In your android settings, go to network & internet > advanced > private DNS and paste the link dns.adguard-dns.com into the box. All ads will assume you have no Internet connection. Doesn’t appear to work on YouTube, but covers anything from the Google Play store banners/videos/etc.

• there’s half a dozen sewing communities, but no one posts in them
• fashion communities are also barren
• pretty sure I’m the only person posting in !DCComics@lemmy.ml out of 200 subscribers. I’m not a mod there (the og mod is an empty account with no comments/posts) and it’s not a community I want to recreate on my instance.

I love that he was labeled “SHONK” for most of it. Also kudos to the person/group that went around incorrectly labeling things.

So every time I get the “couldn’t load image, bad state” error, that’s a video? I thought that was an issue in the server side. @zach@bigfoot.ninja

If your home instance is H and you’re banned on H, you’re banned everywhere.

If your home instance is H and you’re banned in A, you can’t interact with A.

If your home instance is H and you’re banned in A, B gets a wanted poster from A but B’s not required to arrest them.

Slightly unrelated, but I was just talking with a friend about how we’re going to have similar issues with young artists trying to copy ai. As is, many young artists will turn to cartoons instead of real life when starting out. Their work is a bastardization of a bastardization, with serious flaws in anatomy, gravity, light, and depth. They go on to call those mistakes their “style” and point to other artists making those same mistakes to normalize them. Since “style” isn’t something they think they need to improve on, they may become good artists overall while having severe, glaring holes in their skillet that any professional can see. You can sometimes even tell when someone started out because “90s anime” or “10s cartoon network” made specific stylistic choices that changed over time.

So I think ai is going to cause similar problems. Newbies will copy what looks pretty to the untrained eye and learn an ai based style. Then when they become more popular they’ll be fed into ai as reference material and perpetuate the problem. Even worse is actual professionals may turn to ai instead of real life references or a desk mannequin. Then their skills may degrade because they rely too much on improper tools. (I’ve already seen this becoming an issue with photoshopped reference photos.)

Anyways, that’s my $0.02

300? The tracking site is still showing 5k.