Interesting approach! The title is misleading though. I do not understand how this relates to pixel art. Pixel art is placing pixel on a constrained canvas and choosing colors on a limited palette which this does not seem to be. Maybe this could be considered blurring effect or image reconstruction/approximation?
Readit Newsu5wbxrc3 commented on Show HN: Pixel Art Generator Using Genetic Algorithm github.com/Yutarop/ga-pix... · Posted by u/ponta17
I am more interested in what this article and project does not seem to mention.
> During this process I've learned a lot
Yes, but what exactly? I mean I guess you don't have to touch the project once its finished so there is less value in familiarizing yourself with the source. The source is roughly 15135 lines. That is quite a chunk and most likely would have taken more than 30 hours to write that from an standpoint of knowing the basics of typescript and the phaser library.
u5wbxrc3 commented on Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API voxelmanip.se/2025/06/14/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
"Unfortunately, Android has made changes which will make it much harder for us to port to Android 16 and future releases. It will also make adding support for new Pixels much more difficult. We're likely going to need to focus on making GrapheneOS devices sooner than we expected."
I can not love this development project enough its the peak of Android custom ROM. I am curious though as to what they have changed so much that it is going to be more difficult.
u5wbxrc3 commented on Show HN: Ephe – A minimalist open-source Markdown paper for today github.com/unvalley/ephe... · Posted by u/unvalley
Looks neat and simple! Gonna try it for few days atleast, thanks.
u5wbxrc3 commented on Show HN: Ephe – A minimalist open-source Markdown paper for today github.com/unvalley/ephe... · Posted by u/unvalley
I'm excited to give this a try, as I think I'm the target audience. I tried using Helix[0] (my editor of choice) with mpls[1], but it didn't quite scratch the itch. These days, I use a sturdy notebook and cheap (but awesome!) fountain pen, because I just need something simple. No bells. No whistles. This seems ideal!
[0]https://helix-editor.com/ [1]https://github.com/mhersson/mpls
Helix was great until I discovered something that was a dealbreaker for me. They treat newline character as a normal character which is just very very non intuitive. I just wish there was option for behavior same as vim does. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/2956
No I don't see it as theft- in that I choose to not be a part of the formal film industry- I don't "monetize" any of my work- I have nothing that can be stolen but my aesthetics- but aesthetics are dead imo- they no longer have value- as an artist my ideas are what is valuable- and no ML/AI etc can "steal" my ideas as I haven't thought of them yet- my art and ideas are an expression of my soul- no machine will ever have a soul so I'm not threatened one bit my Ai etc
If I as an artist make a great piece of art, you don't think I should be compensated for it. If I complete a surgery or drive a truck which all of them are byproducts of ideas and knowledge I should be compensated for them, not just for thinking of them. You see the problem here? I don't want to pay for an idea of art, I want the complete and original piece made by the artist. As for if they generate the art using some machine learning model, they need to disclose that so I can make conscious choice.
"AI" is just a tool like any other- creatives will use these tools to make things they couldn't make before because of the limits of their budget and/or scale-
I just made an original animated feature film where I sang %75 of the roles by using an AI tool(audimee.com) to convert my voice into others- I couldn't do that before- we're now creating Portuguese and Russian language versions of the songs with a tool that has a $20 usd/month subscription! Couldn't do that before!
For creatives/artists- As long as we don't use AI to generate ideas we're good, human generated ideas are a must- bring on all the AI tools!
The whole built on theft thing- as a human film director I could rattle off endless examples just in cinema of human directors "stealing" premises, sequences, shots, styles etc from other filmmakers with no consequences- so why stop the AI now?
I see the "theft" as being democratized now- large studios/entities with large resources have always been able to legally "steal" so with these AI tools I guess we all can now?
I make original animated films, games, music, art etc etc and I feel no "threat" at all from AI-
I feel the opposite as I'm excited to see what things they will allow me to do next as a micro-studio with limited budgets but unlimited creativity.
Aesthetics are dead now imo because of generative AI as anyone can be any "style" so now it is all about ideas- original human ideas.
> I see the "theft" as being democratized now- large studios/entities with large resources have always been able to legally "steal" so with these AI tools I guess we all can now?
You don't see any issue with machine learning models trained on huge amounts of copyrighted and patented materials basically scraped from the internet. Yes you can make your animated film and audio but at the cost of hugely controversial and non-transparent generative models.
> Aesthetics are dead now imo because of generative AI as anyone can be any "style" so now it is all about ideas- original human ideas.
This argument kind of conflicts with itself, no? Aesthetics are inferred from ideas either inspired or original.
u5wbxrc3 commented on ESP32 Undocumented Bluetooth Commands: Clearing the Air developer.espressif.com/b... · Posted by u/iamflimflam1
First and foremost, I have no affiliation with any of the authors previously mentioned. However, I would like to pose a question to the community:
Is it feasible to exploit these undocumented HCI commands to develop malicious firmware for the ESP32? Such firmware could potentially be designed to respond to over-the-air (OTA) signals, activating these hidden commands to perform unauthorized actions like memory manipulation or device impersonation.
However, considering that deploying malicious firmware already implies a significant level of system compromise, how does this scenario differ from traditional malware attacks targeting x86 architectures to gain low-level access to servers?
As the article states "These undocumented HCI commands cannot be triggered by Bluetooth, radio signals, or over the Internet, unless there is a vulnerability in the application itself or the radio protocols.". Hence I dont think there is any security risk here assuming the application and radio is safe.
It differs in a way that the person must have access to the device to flash firmware I believe. In x86 as you describe, the person could attack with a connection to the device/machine.
IDK the whole idea isn't one I considered and it's disturbing. Especially considering how much it does dumb stuff when I try to use it for work tasks.