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squidsoup··on Pharo 14
Learning vim motions is legitimately amazing, and well worth the effort, even if you never use vim itself.
squidsoup··on It's still ok to enjoy programming
you clearly don't know what art is either.
squidsoup··on It's still ok to enjoy programming
No, you don't understand what art is. Art emerges from a process. If you have no process, you can't make art. An idea, or a prompt, is not a process.
squidsoup··on 'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey
Well, not a good analogy really, most of the old masters used cameras regularly, and there's a history of camera use for painting that extends from the northern renaissance to modernity.
squidsoup··on FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks
.si domain grift, probably.
squidsoup··on A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs
The environment the coffee is served in is a significant part of the business.
squidsoup··on C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality
Isn't film photography verifiable with a physical negative? i.e. you could verify a digital reproduction of the analog photo by comparing the digital image with the negative. Tedious, but sound?
squidsoup··on German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses
That doesn't change the fact that its an iconic American brand, directly associated with American culture and design.
squidsoup··on German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses
Heads should be rolling at Ray-Ban, they've permanently tarnished an iconic American brand by aligning themselves with big tech.
squidsoup··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
The majority of artists abhor AI, this is a particularly bad example.
squidsoup··on Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
> I just want cool pictures hanging on my wall.

That's decoration, not art.

> Now every person can make satisfying music. It’s incredible and amazing and should be celebrated because suddenly everyone can participate.

No one should be celebrating the theft of music from artists. Everyone can participate in making music today just as they always have throughout human history - learn to sing or play an instrument.

squidsoup··on An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan
Greek mythology is full of sex, and the Odyssey is no exception.
squidsoup··on An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan
> "The Odyssey features his usual combination of grandiosity and superficiality".

A pretty succinct summation of Nolan as a filmmaker.

squidsoup··on Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users
It's a pity that Apple neglects its creative apps. I've been working on a video project using Motion recently, and while not as capable as After Effects, it's pretty serviceable and with some love could be excellent.
squidsoup··on Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco
Very impressive. How are you managing to produce such a clean model without artifacts?
squidsoup··on $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
Nonsense. Ray Harryhausen's work today is still incredible, by any standard.
squidsoup··on $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
Please stop using AI for creative work. This is utterly abysmal.
squidsoup··on I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
> That's because sandboxing is quite hard

colima makes it pretty easy, on macOS and linux at any rate.

https://colima.run

squidsoup··on GPT‑Live
> Dammit! I live in Europe and the cyber truck isn't even available here..

Europeans are notorious for their good taste.

squidsoup··on Programmers need to start meditating
The thing about meditation is, if you're doing it, there is no "you" that it is either good or bad for.
squidsoup··on Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society
> Optimism in general is out of fashion, and pessimism is pervasive.

Hardly surprising given we are not collectively making sufficient change to avert climate disaster. There’s no negative bias or spin there - the majority of climate scientists agree that we’ve passed the tipping point.

squidsoup··on Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society
> It's actually not so hard for me to just not take part in social media

Unfortunately that’s not quite as easy for people in creative professions that must now use social media to promote themselves and their work.

squidsoup··on Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public
OpenStack already exists
squidsoup··on Travel Locally, Where You Are
Photography also works, or hell you can even photograph birds.
squidsoup··on Travel locally, where you are
What you're describing is really why the Backrooms is resonating with the kids today - the homogeneity of an environment and culture devoured by capitalism.
squidsoup··on Why are there so many canines in fine art?
> That the dogs are just about always subordinates and subservient makes the relationship easier to work

You've clearly never lived with a border collie.

squidsoup··on A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center
It is much more than that, egalitarianism is fundamental to French culture.
squidsoup··on Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents
I guess software licenses are meaningless now since anyone can decide their llm clone is not derivative.
squidsoup··on EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
Yes, there’s a huge market in the UK, Australia and New Zealand for low quality tea.
squidsoup··on EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
India, China and Japan are the largest markets for quality whole leaf tea. Tea bags contain fannings and dust, the lowest quality byproducts of tea production. Try a single estate TGFOP and you’ll never want to drink tea from a bag again.

Chinese tea is again a whole different world from Indian tea, and has a much broader spectrum of complexity. You could spend a lifetime learning about Chinese tea.

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