wizardbeard

That gould aint right

!lemmysilver

Unfortunate to see that they haven't tested with xash3d or the like. I'd be especially interested in the ray tracing fork of xash being supported.

Improved lighting does wonders for old games, imo.

Then who was phone?

When the protests against scientology happened. Long before it was sold. Long before MAGA or the politics board were even a concept. It didn't die immediately from them, but it was the start of a measurable drop in discussion quality that never stopped.

The "protests" devolved into some of the cringiest irl meetups of online communities I have ever come across (yes, worse than dashcon), and it caused so much media attention that it accelerated the "eternal september" problem the site always had exponentially.

Motherfuckers forgot the golden rule about "hiding your power level", which at the time at least meant doing your best to appear relatively normal in public and went full "I'm a horribly socially maladjusted mess with bad hygiene who can only communicate via tired memes, look at me! Look at me! I know memes! Haha longcat is long am I right?".

A lot of people remember the cringe of reddit's "When does the narwhal bacon?" forced meme attempt at the world's most embarassing "secret pass phrase" bullshit. The scientology "protests" were significant orders of magnitude more cringe.

4chan was never a secret club, but the sheer agressiveness of non-tolerance towards obviously new posters helped to maintain a very low bar of "quality". I'd argue that's needed to maintain any semblance of a community on an entirely anonymous image board that has minimal moderation. Shitty threads would get saged relentlessly, eating up the maximum comments a thread could have and drowning out any discussion in the shitty thread, all without bumping it back up to the top. Hit the reply limit and the thread slides off the bottom, gone forever.

"Lurk moar, faggot" was the phrase of the time. Stop posting until you figure out how things work around here.

But as more and more people unfamiliar with what shitty community existed came in, there hit a point where they outnumbered the old guard, and the already low quality of discussion tanked.

/b/ used to have discussion threads about all sorts of shit. Actual thought provoking stuff now and then. Funny stories. Occasionally legitimately good OC. It was the breeding ground for most of the memes and meme formats that spread to the internet at large. Mudkipz, rickrolling, EFG (the progenitor of trollface and rage comics), lolcats, advice animals. All /b/.

Now it is almost entirely people sharing photos of women they know that they've downloaded off the ladies' social media accounts to jerk off to. Previously they would have been chased off to the dedicated porn (or softcore) boards using fire, pitchforks, and spam of the most digusting images the internet had until the posters got the message. Or at the very least they would have been bullied into a single thread at a time instead of taking over almost every thread on the board.

Instead it has all devolved to the absolute lowest common denominator.

/b/ (and by extension 4chan as a whole) has always been a cesspit. I'm not trying to deny that. There's screenshots out there of it back when the post count hadn't breached 1000 that show that it was shit even in the very very beginning. Back when it was almost exclusively m00t, W.T. Snacks, and their friends from Something Awful. That said, it used to be engaging to scroll through because you could stumble upon some legitimately good discussion. It hasn't been worth even trying to look for good discussion on /b/ for well over a decade.

The retro videogames board was a brief shining return to quality for a few years after it was created, even managed to find, back up, and translate some things that had been lost media. The DooM threads used to be the place to be for new DooM wads. Even that board's pretty shit now too.

And is now illegal, thankfully.

Cyberpunk has NPCs with some fun lines for this if you don't choose options fast, and in some of the more intense scenes they have a countdown with limited time for you to respond before the conversation moves on.

Out of curiosity I've tried the AI feature in Paint (on my work computer) to erase something and use AI to fill in the background

I was removing a line between two items on a flowchart, background had diagonal colored lines in a regular repeating pattern (think college ruled paper at an angle).

Instead of connecting the lines in the background it seemed to just take an average of the pixel colors of the edge of what I erased and fill it in with that average color. Such intelligence!

You're telling me an egg fried this rice?

Might help you to know that lemmy.dbzer0.com is run by the former head mod of /r/piracy who left reddit a few years ago, and it has the most active piracy community I've found anywhere on lemmy.

This leaves no room for "reasonable" edits, like resizing the image. Most sites you can upload images to use some form of image compression that would also kill this as well.

If the signature was kept through edits, then it's no longer actually linked to the image contents and is just added fluff for the appearance of trust. No real way to discern if an edit materially changes the content or not (the reasonable assumption is that most edits do change the content).

If the sig isn't kept through edits, then this would only work for directly shared images with no middle man hosting compressing things in the middle (at least if it wasn't 100% reversible compression).

This could be useful in a lot of situations and use cases (like press releases and news articles), but it simply wouldn't work for so many other image sharing situations.

Simplehuman lidded step-open trashcan.

Why in the fuck would anyone spend over $100 on a damn trashcan?

We got tired of the plastic ones we were buying breaking, and they were around $60 to begin with.

It holds the bags properly with none falling in. It has built in storage for empty bags inside. It is easily cleanable. The lid opens and closes smoothly, no slamming open or shut. When closed, it keeps any odors inside.

It's been the main trashcan in the central area of our home for four years and is still going strong. So many others we had would only last maybe half a year.