Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
Also on @Goldkin (meow.social) for follow requests that don't work here.
Joined Aug 2017
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Saw this character and really wanted to give it a go during artfight! Vassilis surrounded by snake vine, the character is owned by Strawberry-Ev
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A painting for Ashtalon.
High res and prints available via linktr.ee/khyaber
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2024 artfight piece completed for Fizzydragon of their character Rayjae.
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ffxiv glam set, mild dt gear spoilers
Tbh, really enjoying the Lisa Frank Blade Runner aesthetic from the latest expansion
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Just got this pfp from an artist on Discord and I'm absolutely in love!! HE LOOKS SO FLUFFY AND SOFT AND THE LITTLE BLEP IS SO CUTE!! Love this dumbass nerd derg I own so much...
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psa: llm bullshit, zoom auto-enable opt-out
PSA: Zoom is automatically opting in its Pro users into its AI bullshit. Their deadline for opt-out is 8/28/2024*.
Supposedly, this is to remove an extra setting, moving this to being enabled per meeting, and does not result in model training. But if you're like me and don't like even the option of it being enabled, this is worth keeping off at the account level.
They hid the setting in a pop-up notification at the top of their settings page:
https://zoom.us/profile/setting?tab=aicompanion
Infuriatingly, this setting disappears when clicked and didn't initially appear when I navigated to settings on their website, so I'm not able to demonstrate it here. It's so fucking suspicious that I checked if it was a phishing email, but as best as I can tell, it seems to be legitimate. (I'm pulling a few punches here, since a possible explanation is this was the easiest way to implement this feature on their end.)
Anyway: if you're using Zoom, (1) verify their email if you got it, as phishing scams can easily reuse how they did this and (2) go do the thing.
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* The top date is 8/29/2024, but they then state 8/28 further down the document. I would recommend trusting the earlier deadline so they don't get the benefit of user confusion there.
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have you listened to my romhack? you should listen to my romhack
🎵 Mark of Another Goddess -Present- and Mark of Another Goddess -Past-
✨ ...arranges of "rtown0 (Δ Server Aqua Capital Mac Anu)" from .hack//Infection
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this is not quite the game of thrones followup that I was expecting
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@CoyoteTraveller Of the set, I found Etrian Odyssey 4 to be my personal favorite. You may also want to add Persona Q and Zenki Zero to this list, though I have less personal exp with them.
the decline of Twitter
@gardevoir Yeah. I do know a lot of folks came off of Twitter and just... stopped posting. Myself included to some degree (at least to public timelines)
Still there, still working on their own projects, but much more active down private channels now.
Which I suppose makes sense: we trusted corps with the public square and they blew it up for clicks and ad revenue. That distrust isn't easily forgotten, even if smaller platforms lack the same incentive.
the decline of Twitter
@gardevoir But yeah, it's an abusive relationship that site has with its users, and I'm still internally hoping folks can build the will to move.
Because social media sites don't really just... die anymore, they get mergered and acquired to worse entities looking to capitalize on the downward spiral for ad revenue (as a best case, compared to say, LJ). So.
the decline of Twitter
@gardevoir Like, even when Jack was still running it, I was calling it a misery engine after they started using The Algorithm to sort things (it's almost hard to remember the site didn't start that way! Time organized stuff was great!). Seeing actual studies lately did not improve my opinion.
People aren't made to be bombarded with that much negativity, sorted by most effective, all of the time. I'd be concerned if disaffection _wasn't_ common there tbh.
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
Also on @Goldkin (meow.social) for follow requests that don't work here.
Joined Aug 2017
