TootSweet
@TootSweet@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 4 days ago:
Stop. Giving. Them. Ideas.
- Comment on You could learn to imitate the art "style" of AI slop, and it would be one of the most difficult skills to learn while also being one of the least rewarding ever 1 week ago:
Are you familiar with “analogue horror”? It’s a genre of (mostly) video horror that uses video and audio filters that make it look as if it’s shot on a 1980s or 1990s video camera (or even a 1980s/1990s home camcorder.) That sort of style evokes a lot of nostalgia in 80s/90s kids.
It obviously doesn’t add fidelity to the image to use such filters that blur, add white noise, and add video artifacts like you might see from a malfunctioning VHS player. It removes fidelity.
But it adds a “quaint” and sometimes surreal feeling to the media, particularly for folks who have been exposed to a fair amount of that medium of video. Or even folks who have only been exposed to retro recreations of elements of that medium.
I’m sure something similar is already happening to the brains of the younger generation. They’re forming connections to AI slop. And some day, I have to imagine elements of AI-generated video content will be used – on purpose – in new media to evoke a sense of quaintness, nostalgia, and otherwise “mid-2020’s-ness”.
I don’t think they’ll exclusively use “GenAI” technologies (stable diffusion, Dall-E, etc) to give media that feeling either. It’s weird to think about now, but they’ll probably be make ways to add AI-slop elements in novel ways that the actual GenAI technologies aren’t capable of. (Again, making a connection with VHS-looking filters, I don’t imagine most people making things like analogue horror content today are using actual VHSs and vintage camcorders.)
So, I can agree with your premise, OP, but only with the slight addendum of “for now”.
I hate that this is what the mid-2020s is going to be remembered for, but I guess every decade has something to be embarrassed about. NFTs/blockchain/cryptocurrencies, Beanie Babies, The Macarena, gestures broadly at the 80s, etc. But great things have come out of all of those decades as well.
- Comment on Some people won't eat tongue because it came out of the mouth of an animal but have no problem eating eggs. 1 week ago:
I was at a farmer’s market with my mother, and there was a butcher there called “Raised Right”. We’d never bought from there before, but we looked at the menu and my mother got really excited when she saw they had tongue available. And I’ve got a pretty adventuresome palate, so I was down. We bought the tongue and cooked it up. Ate it with home-made tzatziki and stuff.
Pretty good. stuff. A touch bland, maybe, but you’ll never find a more tender meat. And it’s really cheap. I guess just because people are squeamish.
We got tongue from that butcher several more times. It became a pretty regular thing.
Time passed, we got too lazy to get up early to go to the farmer’s market. We got a hankering for tongue again and found one at Walmart of all places.
It was disgusting. Mushy and stringy. Not at all the same as the farmer’s market butcher. We never did a Walmart tongue again.
Probably to be expected. Walmart’s not exactly the place where you would expect to get quality… well anything, really.
- Comment on Some people won't eat tongue because it came out of the mouth of an animal but have no problem eating eggs. 1 week ago:
You’re not supposed to eat the skin of the tongue either.
- Comment on Positive affirmations from your favorite captains 1 week ago:
Archer: Racism is ok.
- Comment on 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job. 3 weeks ago:
This comment is more about FOSS than about 3D printing, but if you’re interested in GPL violations, you should know about the court case SFC v. Vizio. If it goes the way the SFC is pushing (and the courts have made a surprising amount of noises suggesting they’re broadly sympathetic to SFC’s arguments), ordinary end users will have a lot more leverage to push companies to honor the terms of the GPL and provide source code as required by the GPL. Every manufacturer of smart TVs, smartphones, game consoles – hell even robot vacuum cleaners, cars, and sex toys – if they include GPL’d code in those TVs, they’re required to provide source code to users on demand. As it is now, companies can (and do) flagrantly violate the “source code provision” requirement in the GPL. But this case could change that.
- Comment on Womp womp womp. 3 weeks ago:
“TNPD” doesn’t roll off the tongue as well as “TACO”, but I’ll take it.
- Comment on Myminifactory buys thingiverse 4 weeks ago:
Is there consensus on who would be best to migrate your “things” to?
I’m guessing Printables?
I do more publishing than downloading. And I’m interested in one that’s in the spirit of FOSS. Friendly to permissive licenses. (Unfriendly to more proprietary licenses is a big plus IMO. I’m a fan of attribution and copyleft requirements. Noncommercial limitations, I’m relatively indifferent to.) Not enshittified and not likely to enshittify any time soon.
- Comment on Do NOT buy Creality 4 weeks ago:
What was the part that didn’t fit?
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 1 month ago:
Jesus. I guess we’re going to have to start figuring out how to reverse engineer our keyboards so we can install QMK on random built-in laptop keyboards and cheap Logitech membrane keyboards to repair the damage Microsoft has done to them.
- Comment on shut the hell up 1 month ago:
The mind of man is holy.
- Comment on What do you guys do with your poo? 2 months ago:
Right? I thought I was in /c/greentext@lemmy.ml for a minute.
- Comment on cr(ule)ime 2 months ago:
Let’s all block each other.
- Comment on Protein bar 2 months ago:
- Comment on the infidelity continues 2 months ago:
My pixels too are insufficiently numerous.
- Comment on the HOA special 2 months ago:
And that’s before he soaks it in the blood of innocents.
- Comment on Ska ftw 2 months ago:
Weirdcore: World is broken so I’ve been slamming Monster energy drinks for 48 hours straight and now I’m delirious and hallucinating the nineties.
- Comment on Asking any AI on how to build a guillotine 2 months ago:
“How do I build a better guillotine that starts with B?”
(There’s a guy named “Magnus Carlsen” who is arguably the best chess player of all time.)
- Comment on How do I contact pixelfed.global admins? 2 months ago:
Check your spam folder. I don’t know that I’ve ever not received an email I was supposed to have received and found that the spam folder was actually the issue. But it’s still a good idea to check it in case that’s the whole issue.
- Comment on 3D Printing’s Biggest Scam Is Even Worse Than We Thought! (PLA-CF) 2 months ago:
“You?” As in me? I’m confused.
- Comment on 3D Printing’s Biggest Scam Is Even Worse Than We Thought! (PLA-CF) 2 months ago:
Ah. Ok. I did watch it at double speed, so I guess I can’t really argue.
- Comment on 3D Printing’s Biggest Scam Is Even Worse Than We Thought! (PLA-CF) 2 months ago:
What was wrong with the video exactly?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
I heartily approve.
- Comment on Milking this one 2 months ago:
Imagine a poster of Tom Holland, white powder all over his nose, with the slogan “Snort Milk?” in bold across the top.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 2 months ago:
Because fuck you, that’s why.
- Microsoft
Saved you a click.
- Comment on better look at it 2 months ago:
Wait. “Eye contact.” Doesn’t that imply that the sun has eyes?
ARE YOU FUCKING TELLING ME THE SUN HAS HAD EYES THIS WHOLE TIME?
- Submitted 2 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 3 months ago:
On the flip side, you’ve probably met someone who has saved a person’s life.
- Comment on Have LLMs killed all future programming languages? 3 months ago:
I vibe code Brainfuck using Eliza.
- Submitted 3 months ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 9 comments
