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If they charge by the image, and there is any expectation that AI image-generators might produce garbage results, then AI providers are incentivized to make you pay for their experimentation

without you ever knowing about it, as well as (perhaps) swapping in a cheaper-to-operate model some percentage of the time, perhaps as request loads peak, hoping you’ll just roll the dice and try again.

(Help) Name of (sandbox?) game set on space? (Found: Starsector)

So I usually browse the internet at random and sometimes stumble upon some interesting games. Today as I was going to sleep however, I remember I saw a game that I cannot for the life of me find the name again. Not even in my search history (as I regularly wipe those). Can anyone help me find it again? Here is what I know:...

why do you use xmpp instead of matrix?

I see the matrix is more popular than xmpp, but why?

What would happen if every atom on earth was to simultaneously double in size?

As an extra one, what would happen if one in every 10 atoms was to vanish from existence.

Composite Groups with Azorius

cross-posted from: azorius.net/g/…/G44w3jl9Rv76x4Q3bk-meta-groups...

[Solved!] How to change the default homepage in qutebrowser ?

Solution :...

For those who selfhost their music services, what are your must have plugins for beets and/or Musicbrainz

I’m curious what plugins people like the most and find the most useful.

"aaa" letters on t-shirt can be advertised and sold as mirrored number of the beast.

Janus, a simple text editor

For the past few months I have been working on a simple windows notepad like text editor. It’s nothing special, but when I first switched to linux I looked around and it took me a while to find leafpad. Unlike leafpad however, Janus uses gtk3, a much more modern toolkit then gtk2, it can display and modify binary data, and it...

Who decides when the US goes to "war"

I know Congress needs to be involved to actually declare war, but there have been a number of times where something was kicked off by presidential authority alone....

What are your favorite metal song covers?

Medical practitioner influencers who are spreading FUD and pseudo-science, can they be held liable in the USA? Do platforms they're on have no obligation to protect users from such harm?

The person I am talking about is Dr. Palaniappan Manickam aka Dr. Pal, a board-certified gastroenterologist from Sacramento, California, who is also a YouTuber. He’s created various videos targeting Indian netizens, most of which are decent, but not without adding his own twist of misinformation, that are considered...

Should I use Windows built-in shrink feature to move partition space to another partition?

I have dual boot Win10 and Linux (manjaro), and I want to shrink my NTFS C:\ partition to free up space in my ext4 root partition on the same physical drive....

What are actual good movie trailers that get you hooked without spoiling everything?

Kind of in response to an earlier post in here about trailers that spoil everything, I think it is easier nowadays to count how many didn’t spoil everything.

determining why/how hardware is supported in one distro but not another?

For a given device, sometimes one linux distro perfectly supports a hardware component. Then if I switch distros, the same component no longer functions at all, or is very buggy....

Self Host Pen Testing

Anyone have any good external pen testing tools that you’ve used on your self hosted setup? Mine is pretty secure overall but I would like to be able to scan the WAN for vulnerabilities or misconfigurations just to make sure I haven’t missed anything.