Voltage Spike
voltage.isamazing.fyi
Voltage Spike
@voltage.isamazing.fyi
Always watching.
Release notes:

Shame: "Bug fixes and feature improvements."

Default: Warning: This release may contain breaking changes.

Proud: I've posted an article on Medium explaining why this was difficult.
December 22, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Does Windows 11 feel sluggish? Especially using keyboard shortcuts such as Win+Ctrl+Left/Right?

Settings/Accessibility/Animation effects Off

It's shockingly fast once you remove the artificial latency.
December 22, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Your example of the Sistine Chapel is an interesting one. Should artists be forced into projects they don't want to do and only be able to execute on their vision if the commissioner indebted to the artist?

Externalizing the mind's eye will only help create more great commissions.
November 18, 2024 at 1:08 AM
I disagree.

GenAI leads to a reduction in pentimento, the destruction of art, rather than a trend toward trash. As I said, I don't think art is worse off because artists have to create their own pigments. Why should artists compromise now?

Art's greatness doesn't derive from suffering.
November 18, 2024 at 1:04 AM
I got called "fucko" for challenging an anti-AI viewpoint. Not surprised to see Bluesky carrying on the modern tradition of echo chambers.

I'm reminded Twitter became successful in the era when it was a mouthpiece, not a dialog.

We weren't formed to have async comms 100s of characters at a time.
November 18, 2024 at 12:39 AM
Part of what is interesting about GenAI is that it's _not_ based on 100% retention, but learning. (Granted, mainly because it's not feasible...)

Humans using machines to be better humans doesn't take jobs, it changes them.

Democratizing art and creativity will continue to be a net good.
November 18, 2024 at 12:27 AM
For Twitter, I assume you mean find find followers, block users with low SNR, maybe use Lists.

One exciting potential about Bluesky is "Feeds" means shared, user-generated algorithmic lists instead of a single company-defined view.

Want to see the latest hacker con chat? Could be a thing soon.
November 17, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Why stop at YouTube?

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/video...

Speed and skip controls for nearly 100% of online video content. It's life changing.
November 17, 2024 at 8:08 PM
If GenAI is theft, then all art is theft. Humans don't learn in a vacuum.

Is it immoral to commission a human to do your mother/daughter portrait "in the style of H.R. Giger"?

True artists should be using these tools to make better art faster, like Photoshop or factory-made pigments.
November 17, 2024 at 8:01 PM
I think we can all agree the dumbest timeline is where a Terminator builds a time machine in 1984 for the sole purpose of traveling forward 30 years so there's no time to prepare for battle.

I also traveled 30 years forward from the 80s to show up late for things. No Arnold required.

#genisys
November 16, 2024 at 12:06 PM
I prefer the model of Mastodon, but I like smaller communities. Bluesky seems to be more of a platform like Twitter but (currently) with more extensibility.

But I'm pretty confident that if Bluesky starts rounding the 200M user mark, the vibe will change to reflect that.

Neat tech, though.
November 16, 2024 at 10:39 AM
Correction, they _could_ until I took hsky.social. Might come in handy if this site keeps growing...

Sadly, it appears their intent is to not render internationalized domain names everywhere.
November 16, 2024 at 10:29 AM
As soon as you change your existing handle, re-register tarah.bsky.social so others can't take it.

I asked something similar of @deviantollam.bsky.social yesterday. It feels like people are treating bsky.social as a clunky .com.

But like domains, dopplegangers could create tarah.hsky.social
November 16, 2024 at 10:24 AM
I'm late to the party, but 2FA via email verification is now a thing.

Not as cool as passkeys, but, let's be honest, they were always going to have email recovery for the casuals. Might as well not hide the weakest link by including some titanium pins.
November 15, 2024 at 8:51 AM
@deviantollam.bsky.social Decoupling naming rights (using existing domains!) from server routing is one of the better features of Bluesky. Just curious why you chose not to...

Is this .com all over again? You _could_ be deviating.net but it'd be confusing and you'd still squat bsky.social?
November 15, 2024 at 8:14 AM