Mastodawn

"FOSS maintainers are unpaid and don't have the resources to manage large open source projects, they _have_ to use AI to get anything done."

I've seen this take a couple of times in recent weeks, and I've got two things to say about it:

1. We've been able to manage large open source projects for decades in the past, without LLMs.

2. Ever thought about how there may be a connection between "FOSS is unpaid" and capitalism producing trillion-dollar AI companies and more and more billionaires?

ChrRaz Mar 11

Mark Dominus Mar 9

How many ways are there to tile a 2×2n rectangle with n Tetris tiles?

The answer turns out to be the square of the n'th #Fibonacci number: 1, 1, 4, 9, 25, 64, 169, …

https://shreevatsa.net/post/tetris-tilings-fibonacci/ by @svat

ChrRaz Mar 7

SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst Mar 6

Gode folk i Fediverset,
Vi har ladet os fortælle, at der findes et sted på det sociale web, hvor mennesker bestemmer mere end algoritmer. Det lyder som alletiders sted at plante et flag for kunsten og for den store, fælles danske kunstsamling 🚩 
Vi er lige landet og føler os nye i trafikken. Til gengæld er vi meget motiverede til at lære nyt og klar til at tale kunst ved mindste anledning 😀
Så langt så godt. Planen er at fortælle historier fra museet (både KBH og Thy) og samlingen. Alle forslag, kommentarer, og undrende spørgsmål er yderst velkomne. Tak fordi du læser dette, og vi glæder os til at møde dig. Her føles allerede rart 🤗

ChrRaz Mar 7

Jade Mar 6

ChrRaz Feb 25

Juan Carlos Muñoz Feb 25

I'm so tired of the whole " #AI has democratised #art " narrative. Cheap or even free creative tools and learning resources have existed for decades. Not wanting to become good at something is not the same as not having the resources to do it.

Speaking of resources, something AI is excelling at is increasing the price of computers by hoarding RAM and disk space, thus making things harder for less privileged creative folks. How very democratic.

ChrRaz Feb 25

Rebane Feb 25

i personally think a programming language doesn't need to be able to run complex logic to be one, but it's really difficult to convince people of that so it's just easier to make it run x86 assembly instead

ChrRaz Feb 25

Modern #Microsoft and #Windows makes me so angry. With every automatic, mandatory update I have to guide my poor grandmother through the process of either setting up yet more Microsoft services and backups and bullshit or jumping through hoops to not do so. All the while, I can't quite explain to her what choice she is making and what these services are.
It's infuriating.

ChrRaz Feb 25

Anton Palmqvist Feb 24

The full library with all materials, cameras, and lightsources from https://physicallybased.info/ can now be downloaded in one .zip-file. It’s available as a Release on Github, so if you Star the repository, each new update will also show up in your feed 👍 Neat!

https://github.com/AntonPalmqvist/physically-based-api/releases

Physically Based - The PBR values database

A database of physically based values for CG artists

Physically Based

ChrRaz Feb 20

Rebane Feb 19

self-hosting my S3 bucket the right way

ChrRaz Feb 18

geekysteven Feb 18

"Al is here to stay"

well ok, but me complaining about Al is also here to stay