I haven't determined that. I only have one device set up to run SD and haven't organized any test with someone else.

I mean, if the concern is that tiling is a factor relative to non-tiling, okay, but if someone else is tiling, l’d think that they’d get the same output.

That's true, I'll check to see if the metadata mentions the tiling was used.

@aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me a lemon

Good call-out. My (naïve) understanding is that tools like tiling VAE to handle low VRAM, and lowing steps in the more stable of the samplers, are going to have a generally negative impact on the result, and a very similar image with better detail could be remade using similar variables on better hardware. Maybe that's a bit idealistic. Like you said, the seed mode usually changes images with size. (You said 'usually', is there a way to minimize this?)

edit: I'm aware 'better' and 'higher quality' are vague and even subjective terms. But I'm trying to convey something beyond merely higher resolution.

Sure, I agree, but at the end of the day it's useful to be able to search and watch YouTube videos so long as it's a popular platform because it still has by far the bulk of topics covered.

https://unitedchans.fandom.com/wiki//leftypol/ and linked pages.

Did Trump even say that at all? I remember laughing at Sebastian Gorka.

Don't tell me the propaganda machine can't even get basic names right...

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You can check online for rationales of why anti-abuse groups now prefer the term CSAM, but afaik CSAM (child sexual abuse material) is effectively an updated and less casual term for the same thing. Something can be sex abuse material without meeting various definitions of pornography.

Red Jenny

8ch was the reddit of imageboards in more ways than one; reddit infamously hosted /r/jailbait and other horrible subreddits for many years. Socialist subreddits (incl. those which were historical roots of lemmygrad.ml) weren't really affected by reddit also having CSAM, fascist, etc. boards because one can completely ignore they exist elsewhere on the site. The same was how /leftypol/ was. And in both cases, the community was on a crappy site because it's free hosting, there's no implied common values.

however they also tolerate loli porn

Ah, I wasn't even thinking about non-photo stuff. I don't know enough so I'll take your word on that one. They would definitely do their best to delete the photo stuff, because it's capitalist advertsiting, spam, disgusting to the point users would leave the site and also grounds for being reported to their server host. But I can't say I would be surprised whichever way they approached cartoon stuff, and I think it's reasonable to bring up 'chan culture' there.

I don't think the historical roots to 8chan are particularly relevant to this issue, because looking at 8/leftypol/ on the wayback archive, they explicitly had an anti-loli rule. It was just one board at the time rather than the collection it is now, so 8chan's notorious freeze peach US Libertarian liberalism didn't apply to /leftypol/ then.

Looking at the leftypol.org moderation thread quickly, it... leaves an impression. There's some real wannabe-cop shit going on.

It looks like part of the reason for the understaffing is that after four years, they finally banned an openly abusive moderator. Then other mods just kept using that name/account to continue moderating under a false name. So they currently have mods trying to justify gaslighting the userbase with a zombie account. Then there's a long essay one of them made when they left a year ago, which I just don't have time to look at today.

On the wiki and booru, it looks like the other English-language socialist imageboards are:

• leftychan : a split from mods who disagreed, run democratically
• GETchan : completely independent site (not a left-/pol/ offshoot) with much politically-stricter moderation hosting a casual chat lounge board and a flag-collecting international board. Now I see the name, I remember their YouTube channel filled with great music collections including original archivism.
• Nuclear Change : a board with a knack for running online projects rather than generic chatting, also run democratically

Fuck, imagine weirdos like [...] thing noticer coming to lemmygrad

Old users here might remember Wolfballs so it's not too hard to imagine. There have been fixated shock image spammers on Lemmy. Although it's much better now that most federated instances aren't open sign-up like the were then, where they would just register on any open instance to ban evade on demand.

Leftypol and CSAM is more an issue of Leftypol being immersed in chan culture, where dumping CSAM is a common troll

This is not the reason. Most CSAM on imageboards (as with any open forum or comment section) is commercial advertising. Someone did a decent write-up here. [warning: post is on an imageboard thread, a couple of the replies later are edgy or dumb racist crap]

Like the thread says, even in raids it's a very, very rare tactic.

You are right about the moderation being slow to respond, as well as failing to put in automated defenses like leftychan and nuclear change.

But I still like the unix motto, about doing one thing well

I prefer this because it does give me more (<_< , >_> , <_<) liberty to choose what my devices do. I want to control my computers. For my phone, I avoid many apps because I don't their company to have my personal information, or because I don't trust them. I consider having banking apps on my phone to be a risk I don't want to take. It also seems like bundling could have security implications, such as having a messaging app and finance app so interconnected that a flaw in one could facilitate access to the other (but I do say that naively, this is not security advice or insight).

We also see a lot of people saying "I don't use Facebook, but I just have [Facebook Messenger/Marketplace]", so there is a very real-world case where people don't want the whole package bundled.

But I certainly acknowledge the downsides of this. I abandoned Debian partly due to outdated apps, but also partly because my disparate preferences created a Frankensteinian mess which didn't have the smooth interoperability of a DE-centres OS (like Ubuntu-flavours or Mint) or the interoperability we see in that video, where the map is connected smoothly to the ride hire. I can see the metaphor of the collectivism/individialism dichotomy at play there too.

Cool slogan, but that is an extremely tough thing to do in any capitalist state, let alone the USA.

As long as workers are armed, the state will demand the cops are armed tenfold. And what solution is there except organizing enough to actually threaten the state? This is actually that tough.

They hide their faces because antifascists put in the effort to let the community know who they are. Many a fascist has lost a six-figure job or been kicked out of home, so they're scared alright.

It's a tough two-sided situation, because open-carry laws were what allowed the Black Panthers to defend people against police.

This time, the problem isn't the guns but that Nazis are there and comfortable enough to get together and hold them. If there were no guns, it would still be a problem, they just make it worse.

I think a missing part of this is that neo-Nazism (which I assume you include in neofascism) is overall not an intellectual movement with an understanding of such classes. Outside of the niches, a lot of neo-Nazis and perhaps even many fascists of the 30s seem to just understand it as 'super racism and nationalism' and some conspiracy theories about Jews and Cultural Marxism. My point being, it's likely that lower-class people will embrace it like many embrace the US Republican Party-style culture war - I (intuitively) doubt they're all booj because there just aren't that many petit booj to account for it.

Although, obviously, even if my point is valid, you're right that a petit booj has a personal interest in delaying their proletarianization.

Like someone else said, taking amphetamine-like stimulants wasn't something exclusive to Nazi Germany's military during that war and other stimulants are used today, although they were famous for Pervitin.

Some people may know of Aimo Koivunen, a Finnish (Axis) soldier on ski patrol who was the first documented case of methamphetamine overdose in combat. The article is short and to-the-point so I won't copy-paste it, but they had a hell of an adventure.

Thanks for the detailed reply, it makes more sense to understand this from a global perspective, as an international effect of US mass media, the change in perceptions of African-Americans post-Civil Rights Era, and distinct from mere nationalism. Removing this issue from nationalism also resolves the paradox of why 'White' foreigners were treated so differently from 'Black' foreigners; the issue isn't nation but negative Black stereotypes spread abroad.

I don't have time right now to reply in-depth, but its worth mentioning even African-American media can often be very critical of the 'gangster' cultures too, some popular examples which come to mind are the comic strip The Boondocks (and the cartoon adaptation) and the pop rap song Gangsta's Paradise lamenting the damage it causes. There are real cultural issues which are amplified by mass media, both news and entertainment. Obviously African-Americans aren't the only group with negative cultures associated with them – consider rednecks and Latin gang cultures as other US examples – but unfortunately, as you've pointed out, the harmful and threatening gangsta culture has become the international face.

As a side note, it just surprises me that the horribly-exploitative colonizing nations, which can be understandably stereotyped as 'White', haven't also had a similar racial demonization. I suspect its similar to here, where the rich haute thief with a smile is looked over but the poor petit thief is a brute.