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Words and text that I have, plus things from other interesting places. High octane shitposting.

os2warp:

duckgwr:

lmao porn bots are still interacting regularly and editing posts to contain their links and I hate this hellsite

it seems like more are following me now than ever.

They account for 100% of my followers within the last week

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Only 5 days left.

Five days and I can rid myself of this place.

os2warp:

os2warp:

os2warp:

so i did the thing to try to download my tumblr and it finally generated the .zip file (really? .zip? can’t find anything with a little more compression?) and anyway every time i try to download it it just fails. could be a firefox problem, could be a problem with my shitty internet, but i’m willing to bet it’s a tumblr problem. it doesn’t even get to like 1% complete before it gives up.

theoriginalmajestic replied to your post: so i did the thing to try to download my tumblr…                

   Mine totaled 10.1g compressed, just as a reference, for a blog of mostly images and video.    

i tried downloading it in microsoft edge (the only other browser i already had installed), and it at least got to the stage it could report the file size- 7.6gb, and an hour or so later, said the download finished, but when i tried to open it it said the file was corrupt. trying again.

ok that download finished, ony 4gb this time, still corrupted. it’s just giving up before it finishes.

They’re gigantic if your blog is anything active. They’re 200-300GB in some cases because every instance of an image is given a unique name. There’s zero deduplication and zero compression. Mine was 96GB.

Tools like DownThemAll will chew them up because they’re being built on the fly. Deadass.

Use a tool like Wget. The connections also time out after a certain amount of time because PHP on the Tumblr side is being cut off, so get yourself access to a 100-1000MBit pipe.

Alternately, use TumblThree. It works and dedupes, plus backs up other stuff.

suburbanerrorist:

cheesehound:

boleynbitch:

lone-standing-tuft:

insanelycoolish:

taraljc:

auraboo:

Burnout, 2018.

Three years ago, my constantly worsening sleep deprivation and stress resulted in a burnout. I’m 30 years old now, at the time of posting this comic, and I still haven’t recovered fully. I still have the heart symptoms - even the smallest amount of stress brings the symptoms back. It’s likely I will never recover enough to work a fulltime job again and I can’t go back to high-stress environments like customer service. But that’s alright. I am more than just my work. I’m slowly learning to be merciful towards myself and to show myself the same kindness I show others, and I think that’s very important.

This is my story and I won’t be ashamed any more.

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Originally posted by rhokio

I needed this. Especially the percentage part. As someone who compares myself to others a lot, I really needed that.

Your best is yours, not anyone else’s

Just to emphasize

holy shit….

like all the symptoms but heart ones are resonating so hard with me that I’m fighting tears….

Literally what happened to me. I’ll be thirty next year and luckily will finally be able to afford meds for my heart and all this anxious shit going on with my new job. It’s hard to admit, it’s hard to get help, but please try, just try your best, for your sake and all the people who care about you.

Man this is me right now.

Life of a college student. It’s insane. I don’t understand how people can justify grinding themselves down when they have a whole life to live

indrora:
“This triggered something deep in Tumblr until I added chromatic noise and exported it as a JPEG. Tumblr just refused to let me upload it.
Tumblr doesn’t even want you memeing about their shitty porn filter anymore.
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Since this has a little...

indrora:

This triggered something deep in Tumblr until I added chromatic noise and exported it as a JPEG. Tumblr just refused to let me upload it.

Tumblr doesn’t even want you memeing about their shitty porn filter anymore.

Since this has a little bit of traction:

The issue with any filter is that computers are terrible at figuring out what the hell things are. Projects like YOLO (You Only Look Once) attempt to solve this by changing how they look at objects, but image classifiers are really easily defeated.

To a computer, this looks very strange: the chroma (color) component of the image shifts all over the place very rapidly. We aren’t as concerned with rapid shifts in chroma values—our eyes are much more sensitive to rapid shifts in Luminance values (light and dark) since those define edges. From a Luminance perspective, this image is nearly identical to the original, with some noise being added.

Why don’t computer vision systems use Luma/Chroma instead of RGB then? Because the conversion is just hard enough and it loses some amount of precision along the way, but also that it’s a very hard way to describe color. It’s extremely accurate, though l. Interestingly, NTSC, the north American video standard, uses it: to be backwards compatible with black and white TV broadcasts, NTSC transmits chromatic content as a subcarrier value, encoded into the Luminance of the scan line, for blocks of color. This works because the human eye will fill in the gaps when the colors don’t match up; it’s also why TV color looks a little washed out and blotchy at times: because the colors have to be mixed in such a way as to fool the eye into coming up with the right color on the other end, they look a little unnatural, in the process giving NTSC its unofficial monicker: Never Twice the Same Color.

Luminance is super accurate, but we also depend on that chominance value to make sense of things. In Luminance land, an apple and an orange have strikingly similar looks, and grass might as well just be noise. We as humans have the ability to discriminate between all the possible options and come up with the most likely answer. Most of the time, we’re right. Computer vision is dumb. It has no concept of “outside” versus “inside”, or that grass from one place might look different from grass in another place. All it knows is that it can look at a set of pixels and from that make a good guess that it might be a specific thing or set of things based on a set of rules it’s come up with about how to interpret those pixels.

Luma/Chroma are also hard to work with because they’re not linear. “What do you mean, hard to work with? It’s just numbers! Computers are Good with numbers!” I hear you cry. Computers are actually pretty bad with numbers, especially numbers that describe exponential values. Doubly so when you’re dealing with anything that isn’t an integer or can’t be cleanly expressed as an integral value. Luminance and Chromanance consider light as an exponential value, because it is. They’re also described as floating point values between zero (none) and some arbitrary maximum exponential base (if my early morning brain can remember right) called the gamma value. These then have to be mapped to RGB for our screens, so our software is all built to eventually toss out stuff and call it a day.

Floating point numbers are also stupid hard to work with because you can never have 2.0 or any other integral value cleanly expressed as a binary floating point number. It’s always going to be 2.00 plus or minus a super small number called Epsilon. This makes using it for computer vision really computer time expensive, and you want to make these sorts of things as fast as possible.

So, why does adding noise help defeat this? Because our eyes are tuned to ignore subtle shifts in Chromanance, adding chromatic noise to an image doesn’t change, for us, the meaning of an image. Luminance, on the other hand, does. During the conversion from JPEG’s internal Luma/Chroma representation to RGB, this expresses itself in subtle and seemingly random noise added to various bits of the RGB values that computer vision software needs. All the models are trained on these values because it’s cheap: RGB color is expressed as three integral values between zero and a known maximum (typically 255) and that makes it super easy to do calculations on. All this culminates in a computer trying to make sense of it and the image classifiers going “it doesn’t match any rule I know so I don’t know what that is. Definitely not female presenting nipples though.”

And that’s how you defeat computer vision: noise.

This triggered something deep in Tumblr until I added chromatic noise and exported it as a JPEG. Tumblr just refused to let me upload it.
Tumblr doesn’t even want you memeing about their shitty porn filter anymore.

This triggered something deep in Tumblr until I added chromatic noise and exported it as a JPEG. Tumblr just refused to let me upload it.

Tumblr doesn’t even want you memeing about their shitty porn filter anymore.

kjorteo:

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iron-bae:

silverkleptofox:

kaijuno:

buttergin:

kaijuno:

phantomrose96:

theofficialvincenzo:

phantomrose96:

I would pay top dollar for a comprehensive, source-supported explanation of how Superwholock vanished.

Like……..that was the core of tumblr in 2013. Its tainted life-blood. Its fetid royal palace. Destiel this and Johnlock that. Tardis-in-the-impala-at-221B URLS. Bendydoot Cucumberpatch and long analytical debates of which doctor is best doctor

What caused the end? What destroyed it? What series of events sunk this fortress? I’m so. So curious. This was so much of what tumblr was. So unavoidable. It’s cultural history. I want. to know.

So I’m not completely sure but I think you can pinpoint the disappearance to the month following Dashcon. Like, the entire year prior, things were going fucking insane; The DW 50th anniversary, Sherlock returned after a hiatus, Dean became a demon or something I don’t remember. Point is, the fans were worse than ever. 

And then Dashcon happened: All those people got together for a nightmarish event in the ball pit (for anyone who doesn’t know what Dashcon was, look it up and read any of the news articles about it. I promise, you will not be disappointed). 

Now, I wasn’t too active on tumblr at that point because of school reasons, but I remember finding out that the new season of Supernatural had aired on TV, and I saw NOTHING about it on tumblr. Not a single post on my dash. It was a miracle, but I was so confused. How had the whole fandom just vanished like that? I still don’t know for sure, but it was very shortly after the Dashcon incident. 

Then Doctor Who returned. New doctor and a new companion. Same scenario. Nobody said anything online. I was still big into DW so that was kind of a bummer but it was still astounding.

I went back online more readily and started realizing that fandoms, as I had known them, were essentially dead after that summer. It was like everybody simultaneously realized how toxic those communities were after they all got together in person and proved themselves to be a disgusting bunch.

It was the fastest and most unsettling jump in internet culture I’d ever seen. Overnight it became an embarrassment to admit that you were in a popular fandom. All because of fucking

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“Superwholock died as a result of Dashcon” is the most fascinating theory I’ve heard in a while amazing

(And you know, seasonal rot and kids getting older and all that but s t i l l)

As someone who reported on Dashcon as it was happening, I can confirm that it had a lot to do with superwholock dying out. You put a bunch of toxic, shitty, entitled kids in the same room with each other and they realize how shitty and annoying and embarrassing they are. Not only that, but when Dashcon reached news outlets, people were merciless in how they talked about it. I think that really reached a lot of the superwholocks that didn’t go, because they were seeing in news sources how embarrassing they looked. Dashcon embarrassed superwholocks into the depths of fandoms past.

But!!!!!! That’s not all!!!!! That’s just skimming the surface of what was going on underneath.
(((I promised myself I wasn’t gonna get into this but here we are.)))

So, an interesting thing: The ages of the core Superwholock/Superwholock adjacent fans. So you’ve got all of these kids, a lot of whom were realizing they were queer, a lot of whom were seeing the world in darker shades, a lot of pessimism going on in their own personal lives. A lot of the core of superwholock were ageds 15/16/17 around the time the fandom died out. They were maturing, realizing a lot of things about the shows they hadn’t questioned before, developing new interests, meeting new people, and also, honestly? Getting jobs. Getting really serious about school.

MORE INTERESTINGLY…. it was really heartbreaking to see, but a lot of the reason the fandom died out was fighting. Fighting about who topped and who bottomed (always a pointless/ridiculous argument in my opinion), arguments about IS STEVEN MOFFAT THE ANTICHRIST???? and that time teenagers sent that man so many death threats, about him but also about his entire family (which was completely unacceptable and unforgivable!!!!! wtf), arguments about serious stuff in fandom: racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, etc., all brought people down.

They weren’t just arguments, though. They weren’t just discussions. They usually weren’t civil at all. No, they were violent. Death threats were thrown around. Everybody and their master was being accused of being problematic. One slip up by a person, blogger or celebrity, could send hordes of people wishing their downfall. I saw friends get death threats, I saw groups of friends break up over nothing. Tiny things were exploded into huge fights. Everything was a Big Deal, and if you didn’t agree, you were just as bad as them. You were problematic, and a piece of shit, etc, etc. 

Now, people becoming aware of issues with a fandom and with their favorite shows/movies etc isn’t a problem!!! if everyone is going to act mature about it and deal with it maturely. But that’s… that’s just not what happened. It felt a lot like people wanted out and needed to give themselves a reason. A lot of people fell back into their old fandoms, or found niche fandoms to quietly back into. A lot of people, especially after Yahoo bought Tumblr and all of their redesigns (which was practically an APOCALYPSE on this site) ran to other sites. They abandoned their blogs for places like Ello; Ello becomes less popular, they sort of disappear.

Or come back as an aesthetic blog. Tumblr was always a form of escapism. When fandom here could no longer provide that, because it felt threatening, aesthetic blogs jumped through the roof. A picture of some succulents isn’t gonna get you death threats. But shipping the #Wrong couple might.

To tack onto that, around that time was the beginning of Doxxing culture. If you got into an argument with the wrong person, your full name, home address, and your family’s phone numbers could get posted. It didn’t matter if you were only 15. People didn’t care. 

That’s kinda similar to what happened to me, actually it started because of Dashcon. I made posts and wrote about what was happening there. I talked to the management team, and I talked to panel members and con goers and I didn’t hold anything back. I wrote about minors being let into 18+ panels, about the management scamming, and I got doxxed for it by a bitter panelist.

And I feel like a lot of things really came to a head at the time of Dashcon. Fandom arguments were bad before dashcon, but afterwards, nothing was held back. Anyone could get doxxed. Dashcon was the catalyst of this big fandom shift from unpleasant at times, to completely dangerous. And people jumped ship because they were afraid of this emerging callout and doxxing culture. Fandoms weren’t a place of joy anymore, it was stressful, and people left. 

2014 was a pretty bad year for fandoms.

I’m glad I joined tumblr in 2015 @.@ what happened here….

I was wondering the other day about where superwholock had gone actually

THIS IS SO INTERESTING.

In our modern era of terrible fandoms doxxing and cyberbullying minors to the point of suicide for “problematic” art/ship pairings/etc., I find it nothing short of astonishing that there once was a group that was 1) somehow even worse, and 2) actually so bad that they saw themselves in a mirror and vanished in a cloud of shame.

Bringing this back. For good old times.

tumblokami:

ms-dos5:

Google Chrome/Blink is the new Internet Explorer 6.

While I do approve of an open source version of Edge, they should have just stuck with EdgeHTML instead of adopting Chromium. MONOCULTURE 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

They have a pretty good rundown of what has happened over on GitHub

The long and short of it is that fundamentally, developers go “oh I use chrome,” meaning that they design to make sure it works in Chrome, and that means any quirks of the Chrome rendering engine are the standard.

Quirks like APIs that only Chrome supports. Quirks like chrome intrinsic css support. Quirks like the specific set of pseudo-standards that only Chrome supports. For desktop browsers, Chrome is the bench to sit on.

The mobile web sucks because Safari has had a tornado Achilles since launch and nobody wants to fix it, and mobile Safari is the lowest common denominator in the mobile web.

#10yrsago Britain’s “Great Firewall” set to restrict access to Wikipedia

mostlysignssomeportents:

Seth Finkelstein sez, “Wikinews has learned that six of the United Kingdom’s main Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have implemented monitoring and filtering mechanisms that are causing major problems for UK contributors of the popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation sites. The filters appear to stem from accusations that Wikimedia sites are hosting what some would call child pornography. UK people might be interested in joining the article’s discussion - this is a golden opportunity to reverse-engineer how the Great Firewall Of Britain works in practice.”

This is the “voluntary” child-porn filter that we hear very little about. The process by which pages are added to the repository of child porn sites is secret, the list of child porn sites is secret, and the process for correcting errors is secret. At issue are images such as a Scorpions cover that shows the naked chest of a little girl, and a still from a 1938 documentary on the struggle to end child marriages.

https://boingboing.net/2008/12/07/britains-great-firew.html

FUCKING TOPICAL