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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 21 points 2 months ago (19 children)

has the era of active sabotage of the autoplag inputs begun? let's hope so

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Considering Glaze and Nightshade have been around for a while, and I talked about sabotaging scrapers back in July, arguably, it already has.

Hell, I ran across a much smaller scale case of this a couple days ago:

Not sure how effective it is, but if Elon's stealing your data for his autoplag no matter what, you might as well try to force-feed it as much poison as you can.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I saw people say they would add 10% opaque layers of the musk with Epstein's accomplice (whos name i forgot for a second and too lazy to look her up) photo. Would be nice if there was a tool to do so automatically. (Not that i post on twitter anymore).

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

tbh that sounds like a pretty easy script to write! Too bad I am not near a computer rn

[–] ShakingMyHead@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't really need a script, though. Just open up photoshop or GIMP and add a layer after everything is finished.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

But that doesn't scale properly, you want ideally some sort of browser extension that just automatically does it for you before the data gets send to twitter.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

I got nerd sniped into trying to resize felons_musk_and_maxwell.webp to the same size as some base image before compositing it on top with a 10% dissolve in the same magick invocation but I need to sleep so I'm giving up for now.

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