magistr4te's comments

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I've never done the math on this, but my immediate thought on that reasoning was always that you'd have to burn through a LOT of paper to actually have such an electronic product be more environmentally friendly. Does anyone have concrete data on this?

Ah, thank you for the correction. It's been quite a while since I used shell_gpt and things seem to have changed; I need to revisit these tools :) Your plugin suggestion sounds interesting, I'll consider it!

I finished shellmind (https://github.com/wintermute-cell/shellmind) a few days ago, and it might interest you! It avoids having to copy-paste commands, by integrating directly into the shell and let's you review the real command before send-off. It's also general purpose and can handle more then just ffmpeg.

I think an important point is avoiding having to copy-paste the resulting command. A few days ago I finished shellmind (https://github.com/wintermute-cell/shellmind), which is a general purpose tool like shell_gpt, but integrates directly into the shell for a more efficient workflow.

Tldr: you can't just spread a very negative opinion about someones hard work and then plug your ears shut for any kind of non-symathetic interaction.

In my eyes this rationale would make sense if there was no backstory to this. If there was no preceeding blogpost, I'd consider Vlads messages pure spam.

But the context here is different: The author wrote a very critical, and clearly opinionated blogpost. There was clear intention in engaging with this subject.

Now the author seems to want to avoid responsibility, while Vlads attempt to react to a public hit piece with a respectful conversation was honestly the best way to handle this.

While I do not agree on Vlads interpretation of PII and GDPR at all, that whole conversation was so incredibly mishandled by the author of this blog post.

I understand not wanting to engage in a conversation about a product you don't care about, but after collecting so much information and writing a lengthy blog post about it, that is a different story. In my eyes, the author wrote a hit piece largely based on personal grudges, and then wanted to avoid any kind of responsibility.

And from my point of view, a lot of the financial stuff "makes sense". This is a small startup, probably with little business experience, and it shows. But why make it look like they are doing evil because of small, negligible mistakes?

really not a fan of using the hyprland format for configuration. If this is supposed to be widely adapted, untying it from hyprland is necessary.

and it was the fastest and most fun web project I ever did!

In my experience, using these direct pixelart models is very limiting (and often quite expensive).

I've had a lot of success using a combination of stylized StableDiffusion models like

OccidentalMix (careful, potentially NSFW: https://civitai.com/models/63920/occidentalmix)

and Ditherdragon (https://winterveil.itch.io/ditherdragon) which uses special downscaling algos to turn that into astoundingly good Pixelart.