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john

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I am an artist, and I post a lot of my own art. I am also the Admin here at Sauropods.win, and a lot of my boosts will be great dinosaur (and other prehistoric animal) stuff from the other winners here.

Some hashtags: #Art #Paintings #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Palaeoart #Paleoart #Dinosaurs #SciArt #DigitalArt

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john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Gorgosaurus Portrait" — 2012

Has anyone seen my teef? Enough lip from you sonny, I'f got enough of that already.
Gorgosaurus libratus (formerly known as Albertosaurus libratus, formerly known as Gorgosaurus libratus) was a large tyrannosaur that lived in North America d... [more]:

https://johnconway.art/gorgosaurus-libratus

futurebird, to random
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Friends. I don't get it.

I understand the idea of a loan: borrow money, pay it back over time plus a fee for the favor of having more money sooner.

I understand having a company and taking out a loan: borrow money to do something to help the company make more money and pay it off... but it's OK you made enough that it was a good idea.

But HOW can someone borrow money to BUY a company then say the cost of the loan should go on the companies books?

I don't get it. :(

john,
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@futurebird It’s pretty simple really, you see corporations are people, so just as when we absorb another person, we are free to say which part of our agglomeration should get in trouble if we can’t repay the loan.

Say you took out a loan to buy a snazzy white blazer. When you buy yourself an extra torso, you could say it’s that torso’s blazer, so it should pay up, right? Works the same way for corporations.

MAKS23, to random Ukrainian
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Hello friends :) A personal appeal to you! 🙏💜

Please put a like or write comments under this post, it is very important for me to know what activity is here!

❗️ I understand that many people passively read the news, but sometimes I get the feeling that I also write news here for 10 people, and there is no one else here...

john,
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@MAKS23 I read every day. I don’t have anything useful to say most of the time.

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Cryptozoologicon: Megalodon" — 2013

Another image from the book Cryptozoologicon by me, C.M. Kosemen and Darren Naish. Do 60-metre megalodons roam the oceans? Well, almost certainly not, but it's nice to dream.

https://johnconway.art/megalodon

asbestos, to art
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I follow the hashtag and a lot of the people promoting their own art use a dozen or so hashtags. This is spam IMHO.
Also it seems a lot of their art is Thomas Kincaid style stuff.
I'll stop here before I say something even more obnoxious.

john,
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@asbestos tags are useful for muting stuff. I follow the art hashtag too, and mute several hashtags within it.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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My dream iPad is 15”, but, the way things have been going, if that machine ever does come to fruition it will be a $4,000 computer 🫠

john,
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@leon @stroughtonsmith that’s what I want.

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Clidastes" — 2021

Clidastes, god of the sea and forked lightning, does not even look at the ships she sinks.

https://johnconway.art/clidastes

john,
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@barrygoldman1 Bit of a wild one, huh?

idoubtit, to random
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"Bluesky really just confused me. It looked, felt, and functioned like just another version of Twitter."

Jack: It was the anti-Twitter. People were literally running from Twitter to Bluesky, and that is not a way to build something successful.

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

john,
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@idoubtit Shame the interviewer didn't ask him about ActivityPub and Mastodon. His silence on it is weird, there's something about it he doesn't like (and I don't think it's the superior capabilities of AT to move accounts).

His stance on this stuff reads like a man who's really sick if having to make big decisions on moderation, and thinks he shouldn’t even have the power to so. It weirdly humble... or something like it... in someone like him.

john,
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@idoubtit Maybe, but I think he'd have influence in the same way he does over Nostr.

john,
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@idoubtit yeah, he might have seen it as already established. But it was also already out there achieving what he says he wanted. He could have build in ActivityPub into Twitter.

film_girl, to random
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The problem with the iPad as as many have pointed out is that the software hampers what it can do unless you’re willing to contort yourself into a very specific workflow. For most casual users those limitations aren’t an issue and the advantages of the form factor outweigh the deficits. But when you charge MBPro money for a device the trade-offs sting. As @jsnell says, the best solution would be to just let us virtualize macOS on an iPad Pro when using it in certain modes https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/the-ipad-pro-is-no-longer-the-future-so-whats-next/

john,
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@film_girl @jsnell I don't think that would fix the problem. All the apps need to get on-board with freeing their files too.

john, (edited )
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@film_girl @jsnell Sure…. I'm just not sure how that would work in practice.

For example, how would Procreate handle files spread out in project folders outside its sandbox? Putting MacOS in front of that won't help will it? I mean, I will see the files, but I can't move them because it will break Procreate's expectations/limitations.

I guess I think that any use I'd get out of MacOS would need to be backed up with such fundamental changes to the iOS model, that it might be redundant.

john,
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@film_girl @jsnell
I'm not sure what you’re saying about VM passthroughs. Permission to access could of course be given, but apps on iOS are designed around a different model, right?

Procreate doesn't store it's files in iCloud, you have to export them do that. I think this has to do with file-size problems. It's kinda disastrous really (they are lucky the painting experience is so good).

https://folio.procreate.com/discussions/4/10/27698

john,
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@film_girl @jsnell I guess what I'm saying is that if they just give up and give us a normal file system, tell app developers that's the way it is, and provide a syncing API for that filesystem, then that pretty much solves my issues with iPad OS.

john, (edited )
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@jsnell @film_girl Well, one of the flagship Pro apps on iPad lets you export to there, but not save. Maybe it's on Procreate, but I do remember there being some file size problem.

In the end I think this is Apple's fault because they led us down this app-centric path to start with. It was never going to work well for multi-application workflows, but they kept hoping. And here we are 14 years later talking about cramming a whole other OS in!

john, to ai
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Using to “spot” forgeries and fakes:

“In the past, it was really difficult to spot these things, because you can’t take samples from an image on the internet. But, with the new technology, it’s easy. You can just download an image and then in 10 minutes, you will know. I think that people should be warned.”

Yikes.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/08/fake-monet-and-renoir-on-ebay-among-counterfeits-identified-using-ai?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-3

?

john,
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I mean, not that I give a shit whether they actually get this right or not. Some rich fucker gets screwed buying or selling a painting. GOOD.

john,
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@ChrisManias Probably what the AI has keyed into. Looks like a bad JPG of a bad photograph. Fake.

john, to Trains
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This thread mirrors my experience of in Europe and the UK. Pleasant when it's working, but very expensive, unreliable, and confusing as hell.

I'd love to know what's wrong and if the situation can be meaningfully improved.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@albertcardona/112407848484071304

john,
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@mike Probably wouldn't hurt, but I think there's something else going on, because the nationalised mainland European ones aren't cheap either, and some aren't very reliable. All of them are confusing.

mike, to stackoverflow
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"I don’t know why anyone would willingly submit more unpaid answers (or questions!) to Stack Exchange forums under these conditions. After all, huge pools of people in Africa and South America are being paid to write code examples for model-training companies right this minute. Why should I do it for free?"
https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/closed-as-unhelpful-an-elegy-for

john,
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@mike As the article says, Stack Overflow was finished, and companies rarely go quietly into that good night, they sell, sell, sell your data to the shite.

john,
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@mike I haven't touched Stack Overflow since I started using LLMs. It's exactly the same niche, and LLMs do it better.

john,
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@mike Depends how specific you were, but Stack Overflow was full of crap and out-of-date answers. The best answers on SA were obviously better than an LLM from a conceptual standpoint, but LLMs are giving you an okay answer for your specific situation (they won't usually tell you to rethink your entire approach, which is good and bad).

LLMs are also adaptive and iterative. The comparison isn't even close in my opinion.

paul, to random
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The CPU multi core looks like M2 Pro numbers. What a waste on an iPad.
https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/112407786871416632

john,
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@fichek @PKB @paul @khaost I'd be happy with it as a companion device which just syncs to my Mac, honestly, but it can't even do that because the software locks my files in app buckets which just doesn't work for any reasonable workflow.

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