gábor ugray

i make machines go beep. born 334 ppm, he/him.
here via osmosis from @twilliability on the birbsite.

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twilliability_at_genart.social@mostr.pub

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2024-08-04 08:22:40

code > ink > 🌞 > cyanotype
#PenPlotter
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/112/902/776/334/061/951/original/5232ab7f3a50b3ff.jpeg

2024-08-02 23:08:38

how do y'all dispose of old smartphones that you can't turn on anymore in a way that makes sure data on them is unretrievable?
is there a less physical option than hitting with a hammer until you reach really fine powder-like consistency?
(serious question)

2024-07-31 21:45:33

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@npub1phw…pggg this is beautiful! both geometrically appealing and very conceptual at the same time.

2024-07-22 10:09:18

Growing up in East Block Hungary, I was keenly aware of low technology all around me. Bikes, vacuums, cameras were all crap... Traded goods from "the West" were superior. Globalization was very desirable!
Fast-forward 40 years. "The West" has de-industrialized. I'm browsing Amazon for bikes, vacuums, cameras and it's a shitshow of worthless goods with random letter sequences for brand names.
We've come full circle, from autarkic crapware to globalized crapware, and this makes me sad.

2024-07-14 16:09:23

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@npub13le…6saf these are as trippy as they are simple; lovely!
i genuinely thought there was some optical illusion involved until i physically checked the top edge of the first plot :)

2024-06-10 10:47:25

This is not a plot.
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/112/591/924/437/432/037/original/221ff7ab331aa946.jpeg

2024-06-09 13:56:06

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@npub14nt…2m6q I agree with every word of this.

2024-06-07 10:24:46

Tonight is Creative Code Stammtisch, 122nd edition. As usual, at 19:30 in co.up in Berlin: a low-key 'show and tell' format in 10 minutes. Come by and show us what you've been working on!
Details: https://www.meetup.com/creativecodeberlin/events/300324822/
#CreativeCoding #art #berlin #meetup
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/112/574/846/878/870/725/original/6c8abd1e46e6955c.png

2024-05-31 20:03:09

It turns out calculating a 3D Voronoi tessellation is very straightforward with the Voro++ tool! The only downside is I need to run it "offline," from the command line. The temptation to create a WASM port is very real...
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/112/537/470/576/853/181/original/53cd732c7ef05077.jpg

2024-05-24 12:49:25

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@npub1phw…pggg This one works really well with the white+yellow on black paper!

2024-05-18 19:55:15

My website used to have a blog roll. Then I thought links sections were moot because social media was where the network was happening.
Now I think we should be in charge of our connections more than ever.
My About page has a blog roll again! Every link points to a site maintained by a real, beautiful human person.
https://jealousmarkup.xyz/about/

2024-05-06 21:13:38

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@npub1k08…6xvn where is this?

2024-04-27 13:46:45

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@npub198f…n2cq I'm listening to this and it's VERY delightful. Thanks for sharing.

2024-04-27 10:54:24

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@npub1phw…pggg Good to know what banks to avoid.

2024-04-26 11:38:55

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@npub1k08…6xvn I got suspicious at this :)
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/112/337/323/493/876/433/original/96a399d886fdce8f.jpeg

2024-04-25 08:30:15

We can have a pretty good idea of CO2 emission per passenger km in an airplane (though it gets trickier if you try and factor in manufacturing, infrastructure etc.)
I remember seeing speculative calculations for the CO2 footprint of a Google search, from before the shift to AI search.
Do we have numbers, even if wildly speculative, for the CO2, or at least Wh, cost of a token processes by an LLM in the cloud, like ChatGPT? With or without training factored in?

2024-04-22 13:49:38

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@npub1phw…pggg Split personalities!
Me vs past-me
Laptop-me vs workstation-me

2024-04-16 17:56:39

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@npub1phw…pggg It looks so awesome on that black wall. I hope it will find lots of admirers!

2024-04-06 10:28:19

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@npub1phw…pggg Oh, like, talking to an actual human? 😱🤣

2024-04-06 09:46:36

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@npub1phw…pggg Damn! I'm sorry this happened to you. I hope you discovered it in time and was able to give then more money for the rest!

2024-04-03 15:45:30

Another day, another rant.
Can we get rid of the new "immersive view" silliness when I get directions in Google Maps? I don't want an animated aerial view of the rooftops along my way. It eats up screen space, it blocks out what I came for (the map), and if I tap on it by mistake, the fucker even goes full screen.
Just give me the map please, and kill all the smarty-pants clutter. Thank you.

2024-04-02 18:00:29

1/3 I've been thinking idly about the way we can never ever trust networked devices again.
Phones that scan your pictures, predictive keyboards that are effectively keyloggers, maps that track you, cars that spy on your driving. And DRM laws that criminalize killing these unwanted features. That's all well-known to the point of boredom. (Right?)
I think I figured out what really bothers me about all this.

2024-03-30 09:45:05

What I don't get about the xz backdoor story: why would Microsoft disable the xz repository on Github? The backdoor was clearly planted by the commits of user JiaT75; there was no foul play by the maintainers.
Who is helped by axing the whole repository (including the evidence)? What future risk is averted by this?
TBH I'm almost more concerned by this than by the original exploit.

2024-03-28 09:55:15

One day, one rant. Are you also annoyed by the "Sign in with Google" overlays that have started popping up in websites all over the place? This is reaching almost cookie banner dimensions.
Sure, passwords are bad, but I don't want a solution that has Google's filthy fingers in it. And I don't want it if it means a friggin popup in my face all the time.

2024-03-22 15:20:11

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@npub1k08…6xvn DACH? :) i don't think i've come across an equivalent in english.