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rasterweb

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Maker / Designer / Creative; electronics, digital fabrication, art, photo, video, printmaker, noise, cats, physical computing, USB, MIDI, MKE, progressive, searchable… I've been blogging since 1997, what!? See rasterweb.net and peteprodoehl.com ❤️ Just my toots? Sure! https://justmytoots.com/@rasterweb@mastodon.social

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rasterweb, to random
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I think people laugh at Elon Musk more than they laugh at Jerry Seinfeld nowadays…

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It’s that time of year where you bust your ass working outside on the weekends around the yard, and then you can’t wait to get back to work Monday because it’s less strenuous…

rasterweb, to Cats
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Cats in a Tent! 🐈 ⛺️

rasterweb, to random
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I saw the film “Wildcat” today, which is about Flannery O’Connor, and it was really good!

rasterweb, to random
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Caring for my neighbor cat tonight…

ottaross, to fun
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Picked up a #fun thing! A kids' instant camera that prints on thermal paper.

Had seen them around and was intrigued. With some community emerging on the #Fedi I figured it was worth jumping in!

#cameras #thermalpaper #instantCamera

rasterweb,
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@ottaross Is that one 25 megapixel!?

rasterweb, to MountainBiking
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Another boring story but I do mention radicalization so that's interesting...

➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2024/05/18/hardware-store-bike-ride/

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Hardware companies love AI because it means more sales of "faster and more powerful" hardware, which means more money for them.

Software companies love AI because it means you'll buy the new version, or re-up your subscription...

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rasterweb,
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Does the AI run on local hardware or the cloud? Maybe both? Either way I'm sure every large company will capture any AI-output from your software for "training" but I get that developers could find that data useful to make better software... but will that happen?

I wonder if open source software will be the last bastion of freedom against AI "infecting" all of our software.

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rasterweb,
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@fistfulofdave Interesting. I recently bought a 2014 Mac mini for a specific use in my shop (doing shipping labels) and it is totally fine.

Granted, I'm not doing any heavy processing on it, but the industry always needs to push newer and faster because they chase profits, not good.

rasterweb,
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@fistfulofdave I recently replaced the battery on my four year old iPhone because I didn't want to upgrade. The battery was the only issue I had, and besides that, it works fine for what I need... but of course, Apple has to sell more iPhones.

rasterweb,
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@kancept Good to hear. I guess I am more concerned about companies like Adobe and Microsoft baking it into every single product they have, and not giving users the option to disable it.

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Do people understand the impact ChatGPT can have on how we control our software? No more hunting through menus among a thousand options to figure out how to do something. Just use natural human language. The UIs we've had to design and live with will be a thing of the past. Yet no one seems to be talking about this.

rasterweb,
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@davew Being able to search in an application’s settings/preferences has been a huge improvement over digging, but I’m still pretty skeptical on AI for that.

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You know what? It really is a futuristic modern world where things aren’t what they seem…

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If you're a web nerd who has worked in food service maybe this will be amusing?

➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2011/02/17/server-errors/

rasterweb, to random
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You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the Internet, the Internet!

rasterweb, to random
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I've always used dashes like this:

Thing - Other Thing

But some people use them like this:

Thing- Other Thing

And I have no idea why... The space on both sides of the ' - ' makes sense to me, but why do people jam it onto the end of the word?

rasterweb,
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@iaintshootinmis If you're up-to-date on the usage... yes!

rasterweb,
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@c20d It should be caught during proofing then, before publishing, right?

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Me: I'm sorry.

Wife: You're just sorry you got caught!

Me: Yes, and...?

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Someone told me that Chat-GPT saved them hours of work...

My response: If Chat-GPT is saving you hours, are you now able to work less hours and instead spend that time doing other things? That should be the primary goal of AI... Give humans more time to do as they please, not just cram even more work into the same amount of hours.

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Sixteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1

It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.

https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg

Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.

rasterweb,
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@evan I really wish I had stuck with it the whole time! Here are some of my posts from 2008.

➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/tag/identica/

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New sketch! It's the classic Apple ]+, the first computer my family ever had... 40+ years ago I got my start with programming and computer graphics on one of these.

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[Sketch of an Apple ]+ done in Procreate on an iPad.
[Sketch of an Apple ]+ done in Procreate on an iPad.

rasterweb, to random
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When I look at a dog it's like "Hello! Hello! Please love me! Please pay attention to me!"

And when I look at a cat it's like "What the fuck are you looking at!? Feed me."

I prefer cats.

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