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I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

Saw this going around and tested it myself, and I can confirm that this is unfortunately legit. Four hidden bots have been placed in any existing or newly created Discord server that are harvesting data, images, and most concerningly, one seems to be a face swap bot.

Due to them being invisible, banning them from your servers isn't possible without their ID's, which I've typed out for easy access.

1153984868804468756 1288638725869535283 1090660574196674713 1104973139257081909

Banning is done with the /ban command with each string pasted in one at a time. Four ban commands in total.

Image proof below and further information. This was in my PERSONAL server that has existed for +5 years. Discord is harvesting your shit without your consent, fight back.

The answer is yes, you absolutely can! It'll look like this - the numbers you paste will be what's "banned"

However my sibling tried this in her servers and found that One of them was NOT a string of numbers, like so:

And for clarity it isn't a difference in user or device, this is what she got elsewhere:

So if you ban these numbers and the message shows the actual username? Pretty sure that means they were in there.

Very unpleasant way to check the veracity of this post but hopefully this is a helpful tip for anyone who was concerned - my sib would have No Reason to add these in herself and didn't have any clue it was in there.

Personally, I'd say even if you are still worried about misinfo/fearmongering/etc from this post, think of it this way - worst case scenario is you're banning a bot you'll never use or need. Not a person, a bot. There's no real damage done playing it safe and running the ban commands through, aside from maybe losing some time doing so.

when banning, the user id shows up in clyde’s response if the profile has not yet been cached.

i tested this personally. i made a new server, then i banned the first bot, DomoAI. it said the user id has been banned. then i tried to ban it a second time. this time it used its name, not its user id. every time after that it used its name.

in every other server i banned them in, all four bots showed up with their name, not user id. usually when you first start up discord, banning accounts will almost always show up with the user id, because discord is slower than a snail and takes forever to cache profiles. after you give it some time, though, the profiles will show up. you can test this by pinging the user. <@userid>

i did this below. the @ unknown-user is the same user id as all the others. i pinged this BEFORE banning the bot. profile didn’t show up, and the bot was banned with user id.

after i banned it the first time though, it showed up with its profile, because i had already told discord that this is a profile of interest for me, by banning them. so the profile got cached. so no matter how many times you ban them after, the profile will show up, regardless of if its in your server or not.

The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.

If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?

It's an epistolary novel set in Britain in 1919. The central character is Miss Verena Raby, a woman in her 40s who owns and lives at a country house in Herefordshire, called Old Place. Early in the year, Verena has an accident on ice, injures her spine, and is therefore confined to bed for a long time. This event kickstarts a chain of letters from friends and family (she has 8 siblings and several nephews and nieces) to and from her.

I'm about 30% in (it's a short book, my kindle estimated 3 hours reading time), and I'm having fun! The style is light and breezy, the story is slice of life-y but there's still some plot to it, and the characters while necessarily not super deep (there's too many of them for that) are defined and interesting enough to keep one reading.

It's a free, no sign-up, no ads fitness resource created by professionals who view this as activism (fitness should be accessible to everyone), and it's very thoughtful and thorough.

Features I really like:

- all instructions for workout routines are diagrammed on single pages with a clean, easy to read layout

- there's 30 or 60 day programs you can follow if you, like me, don't know what to do. they take you through a rotation of workouts so you're working different muscle groups on different day for a specific purpose

- there's so much variety and there's a filter so you can find the level and your goals and type of workout you wanna do

- you don't need any equipment

- some of the programs are RPGs or adventure stories! How's that for motivation. There's also badges and achievements or something but I haven't looked that closely at how that works yet

- they're nerds. they name workouts after D&D classes. There's a Lannistrr workout, a batcave workout, a witcher workout

- I've only scratched the surface

I'm doing this really easy one to start out

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQSMS0J6JbrKdSOSbyJXaQ_zN_HSSp7zZ

#1. You should be able to lay down on the floor (face down or back) and be able to get up without your hands. If you can't? Spend a little bit every day just doing that, laying on the floor and getting up again no hands style, then laying down again (you'd be surprised how fast it wears you out after a few times)

#2. You should be able to get up out of a chair without using your hands or grabbing on to anything. Can't? Fucking start training mother fucker! Just a few uppies every day could save your damn life when you get older!

#3. You should be able to turn your neck to the side without twisting your upper body in the same direction, you should be able to turn your head freely without moving your shoulders, chest or torso! Start looking up loosy goosy neck exercises! It makes such a HUGE difference!

#4. You should be able to motherfucking stand on one foot and keep your balance for longer then 15 seconds. Haha sounds easy right? Thats what I thought when I tried after watching that vid, i was horrified to find how hard it was! I started doing "one leggy style" standing any chance I got, when I'm in line somewhere, when I'm watching a video... just do a few rounds of 10 seconds on each leg for like 5 min every day!

You get older and you think you still have all the same limberness as you did when you were 8, but whens the last fucking time you ran around and played like an 8 year old? You loose that flexibility so subtlety and then one day when you need it? BAM ITS GONE

This thing has been out of print for like, 26 years and some of us want to make chubby classic pikachu so uh... I figure it's okay to share bc it's kinda hard to get your hands on the remaining physical copies.

Bonus points: Aelith made some embroidery/applique files for it too

They're relaxing comedy slice of life dramas about a Maiko House, Confectionary Shop and a Ryokan in Kyoto which shows elements of Japanese culture from food to traditions.

I love the attention to detail shown, especially when it comes to food, how they decorate, choose the right color utensils to complement the food to make it look like an aesthetically pleasing and appetizing dish for the customers, plus the right type and amount of ingredients that make the customers crave for more.

The kimono and yukata they wear in the show are so beautiful and elaborate. And the places they went in Kyoto are equally beautiful.

1. The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House (2023)

It's about two best friends Kiyo and Sumire from the northern Aomori who dreams of becoming Geisha that they go to Gion, Kyoto to train to be one while living in the all-female house of fellow Maiko (Geisha in training) and Geisha themselves.

Although Sumire has the right temperament to be a Geisha, Kiyo doesn't but she found her calling as a Cook instead and is more than eager to share her love of cooking with them. As they discover how unique and tasty her food really are!

2. Kyoto Love Story (2023)

It's about three sisters living in a 450 year old traditional Japanese confectionery shop in Kyoto. Hina, the eldest, Arare, the second sister and Hana, the youngest. They live with their mother who wants one of her daughters to take over the business, which causes conflict.

To make it worse, the two sisters, Hina and Arare got entangled in a love triangle with an employee of the shop, who the mother have been eyeing, to marry him to the daughter that would succeed the shop. While Hana, the youngest is caught in the crossfire.

3. Kamo, Kyoto e Iku (2023)

A story of a career woman named, Kamo. Named after Kamo River by her mother who runs a Ryokan in Kyoto. Kamo despises everything traditional as restricting and works as a finance executive in Tokyo, with the Ministry of Finance.

Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!

It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.

I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?

How many relationships? How much writing?

You may think this won't happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.

IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.