The canvas is way more addictive than I anticipated. Really fun stuff. Good work everyone <3

I’m not sure actually. Don’t know how to make that animation in some software to see how it’ll look. I’ll research about it and report back here. Just wanted to share the idea before getting into it

Since we still have a day, wouldn’t it be cool if we could make the sun in our first template glow or twinkle? We can make the sun rays move one pixel outwards then inwards again, then outwards again, and so on. It’ll look good in the time lapse. Just a thought. Like an animation loop.

Have you lowered the transparency of the template? Maybe that could help.

I agree that it does feel alarmist, but to be fair, the article mentioned multiple times that the research isn’t established just yet. In the end it sort of reminds me of the radiation doses from x-rays and CT scans. You have to weigh the potential risks with the potential benefits when deciding to practice with a firearm.

I’ll try that fix. And am happy to be here :D

Unfortunately, I’m getting an error when trying to load the template. Maybe it’s a compatibility thing with my browser. Thanks for making the 20% increment templates. I’m using those now lol

This one gives the feel of a police badge in a way

Super! Now the banners look more on-brand lol. Great work. It would be nice to have milestone-based series of these templates. Like what are the first 20% of tiles to place. The next 20%. And so on. Itll help us sort of claim a spot early on if we only focus on an outline first. I wouldve done that part but its super late right now.

Yes, I checked yesterday. It seemed to have worked. I got a DM with the otp and after typing it in, I got authentication.

It looks much neater now. Thanks for the touch up. I’m happy to hear that you liked the idea, though I think one drawback would be that if someone sees it on the canvas, they wouldn’t know it’s from slrpnk. So probably not the best for publicity.

Maybe we can wait a little bit for others to give their opinions

Here’s my template (sized 46x46). It’s a little rough around the edges, and we can change it up to make it more attractive. It features a sunflower in the center, symbolizing hope and the sun itself. The inspiration for the quote came from the write-up in the instance wiki.

Upscaled version:

Original version:

Wow! That’s much higher than I thought. I think we can be more optimistic in our templates :p

Hmmm, then maybe 900 pixels could be a reasonable template size; 30x30 or 25x36

So I was thinking about making a template and I realized that the size of the piece we can make depends entirely on the ‘man-hours’ our instance members can contribute. As an example, if one person can give just one hour to the event, they can place ~100 pixels (not 120 since we’re not bots lol) so that’s a 10x10 space. So four people contributing 1 hour each or one person contributing 4 hours can enable us to make a 20x20 piece. And so on… So I was wondering if there is a way we can get a rough idea of our total ‘man-hours’ so we can make a decent sized piece? We can wing it and make a small one and then expand it / make more if we have more people but the former method might be more resource effecient maybe.

Sounds fun. So what’re we making this time? Would be willing to spend an hour or two into it

Just gonna point out that correlation does not imply causation. The argument needs to be deeper than just the stats.

Side question, why are you writing that symbol instead of ‘th’?

I know that’s not exactly what you’re looking for, but imo not getting recommendations from YouTube’s algorithm at all might be better. Why? From the Cambridge analytica scandal we have proof that these algorithms have the capability to manipulate people’s ideologies without their consent. I think your algorithm basically personalizes an indoctrination strategy. The idea is not new, it has been talked about in the famous book ‘Manufacturing consent’.

Let’s say, they don’t have a grand political plan behind their algorithm, but even then, the algorithm is just optimizing your feed for maximum engagement rather than intellectual nourishment. They just want you to watch more and more. And not spend much time to stop, think and reflect.

As for recommendations, you can get them organically from your close friends (they’d def be happy to send you a bunch lol) or from lemmy communities (like the documentaries ones)

I think they mainly fear that if they pardoned him, it will create a knock on effect leading to even more whistleblowers. People who were on the fence about becoming whistleblowers would see that the repercussions aren’t that severe anymore and hence might take that step.