Oh, hot shit! I know about Movim, it’s just not my main client (notifications are finnicky, and offline messages don’t seem to work right for me?), but them adding discord-style rooms is great!

For all the alternatives out there truth is, none are really anywhere near perfect. Matrix and most of its clients while encrypted don’t offer true jump in /jump out game chat.

After complaining about it heavily for a few days, I did find one client that has that same feel, commet.chat. I haven’t done a whole lot of testing yet, but from what I’ve seen/experienced, it’s close, if not there

Personally I still prefer XMPP+Cheogram. It’s more Signal than Discord, but it’s a lightweight chat server with voice call abilities, and that’s what I needed it for

Yep, though with calibre in particular you want to kind of make sure it’s locked down real good. People sniff for the ports it uses, so open calibre-web libraries get found quickly, and then will usually have some attempts at cracking.

I had mine set up as a local-only thing (could only access from my home WiFi), but from experiences with other apps that have similar crawlers, it takes about a week for them to be found. Just make sure everyone’s passwords are decent, or just share one account if it’s people you trust.

I’m currently using Lemmy, and Friendica as my only fediverse accounts, and will probably keep it that way. Friendica has a lot of features, but in my experience it’s slower than most

How do you feel about the fact that art created by AI this year is not much different from art created by humans?

The banner on gog.com has a melting SNES, what are you on about?

I think those who have seen it themselves understand what I mean.How do you feel about the fact that now and in the future, AI will do most of the creative work 80-90% instead of authors and humans, doing it at the highest level better than any human, and people will just train their AI models and create content with prompts?

I feel like we have a different definition of the word “Facts” here. What you’re doing here is speculation, not fact. Facts about the future don’t exist. We’re sitting on a pile of very expensive tech that’s being subsidized predominantly by venture capital, and who knows what’s gonna happen to the tech after the venture capitalists come to collect on their investments. While I don’t think AI will cease to exist, I highly doubt it will be near as cheap to use as it is now, and unless it remains cheaper than human labor (unlikely, especially if we include training costs), I doubt we’re going to see it be as widespread as it is now.

I doubt it’ll be 80-90% of creative work being done by AI.

How do I feel about it? I don’t like that it’s being forced, and neither do most people. It’s being shoved down our throats when we don’t want it by people with money so they can make more money while further isolating us from base human needs. It’s fucking garbage.