@lyse no, as mentioned this "diagonal arrow" eye shape, is usually used for a smug expression. The optional white part, is in this case, where the dogs sclera would be visible, while they have their eyes, like this. Here is a comparison between a real dog, making the face it is based on, and the exaggerated drawn version.

@bender Believe me, I've never been more tempted to switch, than now, as Google is one by one, removing (or at last trying to remove) all the reasons why I chose Android, over iOS. In fact, many friends who were fellow "Android diehards", ended up switching recently.

Sadly what I need is a headphone jack, ability to modify apps on device (decompile, change file, recompile), many specific mods, strong XMPP support, Pixel Station,... nothing switching to iOS, would give me.

@movq this seems like a bit of an overkill, that would also harm modding and power users - who often need to see the exact implementation of new features and benefit from the ability to pull up the history of code changes, in their browser. Sure they could clone the repo and do that locally, but if it has dependencies, they'd also have to clone those, to see how those get updated and it'd soon be a mess.

My bad, looks like they get to keep these deals too, so this decision, really changes almost nothing.

@important_dev_news This feels like a decision that punishes Mozilla and Apple, way more than it punishes Google.

@movq Thanks, it's mostly following the Louis Rossmann thing https://youtu.be/2_Dtmpe9qaQ - a symbol of protest, against the rapid enshitification the Internet is facing, accelerated to the extreme, during this year. It has reached a point where something really has to be done about it all. Obviously not just everyone changing their profile pictures, but also cataloguing all the consumer rights violations, invasion of privacy, censorship,... to shove it in the face of as many government officials, as possible.

@bender have you seen how many Google apps, get shoved into the new releases of Android. MicroG, Google Play, maybe Chrome is fine, but everything else, I can't get rid of, is just bloatware to me.

@prologic @moveq I think it's mostly the serious lack of competition. All the Android phone manufacturers just use the Google version of Android, bundle in piles of Google bloatware and do whatever Google tells them to. If some of them installed Lineage, or any other versions, with their own stores and rules, or even just offer a less Googly version of their phones, as an option, for more experienced users, Google wouldn't be able, to push everyone around.

@movq @prologic this is extremely concerning and I hope there is enough push back to stop this! The ability to modify apps, is one of the two biggest reasons, I'm still using Android. If they remove that option, I'll be forced to switch to one of the de-Googled forks.

That might not be a good solution either, because I need banking and identity verification apps on my main device and already had to get a second device for work, which has tighter sideloading restrictions and I would very much not like to be forced into using three Android phones simultaneously, to do what should be possible, with just one.

@movq Thanks, glad you like it, but sadly I'm not sure, if there's still a way, for this particular project, to continue.

Reducing 38 pixels (previous smallest) to 27, inside of a 7x7 square canvas, is a result I'm really happy with. Now it seems I can only shave off single pixels and get a lot worse looking results - to the point it doesn't even look like my mascot, to me.

There doesn't seem to be a hard cap for drawing tiny dogs. It's possible to arrange 5 pixels, in a way someone recognizes them, as some kind of a dog. The record for cats, is currently a single orange pixel: https://youtu.be/gzeK8NKuzmg

The only way to beat that, is either a monitor, with just a single red diode lit, inside one of its pixels, or an image file that's broken and empty, on purpose.

@prologic That's fair, this version really is a stretch. Similar to old Atari game spirites, a lot is left to interpretation,especially by those who have not seen any of the more detailed ones, before.

On the other hand, some suggested I'm still wasting too many pixels on the tail, but removing those, makes it just a generic dog (at best), even to me.

@bender I think it's actually a new XEP proposal ( https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0084.html#proto-info ), but it's still a bit unclear. Sorry for the late and vague response, I'm still trying to test it and see what it's even about, didn't yet find a server, that supports it.

@movq Yeah, you gotta love when a "totally real decentralized protocol" does that. How are they doing this and still pretending to be one, is beyond me.

@lyse Not intended as a vampire thing, at least not this time. 😅 His canine teeth are usually one pixel long, when visible, but on this one, he's making a face, that makes them more exposed.

Source of inspiration: https://youtu.be/TlafDammd6s

@prologic What I meant, is that I will not say that someone is not really a writer, if they choose to have what they wrote, ran through some spelling and sentence structure checker, like the one included in MS Word, the average phone keyboard, or on reverso.net - given that they look over the output and make sure the corrections make sense.

Similarly, I won't complain much, if someone uses AI, to remove backgrounds from images, where the AI can preform this task, as well as a human would and makes sure to check it afterwards, or use ai as a way to sort large quantities of images - usually done for science. An example of this, would be having terabytes of plant photos, from some cities camera system and having an AI analyse them, in an attempt to detect notable changes, like mold, parasites, or the plants needing more water.

@bender @prologic Jokes aside, I don't think that's the right approach either. We had spell checkers, since I can remember, as well as other tools, like the smart image select, used mostly to remove backgrounds. These are tools, that just simplify the process of either opening up a dictionary and looking up a word, you can't remember the spelling of, or the process of placing a billion little dots around the part of an image you want to select - none of these are creative or enjoyable tasks, we already had tools for them, decades before AI. I don't think we need to go back to cave paintings, to be free of AIs influence on our creative work.

@prologic @movq I don't even think the premise of this makes much sense. If an artist is convinced they cannot compete, with the "AI" learning models, we already have today, they must have some self esteem issues, strange opinion on what the purpose of art is, or just be someone mindlessly redrawing already established things and not be all that good at it.

It might be connected to some typically non-artists assumption, that the more time and effort the artwork took to accomplish, the more artistic it is - this can be further twisted in these peoples minds, into the "more pointless detail = more artistic art" meme. AI often ads pointless and illogical details everywhere, "so it's obviously better, than the human artist, who drew the original".

Some people just enjoy having the picture they wanted or having the status of an artist to brag about and don't actually enjoy the artistic process of discovery and small decisions, made while drawing, that shape the outcome into something, only you could have created.

@movq you need to get a gold chain and hang this little penguin on it, so that nobody can doubt your Linux user status.

@lyse maybe 3D printed toys are the solution, to the dust collecting problem. My collection of 3D printed canines, just expanded today, with this new keychain:

@kat yes, both the newsletter and the podcast, from time to time.

@prologic I was not expecting much, but since the list of restaurants near company buildings, was hard coded into it, I did expect it to at least copy the menu text, from the websites, in its database. Ironically, the only restaurant where it got something right, is the only one, where the websites has the text as a transparent PNG, the AI has to convert to text.

@hacker-news this is the 4th one in the row - I think. Loosing count of them.

@prologic yes

@prologic it's fine, I never expected my yeets, to be preserved for future generations. Any art I posted here, can be found through my (now almost entirely HTML 5 complient) website.