@kas@enotty.dk I probably get a slightly-suboptimal lossily-compressed image. Or maybe I get the same image that I would have had I not bothered to give it a preset hint.
@kas@enotty.dk is pretty great, but there’s no equivalent widely-available functionality for background images, which is a real pity. Just imagine — hero images that take up half the space!
I tried cwebp -preset photo -o foo.webp foo.jpeg on a preview image and it was imperceptibly worse at the sizes I expected to show it. Then again, I don’t really care that you can’t read the nutrition labels on a jar in the background of the subject.
So far I can: create Linux binaries; package them up with a kernel into a bootable image; run it on Qemu or Linode.
/meta @ckipp@chronica.xyz About images, sure, I understand it’s useless for CLI-only use. But if we added our own format, maybe something like Markdown
would work?/meta @ckipp@chronica.xyz Regarding potential new features, maybe some kind of search box? And is there a way to embed images or other media?
Find Common Colours in an Image ⌘ Read more…
The unveiling of the new era name should be a meme template:
I art-directed a website. The end boss was finding out how to make the black parts of a black-on-transparent image a light gray after finding out that CSS can’t do this itself yet.
Robert Fludd and His Images of The Divine – The Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/2011/09/13/robert-fludd-and-his-images-of-the-divine/
Trendism is the logic of the Spectacle applied recursively: the image doesn’t matter, but whether or not the appearance of its appearance appears is worth arbitrary millions.
New repository: aquilax/img2ascii - Image to ascii converter/library
Used my first webp image today. Took me a bit to figure out that I needed to put width: 100% on the img element, not on its enclosing picture element.
The Assimilation of Text by Image http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/the-assimilation-of-text-by-image/
Anybody have a good reference for japanese subcultures from the 60s to the 80s with images of the fashion? I’m trying to remember the name of a kind of non-bosozoku predecessor of the yanki…
New repository: aquilax/colorcount - Command line tool to count colors used in image
Bad idea of the day: supercut of every numinous image set to yakkity sax
Bunny-Girl Senpai is an interesting show. It seems to be going for a theme with the various arcs: each one seems to be about how communications media change our behavior & self-image by exerting social pressure with expectations.
Discussing Isekai, Part 1: Overlord, Isekai Maou, and Isekai Smartphone as Communicative Images - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMtHFGK0hm4
@tx@shroom.party A lot of the original ‘text’ on social media is already an image, so sharing it as screenshot is not even the root cause.
Bad idea of the day: An algorithm that creates textual descriptions of images watches TV, creating a description from each frame, which is then used to generate a new image & the video is resynthesized
reject automatability, reject reproducibility, reject text, images, representation, make art in the circumstance and nothing more
Bad idea of the day: a robot that spills or dribbles paint onto canvas until the image is recognized as an object, then names the painting after that object.
[after mindswap]↵”hey this is an outrage why do I still have the same body”↵”well we had to take care of body image, muscle memory, the parts of your aesthetic preferences located in your guts and skin, etc etc, it adds up”
The key to creating gorgeous, glitchy YouTube images: anticipation and deletion - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/15/17564588/datamosh-youtubeartifacts-glitch-art-kraftsow
The biology of disinformation: http://www.iftf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/images/DigIntel/SR-2002_IFTF_Biology_of_disinformation_tk_042618.pdf
life hex: leash-training your dog can be a pain. Instead, make an effigy of your dog, and wrap around it twine made from his own hair, while chanting ‘I bind you to this image’. Pop the poppet in your pocket and off you go
Band name of the day: blood and image
Young women on tumblr tagging their selfies ‘cursed image’ is probably a thread with some deep & interesting sociological research on the end if somebody with a PhD tugs on it.
Bad idea of the day: use those ear-mounted accelerometers that normally wake people who are dozing off at the wheel to instead redden the display, replace desktop background with surreal and dreamlike images, fade in quiet calming ambient music, raise the thermostat
What lies behind the simplistic image of the happy Buddhist? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-lies-behind-the-simplistic-image-of-the-happy-buddhist
Bad idea of the day: a prolog repl, except pred definitions are checked in reverse definition order and all pred definitions not starting with underscore are persistent. you can export the persistent environment image as a regular prolog file.
Bad idea of the day: an extension that decreases the size of images based on how many copies of similar images are already in your browser cache
TIL: doing google image search for ‘japanese ’ is useless for finding reference images for contemporary japanese architecture. ‘anime ’ works much better.
New repository: aquilax/mobile-background-image-generator - Solid color background image generator
The human brain’s bandwidth for visual images is s… https://aeon.co/ideas/the-human-brains-bandwidth-for-visual-images-is-severely-limited
Old Book Illustrations: Free Archive Lets You Download Beautiful Images From the Golden Age of Book Illustration | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2015/12/old-book-illustrations.html
My #searx is no proxying images per default (proxy works now, no more status 500): https://search.mdosch.de
webGL shader was supposed to fade from one image to another, over a number of frames. It did this instead. : glitch_art https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/comments/78zn6l/webgl_shader_was_supposed_to_fade_from_one_image/
webGL shader was supposed to fade from one image to another, over a number of frames. It did this instead. : glitch_art https://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art/comments/78zn6l/webgl_shader_was_supposed_to_fade_from_one_image/
recursive eyes that display their own image, every blink triggering a wave inwards; realtime renders of flashing synapses
@kas@enotty.dk, @freemor@freemor.homelinux.nete I’m waiting for the first image to be send with twtxt… :)
@kas@enotty.dk, @freemor@freemor.homelinux.nete I’m waiting for the first image to be send with twtxt… :)
In old pictures of her, her image seems to try to escape the photograph: Hiding behind family members, wandering off, fading into static
cursed image: the rubik’s cube solves to show the same color on all sides
project idea: hook up a cam to a chladni plate and then do gradient descent on the audio signal to display images↵https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/812778890422849537
we have temples in every simulation↵at mass, there will be blessed pancakes in the image of our universe stack, drenched in holy maple syrup
She smashes the mirror but her image stays whole. It’s parts of her that float in the room, bloodless but disconnected.
Pandemic 2 but you play a meme and get to choose from various starting forms: Snowclone, image macro, urban legend, ideology
god is dreaming and us being made in its image is simply pareidolia
scenes of utter depravity↵[zooms onto a furry roleplay chat]↵[subliminal images of a VR gimpsuit]↵[someone self-liking their entire feed]
the mosquitoes here penetrate skulls to suck ideas↵if you swat one, it’ll leave an ink-black smear of words and images on your palm
Advances in image recognition show certain classes of captcha solvers to be vulnerable to Langford inputs. Antispam quickly weaponizes this.
@allgebrah I recommend to google-images what that is http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/744991210960470017/photo/1
wild stories roam dreamtime and gobble up drifting images↵dreamers hunt them for sport, domesticate them, lock them in books, cages of paper
images of these predators (for us, indistinguishable from normal fire) are carved on some furniture to scare off the gentler vegetarian fire
fascinating possibility: we really are made in the world soul’s image because its own kind are the patterns it is disposed to see
the eye in the wall opens, takes you in↵you see your image on the other side↵whatever mind is behind that eye, you’re part of it now
New repository: aquilax/piserv - PHP image server
Xfce in NixOS
NixOS now supports Xfce, a
modern, light-weight desktop environment. It can be enabled by
setting the NixOS configuration value
services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce.enable to
true. ( Screenshot) ⌘ Read more
Как ли се превежда image board на български ?
OpenOffice.org 3 in Nixpkgs
Lluís Batlle has updated OpenOffice.org in Nixpkgs to 3.0.1
( screenshot). ⌘ Read more
KDE 4.2 in Nixpkgs/NixOS
We now have a fairly complete set of KDE 4.2 packages in Nixpkgs
and NixOS. Previously we had KDE 3.5, but it was rather
incomplete: just kdelibs and kdebase.
Now we have all that desktop goodness, such as
kdemultimedia, kdenetwork and kdegames.
You can enable KDE 4 in NixOS by setting the
services.xserver.sessionType option to
kde4. Thanks go to Yury G. Kudryashov, And … ⌘ Read more
New NixOS ISOs
New NixOS installation CD images for i686 and
x86_64 are available,
which is a good thing as the previous ones were already a few
months old. The new images are Nix 0.11-based, contain Memtest86+ as a
convenience, should support more SATA drives, an … ⌘ Read more
OpenOffice in Nixpkgs
Nixpkgs ( screenshot of\ OpenOffice 2.2.1 running under NixOS, and another\ screenshot). Despite being a rather gigantic package (it
takes two hours to compile on an In … ⌘ Read more
NixOS progress report
Finally we can run all those legacy\ applications… Thanks to Michael Raskin for adding Wine
and a NPTL-enabled Glibc (which Wine seems to need). This is a
nice application of purely functional package composition, by
the way: Wine didn’t work with the standard Glibc in Nixpkgs, … ⌘ Read more
We now have KDE running on
NixOS ( obligatory\
screenshot). Just kdebase for now (Martin
Bravenboer already added kdelibs a long time ago so
that we could run the wonderful KCachegrind),
but it contains all the important stuff (Konqueror, KDesktop,
Kicker, Konsole, Control Center, … ⌘ Read more
NixOS progress report
NixOS is now almost usable as a desktop OS ;-). We
have an X server, a bunch of Gnome packages, basic wireless
support, and of course all the applications in Nixpkgs that we
had all along running on other Linux distributions. Here are a
few screenshots:
- X server\
with Compiz window manager.
- [Emacs a … ⌘ Read more
