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I feel these tools are destined to be mostly used as content generators - I'm happy to be proven otherwise but they've been around a while now and aside from a few pop videos I've …

When you say "Things then get better and better with each model release." How far behind are models that can be run locally, and do you expect that this will be widespread?

I read it that strong emotions have a signature that's processed differently in the context of data points vs the context of human interaction in meatspace. It feels to me like an …

I'm an adult with a fairly balanced view of AI and I find it difficult to learn coding without occasionally using AI to help me navigate to the most relevant bits of MDN or help me…

My partner was working at an event and a co-worker had prepared a poster using AI - a teenage kid at the event pointed out how the poster "has AI smudges". Gotta love that - the te…

We use Teams at work and when you choose the icon it takes you to a screen that has a large icon of a door with a rope in front of it. From there you get to choose Teams on web or …

I also took it that the benefit of being a good photographer and not using digital is that you take less photos and may end up more efficient as a result. I could be wrong but it's…

I've often mused about how people get irritated by others being optimistic about change when the observers have tried change in the past and not been able to maintain it. I feel th…

As someone who has eaten way too much sugary food I think my gut-brain coupling may have had enough of this. A few weeks ago I had a sugar binge one night and the cognitive effects…

It simply depends on what your needs are IMO - You can do great magazine design in Affinity, brochures, flyers, logos all that stuff. The only thing I'd miss in InDesign is image e…

Shout out to those who give their time to open-source free to use projects. You make the internet a more tolerable place.

There's also the poll that was conducted by penn state - It found that 82% of Israelis want to expel Gazans, and 47% of support killing all Palestinians in Gaza. Article was featur…

I had a break from ChatGPT for a few months and got back onto it last week with some questions about game engines. I noticed that this time it's asking a lot of stuff when it looks…

In response to this, I was going to craft a comment that critiqued the critiques and began with the same wording as the critiques but instead I'll say this... A nuanced critique! -…

I'm keen to make a vector game and want something fast. I was excited to read about this thing but when I saw Lottie it made me think that the animations would be quite closed data…

Flat silhouetted icons have a more versatile set of contexts - much like flat text does. Sure, you can express a lot in an icon that's 3D and whatnot but it needs its own stage to …

An elderly friend of my partner's family had her Facebook account hacked some time ago. Every so often, I get a friend request from an account using her avatar with the same name, …

As someone who has no interest in using this facility, I find it interesting that the author 'enjoys' BNPL, when they are not the main customer (unless I'm mistaken, it's people wi…

Runaway Play I also hear good things about Dinosaur Polo Club

I came across a game studio a few years ago here in NZ that does it right. I worked in a hot desk place that housed their studio in a space - they were never working past 5.30, had…

I wonder what the chances are if there's a few of them within the Boötes void. It's pretty big.

I'm in my 50s and I'm currently mulling the conundrum of being an artist and designer with art and design side projects, and now having them sidelined by a new-found interest in p5…

Try hovering over the symbols on the card - though I couldn't get the morph one to work on Firefox

I love this - shout out from the Southern Hemisphere though - would love to see our version of it.