KoboldCoterie

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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 39 points 1 day ago (7 children)

At some point, he'll piss off enough people that the world at large will just look the other way when it happens.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 53 points 1 day ago

The term is connected to misogyny. If someone just wants to give up dating and that's the end of it, there's no reason for anyone to be ticked off by that idea. It's the doomer attitude surrounding it and the effects of it that cause problems. You used the term 'black pill', which has specific connotations - it's not simply choosing to give up dating.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

The term black pill, first popularized in the 2010s on the incel blog Omega Virgin Revolt, refers to accepting the futility of fighting against a feminist system. Blackpilled incels are encouraged to either commit suicide or “go ER”/be a “hERo,” referencing Elliot Rodger’s 2014 Isla Vista murder spree that has been called an act of misogynistic terrorism.

(Source: Britannica)

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago

Great - that's what we were trying to go for, but the inability to load multiple templates simultaneously makes it difficult to confirm!

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Group Name: Furries of the Fediverse

Template: https://canvas.fediverse.events/#tu=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.catbox.moe%2F7boa4j.png&tw=157&tx=0&ty=356&ts=ONE_TO_ONE&x=78.5&y=434.5&zoom=1

Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#Fedi_Canvas-Furry-2025:nope.chat

(Not So) Fun Fact: 5.8 million dogs and cats were put up for adoption in 2024, and in the same year, there were only 4.2 million adoptions. Consider a shelter animal rather than a breeder for your next pet, and consider donating to your local animal rescue.

Anyone else making furry or generally animal themed art is more than welcome to drop their own art in / around these. If you've got something you're planning to draw, and want to pop into the above linked Matrix chat, we'll try to integrate it and update the template.

@lvxferre@mander.xyz: I don't believe we're intersecting your tree, but if we are, we'll go behind it, not over it.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 6 points 2 days ago

https://12ft.io/ works great to bypass stupid bullshit like that, as well.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm all for using Matrix. Re: the design, we could potentially put together something akin to the paw from last year that we start with (something that clearly says 'There's furries working on this' as a sort of rallying flag to anyone else who wanted to join in), then coordinate satellite drawings via Matrix. If we post the initial design in the coordination thread, with a link to the matrix chat, we could potentially get some other folks to help, too (and contribute their own smaller things).

Having a "furry corner" was nice last year, but given that our designs aren't really integrated into one thing that has to be kept together, it probably makes sense to take this approach.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's the intent, yeah - whatever we decide on, we just work on it as a group, via the template we'll set up.

Definitely feel free to make any adjustments you want!

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago

I kind of hate how restrictive the color palette is with regards to actual colors. Things with an excess of browns and greys are very easy to make work, but anything with an abundance of color ends up looking very basic. For example, this guy looks fine when converted to the palette, but trying to do it with a green (for example) character just looks like a mess.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

Okay, new proposal: We trim some elements and omit others, leaving us with this:

We put it at (0,390), with the understanding that we're going behind (rather than over) the tree that's going up right beside us; that will also help box it in.

In the event that the canvas gets extended twice instead of only once (which will result in another 500 px below the initial square), we extend the two cut off pieces down into the new area, if we have time.

Total area here is 176x110, which is still ambitious, but plausible.

The other option is we design something that fits on the right edge of the canvas and plan to continue into the expanded area the first time it expands (which will probably happen, the second one is less likely.)

(It's not really about being able to place all of the pixels over the course of the event so much as it is being able to command presence of our area. If we're working slowly and filling things in a little at a time, other art will move into the area we'd planned to draw in, but we can take advantage of the expanding canvas to solve for this.)

The alternative is that we take all of the individual elements and place them around the canvas, and build them separately. We really do just have a collection of small things, so we could fit them in around other artworks rather than trying to capture an entire corner / area.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The right side will be in the middle on the final canvas (assuming it goes the same as last year, with the size doubling mid-way through). Not a bad thing necessarily but worth noting.

As noted above, though, this is too large - we'll never get this much space to ourselves and we'll simply never finish it.

This is a composite of the templates currently posted there - top right corner doesn't work as we'd be competing with another group.

 

Canvas is a yearly Fediverse event similar to Reddit's Place - it's a collaborative art project where any Fediverse user can place colored pixels on a shared canvas over a period of a few days. It has a dedicated community at !canvas@toast.ooo - the canvas itself is here.

This will be its third year; the first time, there were some minor furry drawings, and last year, we were a bit more organized, with a bit of collaboration between Pawb and Yiffit. The full canvas from last year can be seen here - we had a small spot carved out in the lower left corner, as well as a few scattered things all around.

I'd be great to actually start organized this year, and create something substantial together.

Anyone else interested in participating? Any thoughts on what we might make? Anyone with artistic skill want to sketch something out? If we can get a few ideas, maybe we vote on them prior to the event itself?

Edit: Template Here

 

Just wanted you to know, @ickplant@lemmy.world, that your personal carrying of this community with daily bat pics was both noticed, and appreciated!

 
 
 

I'm sure you know, but I haven't seen any communication about it, so I'm bringing it up just to make sure. Performance tanked abruptly a few days ago and has only gotten worse in the following days.

Is it helpful to bring this up when it's observed, or would you prefer we just chill and wait?

 

Hugely improved performance! Great work! Thanks a lot!

 

Rather than communities being hosted by an instance, they should function like hashtags, where each instance hosts posts to that community that originate from their instance, and users viewing the community see the aggregate of all of these. Let me explain.

Currently, communities are created and hosted on a single instance, and are moderated by moderators on that instance. This is generally fine, but it has some undesirable effects:

  • Multiple communities exist for the same topics on different instances, which results in fractured discussions and duplicated posts (as people cross-post the same content to each of them).
  • One moderation team is responsible for all content on that community, meaning that if the moderation team is biased, they can effectively stifle discussion about certain topics.
  • If an instance goes down, even temporarily, all of its communities go down with it.
  • Larger instances tend to edge out similar communities on other instances, which just results in slow consolidation into e.g. lemmy.ml and lemmy.world. This, in turn, puts more strain on their servers and can have performance impact.

I'm proposing a new way of handling this:

  • Rather than visiting a specific community, e.g. worldnews@lemmy.world, you could simply visit the community name, like a hashtag. This is, functionally, the same as visiting that community on your own local instance: [yourinstance]/c/worldnews
    • You'd see posts from all instances (that your instance is aware of), from their individual /worldnews communities, in a single feed.
    • If you create a new post, it would originate from your instance (which effectively would create that community on your instance, if it didn't previously exist).
    • Other users on other instances would, similarly, see your post in their feed for that "meta community".
  • Moderation is handled by each instance's version of that community separately.
    • An instance's moderators have full moderation rights over all posts, but those moderator actions only apply to that instance's view of the community.
      • If a post that was posted on lemmy.ml is deleted by a moderator on e.g. lemmy.world, a user viewing the community from lemmy.ml could still see it (unless their moderators had also deleted the post).
      • If a post is deleted by moderators on the instance it was created on, it is effectively deleted for everyone, regardless of instance.
      • This applies to all moderator actions. Banning a user from a community stops them from posting to that instance's version of the community, and stops their posts from showing up to users viewing the community through that instance.
      • Instances with different worldviews and posting guidelines can co-exist; moderators can curate the view that appears to users on their instance. A user who disagreed with moderator actions could view the community via a different instance instead.
  • Users could still visit the community through another instance, as we do now - in this case, [yourinstance]/c/worldnews@lemmy.world, for example.
    • In this case, you'd see lemmy.world's "view" of the community, including all of their moderator actions.

The benefit is that communities become decentralized, which is more in line with (my understanding of) the purpose of the fediverse. It stops an instance from becoming large enough to direct discussion on a topic, stops community fragmentation due to multiple versions of the community existing across multiple instances, and makes it easier for smaller communities to pop up (since discoverability is easier - you don't have to know where a community is hosted, you just need to know the community name, or be able to reasonably guess it. You don't need to know that a community for e.g. linux exists or where it is, you just need to visit [yourinstance]/c/linux and you'll see posts.

If an instance wanted to have their own personal version of a community, they could either use a different tag (e.g. world_news instead of worldnews), or, one could choose to view only local posts.

Go ahead, tear me apart and tell me why this is a terrible idea.

 

Page load times have been very slow for some communities, especially those hosted on other instances, and especially over the past few days. Not sure if this was related to the maintenance over the weekend. Here's some quick examples from a sample of 3 communities. I'm listing them in the order that I visited them (I'm not sure if images et. al. are cached across instances, but just in case):



Of these three tests, we performed fine on one, but the other two were markedly slower. Refreshing the home feed (settings: Subscribed, New) has also been very slow (with load times in excess of 5 seconds being very common).

Is anyone else seeing this, or is this a 'Me' problem?

(I swear I don't only complain.) :D

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by KoboldCoterie@pawb.social to c/godot@programming.dev
 

I'm sure there's a really simple answer to this, but it's a surprisingly difficult problem to search for.

I've got a RichTextBox control and I'm trying to write text that includes the letters "ff", but they don't show up. This is the specific code in question:

for entry in suffix:
  desc += "[color=darkgray]Suffix (Tier: %s, Quality: %s%%) 'of %s'\n[color=royalblue]" % [entry.tier, entry.quality, entry.mod.name]

This is what it ends up printing:

If I change one or both of the Fs to capitals, they both display fine; it's specifically two lowercase Fs that're problematic. They also display fine elsewhere in the same textbox; it's just this line specifically that's problematic. Even tried escaping it but it didn't like that, either.

Most of the settings on the RichTextBox are default; the font has a lowercase 'f' character; I haven't done anything weird with the font size, or style, or anything else.

I'm tearing my hair out here. Please tell me this is just some stupid bbcode tag or some such.

Edit: For anyone finding this later:

It's a ligature (ffi) that the font is missing a glyph for. To solve the problem: On the Import tab, choose the font you're using, click Advanced, and under Metadata Overrides, expand OpenType Features, click Add Feature -> Ligatures, add whichever option is appropriate (discretionary or standard ligatures), then disable the option. Reimport the font, and the issue is fixed!

 

Let's get some furry shit up in there. We can create / share a template so we're all working on something cohesive. Any interest / anyone have any suggestions for something to draw?

Community Link

 

The hacktivists, which describe themselves as made up of "gay furry hackers," usually target government orgs whose policies they disagrees with, and have a flare for political publicity stunts, also posted a link to the purported stolen files on their Telegram channel.

"The astonishing siegedsec hackers have struck NATO once more!!1!!!," the crew wrote, bragging: "NATO: 0. Siegedsec: 2."

The team is referring to its earlier NATO intrusion in July, during which it claimed it swiped information belonging to 31 nations and leaked 845MB of data from the alliance's the Communities of Interest (COI) Cooperation Portal.

 

"Some game developers are turning to artificial intelligence to make the creative process faster and easier—and cheaper, too. At Google Cloud Next in San Francisco, startup Hiber announced the integration of Google’s generative AI technology in its Hiber3D development platform, which aims to simplify the process of creating in-game content.

Hiber said the goal of adding AI is to help creators build more expansive online worlds, which are often referred to as metaverse platforms. Hiber3D is the tech that powers the company's own HiberWorld virtual platform, which it claims already contains over 5 million user-created worlds using its no-code-needed platform.

By typing in prompts via its new generative AI tool, Hiber CEO Michael Yngfors says creators can employ natural language to tell the Hiber3D generator what kind of worlds they want to create, and can even generate worlds based on their mood or to match the vibe of a film. [...]"

Once this is refined, this could be very neat! It's only environments right now, not characters and whatnot, too, but maybe eventually we'd be able to dynamically generate some anthro-populated worlds to explore.

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