…cogito, ergo sum…

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Joined 7 months ago
Cake day: December 3rd, 2025
  • Thank you for the response!

    I would, of course! But I haven’t yet had a chance to take a photo of anything so marvelous as antique coffee grinder, and the closest coffee-related works I have are not so appropriate for the header banner I believe… such as a single mug on random background, or the following I’ve just found in backups I captured:
    - https://imgur.com/gallery/n29NSUM

    Direct preview of the first from gallery

    If we consider non-virtual (e.g., video-game screenshots) but physical photography, for more than 20 years I’m into photography of mostly nature as sky and landscapes, or human works as architecture and statues etc.:
    - https://imgur.com/gallery/6yh8JfC

    Hence, the fair competition mentioned! There are Members in the Community who have ineffably awesome photos or hand-crafted artworks, I believe!


    And, using LLM/“AI” is already a stealing, isn’t it? Where:
    - 1. Vendors of these “AI” sell not even their works meat-groundprocessed through their algorithms;
    - 2. The actual, authentic, original authors of these works become unknown;

    The case of Getty Images (US) Inc v Stability AI Ltd, which went to trial in June 2025…

    In its claims, Getty alleged that Stable Diffusion was trained using subsets of the LAION-5B dataset, a dataset comprising 5.85 billion CLIP-filtered (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) image-text pairs, created by scraping links to photographs and videos, together with associated captions, from the web, including from Pinterest, WordPress-hosted blogs, SmugMug, Blogspot, Flickr, Wikimedia, Tumblr and the Getty Images websites.

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    Related:
    - https://lemmy.world/post/48289309 (The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music…)
    - https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671 (Extracting books from production language models…)

Dear Coffee Community at LemmyWorld,

Thank you for the marvel you do…


I am sorry, but just to clarify, may I ask… why ever use the so fake, effortless, worthless, void-empty, horrible, and sorrowful meat-ground set of bytes… as the very main banner to represent the so ineffably magnificent art, history, and human effort… as Coffee… and more than 10,714 Members of the Community, too…

There are so many artists out there who have art attributed… and if you haven’t chosen a work of your own, have you considered a competition between the current Members to choose the artwork for the banner? A moment of photography would already be a marvel…

Please… please do consider the noise, emptiness, and unintentional but possible disrespect… towards the miracle… divine elixir… the coffee…

Best and kind regards


Translation from the Arabic…

O Coffee! Thou dost dispel all cares, thou art the object of desire to the scholar.
This is the beverage of the friends of God; it gives health to those in its service who strive after wisdom.

Prepared from the simple shell of the berry, it has the odor of musk and the color of ink.
The intelligent man who empties these cups of foaming coffee, he alone knows truth.

May God deprive of this drink the foolish man who condemns it with incurable obstinacy.
Coffee is our gold. Wherever it is served, one enjoys the society of the noblest and most generous men.

O drink! As harmless as pure milk, which differs from it only in its blackness…

Delicious beverage, its color is the seal of its purity.

Source: by Abd-al-Kâdir ibn Mohammad al Ansâri al Jazari al Hanbali [1587 AD; webarchive]


// cc @martijn@lemmy.world ; @dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org ; @Xariphon@kbin.social

  • I’m not kidding when I said that Firefox is a niche browser. Folk have to actively look to use it. They have to search it out, figure out how to download it, ignore all the warnings and “suggestions” that they should keep using whatever the native browser is, avoid all the ads for Chrome as the better replacement browser, ignore all the sites saying “Your browser is out of date” because they couldn’t be arsed to test things in Firefox, etc. Firefox users are not normal. They are deeply abnormal, and frankly a lot of them are proud of that.

    The problem is that Leadership doesn’t know how to deal with that.

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My gracious sakes… Why do I live in 2026…
These LLM articles, headings, posters… is such a… horrible… disgust…
Such a disrespect towards the actual artists and developers… No words…
Such a hecking sorrowful time to live…

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Actual marvelous Laravel logo (since 2019)


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Laravel logo (2019-09-06)


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Hugely terrible DRM has now been rolled out to all PS4 and PS5 digital games. Every digital game you buy now requires an online check-in every 30 days. If you buy a digital game and don’t connect your console to the internet for 30 days, your license will be removed.

Source [2026-04-25; +image]

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You wouldn’t “lose” it, the licence would be restored after connecting to internet… provided Sony’s servers are still functioning when you do…

Source [2026-04-25]

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…Trophies on PS4 require the internal system clock (the one you can’t see / alter) to be correct, so people cant change their PS4 date/time to make it look like they got trophies earlier than they really did. If your PS4 clock battery dies, all your games die

Source [2021-03-23]

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Newly purchased PS4 games now have 30 day valid license timer.
Most likely introduced in March 2026 firmware.
Could be a bug similar to an incident from 2022.
PS5 is affected too, but only shows an error when starting a game.

Source [2026-04-25]

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Update x2: not a bug - PlayStation just quietly confirmed it’s intentional.
Any digital game you buy after the march 2026 update now requires you to go online at least once every 30 days or it won’t even launch.

Source [2026-04-28]


[Image] Official PlayStation Support Response [2026-04-28]


Source: https://xcancel.com/SmashJT/status/2048887546323808258#m

[Image] "Don't Starve Together" (PlayStation)