Dæmon S.

@LiveLM@lemmy.zip @rimu@piefed.social

This!

Also, the irony: those are AI tools used by anti-AI people who use AI to try and (roughly) determine if a content is AI, by reading the output of an AI. Even worse: as far as I know, they're paid tools (at least every tool I saw in this regard required subscription), so Anti-AI people pay for an AI in order to (supposedly) detect AI slop. Truly "AI-rony", pun intended.

@warm@kbin.earth @Ladislawgrowlo@lemy.lol @asklemmy@lemmy.ml @SirHaxalot@nord.pub Depends if the wallet records data of what site required verification.They have to.

Otherwise, the wallet wouldn't be able to verify whether the website is authorized to request age check (say, if a website asks the wallet's API "Hey, please hand me the age checking token for the email foo@bar.baz which you checked for me some time ago, they're trying to access the gatekept sections of my website again", the wallet needs to be sure that this website did request it previously and is not trying to exfiltrate someone else's data), or the person wouldn't be able to know which sites previously got their age checking data (eventually the users will have lots of websites where they previously had to check their age, and as part of GDPR's "Right to be forgotten", they'd need to be sure which ones they would want to revoke previously handled data).

The Age check authn+authz flow isn't unidirectional (i.e only the wallet handing out the result of age check to a website). In a nutshell, it works this way (at least, it's how I think, as a DevOps formerly accustomed with building APIs for websites, how it would work):

1. User requests to access sensitive ("adult") content from a website.
2. Website requests the user to check their age.
3. User agrees to proceed with age check.
4. Website redirects the user to the governmental wallet
5. The wallet asks for user authentication and/or 2FA ("open the gov app" or something)
6. After authentication and/or 2FA flow within the gov app, the gov app redirects the user to an OAuth endpoint within the original website, alongside a unique token
7. The Oauth endpoint will be invoked by user's browser's request, then the website will check the wallet API if this token is valid.
8. Gov wallet will check if this website previously went through a flow, then will check the requested token and answer "yes" to the website's endpoint.
9. Website redirects the user to the walled-garden they requested initially, storing the token both server-side and, indirectly, in the client-side via the framework session id (things such as PHPID cookie key-value pair which identifies a session_start() for PHP websites)

Notice how both the website and the wallet need to communicate in order to establish the authorization needed for the user to access the website.Any amount of privacy being eroded is bad.Yeah... Fully agree. And, sadly, this is becoming "normalcy"... ☹

#art #digitaldrawing #occult #occultart #vampire #vampireart #vampiress #wip #drawing

Who?
#meme #occult #occultmemes #memes #owl #owls

#weirdcore #dreamcore #owls #owl #lowresart #aestheticart

Mastodon Live Feed is gone

This is more of a rant (not sure if this comm is appropriate for it).

I've been watching Lemmy's ongoing discussion regarding PieFed. It turns out Mastodon got similar problems, too.

The largest Fediverse instance already shadowbanned people, e.g:

This profile has been hidden by the moderators of mastodon.social.

This feed has been disabled by your server administrators.

Just do your server!

Until I'm proven otherwise, the anglophone (English-speaking) #Lemmy is a hotbed of machismo and misogyny. Fediverse isn't too different from mainstream "social" media platforms. Fuck it, I've said it.

(EN) For anyone interested, I'm on my way to migrating from calckey.world to catodon.rocks: @dsilverz@catodon.rocks
(PT-BR) A quem interessar, tô migrando do calckey.world ao catodon.rocks.

(EN) Reason: Calckey.world is (I guess) risking defederation from other instances (especially Lemmy instances I'm used to interact with) due to unmoderated scam posts throughout the local feed. I reported one of the posts a few days ago, but the scammers and their posts are still here. It's unfortunate, because it means I'll have to give up on almost a year worth of thousand posts I published...

(PT-BR) Motivo: calckey.world tá (acredito eu) ameaçado de defederação por outras instâncias (especialmente instâncias do Lemmy com as quais tô acostumado a interagir) devido a posts de scam/golpe (bets e demais merdas) infestando a linha do tempo local. Eu denunciei um dos posts há alguns dias atrás, mas os perfis e posts golpistas ainda estão de pé. É triste porque isso significa que vou ter que abdicar de quase um ano de milhares de postagens que publiquei...

Initially, I was hyper-fixated in Athene noctua, mesmerized by her quite lilithian gaze.

Then I became hyper-fixated in Athene cunicularia, also driven by her gaze, which is the same gaze that of A. noctua, but also because she has this quite unique behavior of nesting underground and imitating the sound of rattlesnakes.

Then I became hyper-fixated in Bubo bubo, especially when I heard about the "terrifying oehoe", a Bubo bubo who literally attacked dozens of humans, which was amazing to learn about.

Then I became hyper-fixated in Bubo ascalaphus, due to her Levantine desert-dwelling nature and her gaze which, despite not being the same as Athene's, also feels quite deep and powerful, like the pharaohess she is.

Now it seems like I'm searching for Bubo cinerascens, and it feels like I'm going to hyper-fixate on her, for she has this deep gray plumage and pitch black eyes, an appearance of which reminds me of black mambas.

In the end, it seems like I'm going in some kind of odd alphabetical order. Athene and Bubo, cunicularia and cinerascens... and if we consider subspecies, Bubo ascalaphus desertorum makes the D.

#owls #owl #occult #esoteric #symbolism

Just a curated sample of pictures that resonate with me and my current essence (two are pictures I personally drawn). This is the most "family-friendly" material I could curate from ten thousand pictures, photos and drawings across the phone gallery.

This is a kind of artistic content that could very easily end up loosely labeled "illegal, anti-democratic, false-fact or hateful". Does the previous statement sound too exaggerated and hyperbolic from my part? Think deeper about those pictures, what (and Who) are being described, what the underlying principles are, do some reverse search if you don't know about what's/who's being depicted in each of the pictures, and if you still got some apolitical perception of causality detached from the mundane, you'd realize how it could very easily be said to be "complicated" for "safety" and banned, prohibited, criminalized, forbidden from being expressed. I'm REALLY not exaggerating or doing some kind of victimization here, I really wish I were...

Fediverse is like the few places left where there's no christian fundamentalism (I wonder why the heck most pagan and occult practitioners still use Facebook, Instagram and X, when all those platforms end up amplifying the mainstream christianity). But then many secularists, seemingly the majority of the Fediverse userbase, end up behaving exactly or similarly to how fundamentalist christians do.

"Let's keep the fediverse safe and pleasure for all". I guess "safety" and "pleasure", at least in most people's subjective dictionary entry for "safe", wouldn't really have room for this kind of content, would they? And I didn't even include pictures with explicit snakes (in respect to people with ophidiophobia, just beware the Ouroboros from the second and third pictures, as well as the pair of snake-horns from the sixth picture) or explicit non-sexual nudity (as in Venus figurines, statue of Ereshkigal, etc; some pictures contain low-res depictions of breasts, namely the second and third pictures, too low-res to be really distinguished) in this curated list of images.

Oh, and I didn't even say about the ID requirement for online content as more and more countries are pushing down citizens throats, with online activity tied to ID, then suddenly mine and many other's physical identities could get concentric targets waiting for the next fundamentalist christian group willing to "exorcise the devil from the face of Earth because GOD ordered us to serve him and only him". Again, sounds too much or dramatic? A STATUE of Baphomet, privately owned by a Luciferian Quimbanda temple in Brazil, is still seized by AUTHORITIES for more than A YEAR, and WAITING FOR LEGAL DECISIONS to be "allowed" to be present in private rituals! THIS is what people end up defending whenever they advocate for "safety".

"The tiny mouse wanders through the barren land covered by the darkness of the night. It's so dark he definitely can't see.

He knows what's coming after him, and he can feel the moment is near, it'll happen very soon: he'll be lifted up to the skies, a place he never could reach before, where he'll fly despite having no wings, except for the majestic red and alluringly fluffy wings that dominate the night (and) time and is going to carry him.

He knows there's nowhere he could run, if he could run, and he can't run, he doesn't even want to run, it's his body that still wants to survive pointlessly, still he consciously knows there's no way he's going to survive another night.

Silence is breathtaking, it's like no other silence he heard before. He squeaks faintly, as the cold wind gusts reach and touches his back fur, causing him goosebumps.

He's extremely scared, so scared that the fear drove him burdened, lethargic, resigned before his own, soon demise.

His energy wasn't depleted just by fear, though: it was depleted by the oxymoronic and paradoxical feelings of awe, love and surrender going inside him with every chill from the gusts. He's in fear, and he's in awe, and he's in uttermost love.

One could ask, how could a mouse become passionately in awe for his merciless predator soon to sweep down from the dark skies onto him? He's just a tiny, weak, irrelevant and shameful mouse, falling in love with the most fearsome creature who feels no love for his kind. He's just another tasteful dinner for the night.

Still he is in love with the very one who he also fears so deeply. And each of his squeaks, promptly heard by the one who can hear the slightest variations in his heartbeat from afar, are his agonized attempts to say a forbidden "I love Thou". A forbidden love from a miserable lover soon to meet the merciless sharp claws and insatiable blood hunger of his Mighty beloved.”

#dark #story #gothic

One sixth (~25 out of 150 frames) of my #animation is done rendering using #Blender Cycles. Some frames render quite quickly (almost 4 minutes), other frames took half an hour. The screenshot shows how I'm currently doing it.

When this animation is done, I'm not sure where I could publis. The animation is erotic but not quite, it's uncanny and it's occult-themed. I could simply keep it for myself, especially given how my occult-themed art (which is FLOS Free and Libre open-source art and will always be FLOS) mostly (if not all) plunges in online obliviousness. but I don't know... I don't like having my effort meeting the silence and disdain of the Web, but I also don't like soliloquizing and doing things just to me.

And this will take even longer and employ more effort than my drawings, because my drawings take me something between 3 and 7 hours, while this short animation will certainly take me days to finish rendering (because I lack a more capable PC with a proper cooling which would allow me to use all the available CPU cores to render; currently I'm limiting the rendering to one thread so my laptop doesn't overheat that much). And I'm expecting it to be met with silence if I post it here, especially due to the hiding nature of the NSFW flag which makes it difficult (if possible) to be found among search results...

I already spent more than twelve hours on a single drawing, and I'm likely going to need a few more hours to properly finish this art.

The final art will depict a short-bearded man in formal attire (dark marine-blue pants with brown belt, dark grayish cardigan with a pair of buttons at the end of the sleeves, long tie) scared as he's held immobilized and pulled by a winged, red-haired vampiress (meant as Lilith) whose red lips are slightly opened, revealing her fangs, as she unhurriedly approaches his neck. One of her hands (both of which have long red nails, some of which are perforating the man's skin) grab him by his armpit, while her other hand "gentle" holds his bearded chin. I'm yet to decide if she's going to be portrayed with a red dress or naked. I'm also yet to decide on the environment/landscape/background, maybe the rooftop of a tall building with a parked helicopter or some multinational HQ's parking lot with expensive cars (because the art is meant to be a "the feminine primordial instinctive forces of cosmic chaos defeats the masculine artificial forces of mundane order and wealth"

Given the lack of feedback on my earlier arts with this artistic genre (Gothic fantasy with real occult leanings and taboo aspects) on Fediverse (I tried PixelFed, I tried microblogging, I tried Lemmy.world's artshare community, the only kind of art that granted me feedback was when I experimented with Star Trek and sci-fi art, but it's actually not the genre I like doing/drawing), are there proper places to freely share my art (considering how it's sometimes NSFW or close to being NSFW), alongside video time-lapses of me drawing said art, where I could get the kind of feedback I often seek with all the symbolism I ingrain within my expressions?

#art #drawing #digitaldrawing #occultart #gothicart #askfedi

I love when I spend too much effort on something, handing out a significant amount of time, just for it to result in absolutely nothing.

22 minutes of my existence simply went to the trash bin, after Blender Cycles (now through CLI because Blender doesn't need to deal with the load of keeping an UI) decided to crash right after the rendering was done, but before writing it to the file. I mean, frame 1 rendered successfully from CLI, then I tried rendering a second frame and... this.

At least my second attempt on rendering is seemingly running, and so far I managed to render 4 frames from CLI. I automated it to send myself a notification (via ntfy) for every frame rendered, together with the retcode.

According to my napkin math, it'll take two entire days to render 150 frames at 360p (I reduced the resolution in order to try and reduce the time spent on each frame) using Cycles (if my old laptop manages to keep it running). I'm wondering why I'm willing to spend that much time on something that will become silenced by my own "mark as sensitive content" self-censoring and unlikely to be seen by anyone, let alone receive any feedback or whatever.