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Maker / Designer / Creative; electronics, digital fabrication, art, photo, video, printmaker, noise, cats, physical computing, USB, MIDI, MKE, progressive, searchable… I've been blogging since 1997, what!? See rasterweb.net and peteprodoehl.com ❤️ Just my toots? Sure! https://justmytoots.com/@rasterweb@mastodon.social

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requiem , to Random stuff
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Screenprinters: is there anything that can get speedball dye out of a white T-shirt?

We have some prints that got some dye in the wrong spot.

rasterweb ,
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@requiem Do you mean ink? Is it water-based ink? If so, probably nothing you can do. If plastisol ink you can maybe try to scrape it off.

rasterweb , to Random stuff
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I saw the film “Wildcat” today, which is about Flannery O’Connor, and it was really good!

rasterweb , to Random stuff
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Caring for my neighbor cat tonight…

mgerdts , to Random stuff
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An art installation in front of a house of a bout the same dimensions as a Little Free Library, but decidedly more colorful. The pedestal is made of brightly colored disks about 12 inches in diameter and spaced horizontally about three quarters of an inch apart. The art gallery on top is well lit due to a translucent roof and white paint. Lining the walls are miniature works of art, mostly abstract paintings on canvas. A tag on the door says ”Free tiny art house gallery. Take one item for your house and think about leaving one for the tiny house.”
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    • rasterweb ,
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    @joe @mgerdts Yeah!!

    https://rasterweb.net/raster/2023/08/15/gallery-69-a-free-little-art-gallery/

    ottaross , to Random stuff
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    Picked up a thing! A kids' instant camera that prints on thermal paper.

    Had seen them around and was intrigued. With some community emerging on the I figured it was worth jumping in!

    The camera seen from the front like like a weird square pink kitty. There's a curl of thermal paper coming out of its head, like a cash register receipt, on which the picture is shown.

    rasterweb ,
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    @ottaross Is that one 25 megapixel!?

    rasterweb , to Random stuff
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    Another boring story but I do mention radicalization so that's interesting...

    ➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2024/05/18/hardware-store-bike-ride/

    rasterweb , to Random stuff
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    Hardware companies love AI because it means more sales of "faster and more powerful" hardware, which means more money for them.

    Software companies love AI because it means you'll buy the new version, or re-up your subscription...

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    rasterweb OP ,
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    Does the AI run on local hardware or the cloud? Maybe both? Either way I'm sure every large company will capture any AI-output from your software for "training" but I get that developers could find that data useful to make better software... but will that happen?

    I wonder if open source software will be the last bastion of freedom against AI "infecting" all of our software.

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    rasterweb OP ,
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    @fistfulofdave Interesting. I recently bought a 2014 Mac mini for a specific use in my shop (doing shipping labels) and it is totally fine.

    Granted, I'm not doing any heavy processing on it, but the industry always needs to push newer and faster because they chase profits, not good.

    rasterweb OP ,
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    @fistfulofdave I recently replaced the battery on my four year old iPhone because I didn't want to upgrade. The battery was the only issue I had, and besides that, it works fine for what I need... but of course, Apple has to sell more iPhones.

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    @kancept Good to hear. I guess I am more concerned about companies like Adobe and Microsoft baking it into every single product they have, and not giving users the option to disable it.

    rasterweb OP ,
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    @joe I keep wanting to hear positive stories about AI helping actual people, not just corporations and their bottom line...

    rasterweb OP ,
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    @joe Okay, so a few good things but also potentially trained on stolen goods and extremely resource intensive... 😉

    davew , to Random stuff
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    Do people understand the impact ChatGPT can have on how we control our software? No more hunting through menus among a thousand options to figure out how to do something. Just use natural human language. The UIs we've had to design and live with will be a thing of the past. Yet no one seems to be talking about this.

    rasterweb ,
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    @davew Being able to search in an application’s settings/preferences has been a huge improvement over digging, but I’m still pretty skeptical on AI for that.

    rasterweb , to Random stuff
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    You know what? It really is a futuristic modern world where things aren’t what they seem…

    rasterweb OP ,
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    @joe Agent Orange, not Orange County. 🍊 😉

    rasterweb , to Random stuff
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    If you're a web nerd who has worked in food service maybe this will be amusing?

    ➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2011/02/17/server-errors/

    rasterweb , to Random stuff
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    You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the Internet, the Internet!

    rasterweb , to Random stuff
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    I've always used dashes like this:

    Thing - Other Thing

    But some people use them like this:

    Thing- Other Thing

    And I have no idea why... The space on both sides of the ' - ' makes sense to me, but why do people jam it onto the end of the word?

    rasterweb OP ,
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    @iaintshootinmis If you're up-to-date on the usage... yes!

    rasterweb OP ,
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    @dgfitch I had to look it up but I think I get it!

    rasterweb OP ,
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    @dgfitch I also posted about the Apple ][+ this morning and well that one is... whew!

    rasterweb OP ,
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    @c20d It should be caught during proofing then, before publishing, right?

    rasterweb , to Random stuff
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    Me: I'm sorry.

    Wife: You're just sorry you got caught!

    Me: Yes, and...?

    rasterweb , to Random stuff
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    Someone told me that Chat-GPT saved them hours of work...

    My response: If Chat-GPT is saving you hours, are you now able to work less hours and instead spend that time doing other things? That should be the primary goal of AI... Give humans more time to do as they please, not just cram even more work into the same amount of hours.

    evan , to Random stuff
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    Sixteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1

    It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.

    https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg

    Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.

    rasterweb ,
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    @evan I really wish I had stuck with it the whole time! Here are some of my posts from 2008.

    ➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/tag/identica/

    rasterweb , to Art
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    New sketch! It's the classic Apple ]+, the first computer my family ever had... 40+ years ago I got my start with programming and computer graphics on one of these.

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    ![Sketch of an Apple ]+ done in Procreate on an iPad.
    ![Sketch of an Apple ]+ done in Procreate on an iPad.

    rasterweb , to Random stuff
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    When I look at a dog it's like "Hello! Hello! Please love me! Please pay attention to me!"

    And when I look at a cat it's like "What the fuck are you looking at!? Feed me."

    I prefer cats.

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    80 Level just posted:

    OpenAI Will Train Its AIs on Your Reddit Posts

    The darkest timeline.

    https://80.lv/articles/openai-will-train-its-ais-on-your-reddit-posts/

    rasterweb ,
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    @GamingNews Time to shitpost!

    rasterweb , to Random stuff
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    Jar Jar Peanut Butter

    rasterweb , to Random stuff
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    Does suffering precede all greatness?

    rasterweb , to Random stuff
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    I don’t wear rings on my fingers but I often wear Band-Aids to symbolize my lifelong commitment to accidentally hurting myself.

    rohdesign , to Random stuff
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    A tale from “ye olden days” of graphic design that taught me to love and embrace constraints - https://rohdesign.com/weblog/ye-olden-days-of-design-or-how-constraints-encourage-your-creativity

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    rasterweb ,
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    @rohdesign Love it!

    rasterweb , to Milwaukee
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    Bike ride today, just a big old loop... 5 miles in 31 minutes. Still haven't cracked that 30 minute mark!

    rasterweb , to Random stuff
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    As someone who hates making mistakes I've spent almost three decades checking the spelling of any word I am not sure of before I post something online. I mean, I am on the Internet... I can look up any word!

    Meanwhile, in 2024 the majority of people just "TIPE WERDS IN BOCKS!" and don't give a shit how wrong they are... In fact they wear it like a badge of honor.

    rasterweb OP ,
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    Someone told me that a lot of spelling or typographical errors in comments are because people use text-to-speech when they post.

    All I heard was "People don't give a shit about being correct or doing the minimal amount of work to make themselves not look like lazy morons."

    rasterweb OP ,
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    Also, I am not talking about people who are posting in their non-native language.

    Often non-native speakers write better than native speakers... (At least if the native speakers are from the United States.)

    rasterweb OP ,
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    If I've made any errors please let me know so I can correct them. Cheers!

    rasterweb OP ,
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    @grimmy It’s also very difficult to proof your own work!

    davepolaschek , to Photography
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    Received my toy camera today. It was on sale for 20% off, which made it about $30, including three rolls of thermal receipt paper to print onto. Thanks to @rasterweb for pointing it out to me!

    If you want one, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BWDWNH5G is the model I bought.

    The ristra hanging by our front door. I had forgotten about dither-worms.

    rasterweb ,
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    @davepolaschek @gretared I think the Apple LaserWriter II was the first one I used in the early 1990s.

    rasterweb ,
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    @Tamami @davepolaschek No no… it’s a specialized tool to document scenes with… receipts! Totally not a toy!

    rasterweb , to Photography
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    I've been experimenting with loading photos not taken on the toy camera and loading them onto the camera just to print them out... I think you need to get a small file size and maybe(?) remove metadata... though it may also be an issue around how some software writes a JPG.

    I don't know if anyone else has figured this out yet, but if not, I'm working on it through trial and error.

    rasterweb OP ,
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    @concretedog @erik @pwalck @ge0rg @tobbsn Preview.app is a macOS app… so you can’t install it on other operating systems. (Sorry!) We just need to figure out why Preview.app works and others don’t.

    rasterweb OP ,
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    @concretedog @erik @pwalck @ge0rg @tobbsn Sorry! Let’s keep testing things to find what works for everyone.

    rasterweb OP ,
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    @concretedog @erik @pwalck @ge0rg @tobbsn My camera is 12 megapixels (or so it says) but less than 800k is common for mine.

    I have one shot of grass that is 1.5MB and another of pavement that is 1.3MB (Obviously JPG compression doesn't work as well on those.)

    rasterweb OP ,
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    @concretedog @erik @pwalck @ge0rg @tobbsn Whoa, you got a fancy one! Maybe the next thing we do is swap JPG files and see what happens...

    (This post links to the one I have: https://rasterweb.net/raster/2024/04/03/kids-camera-instant-print/ )

    joe , to Random stuff
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    I guess I need to figure out how to fix this, now?

    rasterweb ,
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    @joe You want a free battery powered mower? I have one I need to get rid of…

    rasterweb ,
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    @joe I think I still have one working battery pack, though honestly I haven't used it for two or three years.

    The battery pack consists of three lead acid batteries like you'd find in a UPS.

    I built a conversion device to use the 40 volt batteries from my snowblower and that's what I was using at the time... (Got any 40v batts for other things?)

    gretared , to Art
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    Up at the crack of dawn to sketch The Old Man of Coniston

    rasterweb ,
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    @gretared Oh this is gorgeous!

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