- I've been using it to automate behavior of an asset pipeline for a game. Basic stuff, like taking many assets and putting them in the right location, combining several things, rendering, on demand (not at runtime, but based on usage in the game), etc.
Neat thing too is it's in Rust, not Python.. because, well, i prefer and know Rust, and by doing it in Rust it works with the rest of my game code so that on-demand stuff i mention plugs in nicely to my existing ecosystem. Note that i'm using Py03 for Rust, so it's just Rust<->Python. Not native Rust support or anything
- > Early in the year I made the switch from Modo (by The Foundary) to Blender 3.x
Hah, that's me. Except i was out of CG for ~7 years or w/e. I used Modo extensively from 1.0 to .. i want to say 5.0 or something. Tons of modeling. I adored Modo for modeling. This was all before they were bought by Foundary or w/e, though. Back when it was Luxology.
Maybe you have an opinion here.. but how is Blender for modeling? Specifically when 3D Navigating. So far i've found Blender to be .. okay, like it has all or almost all the tools i remember from Modo... but something just feels different. Modo felt so fluid, intuitive. Especially with 3D navigation. Something just doesn't feel as good about 3D Nav compared to Modo. But i can't put my finger on it.
Regardless, Blender has so much power i absolutely adore it. I'm just trying to capture that fluidness that i had in Modo. Yet i can't articulate what it is. Which.. sucks, heh.
- Yea, this is kinda why i don't understand a lot of these off the shelf CRDT solutions. Like CRDTs for JSON.
I'm still trying to learn CRDTs; but early on in my learning process i had the thought that CRDTs don't have mere data types - as you say, they have Data Type + Conflict Resolution bundled into one. It's not enough to make a String type, because different types need to be resolved differently. Plus some types of resolution have a lot more metadata, so you want to choose the best fitting one.
I found that my goal to make SQL + CRDT meant i had to expose this combo of Type + Resolution to the end user. It seems essential to how the app works.
But maybe i don't know anything, /shrug. I'm still learning them.
- When can we run something like ChatGPT locally i wonder? Ie like StableDiffusion.
I'm kinda dying for that, honestly. I can't even imagine all the neat applications i'd make of ChatGPT if it was purely local.. but it would take all of my free time to play with it. It's so damn impressive.
- How does Org Mode handle Zettlekasten?
Also one thing i like about these alternate options is they work on my phone. I regularly use Obsidian on my phone to lookup information, jot things down, etc.
With that said i'm still looking (making.. maybe?) my perfect solution which is mostly just Selfhosted + Notes + Spaced Rep in the right UX.
- > That is the thing, outside of mass censorship it is unsolvable problem
Completely agree there. edit: Or rather, that it's an unsolved problem. I misread `able` for `ed`
> You either allow people to speak freely, in which case misinformation will spread, and emotions will be harmed. or you restrict speech eliminating the very concept of free expression > There is no utopia to be found here
Yes, those are the current available options. I'm not questioning that.
I'm challenging your assertion that we're capable. More specifically, saying we must acknowledge that we're not capable. We must acknowledge and identify the problem.
- > then proceed to advocate for mass censorship, you are functionally saying we need fact checkers the problem is I do not trust the fact checkers that have been appointed in the past because they have been proven to be partisan hacks that spread "approved" disinformation only dispelling unapproved disinformation
I did not, you misunderstand.
I merely advocate for acknowledging that humans are terrible at the things i pointed at. Which conversely, you seem to advocate that we are capable there. You can both identify that we are terrible at information and not advocate for surveillance/censorship. Why do you jump to those contrasts?
To think of it differently, we have to acknowledge we have a problem before we can fix it. Information is a gun, and we have not taken gun safety. We need tools and acknowledgement of our limitations before we can wield the power you so haphazardly throw around. I do not trust young children with guns. We are nothing more than children in our current state.
My previous post advocated that we don't pretend the children can handle guns safely without training and safety tooling. edit: That we should find ways to prove gun safety training / tooling, rather than remove guns (in this analogy lol)
- > Emotions are real, but is it not the public responsibility to manage your emotions. Each person, solely, is responsible for their own emotions. If "emotional harm" becomes the basis for what speech is allowed and what is not then we cease to have a culture of free expression
Yea, this is bunk. What do you think fuels things like mass hysteria? What do you think fuels illogical decisions made in mass?
I'm not advocating for mass censorship, but lets not pretend humans are either logical or capable of handling their own emotions. They're terrible at it. Look at any collection of humans. You can't walk forward without stubbing your toe over examples. Daily commute traffic is full of humans who can't manage their own emotions. edit: Even police know that human memory can't be trusted. What do you think fuels decisions we make, if our memory is so mutable?
Likewise, if it was just emotions up for discussion that would be one thing. But it's not, it's so much more. It's "facts". A mass information war is taking place. Standing on the sidelines saying again, people can handle it, has already been proven false. Repeatedly. People cannot nor will not handle it, at least without help.
The more quickly we recognize how horrible humans are at handling emotions and information ingestion the better we can make reasonable decisions about how to aid humans in actually making progress.
- Couldn't agree more. I love Nix (well, i have nits with the lang/UX), but Flakes is essential imo.
Using Nix without Flakes is going through 99% of the trouble for concrete, reproducible builds but then dropping the last 1%.
I had my non-Flake builds break like it was a mutable operating system. I just don't get why Flakes aren't the standard.
- > Well it is good thing for you all major platforms have the ablity to block, mute, or otherwise curate your experience, including sharing "block lists" and other innovations so your personal experience is what you make it to be
Why would i choose a platform where i have to moderate thousands of individuals? Ie what's the purpose in that lol?
Where is this world where we went from having Forums of communities to global cesspools where we want to manage what sort of nonsense shows up on the feed?
> We really have lost the cultural axiom "I may hate what you say, but I will defend your right to say it" haven't we.
I didn't say this, so your two replies in one feels odd. However, no one is stopping you from saying it. Say it all you want. I'm advocating a smaller forum where i don't have to listen to you say things to me that i'm uninterested in.
I'm not stopping you from being on the internet. From having electricity. Just like i'm fine with you yelling on the street corner.
I'm moving to the other side of the street. And you object to that, for some odd reason. Because by me moving, it doesn't give you a voice?
Edit: To sum it up, this isn't about safe spaces. This is about spam. There's only so much "Vaccines give you 5G!!!" i can put up with lol. Just like the guy on the street corner. Hard to have a conversation around that annoying screaming.
- > I do not agree, and it does not make me unhappy at all. I am late 70's child, I experienced the Wild West of the internet, nothing posted to twitter (or the chan's for that matter) shock me, or makes me unhappy
Yea, i did say "everyone" but i didn't actually mean everyone. Lots of people enjoy Facebook in all it's glory, too.
> Censorship is not the solution, never has been in history and never will be in the future.
My comment wasn't about Censorship, though. It was about people and a possibility that they may prefer categorized focused communities like many of us grew up with. Which may or may not include moderation (aka "censorship")
I certainly enjoyed the forums of old more than the modern day global scroll feed. But i prefer focused/categorized content, clearly.
My point wasn't that you do or don't. Merely to pose a question. A question (among many) that could dictate whether or not the Forums of old have a place in the modern day. Whether or not the global attention draw that is Twitter is actually desired. edit: Desired enough to keep it alive and "successful", at least.
- Agreed, but that's kinda the point in my eyes. Maybe a global forum with no moderation everyone can agree with is a bad thing? Ie maybe it makes everyone unhappy?
Everyone was on Facebook too. We're not all looking for Facebook 2.0 currently, are we? Yea, we have different form factors of social networks, definitely. But some (not all!) of the core features of Facebook were misguided or mismanaged. Some features of Facebook aren't looking to be replaced.
I'm not saying Mastodon is a replacement for Twitter. I'm simply saying maybe some features of Twitter aren't worth being replaced for many people.
- /shrug, depends on how people view the problem.
Smaller communities can be more focused and managed. Trying to get everyone in one place agreeing on one set of rules sounds impossible. At least federation has the potential to let groups exist differently as desired.
- Yea.. how does he expect this to be interpreted? Their stance hasn't changed.. cool, except before Twitter said some people posted hateful content, and banned them. Now they unbanned them, so what is the non-change?
Does twitter agree that the comments were hateful, did that not change? If didn't change, then twitter agrees they were hateful comments and twitter is now happy to have them on the platform.
Musk can't keep his foot out of his mouth here it seems.. it's very confusing.
- I'm starting to question how much he has ever. Has something changed with him? Or has he always been like this? If it's always been this rash, hasty and questionable then i can only imagine the real heroes are the people around him who managed to refine what he says and wants into tangible, achievable and coherent goals.
Regardless of whether or not you agree with his actions these days, it does at least seem a significant departure from how the public perceived his actions in the past. Over the past few years his actions have steadily grown more.. loud, at the very least.
.. It's.. interesting.
- Depends, does hotmail have gmail blocked? As in the case of Mastodon.art
- Ooo neat, i'll have to look into Groups. Thanks!
- > then why would you be concerned who mastodon.art is federated with? wouldn’t you just join there and enjoy the specific community…
Because the community is closed, currently lol.
> these seem to entirely contradict each other.
Yea, i think we agree? My point was (roughly) that Federation contradicts being part of a community if you rely on Federation to be part of the community.
Ie don't use federation if you need to be part of a specific community. And in my case, well, i guess i just don't join lol. If the community is at max capacity, too late. Maybe one day they open, but such is life. Federation isn't designed for this, it seems, and that's fine. "This" being, distributing a community. It seems communities are centralized.
- Eh, i disagree. If i have the option to join a niche community or be external to it - i feel you just made an argument against federation. I should join the community, so that i'm not arbitrarily blocked for reasons out of my control. If i get kicked out at least i'll know, and it was likely due to my own actions.
Ie imagine mastodon.art has a good Blender community. I'm joining Mastodon for exactly that community. If i join mastodon.social, i may as well .. not. It's blocked by mastodon.art. It's not even worth my time signing up if my goal is to be part of a specific community.
I'm not trying to build a general audience or have my general posts heard by the public. I'm trying to be part of a specific community. Federation seems bad here, if the community you're interested in is not fully open at least. As mastodon.art most certainly is not.
- > unless they or their admin has blocked you or your instance. Just like any federated network.
That's kinda the part i'm questioning though. You as a user have to look at how each server handles federation to know what is visible.. maybe?
For sake of argument, it might be possible to one-way-federate. Ie read posts from mastodon.art, but if i reply my post might not be seen by mastodon.art users. This is just an example, i have no clue, but i'm illustrating where confusing could arise as rules get more complex on how federation works.
Hopefully it's black and white. If i as a user can see mastodon.art posts, then they can see me. Anything more complex than that (like one-way federation) would be prevented by the software for sake of a simplified UX.
- Oh no worries, though i'm happy to better understand your thoughts on this subject. I don't think you generalized me either, we're still exchanging information/facts in this discussion. Apologies if i came off harsh.
I just think it's safe to say that i'm definitely not addicted to traditional social media.. by the fact that i'm not on any of them. I'd be willing to accept the argument that i am addicted to HN, though i do think i take reasonable steps to mitigate that.
BUT, i'm not sure if you'd classify HN as Social Media in the same way that FB/Twitter is.
- Really good point. You could estimate if a [deleted] comment might be from [account X], but you'd only have that one comment to compare. The rest might be from other accounts.
So yea, you'd probably end up with a pile of comments that are more likely linked to [account X], but many of them wouldn't actually be. It would add a ton of noise into the system.
- If you reply to people on something like .art, would they see your post? I need to read the spec about how federation works, as i have no clue haha.
Which might be a significant barrier. Non-tech users might have no clue who sees what. If ServerA can talk to ServerB. etc
- Not sure what that has to do with my use case. I'm not interested in what Joey from school did, you are correct. That's why i'm not on Facebook.
If Joey started creating Art in the category i'm interested in then i would be. Because i'm interested in the content, specifically. Mastodon feels a good platform to push and pull said content, when compared to Forums at least.
You seem to be arguing something entirely outside of what i'm describing. As if my use case is somehow a misguided drug addiction that i don't even have yet. Remember, i've not and never have been on FB/Twitter. How can you equate me to a cigarette smoker when i don't yet smoke?
- Not sure i follow. I said i didn't need one because, well, i don't believe i do. Good evidence of this is that i have not, and do not currently, have one. Nor have i ever used Twitter, Facebook or any social platform beyond link aggregators. And even with link aggregators i've rotated accounts and/or deleted history frequently as a way to undermine "identity", which to me is vital to social networks.
With that said, lately i've been in the process for searching for one because of the reasons i stated above. I'm looking for a like-minded community on Art stuffs. A forum will do, but microblogging seems to be more inlined with my desired, as i described above.
I guess to reword my previous post; "social networks" can have different applications in my view. In the case of microblogging, i like the idea more as a Forum flipped on it's head to reduce friction on content posting.
- Because Bezos wasn't even remotely as attention seeking as Musk is.
You're asking why someone seeking attention got attention. Which.. shouldn't really be surprising, should it?
- How does federation propagation happen?
Ie if i start my own server, how quickly could someone on, say, mastodon.art see my posts? Would they even see them at all?
I use them as an example, because i know they're fairly locked down on who they federate with. In doing so, maybe they only whitelist? Maybe they blacklist? Maybe they automatically blacklist any servers that aren't perfectly aligned with their own blacklist?
Federation feels a bit convoluted in a way that email doesn't. Then again email became so convoluted that only a few big players are even really allowed.. so maybe Mastodon is heading in the same direction?
- I don't "need" one, but i appreciate their ability for community. Ie i'm in the mood for a semi-niche Computer Graphics community. There's something about Microblogging that i find.. interesting. Something like a Forum, say Reddit or an actual Forum is so.. purposeful. Does my WIP post warrant an actual forum post? Likely not. Something about Microblogging seems more fit for WIP posts of artwork/etc, tech thoughts, etc. Likewise i enjoy subscribing to other peoples content in the same nature.
The barrier for forums seems to be large enough that the posts that get submitted are often finished works only.. at least in my experience. To me that's less interesting.
- Yea.. i guess it's time to stop bothering with alt accounts/etc. I'll just make one account, maybe differently named on different services (makes scraping just a _pinch_ easier) but aside from that all i can do is modify/remove old posts.
Bit of a shame for useful posts/discussions.. but the internet is getting really.. finger print laden.
I've been getting into Blender for the last few months. Previously i was used to paying ZBrush, Modo and etc 500+ dollars for Licensing, and it's kinda shocking how much functionality you get in Blender for free.
I just signed up for the lowest tier. Not sure how much i want to spare a month, but i can definitely spare a coffee and month and it is well, well worth it. Much thanks to the entire team on Blender, you folks rock :)