Waste disposal

Shai. 30 years. it/its. Art blog - mostly fan art and OCs. Commissions open.

[hydaen]

hello everyone!

im currently unemployed so im opening commissions for november-december!

reshares are super welcome and apprecciated ♡

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆟 𓆝𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆟 𓆝𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆟 𓆝𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆟 𓆝

[penandinkprincess]

hitting return early on libby when there's people waiting and feeling like a benevolent queen distributing alms to the poor

[boobieteriat]

Tips to borrow and return books on Libby within the same day:

> borrow

> click read with epub

>download the acsm file

>de-drm the acsm file with calibre (make sure you have the acsm plugin installed first)

> you own the ebook FOREVER

[nyantara]

> upload the file to libgen

> EVERYONE GETS THE BOOK FOREVER

[jennaflare]

Reblogging this again with links & instructions for everything you need for this:

Calibre

Calibre ACSM plugin

Calibre NoDRM plugin

Download all of the above, run calibre, go to "preferences" and scroll down to plugins

Select "load plugin from file" (you will need to extract the NoDRM zip but not the ACSM) and load the zips

For DeACSM you'll need to log in using Adobe (you can use a free account for this). To log in, find DeACSM under "File types" in the plugins window and double click on it and log in with your Adobe credentials

Restart calibre

Drag your ebooks from libby into calibre. Should convert them into Epubs without DRM automatically! Try opening the file to make sure it's all worked :)

[princehoneytea]

there's a $25 humble bundle rn that includes 12 months of CSP Pro + 400 brushes and plenty of assets!

[halszkaraptor]

guess whose bank account is negative <3 i need money anyways, so i'm opening commissions! i can accept payment through cashapp and paypal. if you're interested, you can message me here or on discord (username is lthaca. that is an L)

[halszkaraptor]

guess whose bank account is negative <3 i need money anyways, so i'm opening commissions! i can accept payment through cashapp and paypal. if you're interested, you can message me here or on discord (username is lthaca. that is an L)

[nixcraft]

Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

[caroline-vibecheck]

KillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKill

[alluringapex]

There's a way to remove it~

Go into the power shell

then paste in:

reg add HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot /v "TurnOffWindowsCopilot" /t REG_DWORD /f /d 1

like this

Then restart. Also here is how to turn off the awful search suggestions:

How to Disable Windows Web Search and Speed Up Your PC

Stop the OS from pulling up web results when you just want files and apps.

[venonomnomicon]

incase anyone didnt know there's some great free software to handle disabling windows bloatware without needing to mess with the command line

With the freeware O&O ShutUp10++, unwanted Windows 10 and 11 features can be disabled and the transfer of sensitive personal data onto Micro

O&O AppBuster gives you the control back over your Windows again! Now you decide which apps you want on your computer.

these are a mandatory part of every windows install for me. been using them for years and it's such a lifesaver

[haikeri]

✦ Akuma from Streets, but he's a furry ✦

[haikeri]

✦ Akuma from Streets, but he's a furry ✦

[haikeri]

✦ Akuma from Streets, but he's a furry ✦

[the-tired-commander]

hey could y'all do me a favour?

Reblog if you're okay with "weird" compliments on your stuff!

things like "biting this" and such

[hemipenal-system]

taking the moment to archive my entire blog tonight! trans people i recommend y'all do too. you know. just in case.

[azuremist]

I highly recommend this method for backing up your tumblr blog, as written by @/magz!

It takes a little bit of setting up the first time, but the doc is very thorough, to the point that even a Python-illiterate doofus like me could set it up. Once it’s set up, you can export your blog without relying on and waiting for tumblr staff! Plus, you won’t have to redownload your whole blog every time you want to update your archive.

I’ve been using this method weekly to back up my partner and I’s blogs for about a year now, so I highly recommend any trans folks do the same!

[nasfera2]

I wish Americans fucked with more foreign music. You don’t have to know the language to appreciate a good record. Folks in other countries listen to our music and don’t speak a lick of english. Music needs no translator

[liltimmys]

yall wont trick me into listening to kpop

[emily84]

You can try Radiooooo.com - The Musical Time Machine!!

choose a country, pick a decade, and GO!!

you’ll get an endless streaming of songs (ad free!).

I personally found myself loving 1970s Ghana, Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire! Also 1920s and 1970s Japan for sure! Cambodian music: spectacular. Love Armenia and Mali as well. I’ve been told 70s Germany is weird and 30s Algeria is cool but I haven’t gotten around to those yet. Italy’s 1960s is bomb ofc but I’m biased ;)

[randomslasher]

This is the best website anyone has ever shared.

[vanyamired]

Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

[sfaira]

Everyone reblog! Spread the word so more and more artists learn that in addition to Glaze that coats art against ai scraping mimicry there's also an offensive tool now, able to skew and poison data pools.

Now poisoning will need many artists to nightshade their art and it's most important to get this ou to those the most at risk of being scraped. Reblog!

[redstonedust]

yknow AI art has ruined an entire genre of painting to me, i saw one of those smooth anime-realism pieces and immidiately thought ''ugh, AI art'' until i noticed it was posted by an established deviantart user 6 years ago. like ive never been a huge fan of that genre but it looks like a pretty difficult style to master and i feel bad for the artists who specialized in anime-realism only to have their entire market jacked by people typing keywords into midjourney.

[chaos-smoothie]

I have something to add to this. every single time I look up reference pictures, I get shitty ai generated bullshit. I've actually reached the point where I discovered that pasting this into google gives you a solid filter for 99% of the ai art. typing in -"word" will filter out all results with that word. I might end up making another one to filter out costumes and all that shit for better historical results when looking at outfits for my characters from various time periods.

if you don't put a space before it, it won't work so keep that in mind. if there are any I might have missed that are still coming up in your results, put them in tags. and I'll add them to the original post. if you see this and you end up using it, please reblog so more people, especially artists and charecter designers, are able to find it. Google is becoming rapidly unstable due to the influx of ai art, and it makes me incredibly sad, first of all, that my work as an artist is becoming rabidly obsolete. This is not worth it. Ai art is not worth it.

Here is the anti ai filter, note that this only works for image searches and only serves as a filter for art. due to the amount of ai writing concealed in media, I have no real way to create a filter for that. I hope this helps the art homies who are sick of this shit, and the people who just want to look at human art for a change:

-”starryAI” -”Krea” -”freepik” -”lexica” -”Midjourney” -”hayo” -”storybird.ai” -"Craiyon" -"ai art generator" -"prompt hunt" -"Opendream's ai" -"nightcafe creator" -"arthub.ai" -"open art" -"playground ai" -"PixAi.art" -"Creative fabrica" -”ai” -”Tensor.art” -”Images.Ai”

[artbytesslyn]

absolutely despise how every single social media platform has intrusive annoying “performance” shit baked into it now. You can’t just be online to post for fun, talk to friends, share stuff to whoever happens upon it.

Everything has a score now. Notifications that say “your post reached 1000 accounts” on insta. View counts on every tweet, so you know exactly how relevant or irrelevant your every thought or drawing is. Every app asking you over and over to turn push notifications on. 1 to 10 self-ratings on YouTube. Get twitter blue for a performance boost. give tumblr your money for a Blaze. Get an Instagram business account. Buy views. Constant scoring. Constant reminders to monetize your every waking moment.

[artbytesslyn]

IDK if anybody needs to hear this, but as somebody that works online being self-employed, whose career is art on the internet, I learned a long time ago that you can get by without constantly babysitting the numbers. It’ll give you mind crushing anxiety. It’ll make you manic. Highs and lows all the time. And it doesn’t help you professionally or financially! It’ll reduce you to nothing, it’ll make you hate the act of creation. It’ll make you feel like your peers despise you. It’ll isolate and intimidate you.

Turn off email and phone notifs. Turn off performance reports. 99% of the time, success will be random and unknowable. Preserve the part of yourself that makes things because you want to and you love it. idk

[the-real-seebs]

I once saw a skilled and interesting writer give up writing because they didn't get enough Kudos on AO3. Absolutely maddening.

[roach-works]

all my best stuff 'scores' poorly. instead of chasing popularity i decided to stay weird. i recommend this.

[chicinlicin]

it’s time to trace~!

heads up. the charts in the middle are very rough guides. everything about copying is super grey, you need to use your own judgement…also I have more notes

Keep reading

[xidyl]

Honestly there’s such an unnecessary stigma with tracing, regardless of the context. I used to trace all the time to better understand anatomy, and I still do!

[guiltyidealist]

Right? It’s literally the best way to develop an understanding of anatomical shapes, proportions, angles, movements, and limits

[haikeri]

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