Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)

@olegb 💜

your fax dollars at work

just a very quick and messy still life of stuff on my desk

@silvermoon82 not the first tho, Anthropic / Claude kicked this off with changes over the last couple weeks and everyone is following up with "whew heh us too"

It's been a while so here's a warmup animation of a guy in your replies

just a little thrown together thing nothing serious

@be Ah, damn. It's feeling a lot more and more lonely lately.

@Catwoman69y2k Me too. I love Blender so much. And basically, I just got a new computing setup specifically because I need to spend the next month and a half in Blender. I was very happily pulling back up my art, doing some little 3d doodles, etc.

And then this news made me absolutely crash.

Huge bummer.

I'm empathetic to how damn hard it is to raise funding for FOSS nonprofits. That's a large portion of my job, and well, money has gotten a lot tighter lately. Finding anything at all, paying your people, is damn hard.

I do wonder if that's an influence on:

https://mastodon.social/@Blender/116482997785333001

I wasn't going to comment on it, but I guess it feels particularly timed with this announcement from the other side:

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-creative-work

Bummer. Blender is still my favorite software, but I'm worried about how this will affect artists. Blender is 100% controllable in every way via its very good Python API. It's not surprising that there's interest to control it from AI agents.

I won't take myself out of the loop of producing my own artwork, and I don't think any software will replace Blender as my favorite graphics software, but I am bummed out by this.

I hope Blender doesn't start incorporating genAI contributions into its codebase also.

@noisytoot @lanodan 10 cents vs 9, it's one cent more expensive right? must be that ARM tax SMH

An LLM chatbot trained entirely on 1930s public domain text https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie

A game console for $1 https://chrisdell.info/using-rust-to-build-a-1-dollar-handheld-gaming-console/

The Rust part isn't what's interesting to me as much as... 9 cents for a risc-v microcontroller?!

hold on honey I need to set up my computer to compile this package while we sleep

no I can't compile it from the prebuilt substitutes it's using a custom patch

please sweetie hold on the patch isn't applying cleanly I'm sure I'll have this taken care of in a second, I love you

homey simpy

nice, ok

meaow

someone reading this just had a flashback

WHO'S A GOOD DOG

woof,, 🥺