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v0.5.30 of Roc Camera is out The camera should have improved: - Turns out every "tuning" knob on our Camera ISP — color matrix, gamma, denoise, sharpening, lens shading - We first fixed the ioctl layout. then the dominoes: - Indoor shots stop coming out green (calibrated AWB prior) - Skies stop blowing out (sane AE target) - Corners stop turning purple (killed a bad lens-shading table) - Saved photos match the preview (removed a stray CPU tone curve) We've also got a few more updates coming, and other fixes as well. Further improvements - thanks for the feedback as we keep fixing / improving.
FWIW we already have UBI It’s called a government job 1/5 of people have one The future is 4/5 of people have one
the father-daughter dance at the wedding I attended tonight was the full 4:33 of Tom Sawyer and it rocked
I've been thinking about the kind of things I want to make I want to make things that are tactile but evokes memory. What does that mean? What I mean by that is that you can touch it and you can feel it and remember touching it somewhere at sometime. What we can touch, what we do, for me it often evokes= memories. We compare them to memories. Your favorite toy that you used to bring to bed as a touch and how soft it was. The feeling of a t-shirt the first time you wore it after you bought it. Shoes that fit just right, because you've used them for a while. Tactileness - is a sort of memory. When I touch objects, I love objects that remind me of a feeling of touching, it transports me through time to places and memories of long ago. Sometimes memories of the future, like this works in a place that doesn't even feel that out of place, but its never been there. This feeling of remembering, both of the past or the future gives the object a sort of 'rightness' in its existence. Almost like a justification of its existence that goes beyond simple utility, which of course it should serve utility too (nothing wrong with art tho) - but that feeling underneath should hum like a gentle ocean crashing over and over again in the distance.
more thoughts on fotocaster: jc and i are committed to making fotocaster as close to a public good as possible the goal/focus is to maximize the value that flows to the ppl putting their creations onchain, while also giving ppl as much flexibility as possible the mint types we’re starting with: >open edition where the price increases each time the photo is collected - i.e. the artist chooses the initial mint price, and then each time it’s collected the price doubles >open edition with a fixed price >limited edition where the artist picks the quantity and initial price, then the price doubles each time it’s collected until the edition limit is reached >limited edition with a fixed price >1/1 at any price point the artist chooses >self-mints of 1, 2, or 3 that get minted directly into your own wallet - these sometimes won’t be for sale at all, separating the “putting a photo onchain” from “selling a photo onchain”, we will allow ppl to bid on these, and if the artist wants to sell they can work that out w the person bidding - this will be manual to start as i haven’t been able to figure out the escrow wallet quite yet i see fotocaster being just as much a public gallery/archive as it is a marketplace, similar to how things are when it comes to irl art rn fotocaster is set up to not charge anything for putting the photo/art onchain, a deployer wallet covers the small amount of gas, and each time someone collects the artist receives 99% of the collect price, w the deployer wallet getting 1% to subsidize gas on new mints, a community gas subsidy of sorts we aren’t sure if the 1% will be enough, but it’s where we’re starting, depends on how many mints vs collects and the avg collect price we are also thinking about the photo/art storage, and want it to eventually be on arweave, rn it’s on ipfs, we’re paying just $20 a month for 1TB of photo storage through piñata, and the max upload size is 15 mb so this gets us about 66k photo uploads to start. but to increase permanence we’d ofc want this to be on arweave if possible, based on my understanding the fees would be substantially higher, but if we can find a way to subsidize those fees we think it would be worth switching overall, we want fotocaster to be viewed as a community app that isn’t a “business” and instead seeks to maximize value for all of us using it, we hope to also figure out how to decentralize it’s development as we go forward tldr: maximize sovereignty, maximize value that flows to the ppl doing the creating, maximize the amount of photos and art that get put onchain, maximize the ability for ppl to find, view, and collect photos and art onchain can’t wait for u all to try it out! it’s still just jc and i in there rn but we are super close to opening it up for everyone 🫡
