Lemdro.id

From Blackland Prairie Raptor Center

This Eastern Screech Owl is scheming.

A minimal Node.js wrapper around ClamAV that scans any file and returns a typed Verdict Symbol:

• Verdict.Clean
• Verdict.Malicious
• Verdict.ScanError

Zero runtime dependencies. No daemon. No cloud. No native bindings. Works locally via clamscan or remotely via clamd TCP socket (Docker-friendly).

npm install pompelmi

Kennt jemand eine OpenSource Alternative zu Prezi, die auch für Kinder (ab 12 Jahren) tauglich ist? Ob als Anwendung auf dem eigenen Server selbst gehostet oder als Desktop Programm (Linux!) ist dabei egal. Wenn Desktop, dann muss die Präsentation exportiert, offline per USB Stick transportiert und auf irgendeinem Rechner (Windows, MAC, Linux) in der Schule abgespielt werden können.

Tools wie impress.js scheinen mir dabei noch zu früh und nur etwas für den/diejenige, der/die sich mit den HTML-Strukturen auseinandersetzen mag ...

Impres von libre office scheint dem Nachwuchs nicht "cool" genug 🤪

Hat hier jemand Tipps?

#fedilz #informatik #Präsentation @eltern @fedieltern #Linux #FragDasFediverse #schule #Vortrag

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/67515975

Obvious choice

Kathy Hackney, from Bingley, collapsed on a cruise ship while travelling to Madeira.

Time-lapse: pareidolia as a tool for face drawing

Warning: the video contains some flashing lights. Do not watch if you have epilepsy.

This one is less about the art and more about the technique. This time-lapse is a demo of how I draw seemingly-convincing anatomy from scratch with no visual aid other than my own "instinctive" sense of pareidolia (i.e. whatever's going on in my own fusiform gyrus), so it may serve as a guide for those who draw faces.

There are a lot of techniques for drawing anatomically-convincing faces. One involves plotting some geometrical shapes using compass and straightedge in order to have a visual reference for facial proportions.

But, then, the human brain has this funny ability to see faces where ain't none. And the "uncanny valley" allows us to feel whenever a seemingly-human face isn't that human.

This mechanism usually goes this way: we see a visual pattern that triggers our "it's a face" perception, then the more specialized facial recognition mechanism kicks in, only for it to perceive how this "face" have some unexpected details (e.g. glowing irises, sharper canine teeth, etc) and/or proportions (almond-shaped eyes larger than expected), so it gets uncanny.

One can leverage it by going the reverse way: crafting an external visual pattern until it maximizes this perception, fine-tuning it for either uncanniness and/or accurateness, depending on the intended goal.

This explains the main flow going on in my mind as I'm drawing a face fully from scratch (i.e. no rotoscoping). I often start by drawing a pair of circles (meant as either eyeballs or eye sockets) to trigger my initial notion of size, then (inspired by owls) I draw the eyebrow ridge going from the silhouette for the nose slightly below the median point, then the forehead, then the mouth cavity, then the cheeks (meant to have some blushing), and the zygomatic relief, and chin, and then... well, it'll depend on the how the drawing is triggering my fusiform girus. You can see me getting back quite often to previously-drawn details as I fix these to better adjust my current perception, sometimes redoing things from scratch. I try to draw the hair as soon as I can, because it's one of the main references for this specific face.

The final shading ended up a bit "flatter" than I originally wanted to draw. I have a previously-drawn "mugshot art" where the shading ended up imbued with better 3d depth, but I didn't record a time-lapse for it, so I made another drawing.

That's pretty much everything for this post, feel free to ask if you got any questions...

Alt-text: a time-lapse disclosing the drawing of a feminine face (meant to depict Lilith, with large almond-shaped eyes, long red hair, expressive eyelashes, soft-yet-sharp chin, blushed cheeks and tender red lips with sharp fangs), seen in close mugshot. The drawing starts from a gray shape akin to a Venetian mask, then it gradually evolves into a feminine portrait.

@artshare@lemmy.world

I'm new to this platform. Fed up with reddit and its moderators.

Celebrated musicians including Massive Attack, Kneecap, Brian Eno, Sigur Rós, Nadine Shah, and many more have signed an open letter calling for a boycott of the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in protest of Israel’s participation.

Campaign groups No Music For Genocide and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel are calling for a boycott of this year’s highly divisive Eurovision Song Contest.

More than 1,000 artists, including Massive Attack, Kneecap, Brian Eno, Sigur Rós, Nadine Shah, Mogwai and Hot Chip, have signed an open letter calling for a boycott of Eurovision 2026 in protest of Israel’s participation.

The letter calls upon the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to ban KAN – the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation – from the upcoming contest.

“For the third consecutive year,” the letter states, Israel will be “celebrated onstage despite its ongoing genocide in Gaza, while Russia remains banned for its illegal invasion of Ukraine.”

“We refuse to be silent when Israel’s genocidal violence soundtracks and silences Palestinian lives,” the letter reads. “When children in Israeli prisons endure beatings for humming a tune. When all that’s left of nearly every stage, studio, bookshop and university in Gaza is piles of rubble, under which slaughtered bodies still await recovery and proper burial.”

In a statement, a spokesperson for No Music For Genocide said: “People of conscience around the globe are fighting complicity in every industry for a free Palestine and a freer world. While many of us in the industry make light of Eurovision or doubt our own power as cultural producers, genocidal Israel’s leaders speak openly about the contest’s geopolitical value.”

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All this is for the Empire. Luca had never once questioned his dream of joining Accretia’s Imperial Guard. Not until he met Ilay, that is. The most unexpected of friends, Ilay’s personality and family background are nothing like Luca’s. However, it is through their differences that the two friends will begin to shape not only each other, but even the very planet on which they live.

tags : Seinen, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Mecha

Warning this series contains violence themes related to the tortures, killings,depiction of dismembered bodies. Some readers will find these disturbing and those who want to read will need to tread carefully.

Special Episode 1

So I used to have this on VHS, and it's honestly one of my favorite childhood movies. Some scenes maybe haven't aged super well, but the soundtrack is still imo an all-time banger.

From The Little World of Liz.