Parienve @Parienve@qoto.org

Dune got it wrong: cynicism, not fear, is the true mind-killer.

At least fear can motivate you to do something. Even if it's the wrong thing, you might learn from it.

Cynicism is the anti-motivator. It says hope is a lie, trying is useless. It says good isn't worth looking for.

I'm revamping "Good Tech Things" to be a source of anti-cynicism in tech: a place to celebrate the joyful, helpful, and just plain fun things people are building with technology.

Check it out:
https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/cynicism-is-the-mind-killer

Support your #library. Even if you don't borrow anything:
- Stop in and get a card, to help their numbers
- See what services they offer. You might even need one.
- See what groups and events they might be hosting
- See what else they have to lend, other than just books

#publiclibraries
#libraries
#publiclibrary

Want to read some good news?
Check out this story about students at an University in Vilnius🇱🇹, that were able to stop an attempt to use only proprietary two factor identification methods 👏🏽

☑️https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230418-01.html

#SoftwareFreedom #PMPC #freesoftwarealternatives

"Meta will start collecting “anonymized” data about Quest headset usage

Info on hand/eye tracking, "physical environment," and more could be included"

Here we go again~ ​

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/02/meta-will-start-collecting-anonymized-data-about-quest-headset-usage/

#vr #ar #virtualreality #augmentedreality #facebook #privacy

Introducing usernames and phone number privacy on Signal!

We’re making it possible for people to connect with each other without having to share phone numbers. Now launching to beta users, available for everyone soon.

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames

I found yesterday that hundreds of 2D Artist Magazine where uploaded to the Internet Archive, and I really enjoy browsing them for the quality tutorials, interviews and amazing artist portfolios. I thought some of you here might like it as well:
https://archive.org/details/2dartistmagazine

#archives #internetarchive #digitalpainting #MastoArt #computergraphics

Dear writers: Delete your Findaway Voices account NOW - Michael Lucas:
https://mwl.io/archives/23448

Finally hit publish on a draft I've been working on for a while now

"I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind."

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/copilot

Does anyone know Arc Search's user agent so we can block it?

"Miyazaki absolutely eviscerating an AI art demonstration" is my new standard for measuring how badly my presentation went

Dirty C programmer.

Naming my new AI startup DemiUrge™

PC Gamer shows how grim things are.

Reposting this because frankly, it's some of the best writing I've done in a while, and I'm damn proud of it.

There's nothing a user interface designer loathes more than complexity. Every design—at least, every modern design—seeks to minimize clicks, icons, visual noise. What if instead of a button, we had a borderless icon? What if instead of navigation controls, we used gestures?

And what if—hear me out—instead of search results, we had language model-distilled text delivered to you, hot and fresh?

taggart-tech.com/interfaces

OK, poll time, and this one is a simple one (please share so I can get a decent sample). What is your main OS?

I've been playing around with using a message bus system in #love2d to loosely couple modules.

One of the weaknesses of love is that its built in message passing feature (handlers) require modules to know about each other. This makes it difficult to to reuse components between games.

"Pixelosis"
Since #genuary4 prompt is "pixels" the best way to show them is by serious upscaling of sprites. Here's a #winter Outrun-like #tweetcart

#genuary4 #genuary #pico8 #generative #codeart #sizecoding #pixelart

for i=0,999do
x=rnd(i/40)-i/90c=3if(i>799)x/=9c=1
sset(x+9,i/30,c+i%4)end::_::?"\^1\^cc\^!5f11█░⬇️3⬅️"
for i=2,63do line(0,i+64,127,i+64,(28/i+t())%2+6)end
j=t()*4for k=40,1,-1do
i=k-j%1x=(cos((k+j\1)/9)+.3)*4^6z=i*9+9s=600/z
sspr(0,0,32,40,x/z+64-2*s,64-3*s,4*s,6*s)end
goto _

We really, really don’t want to have to make a printer, but wow.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/hp-ceo-blocking-third-party-ink-from-printers-fights-viruses/

TikTok is adding a feature that will make every video shopping by using AI to recognize objects and allow you to shop for similar things on TikTok Shop.

This will further the current sense that every TikTok video is now trying to sell you something.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-29/tiktok-tests-feature-that-could-make-all-videos-shoppable

“We obtain three decades of computer vision research papers and downstream patents (more than 20,000 documents) and present a rich qualitative and quantitative analysis. This analysis exposes the nature and extent of the Surveillance AI pipeline, its institutional roots and evolution, and ongoing patterns of obfuscation.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15084