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[–] tal 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

There are a number of increasingly-sophisticated Skyrim impregnation frameworks, but I would guess that he's talking about Fertility Mode.

[–] tal 15 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

Skyrim Nexus is a dark place....

I'd call it the second-most-restrictive "tier" of Skyrim mod site after Bethesda's official mod site.

Look at LoversLab, which is more permissive.

And there are Skyrim mod sites that carry content that LoversLab won't permit.

[–] tal 69 points 8 hours ago (16 children)

The majority are, well, what you expect: various ways to make Eve and other women in the game various levels of nude (with the most popular level being 'fully'). Someone did put her in an apron, though, which I suppose leaves something to the imagination. There are also a lot of main menu replacers that just put hardcore smut of one variety or another right there on the home screen, if that's your bag.

Now. Look. I have no issue with what adults do in the privacy of their own home. If you want to turn your copy of any game into an overstimulating carnival of omnipresent erotic delights, please do so with my blessing. But I am a tad mystified. I do wonder what kind of lifestyle it is that leads a person to turn a videogame main menu into hardcore pornography.

Up next, a reaction video of Joshua Wolens as we expose him to progressively more-intense degrees of the Skyrim mod library.

[–] tal 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

Could be following British convention.

https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/british-versus-american-style.html

American style uses double quotes (“) for initial quotations, then single quotes (‘) for quotations within the initial quotation.

British style uses single quotes (‘) for initial quotations, then double quotes (“) for quotations within the initial quotation.

EDIT: Though if so, he's not doing so later in the article.

[–] tal 9 points 13 hours ago

Sharing is okay too.

[–] tal 32 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (7 children)

Many of us want to disconnect, but we can’t do so alone — not without losing touch with the world around us. Disconnection, today, carries real social and economic costs. Until such time as smartphones and social media can be democratically governed or nationalized — liberated from the imperative to profit off our attention indefinitely — a ban may be the most realistic path to reclaiming our lives.

If the author can't stop using whatever website he's upset about without requiring everyone else to have their smartphones banned, that sounds like a him problem.

[–] tal 2 points 19 hours ago
[–] tal 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Iran's supplied Russia with weapons to use against Ukraine, was caught trying to assassinate Trump, supplied weapons to the Houthis to use against merchant shipping and our warships, and that's before you get to the nuclear weapons issue. Not only do I not expect us to discourage Israel from bombing Iran, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if we wind up bombing Iran ourselves.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/30/trump-iran-nuclear-deal-bombing

"If they don't make a deal there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before," Trump told NBC News' Kristen Welker during a phone interview.

Trump gave Iran a two-month deadline to sign a new nuclear deal or face potential military action in his letter, sent three weeks ago, Axios previously reported.

In recent days, the U.S. military sent several B-2 stealth bombers to the Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean in a deployment a U.S. official said was "not disconnected" from Trump's two-month deadline.

The B-2 bombers can carry huge bunker buster bombs that would be a key element in any possible military action against Iran's underground nuclear facilities.

[–] tal 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

“Trump Memes are intended to function as an expression of support for, and engagement with, the ideals and beliefs embodied by the symbol ‘$TRUMP’ and the associated artwork,” warned the GetTrumpMemes.com website. It further stated that the tokens “are not intended to be, or to be the subject of, an investment opportunity, investment contract, or security of any type.”

In short, CIC Digital and Fight Fight Fight bear no legal responsibility for any investor losses.

$TRUMP was explicitly marketed as a proxy for Trump’s influence, power, resilience, and success. This is how President-elect Trump promoted it on January 17, the day before the meme coin launched: “My NEW Official Trump Meme is HERE!” he posted on X (formerly Twitter). “It’s time to celebrate everything we stand for: WINNING! Join my very special Trump Community.” 

Uh huh.

We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you’ll say, ‘Please, please. It’s too much winning. We can’t take it anymore, Mr. President, it’s too much.’ And I’ll say, ‘No it isn’t. We have to keep winning. We have to win more!


Donald Trump

I wonder whether people holding that asset have gotten to the "tired of winning" point yet.

EDIT: Oh, sorry, you were referring to Melania's memecoin, rather than Donald's. Same idea, though...

[–] tal 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

He's got that prosperity gospel woman on staff, Paula White.

https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-spiritual-adviser-paula-white-warns-christians-give-church-before-paying-their-1487867

Televangelist Paula White told members of the congregation at King Jesus Ministry's Supernatural Ministry School last Friday in Miami that she was able to rise from "trailer trash" to a job in Trump's White House because "God kept opening doors" for her. But according to Mother Jones, White said much of her transformation was owed to tithe-paying churchgoers and TV viewers who put God before their own financial needs. White cautioned congregants not to pay their one-tenth income tithes to their church with "leftovers" from what they didn't have to spend on mortgages, electricity and other mundane bills.

"So let's just say I get paid $1,000 and I pay my mortgage first or I pay, what's the electric company here? FPL. I pay FPL first instead of bringing the first tenth to the house of God every week, which clearly is instructed throughout the word of God," White said last week, referring to the Florida Power & Light Company.

"Then what I'm saying is, 'FPL I just made you chief. I just made you fundamental. I just made you the basis to support all structure. So FPL, heal my child. Find my children that are lost. FPL, open the door for me to get a promotion. FPL, I serve you. I honor you to redeem off of me the curse that is upon all mankind. Because you have just made FPL the first - because you gave the first $100 to pay your electric bill."

I mean, there are people who have dumped their life savings into Trump's stock or memecoins, but I still feel like White is probably extracting more from her crowd as an average percentage basis of their income.

[–] tal 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I'm able to do so in Firefox Fennec 138.0.0.

It didn't do it by default, but it looks like if you grant Camera permission (Settings:Apps:App Management:Fennec:Permissions), at least "Ask Every Time", then when I choose an image to upload I use "Media Picker", then the three dot menu, then Browse, then my file manager app, I can browse the filesystem.

If the Camera permission is set to "Don't Allow", then the three dot menu is not present.

I normally just use the Eternity client for lemmy, rather than Firefox Fennec, though.

[–] tal 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Your browser still has a disk cache, which will write to the phone's SSD.

You can view it via going to about:cache in your URL bar.

But it sounds like that's not what you were referring to.

 

db0 set up an AI image generator bot both on the Threadverse and Mastodon some time back for anyone to use. All one needs to do is mention it in a comment followed by the text "draw for me" and then prompt text, and it'll respond with some generated images. For example:

@aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me An engraving of a skunk.

Caused it to reply back to me with:

Here are some images matching your request

Prompt: An engraving of a skunk.

Style: flux

The bot has apparently been active for some time and it looks like few people were aware that it existed or used it


I certainly wasn't!

I don't know whether it will work in this community, as this community says that it prohibits most bots from operating here. However, I set up a test thread over here on !test@sh.itjust.works to try it out, where it definitely does work; I was exploring some of how it functions there, and if you're looking for a test place to try it out, that should work!

It farms out the compute work to various people who are donating time on their GPUs via AI Horde.

The FAQ for the bot is here. For those familiar with local image generation, it supports a number of different models.

The default model is Flux, which is, I think, a good choice


that takes English-like sentences describing a picture, and is pretty easy to use without a lot of time reading documentation.

A few notes:

  • The bot disallows NSFW image generation, and if it detects one, it'll impose a one-day tempban on its use to try to make it harder for people searching for loopholes to generate them.

  • There appears to me in my brief testing to be some kind of per-user rate limit. db0 says that he does have a rate limit on Mastodon, but wasn't sure whether he put one on Lemmy, so if you might only be able to generate so many images so quickly.

  • The way one chooses a model is to change the "style" by ending the prompt text with "style: stylename". Some of these styles entail use of a different model; among other things, it's got models specializing in furry images; there's a substantial furry fandom crowd here. There's a list of supported styles here with sample images.

db0 has encouraged people to use it in that test post and in another thread where we were discussing this, says have fun. I wanted to post here to give it some visibility, since I think that a lot of people, like me, have been unaware that has been available. Especially for people on phones or older computers, doing local AI image generation on GPUs really isn't an option, and this lets folks who do have GPUs share them with those folks.

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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by tal to c/test@sh.itjust.works
 

db0 apparently has a bot, @aihorde@lemmy.db0.com, linked up to AI Horde, which will render images using various LLM models in response to comments.

All using it requires is, in a comment, writing the text:

@aihorde@lemmy.db0.com draw for me <prompt text>

It's apparently been active for years, but somehow, I'd been unaware of it until now, when db0 happened to trigger it in a thread on !imageai@sh.itjust.work where we were creating images to represent usernames. It looks like nobody's been aware of it, and it's gotten very little use.

It apparently supports multiple models (including Pony, which is trained on and can render furry art, and Flux, which does pretty well with ordinary, English-language descriptions). It looks like the default is Flux.

Note that according to the FAQ, it will try to block (and will do a 1-day tempban on users for) NSFW content.

I'm going to try out a few prompts here and maybe mention this somewhere higher-profile, because this is really cool


it lets users pseudononymously generate images on the Threadiverse without needing to use a commercial service or having their own hardware.

Bot FAQ:

https://wiki.dbzer0.com/cbotart/

AI Horde style list (these can be accessed by adding style: <stylename> to the end of a prompt). Some of these are clearly different models whose names I recognize, and I'm pretty sure that some are just adding some extra text to the prompt.

https://github.com/amiantos/AI-Horde-Styles-Previews/blob/main/previews.md

While Lemmy doesn't natively provide the ability to follow a user, it posts what it generates to !botart@lemmy.dbzer0.com, so you can subscribe and watch generation if you want.

 

Original post by Crul@lemm.ee:

Source: H.A.M Prop Design - Missile [Grand Space Opera – Light Age] (by Himesh Anand - ArtStation)

Second Prop Design I did for Grand Space Opera – Light Age ArtStation Challenge.
A Quick Brief about the Race and the world:-
So this Civilization is called "ELITHIA",
A Type III civilization also called a galactic civilization—can control energy at the scale of its entire host galaxy.
I'm using the "Kardashev Scale" here to differentiate civilization on the basis of power consumption.

ArtStation profile: https://www.artstation.com/himeshanand023
RSS Feed: https://himeshanand023.artstation.com/rss

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by tal to c/casualconversation@piefed.social
 

There are several reasons that I'd like to see a "self-unfurling car tent" that could extend from a car and cover it when parked, and "de-furl" itself when returning to a car.

Shield the car from sunshine

People are always trying to park in what (usually very limited, where I am) parking spaces that are shaded. Carry a reflective, vented tent, and the problem goes away; you've got your own shade everywhere you go.

There are already car covers:

But these don't self-unfurl and furl, so they're enough of a pain to use that most people won't use them unless they're parking their car for some time; manually deploying the thing on a grocery store trip isn't worth the effort. The most people will normally do is put up a windshield sun shade, which is a lot less effort to put up.

Solar panels become a lot more practical

Volvo had a prototype unfurling-from-the-trunk solar canopy over a decade ago; I haven't heard of it since.

That thing took up a ton of space, and wouldn't work in a parking lot, but something that closely-matches a given car model's exterior shape might be a lot more practical.

There are vehicles that have factory built-in solar panels now; the 2025 Toyota Prius PHEV has a solar roof option, for example:

But they don't provide a lot of surface area, because they can't cover the whole vehicle, just part of the roof, so provide a limited amount of power. That Prius can get a maximum of about four miles (6.4 km) a day of range from sun.

But you can put whatever you want on the exterior of a tent that's only deployed when parked; surface constraints go away, so now you have a lot more surface area to work with.

There are existing car covers that have integrated solar panels, but the solar panels on these are tiny, just designed to keep a car battery topped off when a car isn't being used for long periods of time; they aren't designed to feed a larger battery bank.

Hail resistance

There are some places in the US where hail is a real problem, where it damages a ton of vehicles every year.

Cars, which are normally rigid, don't do well with hail. Fabric-like materials, which are springy, do a great job. There are some existing car protection systems that fit onto a car that make use of this, have a little standoff distance to permit the hail to decelerate in, as well as fixed structures and manually-deployable static fabric hail protectors. Looking online, soft-top convertables will suffer damage to the body in hail that the soft-top roof can just ignore. I don't know how well hail resistance would play with flexible solar panels---might need to pick one or the other. But I'd expect at least one or the other to be possible.

Issues

There are some issues I can think of.

A big one is that car exterior surfaces are more durable than tents, and I can imagine accidental damage being more of an issue for the tent, like being cut or something. Maybe it'd be practical to make such a system out of modular pieces that zipper or otherwise easily attach to each other, and if one piece of the tent is damaged, just pick up a new one, detach the old one, and stick a new one in; no big deal.

Theft of the tent (or pieces thereof, if modular) might also be an issue.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/31017170

Original post by Crul@lemm.ee:

Source: Photo by Sandstein - File:Epson HX-20 in case - MfK Bern.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Wikipedia: Epson HX-20

The Epson HX-20 (also known as the HC-20) was the first "true" laptop computer. It was invented in July 1980 by Yukio Yokozawa, who worked for Suwa Seikosha, a branch of Japanese company Seiko (now Seiko Epson), receiving a patent for the invention.

Seen on Functional object - Object, Epson, Epson portable computer, 1980-1989

 

Original post by Crul@lemm.ee:

Source with more models: Retro game consoles 2 (by Zaki - ArtStation)

Bunch of assets that I made for a project I am working on.
Stickers and decals from
https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/krk7B/316-hand-drawn-cyberpunk-urban-decals

ArtStation profile: https://www.artstation.com/creatiflux
RSS Feed: https://creatiflux.artstation.com/rss

 

Original post by Crul@lemm.ee:

Source with a couple more renders: Bounty tracker (by Jack Dowell - ArtStation)

Device for tracking bounties. Plugs into a bounty board terminal at spaceports where the disk can be updated with new bounties displaying information about the targets on the device. Helps to keep track of active bounties and their information while in space.

ArtStation profile: https://www.artstation.com/jackwdowell
RSS Feed: https://jackwdowell.artstation.com/rss

 

Original post by RustedSwitch@lemmy.world.

 

Original post by Crul@lemm.ee:

Source: Cassette Player (by Paxton Klotz - ArtStation)

I had a lot of fun with this cassette player! It ended up being just under 10k tris. Inspired by, though not exactly a one to one recreation of, Sheng Lam's Potify Cassette player

Original Sheng Lam's Potify Cassette player

Posted previously: "prop[s]" by Sheng Lam - lemm.ee

ArtStation profile: https://www.artstation.com/pklotz
RSS Feed: https://pklotz.artstation.com/rss

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