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It always seems a shame when naturally clever people are assumed to have autism, or when their cleverness is attributed to it. Why can't someone just be intelligent without labels?


To be pedantic, assuming the fuel is used in a combustion engine, there will always be a percentage of the fuel wasted as heat energy. This depends on the thermodynamic efficiency of the engine and various other conditions, of course.


> The idea that everything on the web should be written in react

Says who? There are plenty of choices: vanilla, Lit, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Riot, etc. Some of the alternatives are very good.


None of these have usage numbers that rival react, at least not in the US. I wish it were so because many react libraries can easily support other view libraries with minor modifications to decouple it from react.


I'm not sure if this still holds true, but I recall a time when you had to use them to create error boundaries. Of course, plenty of third-party hooks were made to bridge the gap.


Has that ever been proved? All sources I can find are riddled in ambiguity. It's "one of two scenarios". I suppose we'll never really know for certain.


It has never been proven, it's just a conspiracy theory and a convenient way to blame China. The truth is that viruses are constantly evolving in nature, and pandemics are a fairly regular occurrence as a result.


Obligatory mention: ImagePipe[0]. It lets you compress pictures and edit them. You can share images to ImagePipe and it automatically shows a dialog to share compressed versions with another app (hence the "Pipe" -- it's a pipeline!)

[0]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.kaffeemitkoffein.imagepip...


Perhaps that's an overly cynical take? It doesn't read like AI slop to me, more like an overview of the video. As someone who finds it hard to get solid answers online anymore, I found this article genuinely informative (though, of course, the video provides the most value.)


Parts of the article repeat other parts of that article.

If you're saying that was done by a human, rather than by AI - then things are even worse.


the point of the article/website appears to be to collect useful resources. as such it probably works better than trying to find and select useful videos directly.


This page doesn't explain what FFglitch does, or how it's different to ffmpeg. For instance, what's Glitch? I'm guessing it's an architecture, but the post doesn't explain what it is or contextualize the term "architecture."


From what i understand "glitch art" is using compression artifacts and encoding errors as art.

Presumably ffglitch is ffmpeg with code to fudge the file checksums so that encoding errors are allowed to accumulate instead of triggering an error.


>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch

>Television glitch --> In broadcasting, a corrupted signal may glitch in the form of jagged lines on the screen, misplaced squares, static looking effects, freezing problems, or inverted colors. The glitches may affect the video and/or audio (usually audio dropout) or the transmission. These glitches may be caused by a variety of issues, interference from portable electronics or microwaves, damaged cables at the broadcasting center, or weather.

On computers, those happens when some of the data (video, audio, image) is corrupted or lost.

Glitch art: some of those glitches create cool effects that you can see a sort of photoshop filter ; ffglitch helps you corrupt files/create those effect for artistic purpose.

You can see cool examples of glitch video art there: https://ffglitch.org/gallery/ ; they show the original clip, and then the glitched version

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You can also have corrupted sounds, you can check 'The Glitch Mob' which is an group creating music, with samples that sounds corrupted.


It's ffmpeg but takes a script as an argument which gives you access to the low level structures of the encoded video stream.

For example you can change the values of the motion vector in each frame.

That way it always generates valid video files.


The clearly labeled "What?" button at the top of the page explains everything.


The what button doesn't explain much.

As far as I know, "glitching" is opening a jpeg file with a text editor then deleting random ranges of characters, saving it again and then letting image viewers try to open the file, resulting in artifacts being added to the image.

This project seems to do the same for video files, but generating a valid video at the end.


The best way I've come to describe glitch art in my papers or talks with peers is that a "glitch" in the context of glitch art is the deliberate abuse of a format of media, taking advantage of either noise, compression schemes, or undefined behavior to produce media that would otherwise not exist (due to contraints of, say, a compression algorithm and a binary format like JPEG), or to reproduce media that is discarded by these (and other) mechanisms of the format (The Ghost in the MP3[0] is a fantastic, and arguably the pioneering work in this regard).

Formats such as circuitbending are alien to me, as I primarily work with digital and occasionally analog photos and videos, but generally follow the same principles of breaking away from intended use of some set of rules to express illegal states.

0. https://www.theghostinthemp3.com/theghostinthemp3.html


That is “data bending” (borrowed from “circuit bending”; e.g. opening a toy that makes sound and using ‘a moist finger’ probing the pcb for changes in sound). Glitching is the intentional act of introducing errors in hardware or software, to expose the inner workings (in the case of Glitch art, this was the original aim, to expose ‘the ghost in the machine’). Rosa Menkman wrote extensively about Glitch Art here: https://beyondresolution.info/Glitch-Studies-Manifesto


Doesn't a message written by an AI carry significantly less weight, though? I'd much rather read someone written by an actual human (this applies to most things, really), and would hold it in much higher regard.


The main use case is to spread kindness and joy, crafting by hand or AI-generated are just tools to achieve that goal


There is something wrong with this position. Ask AI to explain it to you because I am too busy to do it myself.


thanks for the suggestion, I did: "You’re right that the means can change the message. People often value perceived effort and authenticity, so provenance matters. The evidence is mixed: AI drafts can be rated more empathetic than typical human responses, but when recipients discover a message was machine‑authored, the benefit can vanish unless it’s disclosed and human‑edited. So the app is designed for that reality: (1) hand‑written for people who prefer them; (2) AI‑assisted drafts that must be reviewed by the sender; and (3) clear, simple disclosure"


How did you feel when you read my response? That's how people who see through the BS will feel when they receive an AI generated note from your app.



You mean de-paywalled ;)


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