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"Sculpting" as used here just feels like a pretentious euphemism for "vibing" as opposed to what actual sculpting is like (hint: it would be akin to... dramatic pause... writing code)

Brb, just rolled my eyes so hard that I'm now staring at my own visual cortex


All the GitHub links on your extension page are borked (including issues)

From the look of the associated domain it looks like you're going full product, best of luck

I'm a huge proponent of graph & visual analysis of complex systems - would have loved to try this out, but will always skip closed source editor extensions (especially in the age of widespread npm supply chain attacks & vibe coding)


Here's the source code minified and bundled:

https://www.gallery.vsassets.io/_apis/public/gallery/publish...

Unzip that archive and the source is in extension/dist folder.


I’m confused - is it the actual source code, or minified/bundled code? I don’t think those two are the same thing - unless of course you write your code minified. That would be really impressive.

That would be really impressive levels of psychopathy.

We will make this project open source soon!

No. Just, no to all of this


This is a really cool idea, nice work!

Is it any more effective than (say) messing with its recognition so that any attempt to deepfake just ends up as garbled nonsense?

Can't help wondering if the censor models get tweaked more frequently and aggressively (also presumedly easier to low-pass on a detector than a generator, since lossiness doesn't impact final image)


> we shouldn't ban tools

When I see the old BuT FrEe SpEeCH argument repurposed to impinge civil rights I start warming to the idea of banning tools.

Alternately "Chemical weapons don't kill people, people with chemical weapons kill people"


Not really, its like banning chemistry sets cause they may be used to create chemical weapons.


Not sure the comparison works when it does all the work for you

I've had very little success mumbling "you are an expert chemist..." to test tubes and raw materials.


Or making knives that turn into overcooked noodles if you try to use them on anything except vegetables and acceptable meats


and who decides if I want to use a knife to cut mushrooms instead? see where I am going, there are (or could exist) legit cases when you need to use it in a non-standard way, one that the model authors didn't anticipate.


Obligatory Benn Jordan link (YouTube - ~11mins)

This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix for Stalkers

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo


For anyone else who was entirely unfamiliar, here's a low-effort search

"Incoherent Conspiracy Suggests Ghislaine Maxwell Is a Powerful Redditor"

https://www.vice.com/en/article/incoherent-conspiracy-sugges...


A little more effort comparing writing styles shows they're likely the same.. https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1lxvajq/has_anyone...


Was offline and had no tech people or resources around, but got access to an unused 286 which booted into a mysterious "C:\" prompt

Slowly worked out how navigate the system, then tried running the various built in things I found

One of these was QBASIC. Started reading through and messing with the example games which were part of the built-in QBASIC in MS-DOS

Reverse engineering how they worked gave a lot of the core concepts (variables, loops, procedures)

After writing a few (very) naff text adventures I stumbled across the intriguingly named "DEBUG" tool

Used debug to step through some of the other built in MSDOS utilities and try to work out what the mysterious symbols were doing (how I learnt assembler and machine code)

Later when I finally found BBSs I started debugging/disassembling some of the BBS mini-demos which were ubiquitous those days, which introduced me to manipulating graphical memory etc.. The smaller size of these, and fact that they were generally coded in assembler was much more useful than reading through compiled code

I do not recommend writing assembler in DEBUG, but wouldn't trade in the learning I got from exploring a total black box with no references or learning resources (beyond time and curiosity)

Felt like doing alchemy


Happy to see a shoutout to QBASIC in this thread. That was my first programming language, taught in 10th grade intro to programming. I loved it! I then took C++ at the local community college then AP Comp Sci in 12th grade.


Yeah it's wild - not only not improving but seemingly getting worse

doesn't seem like anyone outside the audience thinks it's a serious problem (?)


‘Am I really that out of touch? No, it’s the kids that are a problem’ - Skinner, from a show long long ago.


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