Loki, the trickster god, is offering you an intriguing proposal. He will let you stay as you are now, or he can permanently change you to an attractive member of the opposite sex

Your face doesn't change overly much, so people can still kinda tell it's you, except that you would have better features e.g. great skin, no acne, perfect teeth

If you are a 1/10, you become a 5/10 at least. If you are already a 5/10, you become a 8/10. If you are already a 8/10, you become a 10/10. If you are already a 10/10, you become so attractive that you turn straight people gay, and gay people straight

The catch of course is that not only are you stuck as the opposite sex, you would have A LOT of explaining to do to the world and to your loved ones. Also, your sexuality does not change

[View Poll](https://www.reddit.com/poll/1i6krzv)

Uncertain if this is the best place for this post.

I work in media with many clients that are excited and eager to leverage SD, but they are extremely cautious about potential legal exposure to copyright law violations.

Has anyone come across a resource that helps track or advise on determining what models and/or services offer at least a shred of certainty that the images generated with them will not get you into legal hot water? Even if it's just a blog or YouTube channel that regularly posts about the issue?

I know one can investigate on a service by service basis, Adobe being an example of a company trying to ensure their models were trained on "legal" data (though I think it seems like that may have been a bit of a lie). However, I'd love to find a regularly updated resource that discusses the topic.

I appreciate any recommendations or direction! Thanks!

Hey, I have built a few automations in **Zapier** and **Pabbly**. Now I am trying to build my expertise in Make and built the following projects in this platform so far:

1. E-commerce workflow (WhatsApp messages to customer upon Status update, reminders to employees) 2. Gemini powered Telegram bots for Crypto news and price updates 3. Automated email and whatsApp message sender

I want to grow my expertise and thus looking for projects to build. \[Charges: 10 USD\] Anyone looking for AI Based Chatbots, AI Automation Agents and other workflows DM me.

Hoping someone can maybe put me in a suit or just make me look more professional all around. Can pay $10. Can send different pictures if needed.

I liked the layout of the left one but didn’t like how it turned out so I re did it and made it better

My best friend’s dog just passed away. She named him Grux because she’s a huge Dave Matthews Fan. She’s absolutely devastated and I know she would love this more than you could possibly imagine. She’s the kindest and most wonderful person and I just would love to give this to her.

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to share something I’ve been working on. For a long time, I felt really anxious every time I opened the news. It felt like all I saw were disasters, conflicts, and just bad stuff happening everywhere. It started to get to me more than I realized—I’d get this sinking feeling in my stomach just thinking about checking the news.

Eventually, I just stopped reading it. But then I had this nagging feeling like I was missing out—what if something really important happened and I didn’t know? It felt like a cycle I couldn’t escape: either I felt anxious from reading the news or guilty for ignoring it.

That’s when I had this idea: *What if I only focused on the good stuff happening in the world?* Not to ignore the bad things, but just to remind myself that there’s still so much good out there too. That’s how I ended up making [**GoodNewsOnly.buzz**](https://goodnewsonly.buzz)

I’m definitely not some pro developer or anything, so the site is super simple, but it’s been helping me, and I hope it can help others too. If you’re tired of bad news, I’d love for you to check it out: [**GoodNewsOnly.buzz**](https://goodnewsonly.buzz).

Let me know what you think—feedback, ideas, or even just your favorite good news stories. I’m still figuring this out, but it feels good to share something that’s helped me so much.

I want to record my volleyball games with Strava, but I don't see it as an option for sports (at least on the Apple Watch). Just a simple "workout" activity could be fine... but does anyone have any other recommendations for how I could record this?

Hi! I was wondering if anyone here knows whether these symbols have any specific meaning, or if they’re just made up. I recognize that one of the symbols is the Leviathan Cross/Brimstone, but I’m not sure if the others hold any significance. Does anyone know?

Can someone remove the ice cream and wires for me? We’d like to use this picture in an obituary/funeral notice. I’ll tip.

What are the current options for in-wall smart switches in USA?

1. I know about the smart relays but would prefer the switches (so anyone can reset and pair without having to open the switchbox). 2. I have some kasa wifi switches which are working fine with HA but if I try to block the internet access for those switches, then the devices becomes unavailable in HA after few minutes. 3. Thinking of getting kasa-homekit / kasa-matter switches and pair with HA(homebridege/matter integration) and disable the internet access. But have anyone tried this and can confirm that if these switches work fine even after cutting them off from internet? (I saw many issues reported for these kasa and tapo switches. i.e) they work fine in native app but not in apple homekit or HA ) 4. zigbee in-wall switches are almost non-existent 5. Lutron Casetas are crazy expensive to be installed for the whole house

If someone could shine some light as to why, I’m 22 and this is really messing with me.

OpenAI: hype & news

DeepSeek: exceptional technical report & truly open AI models

I wrote my learnings here [https://www.faststartup.dev/guides/get-first-paying-user-saas](https://www.faststartup.dev/guides/get-first-paying-user-saas)

Can someone please replace lower car with the one on 2-3 screenshots ?

Last time I was tinkering with image generation, I was using SDXL, so my knowledge is outdated.

I'm looking for model/workflow that's lightweight and fast, generating barely coherent sketches of characters/environments for my worldbuilding project. I have rtx 3060 12GB, but I have no need to utilize it its maximum performance.

What should I look into?

Seems fitting to egg-nog-your-nation.

[a raven with a glowing green eye. There is a sign that says \\"What is pixel art?\\". The raven is standing in a field with mountains in the background](

I've seen a few posts over the past couple months where people get into some arguments about what pixel art is and its always kinda silly to me, so as someone whos been a professional pixel artist for a bit over 7 years, and who runs a company based around AI pixel art, I wanted to make a comprehensive post for people who are interested, and that I can refer to in the future.

Lets start with the main thing: what is pixel art?

Pixel art is any artwork that uses squares of consistent sizes with intentionally limited colors and placement to create an image. This is a pretty broad definition and there are a lot more strict requirements that some pixel artists would place on it, but thats the basics of it. Personally I like to add in the requirement that it uses fundamental pixel art techniques, such as "perfect lines", dithering, and limited anti-aliasing.

[Pixel art techniques](

Essentially its all about limitations. Resolution limits, color limits, and style limits. This amount of restriction is what gives pixel art its unique look.

Some things typically avoided in the modern interpretation of pixel art: partial transparency (it causes color blending), glow effects, blurring of any kind, and noise (random pixels, or too much detail in irrelevant places).

[Things to avoid in pixel art](

These are the reasons why AI is generally soooo bad at making pixel art. All of the above are things inherent to most modern AI models.

There are ways to mitigate these issues, downscaling and color reduction can get you most of the way. I've actually made open source tools to accomplish both of those. [Pixel Detector](https://github.com/Astropulse/pixeldetector), and [Palettize](https://github.com/Astropulse/sd-palettize). The real difficulty comes when you want not only a pixel art "aesthetic", but something closer to real human made pixel art, with more intentional linework and shapes. Some models like flux dev can get really close, but lack the control you want for different content and generations are pretty hit or miss.

Here are some of my best pixel art aesthetic generations with raw flux dev with dynamic thresholding (no training or loras):

[Prompts: \\"pixel art style with thick outlines image of a woman with long flowing hair, wearing a white gown and a crown of lilies, standing by a riverbank, vibrant colors, consistent pixel sizes, pixel perfect, pixel, pixel art, limited colors, outlines, dark outlines, simple colors, simple shapes\\", \\"pixel art style with thick outlines image of a medieval knight in armor, retro game style with a castle background, fairytale themes, consistent pixel sizes, pixel perfect, pixel, pixel art, limited colors, outlines, dark outlines, simple colors, simple shapes\\", \\"pixel art style with thick outlines image of a woman with long, wavy hair, wearing a crown of flowers, and holding a small bird, minimalist style, consistent pixel sizes, pixel perfect, pixel, pixel art, limited colors, outlines, dark outlines, simple colors, simple shapes\\", \\"pixel art style with thick outlines image of a man in a futuristic suit wearing a helmet with a visor that reflects the stars, pixel shading, consistent pixel sizes, pixel perfect, pixel, pixel art, limited colors, outlines, dark outlines, simple colors, simple shapes\\"](

If you zoom in, you can pretty quickly tell that the "pixels" are different sizes. Some of this can be fixed with downscaling and color reduction, but you're really just kicking the can down the road.

Nearly all specifically trained pixel art models have this issue as well, it's fundamental to how AI image generation works currently.

I've been training pixel art models since sd1.4 came out, here are some of those generations over time as the models improved:

[Left to right top to bottom, older first](

I also work closely with u/arcanite24 aka [NeriJS](https://civitai.com/user/NeriJS), and hes trained a few available pixel art loras for different models, and recently he trained an incredible flux based model for Retro Diffusion's website. Here are some examples from that (the banner was also made there):

[Prompts: \\"a panda eating bamboo in a flower jungle\\", \\"redhead woman blowing a kiss to the camera\\", \\"a gundam robot\\", \\"a hamburger\\", \\"a fancy sports car\\"](

Finally lets go over some of the differences between most AI generated "pixel art" and the human made variety. I'm going to compare these two since they have nature themes and painterly styles.

[The image on the right is \\"Up North n' So Forth\\" which I commissioned from my incredibly talented friend \\"Makrustic\\"](

Ignoring the obvious issues of pixel sizes and lots of colors, lets focus on stylistic and consistency differences.

In the generated image, the outlines are applied inconsistently. This isn't necessarily an issue in this piece as it works quite well with the subject only being outlined, but I have found it is a consistent problem across AI models. Some objects will be outlined and some will not.

Lets move to the details.

The left image has some pretty obvious random noise in the color transition in the background:

It's also unclear what is being depicted, is it grass? Bushes? Trees? Mountains? We can't really tell. This could be considered an artistic choice, but may be undesirable.

Contrast this with human-drawn pixel art, which can have very intentional patterns and shapes, even in background details:

Generally random noise or excessive dithering are avoided by experienced artists.

One other major noticeable composition element is how in the generated image, groups of colors are generally restricted to being used in those objects alone. For example the white in the dress is different from the white in the clouds, the blue of the sky is different from the water, and even the grass and plants use different color swatches. Typically a pixel artist will reuse colors across the image, which results in both less colors in total, but also a more balanced and cohesive art piece. This is also used to create focus by using unique colors on the main elements of the art piece.

Closing thoughts:

Pixel art is a very unique medium with lots of different subsets and rules. If you think something is pixel art and you like how it looks, thats good enough for most people. If you want to use assets in games or post them as "pixel art", you might get some pushback unless you put a bit more time into understanding the typically accepted rules of the medium.

Trained AI models can get pretty close to real pixel art, but for the foreseeable future there's going to be a gap between AI and the real thing, just as a result of how detail-oriented pixel art is, and how image gen models currently work.

I think AI is an incredible starting point, or even pre-final-draft for pixel art, and the closer the model is to the real thing the better, but its still a good idea to use purpose-built tools, or do some cleaning and editing by hand.

Title... or at least just bring back eyeball and remove one of the 3 new runes (you will then notice how eyeball will be picked 99% of games over the 2 others on domination tree keystone users)

Burst champions were already dead in this durability meta, the removal of even more damage after the Electro and DH nerfs make that tree pretty much unusable and only used as secondary runes by some supports (cheap shot or any of the hunter runes + a vision rune, or heck, even cheapshot + ultimate hunter or something) or champions who rely a lot on ultimate hunter or other rune (like nocturne for example)

Domination tree users lost 1-3% WR on average when picking a domination keystone rune due to this change and most of them swapped to other keystones (comet, phase rush, conqueror and first strike being the main ones)

Why would any1 even go domination for damage, when Aftershock from the Valor tree does similar damage to Elec/DH (way more than DH early, you need about 15 stacks to match aftershock's damage or even more if the user built a lot of resistances) while also granting durability and a slow.... and having a very versatile page that includes durability, damage and utility while not forcing you to go full utility at all (like the new ward runes row)... Its sub optimal that the burst damage rune tree is so nerfed that even the tank rune tree offers similar levels of damage while also granting a lot of durability and utility

Hi,

I need to secure my entrance gate to know when someone is trying to jump it.

I'm looking at various check (camera, mouvement sensor) but I'd like to add an extra layer to avoid false positive. Can you recommand any model that can stand to be outdoor?

Thanks

In Cleveland, a Coast Guardsman stands at post, while the rest of the city shutdown due to below freezing temperatures.

[More information here.](https://clevelandmagazine.com/in-the-cle/terminal/articles/1944-a-snow-storm-and-below-freezing-temperatures-shut-the-city-down)

Good Evening, I'm a freelance Private Tutor in Italy, regularly registered in Italy. I work both remotely and in person. Recently I connected with an American Company which offers private tutoring to students at any age. They asked me to collaborate remotely with them as an independent contractor, but in order to do so I would need to help them to collect all the relevant paperwork. What do you think I should find and do you have any advise on where I should look?

What can I say about **League of Legends**? Back in the day, logging into the game felt like stepping into a dream. I immersed myself in the deep stories of its characters, had fun with my friends, and together we discovered our tastes and personal traits. Riot created a familiar environment that, while it included conflicts, also celebrated achievements. Back then, the game was built with heart, offering solutions and experiences tailored to the community’s needs while delivering immersive content with a value that made sense.

I started playing in 2012, and over the years, I’ve had countless experiences, transformations, and memorable moments. I still remember sleepless nights, anxiously waiting for the release of **Elementalist Lux**. And don’t even get me started on the first generation of **Star Guardians**! The anticipation was overwhelming, but every moment of waiting was worth it.

But for the first time, I’ve decided not to launch **LoL** anymore. The stories have grown cold, driven by a reality that prioritizes profit above all else and fosters inhumane competition. **League of Legends** went from being a passion-driven game, free from the corporate nature of Blizzard, to becoming just like it: a cash-grabbing machine. Nowadays, it’s all about money—battle passes that require absurd amounts of time to earn even minimal rewards, and skins that rely entirely on luck through the infamous gacha system.

Riot has lost its empathy for the players—the very people who made and continue to make the game thrive. There’s no success in a game without its players! **Stop focusing solely on your wallets in such an insensitive way** and return to the essence that made **League of Legends** so special. You’ve strayed too far from the meaning of creating with passion, of making a game for the sake of entertainment and art. You’ve forgotten the masterpieces you’re capable of creating in a fair and meaningful way.

All I want is this: the essence, fair values, and dynamism. I won’t return to the game under these disheartening conditions.

***I had a dream... ♫♪***

There were other renders that were much closer, but this one by far was my favorite.

Money has always burned a hole in my pocket, even as a kid. Now I'm an adult (31F) and married to someone very financially conscious (32F). She makes about 15k more a year than I do, but she also has a multitude of investments, retirement accounts, and a pretty good amount of liquid savings, even after putting down 20% on our new home.

Meanwhile, I couldn't contribute anything to the down payment or closing costs because I don't have anything to give. According to my W2, I made 90k last year, and yet my savings account is empty and it makes me sick.

I do have a 403B through work, and my wife started me on a Vanguard target retirement date Roth IRA a few years ago, which I contribute automatically to every month, so I'm not completely fucked for the future, but I'm not great either.

By my last calculations, my absolute necessities (car payment, insurance, phone, mortgage, utilities) are about 45% of my take home pay, not including groceries and gas, so I really don't have a reason to be so strapped. Thankfully I don't have anything mountain of debt, but the $1000 on my credit card is taunting me. My weaknesses are takeout/fast food, and little purchases "here and there".

Basically, how can I switch my mindset? Right now my philosophy is that "money is meant to be spent" and "you can't take it with you." How can I start to prioritize saving for the future without completely depriving my present self?

Every next app update on Windows and Android now comes with built-in AI tools I don't use. I want a sub, where I can find useful information on this topic. For example, lists of app versions, that don't contain AI tools whatsoever and how to get them back. Which apps and systems allow you to turn AI tools off, and how to do that; which are not. Which apps are now breech safety of personal data. Safe, ethical, informed and consented use of AI — rules, resources, use cases and all that.

My wife and I got married last year in May. We never adjusted anything on our w4 to account for this not sure if that matters. I was unemployed for most of the year collecting unemployment for 6 months. I worked the first 3 months of the year then collected unemployment for the next 6 months. She worked the entire time. Do we file jointly or married but separate. Or do we file separately like usual and next year we file married since it'll be an entire year if us being married.

I would like them to look like royalty.

This is the worst ever thing riot did. This is how they will lose all their players. Congrats an indie company is getting greedy every year.

I hit a model called "experimental-router-0112" on lmarena and asked "Who made you and what is your model name" 3 times. Every time, it told me it is a model made by Meta based on LLaMA. 2 of the 3 times, it took quite a long time to answer (\~12 seconds) and the other time it almost immediately answered which considering the name leads me to speculate it is a router picking between a very large or a reasoning model and a smaller model. I saw some people on reddit say it reasons well and may be o3-mini. What do you think?

This specific spot on my patio is warm during the winter. Snow and ice melts no matter how cold it is. My basement does not reach under it, theres no line or drainage in this area either.

Their might be a covered well there, I'm not sure. But can a well even generate heat this warm through concrete?

What could it be? Well? Spring? Fairy circle? 🤷‍♀️ If only it could send that free heat into my house.

I even called my propane company thinking a possible gas leak IF the gas gets that warm, to which he confirmed it does not. The warmest it can get alone is 50° (I learned a lot about propane in the call) but said he wouldn't do that.

Hi all, wasn’t really sure where to post this, I hope someone has some advice.

My wife stated a new job in July and qualified for benefits in Sept. she’s been contributing to a childcare FSA since then. After a few paychecks, we realized that the deductions we requested were NOT all going into the FSA. IE, her paycheck showed a deduction of $128, but the account was only being credited $113.

So we contacted her HR, who promised to fix the problem and deposit the difference. Well, that took like 3 paychecks. But instead of fixing it, they went the other way. Now they are only depositing $102.

So at this point they owe us like $300… and we also don’t have anymore 2024 expenses so we can’t even spend the money out of the FSA.

What is the next move? It’s a good job and my wife doesn’t want to make threats. It’s not enough money (yet) to call a lawyer. Is there an organization that supports employees in situations like this? It’s just a case of moron in payroll or HR, but still, we need to get results.

Thanks!!

Can you swap his face in the first one into the second one, so we are both smiling?

Hey folks, I wanted to share an exciting tool I've been working on—[MX Suite](https://mxsuite.co/), an email hosting platform designed to help email marketers and businesses like yours navigate the challenges of deliverability and sender reputation.

We understand that traditional services like G-Suite or Office 365 come with their share of limitations, especially for those who send a high volume of emails. That’s where MX Suite comes in:

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I’d love to hear your thoughts or honest feedback about what features we can add to our tool!

I took a picture of the photograph as it's an old Kodak photo. If there's any way you can remove all of the white splotches and make everyone look clear, and make it so that my brother on the far left is not cut off partially. thank you!!

R1 and distillates are very much hot off the press.

So far we have seen merges, quants and some finetunes. But not much discussion about how well these models perform with text-to-text agentic tasks.

Has anyone tested **existing** workflows with the distilled models? Particularly orchestration systems?

While 32B is appealing smaller models in larger teams offer a richer value proposition than what was available even two weeks ago for most of the local crowd. Teams of small models, beyond just task adherence and all the other heuristics we use outside of benchmarks, might enable better hardware utilization than what can be gained from a large model just from value it can deliver.

Maybe small reasoning models are better at querying against a manager model for "help"- perhaps R1 data was the secret sauce small models have needed to get better at recognizing when things are outside of it's capability i.e, does guessing to fulfill the request *really* satisfy the instructions, or is the better response to state that it doesn't know *without* instructions to behave that way?

Getting small text agents working well could be a *huge* leap forward for inference at the edge.

I cant be the only person thinking about this- what do you guys think?

I feel like this has a lot of potential, AI or not.

Hello! As the title suggests, i need the best way to move out at 18 in about July. This is URGENT. My family situation is horrid and ive been waiting to graduate and leave.

I work at a resturaunt part time for 12/hr. I make abt 250 a week part time (im still in my senior year.) I plan on working full time as soon as I graduate in May.

My boyfriend does commercial fishing and will be in Alaska from June to August, making about 10k total, before moving in with me. Rent here is about 1500.

What is the best way to move out? My current plan is me and my bf save up as much as possible, and then he transfers the money to me before he leaves for fishing so I can get a place.

I cannot wait for him to come back before getting a place. Any help is appreciates

I wonder whether this is something common or just my bad luck. I bought a bunch of smart IKEA bulbs. But at home the 1st one I tried did not work. I though I'm doing something wrong, but eventually I checked the small print on the bulb (hard to read), and the model number was not as on the box. So apparently somehow dumb bulb of same type ended up in a box that should contain smart RGB bulb.

I though it's just one. But after checking other boxes I was really disappointed to see that about half of them were incorrect! And yes - I checked the boxes twice.

Now I have a suspicion it was not some error, mistake. But rather someone stealing from Ikea. Because those boxes can be opened and closed without much fuss. No tape or anything. :( Next time I have to double check each box...

We'll see how return will go. So I'm curious whether anyone had experienced anything like that.

I was planning on delaying lvl 200 in case riot reversed some of the changes. Yet got to 200 really fast in the past days... And the rewards were absolutely nothing more than a border.

Honestly, what is the point of the leveling system? Rewards were bad before, yet now they are non-existing. It is quite likely the changes will be somewhat reversed, then riot will get praise... But this is just the way they are enshitificating gradually and slowly.

tl;dr - we've built a FOSS BaaS that utilizes public key infrastructure to allow for interoperability (think phone numbers and emails) between BaaS instances.

**NOTE** \- The following is very much a work in progress. Most of it works, but it's subject to change, and thus might be broken at arbitrary points in time. I feel compelled to share this morning for some reason that I'm sure has nothing to do with anything that happened yesterday which may make people interested in public cloud infrastructure.

Hello all. I wanted to introduce you to a project I've been working on for quite a while: \[allyabase\](https://github.com/planet-nine-app/allyabase). allyabase is a free, and open source backend-as-a-service (BaaS) in the vein of Firebase and Supabase. But instead of being a thinly veiled service designed at collecting user data, allyabase collects **no personally identifying information** by default.

allyabase utilizes an authentication protocol called \[Sessionless\](https://github.com/planet-nine-app/sessionless). If you're familiar with ssh, tls, the fediverse, bluesky, or crypto, it's the same asymmetric cryptographic approach, but with nothing of value attached to it so people are free to make as many identities as they want.

allyabase is meant to be deployed as interoperable instances called "bases." This means it's not federated by default like Bluesky or Mastodon. You could, quite easily, build something like Bluesky or Mastodon with allyabase, and things like that are on my roadmap, but you could also just setup an allyabase instance with a microblogging client and just invite your friends. In this way it more closely follows the paradigm of gaming instances like minecraft where users can setup a minecraft server--the game is the same on every instance, but the users are separate. Because of the interoperability, however, people \_could\_ build a network of bases that mimic global systems like Twitter, or regional systems like Nextdoor, etc. I plan on pontificating on how this can be done in a blog post soon, but that's not done yet, but happy to chat in the comments on how you'd do it.

allyabase is meant to be monetizable for the instance owner \_and\_ participants. It utilizes two other protocols called \[MAGIC\](https://github.com/planet-nine-app/MAGIC) and \[teleportation\](https://github.com/planet-nine-app/teleportation), which are best explained in \[this video\](https://vimeo.com/1037625246?share=copy#t=0). The gist of it is that any open platform can be turned into a marketplace where people can sell things or interact with users directly.

All of this is part of a larger project called \[Planet Nine\](wiki.planetnineisaspaceship.com), which is my attempt at taking a swing at the ad-supported internet.

There is a development allyabase instance at dev..allyabase.com, and allyabase client sdks in JavaScript and Rust in the miniservice repos, and NPM in the case of JS. More languages are coming. If you're interested in adding a language of anything, we'd love the help. Interested folks can join us at \[Open Source Force on discord\](https://opensourceforce.net).

If you check it out at all, would love to hear your thoughts.

I’m an international student (21+) and my parents are financially stable, they gave me $5k cash to deposit into my debit account to use for the entire semester. I deposited it this morning and the bank teller paused and asked me how I received this cash, and I could only awkwardly answer “my parents gave it to me,” and she said she had to write that down. Will I get in trouble? I’m not doing anything illegal, I don’t want to accidentally be flagged for suspicious activity. Did I mess up by depositing all of it at once?