Tech nerd question, 2:
Do you know a good Raspberry Pi alternative? ("small, cheap, low-power general-purpose computer" - no specific embedded use case in mind)
It's not that the RPi is bad or unsuitable, it's just that I like to not support the biggest player in the market if feasible.
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Tech nerd question, 1:
People who self-host git repositories - what do you use, and how (if at all) have you coped with being hit by the absurd amount of traffic AI scrapers are notorious for generating?
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(Footnote: I think the most important Late Gen-X / Early Millennial signifier is probably this: Did you experience enough of the Cold War that you got at least a little fucked-up by it?)
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https://newsletter.therealists.org/the-in-betweeners/
I'm slightly older than the author - I'm just on the other side of the Gen-X / Millennial divide. And I also remember my mostly-analogue childhood.
We have gained much, but we have also lost much.
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It occurs to me that the only computer-related thing that brought me joy (as opposed to "mere" satisfaction, which I fortunately often feel at work) was the couple of months where I did pixel art. I spent pretty much my whole life up to now on computer things, so that is an odd discovery.
I'm so exhausted with the current state of the tech scene.
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The most joyous things I have done for myself in the last year:
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I haven't posted for a while. This is because a couple of weeks ago I finally had to start taking some psychiatric meds, and I've not been able to do much while my brain is under remodelling.
"Try to avoid things that fuel anxiety", the doctor said.
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There is a lot to worry about. War, AI, climate disaster, looming economic turmoil, booming inequality, neo-fascism. And, well, those are things that decent people (by my standards) do worry about. But if there are a lot of people sharing their legitimate worries, you get the firehose effect.
And then - at least for me - it's so easy to forget that the leaves on the trees are so lovely this time of year, and nobody has managed to get the birds to pay rent yet.
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I'm thinking about whether I should stop using social media entirely.
I've largely selected for following decent people here, but going through the feed still feels like a firehose of despair and horror. Because, well, the world seems to be like that right now.
But when I go outside, or even just read a "normal" news media feed, that's not how it feels at all.
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I've grown fascinated with the idea of how creatures from folklore and fantasy would do in a modern (or modern-ish - I'd also consider, say, the 1930s "modern" in this context) setting. Does any kind internet stranger have good book recommendations?
(Other media than books are also welcome.)
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We're a couple years into this now, but whenever I see a clearly AI-generated cover on a book, I still feel viscerally repelled.
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I don't really know how this happened. I never made the conscious decision to stop reading Danish literature; it sort of just happened. I guess part of it is an effect of the Internet Age - here I am, writing in English and mostly interacting with people who also speak English, and when we talk about books, we're going to be talking about English books. Obviously. So I just drifted out of touch with the literary culture of my home.
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...without paying any attention to what was on any of the Danish shelves. I suppose it's because I mostly read science fiction when I was younger, and there's very little Danish sf (and most of it is YA). I prefer reading things in the original language rather than translations.
Going over my comic collection, I realized something a bit absurd: Most of them are originally in French or Spanish, but I just always got English translations even though very good Danish ones exist.
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I probably need to take up some hobby that isn't done sitting in front of a computer.
Suggestions welcome.
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@asmaloney I'll keep the 180x90 restriction for all the ones I do that are "just" a single object (they also all get the dark blue background).
Later, if and when I start doing actual compositions with backgrounds and such, I might relax that restriction (and come up with another; staying within limits is half the fun of pixel art.)
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Big Ben.
[#]pixelart
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@kitten_tech Relevant to your interests, I think! (and something we discussed a long, long time ago.)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12254
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I got carried away and spent the rest of the evening on this!
Tettagonia viridissima, female.
(Inspiration: I recently met one! She was hanging out on the wall of the friendly local makerspace. At about 5-6 cm long, they're one of the largest species of insect here in Denmark.
I live in the middle of a city and rarely see grasshoppers anymore.)
[#]pixelart
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As a footnote: I've mentioned before that I haven't spent any serious time making pixel art for about 25 years (where I also only did it as a hobby).
It's fascinating to me to feel all those little bits of practice and knowledge bubble up to the surface despite not having occupied any place in my forebrain for a quarter decade.
(The one thing I have apparently well and truly forgotten is lighting. Perhaps that will resurface on its own too, perhaps I will have to relearn it.)
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This has been the hardest subject so far. Especially because I haven't been able to find a side view of a П-36, so I worked back from the photos I could find. I've never seen one in real life, either (but I also never travelled in any of the countries that once made up the Soviet Union).
My friend just gave me the prompt "train"; I overcomplicated it because I like how the П-36 looks. It was the last Soviet steam locomotive; they switched to diesel and electric trains after that.
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