Haha they thought it was too easy and were proven wrong!
Honestly, if a place is obscure enough, even smaller barriers of entry help, like forums that don't let you post on important boards until you build a reputation. There's only so much effort an adversary is willing to put in, and if there isn't a financial incentive or huge political incentive, that barrier could be low.
It was released (read: forcibly shoved down our throats) by Google and came out of nowhere when there were zero problems with the decades old and extremely well researched incumbent image/video formats that the web was already using (i.e. jpg, png, gif, mp4, etc)
I don't agree with this. There are many things wrong with those file formats. GIF, for example, is over 35 years old and has a 256 color pallete. Now, if it's good enough for your purposes and it "ain't broke" for that, fine, but compare these formats to JPEG-XL and it's clear that they deserve to be surpassed. WebM/WebP, despite my many issues with it (WebP and AVIF are bullshit formats), they did serve a legitimate purpose, and quite frankly you can even say it was good for the environment due to lowering filesizes at an actually meaningful scale.
In fact, if I'm reading Mitre correctly, there are libjpeg vulns still being found since WebP was launched. I'm not saying this to equivocate the two from a security standpoint, hell no, but to critisize the common view I see online claiming the older formats are unbackable.
Seeing the previous krita-ai-diffusion demo and the skill of the demonstrator in selecting and img2img'ing encouraged me to give Krita a second try (it turns out my laptop+Mint had a keyboard setting which made the panning shortcut break, so I've fixed that and now it's far more usable. It was 'disable touchpad when typing', so Space wouldn't pan with the touchpad).
As for this video, it's great to see the ComfyUI integration (and with a logo on the node too!). The tool was already powerful and impressive, and this seems like a huge step up.
One of the first few instances I heard of was botsin.space, which has been around since at least 2017. Bots aren't new. (Not sure where you're pulling "AI" from, this is old* tech, and I don't mean that negatively)
(edit: I accidentally a word and didn't realize you wrote 'auto-report instead of deleting them'. Read the following with a grain of salt)
I've played (briefly) with automated moderation bots on forums, and the main thing stopping me from going much past known-bad profiles (e.g. visited the site from a literal spamlist) is not just false positives but malicious abuse. I wanted to add a feature which would censor an image immediately with a warning if it was reported for (say) porn, shock imagery or other extreme content, but if a user noticed this, they could falsely report content to censor it until a staff member dismisses the report.
Could an external brigade of trolls get legitimate users banned or their posts hidden just by gaming your bot? That's a serious issue which could make real users have their work deleted, and in my experience, users can take that very personally.
I wanted to give it a proper try before replying. This is what I was looking for. Detailed searches, custom tags (I can use them as various quality ratings) and more. It's also nice to know it can run as a standalone executable in case I want to try out AuraFlow before it becomes available in A1111/Forge. Thank you!
Seriously, it's one of those few bridge-crossing arguments which most people will agree on, from the communists to the liberals to the nationalists. Look at all that money going to the other side of the world. Look at the local living conditions. If the governments aren't keeping people poor, desperate and dying on purpose, then the choice of where to spend the money is obvious!
Fragging is a proud American tradition which should be continued.
and then themselves
I have some empathy for those coerced into joining out of sincere ignorance (even though I believe they should know better). Eyes Left has an interesting example. The front lines radicalize some people into anti-imperialism, and if they have enough of a conscience to wake up and join the resistance, then I say have the potential to redeem themselves.
Not sure why this was upvoted, the blog says it's theirs.
Moving Forward
With the new name, a few changes will be made in the engine and community. Obviously, all the repositories and community hubs will adopt the Luanti name in some form. You’ll be able to find the website at luanti.org and [snip]
On this note, another thing I appreciate is what they said about "Free" and "Libre": those names are great for saying "This is a free/libre/open clone of [x]", and that's what I'll think when I see it. Software like LibreOffice aims to support Microsoft Office documents, OpenRTC2 and OpenTTD are for people who want to see those games pretty-faithfully cloned, even if extended. Luanti is not OpenMinecraft.
I don't see irony there. I think calling this FOSS community 'filled with Linux-crazed people' is a stretch, but even then, it's very different to:
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or even just hating a niche product whatsoever. It's not like Linux is EEE'ing or being invasive, so it's hard to equivocate being a passionate fan to being a passionate hater.