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@ takeheart @lemmy.world

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  • Deep Sea Fishing

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  • It's both haunting and beautiful.

  • [inktober] Mustache & Weave

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  • I can hear a stiff accent simply by looking at ink. Amazing! 👏

  • 2024 vs 2025

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  • Yeah, the illusion looks quite good from afar (eg the thumbnail for the post) but full screen I noticed that many of the strokes emulating leaves at the contours of the tree end with straight edges perpendicular to the branch rather than being more rounded or have some noise that breaks up the straight lines.

    I mark up what I mean here:

  • 2024 vs 2025

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  • Really like your stroke work except for the foliage of the tree. ¿Looks like you used some scatter spray tool? It looks a bit out of place to me (to harsh) and also the ends touching the horizon leave the square stroke visible when imo a rounded cap would look more natural.

    New image also greatly benefits from the wider framing to show us the surroundings with a more colorful palette 🎨 as a contrast to the house (foreground).

  • Kyklophobia

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  • Wow saw this and immediately recognized your style from some pose sketches you uploaded a long time ago. Had saved them for inspiration. Props to you!

  • hmmm @lemmy.world
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    hmmm

  • Scare Pumpkin [OC]

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  • This has great vibes.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    captchas like these that don't tell you which part of the text you're supposed to input

  • Perfect Dark's Reboot May Be Canceled, But The Original's Native PC Port Is Great on Steam Deck

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  • You can also play this on Android via portmaster.

  • Removed

    FBI reveals there's video to prove Jeffrey Epstein killed himself

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  • Imo the header is misleading a bit. "reveals" implies they actually showed the video but they only claim that there exists such video.

  • Traditional Art @lemmy.world
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    The Carsharps, Oil on Canvas, by Caravaggio, ca 1594

  • Donald Trump signs order to 'make America's showers great again'

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  • Why Germans put up with snail-speed internet

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  • Ultimately it's because of corruption. When chancellor Kohl was incumbent it was clear that fibre optics is the future. He instead pushed for the technically inferior alternative of cable internet to satisfy his business buddies.

    That being said, Germany's not only lagging behind in connectivity but in digital infrastructure in general. Many businesses and especially the administration are still stuck in the previous century. Plus there's a considerable lack of IT knowhow (and herhaps interest) in the general populace. Travellers from countries like Estonia or Finland must feel like having traveled back into the past 20 years.

    I'm still using a fax machine to send messages to the local government cause they can't properly handle email yet, lol. Called the hospital the other day due to some info missing on their website. Had a very confusing convo with their staff cause the lady genuinely didn't understand the difference between a website, a browser, Google and a search bar widget and kept confounding them. That's where we are at 🤷🏽.

  • Safe professions

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  • Sure, a skilled human is still better at the job. But you don't always need to capture every nuance. And AI does it at the fraction of the cost.

    I see this with lots of German product descriptions on big store fronts like Amazon. They often seem entirely machine translated. It's not great, but "good enough" and serviceable.

    Machine translation also increasingly shifts the process from the sender of the message to the recipient. It used to be that the web page of a Vietnamese company was inaccessible if you didn't speak Vietnamese or they specifically had an English version. Nowadays a visitor can choose to get the entire site translated automatically (by the browser, for instance). Is it as good as the translation by an expert? Of course not. But it costs the company nothing at all and the visitor a negligible amount. And it works for a plethora of languages.

    That's another (invisible) way that the world needs less and less translators. I wrote this post in English but for all I know someone could be reading it in French or Bengali. No further input required from my side.

  • Owl-natomy: "Doc, what is this hole in my child's head?" - The Choana

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  • Amazing. Today I learned not only something about owls but also about my own anatomy.

  • Almost as annoying as the windows evangelists

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  • Yeah, when I need to inspect lots of images I just open the folder in gwenview.

    For peeking at a single picture or two through you can hold down control and click/hover on the filename when using Konsole. Love that feature. You can even listen to .wav files this way.

  • Fish @programming.dev
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    How to remove terminal escape sequences from strings?

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    raven, aquarelle & gouache

  • I know how to draw a circle in GIMP, anon!

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  • If you need it precise and adjustable use 2 layers and concentrate them with the alignment tool.

  • Be careful or the time will be blown off your bones

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  • Nice gradients. Together with the limited color palette it reminds me of illustrations from Sci-fi story prints I read as a kid.

  • Emptiness Will Eat the Witch, 2024

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  • What did you use for the vertical stripes? Pixel sort? A special brush? Overlayed another image? Looks great either way!

  • I released a fully open-source album of Game Boy music [link in body]

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  • Always thought of the noise channel giving the Gameboy a unique character among low bit rate music. Glad to see you make use of it (I like Thunderking arena for instance).

  • Imaginery comic city, Alcohol markers

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  • Charming. Feels very handcrafted due to all the unique features, asymmetry and avoidance of straight lines. Also reminds me of the backgrounds in point & click adventures like Machinarium.

  • Mixed media on photo paper

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  • This one has a nice glow to it. Looks a bit as if you painted it on a semi-transparent sheet and put a backlight behind.

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    Crystals in the Dark, digital

  • Map Enthusiasts @sopuli.xyz
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    global watershed map

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    Eiger Cliff Face, digital

  • Fish @programming.dev
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    When typing multiple logical statements on the same line (connected through ; or &&): ¿how does one bring up autocomplete suggestions for subsequent statements?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL the black scales of gaboon vipers are super hydrophobic. Water running off washes away any dirt on them too. Dirt will thus only stick to light scales leaving their camouflage pattern intact.

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL of a boy in Pakistan that would stab himself with knives to entertain others. Researchers found he carried a rare gene mutation that prevents pain nerves to transmit their signals to the brain.

    www.npr.org /2006/12/13/6620733/newly-found-gene-mutation-banishes-pain
  • Films Frames - Every Frame is a Painting @lemmy.world
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    The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin (1940)

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    my drier's manual references animals to convey how the machine should sound during ordinary operation

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Orangutan hipsters use slang to stand out from the pack

    www.zmescience.com /science/orangutan-hipsters-use-slang-to-stand-out-from-the-pack/
  • memes @lemmy.world
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    What's your take on the situation, stork? What's that? Can't hear you...

  • hmmm @lemmy.world
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    hmmm

  • Software Gore @lemmy.world
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    had to rescue data via a live USB boot. turns out the USB image got corrupted too

    imgur.com /kki4xPS
  • AbandonedPorn @reddthat.com
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    Loew's Kings theater, Brooklyn, NY

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    seriously, it's the one thing keeping the web usable

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL about Titivillus a medieval demon that would feed on misspellings, mispronounced syllables and mumbled words. He was considered a natural enemy and tempter of scribes.

    blog.lostartpress.com /2021/01/17/my-old-nemesis-titivillus/