Dear Coffee Community at LemmyWorld,
Thank you for the marvel you do...
I am sorry, but just to clarify, may I ask... why ever use the so fake, effortless, worthless, void-empty, horrible, and sorrowful meat-ground set of bytes... as the very main banner to represent the so ineffably magnificent art, history, and human effort... as Coffee... and more than 10,714 Members of the Community, too...
There are so many artists out there who have art attributed... and if you haven't chosen a work of your own, have you considered a competition between the current Members to choose the artwork for the banner? A moment of photography would already be a marvel...
Please... please do consider the noise, emptiness, and unintentional but possible disrespect... towards the miracle... divine elixir... the coffee...
Best and kind regards
Translation from the Arabic...
O Coffee! Thou dost dispel all cares, thou art the object of desire to the scholar.
This is the beverage of the friends of God; it gives health to those in its service who strive after wisdom.Prepared from the simple shell of the berry, it has the odor of musk and the color of ink.
The intelligent man who empties these cups of foaming coffee, he alone knows truth.May God deprive of this drink the foolish man who condemns it with incurable obstinacy.
Coffee is our gold. Wherever it is served, one enjoys the society of the noblest and most generous men.O drink! As harmless as pure milk, which differs from it only in its blackness...
Delicious beverage, its color is the seal of its purity.
Source: by Abd-al-Kâdir ibn Mohammad al Ansâri al Jazari al Hanbali [1587 AD; webarchive]
// cc @martijn@lemmy.world ; @dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org ; @Xariphon@kbin.social
How many of y'all donating to the server? If you use FOSS, what about each of those services?
No? Then frankly I don't care. It's a banner image that was probably made locally on a 3080 that used the equivalent of 5 minutes or less of Baldurs Gate 3 to generate, and isn't being used for profit.
Now, if the owner of c/coffee WAS a business, fuck them. But they aren't. Paying for an image when they already are paying server costs is also inconsiderate.
Now if one of you like OP wants to graciously donate an image, either bought or made yourself, go ahead. You op talk the talk but can you walk the walk? Surely people here spend more than usual on coffee can afford a couple images to donate to the instance, instead of throwing out a ridiculous pompous linguistic embellishment. Could have been a lot more productive to have contacted the mods and offered rather than an articulate word vomit. Until you do though, you're still no different than the people who say they would do something but haven't. This is why FOSS creators etc burn out. If promises could pay bills...
Apologies, but have you even read the messages, and comments, including?:
- https://lemmy.world/comment/24355304;
- https://lemmy.world/comment/24344381;
Of course! I would sure take pictures for free for the so unmeasurably important as some whole Community header, banner, etc.
But you haven't. Talk is free electricity isn't.
I've seen too many in the FOSS and free public service community burn out because it's constant asks or talks but too many rare do's.
If you couldn't take a picture, why did you assume the creators could? They couldn't, so they used the next best option to give something to a community they already donate for free.
You know what could have been a better post then this? A contest for people to create banners etc to donate to the community.
Instead it's just the usual pissing and moaning about AI use that contributed nothing.
Well, not the usual - full of much more contrived loquacious wording than normal.
As I see it, they have multiple options that don't require any effort:
There's no valid reason to use an unethical AI to create some poorly created image.
And there's no reason for you to behave with such poor manners either. It's better to either keep quiet if you don't have anything positive or constrictive to come with, or preferably, be a positive person that lead with good examples.
1: depending how they set things up, it could be the installer asked for something, in a very specific banner size.
2: they probably didn't think most people would care enough about a banner image. Which yeah, it's kinda not the most priority thing. Especially if they manage more than this community. No one in the community asked to run a contest, or offered art either, and it's not like you can just ask a stranger since not everyone can make one. It's c/coffee not c/art. This likely slipped past their mind to put further effort into it.
3: Sizing would be an issue. Although unsplash has many images, it doesn't have many banner sized images. Then narrowing it down to coffee related ones and it's going to be even less.
Actually, just checked, and their search filters do not have something for banner sized images, but what's funnier is it you're going the absolutist route on AI, you shouldn't use unsplash either, since the first thing they advertise personally themselves is AI (I have uBlock on so this is the site choosing this ad itself)
Lastly, AI ethics are subjective. If you're running an open source model on your own hardware for non-profit reasons, I don't see that as unethical. You're not using a ton of electricity in that case, you're not making any money on what's produced, and you're not supporting a corporation.
It's like the difference between using the open source AI model on Home Assistant to control your lights vs Amazon's Alexa.
I am sorry, but it stills seems you haven't read both the messages referenced at:
- https://lemmy.world/comment/24364958
I am sorry to know that...
Please stay safe!
Oh wow, a bunch of comments that say they would but haven't. Yeah, I read the "I would do that" comments already, but it seems you didn't get the point of being proactive rather than passive.
Congrats on making my point.
You are such a loser it's incredible.
I regret that I can only stab the down arrow once on this worthless comment before blocking your future shit.
Oh no! I care so much what you think! What will I ever do??? How would I ever recover from this well thought out response!
At least op had a response, as bad as it was.
Exactly what a loser would say.
It's amazing how much effort people will put into composing their blather and do nothing whatsoever to actually support what they're crying for somebody else to do. I think the banner is fine. People who turn an inconsequential image into an issue so they can pat themselves on the back for being social justice crusaders are just worthless jerkoffs.