I did this for a single color from a single printer—the black toner from my Brother laser printer. I left it in my West facing office window for about 18 months. On the BACK SIDE I labeled it with pen. The pen on the back faded to almost nothing but the toner did not fade at all.
I did not do monthly scans, that would have been a better "experiment", but I was satisfied that a B&W laser print would last a very long time.
Maybe I should lightfast test my Brother Laser and my HP Inkjet (with Black Pigment based ink).
I thought that pigment based inks would be both waterproof and lightfast. Since I started to airbrush watercolor over my HP prints I am now very aware that these pigment based inks are not waterproof, even after long drying times.
I have software that won't work quite right in Safari or Firefox through a VPN every single day. Maybe it's the VPN and maybe it's the browser but it doesn't matter. We're at IE levels it's just ever so slightly more subtle this time. I'm still using alternatives but it's a battle.
VPN's layer 2... I suppose it could be resizing packets in such as way as to make it glitch out, but that just seems improbable.
Some of the warez sites I download torrents from have captchas and other javascripticles that only work on Chrome, but I've yet to see it with mainstream sites.
I did not find Apple iMessage to work on my recent cruise without the room Wifi. I didn't really need internet with a tiny bit of planning though.
The cruise line had its own app and THAT had a chat feature. We didn't find it very reliable, however. You would eventually get messages, but it wasn't instant.
I downloaded my ebooks in advance and installed a small LLM on my laptop. I could read and code but I didn't get much of the latter done.
Just this week I asked for a picture of a cartoon Car. It produced an image so similar to Pixar Cars that I was surprised. I was hoping for something a bit more creative. I asked the AI a few follow-up questions about the first use of the windshield for eyes. That might not be a copyrightable thing but Pixar Cars have a certain look to them and these tools seem to produce a very similar look.
When you simply ask for "a picture of a cartoon car" and nothing else, these models will give you a bland and generic depiction of a cartoon car, something like the lowest common denominator among cartoon car images according to their training data. Pixar's Cars is a popular depiction of cartoon cars.
If you want something more sophisticated and creative then you have to be the source of creativity, you have to describe details of the cartoon car, the setting, and the style, whatever you can think of to describe the thing that you actually want. "Picture of a car" doesn't cut it. If you can't describe it in words, then you make a scribble instead (I don't actually know if Midjourney supports this, I only use ComfyUI + local models and tools).
Most people don't know how to use these tools properly and they don't care, all they want and all they know is a "Make image" button. More sophisticated users (dare I say "artists"?) use it like a renderer for their ideas, sometimes literally integrated into Blender or other creative software.
This gets really “gray”. I work on web software and we tend to deploy at the end of the day. Meaning only the smallest programs are “new” or not yet in service.
I'm an old developer who started with a BBS in my bedroom back in the late 80's. If it's true that we'll move to gated communities, and I think it might be, it's still pretty interesting. I have fond memories of the BBS era when only a few people shared my work.
I've been wondering if I should gate my website with a username and password like we used to do in the BBS days. A lot of the big players like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and more do this.
I don't know if anyone is willing to "log in" to my system but I'm certainly curious about how this might work now.
You can set it up in the Twilio studio without having to write code. I'm not 100% positive, but I seem to remember there was a template for it and I just had to fill in the details
I did this for a single color from a single printer—the black toner from my Brother laser printer. I left it in my West facing office window for about 18 months. On the BACK SIDE I labeled it with pen. The pen on the back faded to almost nothing but the toner did not fade at all.
I did not do monthly scans, that would have been a better "experiment", but I was satisfied that a B&W laser print would last a very long time.
Maybe I should lightfast test my Brother Laser and my HP Inkjet (with Black Pigment based ink).
I thought that pigment based inks would be both waterproof and lightfast. Since I started to airbrush watercolor over my HP prints I am now very aware that these pigment based inks are not waterproof, even after long drying times.
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