ascii art is an underappreciated medium that most people just don't respect anymore (despite text emotes still being a thing)
when you search for ascii art it's mostly how to 'generate' it by processing an already made image, or with some text generator, it's very rare to find information about actual handcrafted text art
it's like if you were to search for pixel art and almost everybody only ever talked about making it by downscaling a high res image, you're missing a lot of the unique expressiveness of the medium!
A friend came over with a big box of acrylic markers. I had seen other artists using them before, but I hadn't had the chance to try them myself until now. So this was my first attempt at using them!
A marten wearing schwimmflΓΌgel. Look how happy they are!
letting ya know. i bookmarked this post so i could listen to it when i got the chance. Finally got the chance to listen and immediately went, "yup buying it"
Anywhere... just not here.Discord: https://discord.gg/QyKwZtKPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/StephanafroSpotify/Apple/Streaming: TBDVideo / Animation: @Step...
I really feel this. I've got to the stage where if something seems anything less than easy for me to do I feel like a failure, and I rarely get anything useful done nowadays. I get by, just about, on absolute minimum effort, and feel I'm wasting my life.
@Matt Sqwrl @Krishean Draconis Me! There's lots more I want to do, and it feels like time is just slipping by while I'm frittering it away and not doing those things. I mean, yes, you're quite right, but I'm my own judge and jury here. Probably executioner too. π€·
@krishean I find it's the stress of having so many things to do that means I do none. I'm slowly working my way along the Rhine for a long walk, it's good to have a goal like that where you can just go do the next bit when you have energy
Everyone has a theory about why people stopped having kids. The economy. Housing. Phones. Feminism. Men. Governments have bet hundreds of billions on those t...
That sound you can hear is every embedded redteamer and blueteamer on the planet adding "try logging in with root and a 257-byte password" to their "easy wins" list.
actually quite likely all those script kiddies who've been playing with the mirai worm source code too - this is a bug that'll stick around for a while.
OMG this is corny as heck but I really like it anyway. Feeds directly into my "you really want a robot for a friend?" "Yeah, ever since I was six" feeling. Maybe not as good as D.A.R.Y.L., but yeah, I do like it.
A robot boy and a human boy team up to save their respective parents, who are being held captive by the organization that funded the robot's creator.Starring...
If you're American and you still haven't voted yet, allow yourself an immature giggle at the final word in the phrase "your civic duty", then make sure you actually go out and do it before polls close today.
I really shouldn't have to tell you which way to vote, but my fur color should be a nice big hint. π³οΈπ¦
Well, turns out he wasn't alone after all! Muffle was there making him company!
Panda asked me to paint Muffle as a continuation of the original piece, extending the tree into a second painting, with Muffle enjoying the same carefree moment on another branch.
Traditional acrylic painting. Also I recorded the sketch and painting process, if you want to watch it, check it out on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
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A carefree little panda, enjoying the joy of being alive. I needed to create a piece like this for my own sake, I need some positivity in my life that reminds me what's my motivation and why I love to create, so this piece ended up being so meaningful.
At first this piece was going to be a panda on a swing, quietly appreciating life. But while sketching it, I realized it felt too still. Since I had already drawn the tree, I started experimenting with the branches instead, and suddenly the panda hanging from one of them felt much more alive, playful, and natural. Even the colors came together instinctively. I didnβt make color tests beforehand, I just followed the palette that was already in my mind.
Traditional. Acrylic painting.
You can go and watch the process of this piece on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
That one is a short version of a longer video that you can watch exclusive on my Patreon and Ko-Fi for monthly supporters, at supporting me you help me to keep creating and keep doing what I love to do the most in this life, also you get to see my art before anyone else in the highest resolutions: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco Thank you!
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Illustrated guide of rules for autonomous Sumo robot contests. Includes a comparison of rule variations for different competitions and classes. Encouragement will be made for standard robotic Sumo rules.
When a dog sitter arrives at a house for what seems like a simple job, a list of strange rules makes him suspect that this is no ordinary dog.Written & Direc...
DΓa de Muertos (Day of the Dead) is one of the most meaningful traditions to me, and I made this drawing for an event but I also wanted to share it to all of you.
For those unfamiliar with this Mexican tradition, every November 1st and 2nd we remember and celebrate the lives of those who are no longer with us. We decorate altars with flowers, candles, food, and things our loved ones enjoyed, welcoming their memories back into our homes.
It's a beautiful reminder that even when someone is gone, they still have a place in our lives.
If you want to block the AI crawlers, they're finally going to respect your choices a bit more, so it's worth checking if you need to update your robots.txt file.
As Paul correctly points out, it's too little, too late (they've already stolen your content) - but still.
Halloween = success w/ a few dozen trick or treaters If you havenβt already done so and youβre in the USβ¦. GO VOTE TODAY OR TOMORROW! Ft. @thadthehusky πΊβοΈ - @thatsfurredup πΆβοΈ - @bakeryfursuits #fursuit #furry
Ah, I wish this was true! But (a) I *think* it's a spoof news account, and (b) I'm therefore rather suspicious the image has been generated (I mean, it seems unlikely it was stagedβ¦) But I'd love to believe it actually happened, because that would be awesome.
I just found https://wedetect.ai/, fed the image into it, and it gives that a 2% probability of being generated.
"Likely a real image 2% AI probability Β· Very high confidence"
I now suspect more likely to be conventionally edited; perhaps an image of an actual horse escape with the real horses replaced. Still a scene that gets my imagination working though!
Ah yes, the time of year when you say βholy shit itβs SO LATE and SO DARK, it must be way past my bedtimeβ and you look at the time and itβs 6:13 PM
Fundamentally, the Establishment is trying to decide whether voters will hold their nose and ignore βvicars and granniesβ being arrested for terrorism for just holding a bit of paper protesting against genocide carried out by Israel against Palestiniansβ¦or whether we are on the cusp of mass civil unrest and the whole house of cards crumbling.
I believe we will see a further fracturing of society if the Supreme Court uphold the ridiculous notion that vicars and grannies are terrorists for calling out the genocide carried out with cold clinical precision by Israel.
The British public fundamentally are at odds on this issue with most political parties that claim to represent them.
They know what the right side of history will be and there is a political vacuum in terms of representationβ¦even from Green MPs.
Apparently I'm a "gatekeepy arsehole" for saying this, but I'll say it anyway. People who have no programming knowledge, who can't even read C or Python or Ruby or whatever, should not be dicking around with programming tools like Claude or Codex.
How are you supposed to tell if the magic parrot is making crap when you have no idea how to review it, and in the next byte the parrot is telling you you're smarter than Einstein?
Stop asking the machine to write the code for you: ask it to TEACH YOU how to write the code. And then if it doesn't work, ask it to review it and tell you what you did wrong.
It takes about the same amount of time, but you'll start to find yourself asking questions like "why don't you do it (a different way)?" and breaking the task into smaller ones -- which the LLM actually does better. And then you'll find yourself LEARNING!
Amen. I use it in this manner, I have grown to like having it as an always-present teacher I can ask "how do I do this" or "explain the difference between an action and a delegate". And sometimes as far as "explain what line ### does", Claude is really good at that I find.
I've learned more aspects of my usual language (C#) this way, including a bunch of the newest syntactic sugar tricks that came in long after I originally learned it.
@discatte that's the next part of the plan: once they're used to reading and asking questions, get them to read books and join newbie developer communities. oh, what's happened? they have friends now!
your premise is flawed, and if you are somehow in a position to 'guide' someone, there are a million better resources than 'continue to use the lying pleasing chatbot'
source: me a teacher of code for decades to people of all ages on irc, coworkers, and summer camps.
From my point of view, this is a completely rational position. I mean, that is the case in general with LLMs: unless you already know how to do the thing you're asking it to do, it is extremely likely you will not notice when it makes a mistake or confabulates something. It's a recipe for disaster.
caveat: I mean if they want to sudo rm -rf /* that's their problem and I'm in support of this life lesson... just so long as they only break their own shit and don't pollute public information repositories like the internet with more slop.
@earthshine the slop is the biggest thing that annoys me. I'm okay with someone who writes a bit of their own code - or pushes back on the LLM to get something vaguely passable. but if the README just has Claudish in it, the first thing I'm doing is closing the tab and the second is sighing.
it's even worse than that. Not only do people with no programming knowledge use AI programming tools - they use them to produce software that does things they also have no idea about. So they not only don't know if the code is correct, they also don't know if the software they produced is doing things correctly. And they can't verify either because they don't have the knowledge.
@Albertkinng I can't really blame them for not knowing when they're not subject area experts. Kinda like that boss everyone once had who'd come in every morning demanding all work stop for the latest buzzword he'd read in a vendor leaflet.
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