Twitter is trash, on the basis that it tries to create "engagement" as much as possible. Any engagement. So it'll force a bunch of hot topics and rage fuel down your throat.
However, as an artist, I kind of need a platform like Twitter. Thankfully there are alternatives. I stopped using twitter quite a while ago now.
Yeah, exactly. Not everything needs to be experienced. Not experiencing something doesn't mean being ignorant of its consequences.
I'll take it. Thank you.
It's absolutely the format. The old rich people just have the incentive to drag everyone into it, to make it something to get "hooked" on. But the format itself is already cancerous.
Cultural osmosis.
Just because I never installed TikTok or Snapchat, doesn't mean I've never seen or heard anything from it. Snapchat used to be big, TikTok is even bigger right now, it's completely impossible to actually avoid seeing anything from it. And then there's YouTube with their shorts.
Yes, and it will still be brainrot.
My attention span is just fine. I don't need to see it ruined by short format nonsense with about as much intellectual value as the nutritional value of a McDonald's cheeseburger.
I never installed TikTok or Snapchat on my phone, not because I had privacy concerns, but because I hate everything about the format.
This is the reason why I don't want to go to pools anymore.
No, Americans like fractions. You should give that measure in fractions of a parsec.
And he got rejected from art school. No wonder he was such a miserable twat.
The one you find while treasure hunting runs better anyway.
Tell that to the furries. Every furry I know that has a VRChat avatar feels more at home with a VR headset strapped to their face.
I certainly do lot miss the days when I'd go onto a website covered in ads for cheap, garbage MMOs... And then suddenly hear random music really fucking loudly. Scrambling to figure out where it's coming from I'd find 4 or 5 smaller windows has opened up behind my main browser window.
You mean all they'll know is my email? Not really that drastic...
Yes, but this time they recently showed off a whole hour of gameplay from the start of SQ42... Which mostly consisted of cutscenes.
What sets it apart is that on Bluesky you can create your own algorithm. You can also share this algorithm, if you want, so others can subscribe to it. This means you see only what you want to see, and not what some corporate algorithm wants to see to maximise some kind of engagement.
Moreover, Bluesky is also its own federation. There aren't many who choose to do so, but you can connect to Bluesky using your own domain, which you have complet control over.
I dunno. I'd say it's more important to see what exactly he's doing and what Bluesky is.
Right now Bluesky is really good. So until it turns bad I'm sticking to it.
Collecting information, on the context of third parties. Obviously they have information, otherwise the whole system wouldn't work.
How could a disruptor weapon feasibly work?
First a definition for this question, because there are many kinds of sci-fi out there and they sometimes liberally use cool sounding words without explaining them:
A disruptor is a kind of weapon that weakens, or "disrupts", either material bonds (breaking a material into molecules), molecular bonds (breaking a molecule into atoms), or atomic bonds (breaking an atomic nucleus into protons, netrons, and free electrons. Almost like instantly turning into plasma).
Temperature can do these things, but the idea behind a disruptor, specifically, is that it happens through some kind of catalyst, rather than brute-forcing with insane amounts of heat.
Would such a weapon physically be possible (even if we don't know how to make them just yet)?
How would a target realistically behave when hit by a disruptor?
Is it possible to access hardware RGB controls of connected USB devices?
So, I have a Steelseries M800 keyboard and a Corsair mouse. Unfortunately neither of them are supported by Open RGB, and so I'm stuck with my RGB making rainbows.
Well, sort of. My keyboard still has the configuration it had from when I still used Windows over 2 years ago. But my mouse does not.
I use an XP Pen tablet for making art, and the official driver from XP Pen doesn't come with any options to adjust and calibrate the screen's colours, but I managed to figure out how to access these hardware settings through command line. Now this has me wondering if it's possible to do the same for my keyboard and mouse.
Is there a Linux drawing tablet, or a tablet Linux can be installed on?
I have a 2nd generation XP Pen Artist 13. It's a great tablet and I've managed to make it work with my Steam Deck too.
But...
It's basically an external monitor with pressure sensitive surface, so still less portable than an actual stand alone table. So I'm wondering if there is a tablet with a pressure sensitive screen and battery free pen that either comes with Linux or can install Linux on.
The programs I use for making art are Krita, Gimp, and Blender 3D.
Why are honeybee stingers barbed?
There are many other bee species that can sting Humans and survive, but the European honeybee has a barbed stinger, so it cannot remove the stinger once it's stung. In attempting to remove the stinger the bee will rupture its lower abdomen and then die.
Why? What is the evolutionary advantage to that?
Looking for music similar to the album Dreaming by The Art of Noise
Recently discovered The Art of Noise by looking up Max Headroom. Found a bunch of tracks I like that fit well with my already existing Spotify playlists.
However, I want to find more music like three of the dance tracks on the album Dreaming. specifically like the tracks "Colour Red", "Colour Maroon", and "Colour White".
Any recommended tracks/albums/artists?