Aka The Adventures of Sir Kicks-a-lot

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/buster-captcha-solver-for/mpbjkejclgfgadiemmefgebjfooflfhl

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/

A useful extension. Works 90% of the time for me.

Immortals was a banger of a film.

If you ever need some more good news, here are some places to find it:

• https://www.goodgoodgood.co/
• https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
• https://fixthenews.com/
• https://positivenewsfoundation.org/
• https://www.onlygoodnewsdaily.com/

And here’s 35 more: https://news.feedspot.com/good_news_websites/

Dunno, maybe some people have different opinions on a game than you do? Imagine that? Imagine if people liked different things? Crazy…

Massive if correct

Russia or Musk?

ONE CANNOT CRITICISE A HERO OF THE PLOLATARIAT, COMRADE

Yer fond of me dogfood aint’ ye? I seen it - yer fond of me dogfood! Say it! Say it. Say it!

Sexton says criminals are using older versions of AI models and fine-tuning them to create illegal material of children. This involves feeding a model existing abuse images or photos of people’s faces, allowing the AI to create images of specific individuals. “We’re seeing fine-tuned models which create new imagery of existing victims,” Sexton says. Perpetrators are “exchanging hundreds of new images of existing victims” and making requests about individuals, he says. Some threads on dark web forums share sets of faces of victims, the research says, and one thread was called: “Photo Resources for AI and Deepfaking Specific Girls.”

The model hasn’t necessarily been trained with CSAM, rather you can create things called LORAs which help influence the image output of a model so that it’s better at producing very specific content that it may have struggled with before. For example I downloaded some recently that help Stable Diffusion create better images of Battleships from Warhammer 40k. My guess is that criminals are creating their own versions for kiddy porn etc.

You’re more than welcome, glad it helped. Stay positive, friend! 👍

Thank you 😊

You are 100% correct, negative news has a greater impact on people than positive: https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71516.pdf

Media sites know this, and use it to drive engagement:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/social-media-facebook-twitter-politics-b1870628.html

And so, negative headlines are getting worse: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276367

But negative news is addictive and psychologically damaging: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-we-worry/202009/the-psychological-impact-negative-news

So it’s important to try and stay positive:

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/benefits-of-good-news

If you want a break from the constant negativity, here are some sites that report specifically on positive news:

• https://www.goodgoodgood.co/
• https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
• https://fixthenews.com/
• https://positivenewsfoundation.org/
• https://www.onlygoodnewsdaily.com/

And here’s 35 more: https://news.feedspot.com/good_news_websites/

Some communities on Lemmy you might be interested in:

• !goodnews@kbin.social
• !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world
• !goodnewseveryone@sh.itjust.works
• !upliftingnews@lemmy.world
• https://lemmy.world/c/hopeposting
• https://lemmy.world/c/worldinprogress
• https://lemmy.world/c/climatehope

Remember, realistic optimism is important and, unlike what some might have you believe, is not the same as blissful ignorance or ‘burying your head in the sand’: https://www.learning-mind.com/realistic-optimism-blind-positivity/

https://www.centreforoptimism.com/realisticoptimism

And doesn’t mean you must stay uninformed on current affairs: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/how-to-stop-doom-scrolling

https://goodable.co/blog/tips-for-balancing-positive-and-negative-news/

Yes, Time Out, same as you.

Yes, I’m having the problems with sh.itjust.works instance. I’ve moved to Lemmy.world whilst this issue is ongoing just so I can actually use Lemmy.

And I guess I should try out another client to see if I experience the same problems there

Are you on mobile? If so I tried turning off my WiFi and just using data and it seemed to help, which is even weirder.

I’m a little confused by your Signal comment though. Is there a Lemmy client with that name?

No, sorry, I meant Sync. Amended.

I’m having the same issues with sh.itjust.works. Also on Boost, also having the same Time Out issues. Can’t even access comments. I even tried posting to this thread using my sh.itjust.works profile and it just failed to work. If I switch to another profile like the one I’m using atm everything works OK. I also tried Signal Sync, same issues, so it doesn’t appear to be app related.

Its really weird.