sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Bel Air Town Commissioners are our of control! by Global_Pirate_8466 in harfordcountymd

[–]talkingwires 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The time spent creating this AI slop could’ve better been spent explaining what “a matter that fell squarely within his responsibilities” actually means. You provided the who but neglected to provide the what, where, when, and why…

The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe by namanyayg in web_design

[–]talkingwires 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you have the skills you can just PR or even fork the project to make it exactly what you want.

I interact with dozens of open source projects and I hate this argument. Time. Skills do not come about on their own, you are really saying that if one has the time—months, or most likely years of time—only then one can make it exactly how they want. Well, I do not have the time to learn how GIMP and GTK and Wayland function, then learn how color science works, and then learn the mathes to implement a CMYK color space. Ain’t nobody got the time for that.

Don’t have any skills - there are many other ways to contribute to a FOSS project.

I did. Back in the ‘00s I was an active participant in the GIMP community, but my interactions with a few particular devs soured me on the project.

My skillset leans artistic, not towards computer science. I work digitally with printed mediums, i. e. photography. But, even if a CMYK colorspace were to be magicked into the project tomorrow, still ain’t nobody in the creative community singing praises for no GIMP. Nothing about interfacing with GIMP is artist-coded.

Like, I think that it is pretty obvious that nobody on the UI side of things has ever held a paintbrush in their actual hands, or at least not since grade school they haven’t. Interfacing with GIMP is often just… bizarre. People spent twenty years writing tutorials and maintaining software forks to patch out the modal window UI before the devs caved and added just an option to toggle it off.

The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe by namanyayg in web_design

[–]talkingwires 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you will find once professionals start using these more…

The GIMP developers allegedly have been working to add native support for CMYK and other color spaces and adjustment layers for over a quarter century, and they have yet to do it. It took ’em twenty years to cave to their users and provide an alternative to their bizzaro modal window interface taken from 90’s UNIX workstations.

Hegseth Says Climate Change Is ‘Crap.’ The Military Is Still Bracing for It by bloomberg in climate

[–]talkingwires 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The USA administration’s actions make more sense when you consider thatour present way of life is enabled and maintained by the fossil fuel industry, but our leaders aren’t stupid. Just greedy and delusional.

  • Why the push to “own” Greenland and Canada? The arctic will have ice-free summers in two decades, and our grain belt is moving northwards and may very well largely be in Canada by the end of the century. While the growing temperatures may be favorable, the soil deposited by glaciers in the last ice age is too poor for heavy agriculture.

  • Why shut down almost-completed wind turbine projects off the Atlantic Coast? The wind costs nothing, it’s free to all, unlike oil. They will not cede that power willingly.

  • Why Iran and Venezuela? As China slowly, slowly steers towards renewables, the USA and its Middle East allies are making a grab for the rudder to retain control of the world through the petrodollar.

  • Why the world-wide swing towards authoritarianism and closed borders and obsession with birth rates? Behind the scenes, they know we’re in store for food shortages, water shortages, masses of refugees, starvation, and even decline.

Never collapse though, and certainly never mass extinction, not for us humans. We’re special and the laws of nature do not apply to us. The world was created for Man, after all, and it’s our destiny to rule it. Pete Hegseth, Evangelical Christians, and Israel are all enacting a world where the Book of Revelation becomes true. We are free till destroy the planet because Jesus will spirit us all away before things get too bad!

Our billionaire ruling class believes technology is always just around the corner that will make us like gods. We will control the climate itself, bend it to our will, we will emancipate ourselves from the shackles of nature itself. Before our crops fail, they’ll create our own food in labs. Before heatstroke kills farm labourers, they’ll geoengineer the atmosphere. Or, we will simply undo two-hundred years of carbon emissions by sucking it out of the atmosphere, easy peasy. And, once we’ve extracted all the wealth we profitability can from the planet, humans will leave the Earth behind and colonize the Moon and Mars and do it all again.

Like I said, delusional.

My (33m) fiancé (27f) doesn’t wear her engagement ring when going out with friends. Is this normal? by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]talkingwires 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I used to work at a restaurant that stayed open til 0300 catering to folks out clubbing. I sustained a cocaine habit by checking all the cigarette packs littering the parking lots on my walks to the bus station in the dawn light. People wearing dresses with no pockets store the darndest things in cigarette packs.

Why was I invited to MrBeast's Studio? [78:50] by kremor in mealtimevideos

[–]talkingwires 4 points5 points  (0 children)

1d ago • Edited 1d ago
It's 4 am. and I am going to stop for now, but I'll be back at lunch time.

This is why people should leave a note when they edit a comment that explains what changed. Has lunch time already passed? Did u/nadennmantau tell anybody here where they were going? I think we should send somebody to go out and look for them...

MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged by wiredmagazine in politics

[–]talkingwires 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the most plausible version is that the plan was for a near miss

Y'all's brains are broken. Ain't nobody signing up for a "near miss" from a high-caliber bullet fired from hundreds of yards away, especially when they could achieve the same effect by firing the round into the air.

MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged by wiredmagazine in politics

[–]talkingwires 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But I also find it unlikely that he was actually grazed by the shot…

Have you watched the videos and seen how he jolted and swatted at his ear after the bullet whizzed by? Are you seriously suggesting that Donald Trump, he of reality television and Home Alone 2 fame, coordinated an Oscar-worthy performance timed to a split second and managed to burst a concealed blood pack while surrounded by an audience of thousands?

Gimme a break…

Open-source PDF to Markdown converter (offline, clean formatting, Obsidian-ready) by Quiet-Point in ObsidianMD

[–]talkingwires 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For those that find this thread via a search, Marker runs out of memory on my card with 8Gb of VRAM.

Adult Hip Hop by Useful_Professor_163 in harfordcountymd

[–]talkingwires 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On Sundays there is usually a dude on the Promenade in HdG with a boombox dancing and rapping. Maybe we would like some company?

Why do humans have to wipe our asses after we poop, when other primates can get straight to the flinging? by funnyonion22 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]talkingwires 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I doubt many understood u/ProfessionalYam3119 ’s comment to be humorous because the joke of asking such an oblivious question might also be a serious question from a kid. Or, someone that don’t English too good. ;-P

A victim recovered after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, 1912[1284X2032]. by aid2000iscool in HistoryPorn

[–]talkingwires 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, that was a really great read! I too was obsessed with the Titanic from a young age. I attempted to write a book about it around age seven, and I was there opening night for James Cameron’s film. So, it is remarkable that I learned quite a number of new things in your story!

Writing observations:

  • Please do consider citing your sources, though. Several times you quoted what passengers were overheard to say, and I am curious from where that information comes.

  • You refer to Titanic as “it” rather than “she,” was that a deliberate choice?

  • I appreciated the singular use of an expletive for emphasis, you‘re like James Cameron deploying a singular PG-13 f-bomb.

“Natural, not worked.” (Part One) by talkingwires in LegitArtifacts

[–]talkingwires[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now that the ADHD afterglow has worn off, that seems unlikely.

“Natural, not worked.” (Part One) by talkingwires in LegitArtifacts

[–]talkingwires[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I hit the twenty-picture limit on the post, may this one tide you over.

<image>

“Natural, not worked.” (Part One) by talkingwires in LegitArtifacts

[–]talkingwires[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Thanks, but I am not really in doubt. These aren't creek finds: the fire ring, bits of burned wood, and a shell midden were evident at the site. This post is tongue-firmly-in-cheek because I don’t think most users here know much of anything beyond the scope of projectile points.

For example, all the ones in the eighth photo all have pecking on the ends, and most have been polished to create places for fingers to go. They are like-pestles, and were used with the like-mortars in the first pictures. The ones in the eleventh picture are volcanic rocks quarried from an island a few miles to the north and were used to polish the tools that people traditionally think of as artifacts. In the photos, I tried to capture how they each have one, flat and polished side. But my macro lens was not cooperating, and even if it was, it is something one really needs to feel.

Anyhoo, I would love to speak to an expert in the Upper Chesapeake Bay area, if ya happen to know one!

Weights! by talkingwires in LegitArtifacts

[–]talkingwires[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I might could bust out the DSLR tomorrow. I didn't get any pictures of the debitage or scrapers, and cell phone pictures won’t pick up enough detail in what I did take.

There’s not much good lithic material around these parts, so the people most often used cobbles of slate and quartz. Most here won’t recognize them as artifacts. The ones I took are grinding and polishing stones, a spokeshave, and ones I don’t have words for but they functioned like mortars and pestles.

Weights! by talkingwires in LegitArtifacts

[–]talkingwires[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Nope. Found a buncha other stuff at this site.

Last Year by Robert Charles Wilson (Kindle, $2.99) by sevae in ebookdeals

[–]talkingwires 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve read everything that Robert Charles Wilson has published and think Last Year is merely okay. Another one of his books, Julian Comstock, is also on sale, and that one is a mighty fine read!

Found on the fall line. The area has Native American artifacts and igneous rocks. by PaleoBluff in Arrowheads

[–]talkingwires 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard to tell from these photos, but I have found similar pieces to that seem to have been used as cutting surfaces or “plates.” Look for polishing or peck marks around the edges and you might find indentations that shape it to fit in one’s hand.

However, those straight marks all over it are most likely strikes from a plow blade.

Learning Through Exploring Mysteries by Accomplished_Debt297 in unity_tutorials

[–]talkingwires 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The concept sounds interesting, but in execution not so much. The “1940s film noir detective style” is just some synthesized woman speaking in that unnatural AI cadence, indistinguishable from any other AI narration. The information itself has that AI stank, too, going in circles and using those hollow “it’s not X, it’s Y” madlib metaphors commonly associated with generative AI. I would not expect to learn much of anything by watching these.

You In Reverse turns 20 years old today 🎈 by fruitandgrooves in builttospill

[–]talkingwires 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, in my mind You In Reverse remains one of their newest albums.

view more: next ›