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john

@john@sauropods.win

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:

"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.

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.

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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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@paul @fichek @khaost Clearly the iPad Pro is overpowered for that.

It seems to be pitched for media production, but it's not got enough storage, and the file handling is way too janky to take that seriously.

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.

9to5Mac, to random
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Bloomberg: John Ternus emerging as the most likely successor to Tim Cook as Apple CEO https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/08/apple-ceo-tim-cook-john-ternus-successor/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

john,
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@9to5Mac “Tim likes him a lot, because he can give a good presentation, he’s very mild-mannered, never puts anything into an email that is controversial and is a very reticent decision-maker,”

I see the knives are out already.

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"The Woman with the Blue Face" — 2022

Oh look, it's my old friend Molly, with a body for a face and face for a body!

https://johnconway.art/the_woman_with_the_blue_face

mike, to random
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I like Neil Young's album After The Gold Rush, and I like the song Oh Lonesome Me from that album. But there is absolutely no excuse to rhyme "arms" with "charms" in any song later than the Gershwins.

john,
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@mike Do they not rhyme? Or is there another objection I'm not seeing?

john,
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@mike I see, when there’s calms, balms… farms etc.

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Triceratops horridus" — 2013

The heroic Triceratops horridus, resister of tyrants. Never Forget.

https://johnconway.art/triceratops-horridus

john, to iPad
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So they've made the new Pro thinner. Great, because that's what I've always thought, you know this thing isn't bendy enough.

Urg, Apple plz.

john,
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@PeterFalkingham @miekeroth I can make the case for the camera bump:

You don't actually want your iPad to lay flat, because it will be hard to pick up, especially if it's on a smooth surface where it can get suction. You can mitigate this with bevelled edges, but that requires bigger bezels. Siting at an angle also prevents the camera from pressing closely on the surface (my iPhone 4 and iPad 2 cameras were scratched to bits because of that).

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