notes] the dashboard of my mercedes

molly0xfff, 1 month ago to web

"While more of the #web is becoming accessible to people with low-end connections, more of the web is becoming inaccessible to people with low-end devices even if they have high-end connections."

@danluu on web bloat: https://danluu.com/slow-device/

https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202404231317

molly0xfff, 1 day ago to random

“Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue”
“If Kevin Roose Was ChatGPT With A Spray-On Beard, Could Anyone Tell?

thank you to these new independent media companies like @404mediaco and Defector for giving us the headlines we deserve

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to random

fuck i love blogs. if i had nothing but time i would just read blogs all day.

molly0xfff, 1 month ago to random

Sam Bankman-Fried has just been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

#SBF #SamBankmanFried #crypto #cryptocurrency

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

"[A] site that caters to Nazis is not a site that caters to free speech. Because (as we’ve seen time and time again), such sites drive away people who don’t like being on a site associated with Nazis. And, so you’re left in a situation where you’re really just supporting Nazis and not much else." - @mmasnick

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/10/substack-realizes-maybe-it-doesnt-want-to-help-literal-nazis-make-money-after-all/

molly0xfff, 1 year ago to random

A deep dive on Andreessen Horowitz's latest "State of Crypto" report. In short: they want people to keep buying crypto, and are not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince them to do so.

The report itself is 60 pages long, so this is a long one.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/andreessen-horowitzs-state-of-crypto

#crypto #cryptocurrency #VentureCapital #AndreessenHorowitz

molly0xfff, 1 year ago to random

i don't know why it's taken me this long to make a web3 bingo card

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to random

Motherboard found that firms linked to a16z and general partner Chris Dixon bought numerous copies of his new book promoting cryptocurrencies, which became an NYT Best Seller.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7emkx/chris-dixon-a16z-read-write-own-nyt-bestseller

#ChrisDixon #andreesenhorrowitz

molly0xfff, 8 months ago to ai

excuse me what the fuck

#AI #AIEthics #TechEthics

molly0xfff, 1 month ago to random

really upsetting to see former Wikimedia Foundation director and CEO Katherine Maher getting targeted by the rightwing outrage machine in her new role as NPR CEO. she's wonderful, and NPR is lucky to have her. i hope they stand behind her.

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

#substack, by first refusing to ban nazis under the guise of being a "free speech" platform, and then turning around and saying "actually we'll ban some of the nazis", has taken the route that will piss off the most people possible

good work, boys

molly0xfff, 8 days ago to random

hi hello i see it's time for our semi-regular reminder that your browser's incognito mode does not protect you from surveillance!

molly0xfff, 2 months ago to random

so infuriating. open source maintainers have a hard enough time without random people shitting up their repos trying to score crypto tokens.

https://hachyderm.io/@web3isgreat@indieweb.social/112003997836479406

molly0xfff, 9 months ago to cryptocurrency

Seeing talk of chrome orbs that will give you crypto in exchange for your biometrics? That's Worldcoin, and and these are some of the risks we would need to consider if it became widespread.

#WorldCoin #cryptocurrency

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/worldcoin-a-solution-in-search-of

molly0xfff, 1 month ago to random

A campaign against #NPR's new CEO, ex-#Wikimedia Foundation Katherine Maher, is trying to portray her as "anti-truth" and "anti-First Amendment" by taking quotes out of context from her past talks about Wikimedia. As a longtime Wikipedian, I think I can give a little more context about these statements — but I recognize that the people behind this campaign are, ironically, not looking for the facts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFkL4ME-8dQ

#KatherineMaher

molly0xfff, 5 months ago to random

really disappointed by #substack and their recent statement about nazi content on their platform.

evaluating alternatives.

statement: https://substack.com/@hamish/note/c-45811343
good read on said statement: https://popehat.substack.com/p/substack-has-a-nazi-opportunity

molly0xfff, 9 months ago to random

😐

hoping AI companies remove your work from their datasets (after already including it without consent) is not going to be enough

https://decrypt.co/150575/greg-rutkowski-removed-from-stable-diffusion-but-brought-back-by-ai-artists

Digital artist Greg Rutkowski wants nothing to do with art created using artificial intelligence, but AI art creators won't leave him alone. Known for his vivid, surreal style, Rukowski is immensely popular among enthusiasts of AI-generated art. In fact, his name became the most invoked keyword used by AI artists looking to mimic a specific artistic style. But he wanted nothing to do with the technology. After vocally opposing the AI art trend, Stability AI—creators of the popular AI image generator Stable Diffusion—responded by removing his work from their dataset. But the community has now created a tool to mimick Rutkowski's style against his wishes. And since Stable Diffusion is open source, there's nothing he or Stability AI can do about it.

molly0xfff, 7 months ago to random

i'm afraid to press this button

molly0xfff, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

John Oliver did a crypto episode on Last Week Tonight! 😁

(I'm not in it, I just helped a little with the content and fact-checking)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7zazuy_UfI

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to web3

Review: In "Read Write Own", the Andreessen Horowitz general partner and web3 superfan Chris Dixon lays out an unconvincing argument that blockchains are what it will take to fix the web.

https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/

#web3 #blockchain #cryptocurrency #crypto #AndreessenHorowitz #CitationNeeded

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

Issue 48 – Bitcoin has "no chance" of going to the moon

Bitcoin ETF fakeouts, imaginary CEOs, and a bridge hack make for an eventful start to the new year.

https://citationneeded.news/issue-48/
#newsletter #CitationNeeded #crypto #cryptocurrency