shibacomputer

shibacomputer, 2 months ago to random

lol

shibacomputer, 3 months ago to Dog

sun #dog

shibacomputer, 4 months ago to random

lmao Tim Cook absolutely held off for as long as possible to be seen in public with this thing

shibacomputer, 5 months ago to random

At this point CES is basically a red carpet event where landfill-bound objects are treated as celebrities and endlessly photographed.

It's like the Oscars, but where the stars are judged on a speculative promised future that will never come.

The largest consumer e-waste event on the planet. A religious event for a sundowning industry.

A robot on the CES 2024 showroom floor. This robot has a humanoid design with a screen for a face, which displays a friendly, cartoonish pair of eyes. Below the screen, the body of the robot is white and rounded, with what appear to be speakers and sensors integrated into it. There's a name tag or logo that says "ORO," the name of the robot or the company that makes it.
A small, spherical, yellow robot next to a smartphone displaying text messages. This robot is called Ballie, and it is a home assistant designed to check up on family members and pets in the home. It has a simple design with a band of black across its middle. In the marketing image it is communicating via text message with someone named Amy, referring to activities like patrolling and checking up on a person or pet named Copper.
A car interior focusing on a futuristic dashboard display. The screen reads "MB.OS 1," suggesting it's a new operating system for the car. The display shows a scenic image of a mountain landscape and a prompt that says "A PREVIEW OF THE FUTURE." The vehicle's interior has a sleek design with ambient blue lighting and a digital instrument cluster.

shibacomputer, 5 months ago to random

shibacomputer, 6 months ago to random

Just discovered Crocotile 3D, a low-poly tile-based 3D modelling tool and now I want to just spend all week messing with it 😅
https://crocotile3d.com/

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shibacomputer, 6 months ago to random

shibacomputer, 6 months ago to random

NEW FROM NDC

TOO LATE FOR THE EARTH, TOO SOON FOR THE STARS

a new essay that documents the appeal of open world video games to the 'middle children of history' – people born at a time of deep uncertainty, climate change and shrinking personal opportunities. Originally written for Ursula Magazine, this essay explores the loss experienced by a curious generation and the powerful Para-Real affect of games that simulate worlds.

https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/too-late-for-the-earth-too-soon-for-the-stars/

shibacomputer, 6 months ago to berlin

Hello #Berlin friends, does anyone have a #Pantone colour swatch book I could borrow for a few days for a #design project? Know where I could find one? DM me or email cade@newdesigncongress.org
Thank you!

Hallo #Berlin! Ich möchte mir ein #Pantone Farbfächer-Buch für ein #Design-Projekt ausleihen. Wo kann ich eines finden? DM mich oder E-Mail cade@newdesigncongress.org
Vielen Dank!

shibacomputer, 6 months ago to random

shibacomputer, 7 months ago to random

the computer cannot be decolonised.

shibacomputer, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to Korean

EDIT: Thank you everyone, I found help!!!

Hey fediverse please help! I'm looking for a #Korean and #English speaking #interpreter for some short immediate work on an art project interview series. Pays well, and very short requirements, and not very involved. but will need to start pretty soon!!
It's for the Para Real project at New Design Congress https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/the-para-real-manifesto

Is this you? Do you know someone? Please get in touch asap - hello@newdesigncongress.org

BOOSTS APPRECIATED!!

thunderbird, 8 months ago to Podcast

The Thunderbird team is back from Mozilla’s All-Hands event, and we’re overwhelmed in the most positive way.

Ryan, Jason, and Alex talk about how Mozilla is building AI tools for the good of humanity, and how our own perception of AI has changed. Plus, the problem with the “hey Mozilla, just build a browser” argument.

Listen to Episode 4 here:

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/09/thundercast-podcast-4-will-the-real-mozilla-please-stand-up/

#podcast #Mozilla #Thunderbird #AI

shibacomputer, 9 months ago to random

Watching the mainstream tech press suddenly grapple with such things as, "tech billionaires lie" because their favourite social media platform is now dogshit in ways they can no longer ignore, and "companies focus on their own self-interests" because their latest binge-addicted series has been cancelled by an ad-infested premium streaming service is stunning Adam Curtis-level absurdism. https://www.theverge.com/23831904/streaming-wars-price-hikes-disney-plus-hbo-max-hulu

shibacomputer, 10 months ago to random

vibing

shibacomputer, 10 months ago to random

The crypto-pilling of the EU political and academic classes and their subsequent absolute absence of critical analysis borders on fanaticism. It should be the subject of an investigation.

shibacomputer, 10 months ago to random

A prominent London gallery just released their first commissioned game on Steam, a largely inaccessible walking simulator with NFTs. It is barely played, and the reviews are universally negative.

Europe's art scene is obsessed with games, but never funds anyone who actually plays them or lives within gaming culture. From unserious Minecraft Exhibitions to these borderline Unity asset flips, it's appalling how boomer the art world is towards a medium that right now dwarfs all others. This sort of work should discredit these institutions.

From NDC's Para-Real Manifesto:

"The metaverse cohort delivers an ideological confusion that poisons the public imagination of what the present is — and what the future could be. This will take years to reverse. In embarking on this ill-fated conquest, Meta, Tencent, Epic Games, FTX, OpenSea and friends turned every supermarket chain, every Fortune 500, every non-profit, every state-based cultural program of soft power, every newsroom and podcaster, and every art gallery into the world’s most boring game designers cum faux Fintech expert. What William Gibson and Neal Stephenson failed to anticipate is the metaverse’s true horror: despite its colossal infrastructure costs, the metaverse is really fucking boring."

https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/the-para-real-manifesto

MOST HELPFUL REVIEWS N THE PAST 30 DAYS RS L . Not Recommended A BN 217 prodcts in account s .3 e - e This ‘game Is a companion piece to an exhibition by I and Is as textbook an example as can be found of artists attempting to create games while having absolutely no comprehension of how they are made, how they work, why people play them, or what elements about games have catapulted them into being the largest entertainment IR A criticism of the game's artistic merits and the messages its. creators Intend to convey would be pointless, as | did not tolerate this software long enough to form a comprehensive opinion. The technical fauits are so outrageous that It was completely insufferable: Hideous UI; appalling menu interface; broken and slippery geometry; VERY rudimentary sound design (generic Unreal Engine sound effect for jumping..?); the game runs like tar (ultra settings Tekken 7, but this attempt at the Avant Garde Is unsurvivable for my machine apparently); and it also commits the cardinal sin of being a walking simulator. Despite the alarming snippet about NFTs, it seems it's really Just talking about taking screenshots and uploading them either for other players to see, or for people to see in the gallery in Kensington. | certainly don't think this Is a scam game by any means, Just a well-intentioned but poorly executed art project. Was this review heptul (90 AR T Pt P 3

shibacomputer, 11 months ago to random

I can't believe how much reading #ePubs and #PDFs on computers sucks.

Every eInk reader, every iPad app, every library manager eats your content and hold it within its own shitty little ecosystem. Nothing plays nice.

Annotation support is a nightmare, leading to either useless vector-based drawing annotations rather than text highlighting (eg Remarkable and Supernote) or endless duplicates of your content after you annotate it (like every iOS app that uses iOS' horrendous app-based filesystem). Every PDF annotator has a major drawback, eg, an overcluttered interface (PDF Expert on iOS, Okular), broken export options (Xournal++, every iOS app) or simply just barebones annotation tools (GNOME PDF viewer, macOS Preview)

The least bad of all of these is Calibre, an app that arranges your books similar to a music library. But should you wish to annotate anything you read, Calibre will absolutely not support it without hacky disk-based syncing - something the dev explicitly discourages.

The only good app I've seen is Foliate, an incredible no-nonsense ePub reader that's literally better than any other book reader.

fj, 11 months ago to random

One of the things that really held me back from using Notion was the lack of end-to-end encryption. I'm really intrigued by #Anytype that seems to offer a lot of the things I'm interested in: end-to-end encryption, peer-to-peer syncing, open-source ...
Looks promising!
https://anytype.io

shibacomputer, 11 months ago to random

Hey @robin I'm still vibing over the Remarkable, if you get a moment, would you be open to trying either:

this remarkable x syncthing project https://github.com/evidlo/remarkable_syncthing

or straight up installing resilio sync and seeing if the systemd service starts in userspace?
https://help.resilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/206178924