Neocities

since i wanted to put this on my site but obviously can't, i took part in a collaborative cover for tsumiki's culture for it's second anniversary! the song means a lot to me. i illustrated for miku and everyone i worked with was simply amazing, so check it out when you can: https://youtu.be/nPL03Al-qgM?si=A4hJ-qHpBFaymp5g

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duskspirals updated DUSKSPIRALS

6 months ago

DUSKSPIRALS

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mikufan3939

6 months ago

i'm starting my moving process at nekoweb https://mikufan3939.nekoweb.org/. i haven't added anything more then what was on my neocities site besides edits about my move. i'll be changing urls for my webrings and fanlistings when possible. if anyone is moving their hosts, let me know and i'll update the urls on my button wall when i can

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crtstatic 6 months ago

i'll update your link later, but i have the same username on NW!

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rhodonite 6 months ago

question, is there a specific reason lots of people are moving over there other than it having nice benefits :? I'm considering it but i feel like sending everything over there would be somewhat of a hassle for me lol

mikufan3939 6 months ago

tldr kyle drake made a blog post praising AI that a lot of people were uncomfortable with (including myself) and as such i don't really want to keep my site here anymore. i'll keep up with people who do stay but i'm simply not comfortable here personally

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birdwrongs 6 months ago

oh woof.

adilene updated VIRTUAL DIVA

6 months ago

not_found.html

pages/songs.html

VIRTUAL DIVA

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wastelandutau

6 months ago

Major site maintance should be done now. Took me longer than I expected mostly from being busy IRL. Next step is doing some reorganizing + finishing the tutorial pages.

wastelandutau updated Wasteland UTAU

6 months ago

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adilene

6 months ago

so confused over the reaction to a blog post made over a year ago that doesn't affect neocities in the slightest whilst y'all continue using sites like twitter and tumblr which are owned by infinitely worse people...

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adilene 6 months ago

i hate genai too and i understand why people are leaving over this, but... site owners are always going to have opinions you don't agree with. it is up to y'all over whether or not you want to continue using the site, but maybe keep this same energy for other sites like twitter and tumblr as well.

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adilene 6 months ago

as for me, i'll continue with neocities. if there is ever any sign of genai being implemented, then i'll dip too. for now, i don't think neocities will be affected and thus i'll stay.

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adilene 6 months ago

also, i recommend you guys implement a robots.txt file to prevent any ai bots from scrapping your site! ^_^

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pip-pepping 6 months ago

On robots.txt: I went looking around and it looks like this page has a nice list of sites to block https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt

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smolhedgie 6 months ago

(sorry about that; deleted my irrelevant comments)

adilene 6 months ago

@pip-pepping thanks for the link! i could have sworn i had a robots.txt for this site but it seems i don't... i'll be adding it right away! ^_^

mikufan3939

6 months ago

ok. site is inaccessible until further notice. i'm not happy staying on a host regardless if he intends to bring genAI to neocities or not, his personal statement is clear enough for me to feel uncomfortable and not want to express myself. you can read more on my site

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visualculture 6 months ago

ngl it's kinda funny that a lot of your arguments against AI could also be made against hatsune miku xD

mikufan3939 6 months ago

i really don't appreciate this comment, it isn't funny at all. i have my thoughts on the matter you brought up but it isn't relevant to this discussion at hand, so simply: no. they aren't on the same level. i don't know how you saw my writing about how AI has affected my life and self esteem as an artist and you found that funny. fuck you

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crtstatic 6 months ago

@visualculture Vocaloid isn't AI. Miku isn't AI. FFS I'm begging people to please do their research about how Vocaloid works

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visualculture 6 months ago

@crtstatic i know it's not AI. but it's an "easy way out" for recording vocals, replacing real people who spend lots of time training to be good at singing

crtstatic 6 months ago

ok to clarify because I forgot it: Vocaloid isn't gen AI, because V6 does technically use a type of AI. I forgot to mention that part.

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crtstatic 6 months ago

@visualculture it's not even an "easy way out". Vocaloid requires literal hours of tuning and skill-crafting. It's not very user-friendly a lot of times, and it's not as easy as it may seem. It's a dreadful software to use sometimes.

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mikufan3939 6 months ago

@visualculture again, i don't know why you attached this random thought to my very personal writing about how i feel about AI as an artist that relies on it for income. it isn't an easy way out if it's the most accessible option to access a singer, pirated or otherwise. it has rarely been an easy way out if the culture itself revolves around the inherent love of the character and the medium

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mikufan3939 6 months ago

even so, the vocaloid sense of relying on a vocalist compared to, say, someone using an AI voice generator is insanely different. you put in the effort to shape the sound, keys, pitching, and other parameters however you wish as you need, similar to working with a typical piano synthesizer. the changing of a voicebank is more similar to a plugin then it is to generating a voice

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visualculture 6 months ago

@mikufan3939 and for a lot of people AI is the most accessible option to access an artist :shrug: anyway i wasn't trying to upset you. just thought it was an interesting similarity

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midsummerjay virtualobserver

6 months ago

hey!! just wanted to say i found a way to make your guestbook work on free sites despite neocities' new policy. it is a GREAT widget and i wanted to thank you so much for sharing it!!

virtualobserver 6 months ago

we are still on hiatus but i just happened to notice this comment and i'll have to check out what you did later! i'm not maintaining the comment widget anymore but i'd be willing to dust it off for an update for this reason

mikufan3939

6 months ago

Hey what's this i'm hearing about kyle supporting ai. i don't keep up with him

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mikufan3939 6 months ago

can anyone relay this in full to me i have no idea what's going on and there's a lot of differing messages i'm seeing

mikufan3939 6 months ago

i can't really do anything significant while still feeling unwell but depending on what i find about this i may move hosts

seashrine 6 months ago

hey hope you're doing ok after the news, hope i'll be able to catch ya on nekoweb if you're moving hosts!

mikufan3939 6 months ago

@seashrine i'll be okay, just frustrated since i'm sick and can't do too much about it. it really did hurt to read but i'll still keep up with sites i like here

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disasterpiece updated disasterpiece

6 months ago

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maschinensturmer updated 人間失格の部屋 -No Longer Human's Room-

6 months ago

人間失格の部屋 -No Longer Human's Room-

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amari-ga-shin-da maschinensturmer

6 months ago

フォローで本当にありがとうございました！I'm absolutely in love with your site, it reminds me so much of all of the old fc2 blogs and NND channels I used to visit (and still do!) Honestly, I miss the old vocaloid fandom, so seeing your website is like seeing an old friend (even though I still frequent old songs XD) Your layout is also really neat too! In the future, I hope to get inspired by both your site and old sozai sites :D Thanks!

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mikufan3939

6 months ago

i got sick.

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reclaimedbytheocean 6 months ago

i hope u feel better soon :(

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lhfm 6 months ago

get well soon!

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adilene updated VIRTUAL DIVA

6 months ago

pages/shrines/fishtank.html

pages/sitemap.html

pages/shrines.html

pages/credits.html

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adilene 6 months ago

fish tank shrineeeeee it's not done yet i still got figure out why the fish positions load weird sometimes... but it's still good enough to show to y'all ^_^

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adilene 6 months ago

shoutouts brysia and shubibubi on itch.io for tha pixel art <3

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wastelandutau updated Wasteland UTAU

6 months ago

Wasteland UTAU

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1dkreally

6 months ago

uuuurgh.... ive forgotten how grid works like entirely < guy who needs to make a page from scratch in grid

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1dkreally

6 months ago

almost all of my artwork now has dates attached, i just need to find a couple more via my procreate history, artshield them, then upload em here :3

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1dkreally 6 months ago

got all the dates! im just gonna upload em, theyve all been online since at LEAST 2023 and ive heard artshield does fuck all anyways, ill probably just use more thorough watermarking in the future

1dkreally 6 months ago

just remembered i need to do a LOT of resizing for thumbnails omfg...

1dkreally 6 months ago

RAHHHHHH SHIT QUALITY IMAGES RAHHHHJDGFHBJHBJDFHBJHBJ

maschinensturmer updated 人間失格の部屋 -No Longer Human's Room-

6 months ago

chakkysworld updated chakkysworld

6 months ago