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New comment by flipthefrog in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

flipthefrog — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:32:12 +0000

A lot of bitching about Microsoft here, for something Claude has been doing forever. I have a git hook that rejects any commit containing the line Co-authored by Claude

New comment by flipthefrog in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

flipthefrog — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:51:59 +0000

If Frank Sinatra had Ai he woulnt have had to perform any of that slop by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Rodgers & Hammerstein and other composers no one cares about

New comment by flipthefrog in "Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

flipthefrog — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:14:19 +0000

Blender's limited support for the Universal Scene Description format is an immediate showstopper for most medium size to large studios.

New comment by flipthefrog in "More than one hundred years of Film Sizes"

flipthefrog — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:07:04 +0000

There are far less working VistaVision cameras than 70mm. It wasnt used at all, or just for shooting vfx, for 50 years until recently

New comment by flipthefrog in "More than one hundred years of Film Sizes"

flipthefrog — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:01:46 +0000

Stubborn old directors like Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Paul Thomas Anderson, Martin Scorcese... https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/page/shot-on-film/

Films are mostly post processed digitally - but some, like Oppenheimer, are color graded the old optical way. While Dune was shot digitally, printed on film, then scanned back in again!

New comment by flipthefrog in "Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

flipthefrog — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 04:02:39 +0000

Yeah, i use online LightRoom for checking images in the darkroom actually, but for serious use, the old desktop app is still king. There are alternatives, like the excellent Capture One, but none available on Linux. I could live without Photoshop, but not Lightroom or similar.

New comment by flipthefrog in "Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

flipthefrog — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:49:21 +0000

Would have switched years ago if it wasn't for Adobe. Open source equivalents to Photoshop and Lightroom are NOT viable alternatives

New comment by flipthefrog in "Blender 5.0"

flipthefrog — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:49:59 +0000

"It has rendered Maya nearly obsolete" Wow, that is great news. I guess its support for Pixar USD is equal to Maya and Houdini then, so all the big studios can finally switch

New comment by flipthefrog in "YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs"

flipthefrog — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:48:23 +0000

Gimp is NOT a good image editor for someone who uses Photoshop professionally. This idiotic claim keeps coming up, year after year, along with suggestions for opensource replacements for InDesign, Illustrator, LightRoom - there really really arent any valid opensource alternatives to most creative software apart from Blender, and Krita for a linited subset of what Photoshop covers. I would have switched to Linux immediately if it wasnt for Adobe

New comment by flipthefrog in "Claude Code: An Agentic cleanroom analysis"

flipthefrog — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 22:15:00 +0000

Light green text on light brown background is pretty ridiculous. I gave up after 30 seconds

New comment by flipthefrog in "When the Dotcom Bubble Burst"

flipthefrog — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:24:35 +0000

Funny how usage of the the word moat simply exploded here on HN a few weeks ago.

New comment by flipthefrog in "Canon EF and RF Lenses – All Autofocus Motors"

flipthefrog — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:17:33 +0000

Except if you mount an old, so called pre AI lens, on certain Nikons, you will have to disassemble the camera to get it off. Many modern Nikons can't autofocus older AF lenses due to not having a motor. And many AF film SLRs couldnt meter with manual lenses. So far from perfect compatibility. Nikon F mount was introduced in 1959. The oldest mount used today is probably Leica M from 1954

New comment by flipthefrog in "Ghost artists on Spotify"

flipthefrog — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 03:05:12 +0000

Kind of Blue was smashed out in two sessions. A Love Supreme in one

New comment by flipthefrog in "OpenAI seeks to unlock investment by ditching 'AGI' clause with Microsoft"

flipthefrog — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 16:39:32 +0000

And flying cars

New comment by flipthefrog in "What will enter the public domain in 2025?"

flipthefrog — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 20:40:20 +0000

The Eiffel Tower isnt copyrighted, obviously, but the 1985 light design at night is, so you may need permission to use photos of it commercially

New comment by flipthefrog in "DIY, 8mm film scanner Kotokino Mark IV (2020)"

flipthefrog — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 02:10:09 +0000

The older Standard 8 format used 16 frames per second. Super 8 is 18 or 24 fps

New comment by flipthefrog in "Stanley Kubrick did it his way"

flipthefrog — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 05:52:07 +0000

"A bunch of movies" you say. If you want to talk insane ambition and vision, technically groundbreaking and giant scale filmmaking that was so far ahead of its time it took decades to be recognised, Abel Gance's 1927 Napoleon fits the bill nicely.

New comment by flipthefrog in "The Good Soldier Švejk (2018)"

flipthefrog — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 21:29:30 +0000

Removed for copyright reasons, it says. Theres also a 1950s puppet film version directed by Jiri Trnka

New comment by flipthefrog in "The Good Soldier Švejk (2018)"

flipthefrog — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 21:21:22 +0000

The Moomin books by Tove Jansson

New comment by flipthefrog in "Nikon to acquire RED"

flipthefrog — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:37:42 +0000

Nikon d850, their top model and one of the best slr's ever made came out in 2017. My most used digital camera is a Canon 5d from 2005, I prefer it over my much newer Fuji XT3 most of the time because of its colors. (And one of my most used analog cameras is a 1939 Leica)