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2 months agoI don’t know offhand but I strongly suspect everything related to AI is defaulted to on/show.
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DDG’s description of that feature:
If you don’t want AI-generated images to show up in DuckDuckGo image search results, you can filter them out a few different ways:
- Anytime you’re viewing image search results in the Images tab on DuckDuckGo search, you can click the AI images filter and select Hide to reload results without AI-generated content.
- Alternatively, open Search Settings > General or Search Settings > AI Features and turn on Hide AI-Generated Images.
- Finally, if you want a search experience without AI-generated images, without Search Assist answers, and without Duck.ai prompts and entry points, start your searches on noai.duckduckgo.com instead of duckduckgo.com.
How does DuckDuckGo filter out AI-generated images in search results?
We rely on publicly available lists to filter out AI-generated content, like those provided by uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist, an open-source blocklist, manually curated by project contributors.
These lists are not exhaustive, but our aim with the “AI images” filter is to filter out as much AI-generated content as possible.
I run Firefox on Linux Mint with uBlockOrigin and uMatrix addons (with modified settings) so I can’t speak to the universality of my results, but it seems like DDG is pretty loose with how it categorizes and displays info.
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With AI images set to hide on first search for “morse code chart” I get the following: Hide
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Toggling the AI image setting to show instantly changes the results and displays these: Show (instant)
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Without additional changes, just clicking the search button again slightly changes the results: show (re-search)
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Toggling the AI image setting back to hide again instantly changes the results to: Hide (instant)
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Re-running the search as is returns the same results as #1.
I’ve also previously had horrible luck getting the date filters to work when trying to use a bookmarklet style shortcut to add the dates as parameters in the address bar (they’re just completely ignored when a search is run that way for me), and as of ~2 days ago the date range just didn’t seem to work at all. I was trying to find a human authored post/article about the difference between opossums and possums and using a date range of 1950–2015 was still ONLY returning results post-2023 and they were all wordy slop.
Most important error is that you have AI results set to show instead of hide.
2·2 months agoWhen “bullet time” was blowing up after the Matrix was released I was expecting to see some references to the music video I saw on MTV that preceded it; but I don’t think I ever did. In 2014 (based on file timestamps) I randomly remembered the video and finally tracked it down: Meat Beat Manifesto - Helter Skelter.
Is breathable air also necessitated? Is there a minimum or maximum atmospheric pressure allowed in detention areas? Just how specific do the laws and orders need to be to prevent malicious compliance bullshit?
“You never said the blankets couldn’t be made of steel wool and soaked in lemon juice.”
“Temperature-appropriate clothing, sure - but you didn’t specify appropriate for the local climate and not somewhere thousands of miles away.”
“The medication supply was adequate, it sufficed for the rest of their life!”There ain’t no rule that says a concentration camp can’t be made entirely of asbestos coated lead!
Sticking my neck out a bit to share my general views and habits on voting to maybe add some other things to consider.
My general mindset is that each community sets rules on posts and comments, and that ideally only appropriate things should then be posted. So I typically only think to upvote stuff when there’s an even greater than normal amount of effort or thought put into something, or to counteract dogpile downvotes to an appropriate post/comment.
Say I’m browsing a motorcycle community and one user posts a meme about bikes, and someone else poses a story about learning to ride; if my preference is for text posts instead of images I could just upvote the story post and not the meme, but both posts are related to the community and belong there. I could upvote both (and by extension all posts) but then what’s the difference if everything is +1 or +0? If memes are disallowed, I can downvote and report the post to push it down to hopefully keep others from having to see it or encourage them to post their own.
I will also downvote nearly 100% of extremely low-effort pointless comments like “THIS”, “lol”, URL shortened or amp/tracking including links without context etc. A post in another language but marked as English I will also downvote, foreign language communities/instances I just block. I block most meme and shitpost style communities so I’m not looking to vote police what other people enjoy, but doing this stuff in science/news/hobby/etc. communities is inappropriate.
So that’s generally how I behave on Lemmy (and previously on Reddit) - I’m generally more “on the lookout” for bad content, and not looking to boost things that belong here. I don’t rely on voting to maintain my feed, my block lists are also enormous.
A more semi-recent phenomenon is accounts spam posting a bunch of (relevant) links and then self-deleting - I can’t block that account to hide their posts, but as I’m scrolling through my feed I will downvote every single post they made regardless of its quality etc. I’m not going to rehash arguments about whether their behavior is acceptable or not (“they are posting relevant stuff, who cares if they’re acting in bad faith!”) but since there’s generally 2-3 of those accounts per day spam posting junk that’s a lot of downvotes from me to a lot of different communities including some I’m not subscribed to. I’m not going to bother reporting every single post, and until there’s a method to easily directly report a user I’m not going to bother trying that anymore.
Just wanted to put that out there that there might be other legitimate users that have wildly disproportionate voting numbers and that it might not be malicious or careless in nature. I don’t know if Lemmy ignores them like Reddit (supposedly?) does, but I’ve never mass voted from a user’s history. It’s only from comments and posts that were presented to me during my normal browsing.
I get that the quote about feeling despair is supposed to be read in the “look for the helpers” sense, but it could also be interpreted in the discouraging bystander effect way that there were hundreds of us and only four federal agents still succeeded.
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Another possibility I overlooked, maybe instead of it being meant in the “look for the helpers” it was actually more in the “can you dig it?” & jury nullification sense…
4·5 months agoI’m guessing it wouldn’t be a valid legal argument, but I liked the thought experiment of claiming that it can’t be piracy if the rights holder is intentionally publicly sharing the content. Like trying to charge trick-or-treaters for theft when they took candy out of the bowl you left out with a “Free!” sign attached.
re: that “Who we are” blurb on their page- they care so much about Iryna they couldn’t be bothered to spellcheck her last name [it’s Zarutska] but also apparently hate immigrants even though she was a Ukrainian refugee that was killed by a good ol’ American (as far as Wikipedia indicates).
FYI @AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works:
news outlet Stateline reported, opens new tab in February.
The Trump administration “sidelined or fired, opens new tab” Homeland Security staffers
described the protesters as terrorists, opens new tab, Hamas supporters, opens new tab and far-left agitators.
according to an alert obtained by Property of the People, opens new tab.
referred Reuters to a 2011 federal document, opens new tab listing recommendations for law enforcement
3·9 months agoThere’s also a few plugins for Cura with variations on the name TabAntiWarping. I’ve had https://github.com/5axes/TabAntiWarping installed forever but I’m not sure if I’ve ever actually used it in a print. I just took a quick look and there’s a couple others listed in the marketplace now too.
That engine is definitely woke. I had 269 hits when I searched for “trans” in my car’s manual!
In for a penny, in for a pound.
If they’re going to bring such heavy charges carrying such serious prison time for typical protesting actions (or apparel‽) it might just convince some people that any restraint is unnecessary and to “earn” their sentences. I get that the current assumption is that is the unspoken goal to claim additional legal power but there doesn’t seem to be much hope left that things won’t escalate there even without a “proper” inciting incident.