#intuitive computing

[techsrcry]

Да будет открыто

Здравствуй, странник по Сети — будь ты сознательным путником, идущим по следу магического импульса, или случайной искрой, что кликнула на рандомную ссылку в поисковике. Рад приветствовать тебя в этих чертогах техномагии.

Техномагия, как я её понимаю, — это чудеса цифровой инфраструктуры, что трудно постичь без особой подготовки духа и ума. Я отношусь к компьютерным процессам как к проявлениям магии — ведь граница между наукой и волшебством всегда была зыбкой. Любой алгоритм, виртуальная машина, поток данных — это ритуал, в котором скрыта сила, способная изменить реальность.

Это мой новый уголок в Tumblr, где я, чародей командной строки, создатель собственного пути между мирами и просто любитель чая, буду делиться своим путём в мире техномагии.

Старый блог? Он где-то в цифровых архивах. А здесь — свежий старт. Хроника другого меня.

Моё имя? Назови, как тебе угодно. Главное — идеи, которые я пытаюсь поймать между кодом, снами и реальностью. В этом месте важны не имена, а Суть, что проскальзывает между строк.

Здесь ты найдёшь:

размышления о том, как ритуалы, код и интуиция сплетаются в одно;

цифровые находки и лайф��аки, что работают лучше любых талисманов;

фрагменты из снов и символов, и тех совпадений, что встречаются в повседневном;

строки кода, что звучат как заклинания;

немного фотографий, немного артов, немного поэзии, — всё, что напоминает: мир полон чудес, если смотреть внимательно.

Ты не обязан верить в магию. Она тихая. Она не спешит.

Иногда это просто взгляд, что цепляется за странную деталь. Иногда — инсайт посреди рутины.

Если ты тоже чувствуешь, что реальность многослойна — добро пожаловать.

Будь собой. Будь странником. Будь магом. И пусть твой путь будет полон совпадений, за которыми скрывается смысл.

[daftpatience]

what animation softwear is everyone using now for like the fun memes. please dont say its blender i cant get the grease pencil to stop being gray

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

training someone you're friends with is so awkwarddddd

[chaotpayaso]

My mob psycho ocs shinju and kōji

They’re best friends

They're gonna be on artfight, drop ur users, mine under the cut, i do pretty attacks guys

[eyes1nthewoods]

not to be a nihilistic doomer, but we definitely aren't going back to a pre-generative ai world. the hyper-consumerist capitalistic society we live in will not allow that to happen. anything that can be used to drive up profits can and will be done, including and especially at the expense of humanity and the world at large. we will see it eventually become normalized, and some day the world will see anti-ai sentiment as technophobic fearmongering (which, admittedly, some of it is.)

just because stuff currently made with ai is bad doesn't mean it will stay bad. the people who created it are constantly working toward the goal of it eventually being indistinguishable from human-made art of the highest caliber. there will eventually be ai-generated content that may seem creative or competently made, even if it wasn't.

this is not cause for despair. this does not mean that even in the face of this inevitability, you should kowtow to the will of megacorporations. don't purchase or interact with or ANYTHING made with it unless you absolutely have to. keep making art. of course, i say this as someone who doesn't make art professionally, so i have the luxury of not having to worry about it taking my source of income. i hope that my fellow artists who are at risk of such a possibility continue to make art. i hope people still take interest in learning to make art. it has never been more important to encourage beginners to keep going. please keep making art. please keep writing. please.

[spectrology]

just got epic praise at work

[onsomekindofstartrek]

I just remember my advisor at the college telling me in the early 2010’s how AI was going to be a problem and how glad he was that he wasn’t going to live to see the worst of it. He passed early this year.

I laughed him off, and I feel sometimes that I’m living in my own personal karmic hell for that.

He was more hip to what was going on than I thought. He knew that killer robots would be a thing in some small way, in fact I think he knew back then about the robot dogs in their earliest incarnation, but I think he knew exactly where the real problem lay: in the things AI and robotics would allow people with power to do.

He talked a lot about manipulation of the press, so I can’t imagine the deepfake problem escaped him for even a moment—the man was older than the boomers and barely knew how to turn on a modern computer, by the way, but he knew what would come with better and better computing power. He talked a lot about the devaluing of the truth and the ability of those with power to circulate “alternative facts.”

I don’t doubt in his own way he called the problems we’re seeing with LLM’s, ten years ahead of time, if not in specifics then in general substance.

But god, it’s all so much stupider than he made it sound. This really is the stupidest version of the future.

[rebellum]

Begging and puking and crying and begging everyone over the age of 50 to check with younger relatives or friends before buying a computer

Please For The Love Of Everything Good In The World Don't Get A Chrome Book It's SO Hard To Troubleshoot

[dullahandyke]

also re looking at the laptops of ppl in front of you in lectures, its actually doing wonders for my perceptions of the average computer user's tech literacy. im so used to circles on here being like 'and of course we're all on firefox with these 6 extensions and digging the algorithms out of our operating systems' meanwhile today in a lecture i saw someone with a lenovo driver pinned to their taskbar. ???

[in-fair-verona-we-set-our-scene]

*gnaws on the bars of my cage like a feral animal* I hate pacing I hate writing I hate not going on long tangents that don't effect the plot I hate trying to keep the story moving I am going to explode

[voidimp]

since ive been hearing this a lot lately bc of the whole steam not supporting win7 anymore,

SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT LINUX

thanks :)

[starspaceace]

my wol is just gonna live in the tempest for a while in lancetfish jail bc i have one mora tecta caught so. until i can catch one right before a lancetfish window im there i guess

[elfntr]

In conventional MS-DOS 8086 ASM, you display a single character by loading a value into AX and calling interrupt 0x10 so like

MOV AH,0Eh ;tells int 10h to do teletype output MOV AL,"H" ;character to print INT 10h

now, AH and AL here are two 8-bit halves of the 16bit register AX (the high byte and low byte respectively) which means that this display method means conventional MS-DOS can only use up to 256 characters-- and don't forget that this includes control characters like say, line feed, carriage return, escape, so on... not just printed characters. To display a newline in 8086 MS-DOS ASM you can do:

MOV AX,0E0Ah INT 10h MOV AL,0Dh INT 10h

(i shortened the first command compared to the original snippet because you now understand the relationship between AX, AH, and AL, dear reader. This saves a few CPU clocks :)

So you're pretty limited on the number of characters you can display.... and that's why PC-98 MS-DOS is not binary compatible with standard flavor MS-DOS XD

Like, you can display 65536 characters if you use an entire 16-bit register for the character code and use another register to call the print operation, but first you need to have a reason to do this and to actually do it.

[adelaidedrubman]

ah yes the obligatory hurdle of accessing the medication prescribed by your doctor that is teaching the pharmacist how to use their own damn computer

[demo-ness]

i keep seeing people list out like 7+ gd steps to find the blog settings for the new opt-out toggle. there's instead ONE easy step you can do:

go to tumblr.com/settings/blog/blogName

but then replace "blogName" with the name of the blog you would like to toggle this for. the opt-out toggle will be at the end of the Visibility heading on this page

[chewwytwee]

The real thing the conversation around AI needs is a reality check. AI isn't good at making things, and it absolutely can't make anything without massive human involvement. When digital music was first becoming a thing it was very scary for musicians because 'why would anyone want to hire someone to play music when they can just download a sample of it?!', and that was a very well founded fear that didn't end up being entirely false. Many people use exclusively digital sampling to make their music, and the field for live musicians has definitely shrank, but I think people are way too prone to idolize the glorious period of 'artistic purity' before digital production became a thing. Generative AI models are certainly scary, and it will definitely change the landscape for art online, but let's temper our expectations because honestly AI generated art is just in general pretty boring and uninteresting. Anyone can generate any prompt they could come up with, but art has a lot more to do with symbolism and narrative than it does with the literal images or tangible aspects of any piece of art.