I want to participate. But maybe I already do everyday.
My daily driver is a MacBook Pro 2009 running Linux MX 23, does that count as an old computer for this challenge?
Very useful! I'll bookmark that!
My most recent search to use with FFMPEG was to convert a folder of Sony videos to Prores. ChatGPT helped me with this one-liner:
for f in *.MTS; do ffmpeg -y -i "$f" -c:v prores_ks -profile:v 1 -vendor apl0 -pix_fmt yuv422p10le "proResLT_${f%.MTS}.mov"; done
Maybe having the option to create one liners like this, for different platforms, would be nice!
I often use the term "pianola" to search the Vinted plataform for keyboards. Apparently italians use this term for stuff they don't think too much of. Recently I used the same "trick" on the Wallapop plataform. But Wallapop has a higher dose of spanish and portuguese in the mix. They use the term in a different way and the search results are usually flooded with piano rolls. It would be cool to buy all those lots just to check out which songs they contain.
Take something that could never be definitive, call it definitive and spend first two paragraphs explaining boundaries and how limited this definitive thing is (or rather it is not).
As the famous blogging platforms are getting older, I've seen a couple posts here about people celebrating their 15-year or 20-year blogging activity. In a sense, for those who have been comfortable with blogging platforms, this piece makes a lot of sense and also relates to these texts I've seen. Thanks for sharing!
Laerte, a Brazilian artist known for his comic strips, once did a strip explaining the difference between artwork and framework, which is that framework has to be good.
Recently I discovered the joy of running Mac OS9 on Qemu on a Windows 10 machine. Reinstalled my old copy of Photoshop 5.0 and a bunch of filters I had back in the 90's. So much fun!
I left a camera out shooting every minute on auto. When it gets dark auto exposure will be around 30 seconds. Tomorrow I'll find out if it saw anything...
I started a blog about 20 years ago to organise ideas while writing my final paper in a photography bfa program. It had to do recycling stuff to make photographs. I never stopped writing the blog, it keeps me sane, it keeps me aware of I have done and what I have yet to do. I read it a lot, to get back om track.
According to Flusser, these things are not machines, they are apparatus. Machines process things, apparatus process information. They accept inputs and return outputs. They emulate theories and thoughts - like rules in games, differentiating them from toys, these theories/rules are one thing that make them what they are - to achieve some output, certain inputs have to be provided.
Ruthless? They are far from unpredictable, how can something like that be ruthless, if you know how it will respond to specific inputs?