Eldritch

@ Eldritch @piefed.world

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Goth, Dj, anarchist, artist

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Goth❌Industrial lemmy.world

45m ago

Vector graphic animation software Glaxnimate 0.6.0 is now fully integrated into KDE's ecosystem
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Eldritch @piefed.world 45m ago
So pretty much focused on svg animation. Not necessarily with rasterization or beyond. Makes sense. Something more akin to the old flash animator etc.

1h ago

Vector graphic animation software Glaxnimate 0.6.0 is now fully integrated into KDE's ecosystem

Probably because the devs didn't want to. Which is reason enough. My experience tells me the krita crew are more focused on painting and illustration. Could animation be shoehorned in there? Sure. Would it likely be as good of an app for animation? Likely not.

I love blender and use it all the time for modeling etc. You can also NLE in blender. It doesn't currently hold a candle to kden live or davinci in a number of areas for that. But you technically can. Same goes for compositing etc. Again it's not top of the heap for that. They're much more focused on modeling and some on rendering. Which have both made massive strides. Splitting their focus further likely wouldn't have made things better over all. More likely worse.

I'm glad to see this app and will be checking for AUR or flatpak soon as I get home myself.

2h ago

GIF vs JPEG-XL

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Eldritch @piefed.world 2h ago

Yes Google has really been the biggest one fighting against jxl. Mozilla has flirted with it a lot. Mostly dropping it because of the perceived peer pressure.

4h ago

GIF vs JPEG-XL

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Eldritch @piefed.world 4h ago

The answer is unfortunately almost nothing. Safari should MAYBE support it a bit. Current release versions of Firefox and Chrome don't even support static jxl out of the box. Though static can be enabled in release versions of Firefox, possibly chrome too. But not automatically enabled in both. They really need to get hopping on this. JXL is pretty great generally. And gif really does need replacing. Though I'm not sure mp4 with something like av1 or h264 wouldn't be as good or better for animation.

4h ago

[Meta] should there be a formal policy on generative AI in this community?

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Eldritch @piefed.world 4h ago

Those organizations absolutely should be held responsible. But the lack of "their" responsibility is what will keep them from really being a success long term. No smart business or individual would use them. Especially if they're to be the ones held responsible for the AI companies plagiarism.

And I've seen some small signs that we might be hopeful about. There are reports that Spotify who has a massive AI music and AI artists problem along with botted listeners. From people trying to make a quick buck with AI. Apparently Spotify has said that of verified real listeners less than even 1% are listening to known AI artists or AI music. This may ultimately be a problem mostly for these big media companies. Or those of us such as the DJs constantly on the lookout for new music and new artists. To be clear, I have found far more basic or unoriginal artists than I've ever found confirmed AI artist.

Ironically, I think industrial music would be one of the few areas AI-generated music would actually be good at LOL. But I think industrial, like goth, post-punk, or many of the other niche genres related to this community. Are some of the least likely to be targeted by such groups. There isn't a lot of money to be made or cred to be gained long term.

An example of a small unrelated anecdote I recently ended up working on a 3D model of slop origin as a commission. They, like AI music, fall apart under the slightest scrutiny. Because the program is focused on loosely replicating patterns, rather than actually making something. Truly some lovecraftian body horror. Extra digits, strangely warped limbs. Honestly by the time I sculpted out the worst of it. I could have blocked in a completely new mesh and largely finished the detail of it in the same amount of time. Even more egregious, the simple mesh would still need to retopologizing as it was over 3 million polygons for something so simple. Completely unusable for anything but really basic static renders or garten of ban ban character models.

21h ago

[Meta] should there be a formal policy on generative AI in this community?

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Eldritch @piefed.world 21h ago

The thing is. If I draw or sketch, I'm influenced by what I've trained on as well. I've absolutely done sketches in the style of Ed Roth's Custom Culture Creatures. Imitation is the greatest from of flattery.

All modern art and culture builds on the past. So I'd disagree somewhat on that point.

All the other points are more the real meat of the issue. The who, the why and the how. Though, I would point out that plenty are working on more efficient dedicated inference hardware. So the how and it's environmental impact becomes more an issue of the who and why. And absolutely when it comes to who and why. Fuck each and every one of them.

21h ago

[Meta] should there be a formal policy on generative AI in this community?

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Eldritch @piefed.world 21h ago

Well. Future generations train on the creations of the past. The unethicality is more the intent of those that use it. To devalue and displace those that created the things for a machine that can spit out scrambled up facsimiles of the thing. It's the Luddites vs the looms. Luddites didn't hate them. The Luddites rose up to destroy them because the textile shop owners intended to use them to take away the workers means of supporting themselves.

There are AI tools that are ethically trained as well. Though they aren't the majority of what's being used for sure. But adobe for instance has done that for photoshop's AI tools.

Absolutely no to labels manufacturing AI artist etc to undercut or push out real artists to increase their profits. But AI as a tool for better or worse it's not going anywhere. I can at least respect those that are honest with their audience.

23h ago

[Meta] should there be a formal policy on generative AI in this community?

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Eldritch @piefed.world 23h ago

If they're open about the use, audio or visual I'd say let it stay. We had an artist post here that did some gen AI for a video. Video making not their expertise and unable to afford someone to write direct edit etc.

Even audio to an extent as long as it's openly identified as such. The tools are only going to get better, and not going away. Good honest creative use can still be enjoyed and useful. But it needs to be honest. I think a lot of the backlash is the disingenuousness and manipulation. Rightfully so. No one wants to be lied to or misled generally.

2d ago

Outcry grows over ‘clown car’ cabinet but no sign Trump ready for shakeup

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Eldritch @piefed.world 2d ago

Yep, the GOP could have refused his nominees. They could call for their expulsion and impeachment right now. There's no need to "wish". They could do something any time they fancied. But they are more focused on keeping their jobs, hurting their constituents, but not doing the right thing.

2d ago

Time to uninstall krita (/s)

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Eldritch @piefed.world 2d ago

Blender has been on steam for years. As have other multimedia and game tools. For platforms like windows, it is one of the best auto update systems widely available.

2d ago

Lemmy.today is absolutely beautiful

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Eldritch @piefed.world 2d ago

Imagine someone that spends so much time on they make @PugJesus@piefed.social seem like one of the least active users you see. Who seemed to create multiple new communities daily. But had none of the knowledge, self awareness, or insight of PJ.

Talking to them often seemed like engaging with a poorly trained LLM. When they were on .world it wasn't uncommon for my front page or the all page to be choked with their inane posts. With a volume that would make cm002 or return2ozma seem like they were slacking. Which combined with them creating alternate accounts, ultimately leading to an instance ban for ban evasion iirc.

Last I knew db0 was harboring them. Though honestly I'm sure they have multiple accounts on nearly every server there is.

3d ago

“Massive” war launched by a man with no plan. Again.

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Eldritch @piefed.world 3d ago

Certainly

3d ago

“Massive” war launched by a man with no plan. Again.

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Eldritch @piefed.world 3d ago

It's the first ever IIRC.

4d ago

Hyprland 0.54 Released As A "Massive" Update To This Wayland Compositor

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Eldritch @piefed.world 4d ago

All that and more!

4d ago

Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror

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Eldritch @piefed.world 4d ago

Always, always always the ones you most suspect.

4d ago

In Tense Deposition, Hillary Clinton Denies Knowing Epstein or His Crimes

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Eldritch @piefed.world 4d ago

Bill and Hillary have always been traditional Republicans. Never actually Democrats in any meaningful sense. Hillary, herself, was a young Republican. Not just any young Republican, but one of the ones involved with investigating Nixon. It was Republicans like Hillary Clinton that Reagan specifically made his 11the commandment to target. She didn't leave the party, the party left her. Which is not a defense of her horrible policy and decisions. But can you imagine where we would be today. If instead of defending corruption and empowering it, Republicans had chosen to embrace young Republicans like Hillary Clinton? No crooked kooks like Reagan or Bush.

Again, don't get me wrong. That Republican Party would still be horrible, a party I would never vote for. But how much better would things be? And what a low bar that is.

7d ago

Manjaro let their SSL certificate expire again

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Eldritch @piefed.world 7d ago

The one thing manjaro had going for it was it was easy install arch. Now we have endeavor, garuda, cachy, and several other easy install arch. Including archinstall. Who all follow vanilla arch much closer, not introducing major breaking changes. There's literally no good reason to still use manjaro.

That said the servo aur is currently broken under catchy. Unable to update for the last couple of weeks. But that's been my only hiccup. And a negligible one at that.

7d ago

Mexico Is Caught Between Trump and the Cartels

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Eldritch @piefed.world 7d ago

The cartels are a symptom of an external problem the Mexican government has no ability to address. For every leader they kill, one or more will pop up. Because there's still a ton of money to be made selling drugs to trump, his kids, his administration, and all the normal people. Just trying to get through their day with the constant barrage of bullshit thrust on them by trump, his kids, his administration, and their enablers.

7d ago

Tyler Perry has no excuse

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Eldritch @piefed.world 7d ago

Yes, it's like Tim Heidecker or Eric Wearheim. If you get it, it can be pretty funny stuff. But if you are on the outside or don't understand where they're coming from, it all seems extremely stupid and random.

1w ago

Always have been pro-pedo.

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Eldritch @piefed.world 1w ago

There are strong correlation between /pol and Epstein. And it's long been fascist/authoritarian to accuse outgroups of the crimes you commit so that if and when your crimes are revealed. It's easier for campist to dismiss them as "when our side does it, the victims deserved it actually".

I would have a harder time believing Epstein and Q had no connection. That's way way to many specific coincidences.