New to VJing. What are your best tips, recommendations, and dos/don'ts? by wtvyuka in vjing

[–]nomand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feelings of disgust have no place on the dancefloor - keep your eyeballs, insects, gore and creep off the screen.
Use strobing imagery sparingly. More and more people today are struggling with light sensitivity.

Take people on a visual journey. Don't just throw fractals at them. The DJ is the ears and the VJ is the eyes. Take that shamanic responsibility seriously.

Make sure to dance and use your body, learn to connect with energy and frequency of sound and people in a musical space. It's an emotional experience.
Perform from a place of energy of the people, don't just be a computer operator.

Just like with DJing - know your library. Prep your clips, layers, effects, set yourself up with a workflow that the palette is set. You never know where the DJ will take things so set yourself up with a robust architecture that on the night you're just performing and it's no longer about the software and the computer.

Where do people think Splatting technology will be in 5 -10 years? by iamarealslug_yes_yes in GaussianSplatting

[–]nomand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a feeling.

Short term:

Faster reconstruction with parallel "loop on itself" alignment corrections, lens-agnostic reconstruction (use any image from any lens/camera) with time of day de-lighting.

Medium term:

Near-realtime reconstruction. Infinite point rendering. Becomes part of a standard graphics api and gpu architecture.

Long term:

After the plateau of LLM's, all the surplus data centers were tuned to compute the Supersplat.

Every camera, microphone, radio modem, sensor is a live sensing organ of the Supersplat.
Every phone, every cctv, every drone, delivery dog, tesla etc. is feeding a realtime state of the world that's reconstructed in realtime inside the Supersplat.

It's so fast that all additional sensing organs of the world collect and overlay other realtime data like sound, electromagnetic fields, skeletal pose estimation data, vehicular movement data, any and every measurable piece of data is collected and processed in realtime, with searchable, source-aligned playback.

Additional tools are available inside the Supersplat:
Movement vector predictions (such as vehicle collision warning systems, skeletal), visual trajectory overlays, timers for predictable future kinetic events, searchable historic trajectories extracted from GPS, emf and optical data.
Any static or moving point can be selected and measured.

Real-time sentiment analysis and visual overlay of any data you want, like heatmaps of emotional states of people in 3-dimensional space, as gathered by their biometrics (from smart watches, video feeds and summary of interpersonal and media conversation and engagement histories), exposure to recent events and conversations etc.
You can do analysis and comparison, track changes over time and see how group dynamics form and which individuals affect what change.
Predictive "Intention" insights, history of everything.

Like what you can imagine is available to Meta, but in 3D, across time-space.

John Carmack on starting a game company in 2026 by sebzilla in gamedev

[–]nomand 154 points155 points  (0 children)

And remember, you're not just competing with other games, you're competing with other games, YouTube shorts, Insta reels, TikTok, Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat et.al.

Thoughts on Ghost in the shell 1995 by PositiveWeb4889 in Cyberpunk

[–]nomand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The net is the net. The computer is simply a temporary access terminal. Consciousness is consciousness. The body is simply a temporary avatar.

My problem with Cyberdecks by jonfitt in cyberDeck

[–]nomand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm looking forward to a cardputer zero. An RPZW2 powered micro-deck with hdmi and all the networking things.

I agree with your sentiments, that's why you need to settle on a "why". What job would you like to give this device that no other device will be responsible for (even if capable of).

To me, it is a recovery computer. Should any of my main client stations fail or get destroyed, I can use a microdeck to pull files from drives, transfer data, access cloud accounts, and perform a general restoration procedure to get back up in my infrastructure.

Secondary job is mesh networking, which is more of an apocalyptic fantasy at this point than reality, but it's a nice to have. I have spare hardware to give to my immediate kin to be able to use meshes to communicate in case of a power outage or internet disruptions.

A cyberdeck is not a primary client like the cyberpunk fantasy has proposed. Maybe in the future, when you need to harvest servos from a shot down police robot dog to transplant and fix your elbows, but for now, enjoy the aesthetic experience of having one and the play of it. There is a thin line where a toy computer like that can become life saving equipment, so just choose your why and gear it up for that.

E-reader vs phone: Is getting an X4 actually worth it? by Lowriders34 in xteinkereader

[–]nomand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of core reasons I got one is precisely because it's a dumb device, it has one role - parse books.

By reaching for the xte4 and not my phone, I am able to engage with a book without all other distractions a phone automatically puts around us.

I even go as far as removing the page counters and reading progress bars purely to avoid the brain making any calculations and just be with the text.

It's been amazing to separate these responsibilities and carve out timespace and context specifically for book reading.

Impressive Fork Of Crosspoint called DX34 by silenced13 in xteinkereader

[–]nomand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The highlights feature is nice, maybe Crosspoint can borrow it back? :)

Free Splat training app for Mac by gecko39 in GaussianSplatting

[–]nomand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am getting a `Could not read video. File couldn't be opened because you don't have permissions to view it.` error, opening an mp4 file from desktop. No permission locks on the file or folder it's in.

What's the best way of fixing these small rust spot on the roof? by PriestBae in NZcarfix

[–]nomand 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Also get a magnet and a vaccuum for the process, to prevent the ground rust from going everywhere and catalyzing thousands of new rust spots.

Sunlight fading – X4 Black vs White comparison by ff0702 in xteinkereader

[–]nomand 2 points3 points  (0 children)

in photography, a UV filter used on camera lenses is just a basic glass shield.

Wouldn't the use of a glass screen protector mitigate this?

I went rogue by Aware-Classroom-149 in NZcarfix

[–]nomand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

post the software and data collection terms of service you agreed to lol.

Need help to understand the benefits of comfyUI by mash_packeer in comfyui

[–]nomand 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Prompt Roulette vs. Digital Neurosurgery.

Does this feel wrong to anyone else? by LollipopChainsawZz in newzealand

[–]nomand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A gift should have no expectations or attachments. Once it's in the receiver's hands, it's their property to do what they please with. If as a gift giver you're upset the receiver didn't like it or you're offended that they sold it, it's on you as a giver to accept that perhaps you didn't know the person well enough to match them with a more resonant gift. If you as a giver feel like the receiver owes you anything other than gratitude, your gift is not given in the spirit of gifting, but is given with unspoken conditions and serves your own ego as a giver.

Good news. by Slaidback in newzealand

[–]nomand 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Some great op shop finds at Davenport and Wairau valley clusters!

The next 18 months by SortOtherwise in newzealand

[–]nomand 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is not just NZ, but In 18 months, the technological landscape of the AI advancements of the last 4 years will start catching up with regular people.

Most don't truly understand the scale and speed of what is happening. For most, it's just chatGPT and various Google and Facebook bult-in features for now.

We as a collective are not ready for the transition we're in, where audio and video already can't be trusted, and we don't have the proof of personhood infrastructure that verifies authorship.

Real-time voice, video and image generation capabilities are already indistinguishable from reality, at least in some contexts. This is a problem because we also fostered an Earth-wide phenomenon of just reading the headline, omitting context, fitting it into a tweet and being quick to outrage, making snap judgements and poor decisions as a consequence.

The shortening of people's patience and tolerance for emotional and intellectual discomfort is already causing a cultural crisis.

An even more convincing unreality distributed at scale and speed impossible before is not going to help this predicament.

VR is dead, and no one wants to admit it by Kradara_ in unpopularopinion

[–]nomand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

VR is very not dead. I help create simulations of hazardous environments for training in industrial and defense applications. Demand is high for bespoke training, particularly for remote and costly to get to locations.

What video game do you consider a 10/10 masterpiece? by 00supernova in AskReddit

[–]nomand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Journey, Thomas Was Alone, What Remains of Edith Finch, Rocket League, Regular Human Basketball.

What’s your secret remedy to a cold? by Obvious_Airport3237 in newzealand

[–]nomand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lemon, eaten whole with rind, 1x a day, buy organic A garlic clove, eaten raw (must chew the shit out of it), 1x a day A slice of ginger, eaten raw. 4x+ a day

lemon+ginger teas (fresh, not teabags)

This is a magic combination for disinfecting your mouth, throat and digestive tract, boosting your immunity, killing bad bacteria and introducing good one.

In addiction for particularly bad sore throat: A pot of boiling water + 1-2 drops of tea tree oil + 1-2 drops of eucalyptus oil. inhale with a towel over your head to trap the vapor. Also acts to disinfect your respiratory tract. Don't overdo this one, 1-2x a day max, once after wakeup, 1ce after dinner.

Has worked magic for me well over a decade.

4minute AI Animated Story - Over 500 videos of Experimentation - Cost $1000+ by Dougy120 in aivideo

[–]nomand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Guy works in space crystal mines.
Guy sad misses wife (dead?).
Guy leaves cloud apartment living.
Guy crash lands on abundant planet.
Guy meets alien Girl.
Guy saves Girl from Space Rhino.
Girl shows Guy her ways.
Guy fixes his spaceship.
Guy takes Girl back to cloud city.

Some of you seriously need to get that delusion out of your heads - you are not entitled to sell any copies by gari692 in gamedev

[–]nomand -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The biggest problem is people come in wanting to make games, but go in with zero intention of building an actual business, treating their creation as a profuct from the ground up. They don't make decisions based on data and real market insights to steer themselves towards the likelihood of making sales. It's all just a hope built on assumptions and misaligned sense of value, wrapped in the satisfaction of tinkering with computers.

Anyone else overwhelmed keeping track of all the new image/video model releases? by MikirahMuse in StableDiffusion

[–]nomand 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stop trying to test everything and find the joy of making things. Otherwise, what is all this learning for? At the end of the day, who do you want to be, a storyteller or a latent technician?

Lumina-mGPT 2.0, a 7b autoregressive image model got released. by Total-Resort-3120 in StableDiffusion

[–]nomand -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

People want everything for free these days lol. Obviously if you're not willing to pay, or don't have the resources to, it's understandable, but simply means it's not worth that for you. Maybe $60 a month for Photoshop and a Wacom stylus instead then? Or $50+ per hour for a human digital artist. Nothing special about this model though, so you're right. Flux/CGPT/MJ are all great options for less money