

pretty sure this website can do it
pretty sure this website can do it
I like the way you think!
You love to see it
It’s from a Studio Ghibli film, Porco Rosso.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porco_Rosso
It’s a wonderful movie and I think it’s themes and messages are ever more relevant as we witness a rise in fascist governments around the world.
That is fantastic
I thought the same thing initially but modern video codecs, plus the developer’s plan to limit the videos to 30 seconds actually seem feasible. Large Lemmy and mastodon servers are also pricy to run but the community finds a way, I think it’ll be the same for Loops.
Loops is a TikTok clone in the same way pixelfed is an Instagram clone. It’s an app and a backend server setup with activitypub. You can sign up now to the developer’s instance if you’re interested. After signup you get access to the beta app. It’ll probably hit the app store in a few weeks/months depending on how fast the developer can get it done.
This does look promising. Website says they will do a Kickstarter this coming spring (2025) and uh, rather optimistically predicts shipping in the summer? Definitely bookmarking though, we need more tech like this. My final gripe is that I wish they talk about the software more. It’s not hard to find intriguing hardware but if it’s unsupported on the software side then it doesn’t matter.
Serious note here, that’s a really cool shot, is it from a movie? Does anyone have a source?
IT SOUNDS LIKE A SEX THING
This feels like an indictment of passive language really. I like my language like I like my tigers, passive and sleepy.
My in-law makes cowboy coffee in a great big kettle on the stove when all the kids arrive for the holidays and it’s actually some of the best coffee I’ve ever had. What trips me out is that he drinks crappy pod coffee the rest of the year.
I’ve been loosely exploring this space for a couple weeks now. I got an fpv quadcopter this year and I was thinking about sharing some of my content on loops but I didn’t know anything about video editing. Can confirm kdenlive and OBS studio are legit, still trying to figure those out. Would be nice to find a simpler editor I could use from my phone though. Please throw some recommendations in here if you’ve got them.
Are you asking this because you feel strongly about it?
I sounds to me like you’re trying to bait a discussion on the ethics of whether people “should” change the race/orientation/gender of characters in stories. It reads more like a statement of fact to me. Humans just tend to model characters in stories on themselves, regardless of the origin of the story. There’s a million examples, here’s one you’re probably familiar with. https://sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2020/07/conversation_white_jesus.php What role does the color of Jesus’s skin play in Christianity? What role does Snow White’s skin color play in the story? Why or when would it be immoral to change those details?
I wonder about this a lot. The little research I did suggested DigitalOcean is footing the bill for the moment (and also for Pixelfed? would love to hear more about this). Google, Facebook, TikTok, etc… have all managed to throw enough resources at similar products that people expect a level of performance that is very expensive to maintain. There is some serious hardware and distribution issues ($$$$) with trying to host an “instant and endless stream of short form video”.
In a counter point though I think large instances like lemmy.world and lemmy.ml have found ways to survive and thrive and the fediverse generally seems to be supported in a very grassroots sort of fashion. Donations, patrons, people who have the hardware and bandwidth sharing what they can for the greater community. Perhaps loops will go the same way.
This was a neat read, thanks for sharing!
I had the opportunity once to see Curiosity modeled in a VR environment as if you were standing on Mars next to it and I remember how very surprised I was at how big it was.
As a fun side note now that you’ve jogged my memory. That same demo also had a model of the Rosetta spacecraft orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. For whatever reason it was sized so that the asteroid comet was about the size of a cat and I will never forgot watching that itty bitty little satellite orbit around that odd shaped asteroid comet in front of me.
https://www.aam-us.org/2016/02/23/experiments-in-virtual-reality-at-the-museum-of-flight/
this really needs more circulation because too goddamn many people still believe his PR