Eugen Rochko

Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog.

Eugen Rochko
Gargron@mastodon.social

Today's mastodon.social update brings some improvements to the video player in Mastodon's web app. You can double-tap the video to enter and exit full screen, the controls will disappear once your mouse stops moving, and a new indicator will show you which function you triggered when you press a hotkey (like "m" to mute or "arrow up" to increase volume).

12 hours ago
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Eugen Rochko
Gargron@mastodon.social

Another portrait. Two Arri tungsten lights, one at 90° with a softbox and one at 45° without, but aiming at the hair. No gels this time. There was also a reflector but I forgot to move it for this pose so it's kind of irrelevant.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
👤 @Ameboid
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

2 days ago
Gargron shared a status by mothcub
mothcub
mothcub@mastodon.social

The baguette is the key.

1 day ago
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Dan Gillmor
dangillmor@mastodon.social

The words "detain" and "detention" have definitions that are mostly benign -- e.g. "detained by traffic on the way to lunch" and "grade-school kid has after-class detention..."

That's why using "was detained" is carrying water for ICE when the reality is "was kidnapped off the street and imprisoned..."

Journalism needs to be much more precise, but that would require less stenography and more thinking before publishing.

1 day ago
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tante
tante@tldr.nettime.org

The way "AI" systems are presented as "social companions to fight loneliness" is very similar in how "AI" is supposed to help teaching: Both are founded in a massive misunderstanding of the social dynamics techies try to replace.

You friend isn't just a thing to send you text, they're not a service. Being taught also ins't a mere service, it's a transformative experience that changes you and your teacher.

1 day ago
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The Seven Voyages Of Steve
sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place

I do think LLMs capture the zeitgeist in one way: that we’re all supposed to just accept that things are a bit shite all the time, in tech and otherwise. That it’s just how things are & we shouldn’t expect better. Shut up, accept the slop, things getting worse, the enshittification. It’s just the way things are.

No, piss off. Things can be better, we’ve done it before. Just because some people can’t or won’t remember, doesn’t mean we all have to accept their low standards.

3 days ago
Eugen Rochko
Gargron@mastodon.social

I have to say, I am really disappointed Devin Townsend's featured AI-generated art projections. They were uncanny and distracting at best even if you look past the ethics of it. And now it's occupying my mind and distracting me from talking about the actual music of his 10 years in the making project...

2 days ago
Eugen Rochko
Gargron@mastodon.social

Another portrait. Two Arri tungsten lights, one at 90° with a softbox and one at 45° without, but aiming at the hair. No gels this time. There was also a reflector but I forgot to move it for this pose so it's kind of irrelevant.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
👤 @Ameboid
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

2 days ago
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Chris Oldwood
chrisoldwood@mastodon.social

Thought I’d spend the morning getting a feel for what it’s like working with an AI generated codebase.

2 days ago
Eugen Rochko
Gargron@mastodon.social

Looks like is coming back to Europe this year at in Spain and in Germany, both in September. Alongside !

3 days ago