#usage-based subscription

[teethbomb]

Are there any storyboarding apps that are good and not super expensive or subscription based

[commsal]

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[dianight]

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* Subscription based services includes but is not limited to access to news outlets, music/video players, videogames and other such things. Roughly speaking, those services considered not essential.

It does not include rent, water or other utilities, nor phone/internet usage.

[why-the-heck-not]

it's the year 2037 and a new month is ahead of you!! Time to spend 90% of ur paycheck today for all the subscription services that are pretty much necessary now (Your bank takes "payment fee" out of everything bill u pay, so u gotta pay some bucks extra for each) !! Your grocery store has a membership card that u have to pay for, if you want to even get inside. No way to get any movies/tv-shows/music without streaming services. The appliances in ur home are subscription-based usage fee (under the guise of "well, the software updates, u gotta pay and also have no option to opt out"), and most of the things you own, you basically just rent & never have the chance of ever paying enough to actually own them. You missed a payment and ur smart-fridge stopped working. You're trying to find a not-smart, non-AI fridge, but those are super expensive, and only for the rich who claim moral superiority over regular ppl bc "they don't use any of that brain-rotting AI-technology". You're trying to choose whether to use your coffee machine or your microwave for the month bc you can't afford to pay for both of those subscription fees this month. You've already used your monthly picture limit in your phone, and would have to update your subscription package for a more expensive one, if you wanted to take more

[amalgamasreal]

Updated Personal Infosec Post

Been awhile since I've had one of these posts part deus: but I figure with all that's going on in the world it's time to make another one and get some stuff out there for people. A lot of the information I'm going to go over you can find here:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

So if you'd like to just click the link and ignore the rest of the post that's fine, I strongly recommend checking out the Privacy Guides. Browsers: There's a number to go with but for this post going forward I'm going to recommend Firefox. I know that the Privacy Guides lists Brave and Safari as possible options but Brave is Chrome based now and Safari has ties to Apple. Mullvad is also an option but that's for your more experienced users so I'll leave that up to them to work out. Browser Extensions:

uBlock Origin: content blocker that blocks ads, trackers, and fingerprinting scripts. Notable for being the only ad blocker that still works on Youtube.

Privacy Badger: Content blocker that specifically blocks trackers and fingerprinting scripts. This one will catch things that uBlock doesn't catch but does not work for ads.

Facebook Container: "but I don't have facebook" you might say. Doesn't matter, Meta/Facebook still has trackers out there in EVERYTHING and this containerizes them off away from everything else.

Bitwarden: Password vaulting software, don't trust the password saving features of your browsers, this has multiple layers of security to prevent your passwords from being stolen.

ClearURLs: Allows you to copy and paste URL's without any trackers attached to them.

VPN: Note: VPN software doesn't make you anonymous, no matter what your favorite youtuber tells you, but it does make it harder for your data to be tracked and it makes it less open for whatever public network you're presently connected to.

Mozilla VPN: If you get the annual subscription it's ~$60/year and it comes with an extension that you can install into Firefox.

Mullvad VPN: Is a fast and inexpensive VPN with a serious focus on transparency and security. They have been in operation since 2009. Mullvad is based in Sweden and offers a 30-day money-back guarantee for payment methods that allow it.

Email Provider: Note: By now you've probably realized that Gmail, Outlook, and basically all of the major "free" e-mail service providers are scraping your e-mail data to use for ad data. There are more secure services that can get you away from that but if you'd like the same storage levels you have on Gmail/Ol utlook.com you'll need to pay.

Tuta: Secure, end-to-end encrypted, been around a very long time, and offers a free option up to 1gb.

Mailbox.org: Is an email service with a focus on being secure, ad-free, and privately powered by 100% eco-friendly energy. They have been in operation since 2014. Mailbox.org is based in Berlin, Germany. Accounts start with up to 2GB storage, which can be upgraded as needed.

Email Client:

Thunderbird: a free, open-source, cross-platform email, newsgroup, news feed, and chat (XMPP, IRC, Matrix) client developed by the Thunderbird community, and previously by the Mozilla Foundation.

FairMail (Android Only): minimal, open-source email app which uses open standards (IMAP, SMTP, OpenPGP), has several out of the box privacy features, and minimizes data and battery usage.

Cloud Storage:

Tresorit: Encrypted cloud storage owned by the national postal service of Switzerland. Received MULTIPLE awards for their security stats.

Peergos: decentralized and open-source, allows for you to set up your own cloud storage, but will require a certain level of expertise.

Microsoft Office Replacements:

LibreOffice: free and open-source, updates regularly, and has the majority of the same functions as base level Microsoft Office.

OnlyOffice: cloud-based, free

FreeOffice: Personal licenses are free, probably the closest to a fully office suite replacement.

Chat Clients: Note: As you've heard SMS and even WhatsApp and some other popular chat clients are basically open season right now. These are a couple of options to replace those. Note2: Signal has had some reports of security flaws, the service it was built on was originally built for the US Government, and it is based within the CONUS thus is susceptible to US subpoenas. Take that as you will.

Signal: Provides IM and calling securely and encrypted, has multiple layers of data hardening to prevent intrusion and exfil of data.

Molly (Android OS only): Alternative client to Signal. Routes communications through the TOR Network.

Briar: Encrypted IM client that connects to other clients through the TOR Network, can also chat via wifi or bluetooth.

SimpleX: Truly anonymous account creation, fully encrypted end to end, available for Android and iOS.

Now for the last bit, I know that the majority of people are on Windows or macOS, but if you can get on Linux I would strongly recommend it. pop_OS, Ubuntu, and Mint are super easy distros to use and install. They all have very easy to follow instructions on how to install them on your PC and if you'd like to just test them out all you need is a thumb drive to boot off of to run in demo mode. For more secure distributions for the more advanced users the options are: Whonix, Tails (Live USB only), and Qubes OS.

On a personal note I use Arch Linux, but I WOULD NOT recommend this be anyone's first distro as it requires at least a base level understanding of Linux and liberal use of the Arch Linux Wiki. If you game through Steam their Proton emulator in compatibility mode works wonders, I'm presently playing a major studio game that released in 2024 with no Linux support on it and once I got my drivers installed it's looked great. There are some learning curves to get around, but the benefit of the Linux community is that there's always people out there willing to help. I hope some of this information helps you and look out for yourself, it's starting to look scarier than normal out there.

[moondane-lovers]

I’m going to make an inflammatory statement about AI usage in the selfship community, but it needs to be said, and said harshly.

BUT FIRST- it is never okay to witch-hunt or harass someone for using these platforms. That will not educate or help them, and is incredibly shitty on you as a person. Encouragement, continued sharing of these viewpoints and education is what needs to be done along with uplifting creators. We are a community of creators, and need to continue to be that while letting others know that the door in is open.

Using AI chatbots to talk to your f/os is an insult to them, the community of hard working artists and writers surrounding selfship and fandom, and most importantly, yourself.

You deserve better than to slop away hours of your day writing to a predictive text program trained off of the stolen work of writers who are the reason fandom exists. Your f/o deserves better than to be bastardized by an incredibly inaccurate and predatorily created business model that has proven to use addiction based tactics to keep people using.

You are taking time away from creating genuine, human artwork and literature that you will always be able to say that YOU made for that F/O, but instead you are feeding into a soulless exploitative tool that only exists to fill the pockets of its creators. Yes, even if you aren’t paying for a subscription, you are being profited off of.

Using your time being distracted by an AI spits in the face of your own self respect and tells others that you are not able to put in the work to create. That chat that spanned over 12 hours over a day or two will never mean anything, it will be forgotten and logged as training data while you go back for another round of staring at a repetitive, overly identifiable river or slop text.

You do not have to be constantly creating. You do not have to be pumping out art, posts, stories or anything, but by god- it feels so much better when YOU did it. How do you think your f/o would feel knowing that you’ve been distracted by a program pretending to be them for monetary exploitation and environmental destruction? A single sentence of prose devoted to them is a million times more meaningful than thousands of lines of chats to an AI- which isn’t even sentient, it’s all programmed.

“But I do also make art/write!” Good! Do that! You deserve to be spending your time doing that, not wasting away!

“I only do it a bit!” You’re missing the point.

“It’s for comfort!” I can assure you, from the bottom of my heart, you will find much greater stability and comfort in finding a community of creatives and through something you made that you can go back to or expand on. You have found comfort in an addictive platform, it is only going to hurt you.

“You just hate ai!” I do, but this is no longer about the AI part of it, it’s not going away, it’s about YOU.

You deserve better. We deserve better, your F/O deserves better. For fucks sake, at bare minimum do better to break a parasitic habit that could spiral out of control- it has for many people and detailed accounts of these ai addictions are very real. Look for patterns across the chatbots, notice how cold and similar it all is no matter what name is slapped on that supposed character.

Do. Better. Do not use AI to fill the void, nothing will come from it but further harm.

[rideboomindia]

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[solacescastleglow]

How to Make an EDC that Actually Works for You

So often, I look at people's EDCs (everyday carries) and think 'OK, but there's no way you're gonna use all of that'. Because, to be honest, I wouldn't use 3/4 of the stuff that's in these videos. But I do prefer to go out knowing I won't need need anything I don't have, so there's a happy medium. Here's how I worked out mine, and how you can too!

1. Data collection

First, go out with only what you absolutely need (clothes, shoes) and a pen and paper. If it would be dangerous or impossibly impractical for you to go without something, that's a need and will definitely be in your EDC. Note that something that feels necessary and something that is necessary are two separate things. Anyway, every time you need something or use any extras you've taken with you, write down the need (i.e. instead of 'phone' write 'entertainment'/ 'communication', instead of 'taser'/'knife' write 'safety'). If it's already on your list, write it again. Do this for a week, going about things the way you always do.

2. Data analysis

Look at your list. The things you wrote down the most often are the things you really need to prioritise in terms of quality and convenience. Highlight or put a circle around those. Then, for each need, list out all the different ways to meet that need, and the pros and cons of each. For example:

ENTERTAINMENT (EARS) • phone - pros: has lots of other uses, spotify / cons: distracting, yet another screen (ick), uses up data • walkman - pros: not as distracting, old timey charm, no internet or data usage / cons: requires cassettes, can only play one at a time • mp3 player - pros: not as distracting, can put anything on there, no internet or data usage / cons: i have to put songs on beforehand

In this instance, an MP3 player seems like the best option for me. Your list might be different. Do this for every need you had. Make sure everything you list out is something you either already have or can get easily, and that every option is legal where you live.

3. Data analysis pt. 2

You should have a bunch of lists now. Are there any that can be combined? Let's say I have a need for music and communication and the internet. That MP3 player's not looking as good as the phone right now, is it? But just because it can be combined, doesn't mean it should be. If I really wanted to save on data and the Spotify subscription, I could have a phone with the internet and the MP3 player. I can't make that kind of decision for you, just go based on what feels right.

4. Filling in the gaps

Now, I want you to think of scenarios that you have found yourself in at least 3 times, but not during your data collection week. Maybe you've unexpectedly gotten your period, or someone threatened you in some way, or you got someone's number and had no way to write it down. Think of solutions for those things too. Again: legal, practical, acquirable solutions.

5. Assembly

This is the fun part: time to get your EDC together! You can have multiple depending on the situation, but your core EDC should remain the same. This is made up of the solutions to your highlighted or circled needs, plus anything that's small enough that it's worth taking with you.

My circled problems: recording information and ideas, telling the time, entertainment (ears), entertainment (eyes/brain), payment, proof of identity, physical support, vision, getting into the house, hydration, cooling down, COVID safety, extra storage, peace of mind

My core EDC: notebook and pen/cil, watch, MP3 player and in-ear headphones, small book or e reader, wallet, forearm crutch, glasses, keys, small water bottle, hand fan, mask, hand sanitiser, a foldable shopping bag, small emergency kit*, a keychain torch (with a strobe setting for self defence)

If you've noticed that I didn't mention my phone, that's because my SIM card is broken so it's useless outside of playing downloaded music. It's also just nice, you know? I only bring it if I'm going somewhere further away than I usually go, and when it's fixed I'll probably still do that.

*lip balm, liquid IV and a werther's original, 3 each of the meds I need need, a bit of money, a band aid, 2 pimple patches.

6. Storage

Every outfit (including bags) you wear outside the house should be able to hold, at the very least, your core EDC and anything else you need for that particular outing. Since I carry a lot in my pockets, I store everything in a set place when I'm at home so I don't lose things. I keep them in my bedroom, where I get dressed, but you can put them by the front door if you live alone. If you use the same bag every time, don't bother.

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You might do all of that just to realise you don't actually need to change anything about what you carry. If so, sorry! But if not, you'll either get stuck in bad situations way less often or have more space for what actually matters. Happy travelling!

[sumikatt]

you can train and run LLMs and image generation models on a laptop. data center electricity usage is due to it being a data center, not having “AI” deployed—it would be like looking at the electricity usage of cloudflare and all of its clients and deciding “this is all AI usage”

copyright is fake and even if you are worried about that, you can use license models from giant media companies like Adobe or Getty that own 100% of their training data.

the only genuine complaint about “AI” is that it can displace workers in media industries, but any new technology has the potential to do that and lobbying for banning technology has never really worked. only thing you can really do and should do is adapt and unionize

like yeah it is annoying that every company is pushing “AI” and that it is inescapable, but how is that the fault of the technology? a software that can predict things based on given data is valuable to science and to art. the company that tries to sell you $10/month subscription to use software you can download onto your own computer for free is the stupid part.

[colorico-art]

Resource - Digital Tool Assets

Okay, so I've jumped around with several programs to try out based on the needs I had at any given time. These are program specific assets and resources that I've come across while using testing out the various programs.

Sketchbook

I still use this program, though strictly while on-the-go (I use an Android tablet). I personally use it more for quick sketches and then carry them back onto my PC to render, but I know @kreature1827 uses the app and has done some incredible work within the app. The link provides free brush and texture assets.

The program does work across multiple platforms, however I am unsure if there are any sync features present.

Clip Studio Paint

I purchased this program some years ago and tried it out for a bit, and don't get me wrong: it's a really good program. The issue I personally have is that when I moved over to Linux, CSP has no functionality within the system (that, and the pricing model past V1 was not something I personally liked to get involved with). The CSP Asset store is accessible through the program, and includes a lot of brush, pattern, model, and stamp assets.

Since CSP moved into a subscription model, they've added the option to have the program sync with multiple devices.

Krita

This is my current program of choice, and it's also one of the programs I started out using when I looked into illustration work. I did drop it a couple of times, though the reasons were always surrounding the need for on-the-go use and resource management (before Krita 4, it demanded so much out of my laptop that I couldn't use it effectively). The link provided provides a ton of brushes, plugins, and tutorials.

Krita does have an Android app available for beta testing, however my reason from moving away from the mobile app was due to the odd interactions within the app (i.e. some of the tools, like Transform, don't behave properly and require multiple specific alterations to only get a half-decent result).

Medibang Paint

This is what I used whenever I got a tablet before I coming across Autodesk Sketchbook. It's a very robust program, but it does have a specific use for manga art work. You can make some custom brushes, however the program didn't particularly click with me or how I approach my art pieces (i.e. I didn't stick with it at all). The link provided gives program-specific tutorials on getting specific results, such as halftone screens and tool usage.

Medibang is excellent with the cross platform use (it's even better than CSP in that it's free with a simple account), and can be synced with almost any device or operating system. The program does feature ads, which I personally detest. But the ads aren't intrusive and they're mainly out of the way.

[amelias-calamity-quintet]

Developing Gerudo As a Language For MoaH

Ok, I wanna make this very clear at the top: I’m not a linguistist. I have a passing (conversational at best) knowledge of a handful of languages, only fluent in English. Part of the reason that Hyrule got the Arthurian coding for Mark of a Hero was because part of getting my BA in Literature required taking HEL and that included learning about Old English and I wanted to use that knowledge to divide Hylian and ancient Hylian most easily for me as a storyteller. To include making up words there. I came up with a new word for an ancient knife with this, a drifemece. It’s based on a real knife described in an old hunting manual but there wasn’t a name for it that didn’t require using a different weapon name (and Ambrose’s zweihänder has taught me why that’s an issue) and “Hero’s Hunting Knife” didn’t sound very cool. Also, I'm taking a whole bunch of accents out. I can't do them without doing alt codes and that's a pain. I already have to hunt down zweihänder every time I want to use it.

To circle back on topic. My point is that I have some small understanding on how languages form broadly. But I’m still not a linguistist. So usage of Gerudo is probably gonna get limited to that stereotypical bilingual representation of “occasionally uses words from language.” In my defense though, I’m reverse engineering a language from a vocabulary bank of like ten words from the games. There is no grammar for me to reference and because the languages I have rough understandings in don’t include the families of languages I’m pulling from, any development of is going to be surface level because it would take me years to learn these languages fluently. Which isn’t to say I’m not still trying but I’m also not in a place to get another language subscription to understand this perfectly for a fanfic project.

But let's get started. What are we pulling from?

Dictionary (Official)

Sav'otta - Good morning (Slang: Votta)

Sav'aaq - Good day (Slang: Sav'a)

Sav'saaba - Good evening (Slang: Sav'a)

Sav'orr - Good night

Vasaaq - Welcome

Sav'orq - Goodbye

Sarqso - Thank you (Slang: Sarq)

Sa'oten - (Surprise)

Voe - Man

Vai - Woman

Vehvi - Child

Vaba - Grandmother

Vure - Bird

So we start with the vibes of the language. With how it sounds. So far, Gerudo has a lot of words with harsh consonant, the V's and Q's, and then lots of vowels to balance it out. Sa-V-O-Ta. Sa-V-a-Q. Sa-V-O-R (I'm not grabbing the accented ones for actual phonetics, I always got them mixed up). To balance those harsh sounds, the language likes aspirated constants, like S and B, and also those long vowels.

There are some rules here. Conjugation seems to be represented with the apostrophe. I'm going to interpret that as conjugated words, likely because a second word has an aspirated consonant to start blending into a word with a harsh consonant at the end. So the word for "Good" in Gerudo is likely something like "Save" (pronounced more like Sa-vuh) and then the work for morning (as a time) is "Sotta." When said together, that second S is going to be dropped to make "Sav'otta." And then as a greeting, morning is "Votta." Because "Votta" is the slang, it likely was made after the words for "good" and "morning" (as a time), so they do need to be different.

Another rule we can draw is the V's tend to start words for personhood. Vai, voe, vehvi, vaba. That's why my Gerudo word for a nonbinary person is vyu. A V with the last two vowels not yet used. This also lined up really well with the term Siyu from "Ivarkaq'Siyu" or "Twice-blessed" for the Gerudo lineages. That "yu" sound now can be used for the Gerudo word for "two," "iyu."

For the rest, I'm also pulling from real languages if there isn't enough here to go off of. Right now, my main three languages for reference are Arabic, Hausa, and Oromo. I try to find words between them that have a similar spelling, indicating a similar root word. That's how we got the word for the "Ivarkaq." I pulled "albarka" from Hausa, "mabruk" and from Arabic (and I have "ibukun" written down but I can't remember where I pulled it from), and then we worked backwards to get some of these common sounds into the Gerudo ruleset.

So now we have an added bank that includes:

Dictionary (MoaH Original)

Vorsaa - Mentor, teacher (Formal: Vorsiisaa)

Vada - Grandfather

Ivarkaq'Siyu - Twice-blessed

Ivarkaq'Saya - Once-blessed

Ivarkaq'Si'a - Chance-blessed

Ivarkah - Blessed (person)

Vyu - Non-binary person

Vahana - Sibling

Alheri'Din - Din's Grace (expression/"Bless me")

Aba - Mother

Ada - Father

Ayu - Parent

Save - Good

Sotta - Morning

Saaq - Day

Sasaaba - Evening

Sorr - Night

One - Aya

Two - Iyu

"Aba" and "Ada" drop the V because these are the words babies first say. Hard consonants are not easy for babies, that's why you typically get "Mama" before "Dada." That said, "Vaba" was already a Gerudo word, so to follow that rule, it's "Aba" for mother. Following that scheme, that's how I got to "Vada" and "Ada" for grandfather and father respectively.

Which brings me to a point that gets brought up in the books too. A lot of people assume there aren't Gerudo words for masculine terms. I saw this when I was pulling up the original dictionary, and people couldn't decide if "vehvi" meant "child" or "daughter." I'm going to assume it means "child" as a gender neutral. If there is only one Gerudo male every hundred years (per lore), then it doesn't make sense to gender the word for "child." All children would be daughters except one. But because the Gerudo male thing, it is still central to the Gerudo culture that the term can't be exclusive. So instead, my interpretation is that a lot of terms around youth are gender neutral so that when there is the Gerudo boy born, he's not ostracized for being the one person with a different word before he's old enough to understand what the Hundred Year Male things means.

Also, assuming that Gerudo don't have gendered terms ignores that even in canon, Gerudo still have fathers. And from what TOTK showed us, know their fathers for a period of time. There would be words in Gerudo for that. So we do need a word for "father" and "grandfather" in Gerudo. But following the previous thought, that we can't make the one Gerudo boy feel ostracized, most of those words are for adults. You don't pick those words until you're old enough to be an adult and understand gender. Now we've come back around on developing culture through this.

Now, if you've read some of my other worldbuilding posts on how MoaH hands the Gerudo, you know part of this too is because there are multiple lineages of Gerudo, to include ones not affected by the Hundred Year Gerudo Male thing. This comes down to how Nintendo has demonstrated genetics to us. Gerudo mom and Hylian dad, always a Gerudo kid. That indicates a dominant trait. Why? Well, MoaH posits that it's because "divine traits" that diverted the lineages from human biologically are genetic markers and only one can be present. The exception is with the Gerudo. This is going to go into some of the revisions on Ganondorf in the setting and framing his campaign as an individual rather than representative of a people, but some Gerudo have multiple "divine traits." Because these traits are given literally by the Goddesses, accruing them has to be permitted by the Goddesses and only a small group of Gerudo pursued that. Those that did, the Ivarkaq'Siyu, also took on the Hundred Year Male thing to balance things out.

So how does all that impact the culture then too? Now, most of this is focused on Dirjaani culture, where the Gerudo language originates in MoaH, so there are variants in other regions. But. In general, "divine traits" aren't a marker for superiority. Because everyone but humans have them, they're just a trait you have. The divinity of it is the source of evolution (which we've seen throughout the series as a whole), but that doesn't make a people better than anyone else.

But because the history of the world is entangled with the whole "Ganondorf" thing, I think Dirjaani culture develops a lot of community first culture. That's why it's last name given name. Legacy is paramount to so many Gerudo, but the one thing more important is family. A huge part of that is a culture responding to "How do we prevent this curse from taking our son?" Because after the first Ganondorf, no one would name their kid that. That's a name someone chooses, that when the cycle reappears, someone chooses. The belief then in Rahaal is that whatever Ganondorf is truly (Demise), that possesses the Hundred Year Male. So how as a culture to we make sure he can fight it the longest? You build a culture focused around community. That's why the leadership of Rahaal is the Forum. That's why the spiritual leaders of Kohno are elders or use familial terms.

I know we've diverted a little from linguistics for culture, but the two are intrinsically intertwined. It's why so much of the added vocabulary I have focuses on family terms. And that's why you have to think about both in tandem.

I'll get back to reverse engineering now.

[bobcatmoran]

Just got back a bit ago from seeing Bill Irwin's "On Beckett," a one-man show that alternates readings of Samuel Beckett's work with Irwin's personal interpretations of it.

This sounds like the most pretentious nonsense ever, but those of a Certain Age might know Bill Irwin better as the OG Mr. Noodle from the Elmo's World segments on Sesame Street (I am not Of That Certain Age, but had younger siblings who very much were). He's a trained, professional clown, as well as an acclaimed actor who's played multiple roles on Broadway and Off-Broadway productions of "Waiting for Godot" to critical acclaim, and a lot of his analysis had to do with drawing on the historical vaudeville tradition and silent film clown tradition (i.e. Chaplin, Keaton, et al) that Beckett grew up with, and talking about that influence on how he interpreted performing Beckett's works.

The physicality of his performance, the very pointed usage of hats and how they can convey character based on how they're worn, and his passion for the topic plus his responsiveness to the audience really made it a gem of a performance which I'd never have seen had it not been for my Guthrie Theater season subscription, and I'm glad to have spent my evening this way.

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